The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1864-03-19


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sk&nzissl fcok paAes Yesterday 8 miles
III ride 81 SsisIssk kxlSNser lIse elsonay
ssaA fIarss cozapaasses If our ooloFBd oar.
MI !. - 80 s
kilfed.
Il AIxx2HDalA, -. Afarch 10th Ths!
fbItoWi1g report al the coaamittea on.
Euhancis xsson paGssed ahss Esnsitn siaaAl
Convention to-dsy with one dissenting
vote: 81
Mour cornnsittse On Emancipation beg.
leave ID report III part of the eqas itgsionI
az Virgins 10 be Inserted IN slie same
pader caption nf Slavery OF Freedom.
FIRST, Slavery or InxdiuntAry SeFsitude
except for crinae ii hereby abel shed and
prohibited forever. Second, Courts Ct
'oOanpetent jurisdiction mar apprentices
ninafz st African ascent on like e0ndi-
EkiSns provided by law Tor apprentieing
|sembly sIall make no law establishing
ssihsse fseeg piziag N human
beings. 8 .s.s
iNxw YoaK. March 10TH Specials to
the Commercial from Washington slsys:
We are Informed that ST Francis
Head had written . pungent letter 20
Seward setting forth certain facts con-
nected with the; destruction in the time
OF the Canadian rebellion. Of the STEINER
Caroline. asserting that the position taken
by the u. s. Government m that affair
was diamstricaily opposite to the doctrine
promulgated in the dispatch OF July 18th,
I to Adams.
The Kingston correspondent of the
| Raleigh Confederate, ii speaking of the
hanging on the sixth in Kingston OF %
captured soldiers deserted from the rebel
conscripsien, says the prisoners ascended
the scaffoId with aruf and elastic step.
and met their fate with unainching for
titude. asked no quarter, and scornfully
spurned all overtures Of concession on
condition of returning to duty In the
Confederate service. The multitude was
moved TO tears, aad openly denounced
the cruel massacre, which b causing deser-
tons from the Confederate service by
wholesale, and creating an indignation
which is feared will be uncontro able.
It is reported that the rebels Intend
hanging the entire number of Union sol
diers captured by them from Col. For.
rests command They are Fifty one IN
number. half Of whom were never in the
rebel service. but native Union troops
They have taken the question of retalia-
ton into their own hands, and have gives
the officers who don't approve of severe
measures an opportunity to resign, and
have also given warning that immediate
death viii be inflicted upon any ofaceT
who hereafter offers to surrender to the
enemy or ask quarter.
WASHINGTON, March h,-.After the
adjournment of the House to-day there
was an informal meeting of Republicans,
when the question was discussed as to
what action should be taken ON the gold
bin which passed the Senate to-day. It
was finally decided that in order to stop
speculation the Secretary's views on the
question should be sustained by the Re-
publicans.
Gen. Halleck's status is no longer a
matter of doubt. He reported yesterday
to Gen. Grant and was assigned special
duty here.
LOUISVILLE, Ky, March 11th.-The
Union Central Committee called a State
Convention to meet in this city in May
to nominate an electoral ticket and ap-
point delegates. to the Chicago Conven-
George D. Prentice, Hamilton Pope, and
others.
CONCORD, n. H., March lith.-The,r re-
turns of the entire State except ten towns
give Gilmore fifty nine hundred and
ninety two majority. Four of FIVE Coun-
celors and nj he of twelve Senators elect
are Union. Republicans. Gilmore's ma
jority will be about fifty-six hundred.
New York, March 18th. = Norfolk
letter of the 18th confirms tie expulsion
of the rebels from Suffolk, and of our oc-
cupatioa of the place on the 10th. This
is later than the reported repuise of our
troops, which occurred of the 9th.
New YoRk, 13th:.-The Morning Star
Of New Orleans the sixth says:
Gov. Hahn was inanguerated on the
fourth. Gen. Banks delivered an ad
dress and predicted the reduction Of the
instruction to three or four States on
the Atlantic coast during this seasons
campaign.
Hahn's inaugural regards slavery the
cause of the present unholy attempt to
break up the Government.
Beauregard's wife died on the second.
The funeral on the fourth was the: long
est ever seen in Orleans, over six thous-
and persons attended. Gen Banks kind
ly extended to the family the steamer
Nebraska to carry the remains . few
miles up the river to her fathers plan
tation.
Gen. Sherman arrived at New Orleans
on the ID. The late expedition is called
by himself big raid in the course of
which he reached point ten miles east
Meridian without opposition worthy of
name. -~~--~-~-
The papers contain no news nom Far
ragut. ...
CAIRO. 23sh.-Memphis dates of Friday
say:
Sherman has arrived here from New