, 1864-01-18
Ql)ifa9o Qril)11ne.


TEE NEWS.
An appalling ca!anity Is this morning re-
ported In our dispatches as having occurred
at Santiago, Chill, in the destruction Of ca
tlicdral interior while tie bull ding was dense
ly packed with congregation at religious
service In the rush to escape the doprs
were closed and TWO TuousAxD 1aplcss souls
met horrid fate. The account comes con-
t111ned by two or three sources Of tnforma-
ton. The.rictims wcro mostly women and
& sud disaster tool place at Camp Butler,
near Springfield, in this State. yesterday morn
ing, resulting in the destruction Of O portion
Of the barracks by fire and melancholy loss Of
life, Al serious fire in New York yesterday
scye: il 1rcmcn were killed. =; ...'..
Congress is busy at work on the humane
inquiry why the widows and orphans Of SOL
diers get no pay. It sccms difficult to locate
the blame, but the fact rrmains that the mon
CT due these mfortunntes is even harder to
reach.
Gold in New York is still flighty, and tho
figure rcachcd on Saturday WIS 15719, falling
of 7< ct Inc close.
The rebel blockade runner Dare, flne side
wheel steamer Of seven hundred tons bur-
then, has been destroyed By our squadron off
Wilmington, after long chase of sixty miles.
We trust this is tue 1orcrunncr Of good news
to come, and we accept it as an omen that
the neglect Of this important port which has
hitherto attached to our blockadcra is at m
end, :nd That blockade running at Whining
ton will soon be as cfcctua1ly closed as 1t is
as Charleston.
General Butler has once murc tried the cf-
feet Of m appeal to the rebel authorities
upon tie subject Of the exchange Of prison
crs. II they refuse this time, Government
should give Old Ben the contract to 60 to
Richmond and take the prisoners oat- he is
just the man to do It. The CopperAeads
would undoubtedly dcnounee 1t rs unconsti-
tutional, but sink the Copperheads and
rescue our brave fellows from Libby Prison
and Castle Thunder.
The excitement at Washington ovcn.stuart's
cuvalry mid llas subsidcd. Our forces on the
upper Potomac arc sufficient TO protect Wash
iDgto.,, and the capital is safe,
Major General Oglesby Inns been ordered to
Washington and detailed upon the Court
Martial before which Surgeon General Hmm
mond is 10 conc for tria1.
Henry Ward Bcechcr's salary has been rails
cd TO the handsome sum Of 81, 500, and most
richly lie deserves It. Money Gnu poorly repay
the great bcreft Le llns conferred upon the
country by lis mastery defense Of her abroad.
Both Lis ministrati0ns in the cause Of patri-
otism and religion have been attended with
tie hest Of fruits, aud while VIC have in mind
our clc1gymen with large families work
ing from January to January Tor i've hun
dret DOLLAR, and hardly making Tue TWO endf
meet, NC noHc the less think that MIR. Beech
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men We want. Lei tnem CONE
congress le eaau Engaged on TIE En1onmcn
reached no definite decision,