Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-01-07
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FROM THE MORNING PAPERS.
San Francisco, Jan. 9.

- San Francisco, JAM u. IF
Seizure of confederate Bonds-Arch.
bishop Hughes still Alive.
Seven millions of Confederate bonds and
Treasury notes were seized in New York,
and large quantities Of plates and dies. Sew
eral persons were arrested for being con-
cerned in blockade running.
The dispatch announcing Archbishop
Hughes death was premature. He was still
alive at midnight last night, though very
low, and not expected to survive.
From New Orleans.
New ORLEANS, December 27.-General
Fitz Henry Warren embarked on the steam
err Warrior, and crossing Matagorda Bay,
occupied Indianola without opposition. In
portant rebel documents were captured,
among them Magruder's address to the peo-
pie of Western Texas.
An expedition composed of three negro
regiments, one white regiment and battery
Of artillery, under Ullman, had gone from
New Orleans to the mouth of Red River.
From Memphis-Complaint of the
Rebel Secretary of the Navy-Stono
Inlet Affair-BOunties.
Memphis dates of the Goth say Forrest
crossed the Tennessee River on Monday
with one of the largest supply trains, includ-
ing 800 head of cattle, besides every horse,
mule and wagon he could find in the coun-
try.
The Confederate Secretary of the Navy
complains that the British authorities inter-
fered with the plot to release the prisoners
on Johnson's Island.
Three men were killed and four wounded
in the attack of the ginboat Marblehead, at
Stone Inlet, and dispersed the enemy and
captured two guns.
The Cabinet, in consultation, have deter
mined to postpone the draft and ask Congress
to extend the time for the payment of veteran
bountics.
Movements in Virginia.
Adviccs of the LIST said our pickets near
Winchester were driven in. Dates of tho
4th from the Rapidan say the enemy was
making no demonstrations and the movement
near Winchester was probably no part Of a
general movement of Lees army.
Fitzhugh Lee, Imboden and early, with
probably seven thousand, are near Wood
stock, and make occasional dashes as far as
Winchester.
Affairs in New York City.
A sensation dispatch from Albany, says
the new Police Commissioners of New York
will appoint n. J. Waterbury Police Superin-
terdent, and two-thirds of the Captains of
the Police will report to him. The Governor
will order out the entire militia to support
the new Commissioners.
Mayor Gunther says the city debt is twenty
millions, because of the want of a system in
making expenditures, and consequent ex'
travagance.
The Taxation Question.
A Washington special dispatch says the
House ub-Committec is ready to report on
the tax question: The whisky tax will be
increased to seventy cents; licenses will also
be increased; banks and insurance offices,
one hundred dollars; boarding houses to
twenty.
Foreign News.
The London Globe cautions its readers
against the statement recently published that
Lord Lyons had telegraphed to Earl Russell
predicting the termination Of the war in
America in three months.
Napoleon, in response to an address voted
BY the French Senate, asserted that he was
actuatcd solely BY good aud pacific motives
in his proposition for Congress.