, 1864-01-30
THE WASHINGTON STATESMAN
SATURDAY MORNING, JAN. 80, 1864.
Eastern News

ed of but little of great interest. The dis
patches from the 23d December to the 18th
January contain the customary amount of
extracts from special correspondents of East
ern Journals, all differing, as usual, in their
recital ofeyents as they occurred We give
the following summary, which seems to be
generally reliable:
Only about one-third of the Senators in
Congress are in favor of the repeal of the
$500 Communication clause, in the Conscrip-
tion act, and there is every probability that
the clause will not be changed A debate
on this subject on the 9th brought to light
the important fact that the terms of enlist
ment of only 10000 of the veteran volun-
teers will expire before the first of next Ju-
ly in all of our armies
1t is said that Mr.. Chase has finally resolv-
ed not to issue any more legal tender cur
rency.
Rebel deserters are carrying on general
robbing business in parts of Virginia, and
greater state of alarm exists among the in
habitants than has before been felt since the
commencement of the war.
Advices from New Orleans state that all
the rebel troops which have been operating
in Western Louisiana and on the Mississippi
are concentrating in central Texas An ample
force of Federals are prepared to meet
them.
On the 18th, Dee the Federal fooses were
driven back from Bulls Station by Long
street, with loss of two hundred men in
four days skirmishing. Longstreet has
10000 men.
The total number of colored troops in the
service of the United States is $4,000, with
quite as many unarmed in the service of the
Q. Nj. department, etc. The total number of
slaves lost by the rebels, is estimated at 500,-
900.
According to correspondents, everything
now promises fair for an early capture of
Charleston.
A dispatch from Newbern, N. G. says the
"Times," new loyal paper there, says;
"The people of the State are ripe for revolt
against the Richmond Government. The
leaders of the movement advocate a separate
Government, though boldly avOw return
to the Union as preferable to the present
state of affairs in Dixie.
Gen. Meade made speech at Philadel-
phia on the 18th inst, in which he urged
his hearers to use every effort to fill the
ranks before spring, as the only means to
end the rebellion the present year.
The Republicans in both houses of the
Pennsylvania legislature have nominated
Abraham Lincoln for the next Presiden-
cy.
The report in regard to the call for $780,
900 more" is not confirmed.
LATER.-A dispatch of the 10th says the
Conscription Act has been amended in the
House of Congress, making the Commuta-
tion S40O instead of $500. The Act as it
now stands, provides that drafted man who
paws four hundred dollars is exempt until
every other man in his district is drafted,
when he is again liable. Both classes are
consolidated The exemption of the only
son of a widow, father of motherless chill
dren, ETC., were stricken out.
The probable tax on manufactured articles
will be double before the close of the present
session of Congress.
Gen. Butler will remove his headquar-
ters from Fortress Monroe to Norfolk
Gen. Stoneman has gone West to report to
Gen. Grant
Chas. A. Dana, formerly of the Tribune,
will probably be appointed Assistant Secre-
ry of War.
The Tribune says the receipts from inter
nal revenue, from July lst to Jan. 18th,
amounted to nearly forty-six millions of dol
lars. With the expected changes in the ex-
else law. the lowest estimates for the second
wear, are one hundred and forty-two and
half millions, while the highest estimates
would add twenty-five or thirty millions
thereto.
Among the intercepted Lamar correspon-
dence, the following to Huston & Lamar has
been discovered.
Gentlemen When you 60 to Paris call
on Mr.. Slidel Tell him for me, to negoti-
ate for the French Protectorate 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 would eclipse the world.
TSigned. G. B. Lamar.
Chicago, Jan. 16.-Washington specials
say that while it has been decided that the
amnesty of the President does not extend to
prisoners of war as a class, nevertheless he
is prepared to give individuals among them
its benefits, when examination into their
cases demonstrates the prepriety of that act
on his part The Radicals in the Senate
Military Committee thus far have triumph
ed. that Committee not agreeing to report