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Secretary Mccullough has undertaken. I
he suggestion OF the Senate, a task which
promises at once to sgnalize his accession to
he Treasury, and to render a most essential
service to the commercial and financial interests
IF the country. lie Is preparing n compact
statement Of our import and export trade up
10 January Of the present year, Distinguishing
The movement of gold and of other export sta
pies The report will furnish comparison Of
the trade of the country for a period of four
years previous to the war, with that Of the
last four years. The Secretary statement will
also supply reliable basis on which to estimate
the present financial condition of the country.
We cannot too strongly commend this depart"
mental undertaken, and no one will doubt the
with which it will be carried out,
We learn that the Governors and Legislatures
of the loyal States Of West Virginia and Nlr-
ginia have united in a request to Mr. Lincoln
for recognition Of the services and sacrifices
Of Col. David ii. H.StrOther--who recently resign
cd his commission in consequence OF injuries 10
his health received in the scryice-by conferr,
ing ing upon the gifted author of the papers Signed
iorte Crayon" foreign appointment i'll some
e senial climate. Few men had so great tcmpts-
1lohH " ul"oyalty as this gentleman on the
vi pIcShlle out ol the war; and not one has prov
Gu lo[T earnestly, actively or bravcly faithful
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cd his home and property in the neisLborhood
of Martlnsburgh; and in dozen campaigns
Col. StrOther generally acting as Chictof Staff
has borne a distinguished part.
At one of the Episcopal churches in New
York city, on Sunday morning last, the sermon
was preached by a well-known and one.
very popular Doctor of divinity, who some two
years since had to resign his pastorate owing
to his sympathy with the insurgcnts-himscf
being a South CarOlinian or Virginian. Sub
sequently he went to Baltimore, but the mill
tary authorities there being dispeased with his
course, ordered him away, and he went back
to New York. In his discourse on Sunday he
expressed his conviction that the rebellion as a
military power was gone, and that the time
! was not far distant now, when, by God s favor,
peace and reunion would be ours.
DATES OF SECEssION.-Th following may
be Of some Importance in answering inquiries
South Carolina seeded December 20, lS6O.
Mississippi seeded Jan. 9, 1861.
Alabama seeded Jan. IL, 1861.
Florida seeded Jan. IL, 1861.
Georgia seeded Jan. 10, 1861.
Louisiana seeded Jan. &c, 1861.
Texas seeded March 5th, 1861
; Virginia seeded April oath. 1861.
Arkansas seeded May 6, 1861.
North Carolina seeded June 9, 1861.
l. FULFILLING A PROPHEcY. The Charleston
J. Mercury, the organ Of secession on the break
n ing out of the rebellion, exclaimed, I'VE are
is on the way to independence or destruction.
~ The latter alternative has already reached 1t.
: Sherman came across the types, presses. and
- files of that paper on the Charlotte railroad,
Is and made a bonfire Of them. The 4Ncronrp,
Of which is now published in Charleston, is =
)Oi good Union paper, preaching the opposite po-
:, itical doctrine which made its predecessor so
!! mischievous in its career.
i II. Il
two returned soldiers were walking out one
evening with their intended brides when they
Do were attacked by gang of rOwdies who Knocked
r, down, beat and robbed the men. and dragged
lis the girls off to by place. robbed them Of theiI
> watches and rings threatened death il they
OF resisted, and then violated them. Two Of the
IN fellows were caught, and have been sentenced
TX to ten years each in the peRitentiary. The girl
OF have married their soldier lovers.
q In Michigan. notwithstanding the drain upoI
on the male population, created by the war
to the men largely outnumber the women. But
of bachelors, who find their lady acquaintance:
x putting too high price upon themselves in tht
en- matrimonial market, need not drown or hang
of themselves after all. 1t appears from Govern
II. or Andrews message that there are 29, lot
M women, between the ages Of fifteen and forty
adj years, in Massachusetts, more than can posi-
l. bly, find husbands in that State.
for The recent freshet carried away the bridg,
us connecting the,village of jamestown and Frews
ir- burgh, in Chautauqua County, n. Y, th'
&C. home of Gov. FENTON. The news reache,
lis Albany by telegraph the same night. In les
ne than twenty-fOur hours bill was framed passet
gh by both Houses, signed by the Governor, ant
ID, transmitted by telegraph back to jamestown
ie' authorizing the construction of a new bridge
A letter from Sherman's army says the me
tb are all teathered out below the knee, from hay
Iv ing lived SO constantly on turkeys, chickens
a1 ay and other game.
ID, Late Richmond papers announce the death
he on Thursday last, of Ohm NJ Daniels, the edito
st- Of the ErGntiner, and for eight years United
he States Minister to Sardinia.
too The Post Office Department has appointed
rd- Mr.. Vassal a special agent to proceed immedi
it, atelv and reopen the Wilmington N C.. Post
Office.
The charter election in Louisville, Ky, OF
he Saturday resulted in the election of Tomppert
Fill by 100 plurality the Republican candidate
OF there being three contestants in the field and
mr. a majority of about 100 over all.
i Heavy failures are reported among farmers
ge and others dealing in mess pork, in Jefferson
rol County, Ohio, and more are predicted.
ng p. T. Barnum, the great Snowman, is one O.
ch the Union candidates for member of the Con
zee necticut Legislature In Sanford county.
,r Gov. Andrew has appointed Thursday, Apri
~. -. Is, as Fast Day in Massachusetts.
$ a Gov Cony has appointed Thursday 10, for
S n fastday in Maine.
ar, Ex-Governor Wright, of Indiana, is on al
ice eectioneering tour in Connecticut.
,cb All prisoners paroled by the rebels prior tC
nf March l5 are declared released.
ss, Atlanta, or what remains of it, is occupied
ar by rebel force under Howell Cobb, and h,
re- has his headquarters there. The railroad ha
cir been repaired, and is now running regularly be