Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1863-03-19

An apropos and useful pu blication. ..
THE AUToMAToN COMPANY; OR INFANTRY
SOLDIb0s' PRACTICAL INSTRUCTOR, and the
AUToMATON BATTERY; OR ARTILLERIsTss
PRACTICAL INSTRUCTOR By e. Douglas
beaverton, u. 5. A. ID. Van Nostrand: New
YORK For sale In this city by Franck Tay.
Ior.
We cannot judge properly as to the merits OF
these automaton instructors, but military men
speak highly OF them.
~The officers of the goth New York Regi.
ment, in body, after having first consulted
with the men, have signifed the willingness
OF the regiment TO re-Pnlst for the war pro-
vided II can be sent home about the first OF
Aprll-ore month before the expiration of Its
present term OF seryice-to recruit to the
maximum number. The proposition is to be
lad before the President and Secretary of War
Immediately.
ara day or two since a large Confederate
mail was captured in the vicinity Of Leonard
town, in st. Mary county. 1t was aiken to
Baltimore Yesterday, and an examination dis
covered most OF the letters 10 la We been sen,
from that city. But few, however, We're signed
by the writers, so that it will be difficult to
discover the authors of the anonymous epis-
tbs. The mail was contained in a pillow case.
which was nearly flied
Among the prisoners recently capture1I
March /, by General John Mcneil, in South
east Missouri, and since sent to St. Louis is a
captain X. T. Sickel. who was Rebel Provost
Marshal OF Bloomfield, Missouri On the per-
son of SiCkel was found a letter ins,ructiny
MIN S""'mdr'!y to hang certain pers0ns,n order 10
s1rs CTPtnss and TO prerent them from, demordlir-
rag ths Re isI public sentiment!
eSThe Ohio II gislaturs has adopted the
following resolution, offered by Mr. Flag, a
Union Democrat. as a response 10 some petit
lions TO- an armistice and peace:
50 se!rtd By the General ASs,mbfyof the STATE
Q OHIO, That We " Ill have no dissolution of
the Union; that We viii have no armistice
that we can ii ht as long as rebels and traitors
can that the war shall 90 until law is re-
stored and We will never despair OF the Re-
public"
ga large meeting Oh the friends and SUD-
poTbrs OF the movement 10 introduce law rep
IssentatIon into the councils OF the Methodist
Episcopa al Church was held on Monday after
noon, at the John street church, New York
AddTesse we've made by Gov. Wright, Bishop
simpson, Rev. DIR. Hatfield, Rev. Dr. Strong
and others, and s'ries Of resolutions embody-
ing the sense of the n'"etiue, was adopted.
REPCDIATED.-A- VT anticipated, Archbish
op Hughes has promptly repudiated the sse-
cesh' utterances of thu Metropolitan Record the
Catholic paper which for some years has been
his organ. He has withdrawn the use of hi :
name from the paper, and the words Official
organ OF the Archbishop OF New York" has
been taken of the Record aud Family Jour
Lal" cubs tituted.
d" letter from 8 PaTson Browalow" dated
81 NashvIle on the 9TH instant, among other
things, says:
Il told the people of the North, in nv
Srt Genes as thousands uf them WIll recolleci
h1t now reps at-that Is to saw one. half of
al The slaves ID the seeded States will fgb,
iCT th' IT v D'I ., AID fight 10 perpctuate their
OW n tODGsFe'
ENGLIsH CRiTICIsMs ON Mr. SEwARp,s
REILLY To FRENCH MISUNDERSTANDING Eng
hsh journals indulge in severe critislsm on the
letter of Secretary Seward declining the peace
proposition OF the Preach government, it is
Noticeable that nothing IA the way orunfriend :
iy comment from official or unofficial sources
Las reached our government from France
RAILWAY OPESIsG.-Western papers pub
lish an account Of the opening OF the Cedar
Rapids and Missouri River Railroad TO Mar
shaIltown, 2e2 miles west of Chicago The line
Is composed OF three roads, the Halena Air
Line 10 the Mississippi, the Chicago Iowa and
Nebraska to Cedar Rapids, eighty-two miles,
and the Cedar Rapids and Missouri river road.
q miles to MarshaIltown
Gov. Andrew Johnson of Tennessee no.
accepted the IN vitation oftha City Council. and
y III address the Union men of Baltimore On
fiday evening, at the MARYLAND Ius.jtuts
lion Horace Maynard, of T-nnesse- will Also
+Ttas; and Postmaster General Blair aad Sac
Tetary Chase are expected 20 ne present
"Lieut Col. J. Lowry Donaldson, Of tn
T. It'd
Is i.tr us depot quarterms.- ter in Baltimore.
t-l red upon the duties of that position ye,ter.
cay. Col Beiger Is ordered TO Carlisle. and
La retained Hon. Hrnry Winter DAVIS to de.
t'id ham be fore the court martial
NLw YORK AND WAsHIsGToN STEaYsH,p
i-iNE-Att~ntiOn is called TO the advertise.
III ~ VI 'hlS inc. The company is made w
Il enrrretic. wealthy and reliable men. and ;,
guarantee Is thus afforded that II will p..r,,-,,
all that II promises such a line. i, r,,,..,
Il, 81, q for m, District tr;tde.
REAPPOIN1 ED.-ii,. President mis- rnsrninc
1rappcih'en our fellow citizen, Andr-w J
" yiir, E~q, 10 A." one OF the Justices of the
Supr me Court al this Distr,tt This com
p.e'ez the iourt, which viii, of course. Al once
oTgarize ard proceed to business
THE HAYTIYs MIsIsTKR.-Fhe Hay,ien
2" mister, accompanied by the Secretary of
.-ta:e, visited the President yesterday on
( N.cIaI business.
The schooner Ii0rt-nse has en- captured
one or our cruisers, while trying TO rua
a. , the Suzanne TIyrr, Florida.
IPPGiSTKD-Mr ID w Phelps, Illinois, has
D. o appointed 10 "a firs'-cIas5 cl,Tkship in the
j, lr'frtut Of the Interior