The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1862-05-24

news Oh tuC Dhys
The tax bill is not We, perfected in the
Senate.
The advance OF Gen. McCLELLAS's army
remains within eight and half miles o.
Richmond, Gen. SroSEMAS took a view
of the rebel capital from balloon, or
Wednesday.
The number of additional volunteers to
be called out by the President will not ex
coed 100, 900, and, according to one state
ment, is limited to $4,000. A new regi
men. of infantry is 10 be Immediately raise,i
in Indiana.
We have advices from General Halleck's
army up to the evening of the slst inst
There had been skirmishing along the whole
line Yesterday. with small loss on our side,
The object was to feel the enemy, select po'
si,iuns, &c To relieve public anxiety we
may remark. that it is not likely general
attack will be mde, for two or three days
at least.
! Col Which. the heroic Colonel Of the
/ Indiana German Regiment. has been NOM
mated for Brigadier General. The country
will approve Of this.
The Uaion State Central Committee OF
Missouri have called Mass Convention. to
assemble at Jefferson City on the 10th OF
June, to be composed Of persons without re.
gard to past party connections, who favor
the following proportions:
4 lst Who concur in support OF the policy
ofthe National Administration, especially
in its vigorous prosecution OF the war to put
down rebellion; punish treason, and main
tain unimpaired the honor OF the Federal
4 Government and the entirety OF the Union
of the States.
I'd. Who desire to respond favorably to
=. toI nv n
Presiden, and endorsed by large majority
in tina. misunderstanding national aid to
those States willing to liberate their slaves
by promptly initiating here in Missouri q
system Of emancipation through such pro
cesses as may be just, humane, economic
and constitutional.
Nj. Colsax, from, the House p. o. Com
mittee. reported yesterday against the Sen
ate bill doing away with the restriction to
whites OF the privilege OF carrying the
; mails. The question did not reach a vote.
The sweeping CONSUMPTION &c, OF jeff.
Davis, instead of adding to the strength OF
the rebel cause, will most probably have
powerful influence in its destruction. 1t is
known, that the Governor of North Carroll
ma has refused to furnish any more troops;
and that Governor Letcher Of Virginia, We
hemenIy protested against it. Even In
sAss &c roGaa. azas,sess. gas tfev-.s uu-
der Col Jefries, forty niles from Bloomfield
+ and reports from Chalk Bluff. that he seiz.
ed ferry boat and crossed under tho en-
emy's fire, routed and pursued them six
miles into Arkansas. they fleeing into
swamps. We had two Lieutenan wound
ed-one MORALLY one private killed and six
wounded. The enemy lost II wounded,
; who were captured: also. provisions. horses
1 4
killed the rebel Colonel Schnable.
Commodore Porter's mortar fleet has beer
taxing soundings of Mobile. 1t was fred
at on the 9TH, while engaged in this duty.
new bank is to be established a. Gin.
ton, Oneida Co.. N. Y, called the Lincoln
Bank.
Ls- General Butler, the Memphis papers
state, has arrested the rampan Mayor of
New Orleans and bis abetting City Council.
and lodged them in the calaboose He has
also put stopper on the mouths of rebel
papers. They all refused to publish his
| proclamation. He sent for a squad of prin-
tiers IN his own ranks, and they put it in
type. put it ia the form, and worked off the
edition.
LxS- The tax Of 90 cents per gallon On
whisky, and 20 cents per pound on tabacco.
reported by the Senate Committee it is esti-
mated, will yield $4,000 900.
Es- Congress has passed bill requiring
oath Of allegiance to be administered to the
persons Offering TO vote whose loyalty shall
be challenged.
l There were some So,OO men er gag
ed in the battle of Williamsburg, 80 900 +
under Mcclellan agains. $4,000 rebels. |
The battle lasted all day.
1 Lieutenant Worden, who bore him ,
Sntf
great fight between the Monitor and the
Merrimac. has been appointed Commando
or the new iron clad frigate Ironsides.
The Ironsides is the larges. iron clad vessel
in the navy.
PRisoNERs EscAPED-Fiteen prisoners
on Monday afternoon. escaped from the
Michigan City State Prison by bursting a
hole through the door at the entrance of the
railway. Two were recaptured and brough,
TO Wings tavern. at the New Albany d
Salem Railroad crossing. one of whom again
escaped. The fourteen are still at large
Ev The Indiana Journal of the Goth
says:
We learn that authority will be given in
q few days to organize one regiment of To-
fantry. the recruits and officers to be taken
from such Of the 18th and 18th Indiana
regiments, now mustered out of service, as
may wish to re enlist. The two regiments
will of course return home first.
1t is highly probable that future::call will
be made upon Indiana for one or more regi-
ments of volunteers, in few days We
doubt not the call will be promptly re-
sponded 10, and that Indiana will be as ready
to obey this call for additional troops. as
she has on former occasions. The details
Of the organization of the regiments will be
made known by the Adjutan, General ia a
lew days. should the requisi,ion be made.
1t is said that The President. through the
OF War, will in a few DAYS issue
IN order calling upon the States for addi-
ional volunteers. II is stated in military
circles ths, our whole effective force in the
ieli is not more than five hundred thousand.