The weekly union record., 1864-02-06
News of the Week.


and extended 10 Salt Lake, where Z heavy
snow storm and intense cold are reported.
President Lincoln has ordered a draft Of
100000 men, 10 serve three years or during the
war /; is to be made on the 10th Of March
next, crediting ,hereirom so many as may have
beon enlisted or drafted into the service prior
to the lst Of March. aud not heretofore credited.
4 Washington dispatch Of the 1si says that,
uoder the call of October for 100000 men,
about half that number has been filed Up by
volunteering and By re-enlistments. The call
now made for half million is interpreted By
gentlemen who are acquainted with military
affairs to include the above mentioned call,
being in effect a call for an additional 100000.
Volunteering is supposed to furnish, st present,
an average Of 1000 men per day.
The World has special dispatch which
SAYS it is rumored in official circles that we are
upon the eve Of war with France Seward
is said 10 have adopted such course toward
the French Government. concerning the Florida
and Rappahannock, as to elicit reply from
the Freuch Foreign Minister which will cause
the United States 10 abandon its pretensioDs
or go to war 10 maintain them. 1t is said
Minister Dayton has been Instructed to demand
Of France the retraetion of neigerent rights
accorded to the rebels. It is certain that there
is some serious difficulty with the French
Cabinet, which alarms all but Seward, who, in
view of the certainty Of war in Europe, takes
the highest possible ground. This may be
nothing more than the Worlds Irregular
sensation"
The latest news from Knoxville is that Gen
StCrgis had an engagement at Sevierville, with
LoDgstreets cavalry, in which be captured two
steel rifed guns and over one hundred prisoners.
The fight lasted whole day, and the enemy
were pushed bard in their retreat. \ recon-
nosance is said to have disclosed the fact that
Longstreet has made hasty retreat and gone
beyond Dandridge.
\ dispatch announces the death of Gov.
Gamble, of Missouri, at St. Louis on the 3lst
ult. He has for some years occupied a promi
nent position in that State. His funeral, on
the Sd, was attended by the legislative bodies.
Lieut.. Gov. Hall had issued message upon
assuming the duties Of Governor, in which he
said that bis chief and constant efforts shall be
to CO operate with the Federal Government in
all efforts to suppress the rebellion.
Caleb Lyon, of Lyonsdale, New York, q
loyal and accomplished gentlemen, who at one
time resided in this State, has been appointed
Governor of Idaho.
1t appears by rebel dispatch that our gun
boats entered the Pascagoula river on the 25th
preparatory to making a descent upon Mobile.
They met with DO resistance. This is said to
be the true route for fauk march on Mobile
Memphis adyices state that the Sixteenth
Army Corps is preparing for a movement to
attack the rebels in Mississippi and secure a
large stock of corn and forage on the way to
Mobile
1t is said that, by order of Gen. Grant, about
twelve thousand cavalry or mounted Infantry
have been concentrated for q raid through
Alabama.
The contractors on the ocean iron-clads
Dictator and Puritan, have been requested 10
expedite the work on them.
Gen. Lee has issued an order in which he
says be considers il due to lis army to state
that the temporary reduction of rations is
caused by circumstances beyond his control.
lie hopes exertions which are being made will
render the necessity of but short duration. The
Richmond Examiner, in an editorial on rebel
military operations, says: The duration of the
war is simply a question Of continued supply
of food for the people and the army. The
South can hold out indefinitely. If at the eiey-
enth hour she don't 60 mad. The great want
is food and clothing, and it is the first duty Of
the Government to provide these supplies and
if they are not provided, the alternative must
be adopted of resistance with smaller armies,
using the tactics of Fabius-ihe strategy of
defense" This is fearful confession for a
Richmond paper to make. Discomfort is on
the increase in North Carolina. The people
Of that State think they ought to be allowed
to leave the Confederate Union in peace, which,
being sound rebel doctrine, should be cheerfully
acceded to by the Confederates.
A movement of the rebels in the Southwest
is said to be on foot designed for the temporary
blockade Of the Mississippi, in order to secure
arms and other supplies. 1t is also reported
that Gen. Bragg is to take command of the
rebel forces west of that river
Gen Banks has agreed to modify his procla-
nation SO as 10 have the election of delegates
10 the Convention to form Constitution for
Louisiana take place on the same day as the
choice Of State oilieers-the I'D OF February.
Florida is to follow in the wake of other States
il leaving the Coufederacy. and her Convention
to form a new Constitution or remodel her old