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Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-11-12
QUACKERYi

i earnestly caution all young mon suffering from
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You can fully recover BY the methods used by thc
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EDWARD H. TRAvER,,
,.a.., Lock Box. Boston. Mass.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1864-12-24
SOUTHERN NEWS.
Opinions from Rebel Papers.
From Georgia and Tennessee
"Druids" Correspond
The Condition Of savannah--nts srr-
plus PSpalataen-.-The Richms.d
Whig Deplsres the Situation in Ten
Press Dispatch.l

New YORK, Dec. 23.-The Herald has
additional details of Sherman's grand
march thronsh Georgia, and some impor.
tant particulars regarding his present
position before Savannah, and the pros
pect for its early surrender. The city is
poorly supplied with provisions, and is
burdened with the feeding Of consider
able surplus population OF civilians,
besides its garrison OF twenty thousand
All sources Of supplies are cut OH by the
strong forces. .16.il}3. .!L,ItgT.
Late rebel papers have further refe-
renee to the late raid from Tennessee in
to Southern Virginia. The Richmond
Examiner says it turns out to be All ex-
tensive and damaging one. The raiders
are reported within eight miles OF Salt,
Vile, but no account is yet furnished OF
their having captured the important
salt works there.
Peace resolutions were recently de-
feated in the North Carolina Senate by
"A to 20.
The exchanging with the rebels OF TO-
900 prisoners, which was scommencedlnt the
Savannah river and subsequently trans
ferred to Charleston Harbor, was com
pleted at the latter point, on last Satur-
day.s As this work is now concluded the
firing of our own and the rebel batteries
in Charleston haTbor and vicinity, which
was suspended during its continuance,
viii probably soon be resumed, If 1T has
not already.
The Richmond Examiner notices the
invention and it's successful operation, In
the rebel laboratory in that city, ola ma
chine capable of turning out 10000 per-
cussion caps in eight hours, complete,
Hog Winder, as our men call the man
the rebels have in charge of their pris-
ons, has been complimented with the
title of Commissary General OF Prisons,
and will establish his headquarters at
Augusta, Georgia. ,o.,
The Richmond Examiner of the goth
says the government received omclai
dispatches from Savannah yesterday
when all was quiet.
The Richmond Wing of the Goth says
the situation in Tennessee is melancholy
enough. 1t was black day for the army
of the Tennessee when Johnston lost his
command Gen. Hood was soon fanked
beaten and compelled to abandon Allan
ia. He then stepped out of the way
He himself moved up into Tennessee
where he has now again got himself
beaten, and this time we fear badly
enough.
The Examiner also says that the cam.
paign in northern Tennesse has concluded
disastrously for us. We have no doubt
A special to the Tribune from Wash
ington 22d says Gen, Grant telegraphed as
follows: Richmond papers just in say an
official dispatch from Wilmington, dated
the 10th, says the advance Of the enemy's
feet arrived off that port during the
previous night, Over thirty steamers are
now assembled, and more are following.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1864-12-24
CRAMPS ARMY.
The Potomac Army Quiet
Deserters 10 be Executed
Officers Going Home ON Furiough-'
.,vy The Firing at Dutch Gap. fs-

WASHINGTON, Dec. 23-A letter from
the Army of the Potomac yesterday says:
."All quiet still continues to prevail here" F"
The weather is such as to prevent any
movement, fintended. Alarge number
of officers were going home Oh furlough.
Among those who left the army were
Generals Gregg, Patterson, Ayres and
McAllister, with members of their staffs-
General Mott went North yesterday to
attend the funeral of brother.
Three more deserters are to be hung
tomorrow. Their names are John
Smith, VIM. Miller and George Bradley,
/ all of the 5th New Hampshire volunteers
| HEADQUARTRR's ARMY OF THE PoTo-
lToMAc, ! Dec. % There is nothing of in
terest transpiring in this department.
The enemy keeps up their fire, but not
SO psrsistently as formerly, in the canal
at Dutch Gap very few casualties occur!
owing to the precautions taken to avoid
the shells. ,vss.g - ssxg no
For the week ending OH the 18th inst,
one hundred and eighty deserters from
the Union armies had been received
They would be forwarded to the border
to start for their homes on blockade run
Il TSigned w. d. MCGREGOR.
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Destruction Of the Blockade Runner
PetreI.,

WASHINGTON, Dec 23-Rear Admiral
Porter, under date the 18th, informs the
navy department of the destruction OF
the blockade runner Petrel, driven ashore
by the gunboats at New Inlet, Cape Fear
river. The Petrol was fired upon and
sunk, and finally was destroyed by a
northeast gale She had on board a
large cargo of arms and munitions OF
war Admiral Porterreports that within
the last few days the feet has captured
and destroyed five millions dollars worth
of the enemy's property in blockade run
n6rs
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WHEELING REGISTER.
s.ruRpAY MORNING. DEC. "a. 1854
Te,esrap.ic s.nn.ry.

Gold closed last night in New York
..ooI4. There was very little change
hiring the day. "a sS,'s
savannah is said to be poorly supplied
.r;tb provisions, and all the sources of
,nnply are cut off by the heinvestiug army.
:, was rumored that the city was to
.sn;tulate ON the l7th. There canibe no
fonpdation for the report, as intelligence
has been received mp to the 18th,
The federal raiders in southwestern
virginia were reported within eight
niles of Saltyille, but had not taken that
place .s.. 5,le., gL5
The exchange Of ten thousand prison
which was commenced at Savannah
was completed at Charleston last Satur-
day. Firing will soon be resumed upon
the latter place.
The Richmond papers have received
the news of Hoods defeat and are very
gloomy in consequence
Porter's feet was reported off Whining
ton on the Goth. Gen. Bragg telegraphed
70 Davis on the 2lst, that the fleet was
in sight, but could not operate and that
he could hold Wilmington
mail train going east on the man y
.,sm of the C. & P. R R. broke through
q bridge near Hudson, on the 23d SIX
men we're killed.
Hoods army is beyond the Columbia
r,;lroad Trains run to Spring Hill
Jobnsonville was not captured. Ihe
rshe, loss during the campaign was sew
teen thousand men, fifty cannon and
eighteen general officers The total
Union loss will not reach seven thousand
Hood has pontoon over the Tennessee
above the shoals
The latest from Thomas places him at
Rutherford Hill, eight miles beyond Co
lumbia, on the 22d inst. The rebels were
At Pulaski, still continuing their retreat,
The only effective corps of Hoods army
is said to be s. d Lees.
All is quiet in the army of the Potomac
large numder of officers are absent on
furlough. Three deserters are to beihung
TODAY. The rebels still keep up their
fire ON the Dutch gap canal.
The ice in the Potomac at Washington
was strong enough to be walked upon
day before yesterday morning.
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No Necessity for any more Draft.

With the above force of FIVE hundred
thousand troops in the field, all enlisted
for the whole war, and three hundred and
fifty Thousand of them veterans and
With General Hancocks corps of twenty
Ave thousand veterans added, it will be
seen at once that there is no necessity
whatever for another draft, particularly
de the backbone Of the rebellion is now
broken, and the rebels are on their Last
/ legs. The splendid success which Gen
/ Gal Hancoqk b now meeting with too,
ih raising His corps IF vetsrshs; shows
that the same thing might b done by
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1864-12-24
tEizhteen Hundred Thousand men have
Perished Already

We began the campaigns of 1864 with
armies amounting to something over
800 900 men. They consisted OF about
200 900 two-years men, and little over
100000 men who had been enlisted for
the war. At that time, say in May, 1864,
the terms of all the other short-term men
had long since expired, and such Of them
that survived had returned to their
homes. Out of the 2,2OO,O 900 men who
had enlisted for the war, only 100000 OF
45OOOO survived One million eight
hundred thousand of them had perished'
either in battle, or from sickness
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( IErom .Druid's" Letter TO the n Y World.]
Three Millions of Soldiers Hurled
Against the South.

Up to the spring of 1864, the North
had put into the field armies amounting
to over three millions of men. These
men were of two classes, however; hrst,
those who enlisted for shorter period
than three years and, second, those who
enlisted for the whole war. OF the first
class, the numbers were as follows =
Seventy-seven thousand men under the
call of April 19, 1861 three hundred
thousand men for nine months, under the
call of August 4, 1862; two hundred
thousand men for one hundred days, at
various times and three hundred thou
sand men for two years, i'll 1868. Total,
ST. 900 men.
Of the second class, the men enlisted
for the whole war the numbers were as
follows:
Reported by the Secretary of War, De ,,, ooo
cember l. 1861 Ooi o@oo @
Additional reported up to July J. 1s62 @ 3Vo oo 0oo
Drafted in July, 1868. @ ooo ooo ooo
Enlisted under the call of Oct IL, 1863. 3oo,U Uoo
Enlisted under call of Feb ], and draft ,,o
of March TO- 1864 .-......--....: ooo ooo VVo wv
Enlisted under draft of March 10, loo4 2ooooo
,ro,a, man for ,be whole war......22 26l, 900
/. ga SS shnr. hnS tsrro ,nen above - 5T7 900
Total number of soldiers raised by the 80, ooo
North. -'' - '"o'NN
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From New OrIean. and Ma,am mora..

CAIRO, Dec 22-The steamer Pauline
Carroll from New Orleans, December 18th,
arrived with few bales of cotton. The
steam transport Clinton, from Galveston
the 18th, arrived at New Orleans with
342 exchanged prisoners from Camp
Grace, Texas, The men, who were in a
most wretched condition, have been sup
piled with necessary articles for their
comfort by the agent of the sanitary
commission General Hamilton and
family also passed Brazos on the Clifton
Late Matamoras papers state that rein
forcement arrived from Brazos Santiago
swelling our force to 1000, five hundred
of whom are negroes. The rebels make
frequent sallies from Brownsville, which
is not fortified, and have numerous skirm
ishes with the Federal troops. No
change in markets.
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two other distinguished generals, who
are now not in . position where there
abilities can have full play. There is, as 1T
ia well known, qnoreithAni two ihnndred
thousand retired veterans now in private
life. Let these two gallant generals each
be authorized to raise a corps OF twenty
thousand veterans one at New York OF
eastern soldiers, ahd one at Chicago OF
western soldiers, and before the end OF
March we will have, not twenty thou
sand, but sixty thousand veteran yolup1
teers in the field, IN addition to the above
five hundred thousand troops. This will
surely be enough to give the rebellion its
coup de grace :. gaaa 3aGM GK
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Late General News.

The bill dismissing unemployed Gen
erals of the army was defeated in the
Senate on the 22d.
1t is said that Judge Coursal who re
leased the st. Albans raiders is to bs dis
missed
The Tibanes Washington special says
that there are fears at the Navy Depart
ment that the premature revelation oy
the New York papers of the destination
of Porters fleet may defeat the entire
object of the expedition,
The trial of Col North, the New York
State Agent, for completely in the sol
diers' voting frauds, commenced III Wash
ington on Wednesday.
The rebels still have road open hom
savannah by way of Fort Jackson, to
the interior but the swa mps along the
route and Fosters position on the POGO
tahgo render the road nearly useless.
The Senate has not yet taken any ac'
ton Oh the Bankrupt Bill which haspass
ed the House. 1t is believed it will be
tayOrably reported Oh after the reassem
bling Of Congress.
BY means of an arrangement between
Generals Grant and Lee, federal prisoners
are now furnished with blankets and
clothing
Vice President Hamlin has been elected
Senator from Maine in place of Fessen
den, resigned
Sherman wants all the men to get inte
savannah that choose to go there. lie
ays he is willing to suffer Beauregard tt
Ssleinforced by twenty thousand troops
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Los.e. i'm the Shenandoah Valley.

The losses in the Shenandoah valley
include those lost under Sigel, Hunter,
and Sheridan, namely; 5000 under Sigel,
and II 900 under Hunter; and 10000 un-
der Sheridan, as follows: 1000 in the pur
suit after Early to Strasburg, August 9th
to 18th, one-half of excessive heat; 600
in the retreat from Strasburg to Winches-
ter August 10th to 18th; 1000 in the de-
feat at Winchester, August 18th; 800 in
the severe battle at Bunker Hill, August
29th; 200 i'm the retreat to Charleston, Au-
gust 29th; 200 in the batt,e at Berry
Vile September Sd; 1000 in the great
battle of Bunker Hill, September 10Th;
1000 in the battle of Fishers Hill, Sep
tember 2lst; $500 in severe skirmishes
from the 22d to the Both of September;
A 900 in four desperate and bloody battles
near Browns gap, October 1st to 5th; L.
900 in the retreat to Strasburg, October
9th to 10th; 1900 in skirmishes and recon
noissances from the 1lth to the 18th of
October; $500 in the great rout at Cedar
creek, October 18th; and subsequent bat
tie Oh the same day, and 900 from Oeto-
Der Doth to December 1st, including the sur
prise and capture of New Greek and
Piedmont
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sH]ERMAN's ARMY
Sherman at Hilton d A Head.
City ofSavannah to Capitulate
Interesting Rumors from Rebel Sources
---E xchange Of Prisoners.
(Press Dispatch

FORTRESS MONROE, Dec. %. The
Charleston Courier of the 10th contains
the following: A flag of truce. boat
brought up on Thursday l0I paroled con-
federate officers from Fort Pulaski
Yankee officers in the feet report that
Sherman and his staff have arrived at
Hilton Head. 1t was also rumored that
Savannah was to capitulate on Thurs
day the 18th inst. The Yankees had
learned of the fall Of Fort McAllister,
but give no particulars,,.l 80 = ibaA
Another one thousand Yankee prison
ers will be taken down this morning.
This completes the exchange and makes
the number handed over by Col, Hatch
eleven thousand. 4li8lIilj JII w
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But We Have A Very Effective Army
I Left

As stated above, the draft of July 18th,
1864, and the voluntary enlistments un
der it, have produced fully 100000 men,
SO that the campaigns of 1864 have been
conducted with force of 100000 men,
Our losses during the year, however
having been 100000 men, we have still
i'm the field force of 100000 troops
They are disposed as follows, and it would
be affetation to pretend that the enefny
does not know it as well as we:
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RIVER MATTERS. Rs.-Business was very
brisk on the landing yesterday, and every
Hody appeared to be too busy to think OF
as cold weather. The transient steam
ssand regular packets all came in well
loaded, and the levee was strewn with
freight of all kinds. The river was fall
ing, with sixteen feet water in the chan
uel
lhe Peerless, Capt. Oakes, arrived yes
'srday morning from Cincinnati, with
an unusually large trip of both passen-
ssfs and freight She left last evening
laVlng received very good cargo.
Inc Rob Roy arrived from Pittsburg
'0dleft for Cincinnati and st. Louis.
ihe ST Johns, Capt Sam Mason, is the
'ssular packet for Cincinnati this even
Ae
LIE whaTf-bOat, which was aground
VI an hour or two, on. Thursday, is now
'uOa' aud doing we'll"
'le Peoria City, large and commo-
'u' steamer recently completed in this
rH, will leave in few days for St.
I Nis The following are her dimensions:
s4s'h, 23l feet; beam, So feet; hold st
~ ~ She has four boilers "a feet long
,s 1p inches in diameter; the engines
'est stroke and 23A feet in diameter.
sli %a0li was built by VIM. Larimer, of
- s' boilers and machinery by sween-
h. Co. cabin by Hanes & Beam, and
rsihtlng was done by J. NJ. Stuart.
sona City is owned by the Illinois
1 braekst b., Company, and will be run
h.. St Louis and Peoria City. d. J
cs0ek, Esq, President of the Packet
Na any will have command of her un-
sns reaches St. Louis, when Captain
,sn Os assigned to her. She is a large,
Nv constructed steamers fair speci.
: the skin of our Wheeling mechan-
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This letter is too long to be extended
Imust close, therefore, by saying that it
will be impossible for the Secretary of
War to show in his report that anything
has been accomplished in 1864 commen-
surate with the force employed by the
North; and, ON the othershand, 1T wills be
impossible for him to show that the
South exhibits any signs of exhaustion,
OF that the military power of the South
is not as effective now as it was in De-
Gambler, 1863. DRUID.
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The Fleet i'm sigh, Of For, Fisher.

WASHINGTON, Dec 23-The Republi-
can says the government has received
dispatches from Gen. Grant at City Point,
announcing that Richmond papers of
Yesterday, 2ed, contain an ofhciai dis
patch from Gen. Bragg to JEFF Davis,
dated Fort Fisher, New Inlet, n. C., 2lst,
as follows: The entire feet Of the enemy
is in sight, but cannot operate. The
weather continues bad. We are able to
hold Wilmington III Jsed ad1
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THE BEST AND THE ONLY ONEs.-The
best Album ever made is the Patent
Hinge Book, each leaf on seperate
hinge, sold only by PARTRmsEtHThese
unsurpassed novelties are being sold at
only the RFies q. fpmwoR, enes Go to
PARTRDGE's Gallery, if you want the
cheapest and best. rIssb
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Grrs! GnTsM GrFTs mAPARTRDGE
has Albums for sale as Christmas Gifts a.
large as q. Family Bible, and as small as
Jour thumb-the finest ever, made, and
the cheapest efef, sold-the prettiest
ever ssen and the most rseryiceable ever
fept They are all sOld from twenty to
brty representatives. than regular nsnns
hcturer's prices. Just call in and sssssb
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1864-12-24

A PORTION OF THE FIRST CAVALRY
CAPpUREDrA gentleman who left Win
chester few days ago, informs us that
over one hundred men, belonging to the
First Cavalry, while out on a scouting
expedition, were captured by Moseby's
command. But three of the scouting
party escaped to tell the story of the
CAPTURE of their comrades.
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WHO SAYS THEY Amt CHEAPl-Par-
fridge has Albums for sale, holding
hundred pictures, at $2,; holding TIVE
hundred pictures at 90; holding three
hundred pictures, at "a; and holding six
hundred pictures at only 81. Beat it,
who can. . 4, a'l9 "a
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De.erter. sho, a Indianapeli..

/ INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 23.--At a aJUourt
Martial recently convened here, Charles
Billingsley, Jno. Murray, Thos. Ryan
and Thos. LenOx, were found guilty of
desertiOn and sentenced to be shot to-
day. The sentence was carried into ef-
feet this afternoon, at Camp Burnside,
near this city, on the first three. The
fourth has been respited by the Presi-
dent for ten days. -su4asa ,sAiaka
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
Public Sale

OF VAL LUABLE STOCK AND
~ FARMING UTENSILS.-I will continue
my sale ofStock &c, on the 5TH DAY OF JAN.
UARY consisting of $50 head Of Sheep, 5 hoad
of Horses, Cattle, one yoke well broke Oxen,
some Pigs one Kirby Reaping and Moving Ma.
chine, Plows, &c 1000 bushels Corn, lot Of
Hay, and other articles too tedious to mention,
Also, on same day, on the premises, that well
known farm in Brooke Co., W. Va, situated one
mile from the Ohio river, at Short Greek, 0 miles
from Wheeling, and from Wellsburg contain,
ing 240 acres under good state Of cultivation,
ali under fence, abundance Of fruit, improve
ments reasonable, all underlaid with good vein
of coal easy of access, and sufficiently near the
Ohio river for shipping purposes.
I Sale to commence at 10 o'clock.
/ A credit Of nine months will be given on the
stock One fourth down, the balance I'm six
equal annual payments, with interest, for the
Farm (dec2D WM. +. BRADY,
( IntelBgencer, Wheeling, tSt. Clairsville, CadiE
and Washington papers copy until day OF sale,
and charge this Office. 'L.
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have cost as loss Of 800 900 men, as fol
lows: on go aH
Total losses of 1854. 800 900
How these LssseslCame - be 20 Heavy

If the above losses seem heavy, let it
be, remembered that the cAmpaigns of
1864 have been unusually severe that
thew have extended continuously over a
period of eight months, and that the vic
TENS of sickness are more numerous than
those who fall In battle. .Letthe terribly
bloody battles of General Grants cam
paign be remembered: Let it be remem-
bered how iavishly he has been reinforced,
and let not the memorable and mournfil
words of General Hancock, uttered only
few days ago, be forgotten-"The Sec
ond corps / have left the lifeless bodies
of three-fourths of the men of the Second
corps all along the overland route, and OH
the banks of the James river "
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VELVET AND GOLD.-The incest Christ
mas gift we Cor you) ever saw, is one of
Partridge's Velvet and Gilt Albums, now
being sold at the ordinary price of COM
mon ones Who wouldn't bestOw so
splendid and so cheap gift
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A,o,her RaiIroaa Accident.

CLEVELAND, ONO, Deez 2-The mail
train East on the c. ZIP r. R. broke
through bridge at Hudson this morn
ing. Six men were killed No, particp=
lars. - :
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isigned w. b McGREGoK.

The CHEIfEsr GfFTAYou can buy a
5ifty-picturei Album, bound in morocco,
with two clasps, at Partridge's, for only
one dollars and fifty cents The world
can't beat it,
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Confederate Forces for the Campaign
Of 1864.

The confederates, on theF part, began
the campaigns of 1864 with aforeeof not
quite 100000 men. Their losses during
the year have been larger in proportion
than ours, for they have amounted to
10000 men. Their armies have been
recruited during the year by yailittle over
900 men, and they now amount to
100000 troops, disposed asfollewss 0Sb
Present Dispositien Of the Confede-
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m, .f SOC, 900 Treeps in 1854 y"
Have Lest 500, o0O. ~

! The draft for July 49, 1864. for Sov.W ~
.nd.tbe voluntary enlistments Under ~, ~
sas a prodnced a little over 2oO, O,Ooo men, = =
tSst 1ss ptSe Campaigns Of 1854, on the 9S par :
% fhs North, have been eonductso VIZ ~ &
arcs - Of 100000 troops. These campa'spA
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wAsHNeros, Dee. 2s-The mail boat
Webster from City Point yesterday, is
not only frozen mp but aground, q mile
below Washington. The ice in the Poto-
mac river was sufficiently thick this
morning to admit of persons walking
ashore from that vessel s. Al