The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1863-01-15

"o'uin no aU 'he Meolcal department sh0 w a
remarkable exemp: ion from sickness among the
troops, for this season of the year. The enemy
are verJ zealOusly at work to-day, strengthen
ing their defences
FORTRESS MONROE, Jan. IL. The steamship
Karnak from Port Royal the 10th. bound for
New York, put IN here Today for coal. There
Yves nothing new at Port Royal. The troons
were very healthy. Gen. Hunter was daily ex-
pected.
Inc stea ner Express, under flag of truce
returned from Oily Point, to-day, having
brought down 2l5 Union prisoners and prlyates
captured at Fredericksburg and Dumfries.
CAIRO, Jan. a. The steamer Gra1pus. w.
ing at the mouth of Wolf river, was SURPRISED
and captured by thirteen rebels Sunday nieht
She was taken five miles above Memphis and
stripped and burned. The evacuation Of Hol
ly Springs is confirmed
1t Is reported in Memphis that 5000 rebels
had arrived at Lumpkin Mills, six miles below
hony springs, tor the purpose of repairing the
railroad.
The Bulletin says the expedition IN White
river has already reached Little Rock. having
lett the mouth of the river on the 5th.
FORTRESS MONROE, Jan. Is. The Richmond
Eran''ner OF the 18th, says we believe the tho
atre OF war on q large scale is about 20 he
transferred to North Carolina Stirring scenes
are imminent on Que soil.
The Richmonc Despatch of the 18Th, saws
The North Carolina papers indicate uanifest
uneaslness not FOR Wilmington and the country
east of Raleigh but for the capital itself.
New YORK, Jan. II, special Washing
ton dispatch states that the dispatches captured
OH Charlestown give many important facts and
details relative to the condition of the rebels
Ihey give the strongest statements of desper
ate straits to which the rebel leaders are redncad
ana snow tibet unless relieved, either by Euro |
pean interference or by dividing the free States.
they must give up their cause rs lost.
WASHINGTON, Jan. ii. The Committed an
Naval Affairs have, according to the resolution
passed unanImouly on Monday, commenced nm
inquiry into the practicabiity of connecting All |
our nava. and military stations between Ror-
resS Monroe and New Orleans by submarine
telegraphc cables
Cyrus w. Field, ESQ.,, of New York now
here' has presented to the government an Offer
from the celebrated firm of Messrs Glass Eliot
~ Co'' OF London to manufacture and submerge
caoies connecting all the points between Wash
lngton and New Orleans. They are to be paid
only on the successful completion and delivery
to the government OF the lines in good working
order. In other words, they take the entire risks
OF manufacture, shipping across the Atlantic, :
laying down and working the lines, etc.
Inc Importance of such arrangements for tel I
egraphing is admitted by all parties, both as t
matter OF economy and an actual military ne
cessity; hence there seems to be no doubt that >
CONGRESS WI
an appropriation for that purpose. The firm
OF Glass, Elliot Co. last year laid cable for
Inc English government one thousand five hun.
dred and thirty-fve miles long, which has been B
10 perfect working order ever since, while other o
lines land by them have been in uninterrunted n
operation from nine TO eleven years. B
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