The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1864-01-23

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| The press IA quiet on Asnssican affairs
Times pail lisiIes n iat tar from lts sescee-
sion correspond ns4 Spence ffurn 4saFeg-
pooI. iii which the writer ndnsits inst tn
North has male progress but not Id pro.
nortiors to cost, he con ten aa That the me-
Icorasaign vi rexesl greater hiffieRItses
lfor the North, and that their hnanciaI
ipolioy will sooner OF later collapse,
/ Anglo chinese aeet fitted out fitted out
lby Capt Osborne was returning to In 8.
Hand for sale. A j4Ss IS Al
WAsH1nGros, Jan. 49,. Seaate, Hoover
introduced bill TO establish y bureau Of
Einancipaticn--r referred % select com.
ON Slavery
/ Resolution of Wilson to expel Davis of
Kentucky, referred To Judiciary com. a
l. Joint resolution Of thanks 10 Hooker.
| Meade, Banks, Burnside and Howard,
and officers of their Armies, adopted.
| Discussion on the enrnliment blu CO..
| cupied the entire session, at of the do
/ bate the bill was passed without any inn
| portant amendment, ayes ~. nays 10
House, resolution instrllcting com, on
Military affairs to inquire into the pro
priety of exempting Clergynen of all de.
| nominations from draft, laid on the Ia
BILE by large majority. III. II =
| Resolution of Cox, TO aprointa boal d
Of Commissioners who can by negotiation
reach reach southern authorities with a
view to immediate exchange OF prisoners
and taking the matter Of Buffers hands,
laid on tho table Of to IS. -.
Seherck reported back from military
Ecornmitteo for the Joint com on tho con
duct Of the war gith amendment, author
izing them to inquire into ell contracts
made with any of the departments and
at such time and places as they may think
proper during recess OF Congress, resolu-
| sion agreed TO.
New York, Jan. 49, Richmond Wing
Of 10Th thinks the future Of the south is
involved in next Springs campaign in
upper Georgia.
NEW YoRK. Jan. ia Washington
letter to the Times says:
A cooperative movement il to be
made on Richmond at the opening Of
| spring BY column on the tho peninsu-
| la or South James River. under Han
cock. aided by Suffers forces. and by q
main column on direct line with Wash,
ington. Hancock will command one of
three corps, into which the army of the
Potomac Is to be consolidated: Sedgwick
another, and Gen Not of tho Potomac ar
NV the ether.
| Tribunes special says:
| The Arkansas delegation say that in
| ,Uur months Arkansas will come into the
Union a. a free State. They recommend
Col Rogers for military governor.
CAIRO, Jan. ia man who left Rich
mond on the 2Sth of December, arrived
at Memphis lately and furnishes the fol-
lowing;
At Atlanta he found that BIagz's ar.
my was completely demoralizcd and
much scattered through tue country, at
this point
Itis the intention Of the rebel govern
ment 10 concentrate all forces possible
| 10 wipe out Grants army.
Those who can be spared from Charles
ton, Wilmington. Mobile, Montgomery
and other places will probably lie sent
| here, including prisoners paroled at
VjckSburg and Port Hudson.
He found 1000 infantry and cavalry at
| Gernada, Oxford and Pamela; 5000 caval
~ under Stephen D Lee at Oklahoma, and
| 5000 cavalry with regiments Of pNroled
Port Hudson prisoners-Gen Furguson
in command.
These paroled prisoners have been de.
clared exchanged and furnished arms.
In West Mississippi there are $4,000
troops.
1t is evidently the intention of the reb-
els to invade West Tennessee during the
coming spring, to attract Grants atten-
ton from the movement Of johnson at
Dalton along the railroad below the Al
abalRa line.
There is an enormous amount Of corn
IN rail pens exposed 10 the weather
New YORK. Jan. IA special to the
Tribune from SanduSky, OHIO, says:
a scout vino has Just returned from
Point Pelee, canada, thirty miles from
Johnson's Island, reports! 1000 or 30O0|
rebels there preparing for a ash to res.
cue the prisoners confined at Johnson's
Island
Gen Ferry has everything in readiness
to receive them, should they venture to
cross on the ice.
Strict vigilance is mainta tanned.
Several batteries are in position.
This scout is reliable man and has
sailed on the lakes twenty years.
Col Bassett. of the gid Penn. relieves
the present commander Of Johnson's
Island.