The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-04-18

party lenders Ia their course ifsre, aroused tssnn
/ set Cox who In several passages was sa roughly
handled by Smith that the Speaker caaid with III |!
fcuty restrain the gaiieTes ana members from ap
| piauding.
! er and necessity of expelling Long. Myers an,
urinnaIl waye unusually .cioqnant IN dsnnuncinf
Long, his language, his sympashes, and his gcaesa
| conduct
could hardly sit sl In his seat. tie referred 10 thf
prompt.ess with which al AooHti"atst q. r. Gid
: dings) resigned when he VS. ceHsured by the
House for Introducing the resolution upon slavery
But the chiyaiyic son Of Maryland sat still In hia
seat, having boosted that he was siavebolier bu.
he thanked God that he was the last one left with
erins alone. Harris talked loudly 10 some OF I'LL
| colleagues, ba: essayed no answer.
LOag sits quietly in h!s seat, ana fistens carefully
/ to alt the speeches Occasionally some of the De
! mocrats gO over 10 coasu't hiHi, but ha seldom
/ moves. Pruyn and Rogers are both calculating 10
| speak aeainat the resolution. Speaker Colfax has
speech 70 make In support OF his resolution, and
Long Is to be accorded the closing speech II Is the
present intentiHn to get VOC OH to night, but !:
| will ba late il 4 vote II reached at all.
the coHyzDERAFEs ~ EAST TrESgssR
l. appears ,ha. the Yankees ars again slowly fol
| lowing up Longstrect, andcr the impression tha,
he Ia about TO leave East Tennesase. letter from
Knoxv,,la, dated the 2i Inst, says:
The rahei army confines tosset away IRON GU I
l.
Iencc of this, ,hay are destroying tho raiIroa..
bridges, and taking up the rails and carrying them
off, cutting dowa and Carrying away the Telegraph
wire along the route, AMI laying waste the Country
MS they retire This they doing hur, iediy
brt deliberately aud thoroughly AS they 60. va
deficient In cavalry TO make rapid pursuit, aad
the rebel mounted troops are reported to be sweep
iny a broad sEath along every freqaentPd and uu
freq uentGi road, their only object being to live
70 .'ie, live" does not seem To be in all their
thoughs,ior they literally take everything, ieas
lug n1hag tor tauiies or animals to subsisl upol
The Gnc?Iy'S force, which has s.' recently avacu
ated Bulls Cap consists of four divisions, viz ::
Fields S, formerly Hoois old division, ,h: latter
having been promoted ard being absent this divi
sion covers tia reaf-McIIaw's division, which,
having been mounted for tie purpose of making
the contemplated raid into Kentucky, now that
project las bean abandoned, has again been dis
nlo,aied, and is acting as infantry; Bushrod John
son Or Dachaer's division, and Randoei's total
about 30 00J men, so called Anon. these were
about =, 500 cavalry, lately under command of Mar
tin, which were sent TO Georgia about three weeks
Ego under Wheeler Armstrong has gone home.
and his command is now under Col. DibrrIl, saY
800 his cavalry Is now in the ne!shbori,ood OF
K,ngspor,, Tenn, Bun.yi!e, and oher places In
the upper coua'teS, for tia protection oi the sal,
works. Thye were intcnded 10 sent to Brecl.
inridge ami go 10 Kentucky Brcckinridse is
watcnin. the salt works with abcu, o men, in
cGains the cavalry abave named. A. iasi accounts
the re0al army had passed the Nstauyl river. Our
army Oh forne. occasions when the enemy has
withdrawn, is advancing up the valley, and las;
might reached sick Creek. ile destruction Of the
railroad and wagon bridges necessarily retr.s nur
movements. ihe weather for two weeks tia. bean
cold and dsagreeabe for campaigning, And FOR two
days has been rainy, rcndeii1. the reads very
muddy.
There has arrived in Baltimore a rafagee from
Ri h.nOnd, Mrs. Lucy y. Rice Mrs Rice,
says the Yankee papers, des ote the Htyranny that
re;gns III Richmond, has ways preserved her 10y
al tp 10 n {iui,t n Il
for the s'iternga of the Federal officers and men
who have been Imprisoned in Richl lond. Her
house was for nlue days the hiding place and
refuge OF Col. St3sht, biaj or H. B. Mcdonald, and
another officer, after they escaped from LIBBY
Prison, ami were awaiting opportunity to get
OIL; of the city, Mrs. Rice has reached tse YAM
kee lin.,s lii q destitute condition. She has been
forced to abandon all SHE possessed in Rich
mga;."
From the report of The Secretary OF the Trca
sury, in answer 10 resolution OF the Senate reia
tive 10 rnc number Ot Commissioners ana ;he
amoua. OF money received under the law to collect
direct taxes In the iHsurractonary districts, IL ar
pears mat thee were five Commissioners in TIE
Distric, of T orida, AMI iout in each Oh the Dis
triets of South taroiGa, Virginia, and Tennessee,
AT the saiary of So 90 each two Clerks in Flo
rda. and ore In each of the other Districts, at
5. POO each. In Sou h 'aroiina iG3, ,51i acres of
liHd wee sold for 50. 3J3; in "f.iuiI 81 D acres
were sold ior $40 i91; in Florida l24 acres for
S6uhl in tennessee lands were sold for $50 500.
Tht,expensc. In the District OF South Carolina are
SioS fio!ica, ri4, 1ov Ia virginia, So,ool; III
tennessee, s., ,l2a
Senator Dooii.ie, of Wisconsin, ha. presented
petition OF Mr. COi!iGs and Others for authority
construct a telegraph line 10 connect with Russia
via Behring's Straits Reliable parties say tlat
the line can be put il operation III eighteen months.
WIN. ID. ficknor, the senior partner OF the we'll
known Boston publishing firm of licSHor y Field,
died at the oatineniai Hotel, In Philadelphia last
Tuesday. Mr. ticknor meGtated Il trip 20 Havana
10: the benefit CT his health, aad ind reached
that IN on his journey.
The War Department; Is about 10 weed out the
unemployed Generals, with view 10 reducing The
number by thirty or forty, aad thereby making
room for the promotion OF really ncrto,iuus OH
Gers.
Lncc!u has cOmm;.aa % inp.i.la;nelt in Fo-.
Delaware during the war, john 4" Scot. and ciiaoa
J Kemp. Ia tinareauS, aud Pierre =, DIsan, con
deIaei TO be hung as feb2! sD es.
THE VERY LsTsSG
The Baltimore Gas..s, of the l4,h, was rcceivs
saturday. Gold opened ut the First Board, New
York Exchange, on the l3th, Z. ,751s. The quota
tlon at the Second Board Was l77a, aud at i
o'clock ::3h. 4 Telegram, iTom New York says
"Cod elosed al hundred Gra seyen,y ,i,e 20 The
following Is a summary OF the general news:
The Army of the Potomac IL actively preparing
for the new campaign. Brig. Gsu. Tofbett has
been assigned 10 the command ct the Fist D.vi-
sion Cavalry Corps, and Gen. Wilson IL 20 relieve
Gen Gregg IN command OF the s6sond Division OF
cavalry. All mounted E:ien daty at brigade aud
Il. ha1 hack th.5V