Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1864-01-22
MISCELLANEOUS DISpAYCHES.

A. Lamar, recently intercepted, is the fol-
lowing;
SAVANNAH, Ga. Julysi 1858.
Hrmrs. H. y, Haris,eia and q. 4. Lashdr
Gentlemen when you 70 to Paris call
on Mr.. Slidell and tell him for me to nego-
tate for the French protct,otate. In case Of
necessity the people will gladly accept it in
the last extremity, With Mexico, France
and the Confederacy in alliance, and free trade,
we should eclipse the world.
(Signed) q. b. LAMAR.
WAsHINoToN HoTEL, Liverpool,
October 2Sth, 1868
John +. McCaUlg, Esq, Grund Hotel, Paris
Dear sir-CaptSin Maffi, has not yet re-
turned from Sweden, whittier he went to look
at, add, II he approved of her after trial,
purchase steamer under offer to us. write
to give you an outline Of the arrangement [
have made with Mr.. Henry l.aFone Of this
City, which il you approve of, you are to have
f2OOO.sterling interest in the first boat.
The first boat is to cost f22. O0o sterling,
the money to be paid upon the delivery uf
the boat. Then l will contract for the build.
ing Of another to be Rnished in January at a
cost Of f25 900. The FIRST boat goes out un-
der command OF Capt. Mafht. When the
second boat gets out, it is optional with
me to say whether will any longer have the
first boat, or whether shall return her to
Mr.. LaFone. The third boat will be finish.
ed on the 22d of February next, at a cost of
ga, 900.
Yours truly,
(Signed) G. A. LAMAR.
The Herald's letter from the squadron of
Wilmington reports the chase and destruction
Of the blockade runner steamer Dare by the
Montgomery and Aries. Her crew run her
ashore about IL miles north of Georgetown
Lights, and then escaped to tie sh IRE. A
boats crew from the Montgomery and Aries
boarded and burnt her. boats crew from
the Aries was swamped in leaving her, and
Acting Master Pendeton. Of the Monteom-
cry in charge of a launch, picked up five of
them While returning to his ship he saw
others, and on turning to save them his boat
was thrown on the beach, where all we're cap
tured by the rebel cavalry. The meu taken
were Acting Master Pendleton, Engineer
Geo. M. Smith and seventeen of the crew of
the Montgomery. Captains Captains CLERK
Parkman, one ensign and seven of the crew of
the Aries. The U. s. schooner Vaughan at
daybreak next morning went close in shore
and shelled the rebel cavalry. The Dare was
of about seven hundred tons burthen, side
Wilmington. She was totally destroyed. -
The cargo was apparently not large She
was chased so miles. Theatres remains at the
scene of destruction to ascertain something
about the captured officers and men.
The Worlds Washington dlsp patch says the
Conscrip.ion act as it passed the Senate pro-
yides that drafted man who pays three hun
dred dollars is exempted until every othor
man In his district is drafted. when he again
is liable. Both classes are consolidated. and {
the exemptions of only son Of a widow, father
of motherless children, &c, are stricken out. |
The bill is now acceptable to the House Mil |
itary Committee.
The Times dispatch says authentic inform
alton received by the Government, places Ma
gruder's forces in Texas as not exceeding
$4,000, and Taylor's and other forces in Louis
lana at not half that number. They are so
and transportation is scarce, that
they could not be consolidated in less than
three months.
The Trbune's dispatch says the receipts
from the internal revenue from the st OF July
last TO January IA were $47 Gal 900. With
expected change in the excise law, the lowest
estimates for the second year are SLAP, 500,-
900, while the highest estimates will add
twenty-f five or thirty millions thereto. With
no change in the revenue law about eighty
five millions wonld be produced,
Admiral Wilkes, the gallant captor Of Ma
son and Slidel has been brought to grief, it
is limited, by collector of autographs. I'm
der the law, he was not eligible for promo
ton to his present rank, il he had attained
certain age, at which he should have been
placed on the retired list His answer to the
circular asking his age was somewhat evvsve,
but convey ed the idea tnat he was not past
the active limit, so he became an admiral
Meanwhile the autographite, in housing a
mong some waste paper cleared out from the
garrett of the Navy Department when an ad-
ditional story was put on that building last
year, found a bundle of letters filed from the
Admiral's father, and others who joined in
applying for his original admission into the
navy, and these show his real age, which dis
qualities him for active service
The Richmond Enquirer has long account
Of the manner of escape of John Morgan from
the Ohio penitentiary, and of his adventures
on his way back TO the Confederate States
Morgan asserts that he had no outside assis-
lance, and that the announcement of his ar
ri al at Toronto was one of those fortuitous
that cannot be accounted for, and
that it materially aided his escape through the
Union lines.
We find il stated that Ma or General Burn
side has been authorized by the War Depart
ment to recruis his old army corps (the oth)
to a maximum of fifty thousand men, This
corps served under him in the expedition to
North Carolina. and also in the East Tennes
see campaign, and when its thinned ranks are
full important special duty will be assigned
it to perform.
ST. LOUIS. Jan. Is.
Gen. Mcneil arrived here tonight from
Fort Smith, Arkansas. He reports that the
rebels in Arkansas are suffering severely from
the cold weather, which extended throughout
the South Gen. Kirby Smith, commanding
the Mississippi department, has been ordered
TO march North, as the Arkansasiaus and Mis-
sourians refused to go father South. Desert
ers in large numbers were coming into the
federal lines, acknowledging that the rebell- |
ion was hopeessly lost.
NEW YORK, Jan. Is.
On Wednesday Gen. Butler sent important
documents to City Point bearing on tn sub
ject OF exchange OF prisoners. In the mean
time he has ordered the rebel prisoners to be
brought within the lines Of bis department to
wait a release, which he hopes to be able TO