The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1864-02-27
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hundred Thousand dollars, q decrease "
specie ofnine hundred Aad ninety ssssE
Thousand, and IN increase In depesafa @
seventy-6ve hundred and 6fty- mise inca
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WAsHrSa4os, Feb, 22.-Ths connmittef
in conferences on the whisky bill mad =
meeting % day.
It is understood that the sliding scale
has been adopted with naoditicasiohs'
wig. 10 i=.a 80 *$@
SPIRITS distilled aasd sold or distilled
and removed for consumption on go -.
previous to the first of july next Q, mrs.
proof. sixty cents Q gallon. From lss 9
July TO the lst OF January next sixsy- Nv
and after that date seventy cents.
On distilled spirits imported preylou
to LIST of July forty cents. After the is'
of Julv and before lat OF January forty
Ave cents. After the first of January
"' The report of the committee will prob
ally be acted upon finally by both
Houses. e..
WAsHISaroN, Feb. Esd. The Union
National Convention met at the residence
of Senator Morgan to-day. About eight
cen members were present. Upon con
suit .tion call was unanimously adopted
fer a national convention on the following
tcrms:-
The undersigned who by original ap.
pointment or subsequent delegation to
fill the vacancies which constitute the
executive committee. created by the na-
{. NAL convention held at Chicago on the
sixteenth Of May 1860. hereby call upon
all qualified voters who desire the I'm
conditional maintenance of the Union,
the slt remacy ofthe Constitution and the
C ,mplete suppression Of the existing re.
bellion with the cause thereof, by vigorous
war, and aIl apt and efficient means, to
send delegates to the Convention to as
Semhle at Baltimore on Tuesday, the
seventh day OF June, 1901. At twelve
o'clock. for the purpose IF presen ting
candidates for the office of President,
and Vice President OF the United States.
Etch State having a representation in
Congress shall be entitled to as many del
egates as shall be equal to twice the mum
her of electors to which each State is en-
titled in the electoral college.
tDilo"IiiH WIS also HAODIeu
Resolved. That while the committee
has not the authority to decide that the
Territories and the District of Columbia
naay be represented in the National Con-
yention. would nevertheless invite said
Territories and District to send delegates
SUBJECT to the decision of the Convention
a. to their rights in the premises.
WASHINGTON. Feb. ODD. Richmond
papers OF the 10Th contain the follow
ing
Official dispatch dated the 18TH to the
War Department announces the arrival
ct Sherman at Quitman on the Ohio and
Mobile road without opposition, bat he
wont be allowed to take Mobile without
IL desperate battle. His advance was
without comparison. the boldest of the
war. lie has from IS 900 to 10000 men
He tears up railroads and bridges as he
goes along, and evidently meditates no
backward step.
MOBILE, Feb. l9th.-Farragut has not
resumed the attack on Grants Pass. His
fleet lies in the sound, the weather being
too bad for action.
No landing reported yet in the direction
Of Pascagoula.
Major General Scammon and staff have
arrived in Richmond and lodged in Lib V
prison.
Fifty eight of the escaped Yankee of
hcers have been returned to the Libby
Prison.
The Enquirer of the 18th has the fol-
lowing:
MONTE, Feb. 18th. Meridian evacu-
ated yesterday. The Government prol-
erty was hearty all saved.
Forest was at Oxford on the 9th. He
was confronting a column of infantry six
thousand strong from Memphis via Her.
monde. and twelve regiments of cavalry
Via Coliersville.
Sherman's force is thirty.ive thousand
strong, and marching in close order. with
Lee 3 cavalay harraSsing his TANKS and
picking up stragglers.
PAscAcoULA, Feb. l&-The enemy's
feet. including the Gag ship, has gone
eastward through the sound, in the di-
rection of Grants Pass. Four more gun
boats have jnst appeared, steering the
same direction.
MOBILE, Feb. l6.-Gov. Watts this
morning issued a proclamation 10 the
citizens Of Mobile that the city was about
TO be attacked, and exhorting no1-coni-
battants to leave.
NEw YoRE, o. Thomas Watson's to
bacco factory, in Brooklyn, was burned
on Saturday night. Loss, $4,000 par
TALLY insured.
Times, Washington special says:
Deserters continue to come in daily,
from Louisiana regiments.
Nearly the whole of the 18th and 18th
Louisiana haye deserted. .:..
Rebel deserters state that Fitz Hugh
Lees cavalry have been diSbanded until
the seventeenth of March, in consequence
of the scarcity of forage. the rebel oavaI.
ry corps being scattered through the
country in Lees rear to procure forage