Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1864-03-25
Observation-Disclosures DISpATCHES.

descrters, but will be dismissed upon taking
the oath Of allegiance and furnished with
transportation North or employment on the
various Notifications. Within a week past
some three or four hundred have been releas-
ed from the old capital prison and sent to
Philadelphia and New York.
The judiciary committee OF the House has
instructed its chairman TO report with a rec
ommendation that it pass Representative Will
sons joint resolution proposing to the sever .
al State legislatures an amendment of the
Constitution abohshing slavery as incompati-
bic with republican government.
NEw ORLEANS, March II.
II is believed that some sort Of an under
standing has been entered into between Gen
Banks and Gen. Steele, by which western
Louisiana and Southern Arkansas are to be
cleared of rebel troops.
An order has just been issued by General
Banks TO hold an election of delegates to a
constitutional convention on the 2sth. The
convention meets in New Orleans on the 9th
of April. There are to be so delegates chos-
en- on white basis as per census Of 1900
New Orleans will have SO members.
NFw YORK, March 90.
The Herald's Now Orleans letter of the
18th says that Col. Tevis with the Sd Mary
land cavalry arrived yesterday from Madison
vile. They had secuted from Madsonvlle
nearly all the country between the Tangipa-
no and Pearl Rivers. The 9th and 10th bat
tallions Of Louisiana cavalry were driven from
the Chappapea river. A number of them
were captured, as also some Of the blood
hounds with which they had been hunting
conscripts. Thirty negroes captured by the
rebels from a plantation near Fort Pike were
m fIa .
rebel within sixty miles of jacksonville. ex-
cept possibly few Strangers number Of
rebel soldiers paroled at Vicksburg and Port
Hudson, who were endeavoring to avoid the
CONSUMPTION, were brought in. Large quanti-
ties Of cotton were discovered in the country
through which our force travelled, but could
not be removed for the lack of transportation
The sentiment OF the people was unmistaka-
bly, Union. A portion Of the Sd Maryland
consists of four hundred formerly rebel sol
diers from Fort Delaware, who took the oath
of allegiance and enlisted. There have been
no assertions from it in face of the enemy
The cavalry marched 40 miles before return
ing here from jacksonville.
The Times special dispatch says the ex-
element about the threatened raid by Stu
art has subsidized.
detachment Of the enemy crossed the
Rappahannock at Fredericksb burg, Wednesday
night. and on the following day Col Bryan of
the 18th Penn. cavalry captured twenty Of
them.
Friday morning detachment Of the enc
my crossed at Morton's ford and drove in the
9TH Michigan pickets but were subsequently
repulsed and forced TO recross the river.
The I'd corps discharged all their pieces
Saturday forenoon. Perhaps this will ac-
count for the report of firing heard at Dunn
fries.
There are other indications Of rebel dem
onstratons not proper to write at this time.
Stuart is massing his cavalry at Charlottes-
vile, where he has three brigades, and Fred
eiicksburg, where he has two.
The report that the enemy had effected
crossing at Racoon ford is not correct.
The LIST Michigan veteran cavalry, 1900
strong, went to the front on Saturday.
Twelve deserters from the 10th Louisiana
have arrived within our lines within three
days, the first from that regiment. They had
got hold of the Presidents proclamation dis
tributed in Kilpatrick's raid.
The Herald's West Virginia dispatch Of the
10th says: All is quiet in the Shenandoah
Valley. There are no movements of a seri-
Gus character.
The latest information from the Kanawha
Valley does not confirm the rumor that the
enemy's force is marching on Barboursville.
There is no positive indication that the enc
my contt mplates an extensive raid in the Kan
awha region. Still the truth is. the enemy
are preparing in the neighborhood of New
River for an as yet unknown movement
The Trbune's Washington letter says Col
onel Margrave's plan to kidnap President
Lincoln, proposed to the rebel War Depart
ment in November, was as follows:
One hundred and fifty picked men were to
go secretly North and take quarters in Wash
ington, Georgetown, Baltimore and Alexan-
dria, so as to be able to communicate daily
with each other, and upon day fixed by their
leader were to assemble in Washington for
the purpose Of making the seizure. The
President, it was claimed, could be easily
seized at quiet hour at the White House,
or in going TO or returning from church, or
on some other favorable occasion, and thrust
into a carriage and carried off. The carriage
was to be joined a few miles out of the city
by twenty-five or thirty armed men on horse |
back.
1t was proposed to drive to Indian Point,
about rs miles south of Washington, on the
Potomac, two or three relays Of feet horses
being stationed on the way, where boat was
to be in waiting to cross the river and land
the captive a few miles south of Occoquan,
where it would be an easy matter for his cap
tors to work their way with him through the
woods by night into the rebel lines To pre-
vent pursuit, every bridge was to be destroy
ed between Washington and Indian Point.
In Jeff. Davis proclamation for Con.eder- /
ate fast-day on the 8th Of April proximo, oc-
ours the following passage:
Recent events awaken fresh gratitude to
the Supreme Ruler Of nations. Our enemies
have suffered repeated defeats, and nefari-
Gus scheme to burn and plumber our capital,
and to destroy our civil government by put
ting to death the chosen servants of the peo-
Pile, has been bsfiied and set at naught. Our
armies have been strengthened our finances
promise rapid progress to satisfactory con-
dition and our whole country is animated
with hopeful spirit, and fixed determine
ton TO achieve independence. In these cir
eumstances it becomes us, with thankful
hearts. to bow ourselves before the throne of
the Most High, and, while gratefully acknowl-
edging so many mercies, confess that our sins
as people have justly exposed us to ehas-
tisement."