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ROCHESTER, N. Y., APRIL 23, 1864. 
The Army in Virginia. 
Dispatches of the 18th inst. state that 
sutlers and citizens have all left the army, and 
will not he allowed to return before next 
autumn. 
Our scouts report that Longstrcet is in Rich¬ 
mond with the greater portion of his army. 
A letter from the Army of the Potomac, 
dated the 16th, says that Gibbons’ Division of 
the Second Corps was reviewed yesterday by 
Gen. naneock,—Generals Meade, Sedgwick and 
others being present. The division is a large 
one, well disciplined, and was eulogized by all 
present. 
Gen. Kilpatrick has been relieved from the 
command ot bis cavalry division, and ordered 
to report for duty to Gen. Gregg. He will take 
command of a brigade under the latter. 
About noon of the 17th a party of rebel cav¬ 
alry made an attack on the pickets at Bristow 
Station, but were driven off after a brisk skir¬ 
mish. One man was killed and two wounded, 
belonging to the 13th Pennsylvania. Several of 
the rebels were wounded, but were carried off 
by their comrades. 
The N. Y. Herald's Fortress Monroe dispatch 
reports a daring attempt to destroy the frigate 
Minnesota. An apparently floating spar ap¬ 
proached her, and getting near, was ascertained 
to he a boat with three men it. The lookout 
warned them off, but they pushed boldly for the 
frigate, and In a few moments an explosion sim¬ 
ilar to that of twenty cannon was heard. The 
vessel shook as if with paralysis. The crew 
tumbled out of their berths and hammocks. 
When the confusion subsided, the order was 
given to pursue the daring rebels, but the Ad¬ 
miral’s dispatch tug-boat Poppy, lying along¬ 
side, nad no steam up. The other tug or picket 
boats were too far off’ to be of use, as these 
marauders rapidly disappeared in one of the 
crocks abounding in James river. The damage 
was very trifling, and has been repaired. 
An expedition under command of Gen. Gra¬ 
ham, consisting of the army gunboats, the 9th 
New Jersey and 10th Massachusetts, and the 
118th New York regiments, and t wo sections of 
artillery, under Captain Easterly, left Fortress 
Monroe on the fith, and landed at different 
points. They concentrated at Smith field, Va., 
on the 12th, and succeeded in routing the ene¬ 
my, capturing one commissioned officer and live 
privates, all wounded; also, several horses and 
carriages and commissary stores. The rebel 
mall and one piece of artillery, formerly taken 
from the gunboat Smith Briggs, were also caj>- 
turod. Fifty contrabands were also brought ia. 
Our loss was one missing and five slightly 
wounded. 
The Baltimore American has a letter from 
Point Lookout, which says that Gen. Heintzel- 
man returned on the Hth from an expedition 
across the Potomac, having captured $50,000 
worth of tobacco on its way from Richmond to 
Baltimore, and also having taken prisoners a 
gang of blockade runners. 
The American reports a fight near Winches¬ 
ter on Friday last, between Major Hunter, w T ith 
a force of Pennsylvania cavalry, and large force 
under Imboden, in which from fifty to one hun¬ 
dred were killed and wounded on both sides. 
Passengers from the West report that it was a 
decided Union triumph. 
teen fully equipped horses, were recently cap¬ 
tured above Pilatka. 
On the morning of March 20th, while lying 
off Elbow Light, the U. S. steamer Tioga over¬ 
hauled and captured the sloop Swallow, from 
Tomblgbee river, bound to Nassau, with 100 
bales of cotton, 80 barrels rosin, and 25 boxes of 
tobacco on board. 
Department of the Gulf 
New Orleans advices report a skirmish 
at Point Con fee, March 30th, between our cav¬ 
alry and the 2d Louisiana. The rebels wore 
repulsed and twelve of them captured. 
Rumor says 500 of our command were surprised 
and captured by the rebel Gen Taylor in the 
rear of our army near Alexandria. 
A squad of rebels dashed into Washington, 
near Natchez, Miss., on the 30th, but were re¬ 
pulsed, and four of them captured by a squad of 
our troops. 
The reported sinking of the rebel ram Tennes¬ 
see in Mobile Bay was unfounded. 
The Free State Convention had completed 
its organization. It had voted 0G to 11 that mem¬ 
bers shall take the oath of Dec. 8, 1803, as the 
oath prescribed by the President’s Amnesty Pro- 
[ ejamation. 
Advices from Texas state that Gen. Dana has 
been relieved from command of troops at Pass 
Cavallo. He was relieved at liis own request 
anil w T as succeeded by Gen. Warner. 
The Federal cavalry, 1,000 strong, occupied 
Eagle Pass after a slight resistance from the 
rebels. Eagle Puss is 400 miles above Browns¬ 
ville, and has been a great rebel highway for 
running cotton and other articles into Mexico. 
It was determined that our troops should occupy 
the place permanently. 
Corpus Obristi had been re-occupied by our 
forces, and they bad captured 800 prisoners. 
The old residents had nearly all left the place 
previous to its re-occupation. 
Eight hundred cavalry had arrived overland 
and joined the Union forces. Refugees from 
the rebel conscription wore flocking into our 
lines by hundreds daily. 
Immense quantities of cotton had been secured 
by our troops. The 1st Texas cavalry, 1,100 
strong, were cooperating w ith our forces. 
Some 5,000 of l-hc people have taken the oath 
under the President’s proclamation. 
A brilliant fight took place at Pensacola, be¬ 
tween the 30th and 14th cavalry and the 57th 
Alabama cavalry, in which the rebels were 
almost annihilated in a hand to hand encounter. 
Department of the South. 
We have dates from Gen. Gilmore’s field of 
operations up to the 14th inBt., from which we 
gather the following items of interest: 
A Port Royal paper of the Hth, reports the 
capture of the side-wheel blockade runner Al¬ 
liance, on the 2d, near Dafuskie Island, in the 
Savannah river, where she ran aground. All 
but six of her crew were taken prisoners. She 
was from Nassau, with a cargo of stores for the 
rebel government, valued at $85,000. The Sa¬ 
vannah /itpublican , of the 4th inst., states that 
the Yankee prisoners at Taunton, Ga., are dying 
at the rate of 25 per day. 
Nassau papers of the 5th inst., state that Mo¬ 
bile, Savannah, Charleston and Wilmington, 
are less rigidly blockaded than ever. The pa¬ 
pers also say that from that fact fast steamers 
arc coming in with supplies for the rebels. 
Paymasters Herrick and Lockwood arrived at 
Port Itoyal on the 8th inst., with a million of 
dollars, to pay all the troops in tills department. 
Jacksonville (Fla.) papers of the fith inst., 
give a list of 349 wounded men in the hands of 
the rebels. 
A lire broke out on Folly Island, on the 8th 
inst, destroying a large amount of property. 
The government loss is $40,000. 
The Palmetto Ikrald lias Florida advices of 
the 1st 
The steamer Maple Leaf, while returning to 
Movements in the West and South-West 
Kentucky. — Headquarters at Louisville 
are advised of a dispatch from Col. Gallup, 
received at Lexington, that the rebels are in 
full retreat from East Kentucky. The force 
that made the attack ou Painesville numbered 
about. 1,000. Col. True Is pushing forward from 
North Sterling, in the direction of Pound Gap, 
to intercept them. No fears are entertained of 
the result of this incursion. 
Another demand was made on the Hth for the 
surrender of Paducah, giving one hour for the 
removal of women and children. Captain Hill 
declined to surrender and prepared to meet the 
attack. 
The 3d, 7th and 8th Kentucky regiments are 
overrunning Western Kentucky with impunity, 
and the inhabitants arc in a constant state of 
suspense, not knowing at what time they may 
be attacked. Everybody Las slept in their 
clothes lately, ready to defend themselves or de¬ 
camp, as circumstances might require. The 
gunboats are constantly patrolling and taking 
every precaution to prevent the rebels from 
crossing the river here, by destroying all the 
skiffs and sinking all other craft that could lie 
used for that purpose. 
The rebel Gen. Buford sent a flag of truce on 
the 13th, demanding the surrender of Fort Hal- 
leck, Columbus, Ky., the white soldiers to be 
treated as prisoners of war, but no protection 
promised to colored troops found in arms. Five 
hours were given for the removal of the women 
and children. About noon, two steamers ar¬ 
rived at Columbus from below with 4,000 sol¬ 
diers en route for home on furlough, and a 
battery, which were landed, and changed the 
calculations of the rebels. 
Tennessee.— On the 12th inst., the rebel 
Gen. Forrest attacked Fort Pillow. Soon after 
the attack Forrest sent, a flag of truce, demand¬ 
ing the surrender of the fort and garrison, 
meanwhile so disposing of his force as to gain 
the advantage. Our forces were under com¬ 
mand of Major Boone, 18th Torn. U. S. Heavy 
Artillery. The flag of truce was refused, and 
fighting resumed. 
Afterwards a second flag came in, which was 
also refused. Both flags gave the rebels the ad¬ 
vantage of obtaining new positions. The battle 
was kept up until 3 P. M., when Major Boone 
was killed and Major Bradford took command. 
The rebels now came in swarms over our troops, 
compelling them to surrender. 
Immediately upon the surrender ensued a 
scene which utterly baffles description. Up to 
The steamer Platte Valley came up about 
three o’clock, and was hailed by the Confeder¬ 
ates under a flag of truce. 
Men were sent ashore to bury the dead and 
take aboard as many of the wounded as the 
enemy had allowed to Uve. Fifty-five were 
taken aboard, including seven or eight colored. 
Eight died on the way up. 
Six guns were captured by the rebels aud 
carried off, including two 10-pound Parrott and 
two 12-pound howitzers. A large amount of 
stores was destroyed or carried away. 
On the 10th, dispatches were received from 
Gen. Sherman, confirming the surrender of Fort 
Pillow, and the brutal conduct of the rebels im¬ 
mediately afterwards, which bids fair to be 
amply retaliated in that quarter in due time. 
The Star says, according to Gen. Sherman, our 
loss was 50 white troops killed and 100 wounded, 
and 300 black troops murdered in cold blood, 
after the surrender. 
A dispatch dated the 17th, says that the rebels 
evacuated Port Pillow after destroying every¬ 
thing destructible which seemed to distinguish 
it us a military post. They burned every build¬ 
ing and remnant of a building, wul ended by 
blowing up the walls of the fortifications and 
entrenchments. 
A prisoner who escaped from Forrest at 
at Jacksontown had arrived at Memphis, and 
reports that at Forrest's headquarters he heard 
the determination expressed to hold Tennessee. 
The Philadelphia Inquirer lias the following 
dispatch dated Nashville, the 18th inst.: 
It is certain at last that East Tennessee has 
been abandoned by the rebel troops, and that 
they have destroyed the bridges in their hasty 
evacuation. Seven ot Longstreet’s generals 
have been court-martialed in consequence of the 
failure of the campaign in East Tennessee. 
Johnston’s army is receiving heavy re-enforce¬ 
ments. Parts of Gen. Beauregard’s army have 
arrived at Dalton, Georgia. Bishop Polk’s 
army is on the way to Dalton. Johnston's cav¬ 
alry are active. The bulk of his army is at 
Tunnel Hill. 
Arkansas. On the 11th, 400 Texan cavalry 
attempted to surprise the camp of 240 Federal* 
at Rosed ale, on the Arkansas river, but were 
repuls' d with the loss of 12 killed and a large 
number wounded. Our loss was five killed. 
Advices from Gen. Steele to the 7th inst. are 
received. His expedition had then reached a 
point five miles south of Kirin Ferry, on Little 
Missouri river, and about 25 miles from Camden, 
where he expected Gen. Thayer, with a force 
from Fort Smith, to join him next day. 
On the 2d, the rebel Gen. Shelby attacked 
Gen, Steele’s rear guard, under Gen. Rice, with 
1,200 cavalry and two companies of artillery, 
and was repulsed with a loss of too killed and 
wounded. Our loss was forty-four killed and 
fifteen wounded. 
On the 4th, the rebel Gen. Marmadukd at¬ 
tacked Gen. Steele with 8,000 to 4,000 cavalry 
and five pieces of artillery, on the south side of 
the Little Missouri river, and after live hours 
fighting was repulsed. There is it force of reb¬ 
els five or six miles in advance, but it is not ex¬ 
pected they w ill make a stand. Nothing has 
been heard by Gen. Steele of Gen. Banks or the 
gunboats in Red river. 
Gen. Dickson, with a large rebel force, has 
succeeded in crossing the Arkansas river. 
Louisiana.— By the steamer Pauline Car- 
roll, we have reports of another fight up the 
Red river, Soon after our troops left Alexan¬ 
dria, a large rebel foree under Snyder attacked 
our fortifications, but were vigorously repulsed. 
Our troops fought bravely several hours, with 
considerable loss. The enemy’s loss was heavy. 
No further particulars have come to hand. 
Colorado.— A detachment of the 1st colored 
Ohio cavalry had a tight, with a party of Chey¬ 
ennes on the north side of the Platte river, 
near Fremont Orchard, 85 miles east of here, 
on the Stage Road, ou the 12tl). Two soldiers 
were killed. The Indians had several killed. 
Strong detachments of troops have been sent 
out in every direction against the Indians, and 
some uneasiness is caused by the conduct of the 
Sioux, Arapahoes and Cheyennes, as they arc 
making unusual efforts to obtain arms and am¬ 
munition, and having recently stampeded sev¬ 
eral herds of cattle and horses. Very stringent 
orders have been issued forbidding the sale of 
arms and ammunition to Indians. 
Jacksonville front Pilatka, on the morning of that time, comparatively few of our men had 
the 1st, struck a rebel torpedo, which exploded, 
tearing off the steamer’s entire bows, the vessel 
sinking in ten minutes. Two firemen and two 
deck bands were drowned. The passengers, CO 
in number, were safely landed. The Luggage 
was all lost, including that of two or three 
regiments. 
A rcconnoissance on the 2d, on the Jackson¬ 
ville road, resulted in a skirmish with the rebel 
pickets live miles from Jacksonville, the enemy 
retreating. 
A regiment of loyal Floridians was being or¬ 
ganized. 
Dates from Pilatka of the 3d state that four 
of our pickets, five miles from Jacksonville,had 
been captured, but all was quiet there. 
.Eleven men of a Georgia regiment, and thir- 
becn killed, but the Confederates commenced an 
indiscriminate butchery of the whites and 
blacks, Including those of both colors who had 
been previously wounded. The black soldiers 
becoming demoralized rushed to the rear, the 
w hite officers having thrown down their arms. 
Both white and black were bayoneted, shot or 
sabered. Even dead bodies were horribly mu¬ 
tilated, and children of seven and nine years of 
age and several negro women killed. Soldiers 
unable to speak from wounds were shot dead 
and their bodies rolled down the bank into the 
river. The dead and wounded negroes were 
piled in heaps and burned, and several citizens 
who had joined our forces for protection were 
killed or wounded. Out of a garrison of 600, but 
200 remain alive. 
AFFAIRS AT WASHINGTON. 
From a report of the Secretary of the Treas¬ 
ury, in answer to a resolution of the Senate rela¬ 
tive to the commissioners and the amount of 
money received under the law to collect direct 
tax'es in insurrectionary districts, it appears that 
there were five commissioners in the district of 
Florida, and four in each of the districts of 
South Carolina, Virginia and Tennessee, at a 
salary of $3,000 each, and two clerks in Florida, 
and one in each of the other districts, at a sal¬ 
ary of $1,200 each. In South Carolina, 103,571 
acres of land were sold for $27,890; in Virginia, 
6,400 acres for $110,407; in Florida, 124 acres for 
$15,002; and in Tennessee, lands to the amount 
of $52,500. 
The Henate Committee on Foreign Affairs lias 
decided it to be inexpedient to take any action 
ou the House resolution in regard to Mexico at 
present. 
The House Committee on Territories have 
decided to adopt the bill establishing the terri¬ 
tory of Montana with Senate amendment, that 
all inhabitants, black or white, can vote. 
The Committee on Emigration will soon re¬ 
port a Dill, in substance recommended by Secro 
tary Seward,—commissioners to be located at 
Washington, New York and Chicago, Mr. 
Seward’H suggestion, that foreigners be allowed 
to vote after two years’ residence, is stricken 
out, leaving the matter to be controlled by ex¬ 
isting laws. 
Congress is about to try legislation for the 
purpose of stopping speculation in gold. The 
following is the bill which pnssed the Senate, 
and which awaits the action of the House: 
lie it enacted, <Ce., That, it Until bo Unlawful 
to make any contract for the purchase or sale or 
delivery of any gold coin or bullion, or any for¬ 
eign exchange, to be delivered ut any time sub- 
sequent to the making of such cont ract, or for 
the payment of any sum, cither fixed or contin¬ 
gent, in default of the delivery of any gold coin 
or bullion, or of any foreign exchange, upon 
anv other terms than the Immediate manual 
delivery of such gold coin or bullion, or foreign 
exchange, and the immediate payment in full of 
the agreed price thereof by the manual delivery 
of United States notes or national currency, and 
not otherwise, or to make any contract what- 
ever for the sale, loan or delivery of any gold 
coin or bullion, or foreign exchange, of which 
the person making such contract shall, at the 
time of making it. not be the owner. 
See. 2. That it shall be further unlawful for 
any banker, broker, or any other person, to 
make any purchase or sale, of any gold coin or 
bullion or foreign exchange, or any contract for 
any such purchase or sale at any other place 
than the ordlnoiy place of business of either the 
seller or purchaser, owned or hired or occupied 
bv him individually, or by a partnership of 
which he is a member. 
Sec. 3. All contracts made in violation of this 
act shall be absolutely void. 
Sec. 4. Any person who shall violate any pro¬ 
vision of this act shall be held guilty of a mis¬ 
demeanor, mid on conviction thereof be fined in 
the sum of St,900, and lie. imprisoned for a 
period not less than three months nor longer 
than one year, or both, at the discretion of the 
court. 
Sec. 5. The penalty imposed by the fourth 
sect ion of tills act may be recovered in an action 
at law in any Court of Record of tho United 
States, or any court of competent jurisdiction, 
which action limy bo brought in the name of the 
■United States, by any per-on who will sue for 
said penalty, one-halt tor the United Stales, and 
the other for the use of tho person bringing 
such action, and the recovery and satisfaction of 
a judgment in any such action shall bo a bar to 
the imposition of any tine for the same offense 
in any prosecution instituted subsequent to the 
recovery of such judgment, but shall not be a 
bar to iho infliction of punishment as provided 
by the fourth section. 
See. 0. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent 
with tho provisions Of tills act. are repealed. 
Tlie majority of the freedmun heretofore de- 
deported to the Isle of Avaehe, have bccu re¬ 
turned to Washington by the Government, the 
colonization scheme having proved a failure. 
The fund set apart for colonization purposes is 
$600,000 of which $300,000 have been expended. 
The scheme having proved a abortive, Con¬ 
gress will undoubtedly repeal the law making 
that appropriation. The sum drawn by Senator 
I’omoroy has all been strictly accounted for, 
and tiie particulars of his transactions have 
been filed in the proper department. This gen¬ 
tleman volunteered to tit out an expedition to 
Chiriqui, which was defeated by the protest of 
the New Grenadian Government. 
The Secretary of the Interior, in a recent com¬ 
munication, says:—But little disposition, so far 
as the Department is informed, has yet been 
manifested by t he freedtnou of the United States 
to leave Ibe land of their nativity. I doubt if it 
be any just cause of regret. Time and experi¬ 
ence, which have already taught us so much 
wisdom, and produced so many consequent 
changes, will, in tho end, also solve this question 
for us. 
» 1 • » ■ ■ -- 
NEWS PARAGRAPHS. 
Gay, one of the most distinguished botanists 
of France, has just died. Though 70 years of 
age he had recently returned from a scientific 
tour. He leaves an immense collection of botan¬ 
ical specimens. 
A distinguished French chemist says our 
American refiners of petroleum, most of them, 
arc bunglers and do not know how to refine this 
earth oil. lie says only a few favorite brands 
are salable in Europe, aud if well refined it 
would bring a much better price. 
A VERY extensive emigration has taken place, 
and Is still going on, from Canada and the adja¬ 
cent British provinces to the United States. 
The high prices for labor, and the large bounties 
paid to soldiers, are the attractions. The num¬ 
ber thus transferring themselves are counted by 
thousands. Five thousand young Nova Scotians 
have left that province for the .States, and still 
larger bodies from Canada East. 
The question so much agitated among the 
physical geographer’s of England, whether a 
lake can have two outlets, lias been decided in 
tho affirmative. Many examples in British 
North America are cited in proof, us tho Trout 
Lake, tho Prairie Portage, the q’Appelle, and 
tho Back fat. The Jasper Lake, in the Rocky 
Mountains, lias an outlet into Hudson’s Bay, 
and also into the Pacific. 
The State Treasurer of Michigan reports that 
during the past fiscal year the total receipts into 
the treasury were $3,482,676,70, of which $2,481,- 
810 was derived from sale of bonds. The total 
payments for tho year were $3,127,555,50, of 
which $ 1 , 972,186 was paid for the redemption of 
bonds. Tho balance in the treasury is $154,121,- 
100. The amount expended by the State for 
war purposes during tho year was $282,908,94, 
The debt of the State is $2,908,209,80, aside 
from the trust fund debt, which amounts to 
$1,100,218,40. 
A FEW months since nearly a hundred persons 
sat down at a festive celebration in the Hurtz 
mountains, where pork in various forms was the 
principal food. Of these, eighty persons are in 
their graves, and of the remainder, the majority 
linger with a fearful malady. This strange 
event lias led to the discovery that this food was 
charged with flesh worms in all stages of devel¬ 
opment, or trlohinal found in the muscular tis¬ 
sues of the survivors and traced to the pork. 
These flesh worms are not killed by ordinary 
cooking, and multiply rapidly, by thousands. 
A great alarm exists in Germany, and the eat¬ 
ing of pork in many places is now ontircly 
abandoned. 
I.iat of Nexv Advertisements* 
I loMiiamO German Hitlers—Jones <0 Evans. 
8l*et'ii Wash Tobacco James F. Levin. 
Depot Tor 8. 8. Hooks and Papers Adams A Ellis. 
Farm for Sale—It 7, Mason. 
Tile Celebrated Craig Microscope Ilenry ('rule. 
Water for Horse*. Cut Ho. and Sheep—E \V Mill's & Co. 
('lump Farm for 6'slo K ('losody. 
Rusk* 1 Maker*--< isler Willows < 1 Van Der ISrugh. 
Agent* Wanted. 
F.ggs for Hale-i. II Raetieller. 
Endless Chain and I.ever llnra-Powcrs, <fcc—G West- 
Inglionin* A < !•«. 
The Rrlnkrrholf I hum James A 0 <■ Conklin. 
Agents Wanted ll H Herrington A Go. 
Sorgo Seed for Sale—Janies 8 McCall. 
SPECIAL NOTICES. 
Woman’s Rights— D 8 Del.and A Co. 
®l)c None tflonbenser. 
— Small pox is prevalent in Boston. 
— The British army this year numbers 147,118 men. 
— Hon. Thomas Ewing, of Ohio, Is dangerously sick. 
— Board is only thirty dollars a day in Montgomery, 
Ala. 
— A military hospital is to be built immediately in 
Detroit. 
— The hotels at Niagara Falls are being opened for 
summer business. 
— Italy now ranks as the fourth on the list of Euro¬ 
pean naval powers. 
— Hay is setting for $100 per tun at Black Hawk, 
Colorado Territory. 
— The spiritualists in the United States number five 
million of persons. 
— In the Agnsslz Museum at Cambridge, Mass., there 
are ICO,000 specimens. 
— A free city hospital is to be opened in Boston about 
the 15th of next month. 
— There are seventeen public schools, 212 teachers, 
and 10,128 scholars in Chicago. 
— The whole cost of governing Boston is four and a 
quarter million dollars a year. 
— The citizens of Auburn have resolved to stop the 
illegal liquor traffic In that city. 
— I.ast season’s crop of tobacco, of Monroe Co., Mo., 
is estimated at 5,000,000 pounds. 
— Eight million of dollars were sent to the army of 
the Potomac on Wednesday week. 
— A colony of one hundred and thirteen families has 
just left the East for Dacotah Territory. 
— A guy youth at Stafford, Conn , aged 75, recently 
led to the altar u blushing maiden of 28. 
— The oil wells of Pennsylvania have produced 654,- 
000 barrels of petroleum since February, 1802. 
— The woman’s loyal league have 15,000 petitions 
circulating asking Congress to abolish slavery. 
— The Sanitary Commission and its agents cry londly 
for potatoes, onions and pickles, for the soldiers. 
— Philadelphia Is making an effort to get back the 
State Capital, which it lost some sixty years ago. 
— Eleven tuns of cotton raised in Utah have been 
received in Sati Francisco, and more is to follow. 
— TI 10 TT. 8. Senate propose* to do its own telegraph¬ 
ing, in disgust with the! Associated Press Reports. 
— A report from the Secretary of War states the 
number of colonels in command of brigades at 162. 
— Several breweries at Chicago have been closed by 
the United St ates Assessor for alleged false returns. 
— The deaths of relict prisoners at Camp Morton, 
Indianapolis, are at the rate of over one hundred per 
month. 
— The total amount expended in the city of Buffalo 
during the year 1868, for the common schools, was 
$69,075.83. 
— There lias been a decline of more than sixty mil¬ 
lion of dollars, in four years, in the annual production 
of Ireland. 
— The grooms employed in the livery stables at San 
Francisco receive sixty dollars a month, and want 
seventy five. 
— The shipments of copper from Lake Superior in 
1863 amounted to about 10,000 tuns, and of iron ores 
350,000 tuns. 
— In a lunatic asylum out West tho official report 
states that 15!) of the inmates became mad from disap¬ 
pointed love. 
— The number of deaths from crinoline in three years 
in London, it is stated, equals the toes of life by the 
Santiago fire. 
— Thu Bishop of London states that in his diocese 
there are 211 parishes deficient in clergy or church ac¬ 
commodation. 
— All veteran regiments in Ohio belonging to the 
Department of the South have been ordered to the Army 
of the Potomac. 
— Two mine* arc now worked in Newfoundland- 
one of lend and one of copper—each employing over 
one hnndred persons. 
— The Republican National Committee do not seem 
Inclined to postpone the time for holding the Union 
National Convention. 
— Rebel Uen. Lee’s orderly, who has deserted, says 
over two hundred rebel soldiers have bccu Bhot during 
the winter for desertion. 
— Brigham Young is about to prove to the “Saints” 
that lie cim “ keep u hotel,” having purchased tho Salt 
Lake House for $25,000. 
— The House Commute on Commerce have agreed to 
report a resolution providing for tliu termination of the 
Canada reciprocity treaty. 
— Culpepper Is to be invested with u formidable cor¬ 
don of fortifications, with u view to rendering It a per¬ 
manent. depot of supplies. 
— Vermont has furnished two thousand and twenty- 
five more soldiers than have been required of her under 
all the calls thus far made. 
— The number of Members or Congress now absent 
from their seats on account of illness is proportionately 
larger than It has been for years. 
— New Jersey has opened a now trade with South 
America. 2H tuns white oak spokes have been shipped 
from Sussex Co. for that market. 
— The New Hampshire Patriot gives the aggregate 
debtof one hundred and fifty towns in the State as 
$ 3 , 973 ,WO—for bounties principally, 
— On Tuesday week seven young women graduated 
at the Penn. Female Medical College. Prof, Ann Pres¬ 
ton delivered the valedictory address. 
— Beware of the “ Great United StalesStock Compa¬ 
ny,” a new lottery swindle purporting to he for the ben¬ 
efit of the U. 8. Sanitary Commission. 
Kentucky slaveholders loudly coinplain thut their 
able-bodied chattels are running away to the free States 
or to Canada to evade military service. 
— The Olden hum (Eng.) Chronicle reports the com 
rnencement of an extensive emigration of English 
female factory hands to the United Slates. 
— 1’h© Governor General of Canada receives a salary 
of $31,111 per annum, besides $10,IKK) or $15,000 for 
contingent expenses, for Secretary, Clerks, &o. 
