The Soldiers' journal. (Rendezvous of Distribution, Va.) 1864-1865, 1865-01-18
EDITORIAL JoTTINGs.

been fixed at $12500
1t costs IS to the bridge at Niagara Falls
leading to Canada.
The vintage of California is estimated this year at
six million gallons. 81
Over twelve hundred applications for commissions
in Hancock's corps have already been received.
1t stated that propositions from citizens of Geor
gia for return to the Union, have been received by
the Government .t =
The citizens of Savannah seem to delight in Sher-
mans government, and disparage that of jeff Davis
in their comparisons. -
Vice President Hamn was withdrawn from the
Senatorial contest in Maine, that he might succeed
Secretary Welles of the Navy Department the 4sh
of March, r
The federal government is about to make new pro,
positions the rebels exchange prisoners by
which it is hoped that soldiers langushingin
Southern prisons will soon be set at liberty.
Senator Wilson last week triumphed in his strus-
gle give freedom to the wives and children of the
slaves who fight for the Union. His bill has passed
the Senate. and if the House it will enamel
pate eighty thousand in the Border States.
Hon. Henry Wilson on Tuesday last nomina-
United States from Massachusetts for
six years from the 4h of March next by substanti
ally unanimous vote. 1t will be his third election, and
well deserved it working and usefu states
man. The Safe Legislature will elect him after
4th of Marc next
Hood is meeting the common lot of the unsuccess-
full The rebel press railing at him not only de-
void of military capacity, but as being headlong and
nconsiderate. correspondent of the Charleston
Courier declares that he butchers his troops
ly as Grant did. So it goes. One man is
demned for not fighting, and his is secuted
at for not fighting successfully.
Senator Henry S, Foote, of the Rebel Congress- last
week made unsuccessful attempt to escape the
Confederacy. He captured on the Occoquan 20
miles from Alexandria, while awaiting conveyance
across the Potomac. He is now parole, and the
rebel Secretary of War having dsclaied ordering
arrest, the matter has been referred by jeff Davis
his Congress Foote, when arrested, declared his OBJ
jec in coming North to negotiate for peace. His
wife permitted to pass the lines, and is in
Washington.
The late order of the War Department discontinu-
ing the purchase of horses the army possesses
significance perhaps not generally appreciated. We
informed that this order is based upon the fact
that there now on hand after supplying the army
some 10000 horses That the largest army put in
the field in modern be thus fully supplied
with horses for cavarly and artillery ce and
large surplus on hand to meet future exgencies,
facts that furnish strong evidence OF the capacity OF
the country to meet the demands of the service in this
regard.
The State Convention of Missouri has placed that
noble commonwealth in the army of freedom. BY
vote of six to four it has declared that involuntary
servitude for crime is henceorth to be unknown
in the State whose entrance into the Union. was sig
nalized by the famous Missouri compromise. The
of this opuent State has been sad retarded
by the blight of slavery The great tide of emigration
which would otherwise have sought its fertile zelda
and inexhaustible mnes has been driven to the cold
er regions of Iowa, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. But
the rebellion has opened the eyes of its statesmen,
and the coe and the lash henceforth to be BAN
ished from State that by position climate soil and
resources is destined to be of the foremost ths
brilliant galaxy of free commemorative All hail to
the emancipated State that controls the navgationM
the noblest of our navigable strealnsi