Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1865-02-22
EEse News.

! The Pittsburg i'oSt of Tuesday saws
One Of the cradles Of the Rebellion has
fallen. We mean Charleston. \ des-
/ patch on Saturday from Gen. Grant 10
! Secretary Stanton, announced on the au-
/ thorlty of the Richmond D5SDGfct, of The
! 18th, that Sherman had occupied Colum-
bia, the capital OF South Carolina. on the
l1th, and that this movement ncccsSia.
! ted the fail Of Charleston. Tins lueic
appears 10 have been Of an " mex ,rahie >
character, for yesterday, Gen Ncitz.l
teiegraphed 70 Secretary Stanton from
City Point, as follows:
CITY poINT, VA, Feb. 20.
To f. " Stanton, Secretary Of Va:
The following dispatch has just been
received, signed L. \ Grant, lieutenant
General - The Richmond Eautinc,. of
to-day, just received, says that Charles
ton was evacuated on Thursday hast
q. Wt!rZE.I., Maj. Gen.
The news from Sherman yisibly affects
the gold market. Up to noon yesterday
ftuctuuted between 2U3 and POL
Dates from Havanna, 10 the 9th inst,
state that seTeral more blockade runners
lad returned to that place. The rebels
intend purchasing small schooncrs 10 run
to the coast of Florida The coo!ic trade
Is opening again IN Cuba.
The sales of 7-3O's by !. Cooke du-
ring the week ending Saturday. 18th,
were s;2G, ,24O, 200. At this rate the
remainder OF the loan will be sold before
the end of March next. All banks AMI
bankers will supply the loan at par to
immediate applicants
The Amendatory Tax bill passed the
House on Saturday last, and now goes 10
the Senate. 1t will take the Finance
Committee OF the Senate nacrly all Of this
week to examine and amend it; SO that
II will not be finally adopted until near
the close of the session. The tax on
sales was defeated. The proposition for
taxing gold transactions twenty per cent.
was rejected. The House agreed TO the
tax OF ten per cert on State bank circu!a-
tion, 1t is to be imposed after Jan. |,
1856. 1t Is estimated that the bill will
add from forty TO fifty millions 10 the rev
cnue.
President Lincoln has pardoned !hc
notorious Col. Fish, late Provost Marsha!
OF Baltimore, whose corruplions aud
brutality were few months since, mai
ter OF indignant comment Oh the part of
Northern Journals. OF course.
Roger y. Pryor has been released from
Fort Lafayette, by Ar. Lincoln, with
view to effect his own exchange He is
an old journalistic friend of Col Fornev.
and is ordered to report 10 John w. ut
Washngton-Happy family
The army appropriation bill has passed.
1t Is onl v matter of five hundred mil
lions or so; or to be precise, S5IS.570-
527. BY this bill, ihe communication price
OF officers rations was increased 10 fifty
cents. This applies TO all officers below
the rank of brigadier general, and increase
the pay of colonels thirty-six dollars per
month, that of lieutenant colonels thirty.
and OF majors and other officers of lower
grade, twenty dollars
General Lee, in letter to General
(llenry A Wise, under date of Feb. 4.
says the spirit evinced in this docu-
ment Is the true one. If our people will
sustain the noble soldiers of the confader
acy and evince the same resolution and
forutude under their trials which have
characterized the army, feel no apple
hension about the issue of the contest. l
do not see how we can, by any compro-
mise or negotiation. abate aueht of the
rights claimed in this admiral declarations
without a surrender of the liberties we de-
rived from our ancestors"
The Nchmend Epaminer, ot the l7th.