The New York Herald Newspaper, December 9, 1862, Page 1

a ” 4 WEWS FROM FREDERICKSBURG WHOLE NO. 95°53, 5 = nr nn NEWS FROM THF, SOUTH. Important Movements of Union esselys-of-war. ee THE ‘ARMIES, BEFORE FREDERICKSBURG. ? Warrew Bucape from Capture of th Rebel Morgan. AT'(AUK ON GENERAL BUTTEREIELD ‘EXTRAORDINARY RISE IN CORN. de, &e., &e. Important from the Southern Coast. Oficial despatches from General Walker, at Pocotaligo, received in Charleston, state that positive information Ihad been obtained sailing of a flect of about twenty ‘Friday phe ofilen Head. Nothing » Itwas. thought by some. Georgetown was intended, while ‘ether i ton to be the point aimed for. @ur troops were everyw! put ander marching ord¢ to be ready for a move at the shortest motice. Severa! Jarge vessels were seen to pass Charlesion harbor on Sun- day morning, sailing southward. It is thought they have attack upon Mobile, in conjunction enemy’s gulf squadron. Five additional v sels were reported off Charleston bar Sunday, and six Dlockaders off Stono point. : ‘The Richmond Enquirer of the 2d has the following: Two deserters, just in from Washington, repprt an adolition flect at Newbern,and that Wilmington is to be attacked this week. 5 News from the South Side. [From the Richmond Dispatch, Dec. 4.j Parties who have opportunities for knowing report that ‘the Yankees at Suffolk were last week reinforced by one full brigade and a battery of field artillery. Their force @ Saffolk and vicinity is now estimated by their own mon 4: 3,000. Yhey state that this force is to move against Petersburg, whilst the torce at Nowbern, N¥C., is to ope- rate simultancougly against Weldo News from Fredericksburg. {From the Richmont Dispatch, Dec. 4.) ‘Tho reports from Fredericksburg yesterday, if correct, ‘ere importent. Jt is stated that Burnside has been super. veded in the command of the Yankee forces, and that “Aghtivg Joe Hooker,” as he ia familiarly termed by ‘Yonkee correspondents, has tagen his place. Burnsive ‘will have no cause to regret this change if the radicals fasist upon an early advance’ Another report states that pretty severe skirmishing @courred in the neighbor! of Port Royal yesterday morning, but with what result could not be-learned. “tof affairs is represented to indicate a battle. The columns of the enemy have been moved to ‘the front, and much activity is observable along their Noes. Of our own forces we need not apeak, but conii- dence is felt both in the army and its leaders. A Skirmish in Hampshire C ral Brigadier Genera’ \e A despatch received in this city yesterday states that ‘the Partisan of Co}. Imboden had a skirmish with in which =, General of the t forces, was killed. No other particulars of the fight are given in the despatch. ; ‘The Capture of peteigiga ga! in Green- re A notice appeared in our issue of Tuesday, stating that ‘a force of our cavalry had been captured in Greenbrier prog J some days before. Since then we have received the tle Kapress, containing full particujars of the . The Riopress loarns from a gontleman direct from isburg that one Cg Aes week, through the carcle:s- of our scouts, the Yankees captured one hundred and of our cavalry, as many horges,and destroyed the equipage of the force arrested. It seems that our were scouting on Sinking creek,. the same piace our Wagons were recently burned, and that the jets were very careless in the diacharge of their du- , leaving their post and “returning when convenient. A picket of ten men haying left their post and gone vw camp, were returning, when a smail equad of the enem ‘was seen im the road ahead. Chase was given, when the tt t ff ‘aquad of Yankees retirea in baste, our men pursued, until | reaching “hort turn in the road, where they found them- selves face to face with a force of several hundred oF the enemy, who fired upon them, and, in turn, gave chase to our men, chase was an exciting ore for some dis- tance, our men reaching their camps in advane of the enemy, bu too laje 10 give those in camp, tine & for the \ thei unweloone Not one of our men escaped—all were taken pri- aencrs, anal their tents From what we learned from the gentieman it was evidently a case of the most le neglect, and One deserving investigation by the jee. We learn that Captain Jackey’s company of cavalry, from Rockbridge, was among those taken jn mere. Uncertainty exists as to the fate of fn H A Rebel Slap at Gen. Butterfield. {From the Richmond Euquirer, Dec. 3.) At is stated in a Northern that Brigadier General Butterfield has been made a General. It is under- stood that this offieer commanded the detaci from ‘McClellan's army which, for two weeks, occupied the Beechwood and Prince hy ree, im- 18 com- i E # rf authority that, eve above most , this general there distinguished , pursued without exception. of of all the property im the lt Nt ; Bee’ la ? s g é r H 3 i ee 56 i is i i i " robbery, outrage. and com as the written declaration of insult Nonapde yd walls were defaced, left vo ‘on both the propr of this unusual esibicion of thiew ing of high rank, and could bave command on Aad 4 ae ee certainly was shipped off. Ther*fore, is inevitable that the commanding officer oar and most probably, the br and @eher articles New York to sold ae, PH is much eving commander he should be held in confinement But robbery dest: € ! i gu 32 i : = Py & i & j i gz. i 2 prisoner Eesy egze ge 235 and its pablicatfon would, at least, be useful the robbers, and holding them up to the ‘execration and contempt of the world. farm and mansion of Mre. Martha Cocke ‘treated in Ifke manner, and, as inferred, fearons. One of her sons was of the boarded and burnt a Yankee transport Ai the many articles stolen trom which was carried on board tbe gun+ Noular fact was written in char. one of the robbers, together or subordimates, and Vindictive malice wit the apartments at Beechwood wore these names it appears that the troops to the Fourth, Seventh, Ninth, Tenth aud regiments Peansylvania cayairy. The Price of Coru. (From the Richmond Kuquirer, Dec. 3, ‘The extraordinary price of $3 25 per bushel, corn has saddenty risen iu this market, indeed taday by ment here on Tht last to A subscription twenty-seven of our citizens aud firms, to be placod inthe ‘anda of one or more competent even, who will go to the eastern part of the State and lay it out in corn, which into be it here and sold at costand charges, =~ A of feeling has been manifi about this excessive advance of corn in the face of a now cre; yet fully gathered—a crop about ) he extent of which is mid to be ‘some difference of opinion, but many persons affirm (hat it is abundant, ‘We think it would be.well if, in reference ‘to other ar- ticles besides corn, consumers would arrange in like man- wer to the above, and di mt the inaatiable exter. z + uf LF if ut Hi Le) BE i f i i ii Twollth to which & move- and at least be thus compelled to restore the | roperty? Even if no restitution could be obtained, | 2 NEW YORK, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 186 act that our land will be vocal with Sarsinge imatead of cursea upon their heads. Curses sanctioned by the Bible and invoked by a whole people, and in sugb a time as this—they would eutweigh # millstone. Declarations of the North Carolina Rebel House of Commons. The faliowing Bouse of Commons of North Carola 01 Resolved, That the Confederate States have IMPORTANT FROM WASHINGTON. The New Financial Plan of the Government Presented to Congress. meant tb they have Se Per a ee tSyforina is determined 10 2 establisned, and to mi lorth Caro! iB eyes “al Sonsctnie sot hes erat ane ote, wae canteacreis | # Billion Dollars of United States States and the United States is final, and that the peo} le of 1s. Kort Carolina wil bd Siaten is nal, and shat ihe people. “1 and Five Hundred Millions of Legal ag ot Resoived, That have full confidgnce in the ability and patriotism of bis Exeolaney President Davis, and nn — ns. i, That we heartily approve of the poliey for the fatwat ast forth by hie Excellency Goveruor ugural address au to the General Assembly, The ought to be unanimousiy supported In the manly and patrivlé sland he hae taken for our inde- pendence. Tender Notes to be Authorized. Ty Sdin{histration is entitled 0 the cordial mupport of triatie Heavy Tax Imposed on Bank Circulation. ‘The Bankrupt Bill Again Brought Up in Congress. Miscellaneous News. {From the Richmond Diapatch, Dee. 4.} Sovrwern Resrger yoR tHe [Dxap.—An abolitionist, named Welles, believed to be some relation of the Lin- coin Secretary of the Navy, died of typhoid fever at the ti on "heing. the first Yankee whe bas &e., &e. &e. pegged out for over a month in the regular way. ~ mane FLOGGING In Castif THUNDER. —Three inmates of Castle ‘Thunder wero afflicted with the atrepate yesterday to.| 2™° New Fimancial Plan ef the Govern- the extent of a dozen jashes each. for robbery, knocking ment. out @ man’s eye with a poker, and a violent assault on an old man—all of which oftences were committed inside of the prison. Ai yor Fvrrve Crrzmws.—The committee appointed to collect subscriptions in aid of the citizens of Fredericksburg, who bave been driven from their homes: by the abolitionists, received yesterday from a citizen of Richmond $500 in aid of the proposed object. The Fincastle Hupress learns from a gentieman from Lewisburg tuat ove day last week, through the careless- ness of our scouts, the Yankees captured, 105 of our | cavalry, as many horses, and destroyed the camp equi- | page of the forces arrested Ashop ned by Mr. Thompson for the manufacture of sabres in Columbus, 3a., was burnt on Sunday, The report of a skirmish at Coal ereck ig unfounded. Cliff's renegade regiment is devastating Morgan county, Kentucky. . Wasmncron , Dec, 8, 1862. ‘The following is the bill introduced to-day by Mr. Stevens from the Committee of Waya and Means;— Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives Of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury shall, as far as possible, redeem and call in the five-twenty bonds gnd all seven-thirty bonds which have been issued since the 4th of March, 1862, and cance} the same. ° Sue, 2.—And ve it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury shall redeem all United States tender notes which shall be hold as a loan bearing interest, and the law authorizing such loan or deposit is hereby repealed, Suo, 3. And be it further enacted, That the law authoriz- ing and requiring the payment of interest on United States bonds in gold, and’which anthorized the issuing of the five-twenty bonds, is hereby repealed. Sac. 4. And be it further enucted, That in order to enable the Secretary of the Treasury to carry into effect the fore- going provisions, he is hereby authorized to issue $1,000,- 000,000, if so much be needed, of bonds of the United States similar in amonnt and ‘orm to those authorized by rhe act entitled “An act to authorize the issue of Un | States notes and for the redemption or funding thereof and for funding the floating debt of the United states,” approved February 25, 1862, with est payable semi avpually in the lawful money of the United States, a the principal payable in wwenty years in gold or silyer coin of the United States; alze te issue legal tender notes of the United States, the amount not to exceed, with those already authorized, five hundred miltions. SRe. 5. And he it furiher enacled, That, instead of the bonds hereby authorized to be redeemed, the Secrets | of the Treasury be anthorized to exchange the bom thorized by this act upon such terms as he may ¢ vantagecus to the government, or pay them in legal ten der notes Ske, 6. And be it furthes exacted, That all banks, savings institutions or persons who have authority to issne notes as acurrency shall pay a tax,to be assevsed as other | taxes, of Atty per centum on all their shall exceed ove-half of their eapitul paid that this section shall not go into operation intil ninety days after the passage of this act. Sno. 7. And be i further enacted, That whene government requires more movey than is hereby pro- vided, the Secretary of the Treasury may sell any portion | of the billion of bonds hereby authorized at such price as ho may be able to obtain for the same. NEWS FROM NORTH CAROLINA. No Congressional Election in Eastern North Carolina—Important Movement of the Rebels, &c. Newaren, N.C., Deo. 1, 1862. In consequence of the strong opposition of the free labor party in Eastern North Carolina no election will be ordered for representatives to the Thirty-seventh Con” gress from this State. Petitions, however, are in circula tion for an early election to the next Congress, It has been discovered that itis the intention of the robels to abandon immediately all that portion of North Carolina lying eastward of the Weldon and Wilmington | Railroad. ‘The health of our offleers and men continnes remark- | ably good. ? ‘The yellow fever at Wilmington is slowly abating. | 4 large free labor and Union meeting was held at shep- | } i { ardsviile on Noy. 29, It was addressed by Hon. ©, Foster. The North Carolina Union Troops—The Evpedition of General Banks—His Nomination for the Presidency, &e, de. Monwneap Ciry, N.C. , Doc. 3, 1862, The United States steamer Guide leaves for the Baltimore to-morrow. At Beaufort, on the @d instant, Major General N. P. Banks was nominated tor the next Presidency by the Eastern North Carolina Free Labor Aesociation, at a large and enthusiastic meeting in the Court House. Meetings to ratify this nomination are to beheld by | various local poli 1 associations at different pointe. ‘The native North Carolina Union troops, who belong to the organization, strenuously insist upon the rigoroos and prompt caforcemont of the Confiscation and Kmaucipation acts parsed by the last Congress, The General Banks ‘Texas expedition’? is the theme of considerable comment in Southern papers recently re coived here. of GENERAL NEWS. Wasniscron, Des BANKROPT Biles S62. roe | | | Our Plymouth Correspondence, Puymoom, N Nov. 30, 1862. Valuable Cntrives by the Phiri Captain Jacobs, of the Third New York ‘’ mounted foree under his command, lately captured, in | the neighvorbood of Plymouth, two bundred and fifty | horses and mules and took as prisoners ten conscripts and twenty-live obnoxious politicians, besides seveu prisoners of war. lunderstand that Lientenant Colonel Jobn Mix, of the Third New York eavaliy, has been recommended in Washington, D.<., for brigadier general in this aopart- | ment. Colonel M., thoagh now in the volunteer service, is still an officer in the regulors (now on detached sorvieg) and in each commanded, by his admirable duct, the admiration of his superior officers, A very in behalf of its passage, specin! order for the 18th instal: ever, that the suocess of the meas earnestness with which its Friends vy CESSITY FOR A DERUTY UNITED STATES TRBASURER, The need of a Deputy Treasurer of the United State, is manifested by the recent Jors of two and a half iii lions of blank cortiticates of indebtedness. It is true strong appeal was pre s made the + ho ends upon the dorward \ | nto prevent suy portion steps were immediately them being put iu cirestation; but | disappearance without the slightest clue to the thief, shows the necessity of some one being det Treasure to have eharye of all such valuabl papers aud packages. ‘Tho labors of have greatly increased, and the force st present employed there is altogether inadequate. REDEMPTION OF POSTAGE, STAMPS. Secretary Chase is desirous of first farnizhyny some of the cities of the Northwest with postal currency to re. hitherto | Our Naval Correspondence. IRAMER OokAN Wave, Nov. 20, 1862. | A Cavalry Pxpedition—Capture of Cot, Carer, Dhirteenth North Carolina Volunteers, and Other Prisoners—Rapid Marching and Smart Action~Thirteen Bridges De stroyed, de. Today we have just finished up an expedition to Hyde | 2 ave county, under command of Major Garrard, of the Third | Scarien ra lwakee Wa taidat. hard Hed w York cavalry, and by authority of Gov. Stanly. enh OmPAGe CIENCY: We landed at Deoisville two daysyago, made ® march of | r9,¢ jg ood authority for sayiug that there ® no fouu- over ove hundred miles to difterenf parts of the county, | a.iion whatever for the report, receutly promulgated captured several guerillas and two political prisoners, _ teok a colonel named Carter, ef the Thirteenth Norin Carolina Voiunteers (paroled him) and a sergeant of the Fourth North Carolina Coutederate Volunteers (also paroled), scared the people out of Fairfield, destroyed the office note had been counterfeited. THE PROCKEDINGS OF CONGRESS. ‘Tbe praccedings in Congress have beea interestiug to. ay. ‘There was a debate in the Senete om the subject of gunbents ana 4 nf te Yeoding Ag om the arrest and Imprisonment of two citizens of Delaware. barked by the aid of fatboats in cight hours, and thus | The indications are that the example of the House will ve Tenched Newport dey are ue thoroughly de. | flowed by the Seuate in voting down ail inquiry as to stroyed that it is more than ‘ble they will not de re- | facts. Mr. Wilson opposed investigation, saying that built during the war. Un a former occasion, it will be remembered, Major Garrard took twenty-five prisoners in the same county. ineteen of these have since taken the oath of allegiance and retnrned to their homes. fifty eitizene ought to have bawn arrested where one bas been; Me. Doolittle, of Winconsin, who is anxious for « former quasi conservative views by opposing the adoption of the resolution, He understood that all persons who had been arrefted tad had metonity to leave the | prisons by taking the omth of attexin Such cagmot be | the eave, becane how bein ated without taking a iwnlittle sand that many ought that ye ve been arrested and joned should have ty w shot. He did not kuow, however, bat the 1 who" thivated (or the mut of citizens would hare accorded a trial, Seuators Bayard and $ ry wade the usoal argu stitutionality of military arrests, and had boon any party tm Delaware for secession; that t resis were le by the Home Guard of Maryland, and that the polls of te two low counties were occupied by these troops for the purpose of intimidating voters. Mv anid that he voted between ranks of troops with drawn sabres, In the Honse today there waa ve words between Messe. ‘Viel drew out all the serious earnestness of the forner* and the sarcasm of the fatter, The negro question was ot course the subject of the colloquy. ‘The session, which was an wuusnally lung one, was wound up by a characteristic speech by Mr. Richardson npon the sosponsion of the habeas corpus. Award of Contracts. Bavrmmore, Dec. 8, 186 Colonel Sullivan, United States Commissary here to day awarded the following contracts:—Sturges, Bornes & Co., New York, 100,000 Ibs. of Rio coffee to be paet:od 4p barrels at $3187 per hundred; to the same parties, 100,000 Ibs, de. packed in sucks at €:L'per handred, and toa Philade:phia firm, 200,000 Ibs. Rio voftee, roasted | | ‘aud ground and packed in barrels, at £39 90 per hundred. | { All the pork was taken frog parties inthe city, 4.000 | siinte to the nt | stated shat there ne an oath. wl | UbIs. mea pork at prices ranging from BLE 50 Go L515 and 1,000 bbls, prime mess at $15 24 Personal Intelligence. | Ghe Hon. Malcolm Cameron, member of the Canadian | Parliament, and Leonard MoOlure, Faq. late Deity Pres of Vietoria, are in town, en ¢ i for the purpose of representing the political yrievances of the British poxsesvions in the North Mocific. Mr. Came | rou was appointed by the residents of British Columbia, | and Bir. MoGiare by m meving heli in Victoria, ‘The eb- stor the mission is to obtain: the removal of the Gover | nor and other oficial’, and to get a representative system of goverament iatroduced inte the Pacitic colonies, Z ‘Tar Sra. oF Corn Weataxe The cold snap continued all day yesterday, with very little perceptible tall in the degree of temperatare. The whole city wore the com* plete aspect of winter in its sternest character. ‘The wind blew fleree and ‘aw irom the Nortir;, the snow which fell afew days bofure was congealed upon the ' gtrests into the hardest, Hiackest and most slippery ice; Jocomotion, pedestrian as well as equestrian, was trans: Joyyed alunost entirety to the midale of the street; ai the pr a of all sorts of vehicles was greatly impeded by the hillocks of ic#, expecially im the case of railroad | cars, the (racks having become so frozen as to make the | work of pulling @xctedingly laborious “to horeeflesh, OR@ANIZATION OF RRGIMENTS OF NEGKOES, Representative Hickinan’s bill, introduced today, au- thorizes the President (0 organize regiments of colored men, not exceeding one hundred in number, giving w arm them, enlisting them for aterm of seven rears Jess; tho privates to receive six dollars and u month, and the same allowance for clothing vad)» ag white soldiers; nen-commisaioned officers to huve t same pay as the same grades in the regular army commiesioned officers, either white or colored, to be graduates of colleges and to reooive twice the pay of the ne rank in the infantry of the regolar army. Each Dering the bef hapagh prthnare ab nn moderated, | company to be allowed a teacber or chaplain’s clerk’ see etre Ty lost ite “ANK, frosty aapeat mg | The bill also provides for line of steamers of not teas the’ moos. pyoreast with & yell of moisture,’ The | that 1,600 tons, to ron between New York and Liberia, intense cold, iaet, quite disappeared. This | touching Norfolk and Port Royai to carry such fleld men | taste of duck’) post coming +0 endden proves anything but welcome to a large portion of onr community, whe have net been uble te provide therselves with coal and ence of the lich price of those articles, ‘ag desire to emigrate. It also gives tho procee: of con- fleented rebel prdperty to carry out the provisions of the Honors and spbculators of their enormous profits. ing ond hardship ere anticipated thin wi bill Caahiry frithhokd the noceacaries of life, waiting for still ot merely NY ihe pour properly speaking, bab by uber CHRISTRAD PRSEIV SSIES pricen, which the Gds-rver intimates js belag done in former years had no reason to fear grin Among the on dils in regard to proparations for Guy ist quel ae belay Mat —- 4 worry ore Ue M ag tn Bly yoale, by | mas festivities, it is said Me. Linoola bas visited the from the begin 4 wht IpP'y of cont was expected in this cit o1 ‘He ‘withholdeth corn, the j¢ ehall curse bin; | will hay effect of Faising the value of the supply ae; Various hospitals to ascertain the particular wants o, bat di shall Doron the ot him that setteth i? | present on hand, so that amall parebasors will poy at the each, and found that turkeys and chickens would be most We bap watan | onta of #18 or $20 per tow befure the winter is gver, poceptable to ihe unfortuvaty moldiers, Contequently, Fhe Raukinpt vill came up tn the Senate to-day, aud | ~ | five to farrier that they were merely blanks, and that a! necessary | the fact of their | el in the {rom Philadelphia, that the Gfty cont postage. currency i reelection, made a wide departure {row some of his | } 4 | of Minnesota not ¢o throw away ber good nan | Men the ense comes clearly within the jnrisdict 2. THE NEW YORK HERALD. —_——___—__— we PR ee eealile ICE THREE CENTS. prominent farmer of Chester county, Pa., has received an order for @ vaat quantity of such delicacies, to be ‘or. warded to this city in tune to be eerved for the Christmas dinner at the hospitals, Onr President's lady i# pasting an excellent exayple to her patriotic country women, THE BRIGADIER GENERALS. Senator Wilson, from the Military Committee, has called for a statement of the number of brigadier generals now in the service, and where on duty. It is probable. that the information thus sought will be made the basis of action to rid the service of incompetent and idle officers, CIVIT. AND MILITARY NOMINATIONS BY TBE PREAI- DENT. ‘The following nominations by the President were sent to the Senate to-day: — Hermann Zurlippe, of Pennsylvania, Coneu} at Mar- tinique. ‘The following to be the ravk of captail Lieutenant Marcy P. Becton, Twenty-sisth Ohio Volun- tweers. . Captain Charles McDonald , Eighth Missouri. Lieutenant J. R. Mubleman, Fourteenth Dlinois. Lieutenant J. W. Turner, Righty-eighth New York. Capt. Edward C. Denis, Thirty-firet Ohio. Lieutenant H. W. Perkins, Fiftieth New York Stuart M. Taylor, New York, Fawin 8, Raanders. Captain MS. Kimball, Seventeenth Miingis Voinvteers. Lieutenant Oscar Miner, Seventy-fifth Obio. P. R, Chadwick, New Yort. NAVAL ORDERS, yThe following officers have been ordered to the steam sloop.of war Sacramento:—Lientenant Commander Car- penter, Lieutenant Ryan, The following to the Monox ‘aptain McKinstry, Acting Master Hargous, Prigadicr Generals Mott and Prince have been ordored to report for duty with the army of the Potomac. TIMELY RFLTEF FOR SUFFERING SOLDIERS. Messrs. Gooch, Odell and Covede, the Sub-Committee on the Conduct of the War, to whom wag referred the eondi- tion of the camps of convalescents, stragglers and pa+ roled men, having been informed near midnight inet night that the soldiers in thoge camps were snffering for want of fuel, obtained orders from the War Department, which wore telegraphed immediately, have those wants at tended to without delay. ‘they called also uppn the Sur goon General, who detailed a corps of surgeous to stect a thensand of the most intirmm of the occupants of thoee {| Camps and send them to the hearest hospitals where vacant beds could be found, These orders were promptly executed. At daylight the cominittee went in pereon to ascertain that fuct. ‘They found that four men had died from exposure and enc in a fit; but the road to | the camp was lived with wagons loaded with wood (1 ambulances carrying the enfeebled to hoapitais, ing already been built and the condition eatly improved. The celerity with which these orders were executed reflects great credit upon all parties concerned, and much praise is due to the commit- tee for their benevolent efforts between midnight and daylight for the benefit of the suffering soldiers. Yesterday there were in the camp for conv lescenty nine thousand tint for duty and twenty-dvo hundred re. ported fit for duty, seven hundred new recruits. five lnwdred of whom pelonged to the Army ef the Potomac, and nine hundred paroled prisoners, three thousand hay. ing recently been sent to their regime: It is. the in tention of the commitice to urge that this convalescent assistant adjutant) generals, with room in the hospitals, should be completely Vroken up; | permanently disabled discharged from the service with" out delay. ators and Congressmen in regard to the speety dis” of those who are permanently nnfit for duty. He in the premises. beow urged by the medical olieers for many weeks, and } that all that was potsible to be done by the Surgeon { General bas been done in (his beball. { INCREASE OF THLE PAY OF TiLe BANK A THE ARMY, Exe. | ‘The dil introduced by I tative Van Wyek pree & monthly addition of three dollars to privates and blacksmiths, musiciat The law of 1801, 4 SD PILE OF and non-com ding t ined officers. jotlarw | Tair ) per month. applied ouly to privates; but this bill apptios | Ve! | i und other dont | dhe same geutieman’s bill for the inmeds | tion fer clothing lost in gery | ofthe soldiers | WASHINGTON CKOWDED. General Wadsworth is here. The hotels are full to re- pletion ¢ THE RADICALS AND THE ©. (The Repuitican, which was cla j an advauee upon Richmond, now persi sueh a step, and it is couvineed by Huiiee! that Pope’s campaign was well planned, tho: hvt increase also to non-cr ame on the next pay roll, hiweing provisions for in hospitals and those discharged, the interest of Sige!, severely aesail Pope, Rlayiug used Halleck as much as necessary for their purposes ros aud the brigadier generals that he has noinin the President in antag the partisans in Congress, THE PACIFIC RAILROAD. ; Railroad from San Francisco to Nevada will be carried on quired, four hundred thoussud were got in Sscramento in one day. Two million dollars are set down as the share of of the railroad will be two hundred and seventy miles. and the higaest grades over the monntains feet to the mile. the great Pacific Railroad. dian Troubics in Minnese Sr. Pacn, Dec. 8, 186: A body of 150 citizens arrived with hatchets, knives Mhe prisoners confiped at Camp Lincoln, Maukats: but they were surrounded, captured and releaved on parole. ‘The Governor \esues & proclamation urging the people of lawieesness; thmt the peonte pluint at the tardiness of exec tiv | find reason (or forbearance in th weigh upon the President. 1 hy action, but onght to bing eaves whieh to} deer mag tt civil mthoritios Death of General Charehill. Wastixuroy, Des. 8, 1802 Vuited States Army, have lust uigit, in the ity eighth SKETEM OF GENERAL CHUREMILE. spector general of the same, wes a native of States artillery on the 12th of March, 1812, ov any iney, and on the 20th of the same month was sppointed assistant inspector general, with the rank of major. At of our sketeh was retained in the service q captain of artillery. On the 15th of August, 1<25, be was brevetied major “for tem years? faithful service” in the United States: Army, and on the 6th of April, 1585, was promoted to a full majority im the Third artillery. On the 25th of June | propelle 1841, he was appointed inspector general, with the rank | of colonel, and hold that position for over twenty years. He mngaged in the Mexican war, and was breveited brigadier general for gatiant anti meritorious conduct at the battle of Buena Vista, The brevet was awarded in May, 1848, and dated from February 23, 1847, Un the or Incapacity, resulting from long and aithful service,’ after having served in the United States Army agew months less than fir ty years, The Overland Route. f Sr, Louis, Dee. 8, 1862. ‘The overiand stage artived yesvarday with $23,000 jn gold dust, The time from Denver was six days anda -comp, which originated ava time of presstug need fr | that the men fit for duty shall be sent forward to their |.oreixn 2 regiments, the sick returned to hospitals, and al! who are We hay: ‘the Surgeon General has been besieged to-day by seores | | las demonstrated that there ts no fault in bis department | yy any The very remedies now propored have | tr provides for the payment | along tabooed Pope. Meanwhile the Yribune writers, in | those | tinnes:— | ed to | m to the expressed wishes of | | Reliable information is received here that the Centra! | dow to usuccess, Ont of three millions of subseriptions re” | Sau Francisco. ‘Ihe yearly.cost ef freights to Washpe, in | Nevada, is estimated at six millions, ‘The entire length | and other weapons, forced their way through the guard, | with the avowed intention of murdering the Indian | t nish them | ton. } in aud wae appointed « dret lieutenant of the Third United | nee, “Ya August, 1918, he was promoted tea cap: | j sted ' jncluding iateresting Jetters from Brazil, Portugal, Tur- thority to uniiorm them in some distinetive manner, ani | the time of the reduction of the army in 1815 the subject | 25th of September, 1861, he was retired from the service | quarter, apd from V’rn!orvijie seventeen davg apd a half. and reliable depositories of letiers.—United Sia’es + be cizinty | is ‘This road js to be part and parcel of | QUR RELATIONS WITH FRANCE. IMPORTANT FROM TENNESSEE. Wisuixwrox, Dee. 8, 1962. ‘The foreign correspondence wnder the head of France covers ono hundred and thirty-four pages. The letters extend throughout this year, A letter cf June lust from Mr. Seward to Minister Day- ton says Frane earight to make war against Mexico, and w determine for herself the cause, We have @ right and intorest t ineiet that France shall not improve the war ebe makes W raise up if Mexico an anti repub- fican oF anti-American gavernment, or to maintain such a government there. Franco haa disclaimed such de- signs, aud we, besides reposing faith in the assurance, given to afrank and horrorable er, would im any CAPTURE OF A UNION BRIGADE. The Rebels Repulsed with Heavy Loss in Another Encounter, Ren Rew he case be boynd to weit for, apd uw tigipate, @ violation of then, PAC un unces Lond te exette meapprebrnaions and. jealourier eu this government and that of Nasnvmuix, Dec. 7, 1862. France, in epite of al! the prodence we can practice on A battle has taken place between our advanced forces our part. Westudiousiy endeavor to avoid them. You | and Morgan's guerillas. Colonel Moore’s brigade was re- wil, therefore, bo fully authorized in assuming that this government doen not inspire, and has no responsibility for, the essumptions ef a different character made by the ORS, pulsed several times by the enemy and finally captured. Our troops made a desperate resistance, but were forced finally to sucenmb. Our loss in killed and wounded was sixty, who were left on the field. Morgan attacked General Fry in the afternoon at Gal- latin, but was repulsed with heavy loss, General Fry has been reinforcod, and is now pufsuing theenemy When we desire explanations from France, or whem an occasion shall have arrived to express discontent, we shall communicate directly and explicitly with M. Thou: venel through your good offeos, ¥R. DAYTON TO MR, REWARD—OOT, 14, In acknowledging the receipt of the proclamation of the Prosislent of September 22, he e:—You may look immediately for the most mischievons effects: Wan closely. portions of tho foreiu press to pervert ans General Buell and staff arri misconstrue the metives which have prompted the Sana teas Savwed Se Haare ew proclamation, and the ‘probable consequences which will follow it, You must not be éurprised if avother spasmodic effort for intervention is made, based Nasuviiue, Tenn., Dec. 7—P. M. upon the val ground of humanity; but when the | Our arms are again disgraced, The Thirty-ninth bri- r — eg en rr fond Leite injure the | gade, Dumont’s division, consisting of the One Hyndred cause 0 .and will interfere for years tocome | ia gy . Sr Inara hier patanciian of onion + Dag w and Fourth Illinois, Colonel Moore commanding brigade; may be the motwe whieh prompts emancipation. or the | One Hundred and Sixth Ohio, Colonel Lafel; Ono Hundred immediate consequences which may follow it, the ct Will | and Eighth Ohio, Col. Limberg; Nicklen’s battery and a remain; and this connot fail in the end to commend eel! | san detachment of the Second Indiana cavalry, were to the culigltenea con of the Christian world. | Mr. dd to Mr. Dayton, Octe 4), says the views | Surprised at daylight this morning at Hartsviile, by Mor- he is about looxpress should be understood as official, | gan, commanding three regiments of cavalry aod two of and may 0 made known to the eh governinent. | ja can In the course of, his letter he remarke:—It iv kurprises the Presiffmt that the — ex) of After fighting an hour and a quarter our forces surren. a recognition of the insurgents are still linge: ro | derad, and the enemy burned our camp, capturing neari~ capitals in view of the disappointinent and failo which, by its snecess, was to prepare then | nostile measire. The people do indeed desire | », as they all along have de thes has ye r ag a logs of the Un eyen ofan aere of the broad foundation that it © Be, after digcussing the whole enbject, i follows:—1he Knropean impulses Meorable to the ree urgonts are due echietly to the earn inhition ( sepa spect they can surpass us, # demonstrative. inst the insurde co are on all the brigade, train and teams, and burning what the could not carry away. Two guns of Nivigien’s batter were also captured. Our losa ws between fifty and six. | killed and wounded, who were left on the field, Ti el logs is Mot reported, The gallant Lieutenant Colon Stewart, of the Second Indiana cavalry, and a Colow ogni’ Moore were among the captives. Major Hill, of the Second Indiana cavalry, was wounded, but not danger ously. He says half of our infantry fought well, bat the other halt soon broke. Colonel Harlin’s and Colonel Mil- | ler’s*brigades were sent in purauit; but the enemy bad In (his people of this Un rate. n Time works Reason and cous ceesarily 80. onr favor, sion alene ov therre, We b instito’ for to preserve | forded Cumberland river, and were out of reach. A few 0 resy @rsibilities worl) wide and aft ntnre ages— | shells sent after them caused a rapid retreat. i and trust tofaterechances | Major Hill denies that the camp was sirprieed. If 80 i { the affvir was more diszraceful to us, as Hartsville was @ strong position, On Thursday a leutenant colonel of for any, misapprebensions on the subject, the decision s’ division was captured while skirmishing. Two ‘and energies ‘hich this governmentand the loyal people | regimental quartermaaters of Palmer's @vision were also bee Coe, Hace gett el ee ppc A bo y | captured while foraging. The dates are not reported, practeal and persevering people. Tt is tine that we | Tirteen wagons with mules, om @ foraging expeditic should de understiod there in in one sense—a generovs | were captured on Saturday, Tt is tne, as Karl Russell has said, thar | 4 deserter fiom Murfreesboro reports Cheatham and we are tighting for cinpire eae ene ly be Ste | Breckinridge there with 15,009 men, Buckner at Shelny- tix, it stone | villo,and Kirby Smith sick at Manchester. General Joe Jobnston was certainly at Murfreesboro on Saturday. or }, but even If the early operations of the government loft room Earthquake in Tennessee. OUR MEMPHIS CORRESPONDENCE. Marais, Nov. 30, 1862. The shock of anearthqnake, the most severe that has been experienced in this country (or many years, was felt this morning at twenty minutes hefore nine o'clock, | In some houses glass and china ware fell to the floor and was broken, spreading momentary consternation and alarm among the people. Its duration did not exceed twenty seconds, and was accompanied by no report. awan heart lions the excel gratefully eomonded by to ourselves by al! nat eblieetions, and by all the hopes aud desires we s) watnrall glorious (nture, Studying toe ' aie within oar ewn borders. we have wot only in pathy, but we Nave warned foreign they are ende cherish for a great and natiens fry: aul IMPORTANT FROM ARXANSAS. Attempt of the Rehels to Force General the actions of the nations fhvoked,seareeiy lees for We have not been misiet | impartiality or of nen han dor our ow the Semblanc their wah tality which outriendiy proceedings towards us, in | Blunt’s Position at Cano Hitie Their | a perdous strife, have pat on, When any ge | ceeretsoetiite ekele, Meumeaed to. tex | ont shail imine taney aidmecs.quirienhy attitude, | noP™ ‘ PP we shall thoy revise, With care, one evinting rilarons | Meewenting, de. : ; towards Liat Poy and shall net in ty Lavi, Dee. 7, 1862. Dew onies st people who have wever yet Hoty to themselves while fey were dition of the butman ra frown anid to P | Advices from the Southwest to night say that the rebels undor Generals Hindman and Marmaduke, 25,000 strong, Attempted to force General Biunt’s position at Cane Mili, Ark., yesterday, but were driven back. pecial eoveerdl “ta is not y to M —— wings, as tole | ping t rebeia dro Gene! Phone's promedt a a St ing the rebeix drove General Blunt's pickets ne and the WW di pro. | three miles; but ou the arrival of reinforcements the bs neat | rebels were again driven hack | arenes ov | the Blunt is that the denoortratioa | > will aodesar on uker of the tocover their retreat, as they were t - | felling timber all night, probably to obstruct the road Piva tilonaahenheg and provent pursuit. phein, frauk fie, | General Binutig forces have held the rebels in check for j assal’ ie ailected | four days, Genera! Herrou’s commaud will reinforce carnustpe ave | hum to-morrow. evidene tou } pedi ok of his f pvernment. bows | ‘The Buttle of Cane Hi THE ENEMY BADLY WHIPTED AND WORSE CHASED- ATCH FROM GENERAL BLY —WHAT BE 1B ny TO DO, BIC. | Heavgransens, Frese Division, ARMY Ov THR PRONsIRR, ) aiforded the | UaNe Hine, Ark, Nov. 3 Via ELxnory, Dec I ( vy, Charge d'Alairs: in Spain, treats Mr. Horate J. 1% 7 upon Moxicen avd orher afta On the dother March | & ntinned his fhgb: | last he narrates Bis jnterview with Mr, Calderon, audeons — the batt 1 is now in Van Boren, | Bat the position | ot win towards US | Hindman was expected to reinforce him at this place on from the red from that assumed raining o Iz, 1801, he | the evening of day. Prisoners, of whom I captured on the word | twenty five,. state that Marmaduke’s force was aio applicre | eloven thonsaud. They were compelled to abandon i was a evel | twa i ite lisablea by j hy and iyortaut | 66) pieces of artillery, disablea by my batteries: eo ent! wiuet to be lad | A number of their officers were killed, among pshaaby Joh nineat tor the “pat.” them a Lieut ‘olonel Monroe, Of « Texas reghnent wea ntact one Gnaance et the | SBC @ Captain Marta, of an Arkansas regiment, They fact and procluitusd that Sjain iswed to have moihing Wo | will not advance this side of the mountains, except wit? ide aes Seta inch tiie aad | their combined ferces; bit Tam prepared to meet ‘them: we Sane min Spain, Tessera, i ptober last, vor-" | uly vomiaunicated (0 MF. Seward the substance Of 6 { and, with my littleariny, whip twenty-five thoumnd o correspondepee which Bal been made to him by the | such ebivairy. * Captatatieveral of Cuba, co Ave eftect that an United | an officer who came inside of our Tues under a fing of Stator oerniver had cha an English ‘ troce, after night terminated the figting, acknowledged same Line, etx of | that they wore tad! aggreseton w ; "| ed, may possibiy recover. | neutral | into the maritime whipped and worse chased. not only the sub 6 Leven the author JAMES G. BLUNT, Brig. Gen, Coma’g. nits of Spain, driving ashore. ieutenant Johnsou, Sixth Kansas, dangerously wound The queen of Spain in that emp nee ai rb. molaiut, oud | Phe Case of Joseph Kugler, of New Jersey. ip aw parties Pp who inay be raven ate: | Trexton, N. J., Dec. 8, 1862. not be aldequacely con! fest an ait | The trial of Deputy United States Marsbal Harris Bryan Salistact ion wh w the treaties | Hough, Samuel 8. Hudnot, Arthur W. Jundy and David Seen mcuen ieudle nations sic reyere. NY | Burwell, indicted for conspiracy in causing to be arrest. From Austria Minister Mok: writes to Me. Saward, | ¢d Joseph Kugler, of Hunterdon county, alleging Kugler e government of the empire to which — to bea tenitor, &e., bas been put off till the April term> { eing acorediod hat uever Hulk aL | ay editor was also indicted for publishing that 4 eure, u rm wDY colontations 1 | Kogler was a traitor, Se. The indictment i# very Jougthy, and obarges the peréons named conspired to- ] uer: first, to call Ue said Kugler @ traitor, seconds | that he was guilty of treason against the government; ‘tind, that be had been disloyal to the government; th, that he bad been disconraging enlistinente in the noulralily een govern 4Y and comaere nave atic (raw vedthy | army, Aft, that the persons charged did faleely sweat it 1s net yet lost: | tothe above that they transmitted the ailidavit Aa be oehaee will re qvoremud (o the guverninent of the United States Por one bo favor to Our nie OF ite offteers, for the purpose of procuring an arrest and . ell confinement of the «nid Kugler; sixth, for the arrest of Mioistar Gorwin, iu ow despatch | the said Kugler ou the oth of September. Mured — Septon: be says’ ‘re. Theatrical, A new play will be produced this evening at Nidlo’s | Garden, It is called “Rdith,” and bas been arrangea and adapted from the successful novel ‘East Lynne,” by Mr. |B. Woolf, of Roston. The novel 18 capable of effective dra matization, and Mr. Woolf is said to have proven equal to | the occasion. Miss Heron plays the heroine, and as the | part has voeu made to suit her she cannot fail to do # rica and other countries Mm | qwell, ‘The character of @ country Justice has been written | in for Tom Placide, Mr. Shewell does the heavy villain. ‘The rest of the cast—and it is a very long one—ie Glle@ | by Messts, Burnett and MeCullough, Misses Wells and Henry and the rest of the company. No one can decide | much about a play {rem the rehearsals; but “Edith” is { at least sure of « yood sudicnde and @ fair hearing. » by the Frewel power iim varpage will be required tmuing to be sean, aut this being dently anticipate a treaty, goot or bad hy which ali Freneh questions will be for the presont ad The correspondence eatire overs ove thousand pages, key, Switzeriand, Cestral Am we bave Ministers The Wel al Closed. Sr. Carmariye’s, ©, W., Dee. 8, i862. Cavat navigation is entirely stopped by ice, Several The Steamship Mavrocorda | Boston, Dec. 8, 1802. | Captain Erveus, (rom , cormance at the ‘ Avapesty ov Mowe.—To-aight there will be a per usnal prices for theatres, On this cca - ‘The steamship May ‘ with Lorini, Morensi and Maceaferri, Loudon 17th, arrived by 00D, } ton Norn, n i | ‘rit be performed. Ou Wednesday night we are to have Lamerose Bowes. ir fut inoue of the papers | he ‘« Ballo. m Maschera.”” of this city which appeared om si arcely A day passes without one oF more of the lamppost boxes being broken open and robbed of their conients’—we cat assare the puble hae ne trath what ever. Ne such robbery has taken place since the ier port boxes were firet aatablished YY accident ocens ally one has been broken by tho earelessness of mn « bus driver or driver of some other vehicle, but 1! Dy arrangement, tarmediately known to the po! diity at that locality, who pr a wnt! the proper authorities ar Naced. Experience shows that there boxes are © virday—namely, ubat A Gonney Mosiron. A beautiful model, in gold, of am bricssom Monitor battery vill De exhibited thie week at wl, Black & Co.’*, nde by Mr. J. D. Benton, of Wil. von, Delaware, It was made from drawings of « + battery, reduced to the size of one and a hal to point of workmanship it is elegant, and com. jcove swith working machinery insite. Several high naval flicials have seen it, and were deRabied with it im every “bea. | capers.