Washington telegraph., 1864-01-06
NO. So.

says the following are among the ;mnor,'.n,
measures passed:
A Liquor Bill, whic is too lengthy even for
synopsis IN our present issue. Il NAV how
ever. be considered as fixing the price of whisky
at 50 per gallon by imposing what il in effac.
prohlDltory tax on saes above that price
Frontier Bill, which authorizes the Gov
ernor to turn ever the Frontier Regiment witb
all It's equipm' MS, TO the Confederate service
PROVIDED The Confederate commander will &C.
count to the State for all property SO tnrn.a
over, at its proper value; the Bill so nrov;ds.
iof local organization in the frontier conn
ties. eoun-
an Act suspendlng all laws for the collection
oil debts until twelve months after tbe at;6c.
ton of a treaty of peace
a Dill extending the term Of service Of the
state troops to twelve mon tbs, and authorizing
the governor to place 10 the field the remaining
twenty hive per cent. of the militia. on cert,io
conditions, the precise nature of which wa
have not learned "
Inc Galveston News Of the 10th saws:
lhe dispatches received last night renr...n.
matters nearly in statu QUO on tbs pa,ia.,',a
Inc enemy came up in . steamer 10 Indianola
on the 10Th inst, drove out our pickets. landed
Two companies, and subse quentiv retired All
government property had been removed pre.
vlously. No other demonstrations since on
last. ~
Inc latest report made by our picka,s ia.
'hat the enemy had crossed over from SaIrida
70 MataSordi Peninsula about 500 troons
Col. Bridtute thinks those are all tba -,
the enemy had on the Peninsula wba, IL aip' NIX.
though 1t is his opinion that by bis linn, ~,
nave probably received additional r..ncorco-
mems. since he left Layaca he Has he.rJ
that some twenty vessels have baen go, 20,
Saluria, and if 50 they have doubtless hrn,-h.
auu''ional reiniorcements. When Lieut. Mann
was Win them under flag of truce. ne heard
them ny that q or Transports hnd -, .
lor more troops, and II SO, t is a W about tima
ior them to arrive, if brought from Berwick
Bay. Dei WICK
on thursday night last the Federal block.
auers were siSnallzing all along the coast Of
9aOihe Pass. The number of blockadrs ,L
next morning were found to have ircreoso5
from one or two to seven. Firing was 49,
heard oe Sabine Pass at Sea on Wadu,.sdar
h'sht- As many as ninety weight guns were
counted. Tnis information il given NJ 10
gentleman who is just from there.
Mr. Gordon, of the Confederate cutter Tea :.
er, has escaped from New Orleans. and r,norts
10 the Mobile papers OF the 10Th ult that OF The
"a vessels comprising n X Grande exneIi
uOh, ii were lost IN gale, and all on b1arl.
win lew exceptions perished. Among the lost
are the Nate Dale, Bagaly, and the Or Ole.
All vessels from the Rio Grande to New Or
a. pY IN.
uluon, which Is another failure. This report
II true, must be ia reference 10 the Haet ~,
sailed from Berwick's Bay about tie l2th az
november, Containing the ba auce OF the f2th
army corps, said to have been bounI W ill.,
iexas coast, and of whcr nothing has since
been heard.
Inc iast news which reached Houston on
'eHi"s Vi tne 18th, was to the effect that
:aefe. were no Yankees east Of the Penin.ula.
A va So
Ihe special correspondent OF the telegram
writing from Brazoria county. under It, ~
the 18th, says, 1.-THE latest advices show the
enemy stlil concentrating at Deer, VS. point on
'ne fehlhsula, preparatory, doubtless, for an
ADVANCE movement towards the interior of the
state he puts the force there down at d.
oop, and says they remain quiet
Another writer, whose statements look mora
IKE facts writing from Velasco, IN der date Of
,he lOth, says:
There are no Yankees this side of Decrov,s
point, and have not b9en. Two regiments NJ
that place, and from five to SIX thousand at
Saluria, with probably seven or eight hundred
horses between them. Those at Decrow's are
newly landed troops, and have not been to
Brownsville. This is authentic. Gens Ma
gruder, Bee al d Slaughter ut the mouth Of
Caney river-all right in front SO far No
lighting expected for week two. Distrust
All iuhofs ior 'hey are Wnoly unreliable, and
are started in camps. We have hundreds here
that do not reach you. We know how to esti-
mate them. will write you all am at liberty
to do, but nothing which | do not know to be
true. The enemy have been foraging in force
on the Peninsula bat only to a short distance.
We find the following in the Victoria Adve-
cate:
| Capt Benevides is doing yeoman service in
the West. holding all the country the Rio
Grande above Brownsville; pGttng out of the
way renegades, robbers and greasers. and
carrying terror to the very hearts Of the Yam
KEGS in their camps at Brazos ST Jago.