Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1863-05-15

TER, Esq, Register of Wills, vice john w.
SPATEs, deceased. The appointment of Mr.
G. to fill this important trust, will, we doubt
not, meet with general appreciation. His
strict business habits, and long Identification
with the business men of the county, must
render his appointment satisfactory to all.
HOOKER NOT ACROSS THE Kappa
HANN0CK.-Th reports that have been GO
ing the rounds Of the papers the past week,
that Hooker had re-crossed the Rappahan-
mock, have not the slightest foundation in
truth. According to the Star, of yesterday,
he was then in Washington.
ANOTHER EDITOR SENT SOUTH.-T.
X. ROBSON, Esq, editor of the Easton md J
Star, was arrested on Saturday last, taken to
Baltimore, and the same day sent beyond the
limits of the United States. Mr.. R. (remarks
the Marlboro Gazette edited good paper,
but it seems to have been obnoxious to the
military rulers of Maryland. If Messrs ROB-
soN, DowSrs and BARRoLL WELD the shooting
stick as skilfully as they did the pen, the peo-
pie beyond the lines will not have cause to re-
greet their advent into the land of Dixie.
TEN THOUSAND UNION PRISONERS
TO BE EXCHANGED.-T Fortress Mon
roe correspondent of the Philadelphia Hqui-
rer, under date Of the llth instant, writes
Rebel Commissioner, Robert 0ULD, came
down on the lag-of-truce boat to Newport
News this morning, and reported that five
thousand Union prisoners were now at Rich
mond waiting to be exchanged, aud that five
thousand more will be there in day or two
These were all taken, according to the Rebel
Commissioner, at the last battle of Frede-
ricksburg. His object was to have an imme-
diate exchange made"
THE WEATHER. 1.-The excessive heat of
the weather, on Tuesday last, has excited &C.
neral remark. In New York outdoor labor
ers were compelled to suspend work, and ma
ny horses fell in the streets from exhaustion.
Only few days previous fires and overcOats
were necessary to comfort in that city. In
Philadelphia the thermometer went up TO 90
degrees in the shade; but at night the severe
thunder storm, which passed over here also
prevailed in that city, as well as New York,
and considerably cooled the atmosphere.
THE FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW-Thc spc-
cial correspondent of the New York Express
writes from Washington: " \ Maryland fu-
gtive slave, caught, imprisoned, and brought
by habeas corpus before the new Supreme Court,
is about to furnish solution of the constitu-
tionality of the fugitive-slave law, and its APP
plication to the District. Judges Carter, Dim,
Fisher and Wiley are all on the bench Messrs
Joliffe and Dean plead for the black man S
freedom; Messrs. Bradley and Cox oppose"
THE LOSS OF REGIMENTS IN TILE
LATE BATTLES.-The One Hundred and
Twenty-second Pennsylvania Volunteers (says
the New York World) left their homes nine
months ago / 300 strong, and returned on
Monday only 300. The One Hundred and
last fall with 900 strong, went into the en-
paign $50 strong, and only 300 came out. An
Indiana regiment, ut Washington, has only
200 left of the original ,o46.
THE DRAFTED MEN order has been
issued from The War Department to the follow
ing effect;
Under the enrolment act, drafted men
will be actually in The United States service as
soldiers from the fact of being drafted it is
therefore ordered that they be put in uniform
and provided with knaPsacks, haversacks,
canteens, tin cups, &c, as soon as they report
TO the district provost marshals. The quarter
master-general will fill the acquisitions of the
provost marshal general for clothing, &c, for
This purpose, to be delivered at such points as
the latter may designate"
PRINTING PAPER FROM BELGIUM
The New York Times is now printed on paper
imported from Belgium. The paper is of very
good quality, and cost in Belgium seven and
half cents pound. Duties, exchange and
insurance bring the price up TO sixteen cents
in New York. The importation had good
effect it is claimed in keeping the paper ma
kers from raising their prices, as they intended
WOUNDED BURNED.-The Washington
correspondent of the New York Times, says;
I" The truth of the report is now satisiacto-
riy aScertaincd that some of our wounded
VINO were ~ lhs III tue No"us aIouuu tudn-
cellorsvlle were burned to death. The woods
were fired by our own and me enemy's shells,
and the flames spread rapidly until the rains
fell"
THE PRIvATEER ALABAMA The Liv-
crpooI Post, of the goth ult., publishes the
following:
"The intelligence last received Of the Ala
bama is that on the 23d Of February, in lati-
tude 3d. longitude A, she brought to the Bri-
fish ship Prince Of Wales, and reported hay
ing destroyed thirty-four Federal vessels dur
ing the cruise. On the same day she spoke the
ship Gil Bias, and reported having burnt a
very larR. vessel bound from California to
Queenstown"
VALLANDIGHAM TO BE BANGSHED.-
II is stated that yallandigham has been con-
victed of the charges preferred against him,