Nebraska advertiser., 1862-01-02

.keSOtUeds mat q CD0IDoQs Two o6CEC-
taries, and a committee os tweniy-one
members, each having been duly and
separately proposed and seconded, be
chosen by a majority Of voices Of this
meeting to take into consideration the
a~dvisability of an organisation in the
present state Of affairs II home and a.
broad.
The Liverpool Post says the whole
purpose of the meeting was to express,
in every variety Of place, sympathy with
America. 1t is quite natural that this
should be the tendency Of the Irish, even
apart from their hatred Of England, for
scarcely any Irish family is unrepresen-
ted in the United States. The meeting,
however, was useless and needles.
The Liverpool Mercury says that the
only item Of Importance in the latest
news from the United States is a brief
abstract of the address of President Davis
to the Confederate Congress. The adj
dress, it ads, is hopeful and determined
in q and shows that a war so stupidity
persevered in by the North como posi-
bly, effect the subjugation Of the South.
It is stated hat evidence will be laid
before the European Government that
the blockade of the Southern ports is in
effectual, and consequently illegal.
The London Times, in a city article,
says it must be kept in view, that the de-
signs of Mr.. Seward are reported for
some time to have beent the cause of dlsa-
greement in the Washington Cabinet
That the decision Of the present question
therefore, is not entirely In the hands 81
that parsonage.
Later advices are waited for with grear
anxiety, as it seems that the course Of
circumstances may be much modified by
anything that may take place between the
opposing armies in the interval from now
to the arrival of the British demands.
Paris papers assert that the dispatches
sent by the British Government to Lore
Lyons, although cOuched In moderate
language, are nevertheless in1exible il
their conclusion, which is the restitution
of the commissioners. If this is refused.
Lord Lyon is to leave Washington, witt
all the members of the legation.
The same journal afirms that the En-
glish war vessels, which are now being
prepared for sea, would leave for Amer
lea in the beginning of January, &c.
The London Observer ministerial,
ridicules she idea of submitting the Tren
question to arbitration, and denies tina
Capt. Wilkes would be justified in taking
the ship into a prize court.
ST. LOUIS, %.
The Republican to-day publishes
large batch of interesting Southern news
from which the following is compiled
Clab. Jackson was at New Madrid
Dec. 18th, and issued a proclamation
calling for $4,000 State troops, congrat
ulating the people on their union will
the Southern COnfedercy, and urging on,
more season of sacrifice as certain L
bring independence, sc.
Jeff. Thompson publishes Order No.
Is, which informs the members of the
Missouri State Guard, first division, thar
as Missouri is now a member of the
Southern C~onfederach, the State Guarc
is dissolved, and at an early day the
present members, and all other patriotic
citizens, will have an opportunity to vol
unteer in the Confederate Provisional
army, and form new companies and reg.
imentS and r~e-elect officers.
The New Orleans Delta of Dec. 10Th.
says: 1t is something of a paradox thal
with the very large yield of cereals last
summer, consumers would have to submit
to about famine prices. Louisiana is
furnishing sugar and molasses at unpre-
cedently low prices, and in return she is
charged exhorbitant prices for what her
inhabitants want to buy. All this and
something more looks very well for one
side. A Louisiana planter selling sugar
at 2 to 3 tents per pounds, and buying
pork at IL to Is cents per pound on foot,
End corn from so cents to 81 per bushel,
does not indicate an equitable exchange
of commodities.
The Houston Telegraph of the I'd inst.
states that Galveston has been evacuated
and the movable property, public and
private, was being removed to Houston
Hon. w. P. Hill arrived at home a
few days ago, from whom we gain sub
stantially the following facts:
On the 20th ult. a council of war was
held at Galveston, at which it was deter
mined that it was impossible to defend
the city successfully. The largest guns
at the for tiications upon the Island were
o. FOUNDERS, smooth bOres, having a
range not exceeding two miles, while the
enemy'f guns were Of the largest calibre,
shooting with accuracy three or four
miles. To await an attack was simply to
invite the surrender or destruction Of our
troops and the city without the power of
INJECTING injury upon the assailants. Il
was though best, therefore, under all CIR
cumstanceS, to vacuate Galveston and
occupy a position in the rear of the city.
so as to repel any advance of the Federal
troops after they had landed.
In consequence of this determination
order was issued for the removal of all
the hospital patients from Galveston TO
Houston. which was accomplished imme-
diately. All the public and private prop
erty was being rapidly removed to Hous-
ton when Judge Hill left Galveston.
PALMYRA, Mo. Dec. %.
Major Mckee, with lO3 men of Col