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WASHINGTON OITY: THURSDAY... DECEMBER G STAR. t 1863, ' { “gw READING MATTER ON EVERY PAGH, SBE OUTSIDE FOR INTERESTING TELE. @RAPHIC AND OTHER MATTER, W2 ABE BEQUESTED TO ANNOUNCE that from this date until the meeting of Congress the President will be unable to receive visitors, his time being fully occupied by pablic busifiess. November 18, 1863. Washington Money Market. Quotations for stocks, coin and uncurrent money, furnished by Lewis Johnson & Ce. Bankers: Buyrng, Selling. 109g 7 | = | oe fPald5o 152 | New Yore Rarss—First Boarp, Coupon 6's, 1681, 100; 7-30's, 106%; OGertifi- estes of Indebtedness, 9; Gold, 151%. Stocks firmer. or THE WAR DEPARTMENT AND GEN. ROSK- CRANS, Some days ago we had occasion to comment upon the extraordinary attempt made by cer tain adherents of Gen. Rosecrans to influence the public mind in his behalf by communica. tions published simultaneously in the Vincin- nati Gazette (which paper has assumed the special championship of Gen. Rosecrans) and the New Yerk Tribune, ostensibly purporting to give an unprejudiced showing of the case, as between tbe War Departmert and Gen. Rosecrans, but in reality being a labored de- tense of that general. The following extract from a letter w the New York Tribune, from its special Chatta- noogs correspondent, bearing date Chattanoo- g8, Nov. 16, shows how this extraordinary attempt by the injudicious champions of Gen. Rosecrans to prejudice the case in his favor, is viewed in his old army: “The. statement of the case as between the War Depa: twent and Gen. Rosecrans, but really a labored d-fenae of that officer, publisned simulta- neourly in the Tribnne and Cincinnati Gazette, Dae a'iracted considerable attention here, prin- cipsily, however, for the extraordinary state- mest thst it was necessary to fight the battle of Ch.¢ismanga to get into Chattanooga. When the writer was giving quotations from dis- patebes between the Depuriment and the Gen- eral be ought not, if be intended to be fair, to bavecmitied the dispatch sent by Gen. Rose- cruns to tie Department on the 9th of Sept-m- ber ten days before the battle—wnhich was in substance, if not in these precise words :— fhe enemy has evacuated Chattanooga, and is re- trp imgsouth. My flank mevement continues, and 1 hope tocutotl his rear.’ The trath is, (tou. Ko ver was elwed with the exsy ocen- | Ubattanooga, and instead of stopping Ogatherou trocp-and supplies as directed J the Deparcment, he set out utter Bragg, by ak DloveMent. and got whipped : Ue, its 11s NOW, the army. The ties battle of Ohickamacga was essent upyms (Uatrtnooge is purcty ar Au la vention, more creditable to ey r his honesty. To z record thus renk- ovly vn w rhai the Now, again, ating the ro ardly pee fun PLay © @ thus deof the p ay, with the Cincir THR C#ATTANOOGA Cad Ms jor General Thoma: telegraphed ‘arnt that in his ration oem @0 entirely fice cordance with tr by ¢ General Ki > previous to Lis re- oval fromthe command of the Army of the | Cumberland. This voluntary acknowiledguicnt io h morabie to General Thomas, while it gives to General Rosecrans that credit which i+ his due. After due inquiry we have satistied ourselves: tet. That General Thomas has s4nt no such dis- patch to the President; and 2d, that the allega- tion that the battles were foaght under the plans of Gieneral Rosecrans is also withou urmth. Generat Rosecrans has especial occasion to ask to be “saved from his frionds,” aud the damaging advocacy that seeks to make anissue optween bim and the Government. Ollowing paragraph | COMMITTED TO THE OLD CAPITOL The following, the pustengers aud crow of sbe schooner F. W. Johngon, seized on Tuesday by the Potomac flotilla, were hefore Provost Marshal Todd yesterday, and by his order committed to the Vid Capitol : Crew—W m. H. Thompson, John W. Kinnan, G. Bull, John Smith, Patrick Murphy, and Edward (iallaher. Passengers—H. N. Runney, A. Barney, G. W. Boyer, L. M. Emery. W. F. Clark, Charles Gabgbasser, and John Masher. KEBEL DESEKRTERS. #obn B. Bunting and James Dickeon, desert- ere frcm tbe rebel army, sent here by Provost Marshal Winehip, of Alexandria, have been committed to the Old Capitol by order of Oapt- Todd. TELEGR ARMY OF THE POTOMAC. General Meade Recrosses the Rapid: Description of the Retregade Meveme A Mest Successful Retreat—Ne Losses Sustained. Wasuinctoy, Dec. 2—{Dispatch to Phila- delphia Inquirer.}—Bull reports from ths Army | of the Potomac up to this Morning are now here, but most of them have been anticipated, potwithstanding the positive order from Geo’ Meade to cena off nothing until the operations were completed. His preliminary movements being completed and over, we add merely the past two days’ operations. On Monday General Meade was in line of oatile east of the Mine River er Run, with the | Sebej army in position on the opposites bank | ronely posted and intrenched. Reconnois- | e8 Which were made on Sunday night dis- | the fact that Ming Ran was from three | Trot deep. APHIC NEWS. loses SM LAs .wey, Cragsy sides, andis | Kfhowkt of app rebel arm tine #4 sible t. ro which facts ,ive the ee as 4 defensive It was found impo: tillery and cavyairy in euethy ou We other side. indicate tha: Lee had been con- reigtorced, wad rumore gained ground | < Cone reer's Corps Rad joined him. | cued by the broken character fevung Gen. Meade’s various col- » enabled the Rebels to rally strong position they “a catentthat it was thought eek Able to hold it against tacking force, camp fires indicate thata ind their works, inducing ud bean largely reinforced 2 €ome other source. | ‘Olastuncas Gen. Meade de- his oid positioa on this dan River. | Eetly on T av morning the wagon traiusy | ambulances sn eerve artitlery commenced to move back by way of Fly's and Culpeper | *Mine fords, and In: mienced t olow, and by night they were al; | on ther way to tho river, meeting no opposi 0B On tLe pari of the rebele. To-day thé march was resumed, and the whole army recrossed tho Rapitapriver, and } by night Were undoubtedly snug in their old | a | Gen. Meade crossed iast night, at 10 o'clock, } at Germanna Ford. ‘The wounded were all brongnt along in the | ambulances. ——_—___ Suow is already 4 foot deep on the aum- ate the White Mountains. sah SF Whisky in Cincianatiis selling at seventy cents per €: lop. WZ There ic some talk of organizing a Na-” tional Bank in Frederick, Md. 7 There was 2 heavy fall of snow at Re- cester on Sunday. | ly peeved from his tavored dealers more spead- | ports ard supplies purchased by ( , There fonds have long been the etandard of | The court-martial having for 1 oe PGE, No.1, | Quested to attend a Re, in the day the army com- | I ! whatacever. _fe enor 1C1Ake Order in the Case of Colonel B: termaster. War Dx — Warhingion City, No b 5 Tu the case of Colonel James Belger, Quartermaster at Baltimore. who was t fore a court-martial upon sundry! char, specifications for neglect of duty and t lent conduct in the hirirg of sports and purchase of supplies, the court found him, on each charge acd specification, natgniity. But tre court place upon the record, by way of ex- planation of their finding, the following state- ment: “The court finds that Oclonel Belger trans- acted a large amount of public business, within the time embraced in the specifications, in the ; chartering of verséls and in the purchase of coal; and although in some instancea he a! pears to have eet ges coalat higher rates then the cash market prices, yet, considering the circumstances, especially the kind of fands provided by the Government for the payments he was required to make, the urgency of the orders under which he was frequently called upon te act, and the consequent necessiiv for | immediate ection, the court attaches no crimi- pality thereto, and has therefore made its find- ings in accordance with this jadgment.”” Upon 8 review of the evidence it appears: 1. That tbe «large amount of business trans- actedin the chartering of veseels and in the purchase of coal” was for nearly a yearcon- Jined exciustirely to dealings with A.C. Hai and Coblen. It does not appear that during all thie time Colonel Belger deemed the amount of duty assigned to him so great.as to compel him to ark to be relieved from any portion, or for ancther officer to asaiet him—one or ths oth-~ of whichit waa incumbent upon him tore quire if the duties were too arduous or exten sive to admit of their proper performance by him alone. 2 The «some instances” in which “he ap- pears” to have purchased coal at ‘‘higher rates than the cask market prices,” are the fransac- tions of a year, amounting to an aggregate of more tl $100,000, in-which, in «some in- stances’ he is prov?d to have paid A. C. Hail or Coblens 40 or 50 per cent. more than Hallor Cob'eus puid for the cori to coal-dealers of the some city, who delivered it on board (tovern- ment vesrels by Hall or Coblena’ orders. 3. «The kind of moncy provided by the Govern- ment for the payments he was required to make” is not in proof. No testimony whatever was Offered or official papers submitted which show that Col. Belger was not provided with the same kind of funds paid by all other quar- termasiers—Treasury notes and certificates of Aeenming that he had only cer- tificutes of indebtedness, and that, certificates were at ail times at the greatest discount men- tioned by the witnesses at any time, and Col. Reiger’s purchases will still be at rates unac- ecuptabiy high. 4. As to “the urgency of the orders under which he was frequently called upon to act," it may be said generally that thronghoat the te: timony there appears no emergency so preasing as to have precinded a strict conformity wi the regulaiions of the service in making any purchare or contract in which he wis called upon to enter for the Government. Every of- ficer is hound to exercise diligence anc at least ordinary care and prudence in bis purchases, and it ia hard to conceive how Colonel Belzer, stationed ip Baltimore, could be ignorant that he war prying bigher than the cach mark rates, or how he could procure artici- urgen ily than from the same persons who supplied them and hauled the coal from their yards +c ihe versels. The record thus shows that the accneed was guilty of chartering vessels, and purchasing cork “at higher rates than the cash market price." The excuse suggested by th= court- martisl is unsupported by proof. The trans- lonel Belger luus: have heen paid for in the Government Tnnds, lo wit, Treasury noles, or. at the option of the creditor, in certificates of indebt-dness. prices, and the cnly excuse suggested is indica. tive of the guilty nature of the trancactions between the quartermaster and the contractors. udthat-? used did charter vessels and purchase co... ‘at rates higher than the cash marke: prices " and there ng no other excuse proven or suggested than ose Mentioned, the court bas, upon the record, prectically negatived its finding on the charges and specifications, The case might have beew sent back to the rt for revi-ion, but the nature of the ex- 2 suggested by the court-martial, and es. pecially their declaration that “they attach no criminality the conduct of a quartermaster under the circumstances in proof, indicate very clearly. that, ao far as concerned the action of the court, the reeult would have remained tha same. Theevidence fully establishes the fact ot dealings and transactions by the qiarter- master in which the Government suffered loss by purchases and charters at “bigher rates | thar the cash market price.” His conduct is, in the opinion of this Department, without necessity, justitication, or excuse, and tosuch conduct the Department attaches a high do- gree of criminality. Few things can be more culpable than for 4 nublic officer aystematical- iy to pay to certain favored parties higher ! raids for supplies that might be and are in fact furnished at greatly lower rates in the same city by other dealers. To say the least of such conduct, it is a gross negligeice that amounts w fraud The statement by the court of the facts found being in conflict with the formal finding on the charges makes the proceedings anullity. The evidence tully establishes that Colonel Belger 18 guilty of gross neglect and violation ot duty, to the prejudice of good order and military dis- cipline. The proceedings of the court are therefore disapproved, and Colonel Belger, (Quartermaster, is, by order of the President, dishonorably di ‘d from the United States service. —=BEAUTIGUL EXHIBITION — The Di- solving View! brilliant Chromatropes ‘h Gelight at the lecture » Baptist Ohureb,or isthatreet, hetwasn, @ and H, wil: be a nshown on FRIDAY EVE- NING at7%s o'clock. and op SATURDAY. at 5. A number of new seenes. which have never before been presented in thie -ity, willbe added. and as the oblect of the exhibition is toaidin finishing the building. we pepe the room will be er -wdedt . Adminsion for adults 20 cants; for childrea 10 cents. ae kaw eae _ de 3-2t* WABHINGTON LITERARY AND DRA MATIO ASSOCIATION. “> FIBST COURSE OF LB TURES AT ODD FELLOWS’ HALL. PARK BENJAMIN. FRIDAY, Dec. 4. Sonsecr: “THE WAi, A POkM”’ Bon, H, GREELY, TUESDAY, Dec &, 1343. SUBJECT: ** QUESTIONS OF THE HOUR,” J. W. FOKNBY, br. $No Wee,’ B.A. WEST. Bq. fev W, BSBOHER, B.J DsCORDOV Will follow ip regular course. H Tickets 20 cents; to be had inelpal boak- ttores “hetele; de, >? Ad Mt all principal | THE HOUSE PAINTERS’ SOCIRTY OF | i i whi Toom of the the city of Washington will hold their next meeting all, B str-et, between goth and J BIDAY, Des 4th. st7 o’closn, _de 2 at JNO. J. GRAY, te Mombers of CANTRAL . ¥., areearnentiy re | Meoting of the Lodz, | id on FBIDA ENING. Sth inat,, as of importance will be consitered "By {¢e2 st) ¥. B. LORD, Ji 5 Jt, R Bee. NOTION.—Thers will be s meeting of tha Hactmen RSDAY BVBNING. Doo. 32, att Tell House, on Pa avenue, betw Abs aud atree'e,at7< o'clock Puvctual attendance is auented | By order of tae President ee27 at Temperance oth, on 1 0,0, F— Lo. tbe to bo he! busines order 7” ro: te SOHN T. BRAXTON, Fe0. LECTUBES ON THE INQUISIFIO For the benefit of the Society of St. Vincent de she Rev Danigt Lynow.¥. J. of Gungata deliver a course of Lectures on atthe Schoo! Room of st. Aloysi on ¥irst street, THURSDAY, December 1: |- BDAY. December 9th,and WEDNESDAY. December I6th. at 73s o'clock p.m. Bingle tickets 2 cents, ¥ the Souree 5,6 na, May, ns pro- ia? Music Store, and in Guorge town at J. L. Kidweil’s Drug Store. no 2-cokdofl SHAFFIEKLD'S BALTIMORE CONFEO. wonary and Ladies’ Prater, Saloon, 356 ixth street, between G and . Weddings, Parties, Balla, Fairs, Enppers. Dinner Parties, and other enterta‘mments furmished at the shortest notice Water lees, the bert quails mate ‘ater lees, quality. mate by steam wholesale and retail. i PRANCIB FIO BEIS0ON— of@MHA HABBIGUN. The sais Sere Hee bas left my bed and boara at RO provocation aay yore giving her credit, I am Rot FeapOnM YS ANUI@ FREDBRIO HARRISON, oye TOYsey Tt ¥Y ait: Z WHOLBSA: "tae BBTAIL, GOTTHBL' HREND'B aA rbere between Hanil, BALTIMORD: Oar town. OPRICIAL. a parane tens. ICT, aNERAL'S PPiCR, 2 a: mimgs@m,D C.,.Nov 13, 1863, @enerai 4 —The members, ard. wi ii “before Boards under rection gitar, 1861, to G6ter: the'eases of officers recommended for the retired list; will be. same extrs p+y-and tragel- ling-ellow: ‘the ease ofa General t Martial. Thi ion will take effectfrom'th paseage of the ect herein cited. . By order of the Recretary of War: Bim B. D. TOWNSEND, Assistant Adjutant General, : Wan Derantmasr, «3, ADsUTAwT GeaeRal's Osrro: i Wass ‘om, D.C. Nov. 18, 1863, Generai Orders, No, 358 —Paragraph 1420, General Reculations, edition of 3863 (parazrtph 1389 edition of 1561.) # modified, by inserting after the werde “to hiseommand,’’ in the first eentence, the fol- lowing eenience: The commanding officer of a regiment or bat- ~talion eervicg in the field will b® acccuntable for ail th Tplusand reserve ordpance stores of the regiment. The transportation of these stores will be provided forthe same as the transportation of other stores, ander the direction of the command: ing genoral, By order of the Secretary of War: B.D. TOWNSEND, Assistant Acjutant General. Paovosr Mansual G on Wasnineros, D. . 8, 1863, Circular, No. 103.—Paragraph 3 of Circular No. War DurantMerr | 36, of Cctober 35, 1453, is hereby amended to readas fellows: There r should be made in quadtuplicate, andeach shall be signed by the Provost Marshal, who éhall certify to tho muster of each man from the date of his enlietmont. One copy of this roll shall be rent at its date to the Adjutant Geperal of the Army; one at the same time to the Adjutant General of the Btate; one at the same time tothe tuperintendent Volunteer Recruiting Serrice, or the Ohicf Mustering and Disbursing Officer for the State; and the fourth sball be sent with the cloth. | ing acceunt of each man and one copy ef his en- li-tment(sa hereinafter directed) te the gonsrat rendetvour with the detachment, Provost Mar- #bala are directed to keep a record Book of munte-s into the United Btates service, JAMBS b. FRY, Provost Marshal Genera! Tz, RED COW THAT WAS SOLD AT THE Center Market last Joly has retarned to har former place. pear the college gate, 21 streot, Georgetoen, D C., where tne owner can find her by dT a esses NEY DANTE: conNmR EPARTMENT OF THE IN RIOR CPFicg or 18 WasuINarom AQcmDDC?. Wasminaron, D O., Der, 3 136%. Tha water from tae Potomac river at Great Falls will te i trocuce1 through the Washiigton Aque duct, into tha receiving reservoir, on Saturday, th. Sth instant. at2p m Ey crder of the Bac'etary of tha Taterior. 8. SEYMOUR Chief Kavinoer and Sestt Gsneral Sapsriateatent. qyBe4t NBWS FROM as LANSP URGE & PROS BALTIMORE BARGAIN STORR, 375 SSVBNTH SCREKT, 30 DOOR anova [, Just reesived from the late sale of the price | Of danger.” i stearm«r Poterbotf, a large assortinentof Fail nnd | Wir ter DBY GOUDS, suck as— All crw shades fines! qua:ity FRENCH MRBINO at $135. Fan taLMORAL BELRTS from $2 5) 1p, DEK"S GODS of every description, per cent, cheaper than any other piace in the stiy, Eanes Seaatital dark CALICOSS at (4% cents per yard, With a great many other goods too numerous to poset fal to call at once, as money can be saved J fe at one 5 ane LANSSURGH & 4B) "3 dolaw* Raltimore Bargsin Btor B.A. PATZB D 425 BHTRERT. Batweey Sevents avo Bowtie opposite tre cegstt Genera} Fost OfRee. Careve: pe ATBUP! CATSUP?! 9 TO GROCBRE AND *UTL 1 Darrels of pe Tomato Uatsup wholessleat 360 Fth street, corner L. ia BANKIN & O’NBIL "i FUSB Sr: HIGHLY IMPORTANT TO THE LADIES. We have just receivad the entire atock of Messra Fourerse & Oo., on consignment, These goods have been manufactured for city trade, and will be closed out at a great sacrifices, Ladies who wish to buys good MU at Si,or asetof good FURS at $1, are invited to oaii st once at LANSBURGH & BHO.’B BALYIMORE BARGAIN STORE, 376 AEVENTH STRERT, eet ARS, aND FINE FAMILY GROUERIES. ~~ FRESH GooDs! Tho undersigned begs to call the attention of families and the NEW STOCK? BB Gia? nih peLeU OBS, AND O1GR3, Ww usrantees Oo WPIRST OLA ° And to give entire agtistaction, "My stock Is daily beicg replenished with all the CHOICE DELICACIES In my line, aud sRall bave on hand, at all times articles to sult every taate. I feel confident thi oll who will favors with » call will feel convinced } Fn vipeuara, and wiad Youag fyeon THA wder.and You ‘ gal na ‘guglies, Breakfast TEA, ts ire 8 it) iry. Pine Ap’ . Edam, ard Bap fago OA NBER. An elegant arsortment of CANNED FRUITS AND VEGRTASLHS, | Selected expressly for families, Cor Stock of WINKS and LIQUOKS are of 1 mort ¢hoicein the country, all being of the 1m Pu TATION of the od established and well known 4 house of P. Tierman & #on, of Baltimore, . D, WHIBEEY re w OANNOT BE BQUALLED. Conrtantly on hand, all the beat brands of— CHAMPAGNES, LONDON PORTRR, BROWN 8100. English and Scotck ALR. Cur stock of CIGARS are choice and varied, ae- lected under the immediate stipervision of our agent, who resides in Havana, and superintends the making and outting up of Glgars. Allthe above Goods will be sold wholevale and iT OC. MABKBT PRIOR. ROwmeD CARE 10. T. SMITH, Branch of P. Tiernan & kon, ‘eet, National Intell igoneer Builtive # js delivered im any part of the ety and Georgetown free of charge, Bo l4-2awsw IBBMEN’S TRECRANOD COMPANY WASHINGTON AND GEORGETOWN, CAPITAL, ........ $200,000. Offca Corner C Street and Lovisiana Avenue, Over Bank ‘ashingion. BE HOUSES AND OTHER PROP: NBO BE COMNET LUse BE HERE ETE | retail at tha Adjoinin, B.— Good Diaucroas: George Shoemaker, Will Wilson, famuel Oropley, © Johu D. Barclay’ jacod Gideon, Andrew Bothwell, ho. Parker, Richard 5 B. French, Dr 0. W. a uel pag, Robert White, eC ir . Rare for pots ADAMB, President, ABEL G. DAVIB, Bee’y. L§ AND OBILDR: LACHBAP &HO8 870) f22 Penn. A BOT -cotjan} . "8 5 76 ats, t> 91,60, to 2° double sole, with ness. § Women's Balmorals qgtes. Mises . 1b. Children’s “* @1. Also am ansortSiout of Womeg SO AB assortmen' fo) and D Boon, to be aold at priese lower than can be ee elsewhere, Hav Detantly op Band an afsortme: Youths’, ard Boys’ Boots and Bhoes, atthe Hens, prices. Call early azd examine my stock B. A. GO i] de lyeost™ — Bueceasor WRN a, At ™M4x WALLS atta eboaK freuen: ’ SOT DRaGUg tas [ices Som ge wg bipe acauas. eS 30 to : HEHE ornoU Laka, nein seb of, at ein conte pet poaad | with Bregg’s army, writes to that paper from g@FROM THE wesT. i: ree wommnricadtiny = ON THE MUSSIS- ad vi He Pr. & FS = FROM RAST THNNESSRE AND CHATTANOO- Ri , - ASE ROME OO HINT CEPI Cisuged. ms, with Board. ener BR BSA SUL ERROR epe Cixcixyvatt, Dee.3— Eight persons have been @rrested here for passing counterfet $20 Treasury notes. itcoenendthe “GENERAL GRANT'S PLANS. i ————— When kil ce aoa Gee. 7s Fifteen hundred bales ot Government cetion SEATS lars yout Beara se mena story Fort, Done arrived here yesterday. Itis to be sold atanc- orof 12th chon — on the take from him the credit of that so important tho west cor th and Hy streots.” y ten: achievement, by ascribing his eaccess to plans mon the 14th. ate) Maly 00. THAW, 156 Pean.aren Ret. Tuna A dispatch received from General Foster's 2 hou ee ll POR BANE Te ie gaoas coperal pert ot he ay FER SES? Aber Gaver etess ited. o it, betweea Ista 4th, Fouts Becretary vf War, Also. an OVBIOM, ea rt Ef off. i Dlellan; and thousands ot Subsdioas fboock Sse wale niitedin | CPef of stam, dated Catberiand (rap, Dec that work, who would not have done so had | ‘Sb Says nothing of thé capture of 5.000 prison- they beon better informed asto the facts. Now, | &T?@t Knoxville. - again, when Grant has achieyed:another of | _ Memphis advices to the 40th say the steamer the most imporiant successes of the war, hix | Black Hawk was fired tnto by guerillas near detractors rush into print with the utterly pu- Paes of Rad ewes: anceoe on wor founded statement that he is indebted to plans Osieat a P to New of Rosecrans in this case. He must be blind : A Chitkamauga dispatch of the %d says the Told ee see this is bat ai sean movementa of the army continue. ‘The hos- Pitais are full of woundedof both armies. Ref- PRxEsIDENT LIxcoty.—The illness of Presi- | ugees and deserters report that Bragg has been dent Lincoln is varioloid of a mild type. The reinforced near Dalton by Joe Johnson. erasuitable for a paymaater s office. - iendsome Steel Double, BELT he . Brown Belt,on attached preg by innee avecte Tot Os ete mantbot Sear) eed pda *ttage when the pustules brenk ont has passed Nothing later from Knoxville. Uihisind nOvaN POR ARNT CA 4 favorably, and we are glad to say that he isin | FROM NEW ORLEANS AND MEXiCco. EF bly-furpished House, conta ning =A Ceeat manent | a tair way for speedy recevery. a Tocation far seen ies aaa as PrisoneRs 1 RronMomp.—A latemumber | RRPORTRD Se TOkee PUBBLA BY THE | mediate possession, tow of the Richmond Sentinel gives 10,411 as the agers bomber of Federal prteoners in the city and on Belle Island. Of this number, 92 are offi- cers, Nw Yorx, Dec. 3.—The steamer Parkers- burg haz arrived from New Orleans on the 23d ult. By THOMAS DOWLING, Auctionsor. Georsctown, D. C. (PROSTAR SEALE OF VALUABLE IMPROVED a: MPROVED Paovmrty ix GRorcHtows The Fro hasa report from Vera Cruz, by the | ar Avot:om.—Tho anbscribers will sell. at Pablic ADDITIONAL REBEL NEWS. arrival of a schooner from that place, of the pee ae eal the promises. on THOR AY TXNNESSEB CORRESPONDENCE OF RICH. , recapture of Puebla, by the Mexicans. alt of ‘iets LL 63 feet 2 ' ; MOND PAPERS, Thero is nowther news, Btoddars ‘atreet, aad improved by a good Frame Serre eee Ty: aa ee House, itso GROWLS ON ACCOUNT OF BRAGG'S DEFEAT ns AL South balf of Lote 273 and fronting 60 fest on VI8 BLAMED FOR KEEPING H{M | : cy Wenkingtoa etrect, running Baek 190 ae Y DAY r= > A: oEEF . IN COMMAND. Tue Russian Freet.—Four vessels of the Lota No. 6 and 245, fronting 60 feet On Stoddart a ; Russian fleet, Admiral Lisovski, yesterday af- | *300tSOuetmeth soak lene ea, 12, 00d 8 AN ATTACK ON SAVANNAH EXPECTED. ternoon arrived in the river, and anchored be- | months, sscured by a deed of trust un the progerty. $$» ‘The correspondent ot the Richmond Dispatch All :onve tween this city and Alexandria, off the « Half. purchaser way Tree.” The -yessels are fine, staunch- looking ones, the largest carrying thirty gans, two of them sixteen guns each, and the fourth a pivotgun. As they passed the guard-boat Adolph Hugo, Acting Master Nickerson, off Alexandria, they were saluted, each vessel re- yancing and Stamps at the cost of the ‘Title indisputad!e, , . . & B. _4e3 i Intet.] LAm’ P.& A. DODGR, Trustees, THOS DOWLING Ano” URS! as MIseks’ FURS! ROYAL BRMIND VRS Mi:sionary Ridge, Nov. 21, despondingly, that “the Federal General Sherman does not suffer the gragas to gTOw under his faet,” that the Con- federates had not belicyed that he would be DREN'S FURBE turning the same, the crews of the vessel Y VUBS: able to form @ junction with Grant's army | cheering the while. 7 " ‘UDOUN' BA MINK SA6LK PUBBT at Chattanooga before the first of Febru- They will, itis thorght, lie dt their anchor- TRS! age; it being deemed unadvisabie.on account of s the depth of water they draw and the crowded early in November. condition of the channel along the river frout On the 22d November, the same correspon- | andatthe Navy Yard for any excepting the dent writes that “the condition of atfairs in | lightest, which draws seventeen and a half ary, whereas he had reached Onattanoogs rrapted, must be next. The prices areas # before the advancement, ramg- 2 to HO 9 set ing from a ei ; 8 feet to come up farther. Call examine for yourvely Enut Teanessce is one of mach gravity,” thinks | “Saities, we believe, ate to beexchanged be- | el! 2 eT 3. &.W. MEYENBERG. the Federals are only making a feint of moving | tween the fleetand the Navy Yard this after- WT Also. OLOAK# ip great variety des-Iw - at Chattanooga, to divert the Confederates at. | nen. Liat RE leet”. Hee fe D B. J. RB. NREWTON % os oint t is sible that the smallest yeasel, w Se ee al ’ = tention from “East Tennessee; the real point iit pos vee § suite, who will be reccived PRACTICAL’ PHYSICIAN, FOR ALL CURACT 8 DISWAKRS, 452 Thirteenth, between B and F streets, Dr, N.oures ali Curse Diseases asually ia a Sow minut:s, without esasing paia or giving Medicine, and cordially invites a!! whoare not well able to pay to come ond be Beale, out Mone: tad Witsout Price” } with all the honors to which his rank entitles ; him, may also come up this afternoon. SRE SRL Interesting Law Cases. —Col. M. Thomp- son, counsel for Mr. Robert M. Miller, has en- tered « suit against the Rey. Jame: Marks.a . . Presbyterian clergyman we believe, for the vailed thut Grant was reinforcing Barnside. recovery of one thousand ponuds, for violating The Atlanta A-gister, of the sume date, sa the law of Maryland, which is in torce in this side has supplies enongh. so that his | Di by uniting his daughter, Ann that Barnside has) ae Scien carvers Mis | iogoto BAN Han odiSam Gel McMAn stronghold cannot be reduced by famine; but | Coens consent, ‘The amount claimed goes one says that Longstreet hne the sdyantage of vane | half tothe informer and the other tothe Uniled of heavier calibre thaa Burnside, and thinks | States. The law on which this suit is based also that Longstreet will “carry Knoxville | (February, 1777,chapter 12, sec. ©.) enacts as by storm . follows: “It any minister shall join in mar- A correspondent of the Mobile Register, who Tinge any male under the age of 2) Ts, or any female under the age of 16 years, and not visited Memphis lately, boasts that smuggling is carried on on 2 large ecain at Memphix by before married, without the consent of the pa- rent or xuerdign feet ages rece, pereon- ally given or signified under the hand and seul the confederates, and says, “there is scarce a | SHY fiver or stem house within a radius of ten miles outside of the lines from Memphis that doves not attord shelter for smuggled goods.” The Richmdnd Whig of thé 3uth ts fartons over the defeat of Bragg, and says that it is not Braga’s f.ultthat the Almighty did notgive him brains enough to command an army, but that Brace, yadging by this correspondent, mast have been in adeligutful muddle of dowht as { to Grant's intentions, | The Atlanta Conjrderacy, of the 21th, has also an article showing tbat the impression pre- JUVENILE BOOKS, ‘od Profit; 50 Abroad; Marian and her Pup The Baie Compass, and Keep a Good Heart; 5, jarry’s Vacation; $1 he Adventures ot Rob Roy; 91.40, The Last Shilling; 50 . The Child’s Rorap Buok of Pictures; 7: The Child's Albam; $1.75 - Cabinet Pieturer by Mod rg Parley 's Own Stor O of the said parent or guardian, and attested by two witnesses, he shall forfeit and pay five hundred pounds current money.” There is another Jaw also bearing on the sub- ject TEMPLE OF FANSY, Ne. 522 Seventh St., Between D aad EB. NEW TOYS AND FANCY Goons, Adapted for Christmas Presents! COLLB OF EVERY DESCRIPTION( A great variety of chapter A, laws of Mayland, February hich prescribes that one mode of pro- niay be by indictment, and imposes a penalty of « fine of five bundred pounds, and coniimement in jail untel it is paid; but the plainuit cho- reseed by civil action. The itis Jeff, Davis's fault tor keeping bim incom- | bill ot the plaintiff states that on the thirteenth | POBTHMONNAIBS, OABD CAsss, | mand and even refusing to accept his rasigna- | of Septemter last the defendant did join in 5. WORKSTANDS, PERFUMBERBY tion. The Whig says: marriage, without the consent of him or his | BASKETS, . From the best factories. WRITING DESKE, WORKBOXBS, AND CABaa. wits, *temiule ander sixteen years of age. toa mau named Samuel McManus, This marriage, it alleged, was performsad hy Mr. Marks, a¢ “In the judgment of some, it might be good policy to eudeavor to belittle the importance of this detent. We do not recognize the propriety : , v is is Marks, 9 ma CHBss, ot misleading the public where so much is as are ee Hprernd house, on Missouri | GAMBA, BAGKGAMMDE-ROkRES. stake. * sf : the , (We are irank to confess that we are filieg |. Tha t+ not the sirst suis of tte kind that | OBINA VASER, ORNAMENTS, has been mstituted in the courts of ihis Dis- trict &» erroneously stated by some of oar co- tem poraries, &snit having brou, ot Ueto 1699, against the lame (reorge G. Cookman (who perishad on the steamer President which was jost at sen the following yenr,) by Mr. Theodore Meade in the Sixth Ward, for unlawfulty uniting his daugh- ter Mary Elizabeth ia marriage on tha 15th of September preceding. The suit was, howevar, taken from ihe docket the Jannary following. In the present case the danghter Ann, through Col. Thompsen. has aleo petitioned fer a divorce avteula matrimonit froma Samuel MeMauns, alleging in her petition thatebe is just fifteen yexrs and four months of age: that she wus anited in marriage ‘o the respondent on 13th of pepearabet 1°63, withon: the consent or pre- the officers, their distrust of Bragg, his numer. | ¥!0Us knowledge of her, parents thereto until ous arrests, and the general dissatisfaction of | thy !-t o1 Novelhber, when he was arres'ed for soldiers and men, followed as it was, and | Murder, desertion and other crimes aud of- necessarily must Rave been, by * general re- | fences, and she alleges aid st that she is laxation of discipline, and the absence of that | Prepared to prove that he has Committed vigilance which prevents surprise and ises- | WdOltery, and she uxmea the parties. sential to the very existence of anarmry. The The institution of this suit has made « ‘onaid- public hoped nothing from that quarter, ang | erable stir among the clergy, some of whom they bave not been disappointed.” were ignorant of the existence of such.a law, ‘be Sa ah News says 8 Yankee monitor | 274 4!most hourly some of them visit the City ine Severe’ > y Hall asking advice. Some of the colored clergy appeared off Wilmington Ieland, near that | appear to be specially troubled in the ma:ter. city. on the 20th, and came to anchor about | Much interast will bé taken in this case when Your miles below the batterfes at Thunderbolt, | it comes np for trial. Itis quite certain that This 15 the only one of the enemy’s ve<cels in the Inw has been violated in this particntar, sufficiently to give the lecal gentlemen plenty sight at that point, and is probably on& reoon- | of work if the cases should all come to court. noitering expedition. An Attack on Savannah Expected: The Savannah Republican of Sunday, says: PoLice REPORTS.—Second Precinct.—F. M. Lambert, peer! Heat AS F. Pierce, and F. “An impression hag very generally obtained that, having filed at Charleston, the Yunkees Taylor, do.; do. ary Ann Darity, and three children, proetitution and yagrancy; work- are about undertaking an expedition ‘against Savannah. We hear that Gen. Beanregurd is house. E Third Precinc.—Jas. Cleveland, disorderly; also of this opinton, and, ff true, it is mere gaess-work with him. There ate, also, indie #244. Theodora Warnar, do; do. Charles cations that such a result is regarded us not Spranklin, xseault, dismissed. Henry Midle- th, disofderly; $4.05. Owen MecGien, de.: wholly improbable by our military authoriwes here.” Jno. Murphy, indecent exposure; work- . Rachel Dawson. larceny; jail. Silas Washington Meney Market—Latest Que- tations. » 4=9@ult; bail for peace. Lemuel Turvey, Darrell Koss, drank: Albert Furnished by Lewis Johnson & Oo., Bank- J Buying. Selling. «1885 100% MASKS, HOBBY HORSES, Bte,, Etc. 2” Parehasers making their sefections print to nristmas ean awe cir goods sunt home to em 0} istmas Bve aa CHRISTAIN RUPPSRY, Ne 522 Seventh strest, 3 doors obove Bo 28-eotDec 35 aes Tr FOR THE HOLIDAYS. &.™M. BININGER & C@O,, Brawcm OF Nos, 19 anv 23 Baoan st., Naw Youre: OFFER FOR £ALE AT THEIR STORE, 837 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, MEAE THIETESNTH STRERT, SIGN OF THB OLD KNICKERBOCKSR, THE MOST COMPLETE ASSORTMENT OF IMPORTED WINES AND LIQUORS TO BE FOUND IN THE METROPOLIS, —also— FINE @RUUERIES VAN GOODS KITS AND KEGS No. 1 MACKEREL, KENNEBEO SALMON, SOUSED & PIOKLED LAMBS’ TONGUES PIGS’ FEET, ENGLISH DUN CODFISH, 4 Together with all the CLUXURLES INOLDENT TO THE SEAS¢N Means. A.M, B. & Oo, ar® also Bole Propristors of BININGER’S OBLEBRATED : LONDON DOOK GIN, Pat up in Quart Bottles for medicinal pss, Also, Sole Agents for OLD TOM LONDON OURDIAL Gin. with very grave apprehensions aa to the con- sequences that muy flow from this reverse. the army under Bragg could not hoki Lookont Mountain and Mission Ridge, we are forced to ask ourselves what position is there between them and Atlanta, or the ocean, they cun hold?” The Richmond Mispatch of the Wt is quite as lachrymose, and says: «From the very moment when Gen. Bragg, im the full career of an anparalieted victory, ordered his men to halt in the pursuit, and employ the time that might have sufficed to annihilate the enemy in picking up the arms that he had thrown away, the vory air has been pregnant with augury of the most gloomy description. Nor were these dark anticipations in any degree Siesipated by the quarrele among it John Green, murder; jail for rley, disorderly; : Tenth Precinct.—Jas. Parker, stealing; dis- missed. Robert Wish, James Lan; g.do. James <p a she, tea U.S. Coupon Hon: *hillips, drunk; military. John Moccabee, | %# All articies boughtat their store warrant ee aera reales —" ‘| Snooting with inzent towit;bail for meee of the first quality, and forwarded to any part of U. 8. 7.20 Notes, e 107 | Rooney, drark and disorderly; dismissed. | the eity free of expense. Quartesniose has ca Laura Bannon, disorderly; dismissed: Fannie Ae wo intend to be permanentiy doented; woing- 4 hed Oeetitcate 7s iy | Cork, do.335. Henry Harney, drank and asicep, | spectfally request families to c.ver us a call, petiioen River. 153 | Gismiseed Ellen Bride, disorderly; $1. ABRAM «. EININGRE, W YORK RATRS—AECOND BOARD. aaa se wee " . . Coupon Ge, Oi, 109, 7-50's, M4Y: Osrtim. peru BUR OS Be vane a8 tho cen Wanumaron, December, 1563. f Indebted) 9 ; Erie uesday night, an aitercation took place be- 2. ar Sos, Fort Wayne, % Rock Yoland, | tween Walter 1. Norris and John Greeu, a | 4M, BININGBE & OO, have ne connexion wit any other House. ___., ROLLIN OBBROR. Aout. « 103%: Quicksilver, 63; Alton and Terrazante, watchman ai the Nineteenth street wagon park, 5%; Northwestern, 164 ocks firmer, at their lodging house, nearby the park. Green drew a pistoland shot Norris, causing death =e FIRST ‘ -dily. Green wns arrested, and atter av TELEGRAPHIC NEWS inquest hy the eorouer, resultiug in a verdict | NAPIONAB BANK OF WASHINGTON. hile ai as aru eat Md Unat the deceased was shot and killed by <. Gupital—g500,000, He was sent to jail for courthy Jastica 5 aa Buroctary.—About 12.0’elook last night, the coal office of T. Sewell Gattrell, corner Ninth th, was entered by @ burglar ‘ho charged ihe. fron safe with gunpowder, a FROM THK ARMY OF THE POTOMAC. | jeu eae OBJECT OF THE LATK MOVRMEN?. a aaaey THE REBRLS STRONGLY INTRENCAED. es = S@7 This Bank, organised under the National Banking Law of the last Congress, is opened, this day for the transection of business, atthe corner of Fifteenth and £ streets, opposite Treasury Be- partment. H. D. COOKS, President. Cashier, se . The burglar discovered that Wm. | Howtinerom, te a1-tt HEADQUARTEES ARMY Ov TUR POTOMA, pepe cheb grote there Was 20 money or 00R! woo BE Dec. 2.—The Army of the Potomae crossed tho | other valnables to repay him for his risk. A | VW SAWED IN FOUR PIBORS Rapidan in three columns ou the 26th Novem- | man who had been lurking about the neighbor. AND SPLIT FOR ONE DOLLAR PBR CORD tuand Ghoiiahd tee ialece day on | bood for several days is suspected, but has not ou Bice Wood id Mine Run. . bets ae —————_——- Oorner Seventh stroot a Oanal. ‘The enemy occupied the hillson the opposite | prsonpeRLy.—The peaceable citizens of the ICKORY, OAK, AND PINE WOOD. side of the stream in full force. His position, | neighborhood of 13}; and D etreets, were sub- # ‘cord th ehe N.C, McKNEW, Gornse Reveuth strset and Ouaal QaLl OAL L BIN Cote Ae jected to annoyance last night trom tt o’clock till past midnight, by the conduet of rowdies im search of houses of ill fame; which, by the naturally a strong one, was found to be ef trenched along his entire line, his works being a continuation of those en the Rapidan, tolearn | way, are uot hard to find in that locality. A which was theobject of this movement. number of arrests of both males and females The enemy’s position was too formidable to | were made. be carried by assault. “The great difficulty of keeping up the sup- plies of the troops at this season of the year at any distance from the railroad, 48 well as the impractibility of. the country for military presented * more extensive move. aud the army rotured te the north side ge Cracuir Court, Chief Justice Cartter.-The Sickles cut-off case is still before this court, and to-day, Mr. Isherwood, Eugineer U. 8. Navy, was snbiectid toa Jengthy: cross-exam. ination, the evidence be: closed therewith. ‘hecase will be argued t We the pa ope RTABLE. AQOOMMODATIONS The gave one: at position was May ol dtoae ok Beas a . ve 8-30" accomplished Without lous ef men or Property, ‘The entire casualties will motexceed one thou. sand in ‘wonnded and missing. A fow men who forded Mill Run and lay on picket daring the might were frozen, and sey- eral bodies of rebel skirmishers wore carried to | be ‘With the exception of & fow cavairy, the ety didnot attempt to annoy our rear on weturn. on. oar}'y