tiu tin. gag.
Terrible Steemloott Etplosion.
A terrible steamboat explosion °e
-1 tarred near Marietta, on the Ohio
(river, on Tuesday night. It ET
] pears_ that the steam tug "Advance"
' lhis coning up, having three barges
in tow, when one of het boilers eX
plik*i, _wading some eight or nine ;
of the hands, and blowing two of,
theta overboard. The boat caught 1 ,
*re' isitmedistell after the explosion,
and a terrible scene ensued. The
ere* saved themselves as best they
could, and ail, save the cook and fire
man, who are missing and supposed
to have perished, reached the shore.
The following is a list of the persons
injured : Capt. Stewart, one hand
badly burnt ; H. Meanor, mate, in
jured ; N. Klinefelter, pilot, injured;
Win. Ring, 2d engineer, injured ;
Thomas Bradley, watchman, slightly
hurt ; J. Irwin, deck-hand, badly
Scalded; S. Irwin, deck-hand, badly
Scalded; H. Craig, deck-hand, badly
scalded.; J. W. Long, deck-hand, bad
ly scalded. There were no persons
aboard the boat excepting the officers
and crew. The force of the explcs
sion was terrible. The larboard 'ooil
er Nevi thrown a distance of about
three hUndred feet, and fell on the
Ohio shore. After the .upper works
had been burnt, the hull sunk some
distance below where the disaster
occurred.. Captain Stewart was at
the wheel when_ the explosion took
place, and the boat was running at
the usual rate of speed. The cause
of . the I).xplosion is unknown, but is
attributed to a lack of water in the
boilers. The "Advance" was some
eight years old, and was owned by
Mr. Heigh, of this city. A tug boat
was dispatched to the scene of the
disaster last night, to secure the
barges and take charge of the wreck.
--Pittsburgh Chronicle.
f*o Rbbei blasts Phot.
A serious affair occurred at the
depot in J. etersbdrg, Virginia, on the
3let ink The regiment of Col.
Anderson, of Richmond, en route for
Norfolk, became very noiqy on reach
ing t i lte depot and intemperate, and
it was found that unless they were
pinked under strict orders, it would
be impossible to keep them under
any kind of control. Col. Anderson
therefore issued orders that none of
them should leave the cars; in case
;my one should disobey the order, he
1111lonld first be hailed, and should he
Teflon to hear the summons, he should
be shot. Soon after, John George,
belonging to Captain Gustavus Wal
bce's company, of Richmond, Virgi
'xis, was noticed by the Captain, just
as he was on the point of leaving
re
car, and warned that if he should
: to do so in disobedience of the
olonel's orders, he would certainly
shoot him. The man, who was
strongly under the influence of liquor
paused a, moment, but, after using
leery threatening and insulting lan
towards the Captain, advanced
hail placed one foot on the plat
/mei of the depot when Captain Wal
las* drew his pistol, and, true to his
word, shot him. The ball entered
George's forehead, just above the
Sight eye, and passed out at the back
ir his' head. He fell dead on the
=ldEhibsequently another soldier
Pied. Campbell, on leaving
Illos ears in violation of orders, was
*bet and mortally wounded.
Wad of the Rebels to Distribute ploth-
Ooroorau Not to be Given Up.
PALMADELPHIA, January 18.—Spe
duks to to-day's Tribune say that Sec
nutary Chase endorses the idea of
ing one hundred and fifty million
•Wsasary notes a legal tender, and
that prominent bankers endorse it.
The rebels have refused to distrib
ute the two thouianci suits of clothes
sent from the North to our prisoners,
to whom they have themselves di
nied every comfort, because - the pack
tips were not addressed to the Con
floderate States.
Colonel Pegram was allowed to go
Mouth on his parole, on condition
that he should return unless he could
secure the exchange of Col. Wilcox,
pr . of some other officer of equal rank.
,The exchange cannot be effected,
and Colonel Corenran will not be giv
en up in return Or Smith, the eon
vioted pirate.
The rebels insist that none of the
.officers who/v1 they bold as hostages
for the privateersmen shall be sur
rendered until rebels captured on
the high seas, like those taken on
land, are treated as prisoners of war..
AtmtwiTtien pfthe Direct Ts:.
_ .
Mr. Armstrongs's bill providing for
a difect tax. was called up in the
House on Wednesday. It assumes
the collection by the State of ttke di
ne* tax authorized by Congress, and
!Me' the purpose of paying and satisfy
*. , g the same to the Treasury of the
nited States, the G-overhoi• is an
lborized to release to the United I
WAN the whole or any part of the 1
*lin adds State against the United 1
ita•tou, and to pay any balance of
iota that may remain due after
amilk release, out of any moneys here
hplbre refunded to this State by the
Dated. States on account of expenses
iarearred by the State in enrolling,
raboisting, clothing and transporting
volunteers, &e. Kr. Williams offered
b.substitute for Mx. Armstrong's
ill, providing for the collection of
As amount assessed on the State,
the payment of the same into
'Preasury of the United States on
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the 13th of June next. It
00 eillipowers the Governor to "exe-
WO a Memo on behalf of the Corn
fwofilth and under its proper seal
St 4111041444 Or determined claim
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;ins with any dedaotion to
St be ate may found en
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VOW , a 'proper adjUe4l)lol4 the
Olt kr ' .1v with the tirOMihkee
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..made the special
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LATE NEWS FROM RICHMOND
( gn Old gentleomul, about sixty years
I of age, named Taylor, of Cincinnati,
Ohio, Ithti has beck for over Eix
months Confined in oil‘ of the tobacco
warehodses at Richmond, has arrived
at Fortreni Monroe. by the flag of
truce, having been released in ex
change for a rebel officer. He states
that he was visiting the house of a
friend in Fairfax county, two days
after the battle at Bull Run, for the
trlthsaction of some private business,
where he was detained by a sprained
ankle. He was not connected with
the army, was not at the battle of
Manassas, and considers himself to
have been very harshly and brutally
treated, both at the time of his ar
rest and since, considering his age
and physical infirmities. Mr. Taylor
left Richmond at five o'clock, a. m.,
and was accompanied by a detective,
who was instructed not to allow him
to carry any papers with him, or
hold any communication with others
on his way to Norfolk. He pre
sumes that there must have been
something in them, which it was
not desirable should cross the lines.
The panic in reference to General
Burnside's Expedi ' was very
()Teat at Norfolk a chmond, the
uncertainty of its estination and
magnitude of its proportions causing
general consternation. The reptirtS
from Hatteras represents it to be
much larger that it really is. The
inauguration of Jeff. Davis as perma
nent President is to take place at
Richmond on the 22d of February,
and it is said that he will immediate
ly thereafter take the field in per
son as commander of the forces at
Manassas. With regard to the steam
er Merrimac, with her incasement of
railroad iron, Mr. Taylor is of the
opinion that the report of the eon tra
band as to her efficiency is not relia
ble. As he came out of Norfolk he
saw a vessel in the stream, near the
Navy Yard, which he presumed was
the Merrimac, but he says that she is
regarded in Richmond as a failure.—
Her load of iron is said to he too
heavy, and that she would not ar
ewer her helm during a recent tril
trip. As she is intended to be us(
principally as a "ram," thisis regan
ed as a fatal defect. Her draught
water is also so great that she cal
not pass the obstructions that ha;
been placed in the Elizabeth liver
prevent the ingress of the Feder
vessels.
Rebel Views of Gen: McClellan.
Mr. Taylor says that whatever m;
be the estimate of the policy of Ge
McClellan in the loyal States, he
regarded by the rebels as pursuing
policy moss destructive to all the,
hopes and expectations. His "mat
terly inactivity" for so long a timt
which he has used to strengthen, or
ganize and equip his armies, they re
gard as a stroke of policy that indi
cates fearful results to themselves.—
They admit that time has weaken'
theri3, while it has strengthened him
and they look with fearful forebr
dings to the fact that the term of ei
listment of fully one half of tl
troops they have in the field expiry
before the 25th of February. Thf
regard his resistance of a demai
for a "forward movement," and
silent energy he has evinced,
marks of generalship of the high
order, and of a determination
work out his plan of operations
spite the complaints of those who
not comprehend his purposes.
Rebels Dispirited and Loyal Virginia
Since the defeat and death of Zo
licoffer, in Kentucky, the entrar
of Burnside into Pamlico Sound,
the news of the threatened posith
of Savannah, Mr. Taylor says th.
there has been a marked and undi,
puted feeling of despondency amok ,
the rebels at Richmond. Their
greatest fear rests on the probability
that railroad communication will be
interrupted by Gen. Burnside in
North Carolina, and by Gen. Buell in
Tennessee, which they admit will
'render them helpless, and break the
back of rebellion.
Up to witliin the past ten days
there has been an abundance of ex
cellent beef furnished to the prison
ers at Richmond, and good bread,
but lately the beef has been Of the
most inferior quality and very scarce.
The reason given for this is that the
roads were too bad to drive cattle,
and the railroads are occupied,with
the transportation of troops. Mr.
Taylor was assured that their troops
were faring badly, and that great
dissatisfaction prevailed on that ac-
Count.
, Whilst the Federal prisoners have
been badly accommodated, and have
Undoubtedly suffered very much,
Mr. Taylor states that their sufferings
have been nothing to compare to
those of one hundred and sixty loyal
Virginians who were still confined at
Richmond. They have been thrown
into jail without a hearing, and com
pelled to prove their innocence of the
charges against them. The charge
of disloyalty against them has shut
them out from all aid from their
friends, as any evidence of sympathy
with them brings suspicion on those
who may evince it. One old man,
nearly seventy years of age, both
blind and deaf, is said to be amongst
them.
The expedition of General Jackson
to Romney is said to have been with
out the sanction of his superior offi
cers, and has resulted ih great suffer
ing and loss of life to his Coniinand.
They were caught in the mountains
in a heavy snow storm, many were
frozen to death, others frost-bitten,
and all are rep:Sited to be in a deplor
able condition. A greater portion of
his force had returned to Winches
ter, broken down with the exposure,
fatigue and hardships they_had been
called upon to endure.'The with
drawid of the Federal &ices from
llomn'ey, on .lackson's approach, is
regarded in military _circles at Bich
ond 'shaving been another evidence
of Gen. MeClellan's military superi
ority.
( REBEL LOSS IN THE LATE BAT
TLS-Tina 'WNW OP HBOHIi.
RD A ND VIDISONNAN
Froth latest letters, ike., from Ken
tucky, It begins to be nianifest that
the loss of the rebels in the bloody
battle near Somerset WIN much more
severe than was reported in the
North. By their own admission, a
large number were drowned in at
tempting to cross over the Cumber
land the night after the battle, while
those left all along the route to Ten
nessee were also Very numerous.--
The panic among theta must have
been quite as bad as that of Bull Run,
and the effects may prove as disas
trous. The Louisville Journal says,
editorially, (although we do not at
all credit that part about pursuing
the fugitives twenty-five miles be
yond the Tennessee line) as follows :
"We glean a few items of interest
from our letters. Up to Saturday
last our troops had buried two hund
red and seventy-eight dead rebels on
this side of the river. Upon their re
treat they were followed, as far as
heard from, twenty-five miles over
the Tennessee line, and every day
they left numbers of those who had
died of their wounds on the route.—
They were found by the wayside
through Wayne comity, sometimes
three to six in a heap, covered with
blankets, and the entire road was
strewn with guns, wagons, and equip
ments abandoned. Nearly seven
hundred prisoners had been secured,
and the number will be largely in
creased. It is supposed that three
or four hundred Confederates were
drowned in the precipitate rush to
the steamboat and coal barges on
Sunday night."
On our first page we publish the
statement of a Tennessean partly
confirming the above, while a letter
to the Cincinnati Commercial, from
Columbia, furnishes further evidence
of disasters which we have not yet
FEED
1750. A large number were drowned
in crossing the Cumberland river, and
this is attested bg other persons seeing
their bodies below aria Spring in the
river. The flight of the rebels was
so precipitate, that no election was
held in Wayne county, on the 22d
inst., (the time fixed for electing reb
el Congressmen.) Shelby Coffey,
Sr., late member of the Legislature
from Wayne county, was wounded
in a skirmish a few days before the
battle, and is now lying dangerously,
if not fatally wounded at Dr. Long's
in Clinton county; the general opin
ion is, that he has "his rights" to his
heart's content. Ho was making up
a company of cavalry at the time he
was wounded. The rebels last from
six to ten a day, with sickness dur
ing their stay in Kentucky.
A large number of those who Were
in the fight said they were going
home to stay there, and none ofthem
would re-enlist •at the expiration of
their term of service—all, or nearly
all, of them being twelve months' re
cruits, their time will expire in Feb
ruary, March and April, 1862.
Quite a number of the leading seces
sionists left with them from Monti
cello, and other parts of Wayne coun
ty. They left, perhaps, one hun
dred troops in Wayne and Clinton,
who are, or have been, sick or wound
ed. Clinton and Wayne counties
are now clear of Confederate soldiers
who are able to do mischief, and
great is the rejoicing of the Union
men of those counties.
The Federal troops are crossing
the Cumberland, and itis to be hoped
that they will keep on to Knoxville.
A Tennesseean here, from Green
county, Tennessee, gives much in
formation of matters and things in
that locality. lie says that 10,000
East Tennesseeans are waiting for
the Federal army, to join it when
ever they can do so and get arms
for self defence.
thspid Tama
A resolution has passed the House
directing that a list be made oat of
the counties which have not paid
their State tax, and tthe amount due
by each. The - to *of Stute tax
duezow amounts to 400,000,whicb
it is at once proposed to eull
!A a !ft i 1 i
ANOTMEB Dirmizionn iso6iui-,-
("NOBODY TO BLAME " or onus.
It now appears that the govern
ment dispatch throwing discredit
on the-Irst reports which-reached us
I of the Burnside Rapedition, and eta
: ting that there was only one vessel
lost, was further wrong than the "ex
aggerated" repcnt which it was in
tended to amend. The person who
gave the facts to the Associated
Press, as telegraphed, reasserts, in a
long article pi yesterday's Times,
the truth of his original statement.—
' He mentions some facts which add
still another chapter to the disgrace
ful record of the war-management,
and which attest the frightful lack
of system, economy and common
sense with which everything seems
to be conducted. No wonder poor
Burnside, in the agony of his great
disappointment, should have cried
out, "the contractors have ruined
me." We quote as follows: The
city of New York, with 100 kegs of
gunpowder; 1,700 Enfield rifles, with
bomb's, &c., Was loSt through neglect,
and her captain and crew, in full
sight of the fleet, remained in the
frigging forty honrs, exposed to the
mercy of the elements. The Zouave
gunboat, armed with one 32-pound
Parrot gun, two Ward guns, rifled.
and another brass piece, and loaded
with troops, dragged her anchors,
stove a hole in her stern, and sunk.
The troops were saved, tnd so were
the guns. The vessel is lost. The
Grapeshot, bomb vessel, went down
at sea.
The Pocahontas, an old steamer,
was chartered for horses. The pilot
stated to the General on board the
Spaulding that her owner was utter
ly opposed to her going on the ex
pedition. The-pilot also stated that
the boilers leaked, and they drove
wooden. plugs in the boiler; that the
iron grates fell out; and she went
ashore because they had no sail
Pocahontas lost eighty-nine
rode Island battery horses, and
:teen staff officers horses. The bark
oltigeur,
with a portion of the
ileventh Connecticut, is hard ashore
ith five hundred troops. The Ad
iral, who carried General Burnside
id the Massachusetts Twenty
mirth, and which weresent ashore,
tuck on the "SwaSli lt three days, but
is now over.
The Steamer Northerner, the
headquarters of Gen. Reno, broke
her anchor, and was ashore three
days. The Eastern Queen we n t b an '
ashore The Louisiana. a largo pad
die-wheel steamer, .Iferaid corres
pondent says.) broke her hack. A
schooner went ashore Lear the light
house, with oats for horses, and went
to pieces. Another schooner Went
ashore with coal, and lost six men,
four of whom were buried by Col.
Stevenson, of the Twenty-Fourth
Massachusetts, and two by the Elev
enth Connecticut.
The ships purchased for the expe
dition never could have stood a storm
sea. Old freight boats from Pough-
Jepsie and Albany were fitted up as
gunboats, painted black to look for
midable; and two of them, the Lancer
and the Pioneer, carried five hundred
troops each. When in the trough of
the sea they rolled fearfully, and a
captain in the navy, who was on
board the Lancer, stated that in case
of a storm, nothing could prevent her
from bilging and going down.
The contractor who furnished the
water casks for the expedition has
committed an outrage upon our sol
'iers which should only entitle him
John Brown's fate. The casks
led to to put water in were old
Aiskey, kerosene and camphene bar
rels, furnished by the Union city of
Baltimore. The sufferings endured
from this source was terrible ; men
could not drink it, it was too nau
seous.
Another contrast. Ice would have
been a luxury to the - soldiers—it was
only $5 a ton. Water we were short
of. Coal we were short of—it was
only $3,50 a ton. Stone was worth
twenty-five cents. All of these most
excellent ballast. Yet would it be
believed that we took on board pig
iron at $2O a ton as ballast, knowing
when we started we should have to
cast it overboard. Yet such is the
fact. The gunboat Lancet arrived at
Hatteras Inlet short of coal and
water, and yet she threw over 75 tons
of iron --$1,750 worth of iron. The
Pioneer. threw over $1,500 worth.—
In all $3,600 worth of iron was cast
over-board, yet we were short of
water.
The pilots, we were told, were all
Union. Hatteras Inlet was Union,
and New York subscribed $B,OOO for
the inhabitants,as they were all Union.
Yet one of the pilots hired by us went
over to the enemy find informed them
of everything; and as for the inhab
itants of Hatteras Inlet, they are too
ignorant to know the difference be
tween Union and Secession. It is
all nonsense; experience teaches us
that there are no Union men there;
that the 3,000 rifles asked for, if they
had been granted, Would now be on
Roanoke Island, and that the $B,OOO
sent to North Carolina for the bene
fit of the Union men, Was all lost to
us. The South are in earnest and we
are at play. I , V e had to pay $BOO in
secret service money to those self
same Union men, to know wheth
er Roanoke Island was occupied or
not.
Briefly reiterating the facts con
tained in my first dispatch, and call
ing attention to the rascalities of these
steamboat contractors, and tither con
tractors, and asking the public to
pause in the contemplation of a set of
scoundrels who have allowed the lives
and the health of 18,000 men to be
periled by their life boats and their
water casks, I will conclude by stat
ing the position of affairs.
The naval gunboats have crossed
-the "awash" One-half of Gen. Burn
side's vessels have done likewise.—
Seven thossond troops are safely
over. Rago vineds which cannot
cross solieved of their troops,
i Tad &Ogg on other vessels.—
- 0 1114 3 Way be
ipitmed • WSW INS
eieNixte for a tint. ' . 'b evatielft Imre
rather slight. But the whole army
of 15,000 men have confidence in
their General. He is ever ready
to relieve the wants of a shipwrecked
crew of the privations of the soldier.
In the storm, in his top booth, his
old grey flannel shirt and Kossuth
hat, the American Garibaldi is loved
by all. They have faith in his bra
very—they have confidence in his
judgment—and their experience
teaches them that Gen. Burnside
will never bring back the star on his
shoulder dimmed by defeat, but rath
er that it will shine resplendent in.
victory.
The Man who Killed Zolliooffer.
Colonel Speed Smith Fry, the man
who killed Zollicoffer, is now about
forty-four years old, having been born
in 1818, and is a man of mild, amiable
disposition. He is the grandson of
old Joshua Fry, of Danville, Ky.,
who has now been dead about twenty
six years, and the son of Thomas Fry,
also of Vanville. When the present
Colonel was about sixteen years old,
his father moved to Crawfordsville,
Ind. After his father's death, Speed
Fry returned to his native town,
where he remained till the beginning
of the Mexican war.
During the war he was Captain in
the regiment commanded by Col.
McKee, and distinguished himself in
the battle-field of Buena Vista. It
is well known to many that he killed
his man in that memorable battle.—
The circumstances we reproduce
here. A Mexican, detached from his
comrades, was seen to load and fire,
with great deliberation three or four
times at Captain Fry's men. The
Captain took a musket from a fallen
soldier, and fired, and the Mexican
was never seen again. ft is useless
to tell how that regiment came off
the field covered with glory. In
that bloody battle' Col. McKee was
killed, and, if we mistake not, the
Lieutenant Colonel also ; Major Cary
Fry, a cousin of Speed Smith, taking
command of the regiment. This in
cident in Mexico, and the death of
Zollicoffer, prove Col. Fry to be a
man of coolness, decision, and un
flinching bravery.
After hisreturn from Mexico. at
the end of the war, he applied him
self again to his profession, the law,
in which he was eminently success
ful. At the breaking out of the rebell
ion, he was Judge of the County
Court of Boyle county, and while
many others were fearful of opening
their mouths against secession, he,
boldly attacked the rebellion on the
stump and elsewhere. Lie As as the
first to move in raising troops -iu
Kentucky, and camping at Die:k:Rat
inson, recruited successfully two reg
iments, the Third and Fourth Ken
tucky. All honor to Kentucky's no
ble sons.
A Few More Incidents.
Tue Somerset correspondent of
tl'e Cincinnati Gazette gives the fol
lowing additional particulars of the
late battle : The direct cause of the
10th Indiana falling back from their
first position was hick of ammuni
tion. Col. Manson, seeing five of his
companions retiring, rode up to them
and asked them where they were
going. They replied by holding up
their empty cartridge boxes. It was
then that the Colonel gave the order
for the regiment and section of ar
tillery to fall back. The grandest
and most effective charge of the day
was made by the 9th Ohio. They
loaded their muskets, but charged
from the woods without firing. For
a moment there was a hand to hand
encounter, then the enemy fled, and
it was then that the brave Germans
poured in their fire.
The battle, unlike the most of the
war, grows larger the more that is
known of it. One hundred and nine
ty-two dead bodies of the rebels were
buried up to Tuesday night, and
they were still found thick in the
woods. It was first supposed that
the forces engaged were about equal,
but it is now known that the enemy
outnumbered us two to one. The
regiments under . General Thomas'
command could not bring, at the ut
most, over six thousand men into the
field. And of these, only about one
half were actually engaged in the
combat. The consolidated morning
report of the troops at Mill Spring
last Friday has been found. Critten
den had under him at that time, and
there, one thousand three hundred
and twenty-two men sick, and four
teen thousand two hundred and six
men fit for duty. Not less than fif
teen thousand men marched out to
give battle, as they supposed, to three
regiments of Union troops.
It is true a large proportion of Crit
tenden's force consisted of raw two
months' levies recently raised in Ten
nessee. And they were even further
useless, because they had no hearts
to fight against the Union. One of
them coming near our lines, rushed
across to us, exclaiming, "I am a
Union man," and immediately com
menced firing on his former comrades.—
We understand that there are at
least ten thousand such troops at
Knoxville.-
Affairs on the Upper Potomac.
Colonel Leonard telegraphs from
Frederick to General Banks that the
damage to Dam No. 5, on the Poto
mac, will not exceed four hundred
dollars, and that two thousand dollars
will repair the injury to the whole
line. The freshet does not make a
breach in the dam, and the enemy,
six thousand strong, have been un
able to gain any considerable advan
tage after three weeks efforts. Fif
teen or twenty of their men have
been killed or wounded. A mill con
taining the knapsacks and stores of
one of their regiments has been burn
ed, and the whole force driven away.
Exaggerated reports of operations
have been published, but the rebel
Jackson acknowledges that this ex
pedition against the dams has-been
most nnsatisikotory in its results of
any he.. has (met litudirtilireu- 4-11
was spiet along tb !intilalhat qtmt
te?.
*lndent Maw() from Jeff. Davis to
President Limoln--General Scott's Move
ments.
NEW Yong, Feb. s.—The Washing
ton correspondent of the New York
Herald says the flag of truce froth
rebeldom covered au impudent de
mand, such as should not be counte
nanced in honorable warfare.—
The message is said to have been
from Jeff. Davis to President Lincoln
announcing that if the Federal Gov
ernment permit the rebel bridge
burners to be hang under the order
of Gen. Halleck, that the federal pris
oners, Colonels Corcoran, Lee, Wil
cox and others, held as hostages fr)r
the safety of the pirates, shall be im
mediately hung in retaliation. A
cabinet meeting was called to con
sider the subject, but I am requested
not to announce the result. Jeff.
Davis will learn it soon enough. It
is probable that the news of the re
cent order of the War Department,
directing the privateersman to be re
garded as prisoners of war, had not
reached rebeldom when this last
message was sent from Richmond.—
The sentiment expressed by those
who know the purport of the mes
sage is that the officer who brought
it, thereby disgracing the flag of
truce, should have been retained and
hung with the bridgeburners.
From Banks' Command.
FREDERICK, Md., Feb. I.—The re
cent report of the amount required
to repair the Chesapeake and Ohio
Canal is officially contradicted, as is
also the reported number of sick of
General Lander's command at Cum
berland. The figures in both cases
are pronounced to be exaggerations.
A report has reached here to-day
that 'Jackson was, night before last,
at Winchester with his main body.—
Another rumor says that he has been
ordered to report at Richmond with
his command. I place no reliance
on the latter report. Private intell
gence from Bath states that Hon. J.
Strother died there about ten days
ago, and his death is attributed to
the treatment he experienced from
the Confederates, who sometime pre
vious made a descent upon his estate,
destroying and carrying off property
amounting to many thousand dol
lars, and treating him with great in
dignity. His last moments were
solaced by many relatives, including
the wife of his son, D. J. Strother,
(Porte Crayon).
National :Cemetery—Telegraph Earning
WAsinsuroN, Feb. 3—So vast an
Lrmy has mao,h,s,lled in this DistriM - ,
that no proper arrangements have
berm made for• even a decent inter
ment of those who died in our hospi
tals. Their bodies have been often
hurried to the nearest place of sepul
ture, where they haVe been promis
cuously buried. Many relatiVes and
friends have consequently made fruit
leis visits to the Army on the Poto
mac to recover the bodies of their
deceased friends. This state of things
has arrested attention in Congress
through the exertions of Representa
tive Dawes, and a committee is now
charged with the duty of consider
ing the subject of providing a Nation
al Cemetery for soldiers in this
neighborhood, where all our fellow
citizens who (lie in the National
cause may find a resting place, their
graves become a matter of record,
and leave no doubt about the identi
ty of the individuals. From the gen
eral disposition manifested there
seems to be no doubt that an act for
the purpose indicated will be passed.
The result of an examination re
cently by the telegraph interest is
that the number of ►nessages over all
the lines during the past year was
2,800,000. Should Congress in the
new tax bill impose three cents on
each message, an income of a little
over $84,000 would be realized from
that source, or Hi per centum on
the aggregate amount on business.
Latest from Oheat Mountain.
A dispatch from Indianopolis to
the Cincinnati papers says : Two
prisoners, just released from confine
ment at Staunton,Va., have arrived at
Cheat Mountain, and state that the
rebel loss in the Allegheny fight was
three hundred by their own admis
sions, and had our forces continued
the fight one hour longer, the rebels
would have retreated, which they
were preparing to do when the forces
under Gen. Milroy retire 1. The reb
els at Staunton are anticipating an at
tack. Gen. Milroy offers to take
Staunton if five Western regiments
are placed under his comm and.
Gen. Scott Envoy to Mexico.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 4.—The N. Y.
Times' Washington correspondent in
timates the probability that General
Scott will proceed to Mexico, as a
special envoy from the Government.
The sloop-of-war Richmond is now
being fitted out for his accommoda
tion at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.—
Her destination being announced as
Key West. From Key West to
Vera Cruz, however, is but a brief
journey. [lt has been stated for
some days past that the cabin of the
Richmond is being fitted up in a very
elegant and comfortable manner for
General Scott, but the above is the
first guess we have had on the des
tination.—Cuaox.)
JUST APPROPRIATFON.—The War
Department has ordered that, hence
forward, all Union soldiers released
from rebel dungeons shall, upon their
arrival at Washington, receive, iu ad
dition to full pay,- commutation of
rations for the whole time of impris
onment. A soldier will lose nothing
pecuniarily by falling into the hands
of the enemy.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. B.—There is more
activity in flour; sales of 6000 bble. at
$5,754600 for low grades and good extra
family ; $5,62,} for extra, and $5,25 forint
perflne. Rye Flour is steady at 3,50, and
Corn Meal at $3,00. - The market is poorly
supplied with Wheat, and it is in demand;
6,000 bush of red sold at $1,34a1,36, and
some white at $1,45. 1,000 bush Rye sold
at 721€473c. Corn is in good request, and
5,000 bush new yellow sold at 56®57c.--
Siiii-Mr. Madegan, of Euclid, Ohio, ; Oats are steady at s3Bc®3Bl. Provisions
are quiet ; sales of 500 bbls mess pork at
during sleep recently swallowed a
$l2, 50412,75. Dressed hogs 4c Se
partial set of teeth, with the gold .
of 200 libls. Lard at 8c ' es
plate to which they were attached.— .
NEW YORK MARKET.
l lt was in his stomach, and causing ;
NEw Yoas, Feb. B.—Flour quiet; sale.
ezerutiating Rain at last dates. 1 7, 13 ' of.ll,ooo . bbls. Wheat 44uiet • sales unim
'cat plaitcort QS* Du P i t icrit. Corn unsettled; mita of .26.0011
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ashy i meaty. Ist dull at 7.1911111 a.
Ma0:164 Oaaualt7 frUM Rook Oil=
On Thursday morning last, near
Corry station, on the Philadelphia
and Erie Railroad, a woman named
Costello, when kindling the fire in
the morning, dipped a handful of
shavings into a basket of crude
petroleum and then set fire to them,
causing such a great flame that she
upset the bucket and fired the in
flammable oil by dropping the shav
ings into it. The husband and chil
dren were lying in bed in the same
room. Her screams attracted the*-
tention of people outside, who dared
not venture into the fire, and they
called upon her to come out. She re
plied that she would not come with
ont het children, and seizing one of
them—the eldet aged two years—in
her arms, she attempted to make
her escape, but by this time was
overcome by strangulation, and had
to remain and be burned with the
building, which was soon in ruins.—
The husband somehow managed to
escape, but so badly burned in his
efforts to save his family that he
cannot survive. The mother was'
taken from the ruins a blackened,
charred mass, with the remains of
her child still in her arms, both bod
ies burned to the bone, the cooked .
flesh quivering in detached portions
from the trunks. the extremities al
most entirely consumed. The young
er child, aged one year, was burn
ed to a coke-like mass, with scarcely
the semblenee of the human being
left.
Gov, Letoher on a Bender.
The Richmond Examiner, of Janu
ary 23d, says a scene of indecency,
drunken or sober, occurred in the
House of Delegates yesterday, while
the body was occupied with the ques
tion of the election of Confederate
Senators, mortifying to the hundreds
who witnessed it. In the midst of
the debate John Letcher, Governor
of Virginia, came into the Legisla
tive chamber drunk, and sat on the
steps leading to the Speaker's chair
for the full space of half an hour,
with a cigar in his mouth, making
himself a spectacle for the whole
house, and a butt for the jokes of the
gallery. The apparition occurred
just as both parties seemed to be in
a deadlock as to who should be Sena
tor. The occurrence might natural
ly have originated in a drunken im
agination that a display so dramatri
cally made at the nick of time might
suggest a compromise to both parties,
and insnire a sudden enthusiasm for
John ',etcher and his republican
cigar.
Important Relief Bill
In the House of Representatives,
on Wednesday, Judge Shannon, from
the Committee on the Militia System,
reported a supplement to "An act to
create a loan and provide for arming
the State." It provides that the sev.:
eral boards of relief appointed by
the fourteenth section of said act, are
hereby authorized to extend support
and relief to the families and de
pendents of all such volunteers, retti
dents of this State, as are now in ac
tive service of the United States in
any volunteer organization of anoth
er State, the same to all intents and
purposes as if the said volunteers
had been originally enrolled and
mustered into service by the Govern
or of this Commonwealth. The bill
was passed, and goes to the Senate
for concurrence.
• Movement of Troops.
ST. Louts, Feb. 3.—Advices re
ceived last night by train on the
Pacific Railroad report that the .
brigade of General Davis was at
Versailles, Morgan county, Wednes
day, proceeding, it is conjectured, to'
join General Curtis at lebanon.—
General Palmer's brigade is at La
mine, reported under marching or
ders for Kentucky. General Sigel
left Rolla yesterday, for Lebanon,
and the balance of his division will
follow.
Casualty and Death.
On Saturday last, a lad named Rob
ert Edwards Drake, an orphan, aged
nearly thirteen years, residing in
Youngstown, Ohio, met with an acci
dent which resulted in his death soon
after. He was standing near an old
derrick that was being taken to pieces,
when a descending plank struck
him on the head, crushing in his
skull, and causing his death in half
an hour after.
Death of a Rebel Captain, dr,o.
LOUISVILLE, February 3.—Capt.
H. M. Fogg, of Nashville, of Zollicof
fer's staff, wounded near Somerset,
is dead. Major Cliff, Surgeon of
Zollicoffer's brigade, taken prisoner
at Somerset, is here, and will be sent
to Bowling Green on Tuesday, to be
exchanged. It is thought that Gen.
Buell will arrange for the exemption
of all surgeons from arrest hereafter.
SZ'The dispatch in a New York paper
to-day that General Scott is about to pro
ceed to Mexico as specfal agent of this
Government, is nothing but speculation.—
I am authorized to say that Mr. Corwin
will continue in Mexico with full and ex
clusive powers to act for this Government.
General Scott's movements point in an
other direction.
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