our own and the rebel authorities, whereby all 
prisoners of war held in close confinement in 
irons as hostages on cither side are to be released 
immediately and placed on the same footing as 
ordinary prisoners of war. 
The Military Committee of the House of Rep¬ 
resentatives propose to confiscate the property 
of a drafted man who runs away, to the extent 
of the price of a substitute. This would he a 
just law 
The N. Y. Commercial's Washington special of 
Jan. 1*J, says:—The daily receipts of internal 
revenue this week averaged nearly ouc hundred 
thousaud dollars. 
List of New Advertisements 
Dr. Poland's 'White Pine Com [pound- Geo D Swett, M D 
First Premium Family Gem Sawtug Machine. 
Enenivlnji- I. C Mi'. 
Iotui Giiipi* \ tnos, A-e.—J Kerch. 
Great Western Nurseries—A W Haddocks. 
Farm tor Sale—N A Woodward. 
Canvassing Agnus - Walker, Wise A Co. 
•?7T> a Month— X> 15 tlerrlnton * Co. 
Card Pliolojrniiih; C W Woodward. 
Agents Wanted. 
$80 per Moutb-J S Pardee. 
SPECIAL NOTICES. 
Randall’s Great Sheen Book—D D T Moore. 
Atlantic Monthly—Tlcknor & Fields. 
Brown's Bronchial Troches. 
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NEWS FROM REBEL SOURCES, 
Raise aloft our starry banner. 
Let her float in azure sky, 
Let the heavenly zephyrs fan her, 
Nerve our hearts to do or die! 
God, our shield, our battle brand, 
Will protect our native land! 
This our union battle cry! 
— Alexander Dumas is coining to this country. 
— There is a temperance revival in San Francisco. 
— John Ruskiu has lately come in possession of a 
large fortune. 
— The cathedral in Toronto pays §15,000 for its 
chime of bells. 
— The censns shows a decrease of 50,000 Indiana 
every five years. 
— The Arizona Legislature offers $100 bounty for 
every Apache scalp. 
— The theaters of Paris took during the month of 
November §000,000. 
— John Fowler, the inventor of the English Steam 
Plow, died recently. 
— Gen. Grant has subscribed §500 to the Sherman 
testimonial in Ohio. 
— A poor family in Cincinnati has fallen heir to a 
fortune of §7,000,000. 
— The leaders of fashion in Paris predict a very dull 
winter in social circles. 
— Printing paper costs CO cents a pound in gold at 
Denver City, Colorado. 
— Gen. Butler lias established a savings bank for 
freedmeu at Norfolk, Vn. 
— Mrs. Kelly who was taken by the Indians in Min¬ 
nesota has been given up. 
— Two burglars have been convicted in London on 
the testimony of a parrot. 
— About a million bushels of oysters arc imported 
yearly from Chesapeake Bay. 
— The fur trade of St. Paul, Minn., has grown from 
§1,400 in 1844, to $300,000 in 1S64. 
— The newly elected Lord Mayor of Dublin is a 
member of the Society of Friends. 
— A recruit in Connecticut gave his name as Charles 
Brickctt Parker Haddock Twilight. 
— A Miss Chapin has been ordained pastoress of a 
Univcrsalist Church in Adrian, Mich. 
— The College of New .Jersey has confered the de¬ 
gree of LL. D. upon President Lincoln. 
— 27,000 Fcjeo Islanders now profess Christianity. 
Thirty years ago they were man-eaters. 
— A moustache spoon, made after the fashion of a 
moustache cup, is the latest invention. 
— The Maine papers annonnee the starting of the 
lumbermen for their homes in the forest. 
— An industrious statistician has calculated that a 
luUticco thewor *j>ite AUS pulton a In K years. 
— It takes 150 tuns of coal aL §13.60 per ton to warm 
the Washington Senate Chamber one winter. 
— It is stated that Gen. Grant had started for Nash¬ 
ville when the news of Thomas’ victory arrived. 
— A French Engineer professes to have found a ca¬ 
nal route across the Isthmus that is a dead level. 
— It is reported in Paris that certain young ladies 
of that gay city are enlisting for turkish hareme. 
— A citizen of Cincinnati lias paid a fine of §1,000 
for not paying hi* income tax at the proper time. 
— A New York company is working some very 
rich salt mines in St. Domingo. There is a mountain 
of it. 
— A. T. Stewart of New York has lately paid an 
inesme tax of $250,000 on a net income of five million 
dollars. 
— Quart Ding, a political agitator in Cochin China, 
who urged revolt against the French influence there, 
is dead. 
— The State Prisou at Auburn, with six hundred 
and fifty convicts, earned §17,500 above expenses in 
the last year. 
— Gen. Grant is said to favor such modification of 
the law as will nboliBb the system of paying bounties 
to or lor soldiers. 
— It is reported that ex-Senator Gwin, formerly of 
California, has been appointed by Maximilian Govern¬ 
or of Sonora, Mexico. 
— It is officially decided that hereafter, in the pnblic 
echools of Boston, girls shall in no case be subjected to 
corporeal punishment. 
— Duriug the past eight mouthB upwards of 400 pa¬ 
pers have “died," in consequence of the exhorbitant 
price of printing paper. 
— Charles H. Powers, Esq., of East Jeffrey, N. IT., 
has been appointed Consul to Canada. He receives a 
salary of §1,500 in gold. 
— There is some talk of building the Illinois and 
Michigan ship canal by private enterprise. The esti¬ 
mated Cost is §15,000,000. 
— The editor of the Alla California has been present¬ 
ed with n sack of potatoes, containing three only, each 
weighing twenty pounds. 
— The oldest member of the. U. S. House of Repre¬ 
sentatives is Thaddous Stevens of Pennsylvania, who 
is seventy-one years of age. 
— Gen. McClellan will sail for Europe on the steamer 
China in February, having declined the offer of a pri¬ 
vate vessel from his friends. 
_A Boston merchant recently paid the excise on 
700 bbl* domestic spirits, which amounted to sixty-six 
thousaud three hundred dollars. 
— A Wisconsin girl had one of her eyes gouged out 
by a cow recently, and then walked ten miles to see a 
physician. There’s pluck for you. 
— A professor of Natural History named Walker 
writes to tho English papers that the Channel Islauds 
are gradually siuking into the sea. 
— It is stated that while only five revolutionary pen¬ 
sioners arc alive, there are 1,418 widows of such pen¬ 
sioners alive and drawing pensions. 
— Tlie young ladies of the Lexington High School m 
Mass., have adopted the plan of wearing the gymnas¬ 
tic costume as their every day dress 
— A Louisville paper says the noted guerrilla, Sue 
Mumly, is of tho masculine gender, and is the grand 
son of Ex-Governor Clark of Kentucky. 
_San Francisco supports 45 periodicals, viz:—Ten 
dailies, twenty-two weeklies, eight monthlies, one 
semi-weekly, one tri-weekly and two annuals. 
The Millidgeville (Geo.) Record says the Geo. 
Legislature will be reconvened as soon as the 
State House can be repaired. 
The Alabama Legislature adjourned after pro¬ 
viding for tlie families of soldiers, providing 
clothing for the Alabama soldiers who are pris¬ 
oners, and for the deficiency in t he treasury. 
The two Houses could not agree on a militia 
bill—tho Senate being in favor of a sweeping 
bill, while the House insisted on certain excep¬ 
tions. Joiul resolutions against reconstruction 
were passed. 
The Richmond papers are still indulging in 
glorification over the failure of the Wilmington 
expedition. 
Mosby is said to be still alive and in a place 
of security, and his early recovery is anticipated. 
In the sharp discussion now going on between 
the rebel newspapers, Jeff. Davis’ meddling is 
charged as the cause of all their recent disasters, 
while some of them, in his defence, assail Gen. 
Lee as the marplot. 
The Raleigh. Confederate of the 2d, says the 
Federal®, after considerable skirmishing, had 
advanced to within one mile of the rebel works 
at Kingston, in force. 
The loss of a Confederate steamer at the mouth 
of the Rio Grande is confirmed. 
The cutting out of tlie schooner Belie at Gal¬ 
veston, by a Federal expedition, is confirmed. 
Part, of the crew of a blockade-running schoon¬ 
er had been arrested, charged with the design of 
selling the vessel to the squadron. 
Delegates from each of the Indian tribes 
friendly to the Confederates had arrived at 
Shreveport, requesting the shipping of cotton 
to provide necessaries for their families and 
arms for regiments now in the service. 
The Federal fleet at Galveston consisted of one 
screw steamer and three gunboats. 
Richmond papers tire growing more bold daily 
in denunciation of Jeff. Divis, and demanding 
the appointment of Lee to the supreme command 
of the army. 
The Examiner of the 9th says, Jeff’s course 
is fast whirling the Confederacy into destruction. 
Lttle rt:L*J papers sbo-vr that Ilfixio hoo now on 
has hands quarrels wifh the. Governors of Missis¬ 
sippi, Georgia and Alabama. 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., JANUARY 21, 1865. 
NEWS OF THE WEEK, 
From the West. 
On the Sth inst., a scouting party captured, 
south of the Cumberland river, a notorious 
guerrilla lender, Jake Sly, und four of bis men. 
They were executed on the spot, in retaliation 
for the murder of Union prisoners. 
The Herald's Springfield (Mo.) correspondent 
says the Union garrisons have been withdrawn 
from all the, posts south of that place, as far 
south as Fort Smith, Ark., by order of Gen. 
Cnnby. 
A dispatch from St. Louis of Jan. 14, says 
Governor Fletcher issued a proclamation to-day 
declaring Missouri a Free State in accordance 
with the Emancipation Ordinance passed by the 
Stale Convention recently. 
Hundreds of business houses and private resi¬ 
dences are brilliant ly illuminated to-night. Fire¬ 
works are exploding, bands of music are playing, 
and processions of thousands of enthusiastic 
citizens throng the streets to witness the grand 
spectacle. 
The steamer Armada, from Evansville, reports 
Uniontown. Ky., in possession of guerrillas the 
10 th inst., who were firing into passing steamers. 
From Wheeling, Jan. 18, we learn that the 
garrison at Beverly, West Virginia, were at¬ 
tacked on the morning of the|llth by a force of 
the enemy under Gen. Rosser. The town and a 
large portion of the force defending it were cap¬ 
tured. The number of the force of the enemy 
is not stated. 
A later dispatch confirms the above, but 
states that the enemy have again returned from 
whence they came. 
A Clarksburg, (W. Va.,) dispatch says the 
rebels, after the attack on Beverly, retreated 
toward Loomisbnrg. Citizens report that they 
captured over 400 prisoners. 
A dispatch from Cairo of Jan. 18, says that 
squads of deserters from Forrest’s rebel com¬ 
mand are daily coming here and taking the 
■amnesty oath. A party of eight qgme in to-day. 
Gen. Thomas and Staff were at Paducah, Ky., 
on the 10th inst. 
The following further particulars of General 
Grierson’s raid are from a reliable source:—They 
brought in 700 prisoners, including two Colonels 
and several other officers, 1,000 able - bodied 
negroes, and 1,000 horse6. They killed and 
wounded 150 men. Among the prisoners is 
Gen. Hobson. 
A fortified place called Egypt, on the Mobile 
and Ohio Railroad, was carried by assault, and 
the garrison of .500 rebels captured, whilst, 
Gen. Gardner was in sight with 6,000 infantry, 
which Gen. Grierson held at bay while Gen. 
Karges' brigade captured the stockade. Grier¬ 
son could not go to Catawba to release our 
prisoners, as directed by Gen. Dana, but struck 
for Granada, and then for Vicksburg. 
Forty miles of Mobile and Ohio Railroad are 
so badly damaged, that Hood’6 army cannot 
repair it in months. New pontoons, new 
wagons, and a large amount of supplies, en 
route to Hood, were destroyed. 
Besides the factories, a large amount of 
cloth, wool, leather and shoes were destroyed 
at Banks town. The railroad public property 
was burned at Granada; also, 800 wagons and 
500 new English carbines for Forrest, and large 
quantities of ammunition. Gen. Grierson's loss 
wtts twenty-five killedland eight wounded. 
Admiral Lee, commanding the Mississippi 
Squadron, details to the Navy Department, in an 
official dispatch, the facts regarding the escape 
across the Tennessee river, at Bainbridge, six 
mileB above Florence, Ala., of the remnants of 
Hood’s defeated and demoralized army. The 
Admiral says that only the sudden falling of 
the water on the shoals and prevalence of fog, 
enabled the rebels to elude the gunboats. All 
the pontoons aud other means of crossing below 
Bainbridge were destroyed, and thousands of 
Hood’s men were consequently scattered through 
the woods on the north side of the river. 
The Cincinnati Commercial of the 14th inst., 
has a dispatch from Nashville, which says the 
Tennessee State Convention has passed a resolu¬ 
tion declaring slavery forever abolished through¬ 
out the State. 
The Convention also passed 
GEORGIA. 
Kills.—6. Franklin. 
_ .ml.—14. Chippewa. 
WbilefleUl.—22. Calhoun.- 23, 
Hinson 
street below 
above the river, with one narrow 
the steep bluff, the warehouses upon which open 
below on the level of the piers, and from tlie 
uppermost story on t(ie other side upon a wide, 
sandy area called Bay street, which is divided by 
numerous carriage ways and rows of Pride ol 
India trees. The whole city is regularly laid 
out with broad streets, closely shaded by rows 
of these trees, aud at many of the principal 
crossings arc open squares with trees." It is 
a beautiful city and has a fine harbor. 
Our engraving represents the principal part 
of Savannah, Ga., recently captured aud now 
occupied by Gen. Sherman. From a descrip¬ 
tion of tins city in the American Cyclopaedia, 
we quote the following:—“ Savannah, the largest 
city in Georgia, and capital of Chatham county, 
on the right bank of the Savannah river, 18 miles 
from its mouth, and 90 miles south - west from 
Charleston, in lat. 32deg, 5m. N., Ion. 81 deg. 5m. 
W, ; population in 1850, 16,060; in I860, 22,292. 
The city is built upon a sandy plain about 40 feet 
contains the following from the Mobile Adver¬ 
tiser : 
The Yankees, abont 4,000 strong, arc at Frank¬ 
lin Mills, at Dog river, without transportation. 
Their supplies arc received by way of Dog river. 
Owing to the formation of the country, they 
are unassailable. Out forces are In tfio proper 
position to thwart aiijr move they may make. 
TL-miis ol me Union raid of Col. Robinson 
from Fort Barancas. Florida, to Pollard, Ala¬ 
bama, show it to have been very successful. The 
rebels attempted t p cheek his advance, hut were 
badly beaten and lost heavily. 
The expedition sent from Cape Girardeau to 
Cherokee bayou, Arkansas, under Lieutenant 
Ravie, a few days since, killed nineteen guerril¬ 
las, captured a number of prisoners and fifty 
horses. 
22d of February, (Washington's Birthday,) and 
on the 4th of March next, an election is to be 
held for Governor and members of the State 
Legislature. 
Nearly 800 delegates participated in the pro¬ 
ceedings of the Convention, and the greatest 
harmony and good feeling prevailed. 
Parson Browulow was the unanimous choice 
of the Convention for Governor. 
Late advices from Fort Smith say that troops 
have not yet left that post, aud will be required 
to remain there to protect Government stores 
until the Arkansas river is so they can be 
removed. In the meantime it is hoped the 
President will revoke his order ior evacuation. 
Gen. Lane was re-elected United States Sena¬ 
tor from Kansas on the 18th inst,, for six years 
fromthc4th of March next. The vote was 82 to 16. 
NEWS PARAGRAPHS 
An Augusta (Ga.) paper estimates the amount 
of riec seized by General Sherman in his re¬ 
cent march through that State, at five hundred 
thousand bushels. 
Tue Newburyport, Mass., fishermen were in 
luck last week, some of the boats catching from 
eight hundred to one thousand pounds of codfish 
within a mile of the shore. 
A lineal descendant of Martin Luther has 
been In Germany lately to get his family from 
Schoubcck, to take them to this country, where 
he is chaplain in a Federal regiment. 
The total amount of tho sales, including rents 
of pews, in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, New 
York, of which Rev. Henry Ward Beecher is 
pastor, this year, was over forty thousand dol¬ 
lars. 
The new silver mines in Southwestern Idaho 
promise to rival those of Nevada, The first 
shipment from these mines of §60,000 in silver 
burs was received at San Francisco a few weeks 
since. 
A CORRESPONDENT with the Army of the 
Potomac suggests that rebel prisoners should 
be guarded by our men who have not tasted 
Southern hospitality in the prisou pens of the 
South. 
Gen. Sherman, in a private letter, says that 
if he had only possessed facilities for feeding 
them, lie could have brought one hundred 
thousand negroes with him from his raid through 
Georgia. 
The official vote of California at the Novem¬ 
ber election is published. The result is Lincoln 
62,134, McClellan 43,841, giving Mr. Lincoln a 
minorit y of 18,293. The entire vote of the State 
is 105,975. 
The Czar of Russia offered 370,000 francs for 
the colossal statue of Hercules, lately discovered 
at Rome; but the owner preferred to soli it to 
the Papal Government for half the money offered 
by tlie Czar. 
There is to be an International Exhibition at 
Dublin this year. The arrangements are progres¬ 
sing favorably. It is to enjoy the patronage of 
the Queen, and she has formally expressed u hope 
that it. will succeed. 
Upon careful calculation it is estimated that 
President Lincoln, in the two hours of levee on 
New Year’s Day, shook hands with about seven 
thousand persons, men, woman, and childrcu of 
all uges, rank and races. 
Col. L. M. Peck, of the One Hundred and 
Seventy-third New York regiment, dismissed 
from the service by Gen. Banks, for alleged mis¬ 
conduct in the Red River campaign, has been 
restored by court-martial. 
The debts of the States of Maine, Massa¬ 
chusetts, Illinois and Michigan, as stated in the 
annual messages of tbegovernors, are os follows: 
Maine, §5,337,000; Massachusetts, $22,893,000; 
Illinois, $11,198,000; Michigan, §3,541,000. 
AFFAIRS AT WASHINGTON, 
From the South. 
A refugee who leftKichmond recently, says 
that the report that Lee has sent troops to 
meet Sherman iu South Carolina is confirmed, 
but that knowledge of all military movements 
is so kept that it is not known in the rebel army 
what troops, nor the number that have gone, al¬ 
though it is now three weeks since they started. 
The upper dosses among the people of Rich¬ 
mond profess to be confident of the success of 
the <t onfederaey; but the poorer classes, who 
have severely felt the effect of the depreciated 
currency, arc heartily siek of the war and anxious 
for any mode of relief. 
The New York Commercial Advertiser of the 
14tb, says it is assured by a gentleman from Sa¬ 
vannah that several Union County Conventions 
were being held in Georgia. 
The Norfolk Old JJominim says the expe¬ 
dition up the Savannah river destroyed ten 
miles of the S. Carolina and Columbia railroad. 
A company of the 4thcavalry, militia, was cap¬ 
tured by Foster’s troops near 1 lardeeville. They 
had been two weeks in service aud did not like war. 
There is reason to believe that Sherman will 
attack Charleston before many days. 
Another expedition of fifty vessels against 
Wilmington, was in sight off Fort Fisher on the 
14th inst. 
But little activity is apparent in the Army of 
the Potomac. There iu a great freshet in the 
James river, aud the water is rushing through 
the Dutch Gap Canal. 
The N. Y. Herald’s Shenandoah Valley cor¬ 
respondent, says the inhabitants are suffering 
l’rorn the scarcity ol' food, and rebel troops are 
quartered upon them, rendering their condition 
still more deplorable. 
No new active military movements of impor¬ 
tance have recently taken place iu tho Valley. 
Maj.-Gen. Butler has been relieved by the 
President of his command on the James River, 
and ordered to report at Lowell, Mass. Gen. 
Okd, lately in command of the 24vh Corps, 
has been assigned, by Gen. Grant, as his successor. 
The Senate having ordered an investigation 
into the causes of the Wilmington failure, Gen. 
Butler has been ordered to appear as a witness. 
Since the 10-40 loan closed on Saturday, tho 
7th, returns have been made to the Treasury 
amounting to about $37,000,000. This would 
leave outstanding about $10,000,000 of the $200,- 
000,000. 
In compliance with the request of the loyal 
citizens of Savannah, that city wUl soon he de¬ 
clared a port of entry, and therefore opened to 
commerce as soon as the obstructions in its 
water approaches are removed. 
Late news from Richmond is to the effect that 
the Rebel Congresa Luts appointed Peace Com¬ 
missioners, and i Imt they will soou make their 
appearance, (if permitted) at the White House. 
The World8 Washington special says it is 
rumored in that city that the Rebel PeueC Com¬ 
missioners had asked permission tocross our lines. 
The United States Senate, by a vote of 31 to 8, 
adopted the Resolution to terminate the Cana¬ 
dian Reciprocity Treaty. As the House had 
previously acted, the tiring will he done; and 
nine tenths of our people will rejoice thereat. 
A Washington dispatch says Secretary Fes¬ 
senden has asked for a modification of the law 
so as to enable him to issue l wo hundred millions 
more of the 7-30 bonds. 
The vote on the constitutional amendment bill 
has been postponed several days to allow of full 
discussion. 
The Heralds Washington special 6aye:—A 
leading peace Democrat, who lias taken a prom¬ 
inent part in peace movements during tho late 
election, and whose personal relations with the 
President have been very friendly, has gone to 
Richmond. 
fit is announced that Gen. Singleton of Illinois, 
is the gentleman alluded to above.] 
The Ik raid's correspondent mentions that Gen. 
Sheridan is to have a new aud very important 
command. 
Generate Weitzel and Ames, and other promi¬ 
nent officers who aecompauiud the recent Wil¬ 
mington Expediton, will be summoned to testify 
before the Committee on the Conduct of the War, 
iu reference to the matter; also Admiral Porter 
and other naval officers. 
An agreement has been entered into between 
From the South-west. 
Late advices from New Orleans state thatGen. 
T. W. Sherman and stall' had arrived at that city 
on the Morning Star. 
The gunboat Ratlor was destroyed by guerril¬ 
las while ashore, where she was driven by the 
late storm, between Vicksburg and Natchez. 
Gen, Granger on the 22d of December was 
within twenty-eight miles of Mobile. His 
force hud also met with great success in its 
operations from Mobile Bay to Jackson Co., Miss. 
A letter from Mobile to a citizen of New 
Orleans, says fighting wn« going on iu that vicin¬ 
ity on the 31st ult. 
The Richmond Enquirer of Friday, the lBtb, 
a resolution 
prohibiting the Legislature from recognizing 
property in man —forbidding it requiring com¬ 
pensation to be made to the. owners of slaves. 
A resolut ion was also adopted abrogating the 
Declaration of State Independence, and the Mil¬ 
itary League made with the Confederate States 
in 1861, and abrogating all laws and ordinances 
passed in pursuance thereof. 
All the officers appointed by the Acting 
Governor since his accession to office were 
confirmed. 
These proceedings of the Convention are to be 
submitted to the people for ratification on the 
