The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1863-01-31

organization of his department as will re-
lieve him from future necessity of more than
one assistant. 1t is understood Mr.. VOL
colt retires. Mr. Watson remains as As
sistant Secretary.
The exposure made by member of the
Pennsylvania Legislature, in reference to
alleged bribery and corruption. in which
Gen. Cameron is a party, is to be made the
subject of inquiry on the pant of the Sen
ate.
A flag of truce boat went to City Point
on the Gath, to bring down the Federal
prisoners captured at Murfreesboro. 1t is
hoped it will also bring down several Union
officers.
| Everything seems to indicate that our re-
lations with England and France are now in
very satisfactory condition. II is given
out at the State Department that they have
highly cheering advices from Europe, and
particularly from England. giving accounts
of popular reaction in our favor. UnOfi-
cial advices also represent the middle and
lower classes exerting healthy influence on
their Government, in our behalf At the
State Department they go so far as to speak
of the late advices as precluding the posi-
bility of Intervention for months to come.
The Liverpool Chamber of Commerce has
adopted resolution for giving suitable
reception TO the first ship coming from
America with provisions for distressed po-
eratives, and to convey to the liberal donors
their appreciation of their generous and
friendly spirit. They referred theaction of
the New York Chamber of Commerce, in
gard to the Alabama, to standing commit
tee. Most of the English journals have at
tackled the Times with great bitterness, and
repudiate its recent advocacy of slavery on
scriptural grounds. The Liverpool Post
thinks reaction will take place, and that
confidence is lost in journal which un
blushingly justies slavery. The Army &
Navy Gazette says the Confederate Gener-
ais have been overpraised. Their great
strength has been to stand and fight, and
not one of them seems to have made cam
paign with a purpose. Not one of them
has had the capacity to understand the value
of victory, and has never followed one up.
A special to the Tribune says that Count
MERCER, has repeated today his assurance
of the friendly regard of the Emperor Ma
poleon, and said he wished to have it an
nounced that the intention of France in her
proposal of mediation, and in her expedition
to Mexico, are in connection with the most
friendly feelings toward the American I'm
ion and American interests. That in re-
gard to Mexico particularly, the Emperor
had no purpose to interfere with American
rights, or the rights of nations, but only to
maintain the honor of France.
Secretary Seward has notified the Medi-
cal Bureau that ladies IN the Grand Dnrhy
of Oldenburg, Germany, are engaged in pre-
pairing lint, &c, for our soldiers.
One of the best pieces of information that
We have to lay before our readers this week,
is the sentence and disgrace of Gen. Fitz
John Porter. The trial has been long and
tedious, and it was feared that Porter would
be disc harged; but the result is all that ev
cry truly loyal man would ask. A Wash
ington telegram says: Porter is found
guilty of every charge which Pope had pre-
f0rred against him. He is dismissed from
the service he has dishonored and betrayed.
The result is not generally known in the city
yet, and little can be said, therefore, of the
impression it makes. Porter's friends, how
ever, will be utterly COMPOUNDED. They
protested to believe emphatically in his ac-
quittal. and general and positive announce
ments to the same effect in Washington and
Philadelphia papers, have led the public at
large to the same belief. How it affects
Pope's reputation, on the other hand. will
be equally marked. A member of the court
martial said, the evening before it adjourn-
ed, that he believed Pope's campaign before
Washington to have been the most bril-
liant one of the war. The result of this trial
will 60 far to increase such impression
The effect on Mcclellan, who regretted that
there was not grade still higher than Ma
jor General that Porter might be decorated
with it, would be equally damaging, but for
the fact that the developments of the last
week or two have left him no reputation to
damage.
A dispatch, dated at St. Louis, 91st. says:
"a report has been received at headquarters,
to the effect that part of General Herron's
force in Northwestern Arkansas had sue