The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1862-01-30

FROM NORFOLK.
LATEST NORTHERN NEWS.
A PANIC IN WASHING TON.

Especial dispatch - he 1iehmond Dispaash. ]
NORFOLK, Jan. 3s.-Ysstsrday three Con.
fedsrats omssrs, from North Carolina, cap
tured At Hattsras, who were coming South
to BE- exchanged, wers detained at Fortress
Monroe, and not allowed to come to this
city by the nag Of truce boat, notwithstand.
Ing urgent rsmonstrancss. No reason was
given for their detention.
been received here.
There was great panic at Washington on
the night Of the 27th, on account OF Q report
that tho Federal troops had met with q ter
rible and bloody disaster at Bowling Green,
Kentucky.
It was supposed that the Treasury note and
loan bill would be passed In the House of
Representatives on the 2sth inst, unosr the
prompting Of stern necessity. Great oppo.
sition was expected.
1t is said tina. Secretary Stanton has
adopted an en- tirely new system Of arrange
ments In the War Department for the dis
patch Of business, one that greatly expedites
work.
Stanton says he has eighty regiments Of
cavalry, and refuses to mount more. He
says that fifty would answer.
The traitor, Segar, delivered an address at
Alexandra on Tuesday night, on the poii,i-
cal question a. 1t relates to citizens Of Viz.
ginia.
The Methodist Episcopal Church South, at
Alexandria, Is occupied by Federal forces as
q barracks.
Fuel at Washington is very high. Pine
wood is selling at seven dollars.
The Federal steamer Baltic il at Annapo-
lis.
There is great activity in the Philadelphia
Navy-Yard. Fifteen hundred men are now
at work, and will, 1t is said, be employed for
= long period.
Seward, accompanied by the Orleans Prin.
cess. was at Philadelphia on Sunday.
Gen. Fremont is In retirement at Wash.
ington, preparing his report.
Sales Of stocks in Baltimore are limited
Virginia 6's slightly advanced; North Uaro.
lima 6's have declined.
In Baltimore the price Of Rio CO dee is lsasO:.
per pound. In New York, ON the p tn inst -.
sales were made of eight hundred bags, at
SIC. per pound. Mess pork Is held ut l2c.;
sugar, 7ac.
The War Department has ordered that
Bishop Ames, of the Methodist Church, and
the Hon. II. Fish, Of New Y ork, be appoint ted
Commissioners to the rebel States, 10 visit
Richmond and elsewhere, under such regula
ton as may be prescribed by the authorities,
to relieve The necessities Of the Federal pris-
oners confined In the South. Both Commits
sioners have accepted, and will accompany
number Of prisoners to Fortress Monroe.
Gen. Sieg-ps resig nation has not been &C.
copied. He VIII remain in the service of the
United Stateq Cnvsrnmant
The House Committee have decided to re-
port against abolishins slavery in the Dis
trict Of Columbia.
The House Committee on Roads say that
railroad facilities between New York and
Was HIN gton will be speedily increased. The
army IL suffering FOR supplies. and a new
line Is proposed Via Jersey City, Easton, and
Philadelphia.
Bills have been offered reducing ths ex
penses In both branches OF Congress two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars an.
nually.
The Danish bark Jurgen, from Rio, bound
tor Havana, with five thousand bags of cof-
fee, was seized on the morning Of the 18th
inst by the Federal ship Morning Star, and
ordered to Philadelphia.
There has been destructive fire at Boston