Civilian & telegraph. [volume] (Cumberland, Md.) 1859-1875, 1864-03-17

days, VIII report bill inereasingSthe pa,
! Of non commissioned officers and private!
as follows: Orderly sergent, $50 pc
month; sergcants So; corporals, $40
and priyates, SIS. -.lti
.- The. Meade Investigation. '''- ''-'''
Tie Committee on the Conduct of thu
war resumed the examination of Genera
Warren. His testimony did not zorro
borat3 that of Generals Sicklcs ant
Doubleday, but, on the contrary, sustains
and is,dorses General Mcade's conduc,
throughout. General Hancock will be
the next officers examined.
Nomination.
The President sent into the Senate the
nomination Of Charles Gilpin for United
Stctes District Attorney OF Philadelphia
rice Coffee, deceased. f .''
Regretted. HIu
The Senate Committee ta Con,Mcece
have refused to indorsc the nomination OF
lloratio Ballard as Consul to lIaeana.
Sixty-seven out of eighty members Of the
New York Legislature have protested
against his confirmation.
.iiricat Of General Hullace.
Major General Lewis Wallace arrived
here on Friday, having been summoned
! by the Secretary Of War. Report assigns
him to the command of the Middle De-
parliament, headquarters at Baltimore.
Tie Necessity for Increased Trrmion.
The growing feeling of the necessity
and policy of an increase of taxation
found expression to-day through Senator
Wilson, in his place in the Senate.
He declared that, in his judgment, the
tax recently laid on whiskcy should have
been $l,5e gallon, and the tax on to-
bacco been double what it is, and that he
was prepared to vote for doubling the rev.
enue duties upon foreign imports.
The Gold Speculation. r
The Sudden rise of gold in New York
and the strong vote in the Senate to pass
a gold bill as remedy for speculation at
the expense of the Government currency.
have produced an impression in the House
favorable to the immediate passage of that
measure, Unluckily, Saturday has been
set apart for the blowing off of otatorical
stcam-so that the public coed must wait
till Monday. t... b..
sou. utemastcys C.ieI.s.
General Spinner has been instructed by
Secretary Chase to announce that after
the 10th instant Quartermasters' checks
will be paid seventy per cent. in certif-
Gates and thirty per cent. in currency, in
stead of fifty per cent. in each.
National Banks.
The Ways and Means Committee will
report the National Bank bill at It's next
meeting. The rate of interest will be
made uniform at seven per cent, and old
bankers be allowed to adopt it's provisions
without change of name.
4 Military Rumor.
1t is rumored that Geaeml Badly Smith
has been nominated Major General, to fill
the position made vacaat by Grants pro-
motion, and that he is to be assigned tc
the command of the Army of the Pc.
tomac. NN
Return Of Klpatr;cI's Cacatrs.
The cavalry which reccntiy cut til;
Communications and made a dash at Rich.
mond is now arriving by transports n
Alexandria, en- route to the Army of til;
tPp.omac. III
| Tie 4irieM Of Empyrunts.
1t appears from official documents il
the State Department that during the ycal
ending with December 1868, nearly 300
| 900 foreign emigrants arrived in tn,
J United States. OF these, 1857 landed il
Maine, = in New Hampshire, 5000 il
Massachusetts, 40 in Rhode Island
nearly $4,000 in New York, 115 il
New Jersey, BOSS in Pennsylvania, 1l7t
in Maryland, 40 in. Florida, 74O0 il
California, and 49, In Oregon. "
The Lach of Sailors for The Nary.
Eighteen or twenty naval vessels, near
ly ready for sea, are detained for the wan
Of scamen. The recent act of Congress
anthorising the enlistment of sailors from
the army into the navy to the number o
10000, will, it is thought. supply a
many as are at present needed. As larg
bountics induced sailors to enter the army
so in this cthe prospect of prize none,
will doubtless influence them to enter il
the more to them appropriate branch o
the public service. .s
E.coeius Of Females from the Army.
A letter from the Army of the Potoma
says that an order has been issued direct
ing that all ladies within the lines shall
leave MS early aspracticable, and that n
more passes shall be granted to sucl
visitors. Lft 9iiI rnsl aAi lo
!, 1rriea Of Rebel Desertcrs. -. p
J, Ten deserters, mostly cavalrymen, cam
: into our lines yesterday. Some of then
had all their equipments with them. in
) GLIDING their horses.
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