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

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FORTRESS MosRoK, Jan. l9.-Fron
Southern papers We have the following:
j Citizens of Montgomery, Ala.wwere busy
on the 4th taking in ice an inch thich.
The Wilmington J Journal says: $50
r., The recent presence of GEN Butler in
Sewbern, AID the concentration of troops
at that point, IS well as at Washington
and Beaufort han ,hors leaves little room
to doubt that an ad7.22n nee OF most seri-
Gus character is conten1 plated and on the
eve of execution by the enemy IN North
Carolina, They may adSance in tie dr.
rection Of Kinston and ~Goldsboro. No
doubt they have increased their forces
as Washington and Plymouth, and we
may expect an attack on the railread
near Rocky Mount and Weldon. ,
The Montgomery Advertiser says: !.
Gen. Martini entire cavalry force met
the enemy at Tolbot's station and drove
them back four miles, when they were
reinforced and drove Martin back with
considerable loss. :
The enemy remain at Messy Creek
strongly entrcnched. G.
r Our loss was 100. .s
The railroad viii be in running order
to Bristol in few days.
CLEVELAND, Jan. 19.-The following
particulars Of the accident near Pafnes-
vile are received: :,.-. :--
The night express frsm Buffalo stuck
in the snow three miles east Of that
place. The accommodation train ran in
to it. Four cars were burned; persons
killed and wounded.
The cause of the disasteo was two men
who was detached from the snow bound
train to watch alternately to warn the
approaching train, and while one was re
lieving the other, who had nearly perish
ed from cold, the collision occurred.
BUFFALO, Jan. 19-The snow storm
continues, with high wind.
No trains will leave for the East or
West before tomorrow.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.-In the Senate
to-day CONFESS presented a petition from
citizens of Arizona praying for railroad
between that territory and California
referred.
NEW York, Jan. 19.-Special Washing
ton Post says House Post office commit
tee will report bill establishing a mo-
pey order system.
Ways and Means committee have came
to a conclusion in reference to tax on oil
and tobacco.
Committee is ready to report the naval
appropriation bill.
Military committee of the Senate will
undoubtedly report against the contlrma-
ton ofSchofeld.
BosTox, Jan. ia traveller says Col
Goodrich, Of Burnside's staff, is in our
vicinity preparing to organize from New
England an expedition by land and sea,
of which the 9th army corps is to form, a
nucleus. Col. Goodrich's department in
cludes Maine, New Hampshire and Yer
mont. His headquarters are as Ports
mouth, \. II.
Col. Goodrich in an interview with
Gov. Gilmore and Gen. Kinks found
them ready to cooperate in the enter
prise, in every possible way.
The headquarters OF Gen. Burnside
will be at New York.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.-The House to-
dav debated on the resolution ammenda-
tory to the confscation act, so as to make
it conformable TO the Constitution-no
action was taken.
The House then went into a commit
tee of the whole on the excise and inter
nal revenue law.
Loveioy then proposed a tax on spirits
of one dollar per gallon. Grinnell moved
a tax Of one dollar and twenty-five cents
On whisky. The clause was debated at
length. bnt without action. The House
then adjourned.
Toxoxro, 1oth.-A terrible snow..storm
is prevailing throughout the Western
provinces without any signs OF abatement.
The railroads are all Olockaded.
WASHINGTON, 1oth.-The Navy appro-
priation bill was reported to-day from the
committee on Ways and Means. The aP-
nropriation for the ordinaIyoperatlons OF
the NAVY is about ninety seven million OF
dollars in addition to the usual approPrl-
alton for the several bureaus OF the de,
partments. For navy-yards, docks, ana
miscellaneous expenditures, pay OF Oh
fcers and seamen and engineers II re-
ouires nearly twenty millions; eight hun,
dred thousand dollars for appropriated
vessels, thi1ty-six hundred thousand Tor
construction and repairs of machinery,
twenty-eight million for provisions sax
and a half millions. The Postmaster
General advertised for bids TO reduce the
running time four days between the At.
Iantic and Pacific for the conveyance OF
letter mail as we'll as the entire mail.
Secretary Seward, in letter TO Sims
tor Adams, published in diplomatic cor
respondence, claims that the British
coEarnr,ant "a RESPONSIBLE for depreda-