Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1865-01-16


| W.sBISGroS, Jan. l4-The following circu-
lar to consular officers in the British Provinces
hss Just been issued
/ DKPARrNBNT oF STATE. WksHISeroNl
January IA, 1864
| Consular officers in territories coutermi nous
| with the United States on their northern, and
/ northeastern frontier are hereby authorized to
receive United States currency in payment for
/ passports 40 long as order of December Il 1864.
! shall remain in force. bearing in mind that the
law requires FIVE dollars az the fee for issuing
PASSPORT which amount is payable TO the L. s
/ Treasury, and in foreign countries with a cOnsa-
| lar fee OF one dollar in addition. The existing
regulations by which consular agents were for
hidden TO give passports Is hereby rescnded for
the above mentioned period. / any person shall
have been charged more than legal fees, as they
are herein mentioned. the excess will be refunded
| 10 him by the consul to whom the sum paid
and such repay ment will be reported 10 the De
p,rtnent uniform rate OF charge is expected
and enoined, and passports TO enter the British
provinces will be promptly issued by this depart
ment on application in accordance with passport
regulations W. II. SEWARD,
Signed Sec'v Of State
WASHINGTON, Janusry 1.-THE Richmond
Dispatch of the 18th says:
IL was reported yesterday that Mr.. Blair, the
Yankee peace maker. arrived here today and
HoN oh b'Rti'ic" "A'h hhc pttriAcub auu ctCIetd-
~ Of war. He has not, we are assured come to
the citv, and il il untrue that the secretary OF
war has sent him a pass TO visit Richmond but
we do not doubt that he is in Grants camp We
have never vet seen any evidence going TO show
that he desired coming to this city.
A correspondent of The Richmond Enquirer,
in speaking OF the furloughing Of new regi-
ment of Georgia militia, says:
Governor Brown remarked that they eoulc 20
hon, l,,sf thar all
when the state required their services, which he
hoped would not be soon.
All delinquents are TO be tried BY military
court martial which is sitting in Macon, and if
found guilty the pains and penalties OF deserton
would be visited upon them.
In the Confederate House Of Representatives
Wednesday, Miles, of South Carolina, Intro
duced the following resolutions which were Or
dered to be printed:
Resolved, That under the constitution, Con
gress alone has the right to declare war; and the
president, by and with the advice and consent of
the Senate, 10 make a treaty of peace.
Resolved, That all attempts TO make peace
with the United States by the action or inter
vention of the separate states comprising the
cOniederacy, are unauthorized by the constitu-
ton and in contravention of the supreme law of
the land. and therefore revolutionary.
Information has been received at the Navy
Department from Acting Master Gillespie OF U.
5. bark Brazilian, on duty on 81. Amon's sound. |
Georgia. that boats OF that vessel have made sew
eral incuTsons inland destroying salt works con-
ssting of ten kettles of five hundred gallons each, |
twenty of four by six feet. and six hundred |
bushels OF salt The boats also liberated thirty /
negroes, snG captured a number of Confederate
prisoners The salt works were located eighteen |
miles up Turtle river, on creeks leading into /
Buffalo swamp The enemy's force in this coun-
try consists OF one hundred Confederate soldiers, /
and seventy five militia
refugee Who left Richmond two weeks ago |
reports that Lee has sent troops to meet Sher-
man in South Carolina, but knowledge of all mil |
itsry movements was so wellskept that il is not
known 10 the rebel army what troops. nor the
number that have gone, though II is now three /
weeks since they started.
The upper classes among the people of Rich
mOnd profess to be confident OF the success OF the
C)n!eieracy; but the poor classes, VINO have sore
" felt the effect of the depleted currency are
heartily tired and sick of the war, ard anxious
for measures being made for relief
| Sit appears from conversation with Mrs.
Foote that she had passports to leave the con
federacy, and started from Richmond three weeks
ago. Senator Foote accompanied her, but with
out such authority, for the purpose OF seeing her
safe over the Potomac. In the meantime the
oIder Issued by Secretary Seddon To the
re)el provOss msrshalist Fredericksburg for his
arrest He was accordingly tracked to Dunn
fries. and there captured and taken buck to Rich
mond.
The Alexandra Journal says: Mrs. FOo,e
was taken into custody by our authorities until
she arrived in the viciuty of Dumtries Moth
ing is said abou; her husband
The president has Feccg gnized Ernest Napoleon
More Ge0deaux as Consul OF France at New
Orleans. and France August Hoffman Consul /
OF the DGkedOm Of Sare Minger Tor the state Of
Illinois. after long confinement TO his residence
caused by fracture of his arm.
Assistant Secretary Seward has resumed his
duties Al the state department.