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LIEUTENANT GENrR.Icp.rr

LIEUTENANT GENERAL GRANT.
Lieut.. General Grant will probably take
another tour, as soon as the matters he is at
present engaged upon will permit This time
bis course will be through the Southwestern
States, on tour of inspection, and win most
probably extend TO the Rio Grande.
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FAST TIME.-We are indebted to J.P. d.
Phelps, Esq, of Harnden's Express, for Rich.
mond papers Of this morning
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"It is asserted that not less than sz50,OOO
of counterfeit one hundred dollar ". :. Treas
ury notes are at present in circ ulation.
SThre hundred thousand barrels Of rosin
are awaiting shipment in North Carolina.
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FIRE LAST fIGHT.-At an early hour this
morning an alarm of fire was sounded for q
lire on street north, between iitn and 18th
streets. some person having applied a match
TO The front of a row Of frame buildings occu-
pied by colored people. The fire apparatus
were out in little time, and at work, and in a
short time had the flames extingushed; not
however, before the upper portion was de-
sfroyed and an adjoining building damaged.
The houses belonged to Mr.. &. II. Utermehie
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DESTITUTE FREEDMEN OF FLORIDA.
The total number Of rations issued to desti.
tute refugees and freemen in the State of Flor.
da by the Freedmen's Bureau, during the
month Of November, 1s65, was 1900. Sup.
posing that each ration was received by a diff
terent individual, this would give the nj mber
OF persons who obtained ratlons as three INN
dred
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DISCHARGE OF CLERKS.
The Secretary Of the Treasury to-day mott.
fed seventy five clerks of his Department thar
their services will be dispensed with on the
3lst inst. - 80
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THE DELAWARE RAILROAD CoMPANY.-S
d FELTON,, Esq, late president of the Phila-
delphia, Wilmington and Baltimore railroad,
has been elected president of the Delaware
Railroad Company, vice s. NJ. harrington, de-
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GENERAL FITZPATRICK.
This oficer left Washington this morning for
New York. He leaves for Chile on the LIST of
January. .....M.
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give are indebted to Col. Nimmo, Of the
National Express transportation Company,
for late Richmond papers
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AFRICAN COLONIZATION

AFRICAN COL0NIZATION
Colonel Brown, Assistant Commissioner Of
the Freedmen's Bureau in Virginia, has sub.
mitted a proposition to General Howard for
the removal OF all the colored population of
Virginia to the unoccupied Government lands
in Florida. ~
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New York Markets.

NEW YORK, Dec. f6.-Cotton dull. Flour
Pork firm. Lard steady. " hisky firm.
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From M0hile.

MOBILE, Dec. 16.-Sales of cotton TODAY 500
bales Middlings. AZ cents. Sales of the week
sue Receipts of the week, 40,s9s. Exports of
the week, i,527. Stock on hand, 7O,65O. Gold,
1isal50.
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BOSTON BAKERY AND DINING Rooms,
ID newly ettablished.D No. <2s Penns, lvanis
avenue. between az and 9Th streets,
BOSTON BROWN BREAD, PORK and BEANS
delivered daily by leaving orders at Bakery.
WHITE BkEAD, CRACKERS, Pies, and CON
FECTI0NERl on hand, TO order on short
notice de l6-eoSts
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TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
meath az Fr.c.x.rr., .,,.,

Death OF Ex.Governof Allen.
Providence. Dec. 16.-Hon. Philip Allen.
formerly Governor Of this State, and after,
wards United States Senator, died this morn.
ing, at his residence here. = -
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FoRrRRss MONROE, Dec. f6.-The schooner
Georgia, from New York for Petersburg, was
burned here last night.
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SOUTHERN PREss ON FREEDMEN,s Az.

Reports from the various Freedmsn's Dis
tricts in the United States, received by Major
General U. o. Howard, agree in the statement
that as general rule the tone of the Press has
been such rs to materially advance the inter-
ests of the Bureau.
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LARCENY CAsEs-Yesterday Officer Barker,
OF the eth Ward, arrested Martin T. StoeI for
the larceny of six combination rules. valued al
S2l, from the u. 5. Arsenal The prisoner was
taken before Justice Boswell.
John Green, colored, was arrested by On
Ger Roose fer entering the store OF Catharine
Hrrlihy, on 18TH near Boundary street, and
stealing 81 so from the drawer. The prisoner
went in and called for some apples, and while
the storekeeper turned to get the apples he per
petrated the theft. The prisoner being only II
years Of age, Justice Walter ordered him to be
locked up 12 hours.
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REAL ESTATE SALEs.-By J. c. Mcclure Il
Co: Lot and part lot Ii. with a three-story
brick dwelling, on /, near 18th street west, to
Jonah ID. Hoover, for SI0,250
BY Green &c Williams, auctioneers: The fol-
lowing described property in square sill, on
north o, between 5th street and New jersey
avenue-Lot %, TO George Eslin, at IA cents per
foot; lot 81, to John X. Weinberger, for f44
cents per foot; lot 81, do, TO John A. wein-
berger; lots 80 and 81, to Jas Williams. for IL \
cents per foot; lot 8, IN subdivision of square
900, to Thos. +. Dant, at ~ cents per foot.
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AssoCTATION-

0EMEDIGAL ASSOCIATION.
Atsn adjourned meeting Of the Medical Associs-
ton Of the District Of Ccumtis. held on the 7th of
November. The follo~ipg resolution was adopted:
R,solved. That IL is recomme nded to the member,
Of this Association 20 presen, their accounts for
professional services at the close Of the ATTENDANCE
and shall 's the duty Of esch member to obtai. q
settlement from all Of his families at least once In
three noDths. via The list Of January, the LIST OF
APFf', the Ist cf July, and the ist Of October.
PGbii,hed ~ order Of the Association.
de bsotm' J. W. IL LOyEJOY, NJ D., Sec.
nTGAs CONSUMERS, Who have reason to
lkSN think meters OF service pipes cut of order
sre re9aoste 10 give notice. no 500 9th street. I'd
H-or GEO. A. McILHENNY. 3.
"si I'm Engineer.
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FIRE AT THE wHARP.AThis morning, about
half-past 10 O'Clock, fire was discovered on the
schooner Eclipse as she was being made fast
TO the 9TH street wharf, for which an alarm of
IRE was sounded, bringing out the fire appa-
ratus. The schooner was cast loose from the
wharf, and drifted aground, when streams
from the city companies Were brought into
play. The Government engines United States
and Rucker, as also the Meigs, for some time
were unable 10 play.
At2H O'Clock the fire was still burning in the
hold Of the vessel. but the firemen as well as
the Quartermaster's employees, Were working
manfully to extinguish il, General Rucker.
with Colonel Tompkins and Major Burton,
experimenting the work. . '..I
. The vessel had on board 96 tons of hay, %
barrels of pork, and So barrels of beans, beside
a large quantity of lead for the navy, and some
stone for private party. The vessel is owned
by Captain Smith, of New York. and the loss
Will be from ten to fifteen thousand dollars.
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LOCAL NEWS.

THE GREAT SALE OF RAILROAD MATERIAL
AT observation-disclosures the great sale OF
material In the warehouses and workshops of
the United States military railroad 1t Alexan-
dria was continued, and there was quite as
large attendance Of purchasers, from whom
the auctioneer (Mr. Williams) obtained good
PIiees oiis (llnseedl orongat sI.f0p per gaiIon,
and window glass very nearly approached the
present market prices, jack-screws averaged
S3J each, axes new S4 and e&50 per dozen,
wrought hinges 20 TO 50 cents, and several
thousand gross Of small screws from IS 10 Is
cents FER gross. A large lot of old iron was
also disposed OF, averaging about the same
prices obtained on former days. The heaviest
purchasers yesterday were Baltimore firms,
who took the oils and glass
In order TO give purchasers an opportunity
10 remove their goods and thus make thai
which remains unsold more accessible, the
sale has been DISCONTINUED for a short time.
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ENAMELLED LEAThER DUCK for C.rrI...
II Coverings and Green and BLACK Hnsmeiisd
muslin for fvrsiiure Covering, for sale st Ne 81
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EkEAT CLOsINa-OUT SALE
" of 4.
JKwrLRY, WATCHES, AND SILVER WARE,

3o2 PIHNSYLvANIA AVENUE
Inc sutscrfeer, having sold ont bis Store, offers
me BALANCE OF his Steck at prices unprecedented.
As most Of the Goods being bought at told orieSs.
fesy MI DO sold positively ct COST IN CUR,
, - Patrons having Watches and Jsvslrv AZ nv
store Tor Ispsi, will please call before tie ist Of
sLoy Cases. Iron Safe, Regulator. and Mirror
Ut b1fs Cnthp ..t...-.-.. ll-3wt
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EOR THE HOLD AVS.

Fine Lacee and Fancy Good. for Christmas Pres
ents embracing fine Point and Point Applique
Sets, Collars Barbs, and handkerchief, together
with an asssrtmen mt Of fine Fancy Goods, Paptsr
Mache, Writing Desks aud WNrkbox-s, Sstchels,
ahas, Ladies and Gents Companions, Portmonios,
Hair Nets, Combs, belts, and Buckles.
Also. q lot Of kne French Toys, Toilet Articles,
and other Fancy Goods too numerous 20 mention,
With full line Of Dress and Cloak Trimnings,
BOswELL'S Fancy Store,
de l6-t.5 302 street. near lsth.
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NINCE MEAT CUTTERS,
Avl SAUSAGE CUTTERS.
SAUSAGE STUfFEks,
BIJTcHER KNIVES.
BUTCHER SCALES,
Be- MEAT SAWS.
BUTCHER sTKELS,
&c, &c.
Up. BARTHoLOw,
Hardware and Agricultural
Implement Warehouse.
SIS It'll street, below Pcnra avenue1
de- n, cow Washington
ATTENTION, sHOEMAKERs. LRArHRk
N and FINDINGS Cot for the next ten days
de q lots &c HALL,
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HUDSON TAYLOR'S
IL Stock Of Standard Literature Of the age Ia now
complete.
Holiday Books In handsome Bindings.
Juveniles ia great var irty.
Family Bibles, Prsye r Books. &c.
Catholic Prayer Books.
Photograph Albums.
Morocco, Russia, and Leather Bags.
Scotch wood, Rosew GOD an other Writing Desks.
fancy Articles. &c, &C
- The public is invited TO call and examine this
eleg ant collection. HUDSON TAYLOR,
Books sller and ,tatIOner.
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THIRD WARB-FIRST PRECINCT-No ice
IL hereby gwen, that, Ia conformity TO the pro-
visions OF an act uthorlzing special election
the question Ct negro suffrage" election Will
be held In the First Precinct OF the Third Msr
the house of Mr.. Hoyle, corner 9Th and streets,
on THURSDAY, December 3lst, for the purpose OF
testing public sentiment in relation - the
zion Il the ria lat of suffrage 10 colored persons
the city of Washington.
Polls will be opened 1T eight O'Clock @. m, and
close at Elk o'clocK p. m
Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-01-17

balance the situation of this and the last
years, we shall find ourselves gamers in
territory. We shall find our armies rela-
lively as strong as before. We shall see
that, Instead of fighting an intrenched foe,
we have improved our engineer corps, and
now provide the same protection for our
men. that the enemy has heretofore en-
ployed for his. We have thus neutralized
the cold. blooded calculation of Grant that
he would give the lives of five Yankees for
that of single Confederate, and thus ter.
inmate the war by the exhaustion of our
numbers. Thus far we have been enabled
to connteract the strategy of the enemy.
We still trust it will be vouchsafed to our
government to devise means of foiling their
schemes. But, frat of all, the means nee
esssary to maintain our cause and secure
our success must be regarded the war
spirit of the people. Let them be dis
mayed by no reveFses, discouraged by no
disasters. Let them determine to rebuke
and resist, and terms of peace and justice
will be extorted from an enemy exhausted
Of resources and despsiring of success.
Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-01-17
From Tennessee-Gen. Canbz,s Draft

ST.. LOUIS, Jan. l6.-An officer from
Clifton, Wayne county, Tennessee, where he
left Gen. Thomas on Saturday, Gays:
No active operations may be expected
for several days.
The truthfulness of the report that Hood
is preparing to make stand at Corinth ia
not yet ascertained, bat it is believed his
disorganized forces are still fleeing south
ward, leaving portion of Forests cavalry
in the rear to cover the retreat.
Gen, Thomas army has plenty of sup.
plies and more are constantly passing up
tie Tennessee river, but the heavy rains ia
Tennessee have rendered the roads impas-
sable for military movements.
The draft ordered by Gen. Candy is in
dependent of the late call of the President,
aud persons SO drafted will not be credited
to auy State included in the Presidents
proclamation. Deserters will not be drafted,
and if enlisted will be assigned TO regiments
serving on the Indian frontier.
The Little Rock Democrat Gays:
The recent election of ". D. snow to the
United States Senate from Arkansas, was
farce, only 60 votes being cast, while it
required 76 to form quorum.
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sue OF tlrredeemable paper, borrowed in the
same interval thirty two millions more.
Meantime, there are some proceedings of
certain national banks, which, if rightly
reported, are not to their credit. The
public was led to expect that when ;they
Invested themselves of their character
OF state banks, and organized under the
act OF Vongresss, they would call in and
cancel the notes issued under their former
charters. The local newspapers, however,
report that they continue to pay out their
olu notes over their counters CO. operating
In the work of Initiating the currency.
On the whole we see no reason to doubt
tnat the real amount of paper circulating
as money is. increased. BY whose fault
TINS is done it is perhaps useless to inquire;
We DO not mean to be involved in any con-
troversies, or subject ourselves to any
contradiction in regard to that question;
the more important question is, what ren1s
edy shall be applied2 The attention of
congress, We hope, will be seriously turned
TO this subject. and some mode of efficient
cooperation with the Treasury Depart.
ment devised, which shall prevent further
expansion. If q check could be put On
excessive Issues of paper currency, we
might in due time begin gradually to di-
mlnish them. AT present the denomfna-
tlon OF money which we call dollar has
lost more than halfof its purchasing power
in the market, and the great mass of the
community are snxiously hoping for the
time when it shall recover and retain its
original capacity ofsupplying the wants of
MIN who happens to be its owner. The
gold market remains high; no victory of
our armies, no commercial change, no sud.
den turn of speculation seems able to
bring it below two hundred per cent, as !
compared with greenbacks. The fuctua-
tioDs in its value are above that point, and
are likely to be so until some diminution
shall be effected in the excessive volume
and mischieVous instability of our paper
currency.
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thing in the grain Nay, in connection with
other branches of business, but these two
houses only are engaged in the trade ex-
clusiyely, and it may be said that tEiey have
almost exclusive controlsof this branch Of
business.
Our mills are urged to their utmost ca
pacity by orders from private parties and
Government, running day and night, there
by creating an increased demand for
wheat. Besides this local demand, there
is large trade done between this sity and
Cumberland and intermediate points in
wheat, corn, rye, &c., with the millers at
those points, aud dealers, miners and
others. Government is also very large
buyer in this market, and has been since
the breaking out of the war, creating at
times an immense demand for oats, corn
and hay, and the prices of these articles
are at this time and have been at various
times z-4.lS $50 ---,g,, 80 a..
larger markets, except New York city. Our
farmers have actually gotten rich within
the past few years, and are now perfectly
independent, and willonIy sell their grain.
when the prices are up in the top notch. In
this connection We would mention the
heavy hay business done in the city,
Messrs. Frost & Co. have now in full ope-
ration a two story hay house, &c feet front
and rear by 122 feet deep, where they bale
hay with heavy power press, making
tight, solid bales of from 300 to 400 lbs.
each. at times our streets are lined with
loads of hay. This baliug house will
hold 600 tons of baled hay. The produc-
tion of hay has more than doubled during
the past three years, stimulated by the
high prices. Messrs. Frost & Co. are now
paying from $50 to Ss5 per ton, and large
quantities of baled hay have this season
been shipped to Pittsburg.
The great increase in the growth of hay
in our vicinity is fully evinced by the i'm
mense demand for moving machines,
Messrs. Frost & Co. having sold 500 of
them last season, and have now completed
and for sale for the coming harvest nearly
as many, with important Improvements
in the working of the machines.
Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-01-17
From Wilmington-F P. Blair, Sr.
Letter from Gen. Sherman

WAsHINGToN, Jan. 16.-Au official des-
patch from Wilmington, dated on the
morning of the l4.h says.
About fifty federal vessels are in sight.
They are mostly opposite the point of the
former landing, with fair weather and a
There were NO developments to-day rel.
atiVe to the mission of Mr.. F. P. Blair, Sr.
His movements even are not revealed to
the public.
The Savannah Republican of the Ilth
inst, publishes letter from Geu. Sher.
man to prominent citizen, stating that
he is merely a military commander, aad
can act only in that capacity. He cannot
give assurances or pledges affecting civil
matters. In future, Congress will adius.
these matters, when Georgia ls again rep
resented there as of old. He says that
Georgia is out of the Union, therefore a
total reconstruction appears inappropriate.
As long as any of the people remained
armed and organized the United States
would pursue them with armies and deal
with them according to military law. AT.
forwards they will be dealt with by the
civil courts.
He thinks that the same course should
be adopted as indicated by Gen. Wash.
ington on the whisky rebellion, and in ac-
cordance with the principles of the Burr
conspiracy. He quotes from Washington
and Jackson the preservation OF the
Union, aud says the armies are simply full
in all their commands The Union must
and shall be preserved, cost what it may.
There is no other alternative for the people
of Georgia than to conform to this view of
the case. No commissioners or negotia-
tions' nor conventions are necessary
Whenever the people of Georgia quit The
rebellion, elect members OF Congress and
Senators, and these take their seats, the
State of Georgia will have res umed her
function in the Union.
The refugees concur in the statement
that Sherman will move on Branchville
next week
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Interview with hrs. Senator Foote.


Interview with hrs. Senator Foote.
New YORK, Jan. I6.-A special TO the
TIMES dated Washington, l5sh, says:
From an interview with Mrs. Senator
Foote it appears that her husband resigned
his seat at the time itwss SO reported; that
the rebel Congress is slavish and subsarvi-
ent to Davis; that when bills meet with
opposition the majority go into secret ses.
sion and rush them through; that the
character of the war has been changed by
Davis and is now carried on for his own
purposes; that unless it cau be Terminated
to suit him and his school of politics, he
will carry it on more bloody and barbarous
than ever; that there is not the slightest
prospect of Mr.. Blair meeting with success;
that the contractors do not desire termi-
nation of the war and are doing everything
to continue it +; that the great mass of the
people want to come back into tho Union
under the constitution, but are restrained
by military power, aud as freedom Of the
press in this particular is entirely gone,
there is no way for them to express their
views.
1t was for the purpose of serving these
people that Mr.. Foote endeavored " reach
Washington.
Mrs. Foote says those who serve with the
Richmond junta live as we'll as ever, being
supplied with all Injuries at comparatively
small cost, as the government pays the eX
penses.
Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-01-17
ARRIVAL from New Orleans.

New York Jan. 10 The steamer Morn
ing Star from New Orleans on the 7th, ar
rived last night.
A number of expeditions have been sent
out from Baton Rouge and other places to
chastise the guerriIlas along the Missis.
sippi.
Generals Badly Smith, Gilmore and
Steele, we're in New Orleans on the 7lb.
The o. s. sloop of war San Jacinto wa
wrecked on the 1st of key in the Bahama
Banks. No lives lost and most of the
stores of the vessel were saved.