Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-04-15
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FROM THIS MORNINGS PAPERS.
LOnsstreet'S Army in Richmond
Detached Troops Ordered to Join
their ReSim -nts-tirant Gone to the

Detached Troops ordered 10 JOIN
their RcSim -nts-lirant Gone to the
Front.
WASHINGTON, April l4.-Accounts from
the Army Of the Potomac scouts report
Longstrcct in Richmond with the greater
portion OF his army.
Regular troops on the detached service
have been ordered to join their regiments.
Trains on their way to the front arc run
/ ming regularly.
The Army Of the Potomac is mud-bound.
| Grant will leave for the front to-day.
| L. $. Treasurer Paying Interest OH
Bonds-AdditiOnal Aid TO the Pa
cilic Railroad.
The L. S. Treasurer has commenced pay
ing interest on all coupons and bonds due
| on the Dist. The amount due is about
| Sl5,0O000O.
The House Committee on Public Lands
have agreed to report bill giving additional
| aid to complete the first section of the Union
! Pacific Railroad, to Council Bluff.
| Thirty French Detectives Arrived
Congressional Matters.
About thirty French detective police have
/ arrived in the United States within ten days.
/ The Senate, at the instance OF the Presi-
/ dent, will undoubteGl" reverse the action OF
/ the Military Committee against the conhrma-
ton of Schoteld and Gilmore.
The House Military Committee have de-
| cided in favor OF the bill increasing the pay
of white soldiers to SIG per month, and of
/ coored soldiers to Sl3. The majority were
willing to put them on an equality. The
/ Senate Military Committee have decided up
on the same rate for each.
Indian Agent Appointed-Forrest
Menaring Columbus-ItS Surrender
| Demanded-So Quarter for Negro
Soldiers.
! Austin Wiley has been appointed Super
! intendent of Indian Affairs for the two Cali
! fornia districts lately consolidated into one.
CAIRO, April l3-Forrests' forces are me-
nacing hlth Columbus and Paducah. Porter
/ is advancing on the latter place, and passed
/ Lovelacc at noon yesterday.
Besides the achievements sent from here,
| lie Cunboats are ready to receive the rebels.
| \ note has been received from the rebels
/ demanding the surrender OF Columbus.
| Buford promised that white soldiers should
| be treated as prisoners Of war, but no quar-
| ter for colored soldiers found in arms. Five
/ hours were given for the removal Of the wo-
/ men and children.
/ Col Lawrence replied that he had a force
! to repel all enemies.
! No attack has been made at last accounts.
Forrest Ravaging the Loyal Portion
of Kentucky.
The Cairo Democrat, of the 18th, says
! there is no further doubt that Forrest is just
across from this place in Kentucky, with
! twelve or fifteen thousand men, laying most
/ Of the loyal portion of Kentucky in waste.
All information by scouts goes to show
| that the rebel force is formidable.
! From New OrIeans-Communication
interrupted - Arrival of French
Troops at Matamoras.
New York, April 1.-THE New Orleans
Bee of the 9TH has 4 Brownsville letter mo
dateI that saws that all communication with
the interior, at present, is interrupted.
Two regiments of French troops have ar
rived at MatamoraS.
The Louisiana State Constitutional Con-
vention met on the 9th.
Mexican NewS-French Troops Sent
TO the Mouth of the Rio Grande.
Juarez has gone to Durango. That place,
however, is in possession of Imperial troops,
the Mexican General Patonic having evacu-
/ ated it and marched northward to Chihuahua.
Uragn is in Jalisco, doing nothing.
4 French frisate left Vera Cruz with troops
for the mouth OF the Rio Grandc.
+ Additional Mexican Ncws-LiberalS
Defeated-The French About to
make an Attack at the Mouth Of
the Rio Grande.
! New YORK, April lathe steamer Gre
ole, from New Orleans on the 9th, has ar
rived. Farragut was in the city.
The Era says the Liberals under CortinaS
! had hoap dafnaFed Eid9urri WIS ot Montp-
rev, Mexico.
The French war vessels are taking sound
ings at the mouth of the Rio G-ande. There
! is a determination to defend it to the last eX-
/ tremlty. A force has been sent to Bagdad,
/ at the mouth Of the Rio Grande, which is i'll
thorough state Of defense.
! Ten thousand bales Of cotton had been
/ fcrried over the river at Eagle Pass within a
month, and were being hauled down to Mata-
moraS for shipment.
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