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The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1865-01-23
CONGRESSIONAL,

In the United States Senate, on We'd
csday last, Mr.. Howard, from the Mill
tary Committee, reported resolution,
which vas ordered to be printed, recon-
mending that measures of retaliation be
adopted in order to prevent tho continu-
ancc of the barbarities practiccd at the
South on Union prisoners.
A resolution was adopted the same
day in the House of Representatives,
appointing committee to inquire into
reported abuses at the Old Capitol and
Carroll prisons. A lively debate spraug
up on motion to reconsider the vote by
which this resolution was adopted, in
which Messrs. Stevens, Ganson. Davis,
Coffroth and others took part. The mo-
ton to reconsider was finally laid on the
table.
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VIRGINIA G[SLATURE.
fEXTRA SESSION.
SENATE.
SATURDAY, January 8

SATURDAY, January 81, 1865.
The Senate was called to order at IL
o'clock NJ. Prayer by Rev. DR.. McCabc-
In response to resolution passed by
the Senate few days since, requiring
the Commissioners for the Board of
Public Works to make statement Of the
tolls allowed by them to be charged on
railroads, canals, etc, and the reasons
therefor, report was received from the
Board, which was laid on the table and
ordered to be printed.
Mr.. Armstrong presented memorial
from the proprietors Of religious news
papers in Richmond, asking that the
hands in their employ be exempted from
militia service. Referred to the Com
mittee on Exemptions.
The bill providing an additional appro-
priation for the Virginia Military Insti-
tute was, on motion Of Mr.. Christian, Of
Middlesex, taken from the calendar, read
the third time and passed.
On motion of Mr.. Graham, the House
bill amending the duelling code Of Vir-
GINA was taken up, discussed, and,
being put upon its passage, was lost by
the following vote: Yeas, IA; nays, 16.
Subsequently, ON motion of Mr.. Tay>
lor, Of Montgomery, the vote by which
the bill was lost was reconsidered, and
then it was laid on the table.
Mr. Coghill, from the Committee fol
Courts of Justice, reported bill amend
ing the third section Of the act passed Oc
tober Sd, 1862, repeating the fence law
of the State, as to certain counties, etc,
so as to make the remedy for trespassers
more effective and summary.
On motion of Mr.. Taylor, the Senate
adjourned.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1865-01-23
LATEST FROM THE NORTH.

We are indebted to the officers of the
Exchange Bureau for files of Northern
papers.
Secretary Stanton sent an official dis
patch to Lincoln, reiterating the accounts
of the capture Of Fort Fisher. The fol-
lowing is an extract from the dispatch:
On Monday morning, between and :
o'clock, the magazine Of Fort Fisher ex--
ploded, killing and wounding two or three
hundred persons.
How the. explosion occurred was not
known, but General Terry believed it was
occasioned by accident or neglect.
General Hoke's division, reported as
five thousand, was at Wilmington. A
portion of it was thrown into the fort not
long before the assault, and while that
was going on demonstration was made
by General Hoks against our defences !;
but it was found too strong for anything
more than skirmish attack.
About II o'clock on Monday morning,
a heavy cloud Of smoke was observed
over Fort Smith, on the south side of
New inlet. The naval officer command
ing that station reported that the enemy
had fired their barracks and evacuated
that fort.
The armament of the fort was seventy
two guns, some of large calibre and rifed,
and one Armstrong gun. The troops in
the fort had rations for sixteen days.
Their loss in killed and wounded VAS be-
tween four hundred and five hundred.
General Whiting had three wounds in
the thigh. Colonel Lamb also, who had
gone into the fort with rcinforccments,
and to relieve General Whiting on Sun.
day, is wounded. On Monday, every
thing was quiet IS Sabbath day. The
dead were being buried, and the wounded
collected and placed in transports and
field hospitals. @
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1865-01-23
LETTER FROM GENERAL THOMAS

General Thomas has written to the
War Department a letter, giving very
encouraging view Of milit:ry affairs in
the Southwest. He says that Hood can.
not gather an army of twenty thousand
men, and that the Southwest is practi~
cally conquered country.
The St. Louis Union, Of the 18th in
slant, says:
ave are appraised ola great military
movement that will startle the public in
few days. It's details are contraband
at present"
The Boston journal, Of January 18th,
adds:
ave received intelligence from the
West yesterday Of an important military
movement, but withhold it for obvious
reasons"
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1865-01-23
FROM TEXAS.

Advices from Texas, cia Matamoras
and Havana, state that on the night OF
December 81, at Corpus Christi, the Con-
federate Colonel Mat Nolan and Mr.. j. C.
Donald were assassinatcd.
General Slaughter has issued decree
declaring Pasode, Acquila, Laredo, Rio
Grande and edinburgh to be the only
frontier towns through which the expor-
tation Of cotton is to be allowed.
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THE TRAN5-NISSIsSIPPT.

General Candy had ordered draft q
one in seven within the Departments Of
Arkansas, Mississippi and the Cult TO
take place on the 10th Of February, ul'-
less the quotas should be previously
filled by volunteers.
Cotton was less active at New Orleans
Middling was held at one dollar and eisi"
teen cents.
The Memphis Democrat says that tie
steamer Vtrango was captured and burned
by guerriilas ON the Sth in tant, nsa'
Skipworth's landing. The passeRss''
and crew were taken prisoners. Amous
the former was q cotton Spectator iron
New YorkTname not given-irom Whoa
the guerrillas took sixty thousand DOL
lars in grecnbacks.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1865-01-23
HOUSE OF DELEGATES.

The House was called to order at noon.
PRAYER by Rev. DR.. Burrows.
The House, without transacting any
business of interest, resolved itself into
secret session.
When the doors re-opencd the House
adjourned.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1865-01-23
FROM SHERMAN.
FORTRESS MONROE,

Tuesday, January flo r. n.
To the President: General Sherman
renewed nc movement Of bis forces from
nsysnnah last week. The Hfteenth and
nssentssnth corps went ID transports TO-
beaufort on Saturday, the l4th. The
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1865-01-23
EXPENSE ACCOUNT OF THE YANKEE GO.
VERNMENT

The army bill, reported from the Com
mittee of Ways aud Means, appropriates
SOIL ,2S0, 900, Of which 100000, 900 is
for the pay Of volunteers; subsistence,
~, OOO,O 900; quartermasters' supplies,
$50, 100000; incidentals, $4,000, 900
horses, $21 200, 900; transportation, $50
100000, clothing and camp equipage
$50, 600, 900; armament Of Notifications,
$3,500,Ooo; ordnance stores, $4,000
600; armament Of the national army,
$500, oo0; gunpowder and lead, ST.
800 600. The appropriation made last
year for the army amounted to $685.
100000, including 500, 900, 600 of def
cheney.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1865-01-23
ESCAPE OF YANKEE NEWSPAPER CCRRL-
FoNpENTS FROM SALISBURY.

ESCAPE OF YANKEE NEWSPAPER CORR
FoNpENTS FROM SALISBURY.
The escape Of Richardson tNcv i''A
Tibate), Davis Cincinnati Gasf''f'
and Brown (New York Hsrald), new''
paper correspondents, from Salisbury
North Carolina, is published. The 1f''
bane has the following telegram ir'"
Nashville giving an account Of the feat;
They came three hundred and forty
miles. by circuitous route through Tue
mountains, before reaching our lines
fifteen miles from Knoxville. For ths
first fifty miles they were assisted oy
negroes; aftcrwardby Union men. Inc!
received tho most devoted kindness
their good friends scereting them IN 'th
woods and in barns, and sometimes -
their houses by day, and pilcars .ae''
through secluded pathways by n'ga,,
along the entira route, at the psiii :"
their lives. They found snow f'0.
deep on tho mountains, and sni'e'e"
mneh from hunger aud from <eald IN re-
gions where they dared not build iises-
A hundred miles from Knoxville, the'
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1865-01-23
NORTHERN VIEWS OF SOUTHERN EprTo-
RAILS.

From tho New York Times, January III
Now that General Sherman is so near
to Charleston, it will be seen by our
rebel extracts that the Mercury Of that
city pronounces glowing and elaborate
eulogium upon him and his army. Its
admiration is unbounded. But it is very
severe upon the rebel troops thercabouts.
whom it describes as lawless mob and
charscterizcs as rufians." We find
articles in tho Courier to the same
effect. Both these journals arc in q
terrible rage with their leaders and their
SO called soldiers, and will doubtless he
greatly rejoiced when Sherman, whom
they 30 mach admire, pays them a visit
with his army, which they so profoundly
worship. Is this really Sonth Carolina ;
HOW TIE HIQoKApE-RuNsINa BUSINESS
n coNDUcTED--AH INSIDE yIEW oF TT.
The Washington papera arepuhlishins
the evidence in the trial bcfors court
,aartiAl of Noses Weisenisld 4 Co, of
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1865-01-23

THE EFFECT OF SAVANNAH LOYALTY
NOTHING TO EAT FOR THE GALVANIZED
PATRIOTS
The. "patriotic" meeting which assem-
bled in Savannah are troubled with
empty stomachs, and begin to find that
though one may sell his country for a
mess OF pottage, he does not always get
the pottage. A letter in the New York
Times from that city says:
The question of supplies is the prime
one among citizens. .sHow shall We OBJ
tain food for ourselves and families - is
the query propounded by the citizens to
the Mayor, and by him to General Sher-
man. TO be sure there is large guam
tity of rice-enough to last two years.
stored in various parts of the city; but q
purely rice diet is not what they have
been accustomed to, nor is it, of itself
considered sufficient to sustain life. The
people want meat and bread, without
which they will starye. The army cam
not divide its short rations with the citi.
zens, for there is not enough for them
selves, although the fifteenth and Seven.
teenth corps have been embarked for
Beaufort, South Carolina, where PROV.
sions are more plentiful and easy Of &C.
cess.
There arc two daily papers published
in Savannah. The Republican, edited by
Hr. Hays, formerly Of the New York
Tribune, is the oldest, and enjoys large
share Of patronage. The Herald, under
the auspices of Mr.. Sawyer, Of the New
York Herald, is = new paper, in which
is merged the Palmetto Herald. pub.
lished at Hilton Head. These sheets
have . circulation Of about ten thousand
copies per day. At present high prices
they cannot fail to pay expenses and
yield their owners . fair remuneration
for their enterprise and energy.
Confederate paper money is at Z dis,
count. In fact, It's holders cannot use II
at ~, except they. send II out Of the
lines to invest in cotton or lands. where
no immediate return can be obtained
from it.
a special messenger left YESTERDAY
With dispatches, from tho antherities 81
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Savannah to Governor Brown, relative to
the return Of the State TO the Union.
REPORTED MOVEMENTS OF coNFEDERATEs
N TENNESSEE.

REPORTED MOVEMENTS OF coNFEDERATEs
N TENNESSEE.
A telegram from Louisville, Kentucky
dated the 18th, says:
Rebel deserters, who came into Knox
vile on the 18th instant, state that &C.
neral Vaughan, with seven hundred men,
all he had left, was at Bristol on the 18th
instant. General Breckenridge, with his
command, had gone to the Valley Of Vir-
ginia, and it was thought would not
return.
1t is reported that the rebels have com
menced repairing the damage done to the
salt works by Storeman during his late
raid into Southwest Virginia The most
perfect quiet now exists throug bout East
Tennessee. Brigadier-General Ammen
has resigned, and Brigadier-General
Tilson is now in command at Knoxville.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1865-01-23

EOOR DUILkK-A CUMPLlMEAI AkY NJ
TICE.
Poor Butler is quite dead for the pre-
sent in the eyes of his Yankee brethren
A telegram from Washington says:
General Butler was for four hours be-
fore the Committee on the Conduct of
the War to day, and gave complete
history of his campaigns, including
events at Wilmington and on the James
river. The Committee will also summon
Lieutenant-G General Grant and Admiral
Porter to appear before them, and give
their testimony on several important
questions which have arisen in connec.
ton with General Buffers testimony.
While General Butler was in the act
of offering his testimony, the salute for
the capture of Fort Fisher was fred
On learning the cause Of the firing, he
raised his hand saying, THANK God for
that victory"
The New York Herald gives him q
final kick in this way:
In another point Of view, also, the coun-
try is to be congratulated upon the cap
ture Of Fort Fisher. It puts the last seal
to the popular damnation of General
Butler, General Buffers admirers and
adhercnts are, that class Of men Who
never relinquish any position while there
is possibility that argumentativs sub
tlety may make the people believe that
they are right. Itdoes not seem poesi.
BILE to imagine anything so absurd; but
tho Whole world may b made 20 believe
i il any considerable number of men
viii maintain it with sigor and stick 10
It. Thus there WAS I chance that, By
dint Of assertion, made under oil posai-
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1865-01-23
RElNFORCEMEETS FOR SHERMAN.

REINFORCEMEETS FOR SHERMAN.
The papers Certain the following tclc-
gram, dated from Nashville, the 18th:
General Thomas F. Meagher arrived
here last night from Chattanooga, with
several thousand veteran troops Of the
Fifteenth and Seventeenth army corps,
organized as the Provisional Corps OF
Tennessee, en- route to join General Sher-
man at Savannah ria New York, where
he may be expected in four or five days.
Upon leaving Chattanooga he was the
recipient Of high compliment from
General Steadnan, commencing his ad-
ministration of affairs in the District OF
Etowah, and his success in protecting
railroad and steamboat transportation.
General Webster, Colonel Sawyer.
Captains Il. V. Chester, Anderson, and
other members of General Sherman s
staff, leave here to ,morrow for Savannah
cid New York.
The river is fifteen feet on the shoals,
and falling slowly.
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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.

The blockade-runner Princess Royal,
which was on her way from Bermuda to
Nassau, has been lost. On the I'd instant,
the steamers Confederate States and the
Chicora are reported to have arrived from
Charleston the Syren and Little Hattie,
also from Charleston, and that the Agnes
E. Fry and the Julia were entirely lost
while trying to get from Charleston.
On the Sth instant, the rebel steamer
Colonel Lamb arrived from Nassau, of
six hundred and sixteen tons, and it is
reported she is intended for privateer !;
and on the 9th instant, arrived the
steamer Lark, two hundred and sixty>
seven tons, from Liverpool and Madeira,
consigned to Charles j. Helen, the rebel
agent in Havana; on the 18th instant,
the Neva, which sailed on the 10th, re-
turned in distress, but the general opin-
ion is she was chased by United States
gunboat.
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TIE DrsPArcH coUNTYNG-R0oK HAS
BEEN REMOVED TO THE NORTHEAST COR
Mn or THIRTEENTH AND MAIN STREETS
(spancs's nsilding.) IMMEDIATELY OPPOSITE
THE OLD STAND.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1865-01-23

THoMAs's, ACCOUNT OF HIS CAMPAIGN
AGAINST HCOD-A GRAND COMBINATION.
Letters received in Washington from
General Thomas give a brief history Of
his Tennessee campaign. They show
that he desired to accompany General
Sherman to Atlanta, and thought an
other officer the proper person to con-
duct affairs against Hood. General Sher-
man, however, put full confidence in
him, and all the initiatory steps of the
campaign were made in obedience to his
orders. General Thomas says the cam
paign would have been different if Sher-
man had not felt obliged to take most of
the cavalry in his department, and that
Hoods escape with any part Of his army
was mainly due to that cause. lie ex-
plains at length the reasons for his pro-
tracted delay in bringing Hood to gene
raj engagement. Some part thereof was
due to the suggestions Of General Sher-
man and orders from General Grant, and
some part to the non arrival Of General
Smiths command from St. Louis, whose
progress was delayed by storms, and pos
sibly, bad roads. He also hoped by
making the fight so far north to partly
counterbalance in the pursuit Oor he
never contemplated the possibility Of de-
feat the deficiency of cavalry.
The New York Times says Grant is
at the head of all the movements now
progressing, and cites to prove it the
fact
That twas on the very day December
15th) when the news got to New York
that Sherman's scout had reached Dahl
gren's fleet with the intelligence that
Sherman's army had safely arrived at
the seaboard-it was on that same day
that the gallant army of Thomas sailed
out Of Nashville, struck Hood, and be-
gan the battle which ended in the total
rout of the rebel forces from Tennessee.
We have no means of verifying the idea,
but we have no doubt that the one great
event waited upon the other, and that
when Grant On the James heard of Shcr-
mans safety on the Atlantic, he tele-
graphed Thomas on the Cumberland that
his hour had come.
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-03-23
Cardinal Wiseman,s Successor.

The Archbishopric of Westminster
| (Catholic), which carries with it the Prim-
acy of England, being vacant by the death
Of Cardinal Wiseman, some interest is felt,
in and out of the Catholic Church, in the
| question-who shall succeed him? 1t need
not necessarily be a Cardinal. At present,
as the English papers inform us, three per-
sons are talked of-each being man of
mark. We shall name them in alphabetical
order:
l. DR.. Clifford, Bishop of Clifton, born on
Christmas Eve, 1928. He was made Bishop
in 1850, and was recommended by Cardinal
Wiseman himself He is brother of Baron
Clifford of Chudleigh, who is also Count
OF the, Holy Roman Empire. Sir Thomas
Clifford, a noted member of the "Cabal"
Ministry, in the time of Charles III, and
charged with being the originator of the
practice of corrupting PaIliaments in Eng
land, was raised to the Peerage in 1672.-
The family have long ranked among the
leading Catholics of England. Bishop Gilt
ford, moreover, is grandson of the late Car
dinal Weld. There is no scan. mag. in this,
though it may seem otherwise. The fact is,
Mr.. Thomas Weld, of Lulworth Castle, Dor,
setshire, had an only daughter, married to
the eighth Lord Clifford, and, after the
death of his wife, took holy orders in the
Amylxea in 1926, and created Cardinal in
1880; he died in 1887.
2 DR.. Henry Edward Manning, formerly
Protestant .Archdeacon of Chichester, was
educated at Oxford; graduated there in
1880, as "first class" in classics; Quilted
the Church of England in 1851; Is now
head, as well as founder of religious Or
der of secular priests, settled at Bayswater,
entitled "The Oblates of. St. Charles Borro-
meo," and is also Provost of the Chapter of
Westminster, He is in his 53d year, and
distinguished for his power asa writer as
well as for his eloquence as preacher.
3. Monsignor George Talbot de Malahide,l
Chamberlain to the Pope, is a younger
brother, of Baron Talbot de Malahide, one
of the most ancient among the, Irish fami-
lies. The castle and lordship of Malah;de.
near Dublin, were conferred upon a Talbot
by Henry ii, over $50 years ago, and have
never gone out of Talbot possession. Mon
signor Talbot is reputed to be gentleman
of great learning and tact, gbgg 81
1t is very probable that the Pope may not
appoint any of these three. At the same
time, perhaps, Monsignor Talbot has the
best chance, though DR.. Manning is athe
favorite" in London. .lnia, iisJ osso. M 7 TTt
We'tind various biographies of the late
Cardinal Wiseman i'm the latest English
journals. They declare that the great ex-'
pertinent, made in 1850, byAwhich England,
assumed by the Papacy to have returned to
fthe Church." had been planned by DIR.
Wiseman HIMSELF then Bishop, as early as !
IS4S-"that the plan OF rparceling out the
land into provinces Of the Roman see. and
even the boundaries and names of the DIFF
ferent dioceses, were then determined on:
but that the untoward events in Italy, which
comnelled the P0pe To fiv in the de of,,;so1 lf
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QDt(t9g,r':;a),pbit:,. "a il.
RumOrs About the Evacuation of
Richmond--Rebel Leaders Hope

HAsAOhhAhVhAN -1SCDCA AlCNucTS nhODc-
less.
New York, March 22-The Tribune's
James river correspondent says refugees
from Richmond report great CONSERVATION
prevailing in that city. They say that the
city has been for some time in course of
evacuation, in the way of sending govern
ment materials, machinery, &C., to Lynch
burg and Danville. Sheridan, they also say,
has put stop to this in great measure by
destroying the Richmond and Lynchburg
canal, the main means of communication
left. The Danville road is almost worn out,
with no material or men to spare to repair
1t. These men think Davis, Lee and other
leaders have lost all hope, and already have
their eyes on Mexico as an asylum.
The Tribune's Washington correspondent
says Senator just from the front says it is
General Grants opinion that Richmond
will be evacuated within the next ten days.
The Sanitary Commission are sending
large quantities of stimulants to the Army
of the Potomac. A number of surgeons
and nurses left here to-day for City Point.
The Herald's Washington special saws it
is known by the Administration that
Stephens, Hunter and Lee are all hopeless
Of the rebellion, and have so informed Da-
Wis. Lee looks upon arming slaves as fail
ure, for the simple reason that Congress de-
layed the measure too long; besides, the
failure to make the negroes free renders the
plan useless.
President Lincoln does not believe there
will be any more serious fighting, but that
the rebels will soon surrender.