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shall hear of another monster field display on the 
western bank of the Potomac during the following 
week. Upon the heels of one of these grand demon¬ 
strations, or perhaps from out of it, the legions may 
keep up their swing, and march straight on; but 1 
am not impressed with the belief that a move, just 
now, is imminent. It has been a favorite idea that 
the army here would be held in check until the LIowb 
upon the Southern coast should demoralize and de- 
creaee the rebel strength on the l’otomac, The fir-t 
Btroke, however, haa served bnt to make the retail 
army more compact, but we are now about adminis¬ 
tering the second. The argument, therefore, that war 
good three months ago ought to he worth something 
now, and we should hardly expect to sec Gen. Mc¬ 
Clellan march until the ‘sentence of death’ which 
has been passed upon Charleston, .Savannah, and 
other rebel seaports, shall have been executed by the 
etone fleet, and until Sutler and Burnside shall have 
thrust their swords into some new vulnerable part of 
the Confederate side,” 
The N. Y. World's Washington correspondent 
mentions, among the indications of an advance, 
1. Gen. McClellan’s request to the Paymaster Gen¬ 
eral that the bi-monthly payment might be hurried 
through, ub he wishes to get his soldiers away from 
this vicinity. 
2. The transfer of all local military business, such 
as granting passes, from McClellan’s Adjutant (Gen. 
Williams) to the office of the Provost Marshal. This 
was done on Friday. 
3. The completion of massing and organizing the 
divisions across the river. 
4. Harrying all the artillery, and immense quanti¬ 
ties of subsistence and ammunition to the outpost 
region. 
The telegraph this A. M. (Friday, Nov. 2G,) con¬ 
tains an order for the immediate assembling of 30,000 
men (for an offensive force) at Fortress Monroe. 
There are just now movements of troops going on 
at the West which puzzle most of the newspaper 
strategists, and throw all their calculations into con¬ 
fusion. The only one thing certain is that a storm 
of some kind is brewing. The movement of all the 
forces in Missouri toward the Mississippi, is followed 
by a concentration of the troops in Kentucky. Thus 
Gen. Nelson’s brigade has been called from Eastern 
Kentucky, and on Sunday night his whole force, con¬ 
sisting of the Second, Twenty first and Thirty-third 
Ohio, and three Kentucky regiments, passed down 
the Ohio river by Cincinnati, on steamers, en route 
for Louisville. The Cincinnati 'Enquirer says, Gen. 
Buell is preparing to move upon Buckner at Bowling 
Green, and on Nashville at the same time that the 
demonstration is made down the Mississippi. Every 
day two or three regiments pasB through Louisville 
to Elizabethtown, where is the great rendezvous for 
the troops and stores. Thomas’ brigade, numbering 
about the Bame as Nelson’s, is to douoentr&te at Eliza¬ 
bethtown, and it is said that troops are on their way 
from Western Virginia to Louisville. Tho Enquirer's 
information leads it to believe that Buell T s army will 
number about 100,000 men. 
The Louisville Democrat, of Friday last, contained 
some significant intimations of this Nashville move¬ 
ment. It Bays: 
Our readers may as well prepare to hear, before the 
close of this month, news as stirring as that from the 
great fleet, and this time the news will be of more in¬ 
terest to us, because of its"nearness. Kentucky will, 
to a great extent, end the war, so far us the land 
forces are concerned. * * * Wo do not 
think it necessary to state what our Information is, 
hut we can say that the order to fall back Is based 
on the best grounds, and the wisdom of the order 
will he apparent to the least intelligent inside of 
fifteen days. 
The Knoxville Register of the 14th, thinks the 
Union men of East Tennessee have brought destruc¬ 
tion on their own heads by burning the bridges in 
that region of country. We don’t; and the Knox¬ 
ville Register will find itself woefully mistaken. The 
Unionists of East Tennessee, with the organization 
they are known to have already effected, will he able 
to withstand an assault by any force which can pos¬ 
sibly be sent agaist them, until they are assisted by 
the Federal forces; and that assistance will reach 
them ranch sooner, under the order to fall back from 
Cumberland Gap, than it would have done had our 
forces been permitted to attempt the passage of the 
mountaius. 
The preparation of the gun boat fleet at St. Louis 
and Cairo is going forward rapidly. A dispatch 
from Cairo to the Cincinnati Gazette of the 24th 
inBt. says: 
The gun boat Lexington has gone up to St. Louis 
to convey two of the new gun boats, just finished at 
that [port, to this place. They will probably arrive 
to-morrow. Active preparations are being made to 
place their armament on them at once. Crews will 
be taken from the 500 marines that arrived from thr 
East on Wednesday. Several of the floating batteries 
are also expected down immediately. 
200,000 men. One in forty only stepped forward to 
defend with their persons and their lives the cause of 
const itutionaUiberty and human rights. Some allow¬ 
ances arc to he made on the score of a want of mili¬ 
tary organization, a (supposed want of arms, a neces¬ 
sary retreat of the army southward, the blockade of 
the' river, and the presence of an armed and orpsn- 
ized foe; bnt nearly six months nave now elapsed, 
yonr crops have been tilled, yonr harvests have been 
reaped, and yonr preparations have been made. The 
army in Missouri is organized and equipped, and has 
to right its way to the river. The foe is still In the 
field, the conntry bleeds, onr people groan under the 
inflictions of the foe, marked by all the characteristics 
of barbaric warfare, and where now are the 50.000 to 
avenue onr wrongs and free onreountry? Had 50,000 
men flocked to our standard with their shot guns in 
their hands, there would not now he Federal hire¬ 
lings <n the Btatfe to pollute onr soil. Instead of 
ruined communities, starving families, and desolated 
districts, we should have had people blessed with 
protection, and (stores to Hnpplvtbe wants and neces¬ 
sities. and comforts of life. Where are those 50,000 
men? Are the Missourians no longer true to them¬ 
selves? Are they a time-serving, craven race, lit only 
for subjection to a despot? Awake, my countrymen, 
to a sense of what constitutes the true dignity of 
people! A few men have fought your battles; a few 
men have dared the dangers of the battle-field: 
few have borne the hardships of camp, a scorching 
sun of summer, a froat of winter, malar ia of swamps, 
privations inc.idcrtf to our circumstances, fatigue and 
hunger and thirst; often without blankets or shoeR, 
with insufficient clothing, cold wot earth for our 
bed, sky for covering, the storm for onr pillow, clad 
only to meet the enemy on the field, where some paid 
the noblest devotion known among men on earth, to 
the Cause of your country and yonr rights, with tbeir 
live*; but where one has been lost in the field, three 
have been lost by disease induced by privation and 
toil. Unring all these trials we irmrmtired not. Wo 
otiered all we had on earth at the altar of our common 
oonntry,- our own beloved Missouri, and we only 
now ask onr fellow citizens, onr brethren, to come to 
us and to help to wear what we have gained, and to 
win onr glorious inheritance from the cruel hand of 
the spoiler and oppressor. Come to us, brave sous of 
Missouri. Rally to our standard. I must have 50,000 
rnen. I call upon you in the name of yonr country 
tor 50,000 men. Do you stay at home to take care of 
na and our property? Millions of dollars have been 
lost because you have stayed at home. Do you stay 
at home for your own gratification? 
When we are one free State we'll indemnify every 
citizen who may have lost a dollar by adhesion to the 
cause of his country. We shall have our property or 
Ita value, with interest; but m the name of God and 
the attributes of manhood, let, me appeal to you by 
considerations infinitely finer than money. Are we 
a generation of drivelling, snivelling, degraded 
slaves, or are we men who have and maintain rights 
which cannot be surrendered, and defend those prin 
ciples ol everlasting rectitude pure, and high, and 
sacred, like God. Be yonr office to choose between 
the glory of a free country,and just government, and 
bondage for yonr children. I will never Bee chains 
fastened upon my country. J will ask for six and a 
half feet of Missouri soil on which lo reform, but will 
not live to see my people enslaved. Do I bear your 
shouts? Is that your wur cry which echoes through 
the land? Are you coming, 50,000 men? Missouri 
Hhall move to victory with the tread of a giant. Como 
on, my brave boys. Fifty thousand heroes, gallant, 
and unconquerable. Southern men, we await your 
coming. Sterling G. Prick, 
Major-General Commanding. 
It is reported that the rebels are fortifying New 
Madrid, Missouri,—that they have 500 negroes work¬ 
ing. A detachment of cavalry made a reconnoissance 
as far as Belmont to-day, and found no rebels on the 
Missouri side of the river. 
Department of Missouri. 
A scoot, who haa followed the army of the rebels 
since the evacuation of Springfield, came in to Rolla 
on the 30th tilt He reports the rebels 15,000 strong, 
moving north in three divisions, the right wing 0,000 
strong, commanded by Gen. McBride, resting on 
Stockton. The left held the position under the com¬ 
mand of Gen. Rains of 4.000; Gen. Price, with 6,000, 
commanded the central division at Montebello, Mount 
Vernon county. These figures were obtained from 
the quartermaster of the force by the scout. The 
rebel forces are to march into Kansas aud make that 
State the field of operations. His spies report that 
10,000 men, trader Gen. Lane, are at Fort Scott. 
Price will evade him at Fort Scott, and pass into 
Bates county. The march was taken up on the 2titb 
instant. 
Price ordered McCulloch to follow him, which the 
latter disregarded, and is now moving toward Arkan¬ 
sas for winter quarters. The rebels are poorly clad 
and poorly fed, and evince a disposition to disband 
and seek their homes. 
Parties from the iVest say that the conntry between 
Lexington and Independence is almost deserted, the 
men having gone to join Price or attached themselves 
to the various commands of the officers throughout 
the conntry. 
Price’s proclamation has been circulated in the 
river counties for about a week, where he will get a 
large number of men to join the rebel army. We 
copy the opening and closing paragraphs : 
Fellow-Citizens: Iu Ibe month of .lime last I was 
called to the command of a handful of Missourians, 
who nobly gave up home's comfort to espouse, in that 
gloomy hour, the cause of yonr bleeding country, 
struggling villi the most causeless and cruel despot¬ 
ism known among civilized men. When peace and 
protection could no longer be enjoyed but ai the 
price of honor aud liberty, your chief magistrate 
called for 60,000 men to drive the ruthless invader 
from the soil made fruitful by your labors, and con¬ 
secrated by your homes, and to that call less than 
6,000 responded, out of a male population exceeding 
The Statesman has information from Neosho that 
the Rump Legislature of this State, after obtaining a 
quorum by appointment of persons, elected John B. 
Clark, formerly M. C. from Howard county, and R. 
L. T. Pepton, of Cass county, Senators to the rebel 
Congress. The Legislature also appointed members 
to the rebel House of Representatives, from the Uif 
ferent Congressional Districts of the State, among 
whom are Emmett McDonald, of St. I.onis, of habeas 
corpus notoriety; C. M. Mcllhcny, of Andrain 
county, and James S. Raines, of Jasper county, -all 
of whom are lu Price’s army. 
Col. Jennison has issued the following proposition 
to all persons in arms against the Stale government 
in Jackson, Johnson, Lafayette and PetteB comities: 
1st All who are now in arms against the United 
States government in the above named counties, and 
who will surrender their arms and ammunition, and 
deliver to me nil government property In their pos¬ 
session and under their control, in a seasonable time, 
and shall sign a deed of forfeiture, and shall all here¬ 
after perform duty good and loyal citizens, shall 
not be held responsible for past acts of rebellion, but 
shall be protected in their lives and property. 
2d. Arms which are thus surrendered to me shall 
be stored and taken account of, so that when the pre¬ 
sent difficulties arc settled tho owners thereof can 
obtain them. 
3d. Persons who shall surrender themselves to me. 
in order to make arrangements for securing peace in 
tbeir neighborhoods, shall be respected in their 
rights, while arranging or attempting to arrange any 
terms, and shall be allowed to return to their home's 
even should they, after conference, fail to come to 
any arrangement or understanding. 
4th. All who shall disregard these propositions and 
continue in armed rebellion against the United States 
government, shall be treated as traitors, and slain 
wherever found; their property shall he Confiscated, 
their homes burned, ana in no case will any be spared, 
cither in person or property, who refuse to accept Ike 
propositions. * 
A deed of forfeiture accompanying these proposi¬ 
tions conveys nil the. real and personal property, 
including present and future acquisitions, into the 
bands of the Government; said property to he used 
for the benefit of the Government. 
In case of rebellion, all loyal citizens are required 
to enroll themselves into a Home Guard, holding 
lhemselvc8 amenable to the military authority of the 
United States, and State of Missouri, pledging their 
utmost exertions to maintain its authority against all 
hostile combinations. 
Depnriinent of Kansas. 
The Santa Fe aud Canon City mail, with dates 
to the Kith, arrived in Kansas City on the 25th ult., 
two days ahead of time. There were no through 
passengers. 
At a meeting of the merchants of Santa Fe on the 
7th uk., it was resolved that they would endorse for 
the Government to any amount that may be advanced 
to the territory. This action waB taken in conse¬ 
quence of the scarcity of coin, which has heretofore 
made up the circulating medium in business. From 
some cause it has almost entirely disappeared, caus¬ 
ing unusual stringency in the money market. 
The call of the Government of New Mexico for 
1200 militiamen to garrison the different forts in the 
Territory, has been promptly responded to, and the 
whole number will in a short time be reported for 
duty. The light battery commanded by Lieut. An¬ 
derson, U. S. A., left Santa Fe for the South on the 
7th ult. An important movement in this direction 
is anticipated. 
By telegraph from Leavenworth City on the 2d 
inst., wc learn that the train on the Platte County 
Railroad was seized November 30th, on its arrival 
at Weston, by guerrillas onder Gordon, and the 
United States Express Company’s freight was also 
seized, and they appropriated all the money in charge 
of the express. The mail matter was not taken. 
Gordon had previously seized all goods in stores 
owned by Union men. No more trains will be run 
until this gang is dispersed. 
Major R. HI. Hough, Aid-de-camp to Gen. Hunter, 
in command of four companies of the 1st Missouri 
cavalry, escort to a large train from Sedalia, arrived 
yesterday. The command had an engagement with 
the rebels at Black Walnut Creek, and killed and 
wounded seventeen and took five prisoners. Five 
Federals, including Major Hough, were wounded— 
none seriously. 
The weather is cold, and ice is running in the 
river. 
Department of Ohio. 
The steamship Belle Creole, for Cincinnati from 
Pittsburgh, deeply laden, and the steamer Fnllstone, 
from Kanawha, with a portion of Col. Lytle’s 10th 
Ohio Regiment, collided on the night of the 30th 
ult,, seven miles above Cincinnati. The concussion 
knocked eight or ten soldiers into the river, and it is 
thought all but one were drowned. 
It is reported that the bridge on the Nashville 
Railroad, over Rolling Fork River, was washed away 
on the 20th ult, by a freshet. 
Passengers from Southern points represent an 
almost universal reign of terror throughout the rebel 
States. 
The Rebel State Convention at Russellville has 
made a declaration of independence, passed an 
ordinance of secession, and adopted the laws and 
constitution of Kentucky, when not inconsistent 
with the acts of t.hc Rebel Government. 
The Richmond Dispatch reports 3,000 Unionists 
in the mountaius of East Tennessee, under Parson 
Brownlow and Major Gilpan, and doing more mis¬ 
chief than the Yankees in Kentucky. 
Department of tbe East. 
Washington, Nov. 28.—Adj’t General Thomas 
sent out instructions on the 28th ult. to General Sher¬ 
man, in Beaufort, to take possession of all the cropH 
on the island, cotton, corn, rice, Ac., on military 
account, and to ship the cotton and such other crops 
as were not wanted by the army, to New York, to be 
sold there for uccount of the Government. General 
Sherman was directed to use tbe negro slaves to 
gather and secure the crops of corn and cotton, and 
to erect his defences at Port Royal and other places 
on the island. 
Gen. Sumner has been assigned to the command of 
a division to be composed of twelve regiments of 
infantry, some of which are now here in the provi¬ 
sional army of the Potomac, aud not yet formed into 
brigades, and others are yet to arrive. A propor¬ 
tionate amount of cavalry and artillery will he 
attached to the division, which will for the present 
occupy a position at Springfield, on the line of the 
Orange and Alexandria Railroad. 
The review of the regular forces of the army on 
this side of the Potomac, took place on East Capitol 
Hill, on the 25th ult. There were 1,1)00 infantry, 
2,200 cavalry, and nine batteries of artillery, includ¬ 
ing Capt. Tibbalt’s flying artillery, which, after the 
review, delighted astonished thousands of spectators 
with the exercises of that wing of the service. Ano¬ 
ther prominent and Interesting feature of tbe day 
was the signallingof the corps stationed on the field, 
and those on the dome of the capital; the hitter also 
communicating with the army in Virginia, by tele¬ 
graph. • 
The Navy Department is in receipt of a dispatch 
from Cora. Dupont, containing the report of Com¬ 
mander John Rogers, of the Pocahontas, dated Sun¬ 
day, Nov. 24th, olf Tybeo Island. He states that this 
point entirely controls the ship channel to the Savan¬ 
nah river, which is only within 500 yards of the fort, 
and the possession if it, to use Commander Rogers’ 
own expression, ijhiseB tho harbor of Savannah as 
tight as a cork, ani/that Fort Pulaski is at the mercy 
of our forces the moment it is their desire to take it, 
AIro, that reliable accounts inform him that 8avan 
nuh was being evacuated by the people as fast as pos¬ 
sible, fearing probably that Commander Rogers 
would attempt to take possession of it. He further 
states that Com. Tatnall, of the rebel fleet, had given 
it as his opinion that the entire naval defences of the 
Southern coast must be abandoned, as they could not 
stand the armament of our fleet. 
The United States transport Ocean Queen, Captain 
Seabury, from Port Royal the 27tb, has arrived. As 
she came out. of Port Royal harbor, the steamship 
Bienville was going In. Corn. Dupont has transferred 
his flag from the Wabash to the Snsqnehannah. He, 
together with Gen. Sherman, had just returned to 
Hilton Head in the steamer MoClellau, from Tybee 
Island, having landed a force of U. 8. marines there, 
who had commenced repairing the fortifications and 
constructing new ones. A fleet of eight gnn-boats 
was oil' Tybee, to cover the troops in case of neces¬ 
sity. The rebels had sunk two vessels between Tybee 
Island and Fort Fulaski, in tbe narrow part of the 
Savannah river, to prevent the Federal fleet from 
getting to that city. 
The fleet that was tilting out at Hilton Head for 
another expedition was ready and awaiting orders, 
which were expeoted by the Bienville. 
Beaufort was still uuoccupied by the Federal 
troops, it not being considered of importance at 
present. Two gun boats were still at anchor off that 
dace. The city was visited daily by officers of the 
army and navy. 
There had been no engagement between the Fede¬ 
rals and rebels, nor had any of the latter troops been 
seen either at Hilton Head or Beaufort. 
The Spanish sU-am ferry boat hence for Cuba, put 
into Port Royal on the 20th inst., short of coal. But 
little or no use could he made of the darkies, as they 
do not care much at present for unnecessary exer¬ 
tion. They are having too good times to do any 
work. The British steam frigate Immortalite is still 
at anchor. Transports were busy discharging their 
immense stores. The Vanderbilt would sail for New 
York in about two days. Wharves and storehouses 
had been erected and were being rapidly filled. The 
health of the troops was generally good. 
The steamer Illinois, from Port Royal, 28th, brings 
mails and seven passengers. Among the latter are 
Captain Yard, of the sloop-of-war Dale, who brings 
14 prisoners, captured on the schooners Specie aud 
Mabel. Ed. Cutbbert, planter, who was taken pris¬ 
oner on Ladies Islaud, near Beaufort, was landed at 
Fort Lafayette. 
The steamer Flag arrived at Port Royal on the 24th, 
and reported that Tybee Islaud had been slightly 
shelled by the Pocahontas, Seneca, Augusta, aud 
Flag, aud meeting uo response, a force of marines 
was sent on shore, found it evacuated and took 
possession, hoistrag the American flag. 
Large quantities of cotton are still found in stock 
houses and barns, and also unginned. 
Authentic information has been received here that 
a small light draft Canadian steamer has been seized 
otf the coast of Maine by a U. 8. Revenue cutter. 
The steamer had on board 10,(100 Springfield muskets, 
clothing, boots, bank paper, caps, and munitions of 
war. She was cleared from Canada, and cargo was 
consigned to parties in Southern States. 
A Fortress Monroe ietier says the rebels lost 15 
killed and wounded in the shelling of their camp at 
Warwick, an account of which was given in our last. 
Affairs at Washington. 
Advice3 received here — not by Government, 
however,—from Mexico, represent that the kindest 
feeling exists between the British Minister and the 
Juarez Administration—and the opinion is expressed 
In distinguished circles that the friendship of France 
will be as satisfactorily secured. But little iB hoped 
for, however, from Spain, whose designs upon Mexi¬ 
co are as well understood in the latter country as in 
the Capitols of Europe. Those who profess to be 
well acqnainted with the Spanish programme say 
that to Gen. Marquez is entrusted the duty of com¬ 
bining the strength of the Church party, consisting 
of both Mexicans and Spaniards, who will pray her 
most Catholic tyajesty for a King for the throne of 
Mexico, now sought to be constructed. For this 
office, an uncle of tbe Queen has been designated. 
As he is already old, he could in the natural course of 
events live but a ahort time; and as no provision 
would be made for the succession, Mexico would 
thus revert to Spain, the policy being eimilar to that 
pursued towards Hayti. Such is the substance of let¬ 
ters received from both Europe and Mexico. There 
seems to be some doubt as to the immediate return to 
the United States of American Minister, Corwin. 
The probability is that he will not, in view of our 
important interests in Mexico growing out of Eu¬ 
ropean intervention. 
1 he Government of Italy has adopted the stringent 
rule of France in regard to piratical ve-sels engaged 
in depredations on American commerce, and is keep¬ 
ing a sharp lookout for suspicious vessels lately seen 
at Malta. 
Joshua R, Giddings, Consul-General for the British 
North American Provinces, has accomplished the 
object of his visit to Washington, namely, the re 
moral of the delays and uncertainties attending pass¬ 
ports to British subjects on taking passage to Europe 
at Portland, Maine. Heretofore passports were re¬ 
quired to be countersigned at the State Department, 
but that business is now to be performed by Gov¬ 
ernment agents. 
The following was issued ob the 25t.h ult., from 
the State Department: 
Oscar Irving, Jonathan Armory, and E. L. D. 
Adams, at New York, Boston aud Portland, respec¬ 
tively, are authorized to countersign the passports of 
foreigners, proceeding thence abroad. 
W. H. SuwAnn. 
The Clerk of the House of Representative has just 
placed upon the official roll of the House the name 
of Col. Eegur, as the member of the First Congress¬ 
ional District of Virginia. His District was repre¬ 
sented in the 86th Congress by Roscoe R. H. Gar¬ 
nett, now a rabid secessionist. 
The rebel blockade of the Potomac does not seem 
to have been vigorously enforced this week, as 
various vessels have arrived here with cargoes of 
coal, wood, and other domestic supplies. 
Letters received from prisoners of the California 
regiment, now in Richmond, show that hut few were 
killed at the battle of Ball’s Bluff. Mauy whom it 
was supposed had been killed, arc now prisoners 
there, and it is confidently asserted by officers that 
60 will include the whole number of the dead from 
that regiment at Ball’s Bluff. 
Tbe following orders have been issued by the 
Postal Department: 
In view of the increased number of letters held for 
postage, and returned to the Dead letter Office, It is 
ordered that the Order of this Department, dated 
Oct. 8th, 1800, be rescinded, and prior practice be 
restored. Postmasters will therefore notify the per¬ 
sons addressed, that such letter is held for postage, 
aud that upon his writing therefor, prepaying post- 
ttgC on till* letter «ml inclosing stamp !,o Lo ,,Ia»od 
on the letter held for postage, the same will be for¬ 
warded to bis address. By order of P, M. General. 
It has been reported to this Department that some 
Postmasters have declined to receive United States 
Treasury notes, payable on demand, when presented 
to them in payment for postage stamps and stamped 
envelopes. Pustniasters are therefore informed that 
thaso notes are to be received and disbursed by them 
as equivalents, iu all respects, to coin. 
By order of the Postmaster General. 
Monday last was the time for meeting of Congress, 
and we fiud the transactions of the first day thus 
reported: 
Senate.— The Vice President called the Senate to 
order at noon. About 40 members were present. 
On motion of Mr. Hale, 12 o’clock was the hour fixed 
for daily sessions. On motion of Mr. Grimes, a 
message was ordered to he sent to the House that a 
quorum of the Senate was present and ready to pro¬ 
ceed to business. 
The Senate concurred in the resolution of the 
House for the appointment of a joint committee to 
wait on the President, and appointed as the com¬ 
mittee, Messrs. Hale, Trumbull, and Latham. Mr. 
Trumbull, of Illinois, gave notice that he would 
introduce a bill to-morrow to confiscate the property 
of rebels, and give freedom to persons in Slave 
States. Mr. Wilkinson, of Minn., gave notice of a 
bill to abolish the distinction between regular and 
volunteer forces. The committee appointed to wait 
on the President, reported he would communicate 
his message to Congress to-morrow at uoon. Adj, 
House. — The House was opened with prayer by 
the Rev. Mr. Stockton. The roll of members was 
then called by the clerk. One hundred and fourteen 
members answered to their names. 
On motion of Mr. Fenton, it was resolved that a 
committee he appointed to join such as may be 
appointed by the Senate to wait on the President and 
inform him that a quorum of both Houses had 
assembled and is ready to proceed to business. 
Messrs. Sergeant and Phelps, of Cal., Hoover, of 
Mass., Wilson, of Iowa, Maynard, of Tenn., Blair, of 
Virginia, Beruhisel, Delegate from Utah, and Cra- 
dlebangh, Delegate from Nevada, were sworn in. 
Mr. Lovejoy offered a joint resolution tendering 
the thanks of Congress to Captain Wilkes for his 
arrest of Slidell and Mason. 
Mr. Blair offered the following: 
Resolved That John K. Reid, Member of Congress 
from the 5th Congressional District of Missouri, hav¬ 
ing taken up arms against the Government of the 
United States, is hereby expelled from the House, 
and that the Speaker notify the Governor of Missouri 
of the fact. The resolution passed. 
Mr. Colfax offered tbe following: 
WTiereas, Michael Corcoran, who was taken pris¬ 
oner on the battle field of Manassas, has, after suffer¬ 
ing other indignities, beeu confined by the rebel 
authorities in the cell of a convicted felon, therefore 
Res*l\ied, Thai the President of the United States 
be requested to immediately confine Jas. M. Mason, 
of Va., now in custody at Fort Warren, until Colonel 
Corcoran shall he treated as the United States has 
treated all prisoners taken by them on the battle 
field. The resolution was unanimously adopted. 
Mr. Odell submitted the following: 
Whtr'tas, Col. Alfred M^ Wood, of the 14th regi¬ 
ment of New York State militia, who was wounded 
and taken prisoner at the battle of Bull Run, has now 
by rebel authorities been ordered to confinement in a 
felon’s prison, aud by the Ritme order is to be treated 
aeaprisonerconvictedofan infamous crime, therefore 
Jirsolved, That the President of the United States be 
respectfully requested to order John Slidell to the 
same character of prison aud to the Bamc treatment, 
until Colonel Wood shall be treated as the United 
States have treated prisoners taken in battle. The 
resolution was adopted. 
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— Yale College has 699 students. 
— Illinois has furnished 60,000 soldiers. 
— Ex-Seriator Green, of Missouri, is under arrest as a rebel. 
— Tbe Coast Survey was of great service to our jleet at 
Port Royal. 
— Garibaldi has been elected Grand Master of the Italian 
Freemasons. 
— The Prince of Wales has been admitted a Bencher of the 
Middle Temple. 
— The Eastern States are said to be actually bristling with 
knitting needles. 
— The Springfield armory now turns out 10,000 stand of 
arms every mouth. 
— Five hundred more California troops arrived at New 
York on tbe 25tk. 
— On Saturday morning week there was a heavy fall of 
snow in Montreal. 
— A great demand for American statistical works exists 
jort now in Europe. 
— There are said to be 30,000 persons employed about the 
court of St. Petersburg. 
— Tbe Grand Duke and Duchess Constantine of Russia are 
on a visit to Queen Victoria. 
— It is reported that the slaves in Charleston are greatly 
excited owing to the news from Port Royal. 
— Austria has quietly got together a powerful squadron in 
the Adriatic, consisting of 6fty vessels in alh 
— The number of persons sent to jail for debt in Great 
Britain in 1860, was 11,088 men and 680 women. 
— The city of Lille, France, is being enlarged and fortified, 
so as to be able to contain an entire corps d'armee. 
— A company of forty-five colored colonists are to leave 
Oberlin, Ohio, next week, for settlement in Hayti. 
— Lord Brougham has been suffering from serious illness 1 
but at the last date had almost entirely recovered 
— On the 25th, Com, Wilkes was received in Boston with 
great enthusiasm. De was welcomed by tbe Mayor. 
— One Attica (Wyoming Co., N Y.,) houte has already 
shipped over three hundred tons of cheese this season ! 
— Gov. Harris, of Tennessee, has called for every shot gun 
and rifle in the State, with which to arm his volunteers. 
—• No less than eighty of tho Federal troops reported miss¬ 
ing after the battle of Belmont have returned to Cairo. 
— On the 25th, 62,000 copies of the Mechanical part of the 
Patent Office Report were destroyed by fire in Washington. 
— One ton of donations, bestowed by tbe patriotic ladies of 
Indiana, waa recently shipped to Paducah, Ky , for the troops. 
— Louis Napoleon is going over to England next year to 
sec the great exhibition, and will be tho guest of the Queen. 
— Rich coal mines have been discovered recently in the 
township of Brookfield aud Hubbard, in Trumbull county, 
Ohio. 
— Slidell owns 25,000 acres of land in Minnesota. It will, 
doubtless, be passed over to the loyal soldiers’ bounty land 
fund. 
— Minister Dayton writes, by the last mails, that the feel¬ 
ing in France is growing more and more favorable to this 
country. 
— Lebanon county, Pa., is now paying five humdred and 
thirty dollars a week for the support of the families of our 
soldiers. 
— The Richmond Examiner of the 20tli ult. publishes in 
full General Sherman's proclamation to the people of South 
— They have a salt plethora at Toledo, Ohio. The Blade 
states there are not less than 25,000 barrels there in search of 
a market. 
— John McKinney, late State Treasurer of Michigan, has 
been triej for embezzlement of f25,000 of State funds, and 
convicted. 
— Spurious $6’s on the Honsatonic Bank of Stockbridge, 
Conn., printed in green tint, have recently been put in 
circulation. 
— Tbe total fighting men of the loyal States in 4,463,000, of 
which 639,800 are in service, The total population is nearly 
23,000,000. 
— The amount realized from the sale of the furniture 
belonging to the late Senator Douglas in Washington, was 
about $3,000. 
— It is estimated that the entire number of emigrants who 
have crossed the plains to Oregon this season will not exceed 
one thousand. 
— Gen. Buckingham has given notice to the people of 
Ohio, that our troops are now well supplied with blankets 
aud clothing. 
— Gen. Polk had his clothes torn at Memphis, two weeks 
ago, by the explosion of a cannon. It was a narrow escape 
for the Bishop. 
— On Saturday afternoon week, no less than four full 
grown swans were shot in the waters of Stony Creek, near 
Jobnatown, Pa. 
— Theodore Tilton, of the New York Independent, has 
raised enough cotton in his back yard at Brooklyn, this year, 
to make him a shirt. * 
— A recent letter to the Charleston Mercury says the iron 
sheeting made for the Merrimac has proved worthless under 
trial with coluinbiads. 
— Floyd has brought his campaign in Western Virginia to 
an inglorious close. When last heard of he was making 
tracks for Richmond. 
— Since the erection of the first Methodist Church in 
America, in 1760, there have been 14,000 erected — an aver¬ 
age of three a week. 
— Gen. Sherman has re-christened the forts at Port Royal— 
the one on Hilton Head as Fort Welles, and the one on Bay 
Point as Fort Seward. 
— The London Times severely berates Lord Lyons for his 
letter to Seward recently. It thinkB the English argument 
very poorly presented. 
— The Chicago Tribune says that some New York capital¬ 
ists are in that city preparing to establish a bank with a 
capital of a million dollars. 
— Petitions for the emancipation of all slaves, those to be 
paid for only who belong to loyal masters, are in circulation 
in Chautauqua county, S Y. 
— The 1200 public teachers of Philadelphia have not been 
paid their salaries for a long period, and many of them are 
sadly perplexed aod straitened 
— The steamer Champion, at New York from Aspinwall, 
brings fifteen thousand stands of arms — Springfield rifles — 
with a large amount of ammunition. 
— Last week Adams’ Express took from Boston about fifty 
tons of Thanksgiving “fixins” for the Massachusetts Volun¬ 
teers in the vicinity of Washington. 
— At the election in Alexandria, Virginia, on the 20th ult, 
only one hundred and forty-one votes were cast. Lewis 
McKenzie, Union, was elected Mayor. 
— The Madrid Espaua sayB that a project is under discus¬ 
sion of forming in America a colony of all the republics of 
Spanish origin, with Spain at the head of it. 
— London covers 73,029 acres. Tbe London of 1861 is 
equal to three Londons of TSOI; and neaily one million of 
population has been added in the last ten years. 
— The King of Portugal died on the 12th ult,‘aged twenty- 
fire. His disease was typhus fever. Prince Ferdinand, the 
Kingfc brother, aLo died of the tame complaint. 
— It is said that 4,735 applications for admission to the N. 
Y. Inebriate Asylum are on file, from all the States, from al 
classes of men, and some of them from foreign countries. 
