The New York Herald Newspaper, March 5, 1864, Page 1

THE NEW YORK HERALD. WHOLE NO. 10,031. EWS FROM WASHINGTON. Passage cf the Whiskey Tax Bill by Congress. The Order fer Drafting eon the 10th ‘Instant Suspended, Proposed Steamship Line Between the United States and Brazil, hen Rtn \ Wasumerton, Mareb 4, 1964. SUSPENSION OF THR DRAFT. ‘Wi is ascertained, from an offictal source, that orders re- quiring the draft on the 10th instant are sugpended. A ‘wudecquent day for commencing the draft wit be an- Bounced im time to make all necessary proparations. THE WHISKEY TAX. To the surprise of nearly every one, the Senate to-day Feeeded from its amendments, to which the House had Gisagreed, on the Whiskey bill, and now the bill, unless ‘wetoed by the President, becomes a law. - But for the ‘fgrotbie argument of Mr. Sherman there is no doubt that ‘the Senate would have refused to recedo. He stated that ‘% was futile to appoint any more conference committees, and that if the Senate did not recede the bill would not aly be lost, but the same difficulties would present them- felves in the noxt. In the meantime the government would derive at least a portion of tho desired Fevenue udtil further legislation could *remedy the @efect. In consequence of the absence of a quorum ‘We Vico President withhela the announcement of the ‘Vote for some time, until a sufficient number of Senators @ould be brought fo. ‘The bill as it now stands is regarded as absurd and ‘wnjust. The House having onee agreed to the amend monte striking out the tax on stocks of domestic liquors ‘on hand, that provision is stricken outof the bill. The Additional tax of forty cents on imported liquors is re- tained. Under the law as it now stands the tax is sixty ents per gallon on whiskey manufactured after the pas- gage of the bill until July 1; after that there is no tax at al, The additional tax upon imported liquors is to bo fmposed under regulations to be prescribed by the Secre- ‘ary of the Treasury, and it is understood that if the Dill becomes a law Mr, Chase has determined not to issue ‘Say regulations for this purpose, under the impression ‘Wat tho law will be amended in subsequent tax Ddills so 8 to abolish this provision. The whiskey speculators are again’ jubilant; but they are not yet out of the woods, as the President may very Properly fail to approve the law in the absurd shape in ‘which it has been passed by a trick of parliamentary legordemain. ni Je voting in the House to adhere to the position of the House many members were dcocived by the proposition f Mr. Thaddeus Stevens, believing it to be the last vote taxing the stock on hand; but by parliamentary rules tho ‘Vote referred to the vote omitting that tax. _ THR GOLD BILL. This deing private bill day, the Gold bill did not come ‘UD, a8 was anticipated, and now goes over till next week. ‘Ite eventual-passage by the House is now generally con- eeded, > i GENERAL DEBATE IN THE HOUSE. ‘To-morrow will be devoted”to speech making In the Bouse, under a general agreomont that no vote shall be taken on anything. This arrangement is found to work 90 well—enabling members having speeches to make for ae @omestie and electioncering purposes to got them off without interfering with the business of the House—that W fe intended to continue it through the session, THE FLORIDA DISASTER. ‘The Florida disaster is the subject of much comment Bere, in and out of Congress, and a determination has Deen manifested to have it fully investigated. ARRIVAL OF GENERAL MEADE. General Meade, accompanied by several of bis staff, in Wasbington to day, for the purpose of confer- bay the Secretary of War. — ILLNSSS OF MR. SEWARD. Assistant Secretary of State Seward lies ill at home witb pneumonia. THR INVALID CORPS. Boards of examination have been appointed in Wash. fagton, Pbilddelpbia and Indianapolis for the purpose of PAdding the Invalid Corps of all persons whose record ‘Rot entitle them toa membership in the organiza- WAR DEPARTMENT AND THE RAILROADS. nh from official data in possession of the War Department that since February 25, 1862, the Illinois Qentral Railroad bas received for transportation of troops ‘end supplies $308,000; the Burlington and Missouri River $¥ad $3,500, and the Mississippi and Missouri Railroad daly $40—making a total of $311,000, The accounts of dhe Mitoois Central prior to March 3, 1862, were settled on the basis of the tariff of the road when such gutes did Bot exceed those of the Scott tarfif of 1861, and one-third from the amount thus found due. Subsequent March, 1862, the accounts accord with the regulations @f that date made by the Quartermaster General, in ac- @ordanceaith the suggestions of the railroad managers @ovened in Washington by the Seoretary of War. THE NAVAL REGULATIONS. ‘The report of Hon. lea B. Sedgwick, the codifier of laws for the iment of the navy, upon which adtion is yet tobe taken, states that the ancient Peles have been retained where they have been found to be sufficient and plain. No'provisions of law have been @Aded, excepting in casos where necessity has proved their advantage, The most important changes and ad Gitions bave been made in what rolates to naval supplics, Baval discipline and court martial, Many erroneous frauds have been practiced in furaishing material for the Wy; therefore auditional safeguards were required to Teasopable economy and ordinary integrity. BIBLS SIGNED BY THE PRESIDENT. ‘The President baving approved and signed the bill of the Loan act of 1863 and the joint resolu- extending payment of bounties tothe 1st of April, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MARCH 5; 1864.-WITH SUPPLEMENT. MALITARY ROAD AND TELEGRAPH LINB IN OREGON, Mr, Nasmirs, (opp.) of Oregon, introduced a Dill to grant lands to aid in the constraction of a military road apd Ine from Portland City to Dalles, in Oregon, Roforred to the Commitice op Pebli¢ Lands,” LANDS POR A RAILROAD IN KANSAS, Mr. Pomeaot, (rep.) of Kaneas, offered the joint reso- luvions of the Kansas Legislature im favor of & donation of money or lands to aid in the construction of the Aten} gon, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad. Referred to the Committee on the Pacific Raftroad, Tes on the part of the Senate to enuse the failure of tne bill, and they would thus have to ‘Wait until a new bill was matured, passed by the House, or appoiatanother committee of conference, from which nothing would result, The committee on the part of the Senate, ore, recommend that the feuate recede from its amendments. The Dill would then impose a tax of sixty ceats upop all domestic liquore manufactured after ite passage up to July next, leaving any tax after that time to be provided for b; future legislation. This recession on the or the” te would also leave in part the Dillan additional tax of forty cents gallon on spirits on hand. This was incongruous, and was only to be remedied by future legislation. On motion of Mr, Saurway, the’Senate receded from its amendments—yeas 26, nays 11, as folows:— Yuas-—Mesere, Anthony, Caritl Cowan, Dav: Dixon, Foot, Foat Herding, Hatt pilacas He bd ind., Lane of ens, Morgan, Morrill, Nesmith, Fomeroy, Shérman, Bumuer, Van Wiokle, Wade, Wilkinson and you2, Nays—Messrs. Brown, Buekalew, Chandler, Pectitie, Gri =, jena, lowe, Powell, Ramsay, Saulsbury ‘Tap Census, Mr. Brown, (rep.) of Mo., called up his bill directing an additional ‘classified conus of the population and re- sources of certain portions of the country. the Jo Mr, Gries, (ref ) of Iowa, opposed ee "ite reference to the 8 Dill at present, and Committee. Agreed MILITARY INTERFERENCE 1D ELECTIONS. The special order being eailed up, » Mr. Powxi1, (opp. ).0 Ky., resumed his speech, com- menced yosterday. referred at length to the last eleo- tions in Marylaud and Delaware. 1n the latter State he said it was clear that the democrats were in the and could have carried the ference of the military authorities. He denied that there was any necessity for military interference at the polls at the late elections in Delaware to rve order, atid, notwitstanding this, sol- diers "wero placed immediately at the polls, While General Burnside controls elections in Kentucky, E. M. Stanton and bis subordinates run the machine in Mary- jand and Delaware. He (Mr.Powell) introduced a resolution in the Senate three weeks ago requesting the Secretary of War to send copies of the instruetions given to provost marshals and commanders concerning elections. Three weeks had elapsed and yet the Secretary bad not com- plied with the request, thus treating the Senate resolu- tion with contempt. He does not tell us even whether he will reply to our request or not He said the power claimed in taking these extraordinary steps was that it was a military necessity, taken ju behalf of the Union struggling for its life. Ie considered that obedionce to the constitution and laws was the very essence of the life of the Union, ‘ho melancholy fact was now pre- sented of a President,who is sworn to support the con- stitution and laws invading the statutes and rights of the States. He (Mr. Powell) did not think the government so much in danger ma the rebels as from the machinations vf thoso traitors who would violate every principle of the constitution at home. ‘The chief reason why the people have quietly submitted to these enormous usurpations of power ig that ina very short time they will have the Ppriviloge to change the Executive. For the first time in the history of the country, the military had taken charge of elections in the States; and he trusted the Senate would pass such salutary laws upon the subject as would prevent a recurrence of the same etate of things. There ‘was not a Senator upon the floor but knew that the Presi- dent was uelng the military power of the country to pr mote hi iccession. His amnesty proclamation was move ‘hat direction. This proclamaticn he considers unwise, uncalled for, and revolutionary, He called it revolutionury, because it overthrows the constitution on which our goverument was based. What right bas the President to dictate who shail or shall vot be a qualified elector of a State, as he done in the State of Arkansas recently in his {instructions to Gen. Steele? Mr. Powell proceeded at lengih to comment upon the orders issued by General Banks in referenge to elections and regulating labor. He (Mr. Powell) believed that no honest man could take the oath prescribed by General Banks, as it extended to his future action, and‘would be binding him to support @ policy in the future which would allow negroes and no one else to vote, provided it was recommended by the President. He believed that this was a government for the white man, and that a white man .was better than a negro. It would requir: in each State to carry out the provisions lent’s ampesty proclamation, which would place nine-tenths of the people of a State under one- tenth. This nine-tenths of the population, if they were to be reduced to such ap absolute slavery, must be re- duced at the int of the ba: President was not clothed, under the constitution, with the power he hed been exorcising. if States were in the Union what right had he to amend and override their constitutions, or fix the qualifi. cations of voters = military power? Our governme: was founded upon tbe principle that the military shou! be subservient to the civil power. The Prosident, In bis opinion, had trampled upon this great principle. He said that Washington, whom some people yet considered to have been equal to Abraham Lincoln, did not onasider it necessary to subordinate the civil tothe military power in the great seven years’ struggle in which he and his compatriots were engaged. He would be glad if the weak and vascilating man now in the White House were im- bued with a icle-of the spirit which animated Wash. 6 resi hig commission at Annapolis, in verting severely upon the course of Secretary Stanton and General Butler in relation to inter- ference with ministers of the Gospel in the performance of their functions, Mr. Powell concluded. ‘On motion of Mr. Foor, (rep.) of Vt., the Senate ad- journed till Monday. House of Representatives, Wasuinctoy, March 4, 1864. POSTAL SERVICE BETWEEN TUE UNITED STATHS AND BRAZIL. Mr. Aum, (rep.) of Mass., introduced a bill autho. rizing a postal mail steamship service between the United States and Brazil. Referred. ‘The private calendar was then considered. ° ‘TEANKS TO REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIERS, Mr. Law, (opp.) of Ind., from the Committee on Revo- lutionary Pensions, reported a resolution tendering thanks to tho surviviog Revolutionary eeldiers, twelve in number, for their services in that war, by which our independence was achieved and our liberty obtaified, and sincerel their lives bave beyond the period allotted to man, and tliat they receive, as pensioners, a sum Of money which, tl h not large, helps to smooth the rugged path of 1i(@ in their journey to the tomb. It is further resolved that copies of this resolution be sent by the Spoaker to each of the Revolutionary pensioners. ‘The resolution was unanimously adopted. ‘THR CONTESTED KLECTION CASE. Proceeded to the consideration of the Massachusetts contested election case, viz—Jobn 8. Sleeper Kae gh a Be is oe alias Saeen tious repor' vor of Mr. the 5 member. Mr. Dawns, (rep.) of Mass., io bis jument in favor Mr. Rice, said the contest did not involve the legality of the votes, but simply the accuracy of the count. Mr. Suexrse add the House in his own behalf, des claring bis confidence in the righteousness of his cause, = urging that be was clected by a plurality of thirty- wo votes. Fejoicing that by the decree of Providen yorrgen y ca, INTERESTING REPORT BY COLONEL STREIGHT. Rebel Treatment ¥F mt Viol Sar: Mem were Subjected, dic. ‘Wananp’s Hore., Wasmncron, D. €., March, 2, 1864. 7, 8 Kmi.oge, House Committee on Military Af- Daan 8m—Agreeabdle to your request, I have the honor to report the following facts in relation to the treatment of our officers and men by the rebel authorities:— Tt to impossible for me to give you an account of all the acts of barbarity, inhumanity and bad faith I baye wit- neased during my captivity; but I will endeaver to men- tion such instances as will give you as correct an idea of the true condition of our men as possible. On the 3d of May last near Rome, Georgia, my co! ag yh thy E rehing, during the seven days prev was evident to me that we (about fifteen hundred officers and men) would fall into the hands of the cnemy, and, after holding a council of war with my neprmontel ers, it was decided to capitulate, and thus to secure the best terms possible,for the command as a condition of eurrender, In ¥coordance with this decision I met the rebel commander, General Forrest, under a flag of truce, when a stipulation was entered into between him and myself, whereby it was agreed that my command ahould fray ae prisoners of war, on the following condi. NB, to wit:— | Each regiment should be permitted to retain tte colors. 2, The offieera were to retain their side arms, saci, kuepesons and Blankets; aod il private proporty ant cots; pri propor or every description was to be respected and retained by r Hon. F. owner. The above terms were ina monguro respected while | we remained with General Forrest; but no sooner were ‘We turned over to the rebel authorities than a syatem of robbing commenced which soon relieved us every- thing Lge in our possession. The blankets, haver- sacks find knapsacks were taken from wore turned into an enclosure without Kind, destitute of blankets and overcoats, ns I hay fore stated, and kept under guard for four days, during which time @ most disagreeable cold storm’ prevailed; after which they were sent forward to Richmond and soon exchanged. My officers were sent to Richmond, after a stay of about ten days in Atlanta. On our arrival at the rebel capital we were all searched separately, and all monoys found in our possession were taken from us. For a few days thereafter we were allowed to draw small sums of our money for the purpose of purchasivg food. But this Privilege was soon denied us. . I then asked and obtained permission from the rebel authorities for the officers to send home for money, clothing and provisions. The clothing and provisions were generally delivered to the parties ordering them, providing the package or box containing them was not broken open and rifled of its contents before it reached its destination, which was frequently the cage; but in no case within my knowledge has the money been de- livered to the owner. ‘Tho retention of this money, after expressly agreeing to deliver it, is an act of perfidy that beggars description. I bave repoatedly called the attention of the rebel authorities to the terms of my surrender, and demanded that its pro- visions bo complied with; but ‘General Winder, com- mandant of the prisoners, took from me the stipulations sigved by Generel Forrest, which he still retains, and re- fuses to be governed by its provisi Diy officers, to- gother with something wear one thousand other United tates officers, are confined in a large warebouse building, with an average space of about twenty-five square feet to each man. ‘This includes all room for washing, cooking, eating, sleeping and exePcising. They have no bunks, chairs or seats of any kind furnished them; consequently they both sit and sleep on the floor, ‘The windows of the building were entirely open until about the middle of De- cember last, when pieces of canvass were furnished for the Purpose of closing them to keep the cold out; but, as this would leave us in the dark, we were compelled to leave @ portion of them open and endure the cold. Many of the officers were entirely destitute of blankets until our government sent a quantity to us in the fore- part ofthe winter. The supply of blankets is now ex- bausted, and oflicers who have been captured during the last six weeks have none furnished them. The rations furnished both oificers and men by the rebels consist of about one pound of corn bread, mado from unbolted meal, and one-fourth of a pound of poor fresh meat, per day. The meat has been issued to the prisoners but about balf the time since the first of De- cember last, In addition to the rations of bread and meat as above stated, the prisoners draw abotetwo quarts of rice to one hundred men. There is a sufficient quantity of salt furnished, and a very small quantity of vinegar. Iwill hero remark that, in a few instances, gay six or eight times at most, asmall quantity of sweet potatocs bas been issued Instead of the rations of meat. ‘The above is the sum total of the rations issued to our officers and now prisoners of Tho men war, 5 condition of our unfortunate énlisted men, now in the hands of the enemy, is much worse than that of the officers, From early in May last, when | arrived in Rich- mond, to about tho Ist of December, all the enlisted meu were taken to what is called Belle ieland, and turned into an enclosure, like s ny cattle in a Lay ord pen. vi w of them had is, or shelter of md ‘ind, and the few vents furnished were so poor and leaky as to ren- der them but little better than none. All the prisoners are taken to Libby when they first ‘arrive in Richmond, for the purpose of counting them and enrolling their names; consequently, ] hada fair chance to see thelr condition when they arrived. Fully one-half of the prisoners taken since May last re robbed by their captors of their shoes, and nearly all were robbed of their oveycoate, bi is and baversack: one-third of them had been compelled to trade panis and blovaes for mere rags that wouid scarcely bide their pakedness. Very many of them were entirely barehead. ed, and notafew,as late as the middie of December, were brought in who had nothing on buta pair of old ragged pants and a shirt, being bareheaded, barefooted, ‘and without a blouse, overcoat or bianket, 1 bave seen hundreds of our men taken to the hospital thus clad, and in a pe ndition. I have frequently visited the hospital and have conversed with large num bers of dying men, brought there from the island, who assured me that théy had been compelled to lie ovt in the open air, without any medical attendance, though for several days they had been unable to walk. 1 des. titute of anything like quarters, and nearly naked duming the cold, Weare and chilly fall season, the first and chicf complaint of all those I saw and talked with was on ac count of an {insufficient quantity of food. I will here remark that in no instance bave the rebel authorities furnished clothing or blankets to our mov, Dur- {og the winter bets numbers of our men were frozen. Iheard one of the rebel surgeons in charge say ‘wore Over twenty of our men who would baye to suffer amputation from the effects of frost. This was before the coldest weather bad commenced. Some time in the fore part of December a portion of our mea were removed from the island to some large build. {nga where they were more comfortably quartered; but there has been no time since May last but what more or Jess men have been kept on the island, in the open air, and without blankets or overcoats, It is a common thing for the rebels to keep our men for several without food. This wag particularly the case with a portion of the coarevars igoners. Some went as long as cix days wi! it tood ana were compelled to march during the time. The officers captured at Chickamauga assure me that they and their men were robbed of everything. Many of them lost ¢! coats, hats and boots as soon ag captured, and then wero nearly starved and froren. trust you will paraon me for the tedious length of this communication. If you will bear with me I will only call a attontion toa few of the outrages practised ‘on Our oficers and mea in the prison discipline, Under the butiding known as Libby prison isa largo cellar, in which they have several celis partitioned off. Several Of them are without any tight, but'some_ have windows below the pavement. ‘There cells are uséd for the pur- pose of confining he we such cf the prisoners as the f Union Prisoners of His Terms of nder—The Uutrages to which His Discovery of a Band of Robbers and Murderers at the Mines, The Sherif of Bannock and Virginia the Leader of the Gang. Thirteen Other Desperadocs. LYNCH LAW TRIUMPHANT, a, ue, Poy Me Zi City Correspondence, Great Sart Lage City, Feb. 7, 1864. Wholesale Hanging at the Idaho Mines—An Organised Band of a Hundred Robders and Murderers Discovered—= Fourteen of them Hanged by the Vigilance Committee— Lively Times and Piles of Gold—Artemus Ward Re- covers, Goes to @ Ball with the Saints, and Speaks a Piece’ in the Theatre—The Greatest Necromancer of the Age Entertaining the Mormons, dc. It is the fate of all mining countries that the first pages of their history have to be written in blood. The first inbabitante bave twa grand divisions—-the honest, indus- trious, enterprising, and the loafer, gambler, thief and murderer. The stern necessity of creating the fortune yet concealed in the bowels of the earth forces the hovest to industry and enterprise, and tho loafer to gambling, stealing and murdering. Search where we may and tho history is tho same, Some men will work, and go for- ward, the pioneers of civilization, with no other intent; while that other class, the scourge of frontier life, ad ‘Vance as resolutely not to work, but to live by their wits, their cunning, their kpives and pistols. Tho mixes of Idaho are rich in gold. Thero is no question of it, and: but afew years only will pags over our heads before the whole country near the hed@dwaters of tho Missouri river and the mountains and gulch hor tributaries are densely populated. Tho-facility and security of travel is every day increasing, and men are not going to labor for a pittance tn old countries, when the rich treasures of the earth beckon to them to advance and gather in a few years that which thoy could not horde up ina lifetime. But onough of this. I como to THE MURDERS IN JDAHO—THE DAY OF RETRIBUTION, The last express from Bannock City bas just arrived, N Our startling intelligence that an organized band of a hundred robbers and murderers had been discovered in the eastern portion of Idaho, and that some of them had been arres t- ed and had confessed to the murder of about 4 bundred persons between this city-and Bannock during the last few months, The mining districts—Bannock, Virginia and Stinking Water—wero aroused and had initiated the day of retribu tion by the hanging of fourteen of the miscreants within a fow days,and tke Vigilance Committee were in pur- suit of all the othere, and would never stop the good work till they had hung all the others or driven them from the country. ‘The murderers were headed by ono Henry Plummer, velng his liedtenant in the Committee are:— Buck Stiogon Frank. Red Gallagher, Boveus; —— Brown, Parrish and Boon Helm. WOW THR BXEQUTION 18 MANAGED. work before it. Old routine and law courts are forgotten. The community hag been outraged, life is inscouro and the scourge has to be removed. ig is known out side of the evidence gathered by the Vigilants, and their decisions are guarded in tho strictest secrecy. Of tho. mea named, one was hung at Nevada City, five at Ban- nock City, two at Stinking Water and five at Virginia City, just as they took them. The night preceding the day of execution men were icketed around the city and noone could leave after ask, In the morning the word was passed up and down the mining guiches that work was on hand; the shot cups and revolvers were picked up, and in un hour or so there wore enough of ministers of justice to see the work put through. Parties were sont in search of the doomed, and they were goon “gathered” or,'‘caroled,’’ and brought to the most convenient piace for execution, At Bannock City, five empty dary is boxes were placed under the beam of an untinished house and on these the murderers were agsisted to mount, the rope was placed round their necks, and when eyérything was ready another cord arew the empty box from under them, and there they dangled mid floor and roof to the entert inment of the out raged populace. Vhen there is any confession wanted or expected, time. may be allowed end opportunity to | but in most cases no questions are asked nor any listened to. The die is cast, and swing thoy must. Sheriff Plummer wanted nutes to pray; but the Vigilante were busy, and possibly thought that he might find time after, they wore busy just then, they ‘put him ? sans ceremonie. bis deputy, may nov have ilty—some thi was not, and speak of him very differently to that of a murderer or robber. He prayed, and asked the prayers of his audience, and eaid that he could not stand aud witness the hanging of the other four on the boxes under the beam, and with a “good bye’? he'sprung from the dry goods box and bung himself. Two others are reported to have burrahed for Jeff, Davis as ay, took the lust leap; and there finished th ‘able lives, President Jef. will, of course, excuse our naming the compliment. The Spaniard was a hard case aud bad to manage. He took refuge in a cabin, and when they attempted to ar. rest him he killed one man and badly wounded another. A howitzer was brought out and the cabin roof was tum- vied about his ears. The populace were terribly mad and as he appeared he was perfectly riddied with bal Life not being extinct they rushed him off to the scaffold, bung bim up a little and then cut him down and threw and throu but there are times when described must bo writ ten—and they must take place, Had these mis- creapts, fiends, been handled in courte of jus tice, would scarcely have been enough men let in Idaho to form a jury to ty ‘They had instituted a reign of terror, amd not o sont dare say he was robbed, or by whom, when Be knew or the pext thing that followed was a pistol at his head. He is Hung by the Vigilance Committee, with and set our mining population in a forment with the the Sberiffof Baonock and Virgiola—a polished viliain that no one suspected of being engaged in a work in which the community -expected him to be the first to suppress. His deput; » George Laue, was charged with usivess, and entitied to tho game consideration from the Vigilants. The names of those of tho gang detected and hung by tbe Vigilance Henr: Piupitier, Gecese. Lane, George Ives, Nod Ray, Wagner, aHas Dutch John; Spanish Haze Lyon, Jack A Vigilance Committee, of course, aces nothing but the. GENERAL SHERMAN’S EXPEDITION. Cairo, March 4, 1864. moralized. slestppi. date. Camo, March 4—P. M. forces to Selma, and not back to Meridian as reported. an (© General Sherman’s occupation of Selma, atroyed. . ‘The latoat advices are that part of Shorman’s forces are Meridian, * Panaverema, March 4, 1664, A special despatch dated Cincinnati, March 4, says:— Adespatch from Cairo states that when’ the steamér if be wanted to. already published, A despatch from Wasbington to-day says:— man is back from bis extended reconnoiseance. not go near Selma, and never intended such a thing, AFFAIRS AT CHATTANOOGA. et See Mr. W. F. G. Shanks’ Despatch, Cnatrancoaa, Tenn. , Feb. 23, 1864. AROUND KNOXVILU. a few days since, and reported that Longstreet had disap. Virginia or going into the mountains to the southea bis threatening attitude on our left flank. LONGSTRENTS FORCE. If you asked them his about fifty pleces of arti number of available and effective horses, not give him mrvre than 25,000 to 30,000 men, was powerless to strengthen him sufficiently? RETIREMPNT OF HR ARMY. There is tall; but thts Rupposition inf gone to Atlanta, with a view of forming Joo Job m—an inference by no tain. He maye have been fearful might concentrate against an meang him moved towards Johuston’s position. the French Broad river and land him in Northwestern will hap ailroad communication to Atlanta and Dalton. The retirement of-Longstreet’s atm; point — by ing him out of to say than the reader. gets rend: that Joe Johnston can muster the requisite force for an oileasive cam allow him, If the retirement of Longstreet proves trae, and tho impending campaign in Fast Tennessee be at an end, Grant will not inaugurate a campaign perhaps as soon aa he might have done. GRY, PALMER yesterday arrived owt to Ringgold. This morning we havo the fnformation that be took the place’ without any diffi- culty, and proposes to-day to give them aa opportunity to fight.” A large force of the enemy was yesterday reported in the vicinity of McLemere's aud west of Latayette, Gen. Palmor also reports a large force of the enomy in Lafayette. A brisk evgagemont or foot race may yet be the result of the movement of Gen. Palmer. All Quiet at Chattanooga. Nasnviie, March 3, 1864. All tg reported quiet Terrible Explosion in Quebec. Mowtreat, March 4, 1864, tridges at the time. The building was up, The shock was torritic, almost every find interior pa: Palace were smashed, and valuabie thrown foto th te, The ruins of the labratory took fre and are still burping in close proximity to a eu powder magazine. Captain Mahon and ono or two othors have been taken out of the ruins alive; from ton to twelve miseing. cy Police Intelligence. A Liverry Street Oommnssion Munciant CuaroED witt GRanv Lanckyy—Extevaivs Orenations.—Mr. Rutger Teal, Aman of unusual talent as a financier, and of fine per- sonal appearance, doing business as a commission mer- chant at No, 63 Liberty street, was arrested yesterday afternoon by officer Golden, of the Sixth precicct, bei ed with having stolen @ suit of clothes valued at $110 from the firm of Mosars. Smith, Rice & Co., No. 420 Broadwi Mr. Archibald £. Hyatt, member of the firm, makes aflidayit that during the month of February Teal ordered a ult of clothes of him, with the under- standing that the bill was to be paid when the goods were delivered. Henry Burkard, employed in the Ab officer arrived here to-day from Vicksburg the 28th ult., Bearing despatches from General Sperman, When twelve miles east of Meridian, on the 1ith, he says the enemy numbered only 7,000 or 6,000, and wore much de- No fighting had occurred after passing Jackson, Mie- General Sherman bad sent a force to Meridian at that When General Sherman was at a point twelve miles east of Meridian on the 11th ultimo he sent part of his Last night’s despatches, from which this information ia derived, brings official news which settles the question ‘The rail. road between Jackson and Meridian has been wholly de- stil atSolma, and the remainder have fallea back to Mississippi was on her way up arrived at Vicksburg a gentleman, formerly captain of the steamboat Scotland, Just come in from Mobile, having escaped from tho rebels, into whose army he had been conscripted, reported that when he left Mobile General Sherman was witbin forty miles of that place, and could easily take it Mobile papers of the 18th give no later news than is Totelligence has boen received here that General Sher- He did Adjutant General Thomas arrived here from Knoxv!!o peared from French Broad river valley, retiring towards These reports are repeated by later rumors and state- ments, and, without having been positively confirmed, are believed to ‘be true; and the latest chango in tho situation may be set down by removing Longstrect from Why he should go is a question which when resolved gives forth one or two indications of value and encourage- ment. Longstreet knew as well as we did the importance to bim and the terror to us of his position on our exposed flank, and would never havo left it had he beon able to concentrate sufficient force for an active campaign on our communications, or even sufficient to remain strictly, but with some security, on the defensive, It is believed here by the military authorities that he had not a enflicient force. ngth thoy invariably talked ry. This may or may not re present, by comparfson, bis infantry force, as the allow- nce of artillery 18 regulated in many cases not by the number of the infantry, but, as tv this army, by the Supposing, however, tho {ofantry of Longstreet to be in the usual proportion to the artillery, tho reported Atty pieces will ‘This force is totally inadequate for the work of turning our flauk, and in view of the known importance of Longstreet’s position, ig it not natural to infergthat the Confederacy nother motive that might have prompted bim—the fear of being overpowered a3 Bragg lately was ‘8 that he has junction with cer- that Grant overwhelm- ing’ force, and compel him to a disastrous retreat. He may have,retired; and if so, in all probability he has Thero*is a single road which will carry Longstreet from tho head waters of rough the Smokey Mountains, uth Carolina, whence he is_an important us, for it saves Grant the trouble of driv- Tennessee. What effect the junction of the two rebel armies may have I am no better prepared ‘A great deal depends upon who first for active work; and! donot believe ign in the time that Grant may possibly A fearful explosion of the labratory connected with the military magazine at Quebec occurred at noon to day, Captain Mahon and thirteen privates were preparing car- pletely blown jouse im the upper town was shaken from top to bottom. Windows tions of stores from St, John’s Gate to PRICE THREE CENTS. GENERAL KILPATRICK’S EXPEDITION, The Reached. SKIRMISHING ALONG THE WAY Litchfleld Missing. tral Railroad Destroyed. River. REPORTED PANIC IN RICHMOND, ee, &e,, &o, Our Special Despatches. Heapquantsns ARMY OF THR POTOMAQ, March 4, 1864. House on Tuesday morning at daylight. ing. host in ample time to be prepared for its coming with a superior force, _Rapidan on Sunday. mado of some of them in payment for the indiscretion. the Rapidan put a check to the immigration, to Washington to-day, whore he had gone for milk for an officer. Wasuiczom, Merch 4, 2864. that the expedition passed through Lee’s pickets and yond his army without a skirmish, and was met at ed tnfantry. The Newspaper Despatches. Wasnicton, March 4, 196s. Butier, stating that Goneral Kilpatrick arrived yesterdsy hundred and fi(ty meo, having had skirmishes on the prisoners. James river, and other valuable property. Fle pevetrated to the suburbs or outer fortilications of Richmond, A Pante at Richmond. Bartivorr, March 4, 1964, The President has received # despsteb from Genoral within our lines, with @ loss of something les3 tham ove way. Among the missing are Colonels Dahigreu, Cook and Litchfield. Dabigren and Cook are supposed to be Wo learn from Norfolk that there was some excitement there yesterday among the rebel sympathizers, who pro- fessed to have intelligence of a groat scare at Richmond, Suburbs of Richmond Colonels Dahlgren, Cook and A Large Portion ef the Virginia Cen- Destruction of Mills on the James The camp is full of rumors im rogard to Gen. Kilpa- trick’s movements; and if one attempts to be governed by apy of tho thousand and one reports ho wilt be nris- led, The fact is there has been no commonication with Gen. Kilpatrick since he was at Spottsylyania Court It is feared that the expedition bas not been as success- fal as was desired and expected, and, if such shall prove to be the fact, its failure may be attributed to several causes, among which sre:—First, the premature publica- tion of the movement and its objects in the republican papers of New York and Philadelphia on Monday morn- ‘These papers reached tho army on Tuesday morn- ing, and were doubtless read in the rebel camps across the Rapidan before dark. The authorities ayRichmoud could have been thus notified of the advent of this Yankee Be- cond—It was publicly known and canvassed in the army ag early as Friday morning, and there was not a secosh woman in or near Culpepper who did not understand it at least forty-eight tours before the expedition. started. Third—The matter was fully canvassed in circles of the troops, and the friends of the confederacy could have notified thelr confreres South, through the usual chan- nels, in time to have the expedition mot at the outscé The storm arriving just at the starting of the oxpedi- tion necessarily retarded the moyoment, and gave the rebels ample time to prepare for the reception of the force, even if they had not received intimation of the movement prior to Gereral Kilpatrick's crossing tho L learn that General Humphreys’, Chiof of Staff, and General Patrick, Provost Marsha) General of the army, are investigating the matter in regard to the prematurq publication above spoken of by the New York and other Northern papers, and frdm the character of the two BD hayo no hositation in saying thatan example will ba Deserters and contrabands have been coming in quite freely of late until Tuesday night last, when the rise fo General Meade and a part of his personal staff went ‘The guerillas continue their deviltrios along the line of the railroad. Last night a government contraband was Bhot by them half a mile from Fairfax Staton, at a house It is assigned agg reason for tho unexpectod alertness of the rebels in preparing to repel General Kipatrick that the destruction of the telograph and track of the Virginia Central Railroad was announced in Richmond by Gonoral Loe, immediately after the occurrence, over the telegraph lines between Richmond, Lynchburg and Gor- donsville. This seems higbly probable trom the fact distauce from Richmond by a formidable force of mount. Gener! Kilpatrick destroyed a largo portion of the Virginia Central Raiiroad and several mills along the owing to Genoral Kilpatrick's movements in thé neigh- borhood of that city, Some rumors were that was being evacuated. Nothing defuito, however, waa known. ‘The telograph cable across the Chesapeake is not works ing; hence nothtog cao reach here except by the regular boat or by sending despatcbes acrosa the Cherrystone. It was generally understood that a force had been gent up by Geueral Batier to co-operate with General Kilpat- riek; but nothing had been heard from thie force a the time the boat loft last evening. ARRIVAL OF THE MATANZAS, ~ The steamship Matanzas, from New Orleans 26th and Havana 28th ult. , arrived at this port yesterday forenoon, hoy TO, ‘The House adopted a resolution that Mr. 8! ta not | Suthorities may fear will attempt to escape, as well | fy stopping the bloody work of this organization, life in itied t delivering ihe clothing to Meat ‘and receivin An accident took place on the Matanzas and have become laws. AONE tan eee cn tae nase ee ntee, ae | ss neal te may chance to offend some one. of tbe | Idaho in a short time will be more secaro than In New | jn payment’ a. check for. tho, amouat on the Cig | Raliroad on tho 27th ult, As tho Matanzas morning tra LIMB BRTWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND | without a dissenting vote, ihe House agreed to the rego: | many petty official and prison attacker. Some of | York city. Other folks may think we are barbarous. | Raak of New York. The check being presented | was going to Havana the locomotive ran off the track, BRAZIL. lution that Mr. Rice js entitled to retain bis seat, our unfortunate men are constinually oopfived in | We think differently, and rejoice in the glorious re(orma | for payment, Burkard wos informed that Teal bd . tative Alley, of Massachusetts, today reported | MAIL ROUTH FROM MINNEROTA TO WASHINGTON TERRITORY. | thes® Mithy holes on one pretext or another. It is | tion in Idaho. The country is now and secure,or | had no money in the bank to meet it, | causing @ gevoral smash of cars and unfortunately wound: » * Mr. Doxnxiy, (rep.) of Minn., presented the memorial | ‘h¢ uniform practice to feod any and all persons | will be whon the Vigilants have bung the remainder’ of | Toal was iinmoriately sought for, and when found | ing twenty-two persons. The mews reached Havana od 8 for a steamship line between the United States and }) perform twelve round trips yearly, the vessels sent to these cells on bread and r only. utenant Seat RLS RE TnIe ee Be Coes eenmnaat ot ® | Teed, of the, False Oia Voteabects, eras exrow foto ove (hat crowd, and to it scores of thor semi weekly mail route 8. Cloud, Minn , sure as ‘grass grows and water runs.’ Gold is there ip nds will flock es promised to go with Burkard and the money. The: Accordingly proceeded to the oxchauge. oftice, 110, Broad. the moment of the departure of the steamer Matanzas, m by way 5 ; two thousand tons, the expense to be | Of Fort Abercrombie, peta Territory, and pk thon 4 of these cells and kept there for forty-eight hours, with. | abundance to reward bonest industry. way, from which Teal soon slipped out, leaving Burkasd The Matanzas made the trip from Havana to Sandy horse in part by Brasil ocr ows chars. belag, limited to | ClOY? 148b0 Territory, to Walla Walla, Wasbington Terri. | oUt Miowed hay SMMaAD et Menrerceei tee omeer Cowbistie for his mousy. Me. Hyatt subsequently Hook in four days and a balf, having to compete with @ Artemus Ward has t! ughly 1 met with him ata ball on Thursday night last at Social Hall, where he had an introduction to a yery select company, und seemed th: wit the night to enjoy himself in the dance with the ners and sisters, How dillerent the (act from the fiction. Artemus’ visit to Brigham Young, on Tour qusre ogo, and bis bona fide visit jo 1864, will aan side by sido. Ho ‘‘speake bis Teal and asked him for the money, but it was not fi coming, and during the conversation the comm: merchant boasted that he owed $40,000 in this city, and had not a single judgment against him. Being convinced that Teal did not intend to pay for the clothing, Mr. Hiyatt proceeded before Justice Hogan, and made an ai/idavit of larceny against bim. The accused, who treated the mat- tor very coolly, was taken before the istrate and committed to the Tombs for trial, In default of $1,000 bail. It was stated in court that the prisoner had defrauded Messta. Hyatt, Clark & Co., of No. 140 Liberty Btrost, out of Bourbon whiskey worth’§1,400, and that he was also indebted to Messre. Hoffman & Curtis, No. 366 severe norther the whole passage. , OM Jupiter Fort onfthe 29th ult. , at fifteen minutes to five v. M., the Matanzas passed the steamabip Havana, bound for Havana and New Orleans. We havo toweturn our acknowedgments to Purser Care for his promptness in delivering over despatches. Our Hav: was very damp and cold, and he at that time was euler. ing from a most severe wound in the hip. the night of the 19th of December I received a com nication ier cael to come from one in authority stating that for one hundred dollars in grocnbacks aud two silver watches myself and frieud would be permit: ted to pass the guard. Some days 18 to this one of my officers succeeded in making his escape in this way, d although | was not without apprehension that it was trap, nevertheloss I resolved to try the experiment. Accordingly Capt, B.C. Reed, of the Third Ohio, and Myself went to the designated piaco at the appointed dwo hundred thousand dollars per annum. Hi twenty minutes past four the House adjourned, FRESH CONTRARANDS, ‘One hundyed contrabands, captured in General Custer’s @xpedition, have been added to the subjects ofthe Duke @ Arlington, the soudriquet given to Colonel Green, Chief @eartormastor of this aepartmont, and father of that etony. Personal Intelligence, The grand Bai Costume held at the New Orleans opera house, in celebration of the birthday of Washington, was the grandest of the season. Among the seventy persons who composed the committee of invitation were six for- eign consuls, seven generals, several naval officers trom the foreign vessels in the harbor, the commodore of the piece”’—The Pabes ig the Wood,’ in the great theatre to-morrow even! Professor Simmons, the Basiliconthaumaturgist,. the great necromancer, now on his way by overland to New York, gives @ great entertainment in the theatre on Correspondence, ? Ty wea, Fob. 28, 1964, From St. Domingo we em a ot Le] river 10, that the steamer Africa arriv EN ng PRISONERS RELEASED. A Moutenant and sixtoon privates of a Mississipp! rogi- Wore released. degree, veral r loaded with salt, ment, arrived front, took the oath and,| American flect, nine colonels and a host of officers of | hour, where we were assnrod that-it was all right. We | Thursday evening. He isa great card for some of the S08 prise 8 sehooner, . + —em lesser in addition to several importaft citizens. aes Nauhe t {mame ke Pat we a i a4 Y $i] theatreal managers. Whishet, whien De'bea tradutectiy ossinen Crome sien, bg egy aere a Puerto Cx! mR SUR General A. L, Leo, the daring cavalry officer, was cbair- | Touche, the Adjutant of the prlece and coven men aprars Jo rat United States mail to Idabo leaves here to. | several other firms bave also beon defrauded by the | fein, where thie ctoumer found a sohooner that bad ran, 'VIVORS OF THE REVOLUTION. . a ¢ prigon, and Feven men sprang | morrow morning. Schedule time between this and Ban- | hrisoner. Teal is twenty-six yours of ago, aud @ native i} i been pnt ashore. he wi rr ae Ni appears from letter of the Commissioner of Pen- | ™A0 of the floor committee, and Dr. Kellogg of the sup- | Out frm a concealed place and commenced firing upon | rock City five days and eight hours, By-the-by, the | Prneuer. county, in this Stale, be omy do Cube we learn that oF the, sons that only twelve of the Revolutionary soldiers aro | P@r committee, The gayety of a New Orloans winter was tone ba tana ieee vane wen ie the oy pete Very sorry that we shot Jason Lucefor | De racndh axp Annest OF a YooNo Bunatan.—About | Louisiane, of tie St, Nazaire line, wae eons, Bow living, whose ages range from ninety-four to one | More than outdone by the success of this ball, which ‘ is tad The Den eve Mice i on ; tilorable pomp on the morning of the ist Hie ote in trons and thrown into one of those flithy | murderers in Idaho, and they would have hung bim, but | half-past three o'clock yesterday morning officer Dins- as Di in. Soendrod sad five yetrs, snd whens penaioa caty amount | "M Eiren by Dire, Generel Datlt Dreed: and water.” Tho, weather ree very cold uring | O? came . more, of the Kighteeath precinct, diacorerea a young | "x" ac jet be eatablished at Kingston for repairing to from twenty-four 81x dollars per annum, General Hancock in Massachusetts. the time, and wi perished. There was largo man wi nares, down Third avenue with a quantity | large vessels. 0 English steamer Talisman artived at Havana on tha GENERAL KELLEY’S DEPARTMENT. ‘is! 5 amount of filth in the cell, which 1 could not induce them BALE OF THE PRIZE STEAMER CORRES. ir. Being suspicious that eome- Boston, March 4, 1864. | to remove, nor could 1 get them to it mo to re- Cie UeenTe een thing was wrong the officer quickened is pace, | 27th, with dates jp the 20th from aud Mata. ‘The Prize steamer Cores was sold to-day by Marshal La- Major General Hancock visited the State House to-day | Move it. 1 asked for paler, pam ‘and in! 0 write to the Repertea Mov mt ‘. whereupon the Talk dropped his loud, ‘apd ran rapidiy mores. Fothing poilltical Lah has ocourred since mon, at public salo, to Thomas Clyde, of Philadelphia, for interview with the Governor. Sw rebel authorfties. I also asked for a box to siton, of ements of the Enemy—Ac- | away, tho iceman following ‘in pursuit, and | Cortinas made bimeelf Governor. is sev seventeen thousand three hundred doliars. 0d bad an interview «Subsequently | which there was latge number in the colts, Put every tivity of the Guerilias, &e, crying “Stop. thier.’ — Omfcer’ Leonie, of’ the | to eight hundred men in protecting the highway a —_ he'was informally introduced to the members of tho | th: lonied mo. At tho time | was taken to the * ©. @VILSON’S DESPATCH. same precinct, joined in the chase and compelled teong ine Seeds a aetna wan concn, THIRTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Senate and House, ceil ‘ere six OF OuF men confined in one of these Heavquantans, Deranticext ov Weer Vinotma, tho fugitive to'tako refuge in the hallway of « house in | cmong ‘wore loading revolver and cells for attempting to ‘They had been thore for » Twenty-second street. The ofiicor ing to escape, for Europe, One of the latter (name not given) w: FINST BRSSION. , City Intel Six days without biankete, and two of them wore very | 1, Macen ¢, 1008. threatened to shoot the young he did not | burned lately to the cago.” She wan nearly (oated 7 of a were at tho end of seven days o! = surrender, Lt jes! * , OF sO Wasmnarox, March 4, 1864. | Tl €ive an interesting entertainment in the [neti | imight continue to enumerate instances of © similar | ieatiroad, 7 takeu to the station hooge, where ho gave tho name of | "The French were expected to attack the place, but s u " tule on Monday evening. They will appear in the cos. | character, but these will answer to give you an idea of ¥ Lhomag Tobitt, and said he was but sixtoom years of age. | Cortinag would,hold out to the last, The Minister of the MMPRORONMENT OF BOLUIERS OF THR NINTH MINNESOTA REG | ‘tumes of the olden time, and perform many pieces of sa- | what ie daily taking place. ibe to yon the A portion of Early’s command js roported as havin; i 0) by Tobin proved to have some navitie, Smalipox has iy 1 place. 1 cannot dercri A por 1 jeThe bundie dropped by La ‘Treasury of Juarez was at Brow: went, ‘ cred, i oa and sentimental music, wethaome Bithiness of these c@is. They ’re ee gone towards Lynchburg, : sbawila which be haa stolen eo ae a eo Rod Appeared to an alarming extent at this Tews" 4b instant, Vien Presipert prosented a report from the Secro. |, FYRRIN Warwen Sraast.—At about clevon o'olock last innumerable number of rate and m | Our active scouts And a sufficient number Sissi, We, Bee un tee Puerto Rico we have dates . 4 Dave no mark of bavi ned since they were number of had forced open the front door of the store and | y whe of War communicating, a answer to senate reso. | M'Ebt a fire was discovered on the third floor of the five | feat built, Ih ia necdlens for me to aay tate man can | moving io the mountains to give thom constant Polen therefrom eleven broche shawis, biankets, mus- | “oUblng of interest, ’ $ation of January 11, 1864, information retating to the | SFY building, 48 and 60 Walker street. The fromen | survive along confinement in & place of thie kind; and | ment in forroting thom outer ling, flannem, &c., in-all valued at $165, Before discover. Gil Wells om Fire. : and ima A Of soldiers of the Ninth Minnes | Kockacna rromptly to the alarm, and the flames were | although | am xequainted with reveral persons who have tain P ed by the officer fobin had taxen a back load of 2d ote arrest prisonmen| fooh extinguiebad. The four upper floors of the been confined there, Ido not know one who can now be | Captain Pinckbardt, who’ was exptnred with General | {5 nip houeo in Tweoty-eocond atredt, whore they were Borrao, March 4,804, (gota Fogiment by tho Mistour) authorities, The report | are occup! by John G. Shaw & Co., dealers called @ well man, Scammoo, was killed by our own mon while in the hands | recovered, The accused had jonded revolver jo bis r & fire at Oil Crock on ited tanks, mayen that ihe soldiers were immediately dibcharged)\ jo to As I have before remarked, it is impossible for mo tO | of « band of guerillas, yesersion, which is aleo supposed to have been stolen, ia and some enumerate in this commupication*but a few of the macy bin wae taken before Justice Ledwith and com- acta of erberity which bave come under my notice, mitted to prisow for trial im default of one thownand dol. Vhough 7 to ive you a sample of guch Jars bail. 4 ‘The report wat laid on the fable and ordered 10 be CAS ’ trifling Gampaad DY Water, Bow firms are fully jueured, The weather to-day te cloudy gud the temperature vory awed ‘ ' moderate