The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-12-17

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Letters have been received here from
prominent conservative members Of tbs
rebel Congress from North Carolina, ask
ing, unoficiallY, upon what terms the
Southern States would be permitted to
return to the Union.
The inunderation Of the army with
political Brigadier- Generals has received
such earnest protests from Generals Grant
and Hooker, that il IL not only very GER
tain that food will be stayed in future,
bat that Congress will correct the man
ageuent Of the past in this regard.
spscial Dispatch 10 the Cincinnati Gazette
WASHINGTON, December IA.
IMPORTANT MILITARY CHANGES.
Within few days after Gen. Rose
Grams had been removed from the COM
mand Of The Army of the Cumberland,
Secretary Chase, Gov. Dennison, and
other prominent men, mainly from Ohio,
urged upon the President the policy Of
removing Gen. Sehofsld from the com
mand of the Department of Missouri, and
the appointment Of Gen. Rosecrans in
his stead, and represented the impor-
lance Of doing this before the Missouri
election. The President however, refused
to listen to the appeals for the removal
# Scho6eld, and decided to ignore the
demands of the Missouri Radicals, and
retain him. So the matter stood until
the recent meeting of tho Loyal League
National Council. This body appointed
= committee consisting Of JnO. Covode,
Jas. NJ. Ashley and Ex-Governor Bout
well to present to the President Office
lions 10 bis course, and urge upon him the
speedy removal Of Halleck, Blair and
Bates here, and of Schofield in Missouri,
and to represent that the loyal sentiment
of the country considered he had made
q grave mistake in not sustaining the
Radicals. This representation produced
q marked effect
II was easy for the President to main
tain the position he had chosen to take
against delegation from 9 single State,
and representing he considered, only q
fraction of that State but this Commit
tee had a most potential voice, and spoke
with an authority to which Mr.. Lincoln,
in his present circumstances deemed il
the better policy to yield. Senstor Gratz
DIONu was bpCCully bCAe AOtg buA &c NuC
result of an interview with him and the
Loyal League Committee, an order was at
once transmitted directing Gen. Schofeld
to report at Washington in person.
Meantime the President asked the Mis-
sourians how they would like Gen Rose
Grams as commander of the Department
if change were made, and the reply
was that the appointment would be en-
tirely satisfactory. The affair, of course,
will remsin in this shape until Schofield
comes Complaints have been made from
Kansas against him, which amount 10
charges. When be comes here the Presi-
dent will co nfront him with his ac-
cusers.
If Gen. Scho6eld should be removed
and Gen. Rosecrans made his successor,
the appointment of the latter officer will
be by the President direct, and in spite
of the determined hostility Of the War
Department aud the General-in Chief
This hostility however, begins TO be
somewhat less bitter thAa it was 9 month
ago. ~
NASHVILLE, Dec. 15.-Col. Mizsner re-
ports from Columbia that rebel DESERT
ers and citizens are hocking to that post
in great numbers, asking 10 be allowed
to take the oath under the Presidents
amnesty proclamation. Colonel NJ. SAYS,
in regard to the numbers arriving, that
be never saw the like.
a few days ago, Capt. Perkins, Of the
18th Tennessee cavalry, applied to Gen.
Rousseau for permission to take the oath
OF allegiance under the amnesty procla-
nation. He says that the actual posi-
ton of Tennessee is not understood or
appreciated by Tennesse1ns In the reb.
ell army that his eyes have been opened
since his capture.
NKw YoRK, Dec. 15.-In the rebel SEN /
ate, on the 18th, Mr.. Wigfsll offered . |
resolution inquiring into the treatment
of prisoners, which was agreed 10.
The Richmond Examiner says the |
prisoners are furnished daily with three
quarters of 3 pound of bacon, when the
rebel troops in the 6sld are only Allo we'd |
one-quarter. er E...,
The Senate passed bill prohibiting
the enrolmen.of substitutes in the army.
Mr.. Brown, of Mississippi offered reso-
lutiOns impressing all whites into the
army; requiring aliens TO quit the cozn-
try within sixty days or take up arms
10 levy . direct tax on all land and pro-
perty, including Confederate notes, and
to make the latter 9 legal tender after
the expiration of six months; and to
prohibit Che buying and selling of gold
and silver coin, or notes Of banks in the
United States, or United States treasury
notes, during the war, under : heavy
penalty Action was taken on the above
resolutions. f.,s.-.ri -
4 bill is pending In the rebel Congress
for the issue Of $500, 100000 OF coupon
bonds Of the oOnfederate States, bearing
six per cent interest payable in twenty
years.
Mr. Foote, Of Tennessee, offered a r.a-
oIution Of inquiry into the expectancy Of
the Government making . distinction. In
its prisoners of war, between those of
African descent who enlisted In the
North as free men and those slaves in
the South who had taken up arms, and
who, on falling into our hands, ought to
become the property Of their owners.
WASHINGTON, Dec 1.-THE New
York Times correspondence, dated camp
near Portsmouth, Va, Dec. Is, says;
The rebsl Inhabitants have been taken
by surprise. Elizabeth City
will be made the base of important Ops-
rations.
A detachment Of So men from the 1si I
., s. coiored regiment has just returned,
bringing in twenty wagon loads Of con-
trabands that bad sought the protection
Of Gen. Wild on the road.
Artillery and cavalry from Gstty's
IS well as q considerable pOr- !
lion Of the naval force, have left 70 CO.
operate with Gen. Wild. X
BAETIxoRE, Dec. 15.-The Maiden
Bank WAS entered shortly before noon
to-day. A son Of the President was che
only person in the Bank 81 the time. he
was murdered, and the bank robbed Of
III its contents. e. E. Converse Is the
President. The murdered boy was about
seventeen years old.
PORTLAND, ME, Dec. 1.-THE Consul
II Halifax tslegraphs 70 the Collector,
Wsshburn, this evening that .hs chesa-
1eake is near Chester, in Mahom Bay,
nd rassueafn that canfain oP uafa ~