Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1863-03-06

Late Northern News.
TRs' bill to enrolrand call out the militia
passed the yapkxe sHouse Of Representa-
tiyes, with amendmsnts-yeas lis, nays
| 40.
Tie Senate passed bill astfiofitg -she
President to suspend the writ Of haasds cor
pus-yeas "a, nays Is.
The New York World says: "It is NAH
fest that on every side the most terrible and
decisive battles of the whole war are about
10 take place"
The Baltimore Gazette says: IF it be
true that the weekly average Of deaths in
The army Of Mississippi is seven hundred,
The amount of sickness among the troops
must be terrible in the extreme, Under
such circumstances, the reslfmptioA cf active
operations on the part Of Gen. Grant APP
pears to be quite as much matter Of ne
eessity as Of good policy"
A Nashville dispatch, Feb, 9th, says =
s.Gen. Wheeler's whole force of four bri-
gades of Rebel cavalry are this side Of
columbia, Tenn, and reported to be car
rying off all able bodied contrabands South.
| A portion of this force arc within four miles
Of Franklin. Last night the Federal lines
were at franklin, and large force under
Colonel Gilbert was at that place. No fears
were entertained Of an attack by the Rebels. F"
It is asserted that Vice President HAM
lin has gone Northward for the sole pur-
pose of obtaining officers for a negro bril-
eade'which is being raised in Louisiana,
the officers of which are to be commissioned
by the Governor Of Maine.
| A train Of cars on Wednesday last, going
from Louisville to Nashville. we're captured
lat Woodburn, IL miles from Bowling Green,
1.-The cars we're burned and the locomotive
was turned loose and sent ahead, but did no
'futher damage.
The Alabama was seen on Feb. 10th in
attitude 81.
A transport with forage and provisions
has been captured by Morgan's men on
Barren river and it is feared another stea-
per bound for Bowling Green would share
he same fato.
It is reported that some of the Union boats
ave reached Red river via Lake Provi-
ence. It is also reported that serious dis
sters havo happened to the Union forces
nd troops, and that gunboats had been
aptured. At the SAME place eco Union
avalry we're also captured.
EE After all the reports and rumors we
ave hsd Of Hooker's army s'changing its
ase." it is now believed that the bulk and
trength of his forces are yet above Fred
ricksburg. It has been ascertained that
material subtraction has been made from
army operating there, and that, with
Absorption of Is, 900 men-sent to some
own point-the Yankee force is quite
as strong and formidable in numbers as it
has eves been. This gives new phase to
the situation about Fredericksburg, and
will again make that old borough tie centre
of interest -Eaan,iner.
The Lyoohburs "v Viz we'll re-
marks.
"We will have fought battles and won
victories and achieved immortal honors in
vain, if the staff of life is not produced in
sufficient supply for the pressing exigencies.
Let our farmers not be led astray by the
syren, Tobacco. Let them close their ears
to the voice of the charmer, Turing them
into fatal abyss Make corr! Make corn,
and other articles of consumption, to the
fullest extent Of land and labor-the all
will be we'll
Ey The Mississippian says A gentle
man from Holly Springs, Miss, says that
over one thousand negroes that have been
carried off by the Yankee troops have ran
away from the Yankees and returned. to
their homes and masters. They represent
that their treatmens by .'ths Yankees was
horrible. They were badly clothed, worse
fed, worked hard, and suffered greatly
from exposure to cold They say if this
Is Yankee freedom thew do not want anv of