The Union and journal., 1864-03-04
GENERAL SUMMARY.

Senator Grimes OF Iowa. lately asserted that
the number Of oolored troops In public employ.
ment to-day Is not ar from seventy thousand.
FitIohn Porter, Is said to have passed.
through Atchtson. Kansas. On the 9TH Inst, On
his way to Colorado.
Gen. Butler has issued an order directing
military officers In his Department to turn over
abandoned estates Of tho rebels to the Superin.
tendeut OF Freedmen. He has also issued an
order regulating the sales Of liquor, closing
bar-rooms and punishing drunkards, no mat.
ter what their rank may be.
| The rribuns's Washiagtoo iispstch ays
Gen. Butler has succeeded In making arrange.
mcnts with Commissioner Ould, which will
probably lead 10 the exchange Of prisoners.
The election In Louisiana has resulted ip =
large Free State vote, electing for Governor, M.
Hober by 5000 majority In . vote Of 5000. q
The election for State officers In New Hamp.
shire takes place on Tuesday next. The cam
yass Of the Republican State Committee this
year gives Gilmore u. .268; Harrington, 32,972,
doubtful, l,227. Dividing the doubtful gives
Gilmore . majority Of ,2Q6; giving oil the
doubtful to Harrington, Gilmore has major
ity Of 60.
The rcturus OF ti,s recent territorial elections
in Idahoe are as fbllows:-The total vote polled
was 1919, of which Gov. Wallace. the Union
candidate, received 1880, and Judge Cannady.
copperhead, received 1898, giving the former
clear majority OF 300 votes Idahoe has thus
placed herself clearly and decidedly right upon
the Union question.
The Presidents Amnesty Is playingthe deuce
with tho rebel armies-cspecially arr the Mis-
sourians In the rebel army deserting and going
home In large numbers. Another proof that
Old Abe knows thing or two OF human nature.
An important subject FOR the interests Of
Mnine, and one which may lead to greater 70.
suits than are perhaps anticipated, has recent
ly been brought before the public, or rather its
consideration revived In the public mind-that
Of inducing an emigration OF hardy farmers.
farm laborers, miners, and other working men
from the Scandinavian countries Of northern
Europe.
The President has directed that the sentences
OF all dcserters condemned by court martial to
death, and that have not otherwise been acted
upon by him, be mitigated to Imprisonment
during the war, at the Dry Tortugas, Florida.
The expedition from Hilton Head into tho
interior OF Pla., has resulted in our defeat with
rumored loss Of S guns and from 500 to 1900.
The commander Of the expedition Is under sr.
rest.
Tho Amnesty proclamation causes great
many desertions among the Missourians In the
rebel army. Men who have returned say that
such o proclamation would have brought back
nearly all the Missouri troops captured ut vicks.
burg.
General Grant on the 23d ultimo, advanced
to Tunnel Hill, and occupied It atter hard
fight, In which he captured over three hundred
rebel prisoners. Late rebel papers, however,
report that he has fallen back. and the move
ment NAV have bean only feint
We arc pained to record the death OF Rev.
Edward Hitchcock, d. D., LII. D., Professor
In Amherst College. He died on Saturday at
the age Of seventy years.
The revenue service Is to havo feet Of new
steamers with names "that can neither bs
pronounced nor remembered" unless II be by
the readers Of Eliot's Indian Bible.
The Chicago Tribune says that the Union
League In the United States numbers moro than
SOC, 900 members.