Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-02-27

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has received advices that the Court at St. John
committed the Chesapeake pirates to prison to
await requistion from the United States authori-
ties.
Union Troops Surprised and Captured
Near Cumberland Gap.
CUMBERLAND GAP, Feb. GA battalion of the
Eleventh Tennessee Cavalry and three companies
of infantry were attacked by large force Of rebel
cavalry, February 22d, five miles east of here.
Our forces were surprised, and it is believed all
but two companies Of infantry were captured.
At the same time the rebels attacked our outpostS
at Powers bridge, five miles south, but were re-
pulsed three times, when our men retreated
Skirmish Near Chattanooga.
CHATTANOOGA, Feb 24-General Palmer Skin
mished with the enemy all day yesterday, and
succeeded in driving them TO Tunnel Hill, six
miles from Dalton, Georgia. On pushing after
them, they opened heavily with four field pieces
1t is supposed they will dispute our further i'd
vance.
Tennessee Delegation mt Washing
ton--The Pay of SOldierS--The Pa
cific Railroad.
WASHINGTON, Feb. Ex-Governor johnson and
delegation from Tennessee had a long interview
with the President yesterday relative to the resto
ration of Tennessee to the Union. II is under
stood that while they did not fiyor the Presidents
views, their interview was mutually agreeable
The delegation expressed the opinion that Ten
nessee will soon be firmly reconstructed, and have
a civil government
The House Military Committee had under con-
sideration the question of increasing the pay of
the soldiers. They did not come TO q definite con-
cluson as to the amount Of pay which the men
should receive. The amount proposed ranges
from sixteen 10 twenty-five dollars per month.
The Committee will probably compromise on
twenty dollars
The Tribune's dispatch says the Committee oil
the Pacific Railroad held meeting last night for
the purpose of consulting with prominent men
from the West intesested in the early construction
of the road.
Freedom Convention at Louisville.
CHICAGO, Feb 25.-The Freedom Convention
at Louisville adjourned sine die on Tuesday even
ing, the 23l The resolutions declare that slav-
ery was the cause of the rebellion, and that we
see no hopes of permanent peace until the princi
ples of freedom announced in the Declaration of
independence and the Federal Constitution are
carried into practice; that the question Whether
slavery is TO be prohibited or not, Is National
one and it is therefore, proper that the Constitu-
ton of the United states be so amended as TO se-
cure freedom to every hannah being within its ju.
risdiction; that during the rebellion the Prest
dent, In tho exercise OF the war power, has fuH
and ample authority to free slaves in the rebel
lious districts, and that we hereby invoke him to
use II with all his might, and that in the present
rebellion he ought TO exercise this power to the
full extent; that with the Presidents Amnesty
Proclamation before us, we declare that In our
opinion, the same has done no harm to the
Union cause, since military operations within
the districts to which it especially applies are in
progress, and we ask for its suspension until the
rebellion shall be wholly crushed. Another reso
luton provides for the permanent organization OF
the Slave State Freedom Convention by the ap-
pointment of an Executive Committee, composed
Of members and alternates from each slave state,
for the purpose OF carrying ont its principles.
The Convention declared itself favorable to such
an amendment of the Constitution rs will make
the President eligible for one term only A reso-
luton was offered and lost, after considerable dis
cussion, providing for National Radical Conven-
ton at ST. Louis, May l0th-the majority prefer
ring to meet with the Union party in the next
National Convention. The proceedings of the
Convention were generally harmonious, but to-
ward the close of the afternoon session considern
BILE confusion prevailed, principally upon minor
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