Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-01-11

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WAsHtSeTos. Jan.9-Ihe United States Az
ricultural Society to-day &c elected President
Hubbard. Secretary Poor. Treasurer french. and
nearly all the old Vice Presidents. The Execu
tive Committee Was reorganzed. aud consists OF
Marshal 4. Wilder OF Massachusetts,; Frederick
Smyth Of New Hampshire: Isaac Newton OF Phil.
adelphia, Charles b. Calvert Of Maryland; lie
grand Byington of Iowa; I. ii. Sullivan OF Ohio,
aud NJ Myers of California
President Lncoln's recommendation for the
establishment OF m Agricultural and Statistical
Department was warmly commended, and he was
elected an honorary member.
The suggestion of the President and Treasurer
were debated and Endorsed, and large edition
WIS ordered 10 be printed.
The establishments of an Agricultural Depart
mcut was discussed and recon nendet
There was decided expression of opinion
against national exhibitions unless they can be
held At Washington WH
The Agricultural Society adopted series OF
resolutions adverting TO agricultural education
and prepared premium list Tor series of ex-
pcriments on the cultivation OF cotton IN the
Middle and Northern States--,so. of hemp and
hax. The awards are 70 be made by the Central
Agricultural SOCIETIES OF the States In which the
competitors reside. Arrangements are also per
iccted for a national exhibition OF native wines,
TO be held Ia this city ia January neat
Special dispatches from Washington 10 the
New York papers say
Members OF the Van Wyck Investigating Com
mluce have been 10 Boston, New York, and
Philadelphia. sharply looking into the ways un.
patriotic men have OF making money out of the
Government To the shameful Developments
already published they will add enough 10 IN.
flame the disposition which now exists in Con
gress % punish with death frauds committed on
the Government In time of war
The judiciary Committee this morning author.
ized the chairman ~ report resolution expolling
the two Missouri senators. Polk and Johnson.
The Colonel of regiment stationed NJ Hilton
Head, who came up on the Vanderbilt now here,
says lie has no doubt of his ability To take
Charleston with his single regiment. great Is
the Southern panic Houses In the interior are
known 10 have been abandoned by their owners
aud left in the same condition as the Beaufort
residences were found.
On Monday night council was held at the
Capitol between all the members of the Cabinet
aud the War Investigating Committee. which
lasted three hours. The propriety of silence as
TO the debate and conclusion twas brought 10 are
obvious.
1t is stated that the Cabinet officer whose lf,
has been spent in conrts of law, led the demand
for immediate battle aud thai the counsel for de-
lay came from the heretofore belhgerent mem
Der of the Administration.
On Wednesday morning several hours before
daylight. the Frceborn. Island Belle and Satellite
under the direction of Lieut.. Morgan command
ing the lower department of the Potomac hotilla
shelled the cncampment of a rebel regiment near
Yoaks Landing. just about daylight, on theiI
return IN Liverpool Point they ran within abou,
three quarters of mile of the Aquia Creek bat
terry and threw in some thirty or forty shells with
what effect is not known. The rebels, strange u
say mala "A a rsplV