Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1864-03-24

view OF these facts, and IN accordance with
the recommendation Of the Treasury De
partmeni. the House has Just passed bill
to repeal the second section of the act to
requisite foreign coasting trade on our
frontiers. TINS taking from her majesty's
subjects the enjoyment of the privileges
which were not reciprocated to our own
citizens by the British Government.
Congress has passed bill allowing all
mail matter sent or received by the Presi-
dent and Vice, President to be sent free.
The bill allowing the Secretary of the
Treasury to sell the surplus gold has pass
ed both Houses Of Congress. and only
wants the signature of the President to
become law 4, flfe
Advices from Chattanooga state that
Longstreet's forces. temporarily under COM
mand of Buckner, are at Gieenvillle, and
his advance at Bull Gap. His force is
supposed to be 10000
Johnston's force at Dalton is estimated
at 30, 600. and he is daily receiving rein
forcemcnts. The Georgia, State militia
being concentrated at Dalton.
Governor Brough of Ohio, in a recent
message to the Legislature. pays high
compliment to the lnlana Sanitary Com.
mission, and recommends the organization
on the same plan, Of a similar commission
in Ohio.
Lieutenant Colonel Sandcrson, charged
BY Colonel Streigh. with revealing to the
rebel authorities a plan of the Libby pris-
oners to escape, has been sent to Fort
Warren for safe keeping.
Major General Fremont is to be assign
ed to the command of the Department of
the South, and Gen. Gilmore will take the
field.
Exchange OF prisoners is again blocked
by the government refusing to sanction
General Buffers arrangement.
The private subscription in Boston for
the relief Of the East Tennessee loyalists
has reached $4,000.
| The rebel pirates now ahoat are the
Georgia. recently escaped from Cherbourg;
the Florida. which lodged the Kearsage at
Brest; and the Alabama, which when last
heard of was off the western coast OF India.
The Tuscaloosa is still at Cape Town, but
will soon be allowed to depart.
Letters from Braxton county, West Va,
report that Jackson and Imboden, with a
force Of several thousand rebels, are with.
in short distance of Sutton, preparing
for "rai1." We have a few companies
in Braxton county and other points in that
part of the State, but it is doubtful wheth
err the Union troops are strong enough to
resist the rebel advance. ~ ns fis :
=. <k,
are westward bound. The hotels are
crowded, il being rather early for camping
out. Idaho, California, Nevada, and Col
oraio. seems to be the principal points of
attraction. Idaho, however. appears to be
the larger magnet. Wages at Bannock
City have been as high as 50 per day for
miners during the winter. Flour in Salt
Lake City has been from S12 to SIS per
hundred. and in the mines from $50 to
$50 per hundred. /
Smith and Collins, commissioners for
disbursing the Philadelphia bounty to the
East Tennessee Relief Fund, arrived at
Chattanooga on the 18th. They have on
the way to Knoxville several tuns OF pro-
visions e, ;;aae Tennessee sufferers. The
loyal people ofthe State are very destitute,
aud are deserving the sympathy of the
people Of the North. All reports about
skirmishing at the front are bogus, and
every thing has been for some days very
quiet along the lines.
The Memphis Bulletin says that the ex-
petition sent up the Yazoo at the time
Sherman moved on Meridian, has returned
to Vicksburg. 1t was composed of the
18th Illinois, Colonel Coates, and negro
regiment. The expedition reached Fort
Pemberton and returned to fazoo City,
when Colonel Coates disembarked his COM
mand, and sent his boats to Vicksburg,
loaded with cotton. While waiting the
return of the boats he was attacked in va
zoo City by two brigadcs of cavalry
Ross's and Richardson's. The fighting
was desperate. lasting from lc O'Clock a.
m. till o'clock p. m, on Saturday. the
9Th. At times the men were fighting hand
to hand in the streets. The enemy was
repulsed, and the boats returning on Sun
day. Colonel Coates, according to orders.
re-embarked and returned to the command
in Vicksburg. Our loss was eighteen kill
VI. 1hut VI tuc cuciut 10 nuSu OtSasSAs
including Major and Lieutenant.
Since the 1st of February three hundred
and thirty-eight commissioned Off
GERS and privates and five commissioned
officers have come into our lines at Knox
vile as descrters from the rebel army,
have taken the oath and been released.
The aggregate during January was 600.-'
Two hundred and seventyive prisoners
were captured during January and Febru-
airy, of whom eleven have taken the oath.
The iron-clad Galena, which was SO
riddled at Fort Darling, Virginia, has had
her armor removed. and is about to go in
to commission. With her armor on, the
Galena made eleven knots, and it is ex-
pected that much higher rate will now
be obtained. She is 2l5 feet long. 80 feet
beam, and draws ii feet of water. She
has two engines. with 4S-inch cylinders
and 8 feet stroke, driving screw IL feet
diameter and % feet pitch. The stroke
is multiplied by the plan ofthe engines so
that the crank has foot more stroke, or A
feet altogether. =
A complete uniform and outfit for Gen.
Price was lately captured by the LIST Ne
braska cavalry in Arkansas, which had
been sent from St. Louis.
The blockade running steamer Mary