The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-12-23
FROM WASHINGTON.
WAsHINGToN Dec. % 1894.
The POrter-Butler Expedition OF Cape
Fpnr.

The POrter-Butler Expedition OF Cape
Fear.
Richmond papers of Tuesday arc without any fur
tber news from savannah. telegram from Will
mington North Carolina states that Monday,
the 26tb vessels OF the Yankee fleet had arrived of
Cape Fear Riyer, ana more were in sight.
The Case OF Colonel Baker.
In the case of Colonel BAKER, charged with false
imprisonment for the arrest of DIR. GwYNNE con-
tractor TO the treasury Department, Judge WYLE
onargod the jury to-day that it is Justification Of
said assault and battery if the jury shall further find
that, having ground of suspicion or belief that said
STUART GwYSNE was attempting TO defraud,
had defrauded the Treasury Department in tho ex-
eoution OF the contract with said Department he
was then executing. The Secretary Of the reasurY
instructed defendant make said arrest without
showing the express authority of the President
sold Secretary to order said arrest, and in the alb
of proof of such express authority defendant
has no justification for said assault and battery. The
jury, upon such charge, could not but find him
guilty. Governor STANTON, counsel for BAKER,
took out an appeal TO the Court in Banc,
and there Is but lite doubt Of its being reversed
Lt should not tho sec retary of war and all others
who have ordered arrests made are subject to indct
ment.
ProjectiIes for Riled Ordnance.
We made mention, yesterday, OF very interest
ing experiment with tine Amsterdam improved pro-
jecte. made at the Arsenal IN this city The object
OF the trial was TO obtain projeciile which would
ignite the common paper fuse, ana which would not
strip in firing. The inventor, Mr. AMSTERDAM,
Rsoertained, by repeated experiments, that soft
metal, In firing, was liable TO suip, and was
totally unfit Tor use in shells OF large calibre
He, accordingly adopted an expanding cap of
brass which takes the grooves perfectly and during
the trial did not strip in single instance The test
WAS made with a 3O-pounder Parrot gun as being
from its increasing twist tho most severe ordeal tor
the shell. The result iuly indicated the expecla
f..I "a
with the projecue, and gave entire satisfaction 10
the officers char-e. he fuze was iQmed IN every
instance. The superiority OF these pTojectilos con-
Eists their exact windage, which IS obtained by
bearings of expanding alloy. Every shell describes
tho Same line OF flight obtaining a great range
and great accuracy, and by the use Of brass the
expanding metal, all danger of stripping is avoided
These shells are to be forwarded to Fortress Monroe
for another trial.
Onicers Tor Hanc0ck's Corps.
The following officers have appointed in
General HANcooK's corps:-C oloneI Charles b.
WHIT T5eptenantC Colonel Cbarlos Rird sIaIors w
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ainS1' % Onarss q johnson u nSuG,on w lyman
~ M"Con;So q pornal 7 No. PI - Pon,
m noOOniNo' Dohhoi' D. aieITH' Eu' H. ROOT
H. Far' WIN simpson, a. IL. Duganne, X, c.
Ward. O.. j. Isley, George II. Cannony, IL. n. Smith,
Fir,t Lieutenants &. A. Vonbra1ser. David G stod.
GlArd. b. II. Wickarthan, r. O'Kane, second Lieu.
tenants J. Elleudort los Klon6ce Ja,nes Sm,tb n
n 1 II u,nb,r, Z, -tu.. A..
- "a'S, - - lehman, - ''i'o'' o. y" H0A'
les, Nm. MeLaughln' None have yet been ap-
pointed from Pennsylvania or Massachusetts,, as the
oVeruors OF those States 80 far declined 10 reouest
oeBoars 40 no sopt 10 e,r ,os,,ec,i,o s+atos -. t,
loS" ,. So ro1o 70 i'
lhoso OHceS "il Do required 10 lurhsn veterans as
1Ou0ws;-Captains' iOrtY First Lieutenants twenty
Eve; Second Lieutenants, twenty.
Our Returned Prisoners.
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Ihe ohoiAi Reports OF the commissioners who
have been conducting the recent exchanges of
Charleston aud Savannah are expected here to-
voorroy They will show that not t,vent,, MOI
NViAV"' ' '" 'N' nv '"onS PoI
% W ioi uuN III tAO luelu again. ana
mat nY0 hundred nave ded since they
have boeu turned over 10 ma Evidence
q ~ a. -, in.c,.,,o,,or,i,Io III 1,o ~. ~
t-.strent /, the rest NJ a ,ro,a,,it,t 1otr,
lion on the part of JEBV DAVIS to destroy our pri.
to,,Is
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