Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-01-14
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Gunboats for Admiral Farragut..
Rebel COrrespondence-.Army OF

Gunboats for Admiral Farragut..
Rebel COrrespondence-.Army OF
the Potomac.
New York, Jan. PA feet Of nine
small-draft gunboats for Admiral Farragut,
carrying two and three rihed guns each, will
sail in a few days.
The New York Herald contains an inter
cepted rebel letter of December 3lst, which
says Longstreet's forces joined Lee, and the
latter has matured and is about to eonsurn-
mate series of maneuvres. The writer
says the day cannot be far off when we Shall
embrace each other in Maryland, at the
homestead in Baltimore, beneath the Veto
rious cross ofthe free, recognized South.
the Commissaries are iss ling undlmlnlshed
rations, which proves the army has not been
depleted by furloughs.
Removal of PrisOners..Members
from East Virginia.
New York, Jan. l2.-The New Iork
| Trib,ne's Washington dispatch says: NO
orders have yet been issued for the removal
Of prisoners to General Buffers department.
Il is believed the House Committee on
Elections will report against the cases Oh
gentlemen claiming seats from East Vir-
ginia.
Supplemental Bill for Duties.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.-THE supplement
tai bill of the Committee on Ways and
Means, which will soon be reported, proposes
to place duty on spirits Of 60 cts, and cts.
per pound on cotton. 1t also provides that
the duty on spirits shall be levied on all
upon which no duties have been paid and no
return made from January IL, 1864.
Gen. Grant at Louisville, Ky.
LOUISVILLE, Jan. l2.-Major General
Grant and staff arrived last night from Knox
vile.
Important Propositions reported to
BE- from Rebel Officers.
ST. LOUIS, Jan. l2.-The RepubhcdH's
Memphis correspondent says two important
propositions have recently been made by the
rebel authorities to the Federal Government.
First-That the Quartermastcr of the Con-
fcderate army at fernando, acting by the au-
thority of the Richmond officials, has offered
| to sell to General Grant or Hurlburt all the
| cotton remaining within certain distance
outside of the Federal lines. This offer EN-
braces fifteen thousand bales, and is all Con-
| federate cotton. Greenbacks will be taken
| for it. 1t is said that Hurlburt favors the
purchase, and recommends that it be car
| ried into effect. Sccond-It is stated that
Kirby Smith recently sent an authorized
messenger to Washington to propose to the
Federal authorities to furnish every requi-
site authority to get out all the cotton in
that portion Of the Red river and Washlta
districts within rebel control, the money for
the same to be paid the officers excepted
from amnesty offered by President Lincoln,
they to retire from the rebel army and go to
Mexico. That paper says, editorially: "Oi
| the correctness of this information we have
no doubt, for it comes from a source likely
to have the best means Of information; also,
that this would involve the complete disban-
donment of the rebel force in Arkansas, Mis-
Sissippi and Texas, and the immediate re-
turn of those States to the Union"
Congressional.
| WASHINGTON, Jan. l2.-In the House, Mr.
Wilson reported bill defining the jnrisdic-
ton of the Court of Claims. The bill is to
restrain the Court from acting on claims for
property destroyed or appropriated by the
military authorities during the war, reserv-
ing these matters to Congress.
| In the Senate to-day joint-resolution was
passed continuing the bounties heretofore
paid.
A message was received from the President
in answer to an inquiry relative to the treat
ment of Kansas prisoners by rebels. Letters
| from Halleck to the Secretary Of War ac'
company the message. General Halleck
says that he has no information that the vol
untcers from Kansas when taken prisoners
have been treated by the enemy different
| from those from other States. He also says
the General in command of the Department
| of Kansas knows of no distinction being
| made. A letter from the Commissary Gene
raj OF the prisoners is to the same effect.