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DAILY„ J)IS PATCH,
VOL. XXVII. RICHMOND. VA., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1,1864. NO. 131.
Senate bill to exempt cargoes of ves
sels owned by the States of the Confede
- racy from existing restrictions upon ex
ports and imparts was postponed till to
day.
Senate bill declaring that the value of
i tli*- tithe deliverable to Government shall,
in case of disagreement betw«-*en tin
owner r.tnl as-tesaor, be decided by \ i<* 1
nsge appraisement, was taken up, ami,
alter discussion, passed.
Slum- lulls and resolutions from the
(louse were appropriately referred, and
the Si nate resolved into Becret session.
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IIUL'SE of REPRESENTATIVES.
Ti..* House was opened with prayer
t h\ Rev. l»r Burrows.
The Speaker announced the following
, 1 pecial * ommittei -
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tor* 1: I■-• ■ 1 t the levers' State
1 ition of Mr. Sttplos ol
. 1 \i - : - X ,ol Virgini i; W 1. Smith,
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Mr. Staples desired not to be ap
{-ointed on tlie committee
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i. ,- . f Florida M I all im, t le-.:.-
Mr. Farrow, uf South Carolina, intro
l a resolution lint the House reso
m calling for the ages of the clerks
ia the several departments and bureaux
of the Government had no reference to
the female • leri s. Adopted.
Mr. t'oote continued bis remarks on
the Monroe docti me; and his resolutions
on the - uhjei t wi re refei ied t <» the * 'om
mil L< •• on Kon it-n All lirs.
Mi Foote ottered a joinl resolution
that Congress has no power to emanci
pate slaves. Referred to the Judiciary
• 'onimii lee.
Also, a resolution that the passport
•'a incompatible with Republican
institutions, and ought to he abolished.
Refened.
Mr. r'oote olh-red :t series of resolu
tions deprecatory of separate State v.r
j ti »n for peace, hut temlini: to peace.
Mr. Poote stated that his object was
to arm the Government with additional
power iti the prosecution of the war.
Mr. Clark, of Missouri, moved to strike
ntit I'll after the word resolved, and substi
tute a series of resolutions declaring that
the Confederacy would never listen to
propositions ol peace unless every foot
of its territory was surrendered hy the
i'ankeo • Jovernment.
Pending the consideration of the res i
lutions, the House went into secret ses
sion. Adjourned.
LATER FROM THE NORTH.
New Yoik papers ol Monday, the 2Hth
instant, are received. <..>H, on that
ilny, was quoted at 'I'll 1-2—a rise ol
six dollars on account (according to the
Tribune) of the doubt felt about Sher
man's safety.
UEVEKAI HOOD'S MOVEMENTS IN TENN --
\ BATTLE Willi THOMAS EXI'ECTEU.
The most important news by this mail
is that relative to General Hood's move
ments. The Herald contains a special tel
egram from Nashville, of the 27th, which
reports smart skirmishing between the
Forci ..I Generals Thomas and Hood, for
the past few days, between Pulaski and
Columbia, Tennessee; and that the Yan
kee army has fallen back north of Duck
river. Forrest has also crossed the
river, and is essaying to strike its flank
and rear. Hood's main army is thought
to be moving northeastward, towards
Shelbyvillo and Wartrace. A telegram
from Louisville, dated the 'l'>\}%, says that
rumors prevailed there that Hood's army,
about thirty thousand strong —one third
cavalry, and ten batteries ol artillery, in
cluding reinforcements from Forrest ami
Ihck Taylor -was marching on Pulaski
on Wednesday. It was thought Hood
woul 1 either fight at Columbia, or, leav
ing I ilumhia, march into East Tennessee
ami join his forces to those of Breckin
ridge. A letter, dated Nashville, the
'_'!-(. gives the New York Times the fol
lowing intelligence relative to the posi
ti ins the two armies occupied at that ]
The bulk of our army is at Pulaski, on ,
the Decatur and Nashville railroad, in
splendid condition; the men being well
fed and well clothed, with money in ■"
their pockets. '1 h,e new troops aredis- i
ttibuted judiciously, and put through a ,
vigorous system <d drill three times a
day. Pulaski is a very pretty town, near
the Alabama State line, between sixty
and seventy miles south from Nashville.
General Stanley commands the Fourth
corps and General Cox the Twenty-third
corps. Both are excellent officers. The
whole are under the c immand of Gene
ral Schotield in the field, whose head
quarters ate at Spring Hill, a small place
between Franklin and Columbia Gene
ral Schotield is greatly beloved as an «.!- ;
ftcei and a man. General Thomas is still
in thi-. eitv, with head«piarters at the St.
Cloud Hotel.
1 think there will something lively '
1 transpire in less than a mouth in this de
partment, even if the movements of Beau
regard tin ii'-t necessitate Mime such event
before. As'fong as the latter named of
ficer remains at Corinth, with his army
hovering about Florence, little notice will
be taken of him.
The last mini inatiou 1 gave you con
cerning the whereabouts Of the rebel
Army of Tennessee found B«**uregard
quietly located at the mansion ol Dr.
Stout, of Corinth, with Stewart's corps,
consisting of about 10,000 men, there
and thereabouts. I have reason to bc
hi.iyhat just the same state of things
exists to day in that quarter of the Con
federacy. Most of S. 1). Lee's corps at ,
that UiH« was at Jackson, the terminus
of the railroad. Frank Cheatham's corps
•was at Florence, where also was Hood, ]
the general commanding in the lield. The
following changes have taken place, it is i
believed : That Stephen D. Lee has re
ninc<l - his entire corps from Jackson to
Smith Florence, and that Frank Cheat
ham has crossed the river with his corps.
and made headquarters at Waynesboro',
f a -mail town situated on or near Greene's
creek, a branch of Duck river, and about
• half way between Columbia, Tennessee,
and Florence, Alabama. Forrest is in
command of all the cavalry, which i.s
strone; and in good trim, and holds uu
• disputed possession of the entire coun
[ try within a radius of thirty miles of
Florence.
rROII SHF.BXAN —IIF. Kr'Sil I*-". SOME IM AOI
NART PRfSOHEaS.
The Northern papers have not a word
yet from .Sherman, not copied from the
Richmond papers, except a sensation re
port brought by a steamer which arrived
at Annapolis, Marylanl, on Sunday,
with 1,246 Yankee prisoners, from Sa
vannah. The report claims that Sher
man has probably rescued some prison
er-; at Milieu (which have not been there
for three weeks), and thus stopped the
exchange. The following is the state
ment :
The captain of the Hiram Livingston
reports that, when he left Savannah on
Friday last, the 25th instant, the ex
change had ceased, the rebels being un
able to furnish any more prisoners, as
Genera] Sherman had cut off tho rail
roads leading to Savannah. it was
thought that General Sherman had
reai bed and probably rescued all the
balance of our**prisoners, as a portion of
his forces were only about a six hours'
march from the stockades of Millen,
Georgia, when the men who arrived in
the Hiram Livingston left there for Sa
vannah to in- exchangi d.
'i he n bels, however, were making an
■ fr.vrt to get our prisoners off to Florida •
with what success was not known. The
number of prisoners at Millen was said
to I** about twenty thousand, whither
they had been removed from Anderson
ville. a, a place of more security trom
cavalry raids by General Sheiman.
The .New York Herald swallows this
promptly, and says :
Thi- i-* one of the great triumphs of
Sherman's brilliant movement.
THE CASE OF THE FLORIDA — Till* VANKKES
SINK THE SHIP.
A telegram from Washington says that i
the Yankees have determined to surren
der the Florida to the Brazilian Govern
ment, rind wltSs :
The eleven officers of tlie pirate Flo
rida, taken from the Old Capitol prison
several days since ami sent to General
Barnes, at Point Lookout, have been for
warded by that officer to Hear Admiral
I). L). Porter, commanding the North At
lantic blockading squadron, who has been
directed that they lie turned over to
Captain Collins, of the Wachusett, which
vessel is now lying in Hampton Koads.
It is understood here that Commander
Napoleon Collins, the captor of the rebel
pirate Florida, has been ordered to return
to Bahia, Brazil, with his quasi prize, her
officers and crew.
The decision of Mr. Seward has been
fully canvassed in Cabinet council, and
is believed to bo opposed by Mr. Rates,
he deeming tin apology to Brazil for the
seizure as ample reparation. As it is, the
case t* ill be put at rest at once by a Bra
zilian legal decision. This course-of our
State Department gains friends.
The friends of Commander Collins
say that he is much mortified at the re
sult of hU exploit, and mail.tain that he ,
will resign if ordered to take the Florida
bark. He will have to return with her
as a witness in the case, which will be a
very great humiliation to him and his
officers.
Of course, the decision was never in
tended to be carried out, as the following
telegram will show :
Fort Monroe, November •J-**.
li'an. Gidton Welles,
Secretary of the Navy:
I have just received a telegram from
the commander of the prize steamer
Florida, informing me that she had sunk
in nine fathoms water. She had been
mo into by an army steamer and badly
damaged. 1 have not heard the particu
lars. Will inform the Department when
1 v. .!\ c tic- written report.
[Signed] David D. Porter,
Hear Admiral.
AN ENGLISH PEACE ADDRESS DECLINED j
BY SEWARD.
The English peace address, with three I
hundred and fifty thousand signatures,
asking Lincoln to suspend hostilities,
was carried to Washington by Mr. Jo
seph Parker, of Manchester, England, on
Saturda**. He wrote v note to Seward
asking permission to present it to Lin
coln :
To this the Secretary replied that,
before answering the letter, it was desi
rable to be further informed whether Mr.
Parker had authority from the Govern
ment of Great Britain and Ireland for
i!i" purpose referred to, and whether his
mission had been made known to the di
plomatic agent of that Government near
the Government of the I nited States.—
Mr. Parker replied by Baying that the
address he had the honor of bringing to
thU country, containing the signatures of
some three hundred and fifty thousand
of his countrymen, from th * peer to the
artisan, was not from the Government of
Great Britain, nor from any political
party, lt was simply an expression of
the earnest desire of Great Britain to set
peace restored again to this continent. —
The correspondence closed by a note
from the Secretary ot State, in which he
said the Government of the United States
could not. receive the address, and that
the request for an interview with the
President was therefore declined. The
intention now is to present the address
to Congress at the approaching session.
Till: FIRES IN NHW rOK** —OBOEB Ot OBWB
h.\i. nix —kxcii<:mknt in. w.vshisoton.
The hotel lires in New York constitute
the reigning excitement in Vankeedom
now. General Dix has issued the follow
ing order:
The evidence of extensive combination
and other facts, disclosed to-day, show
it to have been the work of rebel emis
saries and agents. All such persons en
gaged in secret acts of hostility here can
only be regarded as spies, subject to
martial law and to the penalty of death.
If the}* are detected they will be imme
diately brought before a court-martial or
military commission ; and if convicted,
they will be executed without the delay
of a single day.
A Washington telegram says :
In addition to the regular guards em
ployed about the public buildings, com
missaries' depots, etc , in this vicinity, the
War Department Rifles have been on duty
since list evening, in consequence of in
formation received by the Government of
an incendiary plot similar to that at
tempted to be carried out in New York
on Friday evening. The guards at all
the public buildings have been doubled,
and a strict watch is kept at the hotels
and other public places, to guard against
any attempt that may he made to execute
the diabolical, plans to accomplish, by
sneaking incendiary operations, what the
rebels have failed to do by legitimate
warfare. Considerable excitement was
occasioned, about 10 o'clock last night,
by the proclamation, at all the places of
public amusement, of an order from the
War Department requiring all the em
ployees of that department to repair
forthwith to their post*. The summons
was intended to have them assemble for
guard duty. The Treasury Guards are
to relieve the War Department Rifles, and
incendiaries will have a small chance
for successful operations here.
an hoik wiru mosbt.
A latter frotn the Valley, in the New
York Herald, gives the following ac
count of a little "guerrilla" experience,
as the Yankees call it, which may be
found almost any day in the Valley :
Captain Brewster, commissary of the
First brigade of the Fir-t cavalry divi
sion, lately captured by Mosby's men,
has returned, having escaped both death
and imprisonment He and tour others
were captured while on their way from
Winchester to army headquarters. A<
they were pa -.sine- along the turnpike, in
the vicinity of numerous others who
were bound in other directions, they were
accosted by a party, about ten in num
ber, which they met, dressed in light blue
overcoats, and whom they supposed to
be our own men, and ordered to surren
der. The order being accompanied with
presented revolvers, they thought it pru
dent to comply with it. This occurred
about midday, in the vicinity of New
town, from whence they marched in tin
direction of Ashby's gap, and before
night met the "Colonel," as Mosby is
styled by his men. They crossed the
Shenandoah and passed through the gap
to Paris, where they spent the night, am 1 ,
remained the whole of the next day and
ni-zht.
< hi the next day < Sunday i they marched
to Rectortown* on the line of the Ma
nassas Qap railroad, where Mosby, find
ing he had some of Custer's men, kindly
informed them that he had an account to
adjust with Custer, and that they must
draw lots to sec who the seven were
out of the whole number (twenty-nine)
who should he hanged io retaliation for
seven of his men who had been hanged
a short tim<> previously by Custer's or
ders. The ballots were prepared, seven
having numbers on them, and the rest
being blanks. Five of tire numbers were
drawn on the lirst trial ; but one was
drawn by a drummer boy, who was re
leased because he was not a hearer of
arms. (>ne or two more tr.als were made,
the Captain each time escaping with a
blank. Lieutenant Disoway, of the Fifth
New York heavy artillery, drew a num
ber, but was released, and one of Cus
ter's men substituted for him. This was
the last seen of the victims by their com
rades, who were marched, under a light
guard, to Sperryville, where the Captain
contrived to make his escape, and, under
various disguises, returned to General
Sheridan's headquarters in safety. Four
were killed and three escaped, one of the
latter being Captain Brewster's orderly.
(in Si I ty, there was an assembly of
Mosb\ n mand at Rectortown. They
were a tit. looking set of fellows, well
dressed, and m"st of them commissioned
officers of the rebel army, who prefer the
romantic life of marauders to that of
civilized warfare iv the field. Some <-:
them were well mounted, well dressed,
and a majority of them were provided
«*th L'nron overcoats. They were nearly
all of them apparently highly "intelligent
and well-educated men, armed with sa
bres and revolvers, very few having car
bines. They seemed well discipline-!, and
exhibited the utmost confidence in the
Colonel. The Captain was informed that
it was decided at the assembly to go down
and pitch into the Eighth Illinois.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Confederate General Hindman,
with his wife, staff, and body-guard,
crossed the Mississippi river at Catfish
point, some days ago, m route for Ar
kansas. He had a heavy box of specie
with him.
The double ender gunboat Taeony
went ashore off Cape Hatteras, North
Carolina, a fuw days ago, and had not
been released from her perilous position
when last heard from.
Tho Louisville Ih tnocrat says that the
Lieutenant-Governor of Kentucky, K. T.
Jacobs, who was recently ordered
throhgh the Confederate lines by the mili
tary authorities of that State, is now at
GallipoUs, Ohio. The rebel authorities
refused to receive the exile, saying that
•' tjiey do not intend to let President Lin
coln wake a Botany Bay of the South."
A girl of sixteen, convicted in St.
Louis ot repeated violations of the oath
of allegiance, of carrying contrabrand
articles across our lines, and of being a
rebel spy, has had her -sentence, which
was death, commuted by Genera] Rose
crans to imprisonment during the war.
Butler's dispatchboat Greyhound,
while going down .lames river on Sun
day, caught fire and was destroyed.—
General Butler and stall', with Rear Ad
miral Porter, were on board, but all es
caped safely.
171 B. COOK, Ait"iioNi:F.u, No. To-Main
j ttrt-at, reaßßirrfnUy uotifiea hia fricnia that
he w.U cruatinua the AUCTION BUSINESS at the
s.une sUiul, No 71* Mam stuct. Ho -norm-.- that
while- .111 thi) ftal4" the- iiiti-n-nt Of ttioae !..
voi'iiii* hmi vita a*a*a*i**a*B>S shall !*■ us pi-.iiri'iti-* ht
tc-liileil to .l- if ho Were present. Ho will (live tjs
■atraiiniil *rll*—itt***rl to —tie* as far is cuuipauhlo atUi
Li" jirv*i*iit dutiu*.
uo Iti-lui li. B. OOOK,
How TnE Tahkbi Governme-ti tueat-
ED OlfK PRISONERS IN THF. 0«0 PESlTEN
ttabt. —One of our returned prisoners,
who had been confined for a time in the
Ohio penitentiary, brings the following
copy of the "rules and regulations" that
were observed by the Federal authorities
towards our men who were confined
there :
Notice —The following rules and re
gulations will be observe.l in the treat
ment of the rebel prisoners of war con
fined in this prison :
I. Roll Call.— The roll will be called
daily, as follows :
1. After unlocking in the morning.
2. After breakfast.
8. Before dinner.
4. Before locking up.
Prisoners will present themselves at
roll call promptly, in proper order find
without unavoidable noise. No excuse
for absence will be valid, except confine
ment in the dungeon or ti..- hospital.
11. Locking Up. — \t the proper sig
nal, each prisoner will t ••:- -toil in
the door of his cell, wl ;■ will re
main until tlie guard ■*.. ks him up
arrives, to whom, if requested, be will
give his name in a pr..p. t manm r, then
go in and close his door for !■•■ ' "._'.
HI. Lights. —No lights will Ir*- in any
cell after the proper hour, except by or
der of the warden. No talking or noise
allowed after the convicts ar.- l<>ckcd up,
and no prisoner will sleep with his face
covered.
IV. Cond'ict. —Prisoners are stricfly
forhidden to indulge in certain privileges,
described as follows :
1. Togo into each other's rolls.
2. To make avoidable noise, either in
talking or otherwise.
'.'>. To play at disallowed games
•4. To converse in the dining-room.
5. To converse with ronvic'S, on any
pretext, or (or any purpose.
G. To converse with guards, except
briefly in making known thcii necessarj
wants.
7. To he insolent or insulting in the
use of language.
8. To absent themselves at roll rail.
;». To crowd upon the surgeon, stew
ard, or other person, while transacting
business.
10. To order the funds for their v c
to he placed in the hands of any one ex
cept ilic authorized agent.
11. To transact any kind of business
with any person, or to receive anything
without permission from the warden.
V. Correspondence.. —No person will
In- permitted to write more than tico let
ters in any week. No letter to be of
more than one page of common Setter
paper in length; to be without interlining
or cross lining. To tie addressed to a
near relative, of ; » strictly private nature,
and subscribed by tlie writer's name in
lull. Others, except, written by the per
mission of the warden, will be destroyed.
VI. Special. —The warden may, from
time to time, permit one cope of a news
paper extract or telegram to be given
tv prisoners, which, after examination,
will be returned by the guard to the
olGce. A failure to make return to the
guard by the prisoner will involve tho
withdrawal of tins order.
VII. Guards. — Al! g'lards and other
persons, except those assigned or per
milted hy the. warden to attend to this
special duty, are forbidden to hold any
intercourse with the prisoners..if war, or
to intrude upon the quarter of the prison
iti which they are confined. The -ruard
in charge will report all persons viol iting
this rule.
VIII. The furnishing <>f supplies to
prisoners ot war, "by gift or purchase,
having been forbidden by the Hon. Se
cretary of War, n.ne such will be deli
vered until further orders.
Natiianiei. Mekion, Warden.
Office Ohio Penitentiary, Columbus, No
vcn.bcr 12, ISOt. '
All letters t.ont to office on Mondays
and Fridays.
Mrs Ben/a mix F. Butler.--A letter
in the Providence (Rhode Island* Jour
mil gives some account of the wife o!
Beast Butler. It-ays:
"Some eighteen or twenty years ago a
young actress, a Miss Hildreth, played
,for several evenings at the D«T*rrani*e-
Street Theatre, iv providence. I bap j
pened t«* see her in the tragedy of Jan.- j
Shore. Her part was a secondiurt on** -j
that of the friend and confidant 01 Ed
ward's beautiful favorite; hut her con
ception of the cbaractei surprised me by
its originality and its impressive truth
fulness. I felt that she had great dra
matic talent, and often wondered that
her name had so entirely disappeared
from the stage. In the spring of 1840,
while visiting a friend in Lowell, I found
one morning, on returning from a walk,
m card from Mrs. Benjamin Bntier,
with an invitation to take tea with hei
the following evening. 1 went with my
host ai'a hostess ; no other '*uc**t *w< re
invited. The name ot Mrs. Benjamin
Bnth-r had tor me at that time no
other significance* than might ha\e
had the name of Mrs. John Smith. —
On our way to the house, mv host, a
Webster Whig, spoke of Mr. Butler not
too flatteringly as a successful lawyer,
smart but unscrupulous, ready to take
up the worst cases, and noted ior always
carrying his clients through. On enter
ing the parlors, 1 wa- surpi i«ed to tind in
the charming and graceful fcady who re
ceived us the- dramatic friend and con
lidaut of dane Shore, whose talent had
so impressed me at the !>■ trance Stiert
Theatre. Mrs. Butler was a young la ily
of Dracutt, who, fascinated by the stage,
and conscious of dramatic power, had
•obtained an engagement at one of the
Boston theatres, and who was for about
two years earnestly devoted to her pro
lessioii, when Mr. Benjamin Butler prof
fered h:s heart and band, and won her
ba-d* to domestic life. 1 found that she
still loved the art, and prevailed on her
to read to me some ol her favorite pas
sages in Shakspeare. She read, 1 re
member, the prison seem- in.'Measure
for Measure'with a passionate patho:-*
that made me half regret that the ' smart
Lowell lawyer' had won her away from
Melpomene and ail her tragic glooms nod
.- plendors."
Lincoln's Tvk.\N4,v. —The Catholic
Bishop of Liverpool i Ktiglaiul), m a re
cent address, delivered there, said :
"Think you the imperialism _«1
Russia is more tyrannical, oi that it
= : ' f : ■ ■ ' ... _ ._. . , -- — ———»———.
crushes more people than Abraham Lin
e hi, who is the representative of a Lib
* al Government in the Republic acrosa
the ocean? No; there is no tyranny
more terrible than that which hears the
banner of liberty—that banner which
crushes the liberty of others whilst it
raises up itself, which brings itself into
fame; because it has trodden down
almost everything else that may be near
it.''
A i ANKcr. Ezpcnmo**j into Gri**t-
BRIER.—On the Uth instant. Captain
Ramsey, a lory marauder, with forty-two
men, nude a raid into Greenbrier county,
Virginia, and captured about sixty horses
belonging to the Confederacy, and ten
men, guarding them. They were pur
sued by Lieutenant Aulsted. with fifteen
men. who rescued our prisoner*, recap
tured all the horses but eighteen, (fifty
or sixty having been captured,) took
seven of Ramsey's men prisoners, got
nineteen fine guns, and drove the rest of
them out of the county. It i-* said four
of them were killed near Meadow Bhiff
by Captain Snyder's men.
Tkaoedt is MiisusipPL—A frightful
tragedy was enacted on Monday last
near Tibbee, the particulars of which we
learn from a gentleman who resides in
that vicinity. The perpetrator of the
foul deed was a man by the name of
Rob.-rt Wingfield. For t*ome time be
has been trying 'oget a divorce from his
wife, in order to marry again, but failed ;
and at the time qf the deed was living
separate from her. tin Monday Isst he
hired a negro boy to go to his wif.t's
house and murder her. The boy went
to the house, and calling Mr*. Wingfield
to the door, first chocked her down and
then drew a knife and inflicted many
frightful {-ashes upon her head and
throat; after which he fled, thinking her
dead The news having spread through
the country-Mrs. Wingfield recovering
sufficiently to give information -a search
was made for the negro by the neigh
bors. During the search, suspicion rest
ing on Wingfield, his house was visited,
where he was found in company with a
young man who was living with him. —
During the conversation with the party
he betrayed signs of guilt, and. after
their * depasture, he remarked to the
young man that he would have to hill
the negro (who was then under his
bouset to save himself fn m trouble.—
Accordingly, the next morning he took
the negro out and shot him with two
loads of buckshot—one through the
heart and the other through the head.
He was present at the inquest next morn
ing, stated that it. was the negro who hail
attempted the killing of his wife, and
that he had caught and killed him. He
was then- arrested ; and the above facts
hrou*~ht forward, in the trial duly con
d icted by the citizens, he paid the pen
alty of his crime on a tree near by.—
Wingfield has long been regarded n bad
man. and has been several limes impli
cated in deeds almost as dark and terri
ble as this one, but has heretofore es
caped his doom His wife, though still
alive, is in a dreadful condition. Rut
little hope is entertained of her recovery.
She is represented to us as a good wo
nt :m.— Columbus Southern Republican.
Governor Watt;*, of Alabama!— The
topic*** of Governor Watts'-* message to
the Alabama Legislature are: —The
finances, ait, cotton card*, the university,
the pay of quartermaster-general and
public printers, lines for crimes and mis
demeanors, the militia, soldiers' families,
the meeting of Governors at Augusta,
and convention of States. Tl»e Mont
gomery Advertiser says:
•• The people of the State will be glad
to read trie explicit denial of their Go
vernor that he was privy to, or favored
the resolution of the Governors which
has been construed as looking to the pn
li. yof arming slaves. He is only in fa
vor of using the slaves its laborers in the
various departments of the army in
which they can In-employed to advan
tage, and is opposed to freeing them on
any account His objections to the pro
4-tosed convention of States, both en the
grounds of principle and impracticability,
am conclusive, and, since the re-electioii
of Lincoln, has closed the door to all ne
gotiation, except <>n terms of the basest
sohfni 'sion, we hope the agitation of this
question will not be revived, ai hast un
til events arc more propitious of a favor
able result."
. i—
Not Healthy for MassAcn •nTT* Me*"".
The Springfield (Massachusetts) Repub
lican -lives two cases of the fatality of
the Missouri climate to New England
squattei -
" It is reported that Rev. Joshua Bou
cher, formerly of this county, who re
moved to Missouri last spring, was killed,
a few «i tvs ago, by guerrillas. Some
rebels seized him ami ordered him to take
the oath of allegiance, which he declined,
no doubt very decidedly, when they shot
him. Mr. Boucher was one of the ori
sginal Liberty patty men of Ohio—one of
the old anti-slavery vanguard.
"A Mr. Ellsworth, who, several years
ago, removed from near Catawba to Mi
souri, was, a short time since, killed by
a band ot guerrillas, who demanded bis
best lorse, and, after being saddled and
bridled and delivered into their hand-,
turned as they were about to start and
shot him through the head, instantly
killing him. Mrs. Ellsworth has returned
to her friendjS, and relates the * ; ad story.'
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LOCAL MATTERS.
K.vTAL Locomotivi EXPLO-IIOV —Thtf
engine •*E. Fontaine," running on the
Central railroad, exploded about half-past
nine o'clock on vest, Hay morning at
W ickham's turnout, in Hanover county,
killing instantly James, Ramsey, the en
■■ inter, and seriously injurinj* a negro
hoy who was in the act of getting on the
train. The explosion wa«* of the most
violent character, rauai***** a report wbah
was beard for miles around and -.alter
nig fragments of the boiler In every di
rection. The bell wm thrown to a dish
tance of a quarter of a mile The de
ceased engineer's body was brought to
this city on yesterday afternoon, and pre
sented ■ ghastly --p-1 iaele, with a parte*
his heart protruding from his breast and
bis bead crushed in He WSS unmar
ried, and originally hailed from Indiana,
though for a number of years back Le
has resided in the South.*
M.wor's Court —The following cases
occupied the Mayor's attention yesterday
morning :
Isaac, clave of Thomas Tavlor, charged
with stealing a horse, valued at $1,000,
the property nf David Boyd, wai re
minded for examination before the Hust
ings Court. The horse was stolen from
a stable, near the corner of Seventh and
Grace streets, on Sunday night. Watch
men Carter, Mix and Franklin, having
reason to suspect that he was krpt up in
an unoccupied stable on Cary street, op
posite tho old gas works, set a watch
upon the place, and about dark on Tues
day night detected Isaac coming out 01
the stable where the horse was. rpon
questioning the accused, he stated that
he had been employed to take care of
Boyd's horse by a negro unknown to
him ; but his story was not believed.
Louisa HoltZaple, a very pood looking
German woman, the proprietress off a
grocery store nesr the New Market, was
charged with having and receiving three
bushels of corn and three bushel-* of
wheat, stolen from some person un
known, she knowing the '*iu~ to have
been stolen. Jn her deft-nco, a witness
testified that, while bat-gaining with a
white man in her store on Saturday last
for some corn, a negro obtained tho con
sent of Mrs. Holtzaple to leave some ar
tides there until he could call lor them,
and he supposed that th:- Uags left there
hy this mgro contained the corn and
wheat in dispute. The Mayor admon
ished the accused to bo cautious Ln fu
ture how she permitted stiange negroes
to leave things in her care, and there
upon discharged her.
Owen Milldowner, white, was charged
with stealing three hundred dollar-*' worth
of iron, belonging to the Confederate Go
verniiinit. The iion was found upon
Milldowncr's premises and fully identi
fied by Government employee-*. Il«- wa-t
bailed to answer indictinent for . ,f
--fence before the Hustings Court I ltd
Jury in February next
Richard Murray, white, charged with
drunkenness, disorderly conduct in tfu
strcet, and resisting the «ivil officers in
the discharge ol their duties, was re
manded for indictment by Uie Grand Jury
of the Hustings Court.
Myer Schwartz, white, .barged with
using abusive and insulting language to
wards Mrs. Sarah Phillips, in the First
Market, and being generally disorderly
in the same place, was tin. d twenty-fir*
dollars and required to give security in
the sum ot three hundred dollai* for his
future good behavior.
Joseph Kirsh, a butcher in the First
Market, was fined ten dollars for offering
beef for sale without exhibiting at his
stall the hides and heads, as required by
ordinance.
Frederick Weinhul.it was fined fifty
dollars for selling a pair of shoo-i to a
negro -lave without obtaining tho per
mission ot the ou i.i r b> ti
Siiootino Apr air Two SOlditrs got
into a difficult*/ on Broad street about t»
o'clock yesterday afternoon, djruig win. h
one of them, W. A. Norton, a member
of Dabuey's battery, from this city, wat*
shot severely in the aim. The person
who shot him escaped arrest
DisTßiarrio'i or Sotrr —Th« soup
house, established foi tho c-rn-'it oi the
poor oi tho city, will ha opened for the
first time to day at 12 o'clock, in thoba,-'-*.
--ment oi Metropolitan Hall Wo havj
b en requested ta stito that tho soup will
be mad., from the fre 'host beef-shins, fur
nished from tin- Confederate vbit*ghtcr
house, and that it m ill be, in every par
ticular, clean, nutritious arid palatabio.
See notice in another column.
«aa*aw*a»—— ———a~*
diii- Manchester Aa-niLa-for, )
To the Editorofiht . khmond Dispatch:
I think it is very strange we cannot
get our pay. it has been nine months
since we have received any monoy * and
we are sadly in need of clothes. I know
that some of this company sleep on tho
cold ground without a blanket. Wo lost
our battery at Spotsylvania; and -.inco
then we have been continual**/ in the
field. Ido not knota what 1 would liavt
dene for clothes, had 1 not been near
home. There are a plenty of clothes iv
I'ichlTiond ; and 1 Would like to know
the reason why we do not get th. m. Wo
have been in all the battles; and WS in
tend to stay iv the army until wo drive
the enemy from our -••-if If wobad our
company offices* with us, wo would ges
what we wanted; but they arc in Un
hands of tlie enemy. Wo are now op
posite Fort Harrison. I will let yuii
hear from me when they come We are
in fine spirits and anxious to meet tho
enemy. — A Puivatf. in tub M -..ncU'.-.t*..;
AhriLIT.KY.
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