Posted on 02/24/2023 6:39:11 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
WASHINGTON, Monday, Feb. 23.
Gen. HOOKER has been in the city, and was to-day in consultation with the President and Secretary of War.
Late accounts from the Army of the Potomac indicate greatly improved discipline, and give promise of a state of efficiency never before known there. Expeditions are making successful forays against the enemy, capturing supplies and gaining valuable information, and the business of smuggling goods into the rebel lines is nearly terminated. Desertion is becoming a serious enterprise, and is rapidly diminishing, and the frequent captures of mails going to Richmond bids fair to destroy that heretofore flourishing branch of treason. Our scouting system is admirably organized, and at last we are able to know something of the position, force and plans of the rebels. Our cavalry arm has shared the general improvement, and now, under Gen. STONEMAN, may safely be said to equal in efficiency that of STUART's.
SENATOR WILSON ON THE COPPERHEADS.
Senator WILSON's speech, to-day, in reply to the Copperhead arguments in favor of treason. is pronounced the most scathing invective which has lately disturbed the decorous echoes of the Senate Chamber. In alluding to the Democratic Convention at Frankfort, lately dispersed by Gen. GILBERT, he described it as an assemblage of "banded traitors," and denounced the Senator who attempted to defend them as no better than they. Mr. POWELL, in reply, gave vent to a burst of treasonable rage, disgraceful alike to his State and his position.
At the time of closing our dispatch (midnight) both Houses are still in session, with a fair prospect of an all-night session. The Senate is engaged in discussing the right of habeas corpus, and the House is debating the Conscription bill. Messrs. VALLANDIGHAM, BINGHAM, VOORHEES and OLIN all made strong speeches
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News from Washington: Gen. Hooker In Consultation with the Authorities– 2-3
News from Rebeldom: The Mission of M. Mercier to Richmond – 3-4
Important from Vicksburgh: The Bombardment Begun on February 18 – 4
From the Arm of the Potomac – 4
The War in the Southwest – 4
Important from the Pacific: A Dispute About the Boundary Between California and Nevada – 4
Editorial: The Spirit in Maryland and in New-York – 4-5
Editorial: An Undiscriminating War – 5
Profitable Negroes – 5-6
News from Rebeldom (continued) – 5
General Hooker shows up on the scene and morale just naturally improves.😎
Most interesting to notice that the Baltimore American newspaper, of all papers, is here advocating exactly the punishment given to Ohio Congressman Vallandingham for his treason against the United State.
In just a few weeks, Vallandingham will be exiled to the Confederacy!
Oh, the injustice! Oh, the unfairness! Oh, the inequity! Oh, the despotism!
What punishment could be worse for a traitor than to be exiled in the Confederacy?
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