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REBEL NEWS,

WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.
The Richmond Whig of the I'd says that
General R. E. Lee was unanimously con-
irmed by the Senate, on the lst, as Com
mander- Chief Of the armies Of the Con-
federate States.
The Hon. Messrs. T. s. Flournoy, John
Goode, Thomas S. Bocoek and John Bald
win, of Virginia, and Lester, of Georgia,
addressed a large and enthusiastic audi.
ence at the Hall of the House of Delegates.
They advocated vigorous prosecution of
the war as the surest road to an honorable
peace.
CHARLESTON, Jan. 81.
All the movements Of the enemy indi-
cate that Augusta and Branehville are their
points of destination. s'
The Twentieth Army Corps occupies
Robertsville. This place is about fifty
miles above Savannah and five miles from
the river. ....s
A heavy force of infantry, artillery and
cavalry is reported enoamped near the
junction of the Salkehatchie and the old
Union road.
This force is said to consist of the 18th
and 10th Army Corps.
Yesterday morning the enemy advanced
in considerable force of infantry and artil-
Iery from Whites Point and drove in our
skirmish line three miles 70 Kings Creek.
Our infantry afterwards advanced and
drove the enemy back to Whites Point, re-
establishing our picket line. Since then
all is quiet on the Combahee at that point.
The enemy made sdemonstrstion on our
position defending the pontoon bridge over
the sqlkahatchie, but without any serious
result.
Itis reported that they burned McPher-
sonville last night. This village is FIVE
miles north of Pocataligo.
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Special Report,
New YORK, Feb.

NEW YORK, Feb. 4
FINANCIAL.
The Stock Market is more active, though
there are some Irregularities in prices. The
peace negotiations have very little effect
upon operations or prices, the disposition
being to wait for results before changing
the course of transactions.
Governments are stronger. Railroad Bonds
are quiet but firm. There is more inquiry
for Bank Stocks. State Bonds are dull
but rather better with Missouri sixes.-
Coal and miscellaneous shares without any
change.
The Gold Market was excited througout
the morning by conflicting peace rumorS
from Washington, but there was a sharp
rise towards the close.
Money is abundant and easy on call.
Foreign Exchange is nominal.
There is considerable activity and excite
ment in Petroleum Stocks with large trans
sntinna- Sales. Excelsior at 1875, Cherry
Run %, Tack 4, Rynd Farm D GsrmaHia
95, Ocean 245. .-
PETROLEUM sAOChos
During the week the Petroleum Market
has been very unsettled and irregular owing
to the fluctuations in Gold and Exchange.
Prices have declined and the market closes
quiet at 4I@46c for crude and 65@66c for
refined in bond, and s5@s6c free.
CHANGES IN MILITARY DKPARTNHETs.
Advices from Washington say that Major
General Pope is appointed to the command
of the military division of the Missouri, to
comprise the present departments of Mis-
souri,, Arkansas and the Northwest,
General Curtis retires from the depart
ment of Kansas and assumes command of
departments of the Northwest. The de-
partments of Kansas and Missouri are uni
ted and placed in command of Msjor-Gen-
eral Dodge. Maior-Gsnersl Reynolds re-
tains command of the department Of Arksn-
sss.
MsjOr-General Pope left Milwaukee to-
day to assume his.nsW- command. Orders
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FRnT New YOHR.

NEW YORK, Feb. 3.
The morning papers throw no light upon
the negotiations between Lincoln and
Seward sndthe rebel Commissioners. The
interview lasted sixteen hours.
According to the Herald correspondence,
the President is reported to have proposed
to Messrs. Stephens, Hunter and Campbell
that if they were prepared to promise 8 re-
turn of their States to the Union he was
ready to waive all minor questions, but
that as Chief Magistrate of the Republic,
sworn to maintain the Union, he could
take into consideration no erms which in
volved its divisions. On the grand point,
the rebels confessed they did not feel su-
thorized to decide, and so the negotiations
ended.
The conference took place entirely on
board one or the other of the three steam
ers which we're anchored in Hampton
Roads, where the negotiators could not be
interrupted in their proceedings. 1t was
conducted in the most cordial and frank
manner on both sides, but on the part oi
Mr.. Lincoln, at least with equal firmness
Great anxiety is now felt to hear from
Richmond.
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Arrest Of the New York Rebel
InCendiarieS.
NEWS FROM REBEL PAPERS
Associated Press Report.
PROM NEW YORE.

NEW YORK, Feb. 5.
The operations of the detective police
which have been going on for some weeks,
under Chief Detective Young, in ferreting Q
cut the rebel incendiaries who lately at
tempted to burn this city, are made public.
These operations we're of most difficult
character and were conducted with extra
ordinary skill, and we're persevered in
with the utmost tenacity. Their most in
teresting feld was in Canada where they
mixed freely with the rebels in Toronto,
Hamilton, st. GATHERINGS and other places,
and managed to gain the confidence of the
rebels. BY these and other means they
succeeded in their plans and affected the
arrest of q number of those alleged to have
been engaged in the plot, including Cap
tain John Yates Bell, Captain r. G. Ken
nedy and VIM. L. Mcdonald. Kennedy
is said to have admitted being the person
who fired Barnum's Museum. All the
men are now in confinement.
A letter from the Department of the
South to the Tunes, dated Feb. lst, states
that q company of the 4Lh Massachusetts,
Cavalry, under Lieutenant Colonel Ben
nett, of General Hstch's staff, made raid
last week on the town of Gillinsonville,
situated ten miles west of the Charleston &
Savannah Railroad, and eleven miles from
Grahsmsville. After burning the Court
House, Jail and one or two other public
buildings the party returned to Pocataligo
Consumed with the Court House was
quite number of the Beaufort county
records, at the loss of which the few inhab.
itants of the place were considerably grieV-
ed.
Nearly all of the documents are of re-
cent bearing
A few days before our troops entered the
place, squad OF the rebel Wheeler's men
paid the same place brief visit, and made
themselves extremely OiiOus among the
towns-people by sppropriating all cattle
chickens, hogs, and such like property
that they could lay their hands on.
The same letter states that steamer re.
Gently in from the Florida ports brings ui
the news of the capture of q portion of the
10th Ohio Regiment stationed at Jackson
vile.
On last Thursdsy forty men, under the
command of Captain, left Jacksonville
and proceeded about fifteen miles in the
direction of Baldwin, their object being tC
assist a resident family in removing them
selves and their household goods within
our lines. They reached the house with.
out meeting the enemy, and while engaged
in loading the wagons they were surround.
ed by 400 mounted rebels. Our men i'm,
mediately fled TO the woods, where they
were closely followed by the rebels. The
result was that only fifteen of our men, in
Guiding the Captain, succeeded in getting
back to the Union lines.
From the statement of an officer, who
recently left Jacksonville, it appears thai
the whole affair was made up by the party
whom it was sought 10 suceOr.
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RAILFOAD ACCIDENTS.

OIhUIhNATIJ UDs Il
A bad accident occurred on the Marietta
& Cincinnati railroad this morning at Lees
Creek bridge, sixty miles east of Cincinnati.
The middle pier Of the bridge was carried
away during the night by the gorging Of
the ice and high water, leaving the bridge
standing. The western bound aecOmmoda-
tion train, consisting of one baggage and
two passenger cars, reached 1ths-centre OF
the bridge, when it gave way, Precipitating
the whole train into the creek below, a
distance of fifty feet. Ten or twelve lives
were lost, besides a number of persons Sc
riously injured. The rear car fell on end,
took fire and several passengers were burn
Cd to death.
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The Heralds correspondence from Sher-
mans army describes the opening of that
general new campaign. The left wing
Of the army, under General SlOeum, had
arrived at Sisters Ferry, on the Savannah
River, fifty miles above the City Of Savan-
7 ali, without meeting any opposition what
ever from the enemy. Two divisions of
the goth corps, which struck out for that
point through the State of South Carolina,
had considerable difficulty in getting thro'
the swsmPs. The other troops, who
marched directly up the Georgia bank of
the river, had no such embarrassment to
contend with.
On the Both ultimo all of Slocum's men
were st Sisters Ferry, and supplies were
being raIidly received.
The right wing of the army is operating
in a better country for marching than the
left, and some distance from it, but COM
municaticn between the two wings is unin-
terrupted.
Port Royal papers give full particulars
of the loss of the monitor PatRpscO and
the gunboat Daiching, already recorded.
The Patapsco was sunk in the harbor of
Charleston on the night of the 10th of
January, by one of the rebel torpedoes.
She went down in twenty seconds after
being struck, and sixty out of one hundred
and three persons on board were drowned.
The Daiching got aground in the Com
bohee river, S. e., on the 26th ult, and
after maintaining severe fight with q
rebel fort for some hours, and it becoming
apparent to her officers that she could not
be got of, they set fire to her and she was
burned. ALI her officers and eraw ex-
cepting four succeeded in escaping.
A few hours previous to the catastrophe
which befel her, the Daiching captured the
blockade runner Coquelte, from Charleston
for Nassau, with cargo of cotton.
The Richmond spspers, in announcing
tho confirmation OF General Lees appoint
ment as Generslin-C Chief says he will re-
main in the field with the army around
Richmond. He has published an appeal
for arms, and calls for the delivery of all
that may be in the hands of citizens.
General Breckenridge is expected to as |
sumo the position of Secretsty of War to-
morrow.
They have a story in Richmond that |
troops from Thomas army, 10 reinforce |
General Grant, in front of the rebel cApi- |
tai, have recently passed over the Balti- |
more and Ohio Railroad.
a committee from the North Carolina |
Legislature recently had a conference with
JEFF. Davis. 1t is said they urged a mora
vigorous prosecution of the war.
An Atlanta correspondent of the Rich
mond Dispatch says that it will require |
months yet to rebuild the railroads in Geor-
gia that Sherman destroyed. He also says
it is folly to attempt to disguise the fact
that in North Carolina, Georgia, and even
in South Carolina, there is widely spread /
dissatisfaction, which, if not timely check
ed, threatens to produce the greatest dis
ssters.
Governor Brown has called an extra ses-
sion of the Georgia Legislature, to meet
on Wednesday next.
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rR0M TIE I sTHMNs.

NKw YORK, Feb 5.
The steamer Costa Rica, from Aspin-
wall January 9th, brings $3.50, ,4l3, in
specie.
General sickles, who arrived at BsnsnA
on the 22d, was expected to proceed IN 3
few weeks to Bogota, and afterwards to
Lima and elsewhere on the coast 1t is
said that the General may investigate
the management aud profits of the va
rious Legations and consulars in thst SEC
tion.
The commercial tax at Panams was
still an agitatirg subject and under the sd-
vice Of the United States and French
eonsuls, foreign merchants refuse to pay
it.
Advices from Peru indicate that the
Government is likely to come to terms
with Spain by paying tolerably heavy
damages. A mixed commission will prob
ably arrange the trouble.
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FROM FORTRESS MONROF.

UHI6Eoo IIUEEUhI T UUs
Tho steamer Governor Chase arrived
here last vening from Fort Fisher with
the mails and dispatches from our army
operating at Wilmington. Nothing had
transpired in the movements OF General
Terry's army.
The steamer George Leary arrived here
to-day from Hilton Head with Major An
dersOn, bearer of important dispatches
from General Sherman.
General Sherman's forces were still ad-
vancing VIGOROUSLY into the very heart Of
South Carolina, with every prospect of
striking disastrous blow on the rebel
forces concentrated in the vicinity of
Charleston. -l ;,
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AFFAIRs AT MEsIPHrs.

CAIRO, Feb. 5.
The steamer Marble City, from Mem
phis, has arrived with 500 bales of cotton
for ST. Louis.
1t was reported that General Veitch had
been relieved from duty at Memphis and
assigned to the command of Little Rock.
His successor is gaid to be General Roberts
A baker of Memphis, named Speckt,
residing four miles from the city, has been
arrested and lodged in the military prison,
changed with smuggling and attempting
to bribe. A barrel of quinine was found
in his house.
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JUBILEE.

BOSTON, feD. 0.
A great meeting of the people was held
in Music Hall, this evening, to express joy
at the progress of Freedom as manifested
in the adoption of the CONSTITUTE )nal
amendment sbolishing slavery.
Josiah Quincy presided Among the
speakers were VIM. Lloyd Garrison, 10
siah Quincy, Rev. E. N. Kirk and Major
General Butler.
The speaking was interspersed with rich
music from the great organ and the sing
ing of an original hymn, written for the
occasion by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
It was q very jubilant demonstration.
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FROM CAIRO.

CAIRO, Feb. 4.
The ice in the Mississippi at Brooks
Point, above Dog Tooth Bend, broke loose
this morning, sinking the steamer South
westsr and David Watts, the former prob
ably being total loss.
When the ice was giving way the river
fell five feet in a few minutes, leaving sew
ersl steamers aground in q bad position.
Among them are the steamers Monsoon
and Arsgo the latter badly twisted.
The river is now open as far up SIS Saint
Louis.
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EXCHANGE OF PRISONERS.

NEW lORh1 feD. +
The Commercials Washington special
says The Secretary of War was informed
yesterday that General Grant contemplated
negotiations with the enemy for a general
exchange of prisoners, at the rate of 5000
per month, which is as fast as the rebels
can deliver them.
The indications are that moro vigorous
war policy will now be adopted.
The Cabinet was called together to-day
and doubtless had the result of the Presi-
DENTS conference laid before them.
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Special Report.
NEW POST OFFICE CARS.

NEW POST OFFICE CARS r.-
NEW York, Feb. 2.
The first CT the new post-ofice cars on
the Erie Railroad, left Jersey City this
evening fer Dunkirk.
In a short time these cars will run dir
ect from New York to Cleveland.
TIE HERALD ON THE PEACE MISSION.
The Herald of this morning thinks that
the rebel peace mission will prove STEP
ping-stone to submission and to union. It
predicts that peace will come from Genera
Lee while JEFF. Davis, driven out of Rich
mond, is flying for some other temporary
place of refuge.
THE FEELIEG IN RICHMOND.
The HerGlGs Washington special says:
Mr.. Blair ascertained in Richmond that
the majority there have bitter feeling
against France and England and prefer q
Union with the United States; and that it
is only those who have been benefited by
blockade running and illigitimste trade
with Europe who have any desre to form
an alliance with France. The majority
are in favor of uniting with the North, and
this desire was manifested by the soldiers
cheering when they saw the Peace Com
missioners pass through. 1t is certain that
q large majority prefer reunion, provided
they can have it without too degrading
terms, and can be assured that the radical
measures of confscatiOn, &c, will not be
rigidly enforced. The precise nature
of the propositions brought by Stephens
and his associates have not transpired, bui
the fact must be borne in mind that the
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NEW YORK, Feb. 4.
BY the steamer Fulton we have Savannah
dates of the 3Ist.
The Savannah Herald says Colonel Julian
Allen arrived there on the 30th. He met
with a cordial reception, and the aid do
mated by various Northern citizens was re-
ceived with the deepest thankfulness. Also,
the provisions, the distribution of which
was continued amid enthusiastic demon
strasiOns of joy.
There is no late news from General sher-
man.
The Mayor Of Savannah has issued an
appeal in behalf of the sufferers by the
late fire.
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FROMTHE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC
HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF PoToMAC, !
February 2. 7

February 2.
All the hospitals in the field were cleared
to-day, the inmates being sent TO City
Point to the General Hospital, where they
can receive more care and be in better
quarters. This change, no doubt, gave rise
to the various rumOrs of an intended for
ward movement.
Deserters who came in to-day report the
return to the front of the troops recently
sent to North Carolina to meet Union
force said to be marching on Weldon.
The rebels in front of Petersburg have
been very jubilsnt for day or two, in
dulging in frequent cheering, but on what
account is not known here.
Colonel Ruggles, one of the oldest off
GERS in the army, has been assigned to duty
as Assistant Adjutant General at these
hesd0uarters
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FKOsI NEW YORK.

NEW YORK, Feb. 4.
The Post says there are rumOrs that the
forces of Juarez have achieved victory
over the Impsrialists in Southern Mexico,
and have captured an important city. No
particulars are given.
These rumors have the countenance of
the Mexican Minister at Washington.
The Posts Washington special says that
Mr.. Seward declares without reserve that
the peace negotiations were total failure.
There are indications that peace will speed
lily be won by war. Decisive news is ex-
pected from Sherman early next week.
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FROM ST. LOUIS,

ST. Louis, Feb. 4.
Maior-General John Pope arrived here
last night. It is stated that the North
west ern Department is to be added to the
Department of Missouri and Kansas, and
that this military department is to be COM
manded by Pope.
General Curtis is 10 be transferred to the
North, headquarters to be at st. Paul.
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GOLD MARKET.

NEW YORK, Feb. 4.
The Gold Market on receipt of the news
Of the return of the President and secreta-
ry Seward became stronger, with an up
ward tendency. Opening at 210, it fell to
2O9, but under the news it advanced
to 2I3L.
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ONE.RUNDRrD GUNS.

NEW YORK, Feb. 4.
One hundred guns were fred in the City
Hall Park to-day in honor of the rstifcs-
tion of the Constitutional Amendment by
the State Legislature.
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DAILY LEADER
Reported Breaking Up of n Rebel hi
vision.
tHUTi

Exported BFeHAAuE U p OF n AeneA Bl-
vision.
.Fds5 fse.f A correspondent OF the Missouri Dem
-,s oerat, writing from Paducsh, says:
A rebel deserter. who has Just come in,
-td7..tAl reports that the rebel General Chalmers,
sod ss commanding division, made a speech at
l..s Corinth in the early part of this month,
rts after the defeat and disastrous retreat of
tsrsss4 Hood in which he stated that he had been
sls 's seld out by Hood, who retrested across the
Tennessee without giving him notice and
without orders, while at Corinth. Hood
left orders for him (Chslmers) to assume
command, but he thought the bottom had
lslen out of the Confederacy, and that
inst command, Hood aud all, might go to
the devil He was going TO quit and see if
FggFi be could save any thing of his property out
x of the wreck. He gave his men to under
saH -a stsnd they might do as they pleased in
i FfIs the premises.
Faa ass Z HehAd no more to do with them. Ihave
81 tsila. had conversation with an officer in the
United Ststes service; who is intimate
.ass personal friend of Brigadier General Nor
tVE4 : row, of the rebel army, and says that Nor
row has lately sent him message in which,
90 tIe among other things he states that he has
- lost sll faith in the leaders of the rebellion,
L. and thinks the time has come for all TO re-
's' q 90 cover their senses. He has found mis- and
-H as5t wants, if possible to surrender himself to
the nearest Union commander, and wished
~ h1a information as to what terms would be
s''t1 granted q Confederate officer Of his rank
sssH Who Voluntarily returned TO his sleglau &C.
General Morrow was in the vicinity o
05n' bs1a s1e s%sS so ~ @ sSsIa S0 %a
row has mado such proposition.
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ARTILLERY HORSES.

r WILL PURCHASE ARTILLERY
Il HoTGsH in open market until further notice, At
One Hundred and siEty-five ($lt5) per Head IN
Vouchers, to conform strictly to the following spe-
ci6cstiOnB:
Artillery Horses must be Of dark oolOrs, sound
In all particulars, strong, quicE and active, well
broken and square tTOtters in harness in good
fsGh and condition, from six (6) 10 Ten (lO) year.
old not less than Fifteen and OBe-half 51) handi
higE each horse 70 weigh not LEES than ten hun.
drsd and Say q .050) pounds.
By order Of Csl. jas, y. EKiE, On. Div Q. N.
Department, BASIL L. BPANGLER,
janz3:ls9 Ceptsia and Asst Q NJ.
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BLACK Laws REPEALED.

CHICAGO, FeO. 4
The bill repeating the Black Laws
passed the House to-day. 1t had previous
ly passed the Senate.
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placed on the ground that none of them
were in a condition to vote on the 9Th of
November last. -
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rs. RORn RALEs.

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 4.
The ssIos of 2 ans yAstardav hv .Iay Cooke
the subscription agent were over three mil
lioua
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nHY5TCTANS PREsORTPTTONs.

u The dispensAtion Of Physicians Prescriptions
always receives ct our hands that care and alten-
tion Nhieh their importance demands, and none
bnt articles Of most uneKosptionable quality are
used in their preparation.
/ Physicians v no coDGde their Prescriptions to
our care, are assuf Cd that cur prices are always
reasonable. CHURCHILL 4 BROTHER,
jan3T No. l26 Ontario street.
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The eastern bound express on the Central
Ohio Road ran off the track near Newark
this morning, throwing the cars down an
emban zment. No one seriously injured.
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UTIsHARTSPINET ETREE CORDIAL
w For sale at 128 Ontario street.
iHns CHURCHILL BR0THER.
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Saturday Nights Report.
GENERAL EXCHANGE OF PRISON.
ERS. .
Wysn1xoroE, Feb. 4.

It is said that the President and Mr..
Seward have agreed to a general exchange
of prisoners, which will forthwith take
place
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sbs.2O1
MARKEp DOWN.

We shall clote the balance of cur Cloak S ok re-
rardI.ss Of cost to make room foF Spring Goods.
J. h. DEWITT & CO.,
febs 7end II Public Square.