Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Iowa) 1861-1864, 1862-03-13
From Washington.

From Washington.
President Lincoln has sent in a
message to Congress recommending
the adoption of a joint resolution, pro-
viding that If the people Of any State
desire the emancipation of their
slaves, the Government will aid such
state in pecuniary way for incon-
venicnces and expense incurred. The
President says:
The leaders Of the existing instruction en-
terrain the hope that the Government will ul-
timately be forced to acknowledge the indie
pendence of some part of the disaffected re-
gion, and that all the slave States north of
such point will then say the Union for which
we have struggled being already gone, we now
choose to go with them. To deprive them of
this hope substantially ends the rebellion, and
the initiation of emancipation completely de-
prves them of it as to all the States initiating.
The point is not that all the States tolerating
slavery would very soon, if at all, initiate
emancipation, but that while the offer is equal
ly made to all, the more northern shall, by
such initiation, make it certain to the more
southern that in no event shall the former
join the latter in their proposed Confederacy.
The Message was referred to the
Committee on judiciary.
In the Senate Mr.. Grimes presented
the memorials of certain Regiments
IF Iowa Volunteers, asking that
Springfield, Mill Springs, Belmont and
Fort Donelson be, inscribed on their
banners.
Mr.. Stark, the new Senator from
Oregon, whose loyalty was seriously
questioned, has been allowed his seat
by vote of &c to 10.
The House Committee on the Dis
trict of Columbia have agreed to SEN
ator Morril's bill providing for the alb
clifton of slavery in the District. 1t
is thought the bill will pass.
The following is believed to be a
reliable statement of the rebel forces
near the Potomac:
At Centreville, which is now the
strong point of the rebels, there are
$4,000 infantry, 1000 cavalry and
one hundred and twenty pieces of
cannon, light and heavy. Behind the
batteries along the Potomac, there
are from twelve to fifteen thousand
men. At Gum Spring, between Lees
burg and Centrevile, there are three
regiments Of infantry, with squad
ron of cavalry. At Leesburg there
are three regiments of infantry, one
battery and four hundred cavalry
Ten miles south of Manassas, there
is one brigade of infantry of $500
men. These forces do not include any
part of Jackson's army, forming the
enemy's left wing. against which Gen.
Banks is operating. At Manassas
there is not single full regiment,
whole companies, even regiments
having gone home on furloughs of ten,
twenty and thirty days. Nearly all
of the troops from South Carolina,
North Carolina, Tennessee and Louis
lana have gone home within the past
two or three weeks. Very few of the
men whose term of service has expir-
ed are re-enlisting.
A letter from Richmond, dated over
month since, from person still a
resident of the South, and with excel
lent opportunities of knowledge, says
the rebel army on paper is 400, 900
but in the field not quite 200, 900, and
part of them indifferently armed. He
says the rebel army on the whole line
of the Potomac is only about 10000,
and thinks Southern troops whose term
of enlistment expires on the first of
May, will not re-enlist if they eau pos
sibly avoid it.
Gen. Banks forces reached Martins
burg on the Sd inst. without opposi-
ton, and the pickets continue to bring
in prisoners.
Intelligence from Winchester leads
to the belief that Jackson is there in
full force, and has completed his pre-
parations to oppose our approach. His
army is well provisioned, supplied
and clothed.
Gen. Mcclellan has issued a general
order, dismissing Col. Kerrigan from
the service for the various offences of
which he was convicted by courtmar-
tial.
The privateer Nashville has return
ed from England. She deceived our
blockading vessels by hosting the
U. S. flag, and passing directly under
their guns was soon protected by the
batteries Of Fort Macon. 1t is said
that she brought into Wilmington a
valuable cargo of bank note paper.
A letter from Port Royal says that
Fort Pulaski is entirely surrounded by
Union troops, aad is eflectually cut off
from communication with Savannah.
Colonels Corcoran and Wilcox, and
other Federal prisoners, have arrived
at Richmond from Columbia, S. c., and
are waiting transportation to Fortress
Monroe. 1t is thought, however, that
tho arrangements for their return are
not fully completed.
1t is reported from Richmond that
John Minor Bolts has been arrested
and thrown into prison for manifesting
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