There are no apprehensions of » raid on the 
railroad. All the lines are being rebuilt. The 
road to Ringgold is nearly finished, and will be 
well guarded. 
Veterans are coming in at the rate of 2,000 a 
day. Many regiments bring back 300 or 400 
more recruits. 
Passengers by the steamer Sultana report the 
Sherman expedition penetrated 25 miles beyond 
Meridian, destroyed all the railroads in that vi¬ 
cinity, 32 locomotives and a large number of cars. 
There was no more fighting after leaving Can¬ 
ton. where Adams' rebel cavalry was encoun¬ 
tered. Sherman’s loss in killed wounded aud 
missing is 500. A large number of plantations 
were destroyed. 
Mississippi.— Advices from Vicksburg state 
that Sherman’s expedition returned to that 
place, except the loth and 17th army corps, 
which remained at Canton, Miss., until further 
orders. They did not proceed beyond Meridian. 
No fighting of consequence. Loss small, mostly 
from straggling. The 178th N. Y. lost over 200 
from straggling, being greater than the entire 
loss of the balance of the expedition. 000 pris¬ 
oners and 4,000 negroes were brought in. 
The negro troops at Haines’ Bluff made a de¬ 
scent on Yazoo city the 28th, and after a sharp 
fight occupied the place. Loss about 30 killed 
and wounded. 
Arkansas.— Waldron, some GO miles south¬ 
west of Fort Smith, Ark., and recently the ad¬ 
vance post of our ton es, was burned by guerril¬ 
las a few nights since. 
Twenty steamers and a large supply train from 
Little Rock had arrived at Fort Smith. 
Gen. Price lias returned from Matamoras, 
Mexico, where his recent, furlough allowed him 
to go to visit his family. lie now commands 
the rebels in the Department of Arkansas. 
Rebel deserters continue to arrive in consid¬ 
erable numbers. 
Liat of New AdvortiHemeiita. 
$l)c News (flonbenser 
Flower Seeds by Mail -J Wesley .Tones. 
Tile Best ticaillnjr II.ioKs- Brewer ATlIeston. 
SnleinlM Lint of Aril, 1> - Hen Demerit & Co. 
Till* Housekeeper** Klieyrlop.eillu It Appleton ,t Co. 
Dorchester Nui-tori. s- Mui .hall F Wtiller & Baker. 
Astnmullng Dlselosinvg—VV K t Htiphear. 
Fruit Tre.s j«l WI ,,, !o*;i!i Hi Buell. 
100,00) Apple Tree- K Mooli) A Mill. 
AiiiiuhI or Ten W-out*.* Blocks Mark I) Willson. 
KleValinir Hay- i. W l'roui. 
Farm for Bale Kllilui'l. 
Seed* by Mall Klee II II Doolittle. 
Small Farm for S ib S l{ Mann. 
Patent Bl.'ir no CM.. Burner- Peter Essie A Co. 
Hal ties) lllo Female seminary—Miss C A Klilrtdge. 
Tohacco h*xtl—B w Eflwnrns. 
BrowsV. Bronrhial Troches. 
Farm tor Sale .1 It Babbitt. 
Nervous Dlseio-es Drl'ir-o ft Calboun. 
Nursen Mocks for Sale - 1C Taylor. 
Fanner Wanted—A m. 
ItejccU.il Ajipllcflllons for Patents—J Fraser & Co. 
Flax a to! Hemp Culture —1> DT Moore. 
Kpileptlr Fit— ItrC Rnhlilnv. 
Ftirni. Ac., for Bale- L s Ford. 
Pure Sorgo and InjpHre heed .las B McCall. 
Crape Vinca for Bale—Griffith A Co. 
Apple Trees— E It Jones. 
SPECIAL NOTICES. 
Catalogue of Sabbath School Books, Papers, Cards, Ac 
Adams A Kill-. 
Highly Important. 
Champion Clothes Wringer. 
Don't use S'>da—.1 > H Dt-Land Co. 
— No rattling at the Cle.velaud fair. 
— Roses are in bloom in Ban Francisco. 
— The new rebel congress meets in May. 
— Horses arc $2,000 apiece at Richmond. 
— A temperance revival is just commencing at Chi¬ 
cago. 
— England manufactures a million paper collars a 
week. 
— Rev. Mr. Spurgeon thinks of visiting this country 
in May. 
— The Brooklyn Sanitary Fair will clear, it is said, 
$400,000. 
— Thomas Starr King died at San Francisco on the 
tth of March. 
— Gen- Johnston’s army around Dalton is estimated 
at forty thousand strong. 
— Gen. Grant is in command of forces which occupy 
a front of nearly 400 miles. 
— Feb. 15Ui wns the 100th anniversary of the founda¬ 
tion of the city of St.. I/mis. 
— The Hudson, Connecticut and almost, all our nav¬ 
igable rivers are clear of ice. 
— The Philadelphians have subscribed $27,000 for 
the relief of East Tennessee. 
— A magnificent library has been purchased for the 
post headquarters ftt Louisville. 
— Geo. Elliott, a Londoner, has given $15,000 worth 
of coal to tlieN. Y. sanitary fair. 
— An enthusiastic miner in Idaho sends Mr. Lincoln 
a nugget of gold valued at $250. 
— A woman has been arrested as a lunatic at San 
Francisco for bat hing In whale oil. 
— The peach crop in Western Va., says the Wheeling 
Intelligencer, is entirely destroyed. 
— The total amount of coin hoarded in the United 
States is estimated at $200,000,000. 
— A Btatnc of Father Mathew, the Irish apostle of 
temperance, is to he erected at Cork. 
— Nicaragua will raise 14,000 hales of cotton this 
year, all of which will go to England. 
The Missouri river is still very low, and not freely 
navigable for heavy steamers at St. Charles. 
— Two hundred capes of small pox have been report¬ 
ed to the Board of Health of Indianapolis, Ind. 
— Ilis Holiness, the Pope, has expelled the American 
spiritualist, Mr. Hume, from the “Eternal City” 
— Colonel John F. Totter, of Wis., is mentioned ns a 
candidate for chief of the new freed men's bureau. 
— The Washington National Monument Society has 
resurrected itself sufficiently to re-elect its old officers. 
— The lake* and basins in the Crystal Palace in¬ 
closure, London, have been converted into skating 
ponds 
— There was raised in two days, in Chicago, for the 
purpose of building a new Board of Trade Room, 
$111,100 
— It is reported that Gen. Santa Anna is in favor of 
the establishment of the new Imperial Government in 
Mexico. 
— Colonel Dahlgren was a son of Admiral Dahlgrcn, 
was ltorn in Pennsylvania, and entered the service as a 
captain. 
— Geo. P. Kane, the notorious Marshal Katie of Bal 
timore, lias arrived in Richmond, and has been made a 
Colonel. 
— The Provost Maehal General has issued an order 
directing the vaccination of recruits as soon ns they an* 
enlisted. 
— General Kilpatrick was horn in New Jersey, grad¬ 
uated from West Point in 18(51, and is only twenty eight 
years old. 
— Iron ore of a superior quality has been found on 
the farm of William Cleveland, three miles from Hills 
dale, Mich. 
— Ttic Confederate Congress has issued an address 
to the people. It is a monument of impudence and 
mendacity. 
— Thirty-five buildings, nearly half the town, were 
burned at Truroansburg, Tompkins Co , N. Y., Monday 
night week. 
— The gross income of the British Government last 
year amounted to £70,433,520, or £2,022,683 more than 
the expenditures. 
— The University of Oxford, England, has an annual 
income, exclusive of the fees received from students, of 
nearly $1,500,000. 
- The officers and crew of the gnnboat Seminole, 
stationed off Brazos, Texas, are said to he suffering se¬ 
verely from scurvy. 
— The N. Y. hotels have increased their prices to 
$ 8.50 per day. The increased cost of food and labor is 
assigned as the reason. 
— During the past year the total number of passen¬ 
gers carried on the Philadelphia street railways over 
11 roads was 20,004,510. 
— General Custar Is a native of Ohio, graduated in 
t he same elnsa with Kilpatrick, and is said to be only 
twenty four years of age- 
— Hon. Isaac Davis of Worcester, has given $1,000 
for a prize fund for elocutionary excellence iti the Uni 
versity of Rochester, N. Y. 
— At a recent auction sale of coins at Philadelphia, 
n silver half dollar of]«.‘lfi brought $55, and a silver 
dollar of 1812 brought $ 42. 
— The late foreign news contains the fact that nine 
hundred persons were killed by the explosion or the 
powder magazine In Morocco. 
— Vermont lias furnished 2,025 more soldiers than 
have been required of her under all the calls tints far, ac¬ 
cording to the Adjutant General. 
— Indications point to the occupation of North Caro 
linn by the rebels, and the abandonment of Virginia 
It is, of course, all speculation yet. 
— One of the Boston rioters concerned in resisting 
the draft In July last, has just been sentenced to ten 
years hard tabor in the State prison. 
— A hill has been passed by the Missouri legislature, 
and signed by Gov. Hull, calling a new convention to 
amend the constitution of that State. 
— The Board of Managers of the Boston Banks have 
voted to assess $5 on each $100,000 of the capital stock 
for the suppression of counterfeiting. 
— There are three men in Cincinnati who are million¬ 
aires ; ten worth half a million, and t wenty-three worth 
two hundred and fifty thousand or mote. 
— The Ladle* engaged in the N. Y. Sanitary Fair have 
determined to yield to the clerical protest, uttd permit 
no rallllng during the progress of the fair. 
— The Mayor of Maqnoketa, Iowa, has closed the 
public schools and prohibited nil public gatherings in 
consequence of the prevalence of small pox. 
— A serious schism has sprung up in the Mormon 
ranks—an Issue being raised by Joe Smith, Jr , and 
Israel Rogers, in favor of the one wife doctrine. 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., MARCH 19, 1864. 
The Army in Virginia. 
The "Washington Republican states that 
Major-Gen. Meade has not sufficiently recovered 
from his late attack of pneumonia to warrant 
his entering upon another campaign with the 
army of the Potomac. His physician advises 
him not to attempt such a thing, and there is 
little doubt that he will yield to medieal advice 
and retire for a while from active service. 
Gen. Grant and staff visited the army of the 
Potomac on the 10th inst. It is stated that upon 
the recommendation of Gen. Grant, Gen. W. T. 
Smith has been made a Major-General, and that 
he will assume the. command of the army of the 
Potomac. 
From returned Richmond papers we glean the 
following incident connected with Kilpatrick's 
raid: 
When information reached Richmond that 
Kilpatrick bad crossed the ltapidan, the most 
vigorous orders were issued respecting the pris¬ 
oners. Major Turner, their keeper, lias been 
severely censured for the escape of Col. Straight 
and party. One of the Chiekamauga prisoners 
had written the Major that if he did not treat 
the prisoners better, and allow them to have 
their boxes, they would assassinate him. These 
threats, with the advance of Kilpatrick, induced 
Turner to prevent communication, and when 
the fact that Kilpatrick was really approaching 
Richmond was established, 200 kegs of powder 
were placed under the prisoners, and every 
preparation made to blow them into eternity. 
On the 10th inst., the picket line, composed 
of the 2d colored cavalry regiment. Col. Cole 
commanding, near Suffolk, was attacked by a 
force of the enemy, supported by four regiments 
of infantry, one squadron of cavalry and two 
full batteries. Our pickets fell back to Barnes 
Hill, where other troops were sent to their 
assistance. Seeing the strength of our support¬ 
ing columns, the enemy did not continue his 
pursuit any further. 
While Col. Cole's troops were falling back 
there was continued skirmishing. At some 
points our colored boys stood their ground 
manfully, and at others they became panic- 
stricken and made the liveliest retreat possible. 
It is impossible to give our exact loss. About 
100 are missing. One captain and a lieutenant 
were killed. 
Gen. Butler sent a portion of Gen. Kilpatrick’s 
cavalry, on the I2th, to King and Queen Court 
House to deal with the citizens claiming to be 
non-combatants who ambushed Col. Dahlgren. 
Col. Onderdonk reports that the 5th and 9th 
Va. cavalry, with citizens, 1,200 in all, were 
driven from their camp near Carrolton’s store. 
The camp was taken and a number killed. 70 
prisoners were taken. The enemy was also 
driven from the Court House. A largo amount 
of grain mills and storehouses were burned. 
A Norfolk letter of the 11th confirms the ex¬ 
pulsion of the rebels from Suffolk, and our occu¬ 
pation of the place on the 10th. This is later 
than the reported repulse of our troops which 
occurred on the 9th. 
iltarkete, Commerce, &r 
Itiirat Nfw-Vorla'r Office, ) 
Kocuestkk, March la, 1864. \ 
Our market, as l’nr ns Flour anil Grain are concerned 
Is very quiet, there being only one or two changes ob¬ 
servable. Corn Is dow n to $i,00 bushel. The range in 
Outs has bean lessened. 
Meats.-F ork, lu all Its shapes, has advanced very 
materially. Dressed Hogs have gone up 80c@$l cwt; 
Mess Pork has pul on $1 1) barrel; Clear Fork, a ltke 
anion lit; Hams, $K<il,50*) i«) lbs; Shoulders 90c cwt. 
Beef Is $2JK>..j)3,W higher. Chickens arc 1(3)2 cents per 
pound better. 
Dairy—C heese Is $t,()0tp 100 pounds higher. 
FRUIT—Apple* have advanced 12>* cts. |-l bushel; 
Hay has declined $2,00 per tun. 
Rochester Wholesale Price*. 
Flour unit Unit,.. Eggs, dozen.16@18c 
Flotir, will. wh’t, $«,7ft a.8.25 Honey, box. I2<a;14 
Flour, spring do. 6,00006,29 Caudles, box_12k(a 13J-W 
Flour, hni , kwhent.2,l(Gi2.15 Candles, extra_H(e,14‘ s 
Meal, Indian.k'.lufigZMA Krnlt «»a Uoot«. 
Wheat, Genesee I..10(ml.(l5 Apples, bushel.IKVo Tftc 
H.-st white*.'.vn.idal.TICi 1,75 Do. dried 48 It) 8 (uSJ, 
Corn. o.oa.j'i.co ivnehes, do .....15 
Rye. 60 It,s. r* hu. Cherries, do .lSoi]20 
Oats, hv weight... fix.uUe Flams. do .HU 16 
Barley.’ . ... .._l.2"iap..'t‘i Potatoes. W busli ..«\55U 
Department of the Gul£ 
New Orleans advices of the 1st, state 
that military movements are still in progress 
for repossessing the country beyond the Teche. 
Part of Gen. Lee’s cavalry had left Nesv Or¬ 
leans for Red River. 
Gen. Sherman arrived at New Orleans on the 
2d, on the gunboat Diana. His late expedition 
is called by himself a big raid, in the course of 
which he reached a point ten miles east of Me¬ 
ridian without any opposition worthy of name, 
and returned with 1,100 mules, 4.000 contra¬ 
bands, 500 prisoners and a large amount of sup¬ 
plies. 
Transports are rapidly bringing troops back 
from Texas. 
Gov. Halm was inaugurated on the 4th, with 
imposing Ceremonies at New Orleans. Gen. 
Banks delivered an address, in which he pre¬ 
dicts the reduction of the insurrection to three 
or four Suites by this season's campaign. 
Gov. Hahn’s inaugural address regards slavery 
as the cause of the present unholy attempt to 
break up the Government, and its universal and 
immediate extinction as a public and private 
blessing. From every light before me, he says, 
I am constrained to believe that the cause of 
the rebellion is in extremities, and it seems to 
me not extravagant to look upon this year as 
the final one of the most senseless, causeless, and 
most murderous rebellion that ever occurred In 
a civilized nation. The loyal men of Louisiana 
have suffered much and deeply, but, with the 
blessings of God upon our exertions, all will 
soon be right, again, and peace, happiness and 
prosperity will smile upon our thresholds as of 
old. 
Gen. Beauregard’s wife died on the 2d, and the 
funeral on the 4th was the largest ever seen in 
New Orleans. 
The steamer Morning Star brought 2,200 bales 
of cotton to New York. 
The bombardment of Fort Powell, at Mobile, 
continued vigorously. The rebel batteries re¬ 
plied, but none of the vessels were seriously in¬ 
jured. The only casualty on our side was the 
wounding of one man on the Oetorora. A letter 
from the fleet says Furragut intends to silence 
Fori Powell, so as to send his Mosquito fleet 
into Mobile Bay. By bo doing he will cut off 
Forts Morgan and Gaines. The bay is said to 
be obstructed three miles below Mobile in such 
a manner that vessels are compelled to pass 
under the gnus of two ironclad rams and a bat¬ 
tery from the shore. The west, side of Mobile 
is defended strongly at every point. 
The ram Tennessee still lies in the bay. 
Mobile was almost ent irely free from soldiers, 
30,000 having gone to meet Sherman. The non- 
coinhalants hail all been removed from the city. 
Quincy Hooper, commanding the United 
States steamer Clyde, off Key West, writes that 
on the 21st ult. he sent, two boats, with armed 
crews, up the Swanee River for the purpose of 
capturing cotton. On the morning of the 27th 
the boats returned with an old scow laden with 
07 bales of cotton, which was put on board the 
Clyde, and sent to Key West, 
AFFAIRS AT WASHINGTON. 
The President of the United States on the 
9th inst. presented to Maj.*-Gcn. Grant his com¬ 
mission as Lieut.-General. The ceremony took 
place in the Cabinet Chamber in the presence of 
the whole Cabinet] Gen. Uulleck, etc. General 
Grant having entered the room, the President 
rose and addressed him: 
“Gen. Grant:—T he Nation’s appreciation of 
what vou have done, and its reliance upon you 
for what remains to l>e done in the existing 
great struggle, are now presented with this com¬ 
mission constituting you Lieutenant-General in 
the army of the l toted States. With this high 
honor devolves upon you also a corresponding 
responsibility. As the country heroin trusts 
you, so, under God, it will sustain you. I 
scarcely need add that, with what I here speak 
for the nation, goes, my own hearty personal con¬ 
currence.'’ 
To which General Grant replied: 
Mr. Pkkmuk.vsA -1 accept this commission 
with gratitude for r rlie high honor conferred. 
With the aid of nol le armies that, have fought 
on so many fields for our common country, it 
will be my earnest endeavor not to disappoint 
your cxpi-i tut ions. 1 feel the full weight of the 
responsibilities novi nailing on me, aud 1 know 
that if they are met, !t will he due to those 
armies, and," above all, to the favor of that Provi¬ 
dence which leads both nations and men. 
The President then introduced the General to 
all the members of the Cabinet, alter which the 
company was seated, and about half an hour was 
spent in social conversation. 
General Grant had a conference the same day 
three hours long with the Secretary of War and 
Gen. Ilalleck upon the military situation in 
every one of the fighting Departments, which 
was made its exact aud as comprehensive as pos¬ 
sible by reference to carefully prepared reports 
and data. In this important council a general 
plan of eompaign was agreed upon which is 
intended to be decisive, and bring the war to a 
speedy close. The policy of making a vigorous 
and more effective use of the Army of the 
Potomac than heretofore was fully recognized. 
General Grant stated to the President that the 
reports of Gen. Sherman having met with a 
reverse were totally untrue—ho hav ing accom¬ 
plished all he was sent to do, to destroy the rail¬ 
roads running from the Mississippi in the direc¬ 
tion of Selma, so as to prevent a rebel diversion 
upon Banks in the spring. 
The Secretary of State has replied to cer¬ 
tain inquiries of the Secretary of the Treasury, 
saying In substance that there is no Imperial or 
Provincial enactment exempting American ves¬ 
sels from tonnage or other duties in the ports of 
Canada. In some of these ports duties arc laid 
on them under the name of light duties, hospital 
dues, and tunnago for the repair of harbors, &e. 
lienee there exists no good reason to exempt 
from tonnage duties vessels belonging wholly or 
in part to subjects of foreign powers, including 
those residing in tin British North American 
provinces, on entry into our ports or the north¬ 
ern, north-eastern and north-western frontier 
from fhe British North American provinces. 
In view of these facts, and in accordance with 
the recommendation of the Treasury Depart¬ 
ment, the House passed a bill to repeal the 2d 
section of the act. to regulate the foreign coast¬ 
ing trade in our frontiers thus taking from her 
majesty’s subjects the enjoyment of the privi¬ 
leges which were not reciprocated to our own 
citizens by the British Government. 
Washington special* say, by order of the 
President "the following milit ary arrangements 
have been made: 
Lieut.-Gen. Grant has been assigned to the 
command of all the armies of the Union. 
Gen. Halleck is relieved from duty as Gcncral- 
in-Ghief, and assigned to special duty at Wash¬ 
ington as i hief to Stall of the army. 
MaJ.-Gen. Sherman is assigned to the command 
of the Division of tin Mississippi lately com¬ 
manded by Gen. Grant, and comprising the 
Departments* of the Ohio, the Cumberland, the 
Tennessee ami the Arkansas. 
Muj.-G»n. McPherson is assigned to the com¬ 
mand of the Department of Tennessee, recently 
commanded by Gen. Sherman, 
Lieut.-Gen. Grant will establish his head¬ 
quarters in the field with the respective armies 
operating under his personal supervision. 
. THE PROVISION MARKETS. 
NEW YORK, Mureti 1ft.—AsltKS—Sluml y; suli-n at $8,- 
87‘j tor jud*. ami $W fur (.earl*. 
FUlUl*- MMrkel (lull ami may lie quoted > |nwi<r, with 
a luiiilerste il. inaml. Sales at $5,40..*>-5*J for superfine 
State: $<.,7>>,,rrt,m for extra Slate: $ii,2.V.n fi,A o fiir super¬ 
fine Wu-uru; $fi^iS(S7,'.si for cornili<>u to medium extra 
Western : $i,lftw7,iA for eotnlMon to good shipping 
brand* cxlni round hooped Ohio.ami $7,3Kui!,80 for trade 
brands tlie market eb-ring quit I, Hal*, cIioIlv extra Mate 
were made «t CitmelUn Flour may In* quoted 
dull ami .’»* lower; sale* at tti.So.u 7JO0 lor •omim.ii. and 
*7,07,4s,IK) for g.to.l to choice extra. Eye Flour rules un¬ 
changed: sai«> at Jft.ftiW 6.—. f..r Inferior to choice. Corn 
im al rules quiet; sales •>( MJ&TctUft for Brandy wine: $ft- 
29njiM0 for Jersey : $ft,90 for eomuiou Mate and $6,10 lor 
Marsh'* caloric. 
Drain- \V heat market dull and 1c lower, with only a 
a londi rale litislne'-' >I*iIjil'; sale.-. ui $I,fiV ri/ri (or Cm* 
eago spring: $l,(SVid,64 for Milwaukee club: $l,64(ad6js 
tor amber Milwaukee 1 $1 60.yi.7l fur winter rod west¬ 
ern: $I,7 S*a.I. 7# f»r authet Mlrldgj.it; $I.Mi fur white. 
Michigan. Uye rule, quiet and steady ; sale, at $1,2.%! 
1.30. Barley rule.-, dull and Unchanged. Burley Malt 
quiet and unchanged; sales at $1 fti. Fotts quiet at $1,20 
ror Canada. Corn market rules heavy and deeliulnk; 
sale* at $1.80 tor cash ami $l,MI J « lu the regular way for 
shipping mixed West, in, In .ton $1,27 trill fm- y ellow 
Jersey. Oat* are less iiriii; sales at »)•.:>>i*N: for t'auada ; 
OVtfJOu‘,C for State, and 90aJi 1 e for Western. 
FBOVIShiN*— pork market dull and unchanged; 
sale*at $21.7f«;> 23,76 for mess: $21 AOt'u 22.hu for new prime 
mess, ami $iS2.s. riu.Vft for prime. Reef market Continues 
firm; sales ut $*,006*5,00 lor country prime; $6.00(aj7,00 
for country men; $L0,OU.iul6AI COT repacked tiu-ss, and 
$ 10.50W 1 17,00 Tor extra mess. Prime mr-* he. i firmer 
and active; sale* at $$:</ij2«jju. Reel Irani* quiet; sale* 
State and Western At $I»,i»Huai,00. ( lit meat* rule quiet; 
sales at O'* .nine for shoulders: 12 V;i OV.e for hams. Ba¬ 
con sides very dull: sales at 11 SiC for Western camber- 
laud out middles; 12'W for do snort clear middles, ami 
13Vr.IS.Sc for do. long cut Imiu*. Drexa.-d llog* are dull 
ami nominal at the tor Western, anu lllStellr tor city. 
l,Jird market dull and heavy : tales at I8.S .. He for No. 1 
to ehrdre. Rutter selling at 27|£gMi- for Ohio, and SSya) 
40c for Mat.. * heesu Unit at lf<q I V. for common to 
I' ..- 
Hoi’S—Market steady uud quiet; sale* at $S@32c for 
common to prime. 
TORONTO, March 9—Kl outt—Miperttne $3,9*1 for ship¬ 
ment, ft barrel: $S,7fl@3,tia for home coiitumptlon: Extra 
Fancy $4,lU0v<,2u; Superior $«,7&.„A,IU; Rag 
Kh.ur $4.00 |>ur 200 It*. 
Drain Fall Wheat fWteitfio. common to choice : $0,S,Vil 
I,00 good to choice : $1,01 (i l.o4 extr.i. Spring Wheat in 
good demand at 7fta^0c. Barley 70®78c. C>at»88oc40c. for 
common to good ; 4>V> 4Si for good to extra. Feus 46qi 97 c 
common to good: extta 57t>.V<c. 
Provisions — Hama $■■>..’ihfij ui.OO per mu th*. Bacon 
$6,ftVii7jW. Cheese $A^%10,<M wholesale; 12,S'gJ8c per 
lb retail.— OU‘br. 
Department of the South. 
The Commercial'a Fortress Monroe letter 
of the 5th, says General Peek is besieged at 
Ncwbern, and neurly every port in North Caro¬ 
lina. There has been nothing confirming this 
statement, and it is thought to lie untrue. 
A Kinston correspondent of the Raleigh Con¬ 
federate, in speaking of the hanging, on the 6th 
inst., of 23 captured soldiers belonging to Col. 
Foster's command, says:—The prisoners were 
accompanied to the place of execution by a large 
concourse of people and a large military escort. 
They ascended the scaffold with a firm and elas¬ 
tic step, and met their fate with unflinching for¬ 
titude anti determination. They asked for no 
quarter, and scornfully spurned all overtures of 
concession on returning to duty in the Confed¬ 
erate service. After making their peace with 
their God they fearlessly proclaimed their readi¬ 
ness to die for their country, against which they 
said they had been forcibly conscripted to light. 
A more sublime exhibition of loyalty to the old 
flag was never witnessed. The multitude were 
moved to tears, and openly denounced this cruel 
massacre, which is causing desertions from the 
rebel service by wholesale, and creating an in¬ 
dignation which, it is feared, will lie uncontrol¬ 
lable. 
The native Union troops have decided to take 
the question of retaliation into their own hands. 
They have given notice to such of their officers 
as did not approve of severe measures to resign, 
and have also given warning that immediate 
death will lie inflicted upon any officer who 
offers hereafter to surrender to the enemy or 
ask for any quarter. The deserters from tin* 
rebel conscription, and those who have boon in 
the rebel service, take the ground that after 
accepting 0( President Lincoln’s amnesty procla¬ 
mation, tin y become loyal citizens of the United 
States, to which government military service, is 
justly due from them, which they have no desire 
to withhold, but demand it as their right, to be 
sworn into the service. Being deserters, they 
'expect to lie hung if caught by Lite enemy, 
ihcnee their enlisting into the United States ser¬ 
vice will not Increase their danger. As for 
repairing to Fortress Monroe for the purpose of 
icing sent north and being thus expatriated, 
tiey will not submit to it. 
The Sd N. C. cavalry, (white,) headquarters at 
iWioutfi, are organizing with increasing suc- 
Movcments in the West and South-West 
Tknn ksskk.—G en, Thomas rode to the front 
at Chattanooga on the 10th and found all quiet 
along the lines. 
OUT new position is considerably in advance 
of the one held during the winter. General 
Palmer’s line, embracing < hickamauga battle¬ 
field, Ringgold, Taylor aud White Oak Ridges 
to Cleveland Gap, is strongly fortified. The 
rumors of skirmishing, heavy fire in the front, 
and robot raids on the railroads, so prevalent a 
few days past, have no foundation whatever. 
Gen, Palmer's orders to Ills command for target 
practice gave rise to them. 
There are now at Dalton and Tunnel Hill six 
divisions and tsvo old brigades of rebel infantry, 
viz: Four brigades, consisting of Rhoddy's, Pat¬ 
terson’s, ilume’s and Davidson’s cavalry; Har¬ 
dee’s infantry corps, consisting of Walker’s, 
Cheatham’s and Claiborne’s division; Hind¬ 
man’s corps, made up of Stevenson's, pt-uart’s 
and Bates’ commands. Four thousand men is a 
large estimate for each division of infantry and 
3,000 for a division of cavalry. This would give 
a grand total of 29,000 men. 
the 4th N. C. artillery, Major Jameson com¬ 
manding, with headquarters at Newborn, is 
filling up rapidly. 
