Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-04-05

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Special to TIE Tribunel
! WAsHNGTON, March 26-Gen. Halleck'
/ commissioners appointed to visit the Fort Don
elson prisoners at Chicsgo, had reported tn.
names of l00G rebels as adverse to taking tn,
oath of allegiance; but Schuyler Colfax protested
against their release on those or any other terms
and the President revoked the commission, enc
prohibited the discharge of any more rebels
Special to the New York Heraldl
An individual named Pollock reached here TO-
day, having come from Culpepper county. Vir
ginia, where the rebel army now lies He is
known in Washington as a reliable and an in.
telligent man. Mr.. Pollock states that in the
vicinity from which he came, there is a local in
suTection among the white people, who are bit
ter in their opposition 10 the rule of jeff. Davis
The people, he says, feel that the rebel cause is
hopelessiy lost, since the retreat from their
stronghold at Manassas The rebel defeat at
Winchester has also depressed them, though ev-
cry effort has been made to conceal the bad news
from the public and that portion of the army
which was not engaged in the fight. He doubts
whether the rebels will have pluck to stand if
they are attacked at Gordonsville.
Special to the Herald
A few lays since the pickets along the lower
Potomac and the Chesapeake bay were drawn
in by Gen. Hooker. The rebel 4ympathizers in
lower Maryland took this as an intimation that
the United States forces were about to leave, and
they Immediately commenced sending their
slaves to Virginia for the rebel service. This
peTfdy did not escape the vigilance of the gen
eral. He Immediately ordered the arrest of some
six or eight ringleaders, who are among the
most prominent citizens of that section of Mary
land. They viii be handed over to the authori-
ties at Washington, with the evidence against
them, which is said to be of the most conclusive
character.
The amendments thus far made to the tax bill
are not decisive, but merely the action of the
committee of the whole, tue House, not having
finally acted upon them.
It Is believed that Congress will, in conform
ty with the bill propos ed by the Secretary of the
Treasury, increase the tax on tobacco, whisky,
and other luxuries. The hasty clause taxing the
stock OF whisky now in the hands of dealers
viii probably be reeonsidered. The bill with
this clause stricken out, win be uniform and more
acceptable.
Special to the New York Commercial
WASHINGTON, March 27.-News has been re
eeived at the Navy Department confirming the
statement that the Merrimac is again ready for
sea. Lieut.. Jeffers, of the Monitor, sent word
this morning to Capt. Dahlgreen that be had no
fears of the result Of the next contest
The House Of Representatives will strike out
the tax on liquors manufactured previous to the
1st of May.
The committee on ways and means agree to
modify the tax on leather made from hides i'm
ported from east Of Cape Of Good Hope, and on
all damaged leather, TO One-half cent. per pound.
All other sole and rough leather is to pay three
1ofe A l..
in part or whole with oak to pay one cent per
pound
The Republican has positive information that
the Democratic caucus night before last agreed
to approve the Presidents emancipation plan,
and favor McClellan's war policy, which is for a
war short and desperate, and for our glorious
Union as q whole. This is emPhatically Mr..
Bincoln's war policy.
As soon as the bill making appropriations
comes up in the Senate, amendments will be then
adopted to complete the Stevens battery and for
the construction of a number of iron clad vessels
of war.
Secretary Wellss is asking Congress for $780,
100000 to make iron clad ships and heavy ord
nance
The bill reported by Senator Pearce to-day,
from the committee on finance, provides that the
authority given to the Secretary of the Treasury
to refund and remit the duties on imports of all
arms imported into the United States by or for
the account Of any State shall extend only to
arms for which orders or contracts were made
prior TO January /, 1862: Pr0Dided, that the
Secretary shall have satisfactory proof exhibited
to him that the arms were actually purchased in
a foreign country for the account of State,
and the price paid for the same was only the
FIRST COS and the usual and customary charges
attending the purchase Of the same exclusive Of
duty
The attempts that are made to connect the
present supervision of the telegraph with the
censorship lately reported on by committee in
Congress render it proper to state that the cen
sorship Of the telegraph was abolished by the
Secretary Of War on taking military possession
of tue telegraphs, and military supervision OF
the telegraph throughout the United States is
substituted.
The duty of the supervisor is to prevent the
transmission by telegraph of information con-
cerning late, present, or contemplated move
msnts Of the army of the United States, and al
other information Of military character that
ought to be concealed from the enemy. In al
that relates to political or private affairs the tee
graph is as completely unTestricted as it was be
fore the commencement of the war.
The Invaders at Washington, North Care.
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From the Wilmington Journal
By private letter fro u Washington, Beaufort
county, kindly shown to us, we learn that on