boat; that she was along side of that gunboat 
within a mile and a half of the shore: that the 
naval authorities of Charleston were made aware 
of her capture, value and situation, and yet our 
victorious iron-clads. did not rescue her from 
that gunboat, but allowed her to be carried out 
to sea. 
We would ratber praise than censure, but the 
truth must be told. An official inquiry is to be 
made of this mismanagement of an enterprise 
which may never be so favorable again.” 
A Fort ress Monroe correspondent of the Times 
says reports of country people, rendered to both 
Gen. Vide at Norfolk and Gen. Feck at Suffolk, 
concur in stating t hat Pryor has been re-enforced 
by troops, under Generals Pettigrew and Glover, 
to the extent of over 15,000 men, giving him, 
therefore, a present force of over 20,000. Ru¬ 
mors have also come from many quarters that 
an attempt would be made upon Norfolk before 
the 4th of March. In fulfillment of this predic¬ 
tion, Pryor, a week ago, withdrew his pickets— 
which were half way between Suffolk and Black- 
water River, and making a circuitous route in a 
north-easterly direction, crossed the Chowan 
River, and turned up yesterday morning in 
Princess Anne county, 26 miles northwest of our 
lines. 
The gunboats Freeborn and Dragon made a 
reconnoissance on the 21st, up the Rappahan¬ 
nock, a distance of CO miles. Just below Fort 
Lowry they were fired on by a rebel battery, and 
an engagement of an hour's length ensued, in 
which the batteries were silenced. The Free¬ 
born received unimportant injuries, and had two 
or three men slightly injured. The entire recon¬ 
noissance was a perfect success, and yielded a 
great deal of valuable information. 
NEWS PARAGRAPHS 
LIST OF NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. 
The Valley Falls (Mass,) Manufacturing Com¬ 
pany found seventy-two and a half pounds of iron 
in a bale of cotton; and the Social Manufactur¬ 
ing Company in Woonsocket, on opening a hale, 
found sixty-eight pounds of brick. Don and 
brick, at. about $1 per pound, is a touch above 
priming paper. 
John Russell, one of the earliest pioneers of 
Illinois, died at his residence in Bluffdale, Green 
county, on the 22d tilt. He edited the Back¬ 
woodsman. one of the first newspapers published 
in Illinois, and became widely known as a forci¬ 
ble and vigorous writer. 
Prof. Whitney, the State geologist, found 
among the Sierra Nevadas, about 2,000 feet above 
the level of the ocean, an almost perfect jaw of 
Huge petrified oyster shells 
The Bent Tile Machine —A l.a Tourrette, Jr. 
To Farmer*, tnruirrto-n. .v. -Josiah Carpenter. 
I tioico SSced* fr.r Hot-Hedv McKIwain Bros, 
tear'-cods K E Scbra?ricr. 
I t*uit Tr-<\s Vine?, kc- E Taylor. 
-Went? Wanted—F, K Flore i . 
Tobacco Seed—lfcEi»-a)o Bros, 
farm for Sale - s H Uasoci. 
Canvaenerr Wanted —Her’ = Bros. 
Cranberry Flunii— p I) Cliitson. 
Doolittle Raspberry Blunt? Mrs H FT Doolittle. 
Fruit I reee-M Koutfctvick k Son. 
For the Sjirmp Trade—Will.an)fl, Ranasden & Co. 
Special Notice*. 
An Egg Operation-Wm Chamberlain. 
Every Soldier should hare them — Brown’s Bronchial 
Troches. 
Worth considering— D B lie band & Co. 
Prepared Harness Oil—Frank Miller & Co. 
$518,575; New Jersey. $377.nil: Philadelphia, 
Wilmington and Baltimore, $202,392; Northern 
Central, 209.757; Philadelphia Central, $192,427; 
New Jersey Central, $289,032, and about $80,000 
to Expresses on the same route. In addition, 
$123,673 to the New Jersey Central, not desig¬ 
nated as exclusively for transportation over the 
New York line. There are claims by the Phil¬ 
adelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad, 
for $36,119, not yet adjusted. 
The Committee of Conference have compro¬ 
mised all the disagreeing amendments to the bill 
to provide ways and means for the support of 
the Government. 
The Friends in New York, Pennsylvania, 
Maryland and Delaware, have memorialized 
Congress, asking the exemption from the draft 
and the procurement of substitutes and from tbo 
fines, which they deem a penalty imposed for 
exercising their right of conscience against the 
shedding of blood. While they say we deplore 
and utterly condemn the wicked rebellion, fo¬ 
mented by misguided and infatuated men, which 
has involved the nation in Rtrife and bloodshed, 
we earnest ly desire, that while the Lord’s judg¬ 
ments are so awfully manifested to the inhabit¬ 
ants of the earth, we may learn righteousness. 
The Friends close by praying that peace may 
once more be restored throughout our whole 
land, and that Christian liberty, harmony and 
love may universally prevail among the people. 
Our Government has been officially informed 
of the action of the Mexican Government in 
relation to the invasion of Texas by bands of 
vagabond Mexicans. The Mexican Minister for 
0 <&0nkii0cr 
Or all the flags that float aloft 
O’er Neptune’s gallant tars, 
That wave on high, in victory. 
Above the sons of Mare, 
Give us the flag—Columbia’s flag— 
The emblem of the free, 
Whose flashing stare blazed thro’ onr wars, 
For Truth and Liberty. 
Then dip it, lads, in ocean’s brine, 
And give it three times three, 
And fling it out, ’mid song and shout, 
The Banner of the Sea. 
a rhinoceros, nugo pt inneu oyster shells were 
also found among the mountains of the interior 
aud at great elevations. 
ITox. Anson Bun lino a. me, our Minister to 
China, in announcing the death of Gen. Ward, 
says that in a letter to him, that heroic man pro¬ 
posed to contribute ton thousand taels to the Gov¬ 
ernment of the United States, to aid in maintain¬ 
ing the Union, but before Mr. Burlingame could 
reply to this offer, Ward was killed. Mr. Bur¬ 
lingame says:— <l Let this wish though unexecuted, 
find worthy record in the archives of his native 
land, to show that neither self-exile nor foreign 
service, nor the incidents of a stormy lifp, could 
extinguish from the breast of this wandering 
child of the Republic the fires of a truly loval 
heart.” 
It having been frequently reported to Gen. 
Rosecrans that Confederate soldiers approached 
our lines dressed in our uniforms, and that they 
have appeared thus in battle, and have, Favage- 
like, carried our Colors to deceive up, it is or¬ 
dered by the General that none so dressed shall 
receive, when captured, the rights of prisoners 
of war, and that, in battle, no quarter be given 
them. 
A correspondent communicates to the Bos¬ 
ton Transcript the following fact;—“ 
. — There was sleighing in Washington on Sunday week. 
— New potatoes have appeared in the markets of Lonis- 
viUe, Ky. 
— Seven hundred bales of cotton reached Cairo, HI., on 
1 the 22 d ult. 
— In New England there are in all, 24,711 persons of 
African descent. 
— Col. Ellctt, commander of the gunboat Queen of the 
West, is but 19 years of age. 
— The contrabands at Norfolk cost the Government $ 1 ,- 
000 per day—$365,000 per annum. 
— Ten thousand bottles of whiskey were captured at 
Acquia Landing, Va , some days rince. 
— During the past year there was received at San Fran¬ 
cisco forty nine million dollars in gold. 
— The wealth of Ohio is estimated at *nc billion one 
hundred and eighty-seven millions of dollars. 
— Arrangements are nearly completed for a third line 
of telegraph between Boston and Washington. 
— Mrs. Deborah Duane, grand daughter of Benjamin 
Franklin, died in Philadelphia Thursday week. 
— The Houston (Texas) Telegraph announces tin* hang¬ 
ing of twenty six “Abolitionists” in Gainesville. 
— Ex-Gov. Morgan has just purchased a magnificent 
dwelling house in New York city for $82,000 cash. 
— The Flax Cotton Company at Loebport are {laying 
$10 per tun for green flax straw, and $16 for rotted. 
— A provision in the conscription hill just passed by 
the Senate allows exemption on the payment of $300. 
— Skancatolas Lake is frozen over its entire length, and 
the Ice for the greater distance is as smooth its a mirror. 
— A weather-wise individual at Chicago predicts that 
we will have seven snow storms before the first of ApriL 
— It is estimated that nearly two million barrels of crude 
oil have changed hands at Pittsburgh, Fa., during the past 
year. 
— Ex-Governor Roger Sherman Baldwin died at his res¬ 
idence in New Haven Conn., on the 19th ult., aged 70 
years. 
— The New York Fire Marshal’s report for the last six 
months shows that during that period 148 fires occurred 
in that city. 
— It. is estimated that there are between 11,000 and 12 ,- 
000 paroled prisoners at the Parole Camp, Annapolis, at 
the present time. 
— One of the Dupont powder mills, near Wilmington, 
Del , blown op Wednesday week, and thirteen work¬ 
men were killed. 
— Rev John McDowell, D. D., a distinguished Presby¬ 
terian divine, died in Philadelphia on Friday evening week 
at the age of 83 years. 
— The officers and crew of the late steamer llatteras 
arrived in New York on Wednesday week in the Star of 
the South from Key West 
— A brother of the rebel General Forrest informs the 
Memphis Bulletin that he is dead. His relatives place re¬ 
liance on the information. 
— The four railroad companies whose roads center at 
Cleveland, Ohio, have|deci<led to build a depot in that city 
at a cost of nearly $150,000. 
— The spirits have predicted, In Andrew Jackson Da¬ 
vis' paper, that Franco will soon he fighting for the Con¬ 
federacy, aud England for us. 
— A new telegraph company between New Y’ork, Alba¬ 
ny and Chicago is now being organized, with a capital of 
five hundred thousand dollars. 
— Major Geji. Geo. W. Morgan, the hero of Cumber¬ 
land Gap, is compelled to retire for a time from active ser¬ 
vice, owing to impaired health. 
— Nearly one-third of the women in England never 
marry, and three millions of females are thrown upon 
their own exertions for support. 
— At a recent meeting of the N. Y. Board of Council- 
men the ordinance appropriating $500,000 for the aid of 
volunteer’s families was adopted. 
— The rebel General Gustavus W. Smith, formerly of 
New York, has resigned, and the rebel Commander-in- 
Chief has accepted his resignation. 
— The new monitor, Sangamon, carries a gutta percha 
raft, a new invention, which will accommodate 76 persons 
and can be propelled rapidly by oars. 
— The U. S. frigate Sabine, which arrived at New York 
Wednesday 1 week, lias sailed 10,000 miles in search of the 
Alabama since the 3d of November, 
— Gen. Blunt has proclaimed martial law iu Leaven¬ 
worth, as the civil authorities are unable or inadequate to 
keep the peace and administer justice. 
— Winchell, the Humorist, once a groat favorite with 
the audiences that assembled to see and hear him, died at 
Lafayette, Indiana, on Wednesday week. 
— The Chicago Tribune says upwards of 1,000 of the 
rebel prisoners taken in Arkansas are sick and under med¬ 
ical treatment. Eight died in one night. 
— Jacob Thompsou, Buchanan’s Secretary of the Inte¬ 
rior, was captured un The Mississippi river on the 31st nit., 
in a skiff, and handed over to Admiral Porter. 
— The petroleum trade has become so important in 
Pittsburg that an Oil Exchange has been regularly estab¬ 
lished. It is held iu the Board of Trade room. 
— A cake was lately presented to preacher Spurgeon, 
which he thought best to analyze before tasting, and was 
found to contain poison enough to kill six men. 
— It is hinted that Preston King is to be Secretory of 
War, and that there are to he changes of policy by the 
Administration after Congress gets out of the way. 
— The Intelligencer newspaper office, and ten build¬ 
ings adjoining, were destroy ed by fire at Belleville, Cana¬ 
da, on the 29th ult. Loss $25,1)00; mostly insured. 
— The last steamer from Europe brings intelligence of 
the death of the Marquis of Lansdowne. He was one of 
the oldest and most eminent Statesmen of England. 
— One effect of the rebellion upon Slavery, even in a 
loyal State, is seen in the report of the Mary land Commis¬ 
sioners, who state the fair value of slaves ut $5 each. 
— The Ky. House of Representatives has rescinded its 
resolution inviting Commissioners from other States to as¬ 
semble in Louisville to deliberate on National afl'airs. 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., MARCH 7,1863. 
Movements in the West and South-West. 
The special Memphis expedition through 
Yazoo Pass reached Moon Lake on the 22d. In 
the stretch beyond this lake, leading to Cold- 
tvator river, the enemy sought, to obstruct the 
channel by felling trees, stumps and logs. Our 
troops have been at work for three weeks, clear¬ 
ing out rite pass. A battalion of the Dili Illi¬ 
nois Cavalry were sent as scouts to the banks to 
drive back the enemy. They had a brisk skir¬ 
mish on the 2titb, with a company of sixty 
mounted rebels, dispersing them, killing six, 
wounding several and capturing twenty-six. 
Our loss was only five wounded. 
The following, which is from rebel sources, 
(the capture has been confirmed, however,) is 
not at all agreeable: 
<! Capt. Cannon, from Red river, brings infor¬ 
mation of the capture of the Federal steamer 
Queen of the West, that recently succeeded in 
running our batteries -at Vicksburg, ut Gordon’s 
Landing, and Fori Taylor on the Red river. 
The Queen of the Wes! captured the Confederate 
steamer Eva No. 5. forcing her pilot, John Burke, 
to take the wheel, and asked hint to lake the 
boatto our batteries. He feigned tear, but finally 
took the wheel under a Yankee guard. Upon 
nearing the batteries, he told the Yankees they 
were fifteen miles from them, immediately put¬ 
ting close in, when she received a shot which 
broke her steam-pipe, disabling the boat, Lite 
Yankees being wholly unprepared for a fight, 
and suspecting no danger. Burke jumped over¬ 
board and drifted ashore. The boat drifted 
An Ameri¬ 
can gentleman resident in Paris, having received 
i a copy of Gen. Butler’s farewell address to the 
i people of New Orleans, translated it and carried 
it to the editors of the Sieele for publication. 
They expressed great pleasure at receiving it, 
and promised that it should appear in the next 
day’s paper. But tile next morning they notified 
this gentleman that they had received a caution 
(avis ojjickux,) from the Government not to pub¬ 
lish anything favorable to Gen. Butler.” 
Rev. Mr, Fletcher, of New bury port, who has 
returned from Brazil, made a tour of exploration 
thereof 7,000 miles. He ascended the Amazon 
to Peru, and says that the capabilities of that 
immense river and the fertility of the great Am¬ 
azon basin have been under-estimated. He saw 
a Brazilian man-of-war at Tabatinga, Brazil, 
which is on the Amazon, two thousand miles 
from the Atlantic. 
Harvard College has sent into the field four 
hundred and thirty of her sous—more than sev¬ 
enteen per cent, of the whole number of her 
living alumni; Amherst, of her undergraduates, 
and graduates of the last five years, has sent one 
hundred and fifty-nine; aud Williams’ college, as 
nearly as can be ascertained, has given one hun¬ 
dred and eleven of her sons. 
About ten thousand pounds of peanuts were 
raised in Yolo and Sacramento counties, Califor¬ 
nia, during the past year. Had it not been for 
the flood there probably would have been over 
twenty thousand pounds produced. 
The New Orleans Delia of the 24th ult,, says it 
is reported tbe levees above that city ure in a 
very dangerous condition, holes having been cut 
in them by rebel guerillas, and the river having 
risen to within a few feet of an overflow. Nearly 
the whole surface of the State is several feet be¬ 
low the river at biglt water mark, and if the rise 
continues, it is feared that the whole country 
will soon be several feet under water. Not only 
Louisiana, but a great portion of Alabama and 
Mississippi would be thus submerged. 
A negro was arraigned for larceny in St. 
Louis last week, if free, he would be sent to 
prison. If a slave, he would be whipped. This 
distinction brought up the question of his status. 
It was proved that he had been a slave of a 
rebel master in Mississippi, but escaped. The 
Judge thereupon declared him free under tbe 
President’s Proclamation, and he was sent to 
ail. 
The Detroit Advertiser says that during last 
summer many thousand bales of cotton have 
passed through that city on their way East. In 
the course of the past two months upwards of 
five thousand bales have been transferred from 
tbe railroads terminating in Detroit to the Great 
Western Railway in Canada, and a large 
number of bales are now awaiting transhipment 
at the depots. 
The Indian Bureau has received the impor¬ 
tant information that the Sioux and Pawnees, the 
former north and the latter south of the Missouri 
River, have made a solemn treaty between them¬ 
selves aud the Government, to remain hereafter 
in peace and amity. 
Quite an epidemic broke’out in the State Re¬ 
form School, at Lansing, Mich. Several boys 
have died. A consultation of physicians has 
been held, and considerable excitement has been 
evinced. It is thought to be a species of spotted 
fever. 
The drovers are complaining about losses 
that they sustain by the weighing of their stock 
at Buffalo. They say that the Railroad Company 
ought to allow them (by a deduction on freight 
charges) for the shrinkage of the cattle, or else 
cause them to be weighed on their arrival there, 
and charge freight upon that weight. Under the 
present arrangement they say that they have to 
pay freight on several hundred pounds per car 
load more than their stock will weigh there. 
preparing to follow after. The batteries at. War- 
reuton are reduced. The whole force will be 
sent first to Port Hudson. It is stated that the 
small gunboat fleet reached the Yazoo river, via 
Union Lake, and are playing the mischief in the 
rear of Vicksburg. It is also reported that the 
gunboats got into Red river, via way of Provi¬ 
dence. Also reports are circulated of serious 
disasters to Union troops, and of gunboats cap¬ 
tured. but are not credited. 
Judging from the annexed dispatch, just re¬ 
ceived, it looks as though the rebels will soon 
have a fleet of iron-dad nuns and gunboats at the 
expense of Uncle Sam. We hope the brilliancy 
of the Wosteru Campaign is not to be marred by 
many such'disasters: 
U. S. Miss. SqrjLiiKO.v, Feb. 27. 
To lion. Gideon Welles. Hecreiaru of the Navy: 
Sm:—X regret to infoim you that“the Indianola 
has fallen into the bands of the enemy. 
The rams Webb and Queen of the West at* 
tacked her 25 miles front here and rum mod her 
until she surrendered, all of which can be traced 
to a uou-compliauce with my instructions. I do 
not know the particulars. 
David D. Porter, Com. 
united Mates District court mistrates all proper 
judicial proceedings. The Federal Judges have 
forwarded it request to so define the duties of the 
Court as to prevent further trouble. 
The Senate Military Committee have instructed 
their Chairman to report a bill authorizing the 
tax collectors iu the insurrectionary districts to 
purchase at the tax sales such lands as t he Presi¬ 
dent may designate as being needed for military 
and other Government use. 
Gen. Double-day, one of the wisest, as well as 
one of the most skillful officers in the service, 
has suggested the following disposition of the 
contrabands iu Northern Virginia. He says 
that every day fugitives come into camp, and 
there being no provision for the reception and 
care of them, they are suffered to wander about 
the country, and are too frequently picked up 
and taken beyond the Rappahannock, to do work 
for the enemy. Gen. D. recommends that the 
most available of the numerous peninsulas along 
the Potomac and Chesapeake bay be fortified 
across their narrow necks, aud used as places of 
refuge for the negroes. They would thus be able 
to defend themselves, and the fish and oysters in 
the bay would give them employment and sus¬ 
tenance. As an example of a suitable locality, 
be indicates Mathias Point. A line of fortifica¬ 
tions across the neck would afford protection to 
thousands of these wanderers, at a very light 
expense to the Government. One advantage 
able to know something of the positions, force 
and plans of tin- rebels. Our cavalry arm has 
shared the general improvement, and now, under 
Gen. Stoneman, may safely be said to equal in 
efficiency that of Stuart. 
The rebels are beginning to confess their sins— 
they art- correcting the errors into which they 
fell when celebrating tbe raising of the blockade 
at Charleston, and the terrible destruction of 
Yankees and Yankee vessels. The Richmond 
Inquirer of the 18th ult., has been received at 
Fortress Monroe, and we copy therefrom. It says: 
,; The Southern Confederacy has lately been 
made the dupe of a notable imposition. It was 
said, printed, echoed and reverberated over tin- 
land that on a certain night our two iron-clad 
vessels at Charleston had sunk two, disabled 
one, and disposed of the rest of the blockading 
squadron off Charleston harbor. Now we learn 
with pain, but certainty, that no ship was sunk; 
none disabled; in short, no damage was done to 
the blockading squadron, which, consisting of 
wooden ships only, avoided a fight with our 
iron-clads, and most judiciously, until they 
brought up iron-clads of their own, w’hieh they 
immediately did. 
“ Further, we regret to say that the British 
steamer Princess Royal, laden with the most Department, 
precious cargo that ever entered Charleston, had A letter fr 
been captured the night before by a Federal gun- shows that 
AFFAIRS AT WASHINGTON, 
