Daily national Republican. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1862-1866, 1863-01-12

GLEANINGs FROM our EXCHANGES.
General McClernand succeeds General sher-
man, and has gone to vlcksburg.
The Union men of Wilmington, Delaware,
have fred one hundred guns in honor Of tho
victory at Murfreesboro'.
General Hlndman has executed ten Federal
officers in retaliation for the Mcneil affair.
The Capitol at Baton Rouge has been burned.
The steamer 81. Louis LEFT San Francisco on
the 10th with eighty passengers and SSOO, 900
in specie for New York and 100000 for Eng
land.
Hon. W. A. Richardson has been nominated
by the Democratic members of the Legislature
for U. 8. Senator.
Billy Wilson's zouaves are said to have taken
the State prison, at Baton Rouge, and locked
themselves In, and then declared themselves at
home.
Bragg admits that he found the Federal force
too much for him, so he fell back.
Richmond papers express the fear that the
Yankees will take East Tennessee, from which
zoo, 900 men cannot cIpel them.
Governor Andrew, of Massachusetts, deliv-
cred his message TO the Legislature Of that
State on Friday last. 1t ia a lengthy document.
Six additional mortar-boats have Joined the
feet Of General Banks at New Orleans.
The Army of the Cumberland is at present
supplied with subsistence to meet all of Its
wants up to the 25th instant.
Four complete batteries were sent from Indl-
annapolis To supply the place Of those which
were captured at Murfreesboro'. A large sup
ply Of arms and ammunition was also for
warded.
A new expedition lie to be fitted out speedily
from New York. The public will not he noti-
fled Of its destination till 1t strikes a blow.
Gen. Hlndman ordered the town of Van Blu
rem to be shelled after II was occupied by our
troops, without giving the women and children
any notice. Had Federal general done such
deed, the London Times and other English
press would have howled loud and long over
the barbarity.
The new and splendid ship George Griswold,
laden with food for the suffering operatives of
Lancashire, sailed on Saturday from New
York for Liverpool
The California portion of the Pacific railroad
was lnaugurated with imposing ceremonies at
Sacramento on the Sth inst.
The Richmond Dispatch says that should
General Rosecrans take and hold East Tennes-
see, the Confederacy is cut In two. SO mote II
be.
The New York World delights In slandering
Gen. Butler. The rebels down South take pleas.
ure in the same thing.
Tdnity Fair Is hereafter to he issued as q
monthly. Vanity Fair Is about played out
The Chronicle of this morning thinks that
the rebel victory at Galveston ia of no conse
quence in a strategetcal point Of view. W.
hope not.
JEFF. Davis in his recent speech says: 81 lool
for the first CLEAN of peace from the North
west" When Port Hudson and Vicksburg ar,
ours, JEFF will look In vain for the CLEAN.
The Richmond Enquirer ridicules the propo
sitIon Of Hon. james Brooks, that New Jersc.
, be called upon as a sort Of umpire TO settle on
national troubles. II says that is an evidenC
Of Northern terror. The Enquirer is mistaken
1t is only an evidence Of Northern du,tkyiSn
The Arkansas Legislature has passed a bill
imposing fine of not less than 500 nor NOR
than 81 900 and imprisonment in the penIten
tlary for from FIVE to ten years upon any per
son who shall trade with the Yankees.
1t is said a proposition is to be laid befor
Congress appropriatlng ten millions of dollar
to aid Maryland to get rid of slavery.
5 The State of Indiana has furnished lO9, 90
men for the war. So says Governor Morton.
It is now admitted that Anderson's regimen
OF Pennsylvania cavalry, with the exception {
about three hundred, did mutlny in the face {
> the enemy, and refuse 10 go into the fight
MurfreesborO'.
MAssACHUsRTTs IN FAyOR OF THE GRRA