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ers who may be guilty of treason or cowardice in surrendering a larger and superior force of United States soldiers to Texan troops, so that those who are innocent may be relieved from blame, &c. The Military Committee were instructed to report what change, if any, is necessary, to be made in the mode of payment of soldiers held as prisoners of war. Scouting on the Potomac--Gen. Rosencranz--the News by the city of Baltimore. From the New York Herald's "Situation" article, of the 5th inst., we take the following items: For several days past scouting parties from the divisions of Generals Porter, Smith, and Hancock have been searching the country on the Virginia side of the Potomac, in the direction of Vienna and Hunter's Mills, without finding any force of the enemy in that region. General Rosencranz and his staff arrived at Wheeling yesterday to take up their winter quarters. The General has been offered his choice of several rebel residences for his winter ho
ent for the Senate. They were all taken to Eminence, and our informant left before he heard what disposition was made of them. Numbers of Southern men, to avoid arrest and taking the oath, were endeavoring to escape to our lines. John B. Cochran, the Representative from Shelby, was particularly active and officious, and publicly avows himself in favor of arresting all Secessionists, and of shooting them down wherever found. Catastrophe at Paducah. From the Memphis Appeal, of the 5th inst., we take the following paragraph: The mammoth wharf-boat at Paducah, belonging to D. G. Fowler & Co., which had been seized by the Lincolnites, and used as a depot for commissary stores, sunk at the landing a few days since with about 800 tone of sugar, coffee, flour, and provisions generally. The Lincolnites charge that it was scuttled by the "Seceshers." They should keep a better watch in future, as we understand there are a few more left in Paducah only waiting for a similar o