True Democrat., 1863-02-11
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his Congress proposes to enrol all ctlzenS and ex- emptions will be granted after the draft is made. Large bountes offered for volunteers. He is authorized to call out the militia for two years, these are to be placed on footing with the regn- ar army, to be sun marily executed for assertions, and $5OO fine is to be imposed, and two years inn prisonment on all who resist the draft. We hope the bill will pass, as it will produce civil
 Lincoln has nominated F. P. Blair, for Major General of volunteers
 - A dispatch from Washington says that 80 army officers are to be dismissed for improper Ian guage in reference to their superors, in speaking of the removal of Mcclellan.
 - Grant, McClernand, x Co.,, had set the 10th day of February for the attack on Vicksburg.
 Gen. Churchill and staff, and q number of the officers taken at the Post, left St. Louis on the 27th ut., for Columbus, Ohio. The remainder off the prisoners to be sent forw ard by the next train.
 - Banks has sent to Port Royal for large supply of intrenching tools. The inference is that he intends to dig into Port Hudson.
 - The legislatures of Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio and Illinois, propose to meet at Frankfort, Ky. Resolutions are before these bodies to that effect.
 - Lincoln not liking the strictures of the Philadelphia Evening Journal has ordered the vost marshal to take possession of the office of that paper.
 - Senator Salisbury, from Delaware, made
 violent anti Lincoln speech in the Senate, on the 27th ult. He was called to order but refused to obey. Hamn ordered the sergeant at arms to arrest him, but Salisbury drew pistol and threat ened to shoot. It is supposed that he will be ex- peled.
 r - The General Assembly of New York, is in a state of anarchy. A fellow named Callcot was elected speaker by some sort of bargain, but after his election gave all the committees and all his influence to the abolitonists. The legislature is quarreling, and charges of corruption have been preferred against Calicot. !.
 - Here is the finding of the Porter court martial, which Lincoln has approved 1t is herc- by ordered that the said Ftz John Porter, be, and he is hereby cashiered and dismissed from the ser vice of the United States, as Major G General of volunteers, and as colonel and Brevct- Brigader General in the regular service of the United States and forever disqualified from holding any office of trust or profit under the government of the United States.'
 - A. T. Caperton has been elected Confede rate senotor from Virginia, to fill the vacancy occa stoned by the death of Wm. B. Preston.
 - The Chicago Times has an editorial head ell " The hopelessnes of the contest" Wewish we had room in which to copy it.
 -- There are G,)00 fede al sick soldiers in Memphis.
 -- In times of peace half million tons of freight were sent down the Mississippi river. 2,5OO steamboats were employed on the river and it's tributaries The difference of cost on ton of freight sent by the river by railroad from St. Louis to the Atlantic IS ten or fifteen dollars. The loss to the Northwest is twelve millions of dollars year on the single item of freight.
 - The Texas papers contain the details of the recapture of Galveston and the taking of the federal vessels It appears that, after the capture of the Harriet Lane, the Confederate officers demanded the surrender of the other vessels of the fleet. Yankee captain asked for tm9 to consult with the others and truce was pranIcu. Ilc WcHl III Hio x iS 1ht oHCi'i1 after his arrival on the boats one was set fire to. and the other scudd4d off with flag of truce flying at her masthead
 - The Gazette of this city states that an exchange says that Mi. J. J. Franklin, of this city ard of the 3Oth Ark, and Capts. w. c. Johnson and J. D. Eagle, of the 2nd Ark, were taken prisoners at Murfreesboro.
 - The upper Mississippi, Ohio and other rivers are all high. Freshets were expected.
 ->The legislature of California adopted a resolution endorsing Lincoln's proclamation, only senators and II assembymen opposing. Probably, the vote against it would have been larger but some of the members were arrested and imprisoned in one of the forts.
 - The snow storm in the middle of Jan uary, appears to have been general over the North. At Cincinnati it was thirty inches.
 Butler is to return to New Orleans on the 17th, and Banks goes to Texas.
 - On Sunday morning, about daylight, the machine shop and foundry of Mir. Brodie in this city, was discovered to be on fire. The build ngs and machinery were all consumed, and the loss is very heavy on the proprietor. The building is supposed to have caught from fires left by soldiers who had encamped there in the night.
 - Galveston has been fortified Banks sent force around from New Orleans, to retake it, but he will find it tough job.
 - Gen. E. Kirby Smith has been assigned to the command of West Louisiana, Texas and Ari zona.
 - In the Indiana legislature a resolution in- dorsing the expulsion of Jesse D. Bright from the U. s. Senate, tabled by vote of 5 to B.
 - The Indiana legislature refuses to receive Gov. Morton's message ness he will come and deliver it in person.
 ' - Massachusetts is 10, ,000 behind in her quota of troops. She borrowed some from California. Lincoln now permits her to send negroes, but still she is behind l6,00O.
 - Among the killed at Murfreesbero was G. D. Harn, of Harper's, formerly Churchill's regi- ment. He died like hero, at his post, bravely fighting for liberty. MT. Harn from Yell county, and his death will be regretted by his nu- merous friends there.