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few 05i(Hites, the shells l»eing thrown oh (he Island, bat without any perceptible effect, and eliciting no reply from the enemy The rebel and Federal batteries at and opposite New Madrid continue their firing.The Senate will undoubtedly pass this week a bill for the ini mediate emancipation of the slaves in the District of Columbia. The bill provides for compensation to loyal owners, not to exceed an average valuation of £300 for each slave, but contains no colonization feature. Mr. Browning yesterday proposed a vc: y judicious amendment, increasing the amount appropriated to §[iOQ for each slave, one-half of which is to be paid to the owner, and the other half retained by the ijeeivLary cf the Treasury, to be given to the negro in event of his emigration to a forc-ign country. The amendment 1« s not yet been acted on. There are in the District but 3,181 slaves, the iiu in her having fallen off since' 18*U over five hundred. The free negroes now in the District number 11,11)7.In,die House, yesterday, the tax bill was discussed and amended. An attempt was made by Mr. Colfax to strke from the bill the tax on advertising, on the ground that newspapers are already taxed sufficiently on paper, gas, income, telegraphic messages, ink, tic. The motion did not prevail; but the tav was reduced from five to three per cent., and newspapers whose circulation does not exceed 2,000 copies, or whose receipts from advertising fall below £1,000 per annum, were exemptca from the payment of that ru'e.The Senate came near completing the discussion on tho bill abolishing slavery' in the District of Columbia to day. It will be passed to-morrow.SenaLor Wright's speech against the bill irrs consid-'-rable of an effort. His invective against Sumner and his abolition resolutions was very bitter. He compared the resolutions of the Massachusetts Senator to fifty thousand recruits for the rebel army.—Chicago Times. _TITheyThe}ThenLook at the advertisement for TreasuryNotes.BANK NOTE LIST.OORRECTID DAILY FOR T:SB T!!!ES INION 33ST J~- X-. OSrXJ'X'TlVIA-Tvr^At the Citizen’-S Dank. Opposite the ExpressOffice.Bankable Funds.Stalc Thilik of Ohio, Nc w Yerli State,Free Banks do Free Hanks of Irdiitna,Hank of Stale Indiana,Philadelphia,If:nk of Iowa,Mev.- England, Pittsburgh,Trens’v Notes on clem’d New Jersev,red it.Michigan i Inferior Pennsylvania in good credit.BUYINGExchange on New York.. Par to Gold-.-......................1MliIHBa JOHN 6. SMNO. 30, COLUMBIA STREETKEEPS a well selected stock of Family Gi-o-c erica and Pro vis ions-3u*ar, Coffee, Fisli, Bicc,o.SpspicasmeeltliirsStiyiiI43c:Fort Wav, Ind-, Sept- 3d, l-fil-dDJOUST IMWM,HotiU’y PiiL’ic, Commissioner ofDEEDS,and other Writings under seal for the State of Pennsylvania, and Agent for the Li verpool a adLondon Fire aisj fil SBKranM Compsny.Paid up Capital $5,000,01)11(10. Fire anu Lifo Poiicie?issued on fareran!ft terms.For t W a yn o, N ov. 1 SJth ’ 60 d i yDr. O. J. IJAJLDWES. VETERINARY SURGEON,TIIE NEWS—AERIE £HAS removed his office to his new building one door cast of P S. Underhill’s marble works, on Main-street. IlisS T A B JLi BTa-.opposite the Main Street Exchange. Thankful lor past favors, he solicits the patronage of a generous public.Dee. 2, El-d Imp.BENHA M’SPHOIOGRAFMC EMPORIUM!MR. B. H. BEN HAMHAS RETURNED to his PICTURE GALLERY, and sill wait on ail wishing large family pholographs-or other first class pictures of any description A, business ul*uw his stay limited, tin wait upun Ihvin perias early as is eimv ■-uiem.Costa do Visile Piiotocraphs, Ambrutypes, and all other pictures lain n daily in Ihe best, uunmr and at the lowest rates. Photographic Albums, Gilt Frames, for sale.“ R eincm'. er, II f IN Ii A M’S PREMIUMre will necc’sarily render • preferring to hive him tally, will do well to cull(LVi.T.KivY, comer Eolinnbiu and Calhoun Sts., Fort Wayne, Ind-April i; IfelfcL dtfCol. Buford performed a gallant achievement it Union City, Tenn., on Monday. Leaving Island No. 10, with a portion of his own regi inent/the Twenty-seventh Illinois, and detachments from the Forty-second Illinois and Fifteenth Wisconsin, he proceeded via steamboat to Hickman, and thence marched to Union City, the junction of the railroads running couth from Hickman and Columbus, where he thrived about seven A. M. Here he surprised {$ rebel camp, killing twenty of the enemy and taking one hundred prisoners. He captured a large amount of stores, arms, and munitions, 200 horses, and a number of rebel Hags. Not a man was injured on the Federal side.The rebels are increasing their defensive works at Island No. 10. They have constmsL-• ed a large intrenched camp, and arc throwing up additional fort ifi cat ions in which to mount artillery. Their Works arc now much stronger than when the Island was first attacked. On Sunday and Monday, morUra were fired everyNotick.—bondholders «f th« Pittsburg H. FORT WAYNE AND CHICAGO, the OHIO mill PENNSYLVANIA, the OHIO AND INDIANA, and the FORT WAYNE AND CHICAGO RAILROAD COMPANIES.HOLDERS of t he Ohio arid Pthe Ohio and Imli Fort Way lie and who have not Jim with JOHN FU:ORTGAG E BONDS la Railroad Company, ond Company, and the i Railroad Ccftnjwuy, IquiHtcd their bonds ........No. 35, Pine St., under tlic plan of reorganization, Arc again notified to do so mi or before the 1st day of April next, or thev will he excluded from its luriidin.HOLDERS of SECOND MORTGAGE RONDS of the s.i me Go in panics, or Construction Bonus of the lJiuntm-gh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad Company, who have not already deposited llmir bonds1-as above, are notified to make application to the Purchasing Committee at my office, N«. 52, Wail-At.. to ilt; admitted to the benefits of Raid reorganization on or before the -amcday, or be' CxeludVd therefrom.—March 7, lh«2. J- F. D LANIER,-Chairman Purchasing Committee, (Miirch 21, '62. ifibv) _____C1TV AND ttH'NTY lt;mi; Cists bought and sold at tiie Citizens’ bank dec. 5, 'fll-d'f
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Dawsons Daily Times and Union
Fort Wayne, Indiana, US
Wed, Apr 02, 1862
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