■ 
The Army in Virginia. 
That portion of the Federal force engaged im¬ 
mediately before Fredericksburg have been kept 
very quiet during the week. In several other divis¬ 
ions of the army there have been skirmishes of some 
magnitude, but no engagement of any importance. 
The special correspondent of the N. Y. Times sends 
forward the following, dated Fairfax Court llouse, 
30th: 
General Stahl eturned this evening from the re- 
connoisance in force commenced on Thursday night 
last. After driving in White's pickets at Ashby’s 
Gap on Friday, the command returned to Middle- 
burg. and there encamped for the night. On Satur¬ 
day it proceeded to Berryville, via Snicker's Gap. 
The enemy, White’s battalion, was first met at the 
Snicker’s Gap Ford ol the Shenandoah River. A 
portion of the advance detachment, commanded by 
Col. Wyndhum, of the First New Jersey, opened fire 
and crossed tho river, when the rebels, after firing a 
few volleys, fled in confusion to their camp, one and 
a quarter miles distaul, closely pursued by Colone' 
Wyndham’s command. The camp was taken en 
tirely by surprise, and White’s loree, almost without 
firing a shot, lied in confusion. Horses, prisoners, 
three flags, cattle, ambulances, guns, pistols, sabres 
tents, <fcc., were captured. 
The reserve force, commanded by Col. De Conola, 
then advanced upon Berryville, which was occu¬ 
pied by White's battalion, the Eighth, Seventh and 
Twelfth Virginia Cavalry, and accompanied by 
Major Knox, charged through the principal street 
driving the enemy before them. A force of the 
enemy then came from a cross-road, and charged 
Major Knox returned to the attack; at the same 
moment Capt. Heintz, of Gen. Stahl’s staff, charged 
upon the same force. The rebels, who had expected 
to have an easy victory, fled in utter dismay. 
In this affair we had one man killed, and eight or 
ten wounded, and one—Lieut. Ilallel, of the Ninth 
New York—missing. The principal force of the 
rebels, commanded by Gen. Jones, fell back on 
Winchester, aud were pursued by the Ninth New 
York Cavalry to within four miles of that place. 
Major-General Kigel reports the result of the fore¬ 
going skirmishes as lollows: 
Chaktiu.y, Nov. 30—7 P. M 
Brigadier-General Stahl has iust returned, lie 
attacked the enemy at Snicker's Ferry and followed 
them with 300 cavalry into ihe camps on the other 
side of the river, and near Berryville. Our men 
charged splendidly whenever they met the enemy. 
White’s cavalry was driven in all directions, and 
nearly all their officers captured and Ihe colors 
taken. White himself fled, aud bid himself in a 
house in Berryville. 
The 3d, 7th and 12th Virginia cavalry were 
also attacked and routed. Forty of them with 
horses were taken prisoners, and 50 killed and 
wounded, and two colors taken. One wagon load 
of pistols and carbines was picked up on the road 
thrown away by the flying enemy. Highly horses 
and cattle were also brought in. Our loss was 
about fifteen. 
Stahl says the officers and men behaved excel¬ 
lently, and used only their swoihIh and no fire-arms. 
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, — -- j >•••<« in' uit-ai run 
lie also reports that there is a brigade under Jones, 
at, Winchester, but that Jackson's rn.iin force was at 
Newmarket last Wednesday, as reported previously. 
F. Siuki,, M.ij.-GeiJ. Com. 
A successful scout was made by the 2d Virginia 
cavalry, under Col. J. C. Baxter, in the vicinity of 
Lewisburg. The troops left Camp i’latt, ten miles 
from Charlestown, on the 24th ult. From that time 
they marched 210 miles in 70 hours, passing over in 
the route four spurs of the Gauley Mountains. Part 
of the march was through a pelting snow storm. 
Col. Baxter came up wjth the enemy in the vicinity 
of Frankfort, attacked them with vigor, and after a 
short fight defeated them, capturing two commis¬ 
sioned Officers and some privates, 100 horses, be¬ 
tween 200 aud 300 stand of arms, burned the rebel J 
camp and all his equipage, stores and four wagons. 
Col. Baxter did not. lose a man. 
Gen. Geary made another successful reconnois- 
sance from Harper's Ferry on the 2Cth ult., in which 
he destroyed a cloth mill and took possession ol 
some flour belonging to Ihe rebels. 
A telegram from Fredericksburg this, (Tuesday) 
A. M., states that the rebels are working with re¬ 
doubled vigor on their fortifications, and their cav¬ 
alry have of late been very active, and have 
captured a number of our pickets along the lords op 
the river, besides tho two companies of the Third 
Pennsylvania cavalry at Harwood Church, seven 
miles from Falmouth, on the road to Warrenton- 
Longstreet commands the right, and Hill the left 
of tho rebel forces confronting us. 
Fortress Monrok, Nov. 27.—On Saturday week 
an expedition left Yorktown, consisting of three 
gunboats and COO of the lith Maine. They returned 
on the 26th, after having scouted ten miles beyond 
Mobjoekday. where they destroyed extensive and 
valuable rebel salt works. 
Last Tuesday our pickets near Williamsburg cap¬ 
tured eight, r.-be-ls near Fortress Monroe. A flag of 
truce leaves here early to-morrow morniDg for City 
Point to bring down Union prisoners in charge of 
Capt. Mulford. 
They also took one company of Federal soldiers 
prisoners. 
The weight of military opinion continues favora¬ 
ble to the view that there will be no great battle in 
Middle Tennessee. If there is, it will be between 
Tullaboma and Winchester. Considerable bodies 
of cavalry hover about our front, but since they 
were vigorously driven by Col. Kennett’s command, 
they have been more cautious. A body of 1,800 of 
them, who were at Nollinsvilfo yesterday, returned 
to Murfreesboro last night Breckinridge’s division 
of 6.000, Cheatham's and Wither's of 5,000 each, are 
at Murfreesboro. Buckner’s corps are at and 
around Normandy. Hardee and Polk are posled 
from Tiillahoma to Winchester. Part of Kirby 
Smith’s army has joined Bragg. Gen. Negley 
thinks the enemy is over 60.000 6trong in Middle 
Tennessee. 
Some 400 of Morgan’s cavalry left camp seven 
miles from Lebanon, to attack the Federal b at 
Wood’s Ferry, on the Cumberland, but were shelled 
back with a loss of two men. Morgan is reported 
to have left camp with his whole force (be same 
night to attack the Lebanon «fc Nashville Railroad. 
Union refugees from McMinnville say the eman¬ 
cipation proclamation is genera ly approved by the 
loyalists there. 
On the 27th, Col. Kirk, of the 5th brigade of Col. 
Sabi's division, with two companies of the 3d Ind¬ 
iana cavalry, had a skirmish with rebels near 
Lavergne. Several rebels were killed and wounded 
and three captured. Lieut Hood, of the SOIh Jndi 
aua, and one private were slightly wounded. None 
on our side were killed. The rebels had several 
pieces of artillery. The rebel Gen. Wheeler is 
said to have been wounded. We chased the rebels 
several miles. 
Some Texas Rangers fired on Gen. Sherman's 
pickets on the 27th, when the Rangers were rouied, 
losing one killed and one badly wounded. Our 
loss none. 
Col. Roberts, of the 42d Illinois, captured guer¬ 
rilla Capt. Porter and several of his men on the 
28tb. 
The troops are in fine condition. The weather is 
cold and dry. 
Arkansas. — Gen. llovey’s expedition of 17 
transports, carrying 10 000 men, which left Helena 
some days since, relurned on Friday week. It pro¬ 
ceeded to the mouth of White river, but owing to 
its shallowness, could not go further. Its destina¬ 
tion is said to have been Little Rock. 
Mississippi.—A speech delivered by Gen. Pem¬ 
berton, on taking command of the rebel Gen. Van 
Dorn s army of the South-West, is significant. It is 
published in the papers received lately from New 
Orleans. He begins by telling his soldiers that 
though a Northern man by birth, he has married, 
raised children and owned negroes in the South, and 
will never consent to the social equality ol the white 
and black races. 
“1 am,” says he, “no street scavenger—no Gen. 
Novell.” The General then expatiated on foreign 
interference by Europe. “ We want no interference 
in our private quarrels. We must settle the ques¬ 
tion ourselves, or fail entirely. The moment Eng 
'and interferes, she finds us a united people, and 
she will have to meet the armies of the South as 
well as of the North,” 
The Grenada Appeal, of the 21st, publishes the 
proceedings of the manufacturers’ convention at 
Augusta, Ga., at which, owing to the high prices 
of articles used in manufactures, it was not 
thought advisable to contract with the government 
at fixed prices for more than one month. 
The Appeal learns from several sources that the 
Federals in Western Tennessee and the vicinity of 
Holly Springs have forbidden furmers from sowing 
wheat, declaring that they will not be allowed to 
raise it. The Federate purpose to prohibit the pro¬ 
duction of unything but cotton. 
The to)lowing order has been received by Gen. 
P. J. Holmes: 
KiscUTIvts OrncE, Richmond, Nov. 17.1862. 
Lieut.-Gen. P. ,T. Holmes , Convnvindi nq Trans- 
M)ss. Department :—Inclosed you will find a slip 
trom the Memphis Daily Appeal , of the 3d in t. 
containing an account purporting to be derived 
trmn the Palmyra {Mo.) Courier. t , Federal journal 
of the murder of ten Confederate citizens Of Mis¬ 
souri, by order of Gen. McNieUfthe United States 
army. 
You will c m mu ideate by flap of truce with the 
'eiiePJil OnifiAr nnmmun/lui.f ♦>...< TV ,4 _ ± a 
Movements in the Went. 
Kentucky.—A dtepatchfrom Columbus, on the 
29th ult., says the grand army of the South are ail 
in motion. Sherman with his forces left Memphis 
on Wednesday. Grant’s army struck their tents at 
dawn yesterday, and marched off on the nolly 
Springs road. Tho army took seven days’ rations, 
only one tent allowed to twenty men, one to officers 
of each company, and sLx wagon.-, to each regiment. 
The rebels are tailing back towards Grenada, tear¬ 
ing up the track. They carried off the rails, and 
burned the bridges as they retired. It is reported 
they are even moving the heavier valuables from 
Jackson, Miss. Prisoners taken confess the utter 
hopelessness of their cause in the West. 
An important order has jus t been issued by Gen. 
Boyle, which is in substance as follows: 
aEADQPJLKTl-RS DlRVItKlr WnSTHll-V KlCXTPCKV, > 
Louisville, Nov. 27, 1862. J 
All commanding officers serving in this District 
are ordered not to permit any negroes or slaves to 
enter their camps, and all officers and privates are 
forbidden to interfere or intermeddle with the slaves 
in any way. 
Tennessee.— The Murfreesboro Banner of the 
25th, states that Joe Johnston will assume com¬ 
mand of Bragg’s army. 
The Banner reports heavy skirmishing at La¬ 
vergne on the 29th. 
The railroad line to Huntsville, Ala., has been 
re-opened. 
Incendiaries have been trying to burn the city of 
Mr uphis. On Sunday night week there were 10 
different fires—Monday night 14—showing conclu¬ 
sively that there is a concerted movement for the 
destruction of the city. Great alarm exists in con¬ 
sequence. 
On Tuesday morning, 250 rebel cavalry took the 
town of Henderson, on the Mobile and Ohio road, 
burning the ’station-bo ise and other property. 
federal officer commanding that Departmei t t.i 
ascertain it ihe facte are ns stated. If they be so 
vou will demand the immediate surrender of Gen! 
McNiel to the Confederate authorities: and it Uiis 
demand is not complied with, you will inform said 
commanding officer that you are ordered to execute 
the first ten United States officers who may fall into 
your bands. Very respectfully yours, 
Jefferson Davis. 
Gen. Blunt, with 5,000 Federate, attacked aud 
routed about 8,000 rebels, under Gen. Marmaduke, 
at Cune Hill, Ark., on the 20th ult., killing 60 and 
driving Ihe balance some twelve miles. Gen. 
Blunt telegraphs that the enemy is badly whipped, 
and will not probably return north of Boston 
Mountains again this winter; and us they have con¬ 
sumed all the Subsistence in the valley of tho Ar¬ 
kansas, they must soon retreat into Texas. 
The following have been received at the War 
Department: 
St. Locus, Nov. 29, 1862. 
To Major-General RaUeck:—Ge n. Blunt, with 
his division, made forced marches and attacked the 
enemy yesterday morning at ^totitUJill. The bat¬ 
tle lusted several hours. The enemy, under Gen 
Marmaduke, began to tall back about !o o’clock, but 
itit,ipitied lighting until rundown. Thf? victory w&g 
complete. Our Joss is not great. The enemy "s loss 
is much greater than ours. Our forces encamped 
on the battle-field. F 
The enemy has retired to Van Buren. 
S. R. Cortis. 
St. Louis, Nov. 29, 1862. 
1° Gen. H. IV. ITalleck: —Gen. Davidson tele¬ 
graphs that a cavalry expedition, under Major 
lorry, to the forks of Mingo and St. Francis, cap¬ 
tured Col. Phelen and ten men of the rebel army. 
& R. Curtis, Major-General. 
Department of the South. 
A dispatch to the Navy Department from Com. 
1 arkor, of the United Stales steamer Cambridge, re¬ 
ports a schooner having been discovered near Mason- 
borough Inlet. He immediately bore down ou her 
and fired a 30-pound Parrot gun, and the schooner 
ran ashore. A boat, and two men were sent to him 
with instructions that as the surf was too high not 
to venture too near; and if they could notreach the 
vessels Bafely, to return. The boat however reached 
the. shore and fired the schooner, which was entirely 
destroyed. Two other boat® were sent to communi¬ 
cate wiih, and, it possible, give relief. At this junc¬ 
ture some 30 men came suddenly upon the party and 
all were taken prisoners. 
During Commander Parker’u absence, while en¬ 
gaged i u destroying the schooner, the Daylight drove 
an English barque on the beach, about one mile 
from the fort, where she became hard and fast 
The dispatch of Lieutenant Commanding Brain, 
dated the 18th, reports, after giving chase to a 
schooner, the parties on her ran her ashore. With a 
few shells those unloading her dispersed. She prov¬ 
ed to be the schooner Halifax wiih no papers on 
board. At this time another acbooner was discov¬ 
ered down the coast. Leaving two boats to get the 
first schooner, Commander Brain started after the 
second, and she was also ran ashore. On boarding 
she proved to be the English schooner Ann Maria, 
of Nassau. No colors or paper* found aboard. 
Getting ns close as possible with the steamer she 
was hauled off.but she bilged in four fathoms of wat¬ 
er. Immediately returning to the first schooner and 
finding her bilged, she was destroyed. These ves¬ 
sels were loaded with salt A few kegs of lard and 
several barrels of flour and sugar were destroyed, 
including 2,0oo bags of salt 
Lieutenant commanding Truxton, of the gunboat 
Cbocura, at Beaufort, N. C., Nov. 12th, says they 
seized an unknown schooner for violating the block¬ 
ade. She was from Wilmington and bound to Nas¬ 
sau. Her Master stated that she left Wilmington 
without papers, flag or name. The death of the 
Collector and the prevalence of yellow fever had 
caused the Custom House to be closed and busi 
nets to be suspended. Eight hundred coscb of yel¬ 
low fever had occurred when he left. The schooner 
was laden with resin, turpentine and ehingles. As 
she sprang a leak and was found to be sinking she 
was set ou fire, when she capsized aud her dmruc- 
lion was completed 
Advices lrom Port Royal give an account of the 
expedition of the colored regiment to Doboy sound. 
The negroes behaved very commendably. The ex¬ 
pedition orought back 200,000 feet of sawed lumber 
Three of the negroes were wounded. It was rumor¬ 
ed Ibat Beauregard pronounced Charleston indefen¬ 
sible and the inhabitants were removing their prop¬ 
erly from the city. 
Newrkrn, N. C., via Fortress Monrok, Nov. 
27.—On Tuesday the Isth ult, sumo 4,000 rebels un¬ 
der command of Brigadier General Murtiu, attempt 
ed to drive In the Federal pickets and take the city 
of Newbern. They advanced on the Trent road 
from Pollocksville, and succeeded in driving the 
pickets a short distance. About 400 rebels then 
marched through the woods 7 miles, capturing two 
companies of the Massachusetts 27th, and or.e com¬ 
pany of the Massachusetts 24th, stationed at Buche 
lot s creek on the railroad. The rebels met with a 
hot reception from the city aud were defeated, fail 
ing back in disorder and retreating in double 
quick. They thought to Lake us by surprise, but 
Col. Kurtz, of the Musa. 23d, Provost Marshal in 
command of the post, was prepared at all points. 
Rebel deserters are quite numerous. Fifteen came 
in on the Kith inst. 
A private letter says it isrumored at Kingston 
that two companies of the 10th North Carolina bat¬ 
talion artillery encountered a large force of the ene¬ 
my ul Con Creek ou the 18th iust., consisting of 
infantry, cuvalry, and artillery. The rebels were in 
rifle pits sheltered from the artillery. After two 
hours lighting they retired from their pits. Our 
loss none, ibat of the enemy not known. 
Raleigh, N. C., Nov. 18th.—The Legislature of 
North Carolina convened on the 17th ult, and Gov¬ 
ernor Vance sent in his mes. age. He takes strong 
gruond for a vigorous prosecution of the war, and 
proposes a reserve force of 10,000 men for the State, 
to lie discharged in the Spring in lime lor their 
(arming operations. ilow lo raise this force he 
leaves to t he Legislature to decide. 
Ihe authorities of Savannah are preparing lo 
move non combatants from the city, preparatory to 
an anticipated attack of the enemy. 
Advices state that a powerful squadron is concen¬ 
trating in Mississippi. Already there are more ves¬ 
sels at New Orleans than any time since its capture. 
A large number of rebel boats have been armed. 
Great activity in military circles preparatory to 
offensive movements. A general inspection of arms 
and men is about to take place. Guerrillas infested 
the river above and below the city. One naval ves¬ 
sel has been fired into and returned the shot, with 
grape and cannister, but thick brush and wood 
enabled the enemy to escape. None but vessels 
fully armed leave the city. 
Butler is about to place overseers on confiscated 
plantations to save cotton and Bugar. 
The new cotton crop is coming in quite freely; 
and the resumption of the publication of the Na¬ 
tional Advocate has been permitted after explana¬ 
tions, no intention to aid the rebels having been 
avowed. 
The Democrat has information that the rebels are 
now at work fortifying Fort Hudson, 160 miles from 
New Orleans. The same engineer who laid out the 
rehel works at Vicksburg has just completed a plan 
of the fortifications at Fort Hudson. Ten or twelve 
guns are now in position, and in a few weeks 
from the present time Fort Hudson will be as strong 
as Vicksburg, and will prove a serious bar to the 
descent of Rear Admiral Farragut’s fleet. 
The rebels are now running Pteamtioats from Fort 
Hudson (o Lake Providence, a distance of more 
than three hundred miles. The rebels are also run¬ 
ning boats on Red River, bringing immense sup¬ 
plies of cattle from Texas, and large quantities of 
salt from the vast salt works on Red River, which 
aro situated about 50 miles from its mouth. It is 
stated that these works produce 10,000 bushels of 
Balt daily, all of which is rapidly sent to the east via 
Vicksburg. The object of the fortifications at Fort 
Hudson is to prevent the Federal forces from 
marching on their salt works, 
There were still some cases of yellow fever at 
Houston, Texas, 3d—but not epidemic. Fever is 
still prevailing at Matagorda, Indianola and Lovaca, 
with deaths therefrom at each. 
On the 3Isi. ult,, as the Dan was towing the Fed¬ 
eral gunboat from the Sabine Pass lo the town, she 
was assailed by a volley from 40 rebels concealed in 
a mill. The United Stales army opened tire on the 
mill and town, destroying the mill, a few residences, 
and firing other buildings. The fire was extin¬ 
guished. 
AFFAIRS IN WASHINGTON. 
g^al HUrtory of the Great Rebellion-Harper k 
Bloomington Nuraer.v. Illinois-F K Plmenix Bro *- 
The stone Bee Hits— Jneeph \\ aodrofl'e 
Tree >ee<U \\ anted—Prince k Co 
Books—Snow A- liapgood 
W lute Face Black Spanish F.iwls-L B Silver 
Department of (he Gulf. 
By the arrival of the steamships Cambria and 
Roanoke we have New Orleans dates to the 20th ulL, 
with the following interesting intelligence: 
By an order by Gen. Butler, the property within 
the district recently possessed by our forces under 
Gen. Weitzel, to be known as the Lafourche district, 
is declared sequestered, and all sales or transfers of 
it are forbidden. The district comprises all the ter¬ 
ritory of Louisiana lying west of the Mississippi, 
excepting thrf parishes of I'laquemond and Jeffer¬ 
son. A Commissioner is appointed to take posses¬ 
sion of the District, and tho sugar plantations are to 
worked by them when they are not worked by their 
owners, and negro or white labor may be employed 
at discretion. All property belonging lo disloyal 
persons is to be inventoried and sold for the benefit 
of the Government under the provisions of the Con¬ 
fiscation Act, 
Another order suppresses distilleries and other 
manufactories of strong drink. 
Another one announces that any officer found 
drinking intoxicating liquors in any public place, 
will be recommended to the President for dismissal 
from the service. 
Another one suppresses a newspaper known as 
the National Advocate. us improper for publication. 
Still another prohibits the arrest ol any slave, 
unless the person arresting knows that such slave is 
owned by a ioyul citizen. 
Among the property confiscated as above noted is 
Gen. Bragg's plantation. 
We receive glowing accounts of the Union demon 
stration on the 15th. It consisted of a large pro 
cession of Union Clubs. A grand Union meeting 
was held and presided over by J. A. Rozier, and 
fifty Vice Presidents. Speeches were made by Mr. 
Rozier, Hon. Thos. J. Durant, Doming aud others. 
Resolutions were adopted sustaining the President 
and the Union, and expressing a desire for a speedy 
opening of the Mississippi, and sustaining General 
Butler. 
The Della states that the procession several times 
gave cheers for President Lincoln. 
Military Gov. Shepley has issued a proclamation 
calling upon the loyal electors of the 1st aud 2d 
Congressional districts of Louisiana to choose mem¬ 
bers of Congress, and appointed December 3d as the 
day for holding the election. 
One hundred and twenty-four men of the 8th Ver¬ 
mont, captured September 4th by tho rebels, were 
returned to New Orleans on the 13th. Seven were 
shot by the rebels for having enlisted in New 
Orleans. 
Gen. Butler had seized and closed the Bank of 
New Orleans, for sending $405,000 in specie, within 
sixty days, to the confederate governt; int This 
specie had previously been reported fo ;en. Butler 
as having been'sent away, whir;. , , e . 
A cavalry reconn 'is-anct fr in - zel’s force 
captured two cannot) wit, a ■ r i s of Baton 
Rouge. 
The Delta, of the Pith, f \ ,»o. tw< tin insaction of 
E. Grantherin & Co. w: i ue - , and impli¬ 
cates the French C jl. 
The President has boor , -morialfol to establish 
a United States District C u-. u tv* ,v Orleans. 
There is a prospect that the scheme for the armed 
colonization of Florida will soon be practically 
tested. The General who is to be in command baa 
expressed the opinion that with 10.000 armed colo 
nisfo he can dispense with a very large portion of 
the soldiers originally destined to take part in the 
engagement, so that the execution of the scheme 
will not very materially Interfere with any other 
military movement- Information has been received 
that many thousands have already made application 
to enlist as armed colonists to take part iu this ex¬ 
pedition, and the leader ol the enterprise is only 
awaiting authority from the War Depariment t 
raise the full number indicated as necessary for the 
initiation of this scheme. 
A dispatch says Secretary Seward looks upon the 
proposed mediation of the French Government as 
an act of a friendly power simply to secure an 
interview between the belligerents without preju¬ 
dice to what they may do afterwards; and that to 
prevent a continuance of the war, or exercise the 
least pressure On either party, directly or indirectly, 
is in no manner expressed or hinted at in the docu¬ 
ment 
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue having 
heard arguments of counsel in regard to the liabili 
ties to taxation under the revenue luw, of persons 
engaged in the manufacture of clothing, has pre¬ 
pared an tdaborate statement, deciding that clothing 
is a manufacture, subject to taxation at the rate of 
three per cent ad valorem, the value to be returned 
by the manufacturer as estimated by assessors in 
the manner pointed out by the statute. 
Commander Thatcher, of the ship Constellation, 
in a tetter to the Navy Department- dated Spezzia, 
the 3d inst., say s.he had just received ad vices from our 
Consul at Bejrout, that the Sultan’s Firman, for 
the execution of the murderer of Mr. Collie, Amer¬ 
ican missionary, reached Adan while the Constella¬ 
tion was at anchor near that place, and the criminal 
was beheaded amid a vast concourse of people, and 
without any popular outbreak, as had been antici 
paled. The Turkish government behaved with 
great justice and comity toward the United States 
iu this matter. 
The Commissioner has given notice that the tax 
stamps for telegrams are ready for delivery, and the 
senders of messages will be required, on and alter 
Dec. 1st, to place a stump on each telegram, aDd 
cancel it with the date and initials of the writer. 
The telegraph companies throughout tho country 
will require compliance with the law. 
lion. Frank P. Blair, Jr., has resigned his seat in 
the present Congress, in order to take command of 
a brigade at Helena, Ark. 
The Senate met at 12 o’clock, Dec. 1st- Vice- 
President Hamlin was absent, and the Senate was 
called to order by the President pro tern., Senator 
Foote. All the Senators were present except Bay¬ 
ard, Doolittle, Hale, Kennedy, Pearce. Wilmot and 
Wilson. Messrs. Collamer, Grimes and Salisbury 
were appointed a committee to confer with the 
House committeee, and inform the President that 
Congress wus ready to receive any communication. 
The proceedings of the House opened with a 
player from Chaplain Stockton, during which he 
returned thanks for the brightening prospects of 
liberty of the slave, tor our emancipation from a 
system, whicn he said had involved us in so much 
sin, sorrow and shame, and for the renewed Union, 
and greater power, aud greater love, and greater 
joy forever. At the conclusion of the prayer, the 
roll of members was called by States. A quorum 
answered to their names. 
A message was received from the Senate that a 
quorum of that body had assembled and were ready 
to proceed to business. Ou motion of Mr. Wash- 
burne, a similar message was sent to the Senate, 
and at his (Washburrie’s) instance, a committee was 
appointed to act in conjunction with a similar one 
of the Senate, to wait ou the President and inform 
him that both Houses were ready lo receive any 
communication he might have lo make. 
[The Message of the President was reoeived in 
due form, read, and telegraphed to the press. A 
copy has been received, but the mode of transmis¬ 
sion adopted almost necessitates inaccuracies. It is 
very evident that mistakes are quite numerous in 
the present instance, and as we prefer to publish 
correctly, we delay the issue of thi9 important docu¬ 
ment until our next number.] 
$l)c News Conhctiser. 
— The sin all-pox is said to be prevalent in Washington. 
— An election of M;mb«r of Congress has been ordered i n 
Louisiana. 
— Union men, in Middle Tennessee, are arming against 
rehel conscription. 
— The neat draft in Massachusetts will take place on Mon¬ 
day, December 8th. 
— An insurance company against tornadoes has been started 
in Freeport, Illinois. 
— Two steamers took out from New York on Saturday week 
$1,589,409 in specie. 
— Col Charles A. Mulligan, the hero of Lexington, has been 
made a Brigadier General. 
— Over fifty thousand shelter tents were furnished last week 
to the army of Gen Roseerans. 
Hie St. Louis Union state* that Gov. Gamblo of Missouri 
has become an emancipationist 
— There are now nine Major Generals in the army of the 
Union w ho have no commands. 
The drafted men In the camp at Harrisburg, Pennsylva¬ 
nia, It Is said desert by hundreds. 
— The Democrats can Jed Hartford, Norwalk and New Ha¬ 
ven, Conn., at the Charter Election. 
Ihe paper mills of the State of Maine are forced to stop 
manufacturing for the want of tags. 
— The steamship Arte), jn»t in from Aspinwall, brought 
nearly a million of dollars in specie. 
They ship about 40.000 bushels of potatoes, worth about 
$20,000, from Bangor, Me,, every week. 
— Gen Pope, it is said, has been ordered to St. Louis from 
St. Paul; probably to relieve Gen. Curtis. 
— A deficiency of $17,000 lias been discovered in the ac¬ 
counts of the treasurer of Providence. R. I. 
A London letter of the 24th ult. vavs, by Cliristmas there 
will be 780.000 paupers to feed in Lancashire. 
— Gen. Ward, the Yankee leader of the Imperial forces in 
Chida, was killed in n late engagement with the rebels. 
— The Sturgis Rifles, Gen, McClellan's Body Guard, have 
been mustered out of the service at the General's request. 
— Gen Butler, having accomplished the “pacification ” of 
New Orleans, is now paying his respects to the rural districts. 
— Leprosy prevails to an alarming extent in the British 
West India colonics. It was introduced by (he Chinese coolies. 
— The bride elect of the Prince of Wales is named Alexan¬ 
dria Caroline Maria Charlotte Louisa Julia, and she is in Lon¬ 
don. 
— Second hand flour barrels sell for 50 cents a piece in 
Philadelphia, and new ones can scarcely be obtained at anv 
price. 
- Gon. Charles D. Jameson, a prominent Maine democrat, 
and nominee for Governor at the late State election, died last 
week. 
— The Chicago papers have advanced their rates to $10 per 
year !or their dailies, and a similar advance on their other 
issues. 
— The Poughkeepsie Engle printing establishment was 
destroyed by fire on the night of the 22d ult. It was partially 
insured. 
— Among the prisoners captured lately iu the South-west 
was one Mujor Rogers, recently released on parole from Fort 
Warren. 
— The tolls on t£o Erie Canal, received, at Buffalo, from 
the opening of navigation to tho 18th inst., exceed three mil¬ 
lion dollar*. 
— The President has given Brig Grn. Edwin R. Price, son 
of Major Gen Sterling Price, and late of the rebel army, a freo 
and full pardon, 
— The new statue of Franklin, made by Powers in Rome, 
has just arrived In Washington, and is opened in the House of 
Representatives. 
— Old Wethersfield, Connecticut, is rebellious. It has di¬ 
rected its selectmen to pay no attention to any Government 
order for a draft. 
— Counterfeit tens oa the Rhode Island Bank, Newport, 
and fives of the Cuyler Bank, Falmyra, N. Y., are in circula¬ 
tion in Philadelphia. 
— A little hoy was bitten by caterpillars in France recently, 
while climbing a tree, and w as bo poisoned by the bites that 
he died in a few hoars. 
— Gen. Grant has ordered a brigade of Negroes at Grand 
Junction, Miss , to pick cotton. A regiment of infantry is 
assigned to guard them. 
— Counterfeit Treasury notes, $60'sand JlOO's raised from 
l's and 2’s have made their appearance in New York. Keep 
a sharp lookout for them. 
— The Hon. Thomas A. Hendricks will, it is said, be the 
Democratic candidate for the United States Senate from Indi¬ 
ana for the next six years. 
— Tho attempt to raise the fares on the Philadelphia city 
railroads has been abandoned on account of the popular dis¬ 
pleasure which it created. 
— The diplomatic correspondence to accompany the Presi¬ 
dent's Message, now passing through the press, will make a 
volume of 700 or 800 pages. 
— Gen. Anderson, of Fort Sumter fame, has been assigned 
to the command of the troops and fortifications surrounding 
Covington aud Newport, Ky. 
— The citizens of Cedar Falls, Iowa, have sent an agent to 
Cairo for the purpose of procuring a lot of “ contrabands ” for 
that, town and neighborhood. 
— It is said that a large number of Quartermasters are be¬ 
hind with their accounts ami statements; also, that a long list 
has been reported for dismissal. 
— Gen. Ward, senior Mandarin of the Chinese Empire, 
originally a Yankee sailor, lias ordered three gunboats at New’ 
Yo It for the Chinese Government. 
— An old lady died In London recently, from sheer destitu¬ 
tion, who was the claimuut under a wilt to au estate of no less 
than seventeen millions of dollars, 
— The total valuation of real and personal property in New 
York State, $1,477,897,700. Tho State tax is four mills and 
three fourths, producing $7 020,014 12. 
— Grata Brown of Missouri, thinks there will not be more 
than 30,000 slaves in that State on the 1st of January, and that 
one half of these are owned by traitors. 
— When Burnside appeared opposite Fredoricsburg, an or¬ 
der was given to destroy all the tobacco, and about 1,000 box¬ 
es were tumbled into the Rappahannock. 
— Chicago papers notioc the fact that for the first time since 
1855, there is an active movement in real estate in that city. 
The demand is confined to bu6iuesa property. 
— Late West India papers furnish accounts of an insurrec¬ 
tion among the free negroes in the island of St. Vincent, which 
ltd to much excitement and some bloodshed. 
— Forty-eight persons, mostly children, in one school dis¬ 
trict in the town of Jackson, Pa., have died from dipthcria. 
That is more terrible tbau the ravages of war, 
— A lot of powder iu flour barrels, valued at fivo thousand 
dollars, stored conveniently for shipment to the South, was 
discovered and seized at Baltimore, Monday week. 
— Up to November list tho quantity of coal conveyed over 
the Reading (Pa.) railroad since January 1, was 2 048,060 tuna 
—an increase of 589,000 tuns on the same period last year. 
— Every geographical square mile of Europe is burdened 
with an average of over fifty dollars of public debt, and every 
inhabitant with an average of more than thirty-five dollar#. 
— The St. Louis Democrat publishes a letter from a Mis¬ 
souri slaveholder, who urges immediate emancipation. The 
journal says it is constantly receiving letters of the same tenor. 
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