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Incendiarism In Richmond.

The Richmond papers Of the Dist
publish long accounts of serious fires
which occurred on the 18th in that city.
The Examiner heads its report thus:
Destructive ConAagration-Arson Rife
in the Heart of the City-Put none but
Southrons on Guard and then goes
on to describe the scene as follows:
AT an early hour on Saturday morn
ing another OF those extensive confa-
grations which have their origin in in
cendiarism, and which have occurred
too often OF late without being followed
by the swift discovery and punishment
Of the incendiaries, broke out in the
collection Of frame tenements on the
northwest corner Of Main and Ninth
streets, in dangerous contiguity to the
Mechanics Institute, Ninth-street, oc-
cupied by the officers of the War De-
partment, Secretary of the Navy, Sur
geOn-Generai 5 Office, and number of
others connected with the Confederate
States Government.
The object Of the incendiary or in
cendiaries was, doubtless, nothing less
than the destruction Of the Institute.
with the offices under its roof, and the
mass Of official records. Happily, if
such was the object, it failed, though
the attempt involved the burning up Of
FIVE tcnenents, several in government
occupancy, and the in1iction Of a loss
Of not less than two hundred thousand
dollars. Two unsuccessful attempts
were made several hours earlier to fire
the place
After more than an hours contest,
the flames were stayed at the Alabama
House, on Main street. and at the
bookstore of J. W. Davies, on Ninth
street. both Of which We're saved at the
expense Of a wreck between.
Powers statue of Washington, exc
cuted in Italy, and belonging to Ma
sonic Lodge No 4, of Fredericksburg,
the Lodge in which Washington was
initiated was saved from injury from
the fortunate circumstance that it had
been boxed around with stone and
wood. The statue was in the rear of
the buildings destroyed, and was on
rollers, ready to be run out, but was
not removed
The ground upon which stood the
buildings swept away by the flames
is the property of the Grand Lodge of
Masons. The war interrupted a pro
.ject, at one time on foot, to erect a Ma
sonic Hall of imposing dimensions up
on the site recently occupied by the
late rickety buildings that ever stood
a combustible invitation to incendia-
ries, especially since important govern
ment property stood in dangerous prox-
unity.
Then follows this remarkable state
ment:
'The conhagration over the munich
pal and Confederate authorities will re
double their precaution and guards, to
relax them again in n little while One
unalterable lesson should be learned
from such bold arson in the heart Of
the capital, and that's, that there IS IN
o,r midst Yankees, CmiSSorics. douJHess,
bolt and hazardous, who, under the in
spiration of Lincoln's gold, are willing
to risk their necks in efforts to Bindle
incendiary fires at points where the
contiagration will be most likely to re-
suit in the greatest mischief"
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From Arkansas.

From the Memphis Bulletin 1iarch 24lhl
Few days pass without scouting par
ties leaving Helena, Arkansas. who dill
igently clear the guerrillas that infest
the country back from the river. On
Monday last one of the psf ties came in
with no less than eighteen prisoners.
Among them was Charley Coolidge, a
tOlerably well-known individual. who
had been a prisoner formerly. was ex-
changed, and is now in captivity again.
Captain HWshel was also rccaptured
He had been a prisoner on his road To
Government Island, Lake Erie. Attn
dianapOlis ne contrived to escape. This
man IS a horse stealer Of eminence and
impudence Since his escape he has
written to Gen Buiord stating that he
has twice been within his lines since
his return, and proposed TO continue his
visits. He has made one more visit
than Is good for him Several former
residents Of Helena have been among
prisoners recently captured. Pine Bluff
and Little Rock persons come in daily
and take the oath, being tired of the
fruitless and calamitous opposition TO
legitimate governments
We are indebted to a friend for the
following information respecting the
election in Arkansas:
LITTLE Rock, March lS.-Election is
over From the returns known and the
precincts not heard from. the whole
vote cast viii reach 1900 The num-
Der required by the Presidents procla-
nation was ), 400 If the vote could
have been taken in all the counties of
the State, it no doubt would have
reached 10000, majority of all the
votes ever cast in the State. Many of
the Union counties south of US held no
polls, on account of the occupancy of
the rebel army and its detached squads
of guerrillas Price distributed his
forces, particularly for the oacasion,
over fourteen counties, south of the Sa-
line river
The Opposition vote to the new Con
stitution was less than 300. The fol
lowing State officers were elected.
GoCaTor-lsaac Murphy
Lieut. G0rc,por-C. c. Bliss.
Secretary Of State-R j. 7. White.
.Iuditor-J. B. Berry.
Trcaswsr-E D. Ayers.
1Horey Gcncral-C T. Jordan.
,Eilqes OF Supreme C5tUt-T D. W.
Yonly. c. A. Harper and E. Baxter.
Members Of Congress-D NJ Jacks,
Helena J. NJ Johnson, johnson county
The Second District, somewhat in
in doubt Rogers friends claim it by
about 100 majority Beloats support
ers also claim a majority The official
count can only determine it.
The Legislature, county officers, etc,
not heard from definite enough to give
the names Of those successful They
were, however, all Unconditional Union
candidates. In the Second Congress
sional District there are about 300 who
gave their votes for Rogers for Con
greSs. Z. +. H.
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Veteran Reserves.

An order has been issued from the
Provost Marshal Generals office, at
Washington, which states that the name
Of the organization authorized by the
War Department as the Invalid Corps,
IS changed to that Of the Veteran Re
serve Corps, and that all orders relating
to the Invalid Corps will remain in
force, as at present, with respect TO the
Veteran Reserve Corps. This Is a
change Of name which viii no doubt be
hailed with great pleasure by the gal
liant soldiers IN this corps, and viii
greatly increase its present high and
well-deserved popularity. Three years
Of hard fighting have given our brave
soldiers Of the Union armies q just title
to be called veterans in the noblest and
fullest sense Of the term We have now
Veteran Volunteers and Veteran Re
serves; nobly have they earned their
name, and proudly will they protect the
title and gloriOasly wear its honors.-
PkiddelDhia Inquirer
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norernor RrOHn,s Position.

Every Richmond paper has its fling
at Governor Brown Of Georgia, for his
opposition to JEFF Davis and the meas
ures of the rebel Congress. The Ex-
aminer talks about the Conscription
act thus
1T is enough to say, in general, that
if the law of conscription had not been
made in 1862, Governor Brown would
now mOulder in his grave, fill a prison
er's cell in a Yankee penitentiary, or
wander a miserable exile in strange
lands; Georgia plantations would have
Yankee owners, and the wretched re-
mainder of its thriving population at
this moment would envy the lot Of
their own negroes. Had that law been
never made. the forces Of the United
States would long ago have swept from
the earth the lastvestiges Of the South
ern Confederacy, and Of the society for
the defence of which il was organized
and If it had not been extended at the
last session of Congress, the evil day
would have only been pOstponed-Our
armies would have been dissolved, and
all the blood oi three years would have
been poured oJt for no purpose. The
came species of answer 10 all the at
tacl,s which a lawyers ingenuity can
pick in the law regulating the cuTen-
cv. IS equally conclusive In another
month. Treasury notes would not have
been worth the blank paper on which
they were printed The country would
have now been not only deprived Of a
currency. but Of credit; that is 10 say,
of the power to create new currency.
The necessity of things, and the right
of selfpreserYation, justify triiiing
wrongs. D. Miaimin non cirIaL
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United States of America.
United States Of America.

MIDDLE DISTRICT OF TENNESSEE-No 81.
WHEREAS, an information was fled in the Dis
w trict Court of tho United States for the MIDI
die District Of Tennessee, on the l4th day Of March,
1864, by Horace II. Harrison Esq, Attorney Of the
Uuited States for said District who proSccutcs
therein, as wei on behalfof the United States as of
Joseph r. Diliin, Esq, Surveyor Of Customs NJ
Nashville, Tennessee, against three thousand nine
hundred and ninety-tWO dollars and n half, IN g0d
Of which one Robert Dickson Is the reputed owner
and against all persons lawfully intervening for their
interests therein, alleging that said property had
been heretofore seized in said District, on land as
forfeited for causes in said information set forth and
ayerred TO be true, and praying for the usual pro-
cess and monitiCn.
Now, therefore, pursuant to the monition under
the seal of said Court, directed, hereby give
public warning to all persons concerned in interest
in said property, to appear before said Court on the
81 Monday in April next, 80 the Federal Court
Room, in the Capitol at Nashville, in said District
then and there to PROFOUND their claims and make
their allegations IN that behalf
T. r. GIASCOCK,
L. s. Marshal for the Mid. Dist. Of Tennessee.
. Mar l7-9T
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The First Brigade Of the Veteran
Reserve Corps.
The following order has been pro
....r -, Il
SPECIAL ORDERS-NO. -
HrADqUA ETERs, DEPAET>ENT or WAsHlNGToN,
TwENTy-SECuSD Army C1KP-, r
Washington, b. c., March p, lsJi.J
Extract. !

Extract
In accordance with Special Orders
No lI9, War Department Adjutant
Generals Office, March l6, 1864, the
following regiments of the Veteran Re
serve Corps are relieved from duty
under Briadier General J. II. Martin
dale. and are announced as the First
brigade, Veteran Reserve Corps, under
Colonel r. II Rush with headquarters
in such place in this city as shall be
designated by the commander =
First regiment Veteran Reserve
Corps
Sixth regiment Veteran Reserve
Corps
Nineteenth regiment Veteran Re
serve Corps.
Twenty-second regiment Veteran Re
serve Corps.
Twenty-fourth regiment Veteran Re
serve Corps.
All returns and acquisitions from the
First brigade, Veteran Reserve Corps,
will be forwarded direct to these head
quarters.
By command Of
Mai Gen. AUGUR.
J.H. TAYLOR, Chief of Staff and A.
A.
C. H. RAYMOND, A. A G.
The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1864-03-31

4 respectable German, gentleman
ike and of fine attainments, commit
ted suicide in New York last week By
shooting himself through the head
lie first killed bull-tefrier belonging
10 him, and the bodies were found to-
gether.
The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1864-03-31

A North Carolina paper has an ad-
yertisement from Miss Pauline NJ,
Wilmington, y. C., stating that she Is
a candidate for matrimOny; that she
has 100000. q fair complexion, ana
flowing ringlets, once golden IN Their
hue. and Is l. years Of age, and i've
feet four inches in height How about
the money. Pauline, Is itin greenbacksf
asl,s the Springfield Republican.
The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1864-03-31
HonnrahIe C0ndlfl0n..

Many years ago in what is now q
hourishing city in this State, lived q
stalwart blacksmith, fond Of his pipe
and his Joke. lie was also fond Of his
blooming daughter, whose many eraces
and charms had ensnared the affections
Of susceptible young printer The
couple. after a season Of billing and
cooing. engaged themselves, and
nothing but the consent Of the lady b
parent prevented their union.
To obtain this. an interview wss ar
rangcd-and the typo prepared little
speech 10 astOnish and convince the old
man, who sat enjoying his fayogitc pipe in
perfect content Typo dilated upon the
fact Of their long friendship. their mu-
tual attachment, their hopes for the
future, and like topics; and taxing his
daughter by the hand said "A now,
sir. asI, your permission To transplant
this beautiful flower from IT'S parent
bed but his phelinX' Overcame him.
he forgot the remainder Of his oratOri-
cal flourish, blushed, stammered, and
finally wound up with" from is parent
bed. into nv 017r The father keenly
rclished the discontinue Of the su.tor.
and after removing his pipe and blow
ing a cloud replied
Well, young man, ! don I know as ]
have any objections, procidug gul r.H
maTTy he Q.rL first
The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1864-03-31

The whole number OF prizes brought
To the port Of Philadelphia is l22 which
with their cargoes, realized S3,lI9 j61
g. Of these g2 have been acted upon.
realizing g, 1929 48, the expenses Of
condemnation being Sl9lS6 s..
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MILLER e. GREENE

HAVE on hand the following GOODS, which they
offer at the lowest market price:
$50 Boxes and C2ddIes choice Tobacco,
80 Gross Rose Bud, Sweet Owen, and Sunny
Side Tobacco,
30 Gross NJ. and X Smoking Tobacco,
40 Bales and Boxes killjkmicI Tobacco,
100 NJ Choice Cigars,
80 Cases Canned Fruit, Cove Oysters, Lob
sters, &c,
Pickles by the barrel and in eases,
Sour krout in barrels and haif iaIrel5
PUlverZed, Crushed and y. y. Sugar in
barrels and half barrels,
80 Kegs Pigs Feet,
Is Cases Boots and Shoes,
The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1864-03-31

When the Nashville train pl .ed
Lebanon Junction yesterday afternoon
a terrible fire was raging The woods
were in q grand sheet Of flame for
miles. the fences were being swept by
blazing string Of fire, and hundreas q
cords of seasoned wood, stacked alon8
the railroad, were burning nefceiy'
and adding grandeur 70 the eoniiaeFa-
ton. The passengers did not learn
tbe oriqin of the fre.-L9L ,ioia 2Hh
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ofany house either in this place OF Louisville.
My stock in this line is direct from the manufsc-
torres, and will sell as low as ANY Cncinnat house.
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HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, ?
Thursday, March 24
General Orders No. 10
L The following order has been re
ceived from the War Department:
WAR DEPARTMENT,
ADUTANT GENERALS OFFICE,
Washington, Wednesday, March %. }
Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1864-08-23

The speech of Hon. o. F. Linder before
the Joliet Democratic Club, at the Court
House, on last Fridsy evening, was per-
fec. stupner to the JacobinF.
The Court House was eros ded to it's ut
most extent; aud among the multitude We
noticed number Of prominent Jacobius,
who squirmed considerably under the Sc
we're castigation CT the eloquent speaker.
Mr.. Under spoke for nearly three hours;
and his speech was most perfect and Sc
we're commentary upon the perfdious acts
Of the Administration. He went back to
the earlier days of the republic and shows
ed the cotrast between the deeds of the
statesmen Of those days and those Of the
present rulers. The usurpatiOns and per-
niclous policy Of the Administrator were
condeme1 as meme but Linder Can
condemn them.
The eloquent speaker was repeatedly in
terrui tel by-deafoing Gpplausa. Indeed
| his remaT Ks we're Of a character to carry
conviction to any reasonable mind. There
were few of the vast audience to hear him
/ who were not convinced of the necessity oI
a change of rulers aud Hsscharge Of policy
Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1864-08-23
Col. NluIIIsan,s Diary.

From the Richmond Dispatch, Aug. l,
The dISry of Gen. Mulligan, who was
killed ut KerDstown, is a valuable record,
and we hope will be kept as a precious
memento Of this war. His despondency
about the war, and conFuering the SJuth
is quite piIhily expressed iG the last entry
uuade 10y him on the day of battle:
well" said be "uur cause is gloomy ::
we will conquer the SJuth about the .ime
the jews all return to Jerusalem I"
Gen. Mullgan lett in black and white
his opinion Of Gen. Hunter lie calls him
'feud." be "tluohes for bis country for
keeping such feud in the service -
Hunter is fsnd lie is SAID to be VIr-
ginian and We ere not surprised at his de-
pravity F; for Sirgiuian that turns against
his IN tber must be very bad man. We
are never astouished at any crime shat a
NiFEiniI traitor is guilty f. But who Is,
or was Muligan, that be could feel indig
patton at the brutalites of q Federal Cen
eral towards saHtherners lie was hard
ly Yankee, ami could DOT possil " have
been u Puritan. lie was either an Irish
man or the zen Of one. lie has somewhat
Of msgnanim.ty Of humanity, and not a
particle Of either could enter the Puritan
heart Peace to the ashes of Gen Multi
gau lie was that rare man 10 the Yam.
kee arDy-a generous adversary.
Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1864-08-23
From Hilton Head.

New York, Aug 10.
A Hilton Head letter. dated the ii b. 20
the Herald ststet: FIR Gen. S;him.
meiy :thning's District VIC have the graft
lying report that On TUESDAY night large
propeller, sometbirg like the commander
ran through cur feet of Charlesou. and
got aground on Suliiyau's leland. near
Fort Moultrie. Sac wac discovered there
10 the morning az daylight, ADD several
shots were fred at her, nearly every one
dong execution. The firing was kent up
unii! she was a com; lie wreck. A n,r.
tim OF her cargl was evidently DESTROYED
with her, considerable will be saved by the
rebel wreckCTs.
The fire from our batteries 5 still kent
up on Fort SumPter ard the city. with
most gratifying accuracy A de>erter v no
came IN recently informs US that our firing
ppes great damage, aud Is directed at the
weakest points Of the ivTt-a fact attrib.
utable to Gen. Fosters knowledge of it
while stationed there II e rebels, il is
said. express great fear lest the continued
bomdardmeDt Of points 10y 40 meaus i'm
pregn lie will Ultimately interfere with
tue safely OF their Classmates, aud MUCH
weaken the dpiPTPes'
Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1864-08-23
Union PrfsOne 4.

Oae thousand exchanged Union priso-
ners from the Red River country arrived
at New Orleans recently the majority be-
longing 50 Iowa and Indiana. They were
pitiabla locking set of fellows-hatless,
shoeless and many Of them without sufi-
cient clothing to cover their nakcdness.-
Most Of them had been sixteen months in
captivity. They were from the prison pen
at Tyler, Texas. where from 900 to
6,000 are Cor fined in q stockade fort, at the
rate of l 900 to an acre, and all are suf-
ferins for suitable food, clOthiEg and many
are dying.
All the suffering of these men should be
laid at the door of Abraham Lincoln. He
might have had them exchanged q year
ago, if be had not resolved to force the
doctrine of negro equality upon the South.
Lincoln and his officials have Insisted that
white men should suffer and die as above
described, unless the South will consent t.
put their negro prisoners on the same level
with them. Yet by all this suffering and
| death of white men, those negroes are not
in the least benefited. Why. then, are
these men left to suffer and die? Let their
friends ask Lincoln this question.
The whole world knows that IT is the
Everlasting niger" that is in the way oil
the deliverance of our brave soldiers who
are languishing and dying in Southern
| prisons.
Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1864-08-23
Rarharism I'm War.

The destruction Of private property, by
the two military forces. is last setting
down. to disgraeeful regularity. The
burning OF Gov. Leicher's residence in
Virginia, by order # Ger. Hunter, was
followed by the turning Of Governor Brad
ford's, il Maryland. Then we fud Hunt
er burning the residences of Hon. Chas. j.
Faulkner in Martinsburg, Hon. Alexander
BJtel5r aud that of Edmund j. Lee. in
Sbepardstown, and Hon. Andrew Hunter.
near CharlesIown, Ya.-elegant and costly
residences, occupied only by females
Now comes raid into Cbambersbure
Penn, by the rebels, and we read of more
than two hundred families turned into the
street, from their burning houses, by the
fell spirit Of revepgel Has the war de-
generated into this uncivilized state p
England was never more heartily denOupc.
ed than for burning the city of Washing
ton, in the war of lSl2-but that was q
light crime compared with the vandalism
that burns dwellings and drives helplsst
women and children from their homes J.
Quincy Herald.
Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1864-08-23
Letter from Gen. Sherman 10
the Agent of Massachusetts.

Headers Military Division of the
Mississippi. in Field near Atlan>
ia, Ga, July 80.
John a. Spooner, Esq, Agent for the
Communicable Of Massachusetts, Nash
Vile, Tenn:
SIa.-Yours from Chattanooga, July %
is received notifying me Of your appoint.
ment by your State as Lieutenant Colonel
and Provost Marshall of Georgia, Alabama
and Mississippi, under the act of Congress
approved July i, 1861, to recruit volun-
teers, to be credited to the States respects
lively.
On applying to Gen. Webster at Nash
vile, lie will grant you a pass through our
lines to those States, aud as | have had
considerable experience in those States,
would suggest recruiting depOts to be es-
! tabiished at Macon, and Colum bus, Miss.
| Selma, Montgomery ami Mcb lie, Alabama,
/ and c 'lumbus, MIliedgeviile aud Savan-
/ nah, Ga.
| do not see that the law restricts you to
/ black recruits. but you are at liberty to
! collect white recruits also. 1t is waste
OF time and money 20 open rendezvous in
] Northwest Georgia, for l assure you !
have not seen an able bodied man, black
or white, there fit t"r e s9lGier, who was
-
You speak of the impression going
abroad that am opposed to the organiza-
ton of cO0rrd regiments.
My opinions are usually very positive,
and there is no Ie2>on why You should not
know them.
Though entertaining profound rever-
ence fer our CJngress, | doubt their wis.
dom in the passage OF this law:
/. Because civilian agents about an ar
my are nuisance.
.. The duty of citizens to fight for their
country Is too sacred enc to be peddIed
eff by buying uP the refuse of other
States.
3. Ii is unjust to the brave soldiers and
volunteers who are Fighting as those who
compose this army do, 10 place them on 8
par with the class Of recruits you are af-
ter.
4. The negro is in a transition state, anC
is not the equal of the white man.
5. lie Is liberated from his bondage BY
act of war /; ind the armies in the field ar,
entitled to al his assistance in labor arc
fighting. in addition to the proper quotas
of the States.
6. This bidding and bartering for re
cruIts, white and black, has DELAYED tn
reinforcement Of nur a. mies at the time
when such reiTicrcemcDis would have eu
ebled to make our successes perma
neut.
I. The new law is au experiment
which. pending war, Is unwise and uu
safe. and has delayed the universal draf
which | firmly byLeye VIII bee me neces
ssry t. overcome the wide spread resist
ance offered Us; and | also believe th
universal draft VII Ls sc and Beneficial
for under the PrcvideDce Of God It Wi
+ separate the sheep from the goats. an
demonstrate what citizens wi! fight f.
Their country. aud What will only talk
, You may show this ic The agents OF ia
+ other States IN the same business as YOUR
. self. | am &c.
, (SiEusd) I ". SHERMAN,
Mi u General