Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1863-12-21

sacramento, Dec. II.
Capture Of Rebel Cavalry.
New YORK, Dec. ia dispatch from
Western Virginia says, that Forests rebel
cavalry had been captured.
Sale of Confiscated Estates.
The Times dispatch says, that the sale OF
Estates will take place on the 18th Of Janu'
airy next. The first parcel offered will be
Arlington, the homestead of Gen. Lee.
Prospect of Exchange of Prisoners.I
Gen. Hitchcock has given his official sane
tiou to General Buffers plan for releasing
our soldiers from Southern prisons.
Capture of the Chesapeake.
The Chesapeake, having been captured in
British waters, will be given up to the Colo
NAL authorities.
Anti-Slavery Movement in Virginia.
Yesterday the Virginia Senate, in session
at Alexandria, passed bill for the election
of delegates to Convention to be held on the
25th of January, to alter and amend the Con-
sttution, so as to abolish Slavery i'll several
counties, including the cities of Norfolk and
Portsmouth.
Gunboat Blown Up.
FoRTREss MONROE, Dec. ia report
from Beaufort says, that the U. S. Gunboat
Daylight has been blown up by the rebels.
Destruction of Forty Carloads OF
Rebel Ammunition.
CHATTANOOGA, Dec. IL. During the
march against Longstrect, Changers corps
got i'll advance of Longstreet's ammunition
train, while Stewards corps was in the rear
there was no escape for it, and forty carloads
of ammunition and two locomotives were
thrown into the river.
The situation here is unchanged. The
army will soon go into winter quarters; but
Wiider's cavalry will remain active.
a Skirmish.
CUMBERLAND GAP, Dec. ia portion
OF Longstreet'S army made descent on Rog-
ersvillc and engaged our advance near Beal's
Station. Accounts Of the result are conflict
ing.
Rough Times in Kansas.
I.EAyENwORTu, Dec. lS.-1t is represented
and stock. There is no hay to be had, and
stock dies from starvation and cold.
Escape of John Morgan.
CHATTANOOGA, DEC. lS.-J0hn Morgan
escaped across the Tennessee ut Gillespie's
Landing, sixty miles above here, OH Sunday
afternoon, the 18th inst.
Late from Texas.
BosToH, DEC ia correspondent al
! New Orleans says that Washbum holds the
coast Of Texas from the Rio Grandc to with
in one hundred miles of Galveston.
Matters about Chattanooga.
WASHINGTON, Dec. l9.-DiSpatchcS from
| Gen. Grant do not indicate any recent
| changes in the state Of affairs at ChattanoO.
ca. lie says nothing about all engagement
between LongstrcCt and his pursucrS.
Congressional.
In the Senate, to- day, Wilson, from the
! committee on military affairs, reported back,
with amendments, the bill amending the
! Enrolment Act. One amendment repeats
the three hundred dollars cOmmutation.
The amendments were ordered TO be
printed.
Later from Europe.
New YonK, Dec. l9.-Europcan dates to
| the 9Th are received.
4 ram, launched at Hull, is reported tC
| have put to sea.
| Three more British mcn-of-war steamers
were recently sold by the Admiralty. 1t Is
feared they arc for the rebels. One Of them
! is a twcnty-siX gun screw frigatc.
! \ great storm, lasting three days, had
done great damage OH the English coast
| Fifty-four bodies had foatcd into llolyhcat
! harbor.
The rebel privatccr Rappahannock is still
believed to be at Calais. She is very fast.
The Pope of Rome had received dcputatior
from the rebels, who presented letters from
jeff. Davis. The reception was not of an Of
fetal character, but merely rs compliment
At great meeting held i'll Preston, ncu
| trality resolutions were passed.
Frances expenses in Mexico during the
year were 100000, 900 Of francs.
Three ships were fitting out to blockade
/ the western coast of Mexico, as far as AGA
pulco.
The position of the Dano-Gcrman question
! was the same.
The condemnation of the SprinSbok by thu
New York District Court has been pro
nounccd illegal and vexatious by the Grown
| lawyers. Lyons is to demonstrate.
The Bank of England has advanced the rat'
of discount to eight per cent, causing dc
preston of all the funds.