Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1864-12-29
News From Rebel Sources.

New YoRK, Dec. 22-In the rebel
House Of Representatives on Saturday last,
MIR. McMullen of Virginia, offered resolu-
tions in favor of sending within the Union
lines Commissioners to treat with the rep
resentatives of tho Government at Wash
iegton for restoration of peace. ln reply
to a question, Mr.. McMulen stated that
Bishop Lay, who recently arrived in Rich:
mond, had been assured by Gen. Grant thnts
any such Commissioners would be allowed
to pass through his lines.
Mr.. Foote has retired to private life in
disgust. In the rebel House when the Cur
rency Bill was up, he Withdrew from that
body. After making frank statement OF
the situation of the rebellion, he said "Sir,
| beseech honorable gentlemen, on this last
occasion perhaps that | shall have the honor
of addressing this house, to look with me
upon the present condition Of tho country
before they resolve to withhold their sup
| port from this measure. What Is our sit
uation? Let us look danger in the face,
and provide for it while it is possible 10 do
40. Sir, We are upon the verge OF ruin
Congress is apidly abandoning all its i'm
portant powers, and building up an ire.
sponsible military despotism, the like of
which has never been seen before upon this
earth. The policy of the present House
seems to be to crush out dissatisfaction by
armed violence alone, in imitation OF that
thorough policy introduced ans enforced IN
England, by the celebrated Earl of Stafford,
tho enforcement Of which speedily brought
Charles the First to the block ; but not be
fore the Stafford had lost his own head.
, Ten days hence and the freedom OF de-
, liberation will have been ollectually ex
tinguished in this body, by means which
!
f deeply criminal displacement Of the gailan
and efficient Johnston from the comman'
of the army of Tennessee, and the transie
= of that army to the neishborhood OF Nash
/, vile, have opened all Southern Georgia
u South Carolina and Alabama, TO tho arm.
0 OF Sherman.
y Fort McAllistor has fallen; Savannah
> about to fall; the fate Of Charleston seem
u only to be deferred few days later. Hood
- army has already met with great disastee
q at Franklin, and, in my judgment, is fatal
COMPROMISED
"The Presidential Interference isthe caus
j. Of all these dire mischieis, as it was OF tn
=, result of the unfortunate battle Of Mul
freesboro, and tho still more disastrous on
= at Missionary Ridge. Should Hoods arm
f be destroyed an event which fear is bu
. too probable, and Sherman could com
Il around to this vicinity in ships, which d
h not doubt b now intends, what will bs tn
J. fate of p ahmond %
Tbe .ebel Senate, on Saturday, went int
Q secret session, and stormy time was hac
o The question Of arming negroes was brougl
. up, and it is believed to have passed by a
almost unanimous vote. For several day
n past every able bodied negro has been quie
p " seized aud carried off to camps OF il
structlon. This may account for the
C stampedng, noted in another paragraph,
I, The Richmond Examiner of the 10th NJ
n tices the fact that large numbers Of negro'
- have recently stamped toward the Yanke
10 lines.