3STEWS IDEFjftJFtTlVCElSrX. 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., FEBRUARY 27, 1864. 
The Army in Virginia. 
On the 9th inBt., a number of the officers 
confined in Libby Prison, Richmond, succeeded 
in escaping therefrom. The account of their 
escape is full of thrilling interest, but for pru¬ 
dential reasons many particulars are withheld 
from publication at present. They were fifty- 
one days in making a tunnel. Having managed 
to fiud access to the cellar, they commenced 
work, relieving one another as opportunity 
offered. Their instruments were pocket knives, 
chisels and files. Twice they had to abandon 
their work and commence anew, on acoount of 
the obstructions which they could not pass. 
They had hoped to have availed themselves of 
a culvert, but found it impracticable. After 
getting through the wall they disposed of the 
excavated soil by throwing it over in a spit¬ 
toon, which they attached to a cord. The tun¬ 
nel which they made was over ninety feet 
long. 
The darkness favored them, and the fact that 
the rebel soldiers whom they met were habited 
in the clothes of Uncle Sam, which they had 
stolen from the supply sent to our prisoners by 
our Government, was of great help to them. 
Although they were attired in our army over¬ 
coats, and many of them had haversacks, they 
found the national uniform a better disguise 
than if they had been provided with genuine 
rebel uniforms. 
JIany were their hardships and sufferings, 
and frequent their narrow escapes from the 
rebel cavalry, who the next morning were 
bushwhacking in every direction for them. The 
joy which they experienced when they first 
caught sight of our troops sent out to meet and 
protect them from their pursuers, cannot be 
expressed. Those who gained their liberty, 
number 109. At last advices from Richmond, 
22 had been retaken. 
The "Washington Star of the 17th inst. says ; 
“ A few days ago the officers at the camp of the 
rebel prisoners of war at Fort Lookout, dis¬ 
covered that some of the prisoner were evi¬ 
dently making arrangements to escape from 
their quarters. It appears that by some means 
the prisoners in one of the quarters had pro¬ 
cured some lumber, with which they had built 
two boats, in which it was supposed they*were 
to embark for the Virginia shore. Fortunately, 
they were detected in their operations before 
they had caulked the boats. Also, that they 
had collected some 70 old muskets, and a lot of 
stores — a scarce article in that locality — and 
which must have been brought some distance, 
which they probably designed using against 
persons who should resist them. It was 
thought, however, that but few of the prison¬ 
ers were to attempt to escape unless more boats 
were to he built, as the two boats discovered 
would not be able 1° carry more than fifty per¬ 
sons.” 
On the 19th inst, the following dispatches 
were received at the army headquarters : 
HEADqoARTisue Ahjjt or the Potomac, > 
Feb 18, 1864. j 
To Major-General Halleck, General-in-Chief: 
Gen. Pleasanton, Chief of Cavalry, reports tiaat 
a scouting parfy sent from Gen.'Gregg’s com¬ 
mand, at W arrenton, captured to-day, at Pied¬ 
mont, 28 of Moseby’s men. 
Geo. G. Meade, Maj.-Gen* 
CrMBERLANn, Md., Feb. 18. 
To Major-General Halleck , General-in-Chief: 
Lieut. Col. Hall, commanding at Beverly, re¬ 
ports the return of a scout from Webster, with 
17 prisoners, among the number, the notorious 
guerrilla chief, l>an Duskey. Also, one from 
Pocahontas county, with lf» prisoners, one of 
whom is Maj. Adams, of the 42d rebel Infantry, 
B. F. Kelly, Brig. Gen. 
There is no doubt but that at an early day the 
Army of the Potomac will be consolidated into 
three grand Corps de Armee. Gens. Sedgwick, 
Howard and Couch are mentioned as their com¬ 
manders. 
Department of the South. 
The Navy Department has received a dis¬ 
patch from Acting Rear Admiral Lee, dated 
flag ship Minnesota, oil Newport News, Feb. 
15th, 1864, in which he reports the circum¬ 
stances attending the capture and destruction, 
by the blockading forces off Wilmington, of the 
following blockade runners, viz : Wild Dayrell, 
Hatfield, Emily, and the Fannie and Jennie. 
The Admiral says: L pon the reporting of the 
Sassaeus, Lieut. Commander Rowe, she was 
assigned to duty as an outside cruiser, to cruise 
upon the line between New Inlet and Bermuda, 
not further east than 76 deg. west longitude, as 
the turn where her reputation for speed would 
be severely tested, and one in which a very fast 
cruiser would prove a stumbling block to block¬ 
ade runners. The result has reached my ex¬ 
pectation, aud the destruction of the Wild Day¬ 
rell and Nutfield by the Sassacus, both new and 
fast steamers, the latter on her first voyage, are 
added to the long list of disasters to the block¬ 
ade runners. 
Upon the morning of the 2d inst., Lieut. 
Commander Rowe discovered black smoke in 
shore of him, and pursuing it, discovered the 
Wild Dayrell on shore near Stump Inlet, lie 
hoarded her, and found her to he filled with an 
assorted cargo. Her crew had abandoned her, 
and fled to the shore. After great exertions to 
get her afloat, in which he was assisted by the 
Florida, it was found impracticable, and she 
was completely destroyed. Lieut. Commander 
Rowe estimates her value, with her cargo, at 
$200,000. After completing the destruction of 
the Wild Dayrell, the Sassacus proceeded to 
take up.lier assigned station, and at 7 o’clock on 
the morning of the 4th a blockade runner was 
discovered to be north and west of him, distant 
twelve miles. Chase, was immediately given, 
and after a five hours’ pursuit the steamer was 
brought to uuder fire, and finding escape was 
impossible she was run on shore at one P. M., 
near River Inlet, her officers and crew escaping 
to the land. One boat load, however, was cap¬ 
sized aud the crew drow ned, with the exception 
of a Mr. Neill, the purser of the steamer, who 
was rescued by boats from the Sassacus, which 
were immediately sent to take possession of the 
prize. She proved to be the English steamer 
Nutfield, from Bermuda bound to Wilmington. 
From Mr. Neill 1 learn that her cargo was mu¬ 
nitions of war. arms, a battery of 8 Whitworth 
guns, and pig lead. The guns and lead were 
thrown overboard during the chase. Finding it 
impossible to get the Nutfield afloat after great 
efforts to that end, she was fired and destroyed. 
Some 700 rifles and a quantity of cavalry sabers 
and other articles, were rescued from her. 
On the 6tb inst., the Cambridge discovered a 
steamer ashore and on fire, about one mile south 
of Mason Inlet, which w as the blockade runner 
Doe, from Wilmington. Finding it impossible 
to extinguish the flames or to get her off, Com. 
Spicer of the Cambridge, abandoned the attempt, 
aDd still further destroyed her by firing into her. 
Seven of her crew were captured, and are now 
prisoners on the Cambridge. From these pris¬ 
oners I loam that the Dee was commanded by 
II. Bier, formerly a Lieutenant in the United 
States service. She was loaded with coffee, lead 
and bacoD, all of which, with the vessel, was 
entirely destroyed. 
At 5.50 A. M., on the 10th inst.. a steamer was 
discovered from the Florida standing along the 
shore toward New Inlet. After pursuing and 
firing at her she ran on shore at near Masonboro 
Inlet. Commander Crosby sent his boats and 
took possession of her; she proved to be the 
sidewheel steamer Fannie and Jennie, com¬ 
manded by the notorious Coxitter, w ho, with 
the purser, was drowned in trying to reach the 
shore. The remainder of her orew, 25, are now 
prisoners on board the Florida. The steamer 
was loaded with merchandize and coal. The 
enemy opened fire upon the wreck and upon the 
Florida with musketry aud Whitworth guns, by 
which fire Acting Assistant Paymaster J. F. 
Keeler received a severe but not dangerous 
wound. Finding it impossible to get the steamer 
afloat after great exertion, Commander Crosby 
ordered her to be fired, which was done under a 
severe fire from the enemy. The Florida re¬ 
ceived some damage from the lire of the enemy, 
which can easily he repaired. 
At the same time that the Fannie and Jennie 
ran on shore, about one and a half miles north¬ 
ward another steamer was seen ashore and 
boarded by the Florida's boats. This was the 
Emily from Nassau, with a cargo of merchan¬ 
dize aud salt She was also fired and destroyed. 
The Fannie and Jennie, Emily and Nutfield, 
are new vessels, and this is supposed to be their 
first attempt to run the blockade. The Wild 
Dayrell hits made one successful voyage, and the 
Doe is an old offender. 
Hilton Head accounts report a rceonnoissunce 
to John’s Island by Gem Terry, and the capture 
of a rebel battery of field pieces with their cais¬ 
sons, ammunition, &c., and all the gunners. 
Our loss was five killed and wounded. 
Department of the Golf 
The following dispatch was received at Army 
Headquarters: 
Banirwix, Fla.. Feb. 9. 
Major-tjen. HaUock: —General;—I have the 
honor to report a portion of my command under 
Brig. Gen. F. Seymour, convoyed by the gun¬ 
boat Norwich, Capt. Merriaiu, ascended the St 
John’s river on the 7th inst., and landed at 
Jacksonville on the afternoon of that day. The 
advance under Col. Grey Y. Henry, comprising 
the 4th Mass, infantry, the independent battalion 
of Mass. Cavalry, under Major Stevens, and El¬ 
der’s horse battery, pushed forward into the 
interior on the night of the 8th, passed by the 
enemy drawn up in line of battle in Camp Vin¬ 
egar, seven miles from Jacksonville, surprised 
and captured a battery three miles in the rear of 
the camp, about midnight, and reached this 
place about sunrise this morning. At our ap¬ 
proach the enemy absconded, sunk the steamer 
St. Mary- and burned 270 hales cotton a lew- 
miles above Jacksonville. 
We have taken, without the loss of a man, 
about one hundred prisoners, eight pieces of ar¬ 
tillery in serviceable condition, well supplied 
with ammunition, and other valuable property 
to a large amount. Q. A. Gilmore, 
Maj. Gen. Commanding. 
Gen. Gilmore has issued a call to the Flori¬ 
dians to return to their allegiance, and prohibit¬ 
ing the destruction or pillage of property by our 
soldiers under severe penalties. 
Correspondence from Florida, published on 
the 20th, says Baldwin was occupied by our 
forces, a small town eighteen miles from Jack¬ 
sonville on the Florida Central railroad. There 
are not over twenty-five families in Jackson¬ 
ville, all of whom claim to he Unionists. 
The rebel forces are about 2,560 strong and 
under Gen. Finnegan. The railroad is in run¬ 
ning order, though the rebels had intended to 
take up the rail# preparatory to their abandon¬ 
ment of Florida. 
Barber’s Station and Safiderson, the latter 40 
miles from Jacksonville, and also on the rail¬ 
road, have been occupied. At the former place 
a skirmish was had with the rebels, in yvhich 
we bad 4 killed and 13 wounded. .Several build¬ 
ings at Sanderson were in flames on the arrival 
of our forces—one of them containing 3,000 
bushels of com, and another 2,000 barrels of 
turpentine and resin. 
A document was found at Sanderson, emana¬ 
ting from the t hief Commissary of the rebels at 
Quincy, Florida, which gives startling evidence 
of their desperate condition* Beef aud bacon 
are entirely exhausted throughout the South, 
and from all quarters cries were arising for relief 
for Florida. 
Our forces subsequently advanced toward 
Lake City, where the rebels were found in 
force, and we fell hack to Sanderson. Lake 
City is half way from Jacksonville to Tallabasse. 
Finnegan, before leaving, carried off all the 
rebel government property. There was rea¬ 
son to believe the enemy, if he fights, will take 
position on the left bank of the Sawnee River, 
which is not fordable, and has to be pontooned 
or bridged. Up to the 14th we had captured 13 
cannon. 
The Navy Department has received dispatches 
from the East Blockading Squadron, detailing 
the capture of the British schooner Eliza, and 
the British sloop Mary, both from Nassau, while 
attempting to run out of Jupiter Inlet., Florida, 
with cargoes of cotton. The sloop Caroline was 
also captured while attempting to run out of 
Jupiter Inlet, The British sloop Young Racer, 
laden with salt, was run ashore and destroyed. 
The schooner "VTm. J. Hayne was captured 
while waiting for an opportunity to run the 
blockade with 57 hales of cotton, &c. 
The N. Y. Herald's New Orleans letter of the 
9th, by steamer Havana, reports that on Sunday 
previous Gen. Dick Taylor attacked our troops 
stationed opposite Natchez, and was repulsed 
with considerable loss and driven six miles. 
The attack was renewed tho next morning, 
when the rebels were unsuccessful, being again 
repulses 1 with loss. Their I 'i ce numbered 3.000. 
Gen. Grover lias scoured the country with his 
cavalry iu the neighborhood of Madisonvillc. 
across Lake Pontohartrain, broken up conscript 
camps within a circle of 50 or 60 miles, and cap¬ 
tured several of the enemy. A large quantity 
of beef cattle, sheep and horses has been brought 
in. 
Movements in the West and South-West 
Tennessee. —The following dispatch from 
Chattanooga, the 12th, is interesting: 
The cavalry expeditions under Grierson and 
Smith, crossed the country from Corinth, mov¬ 
ing south. It is understood that these columns 
are inteuded to act in conjunction, — one to 
attack, the other to cut off Folk’s retreat, and to 
disperse the cavalry of Forest reported as 
scouring Central and Northern Mississippi. Be¬ 
yond this enterprise the combinations are con¬ 
jecture, hut a great fiank movement on Jobn- 
sou’s army is iutended. 
Adjutant-General Thomas and staff have re¬ 
turned to Chattanooga from Knoxville. The 
officers of the party report that Longstreet is in 
retreat beyond the French Broad to avoid u 
movement of our greatly superior forces. 
Nashville aud Knoxville are connected by a 
railroad with an exception of 700 yards at Lon¬ 
don, and passenger trains are running. The 
bridge at London will be finished before a week. 
The Mobile -Yews says that Polk has been 
shamefully out-gencraled. 
Gen. Sherman has advanced beyond Meridian. 
At Chattanooga the army is preparing for 
immediate operations. Chattauooga is now a 
base well stored with provisions and munitions 
of war. I V » 
A special dispatch tp the Cincinnati Commer¬ 
cial from Louisville, says:—On the 14lh. 
Colonel Gallop surprised Colonel Ferguson’s 
command in Wavnc bounty, Va., capturing 60 
prisoners, including Ferguson, his surgeon, and 
10 lieutenants, 80 stand of arms, a large number 
of stolen horses and all the rebel supplies of 
forage, ammunition and subsistence. It was 
Col. Ferguson’s command that captured Gen. 
Seammon recently. The dispatch adds that 
1,600 Uniou prisoners were released. 
Mississippi. — An officer from the Big Black 
River reports that just before reaching Jackson, 
Miss., a skirmish ensued between a part of Gen. 
Sherman’s forces and a body of 4,000 to 6,000 
rebels, in which the latter were defeated, and 
40 captured. 
Our army passed through Jackson in two 
columns, the enemy retreating across Pearl 
River so precipitately that his pontoons, two 
pieces of artillery, and a number of prisoners 
fell into our hands. Our forces seized provisions 
of all kinds aud swept on. Great dissatisfaction 
is said to exist between Tennessee, Kentucky 
and Mississippi regiments, and large numbers of 
deserters are coming into our linos. 
Gen. Sherman reached Meridian ten days after 
leaving Vicksburg. 
A portion of Gen. Tuttle's division got behind 
and was cut off from the expedition and returned 
to Vicksburg. 
Arkansas.— Intelligence has reached Fort 
Smith that Gen. Price has received a sixty days’ 
furlough to enable him to go to Texas and 
Mexico. The belief at headquarters and in the 
rebel army generally, is. that he will never 
return. He left Camden ten days ago with a 
small escort in citizens drees. 
Col. Phillips, commanding the expedition iu 
the Indian Territory, reports to Gen. Thayer 
that he has driven the enemy entirely out 6f 
that region, and that in several skirmishes he 
had killed nearly 300 rebels, and captured one 
captain and 200 men. 
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AFFAIRS AT WASHINGTON. 
The documents in the case of < onsul General 
Goldings, involving his arrest, have been com¬ 
municated to Congress, in response to a resolu¬ 
tion calling upon the .Secretary of State for the 
information. Messrs. Perkins and Stephens, 
counsel for Mr. GRidings, in ft communication to 
the Attorney General, speak of t he arrest as an 
outrage and an attempt at blackmailing, the suit 
being for $20,000 damages, for an alleged kid¬ 
napping of one Redpatli, and they express the 
opinion that a Gonaul General, with 8emi-diplo¬ 
matic powers, should be exempt from arrest. 
The Attorney General sends the letter to Secre¬ 
tary Seward, saying the subject does not concern 
the duties of his office. 
The Secretary of State (Nov. 21st) writes to 
Mr. Bates, disclaiming for Consul Generals any 
diplomatic immunity, and referring to the third 
article of the Convention of 1815, which declares 
that a Consul may be punished or remanded 
home for illegal or improper conduct. 
Mr. Giddings details the facts of his arrest, 
and slates that he gave hail in $80,000, and in¬ 
structed his counsel to move to quash the pro. 
ceedings on the ground that a Consul cannot he. 
taken from the duties of his office at the suit of 
a private individual, and claimed exterritorial 
privileges. 
In a subsequent letter he states that Rcdpath 
claimed to he a citizen of New York, that he 
w as destitute of means, food aud lodging, and 
denied all knowledge of the public statement 
that he had commenced a suit for issuing process 
to send him from Canada, and w eeping bitterly, 
obtained pecuniary aid from Mr. Giddings and a 
recommendation to the charitable, and the next 
day Kedputh tiled an affidavit claiming damages 
for imprisonment. He claims that Rcdpath had 
been importuned and pressed to such action by 
an editor of a secession paper iti Montreal and 
others in secession interest; that it was under¬ 
stood throughput Canada as a vexatious pro¬ 
ceeding intended to be offensive to the people of 
the U. S. 
The case of Yallandigham. ex parte, was de¬ 
cided in the Supreme Court of the United States 
on the 15th inst. The petitioner asked that the 
w rit of certiorari he directod to the Judge Ad¬ 
vocate General for a revision, with the proceed¬ 
ings of the Military Commission which tried him, 
the jurisdiction of which w as denied as extend¬ 
ing to the case of a civilian, the object being to 
have the sentenoo annulled on t he ground of il¬ 
legality. Judge Advocate General Holt respond¬ 
ed in a written argument that the Court might, 
with as much propriety, he called upon to re¬ 
strain by injunction the proceedings of Congress, 
as to revise by certiorari and reverse the pro¬ 
ceedings of military authority in time of war, in 
the punishment of all military offenses, accord¬ 
ing to the usage of civilized nations and the 
power given by the Constitution and laws of the 
United 8lates for the common defense and pub¬ 
lic? safety. Justice Wayne delivered the opinion 
of the Court, refusing the writ on the ground 
that even if the arrest, trial and punishment of 
Vallandighaiu were illegal, there was still no 
authority in the Court to grant relief in this 
mode, and that there is no law by which any 
appeal, or proceeding in the nature of an appeal, 
from military proceedings can be taken in the 
Supreme Court. 
In the House an amendment to the enroll¬ 
ment bill was adopted as a substitute for one of 
the original sections, which provides that any 
person drafted into the military service, may, 
before the time fixed for liis appearance at the 
draft rendezvous, furnish an acceptable substi¬ 
tute under such rules and regulations as may be 
prescribed by the Secretary of War. If such 
substitute is not liable to draft, the man furnish¬ 
ing him shall he exempt from draft dining the 
time for which such substitute is not liable to 
draft, not bxeeeditig the term for which he w as 
drafted, and if such substitute is liable to draft, 
the name of the person furnishing him shall be 
subject to to draft in filling future quotas. 
The subject of confiscated lands is and has 
been under consideration of the Committee on 
Lands. The opinions of those familiar with the 
Government, and who have given the subject 
the most careful consideration, have been ob¬ 
tained, and it is probable that a hill providing 
for the disposal of such lauds in a legal form 
and giving a dear title, will soon he introduced. 
The President approves and will sign tho joint 
resolution on confiscation, which passed the 
House and will doubtless pass the Senate. 
The House Committee on Military Affairs 
have prepared a hill setting out with the decla¬ 
ration that it appears that many general officers 
are and have been either entirely unemployed 
or not on duty correspouding with their rank, 
thus holding commissions and drawing pay, 
without service, and standing in the w ay of the 
promotion of active officers, providing that all 
Major-Generals and Brigadier-Generals, who, on 
the 15th of March next shall not he in the per¬ 
formance of service, and for throe mouths con¬ 
tinuously prior to that date, shall be dropped 
from the roll of the army, and all pay shall 
cease and the vacancies filled by appointment or 
promotion. But this is not to affect officers 
absent from commands and in oousequeuce of 
being prisoners of war on parole. 
NEWS PARAGRAPHS. 
A lady of Maine whose son is in the army, 
says the Maine Farmer, tho past year with her 
own hands, has raised and harvested twenty 
bushels of good sound corn, twenty bushels 
potatoes, one and a half bushels beans, three 
peeks peas, and the usual variety of other garden 
vegetables. 
At Gettysburg 28,000 muskets were taken. 
Of these 24,000 were found to he loaded, 12,000 
containing two loads ami 6,000 from three to 
ten louds each. In many instances half a dozen 
halls were driven in on a single charge of pow¬ 
der. In some cases the former possessors had 
reversed the usual order, placing the hall at the 
bottom of the barrel and the powder on top. 
An officer on hoard the iron-clad Xantuckd 
at Port Royal, January 18th, for repairs, writes 
as follows:—“We are now high and dry on the 
beach, cleauingthe ship’s bottom, which presents 
to the novice a curious sight. The oysters, bar¬ 
nacles aud grass form a solid coaling of one inch 
in thickness. The oysters are full throe inches 
in length, and make a nice stew. I have eaten i 
one from them!” 
There is great excitement in Michigan over 
the discovery of silver near Lake Superior,— 
the Detroit Free Press says speculation has 
already commenced. Men who have taken lands 
at one dollar and twenty-live cents an acre are 
selling out at advances of thousands of dollars 
upon the original cost of their tracts. 
IJat of New Advertisements. 
Eastman’s Model Mercantile College—A It Eastman. 
Iona Grape Vines—C V Grant. 
Tile Yokohama SilUash- .In-. 11 agp. 
Tin? Notv Book on Flowers J £ Tilton A Co. 
Now Rocket Albums Sjun'l Bowles & Oo. 
Send fbr Specimen i ’opl.-s -(’ I) Tracy & Co. 
Seeds liv Will It 11 Allen & Co. 
Knsseli’s Strawberry- \\ T A- E 8mith. 
Tho New Raten' Wooden Sole-1 Boots and Shoes. 
Farm Cor Sale— Matthew ,J Rock. 
Every soldier should have Davis’ Rain Killer. 
Wanted to iixi'bange E R Day. 
Farm for Sale Ii Is Appleby. 
Small Fruits, Ac .1 Knox. 
N ill:-.-IV stock bit S;.li_>—-S 15 Kelly. 
Grape KnO>. 
Amenta Wanted - BovI .hii & Co. 
Strawberry Riant*- J Kuox. 
N nrsrrr for Sale W Bird. 
Apple Troon for Sale Cheap-Dr M Strong. 
MjlSt be Sold—Jno S Goold. 
Black Seed Data, Ac— Hugh Annett, 
Two Farms. <£■’., lor Sale— V J Clark. 
Applu Trues for SaR.— A M Williams. 
Flower Seeds—Mark 1) Willson. 
Farm for Sale—J B Wltfonl. 
Tobacco Seed —Julius Rising. 
To Nurserymen— F M 31 vers. 
SPECIAL NOTICES. 
War has Its Triumphs, so has Peace—D B DeLand Sk Co 
$l)c News Conhcnser. 
— Denmark's army is about 40,000 men. 
— Ice is three inches thick at Richmond. 
— The debt of Rhode Island is $2,008,350. 
— Australia has a population of two millions. R 
— Michigan has passed the soldiers' voting bill. 
— Philadelphia has sent off ita fourth negro regi¬ 
ment. 
— The invasion of Pennsylvania cost the State $118,. 
67116. 
— Eleven hundred officers are in six rooms in Libby 
Prison. 
— Our exchanges state that Mrs. Tom Thumb is a 
mother. 
— The mortality in the Chattanooga hospitals is 00 
per day. 
— Over 2,720 shipwrecks were reported in England 
last year. 
— There are forty thousand dogs, it is said, in Massa¬ 
chusetts. 
— The Confederatee are haring school-books printed 
in London. 
— A loyal paper 19 about to be started at Murfrees¬ 
boro, Tenn. 
— " Old Abe" refuses any more of his autographs or 
photographs. 
— Colt's Armory at Hartford is to be re constructed 
without delay 
— Some postmasters in the country get less than $2 
per week salary, 
— The rebels have given np the manufacture of can¬ 
non at Atlanta, Ga. 
— Tho Emperor Napoleon will be 57 years of age in 
March; Eugenie is 3S. 
— Last month at the Springfield Armory, 62,700 mus¬ 
kets tv we manufactured. 
— The orders for a general moveniont of our troops 
went out a fortnight ago. 
— More than 87,000 Irish people left their country last 
year for ihe United States. 
— The hyacinths arc in bloom at Vicksburg, and the 
soldiers play on the green grass. 
— California has decided that the law permitting 
soldiers to vote is unconstitutional. 
— Hartford, Conn., will give a piano forte, from the 
Charter Oak, to the N. Y. Sanitary Fair. 
— Five hundrod famiies from the east are expected 
to settle at St. Joseph, Mo., in the spring. 
— Gov. Carney, of Kansas, has been elected U. S. 
Senator from that State by the legislature. 
— The Increase of the 'gold product since the war is 
Bold to be nearly forty millions of dollars. 
— The receipts of the N Y. Custom Houao for the 
past week was $ 1,TOO,000, uearly all gold. 
— The Maine Legislature has refused, by three major¬ 
ity, to remove the State Capital to Portland 
— The Iowa Senate has passed a bill to proliibit tho 
circulation of foreign bank notes in that State 
— No loss than 60 planters have taken the oath of 
allegiance at Natchez, Miss., within a fortnight 
— During the last year we have exported to England 
$45,07S.S79 in specie and £43,006 of English coin. 
— The poor women and children In suffering South¬ 
western Missouri, chop wood at CO cents por cord. 
— The winter In Turkey is the severest known for 
years. Tens of thousands of sheep have perished. 
— It is announced that an oil spring, yielding forty 
barrels a day, has been discovered in Albion, Mich. 
— Ohio is talking of tho establishment of a Bureau 
of Military Statistics modeled alter that of New York. 
— Prnssia is putting her fortresses on the French 
frontier into a complete state of defence for active war¬ 
fare. 
— The Germans comprise, according to the last cen¬ 
sus, 4.14 per cent of the total population of tho United 
States. 
— Gen. Howell Cobh is making speeches throughout 
Georgia, endeavoring to revive tho waning spirits of the 
people. 
— A Knoxville letter of the 9th says Longstrcot has 
fifty-five thousand men, and sixteen or eighteen batter¬ 
ies of artillery. 
— It is feportod that Dr. Livingstone/the distinguish¬ 
ed African explorer, has been murdered by the natives 
on Lake Nyassn, 
— In 1362 there were 861 ,823,000 pounds of sugar used 
In the United States—nearly 29 pounds to each man, 
woman and child. 
The sum of $100,000 is to be appropriated by the 
Mass, legislature for the relief of tho suffering loyalists 
of East Tennessee. 
— The total losses by fire in Philadelphia during last 
year did not exceed $400,000, on which there was 
$240,000 insurance. 
— The U, 8. Life Insurance Companies have risks to 
the amount of $‘100,000,000; those of England have an 
aggregate of $2,250,000,000. 
— The rebel government has established a horse in¬ 
firmary for broken down stock in the army. It is situ¬ 
ated in Lorens Co., Georgia. 
— A battle monument is projected at West Point, to 
have engraved upon it the names ol' all regular army 
officers who shall have fallen in the somce, 
— There were received at tin* N. Y. eattlo markets 
during 1868, 2»ISfiK»0 taxjves, 6,1)1 cows, 84,962 veals, 
515,191 sheep and lambs, and 1,097,232 swine. 
— The Michigan Legislature proposes to appropriate 
$8,500 toward laying out and beautifying that part of 
the Gettysburg Cemetery allotted to that State. 
-4ffilio Provost Marshal General of Iowa has tolo- 
grajmed to the President that,the State will fill its qutoa 
by volunteers, rendering a draft there unnecessary. 
