, 1863-03-21
FROM WASHINGTON,


Especial Dispatch to the Chicago Tribunc.1
WAsE1soToS, March 20, 1867.
Edwin Wilmer, Of Smyrna, Kent county,
will probably be the candidate Of the nncon-
ditional Unionists Of Delaware, for the va
cancy caused By Corperhead Temples death.
They have hopes Of his election, which will
affect the loss anticipated in Noel1's district
in Missouri. Collectors and Deputy Collect
ors' bonds must be stamped as required under
the law, or they will be returned.
Gen. Hooker declares that his army shall
make proud record for itself within ninety
days.
Three hundred and fifty paroled prisoners
from Richmond, i portion Of whom are loyal
citizens, were brought In to-day.
Dcserters from Michigan arrived this eyen-
ing III irons.
Gen. Farnsworth, Illinois Congressman,
goes 10 Connecticut tomorrow to sneak
against Copperheadism.
Soldiers from the extreme Gulf States. told
them that the negroes knew all about thc
Proclamation. Gen. Winder had declared, to
their knowledge. that the war would he ended
before next August,
Our Treasury notes were at s.. 80 premium
in Richmond, and gold as high as S..
Ninety-dye Of our officers were in the Libby
prisen, including Brig. Gems. Which and
stonghton. Ali the officers taken at Muir
freesboro were there. Seventeen were still
confined in the pcnitentiary at hard labor, as
hostages for the bogus French lady. They
positively assert that they saw negroes
in the rebel ranks, armed and equipped like
white troops.
The rebels are shooting desertcrs constant
y, and executions were exceedingly common,
But for thi5 rigorous course it would be im-
possible for them to hold their army together.
They bring Richmond papers down to the
18th inst.
a rebel dispatch from Port Hudson speaks
Of tlirty-six men and midshipmen Of the
destroyed Mississippi, having been taken,
Gen. Burnside started to-day to enter upon
the duties Of his new command. It's locality
is not made public, but it is entirely safe to
say that he is not going to Fortress Monroe
or In that direction. Retrcw ]. Meiss, of
Tennessee, has been offered clerkship in the
Supreme Court. Jno. L. Hankec, Of Spring
field, Ohio, is appointed to a clcrkship in tic
AIuar' 'eTMaslcf department.
Col. Fry is likely 10 do the work Of an
pointing District Provost Narshals for tile
Conscription LAW, subject to the Presidents
approval.
party OF 55s5 prisoners, 200 OF them civil
inns, arrived from Richmond to might. Among
them is James ". Leeds, an old Cincinnati
and New Orleans steamboat pilot, who vas ar-
rested at Columbus, s. C., in November, 1861.
They Left Richmond On the 18th, and many Of
them had been In Goldsboro, Petersburg
Salisbury, and other points farther South, but
a short time previous. They passed Long
streets army corps moving from Petersbnrsto
Lynchburg, as they came up. Gen. D. q. Hill
wns at Goldsboro, making a demonstration
towards Ncwbern, n. C. Gen. L. r. Hill is
in South Carolina, French at Grcenyillc
n. G. Nobody was with Lee at Frcdericks-
burg hut Stohcwau jackson.
The general indications were THAT the rebels !
felt uneasy about the safety Of Richmond, and
were moving all The heavy machinery for the
manufacture of ordnance, powder, &c, to
Northern Georgia. They represent the feel
ings Of the priyates in the rebel army as be-
ing overwhelmingly in favor Of abandoning
the contest, and say that the majority Of them
with whom they came in contact, were practi-
cally Union men, but the officers and women
are very bitter. People generally admitted
that, If Vickshnrg fell, they lost control Of
the country west Of the Mississippi. They
could not hold out through tlis year from
sheer want OF provisions. They arc very pos.
Tive in asserting that tile negroes know all
about the war, and arc familiar with the Pres
idtlt's Proclamation.
NEW YoRK, March 20.-The Washington
special to the Utr1|d says:
1t Is understood to day, at the Treasury De-
partmeut, that dcpntation from foreign
bankers had waited upon the Secretary in psr.
SOL, and offered u large loan Of specie at cur
rent rates of exchange
Burnside is still ii the city, awaiting final
instructions.
The Mexican Minister, and others we'll in
formed with respect to the military situation
in his country, utterly dfscrcdit the statement
Of Richmond papers, that the city Of Mexico
ha: been captured by the French.
The World's special says:
1t is reported that the rebels have paroled
Gen. Stoughton and other officers captured
with him. Commissioner Ludlow, however,
knows nothing Of it.
1t is understood that the course Of the Gov.
crnment will probably be to call an extra scs-
sion OF Congress Immediately on the depar-
tnre Of the next pirate from n British port,
and recommend that vessels under the British
lag shall either be intcrdicted entirely from
loading in American ports, or subjected to
tonnage duty Of about three dollars per ton.
The President and Cabinet, nltcr giving the
subject much deliberation, decide not to issue
letters Of marque and reprisal. In their stead,
1t Is understood that Ill vessels fitted ont by
private parties for the purpose Of capturing
rebcl pirates, will be. duly commissioned in
thS Navy, and allowed to So on their mission.
heretofo established, rc-appointcd Andrew
Wylie as one Of the Judges Of the Supreme
Court for this District, after he had been re-