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The Daily Dispatch: February 27, 1864., [Electronic resource]

reof forever. Messrs. Creswell, Davis, and Thomas, of the Maryland delegation, voted for the resolution, and Mr. Harris against it. The Committee of Ways and Means have reported adversely on the joint resolution to allow the Secretary of the Treasury to sell the surplus gold accumulating in the Treasury. The War news. In the papers before us very little of interest is possessed. Meade telegraphs to Halleck of the capture of twenty-eight of Mosby's men at Piedmont, Fauquier county. A dispatch from Chattanooga says that "information has been received that Gen. Johnston, thinking that we have weakened this point by reinforcing our army at Knoxville, is preparing to attack Chattanooga" Gen. Steadman has assumed command at Chattanooga. The news with reference to Sherman's operations is principally from Southern sources, which we have already published. Information of his retreat had not reached the North. Their accounts from Florida are to the 9th inst.

eat extravagance on the part of our authorities, for if there is any animal in demand in the Confederacy, on account of his working qualities, it is the mule. Beef would be much cheaper, and our commons are generally covered with grazing cows, which might be slaughtered in lieu of our valuable mules. As to the eating of dog meat on Belle Isle by the privates, we would not be surprised if there was some truth in it. Two years ago, when Blenker's Dutch brigade marched through Clarke and Warren counties, dog meat was a speciality with them, and they permitted no innocent cur to pass with impunity. Some of Blenker's men may be on Belle Isle. But to the statement of the escaped prisoners: These prisoners confirm in every particular the statements heretofore made of the treatment of Federal prisoners there. The rations of the officers were about the same as those of the rebel privates; but our privates on Belle Island did not fare so well. As long as the boxes sent from friends

every part thereof forever. Messrs. Creswell, Davis, and Thomas, of the Maryland delegation, voted for the resolution, and Mr. Harris against it. The Committee of Ways and Means have reported adversely on the joint resolution to allow the Secretary of the Treasury to sell the surplus gold accumulating in the Treasury. The War news. In the papers before us very little of interest is possessed. Meade telegraphs to Halleck of the capture of twenty-eight of Mosby's men at Piedmont, Fauquier county. A dispatch from Chattanooga says that "information has been received that Gen. Johnston, thinking that we have weakened this point by reinforcing our army at Knoxville, is preparing to attack Chattanooga" Gen. Steadman has assumed command at Chattanooga. The news with reference to Sherman's operations is principally from Southern sources, which we have already published. Information of his retreat had not reached the North. Their accounts from Florida are to

scaped prisoners: These prisoners confirm in every particular the statements heretofore made of the treatment of Federal prisoners there. The rations of the officers were about the same as those of the rebel privates; but our privates on Belle Island did not fare so well. As long as the boxes sent from friends at the North were delivered, they lived as well as could be expected under the circumstances. Those who had money were allowed to send out and get what they wanted, by paying thre at one time they received flesh which was pronounced by those among those officers who knew something of butchering as being mule meat, as they knew of no cattle used for food which had bones like those found in the meat. The privates on Belle Island, it is unquestioned, have eaten dogs; in fact were obliged to do it in order to sustain life. The Yankee Congress. In the Yankee House of Representatives, the following resolution, offered by Mr. Arnold, of Illinois, was passed by a v

e Confederacy, on account of his working qualities, it is the mule. Beef would be much cheaper, and our commons are generally covered with grazing cows, which might be slaughtered in lieu of our valuable mules. As to the eating of dog meat on Belle Isle by the privates, we would not be surprised if there was some truth in it. Two years ago, when Blenker's Dutch brigade marched through Clarke and Warren counties, dog meat was a speciality with them, and they permitted no innocent cur to pass with impunity. Some of Blenker's men may be on Belle Isle. But to the statement of the escaped prisoners: These prisoners confirm in every particular the statements heretofore made of the treatment of Federal prisoners there. The rations of the officers were about the same as those of the rebel privates; but our privates on Belle Island did not fare so well. As long as the boxes sent from friends at the North were delivered, they lived as well as could be expected under the circumstances

Fires. --About twelve o'clock Thursday night the brick stable belonging to Mr. Wm. Gray, in the rear of his residence, corner of Marshall and 10th street, was set on fire and the interior frame work entirely destroyed. Owing to the impressment of his horses by the Government some months since, there was very little in the stable to lose — only a few bushels of corn and about one hundred dollars' worth of shucks. Mr. Gray estimates his loss at about $3,000, a partial insurance on which isMr. Gray estimates his loss at about $3,000, a partial insurance on which is held in the Mutual office of this city. There is no doubt but that the fire was the work of an incendiary. At one o'clock A. M., exactly an hour after the occurrence of the fire above noticed, the stable attached to the Medical College, on Marshall, between 12th and College streets, was discovered to be on fire. Some incendiary had ascended the outside steps leading to the second story and applied a match to a large quantity of hay and other kind of horse feed stowed therein, which soon