NEWS FROM ALL NATIONS. A Provost Marshal and a soldier was [ shot and instantly killed at West Newton, Pa., last week, while attempting to arrest a deserter by the ! name of Smith, who had jumped the bounty sever al times. The Marshal had with him a posse of , six men. but the murderer succeeded in making his escape. A reward of SI,OOO is offered for his j arrest. —Hon. Eli Slifer, Secretary of the Com monwealth, and lady, celebrated the twenty-filth anniversary of their wedding, at their fine resi dence, near Lewisburg, on Friday evening last week. A large number of friends partook of their hospitality on the above occasion, says the Lewis burg Chronicle. —The house of Lieutenant Hendricks, of Snnbury, says the Gazette of that place, who is ab sent with the 47th regiment, was robbed of a num ber of articles of value, including a watch, jewelry, clothing, Ac. The house has not been occupied for some time. Mrs. Hendricks residing with her father. —The Warren accommodation train on the Pittsburg and Erie Railroad, collided with the mail traiu on a curve near Garland Thursday after noon, smashing the engine, tender, and baggage car. Two men were killed and several injured. The mail train was off time, which caused the ac cident. —C. V. Gundy, Esq., has received the ap-; pointment of County School Superintendent for j Union County, in place of J. A. Owens, resigned, j —Bombay is in a state of much excite-j ment over the great success of East India cotton cultivation. Men who a short time ago were pos sessed of moderate meaYis, have suddenly become j milionaires, and the manner in which it is said for tunes are being piled lip there rivnls tlie wonders of j our own oil regions. —According to the Mobile News, there is j a perfect exodus through Texas into Mexico of "the gallant youth who are the reserve guard of the sun- ! ny south, and who will do the fighting after their | brave fathers and elder brothers have fallen." —The Southern Hotel, in St. Louis, now approaching completion, will cost about $850,000, j although the c mtracts were made at the gold stan- 1 dard. The furnishing will require at least $350,000 ' at the present prices : making a total expenditure for hotel and outfit of $1,200, OIK). —The clerks in the rebel departments have petitioned to have their pay raised to seven thousand dollars per annum—they cannot live up on a less siun, and would prefer their food and clothing in the form of rations. —A correspondent of the Chicago Jour nal estimates Gen. Sherman's army at 87,000 in fantry and 16,000 cavalry. About 10,(XK) of these are colored troops, remaining in the vicinity of Port Royal, but his moving columns number over IXI,OOO men. - -An eruption of Mount Etna took place during the night of January 31st, after several earthquake shocks. At the latest date from Mes sina the lava was flowing rapidly, and several vil lages were in danger. —The rebels in onr prisons have a queer way of complaining of the bad treatment they re ceive. A few days ago 1882 were examined at camp Morton for exchange. All except 306 declined to leave the prison and go back to the rebel army. —The States of Maine and Missouri, which were admitted as members of the Union to gether, ratified the amendment to the Constitution abolishing slavery on the same day. —Gen. Grant reports that since the be ginning of the campaign last May, 17,000 deserters have come into our lines from Lee's army alone. —The first strawberries of the season were received a few days since at Powell's fruit stors. No. 147 Fulton-st., Brooklyn. They were iu number six, filled one basket, and were sold for a large dinner-party at the moderate sum of two dol lars and a half. The fruit was raised in Fitohburg, Mass.. where they never use their snow till it is a year old. —('apt. Robert T. Lincoln, son of the President, has gone to the front, under orders to report to Lieut.-Gen. Grant, for service upon his staff'. —The distance from Branchvill to Charles ton 62 miles ; from Branchville to Kingsville 45 ; from Branchville to Florence 108 ; from Branch ville to Columbia 68 : from Branchville to Augusta 75 : from Branchville to Wilmington 216; from Branchville to Charlotte 174 ; from Charleston to Florence 102 : from Wilmington to Florence 157. —Judge Hughes of the United States Court of Claims, has resigned his position on the bench of that court. Iliehard W. Thompson, Esq., of Indiana, has been appointed by the President to the vacancy. —The paymasters attached to the Army of the Potomac and the Army of the James, have, we understand, received orders to prepare their rolls down to December 31st, and this would indi cate that these armies are to Ire paid off. —Seventeen flags, captured in the bat tles around Nashville, were presented to the Secre tary of War, fifteen of the captors making the pre sentation in person. The latter were all granted a furlough of thirty days. —At fourteen minutes past one o'clock, Saturday, John Y. Beall, the Lake Erie pirate, was executed on Governor's Island, the President hav ing fnil&i to grant any further reprieve. His bear ing at the gallows was calm and self-possessed,and he passed from life with hardly a struggle. Quite a large crowd of visitors witnessed the tragic event. —The proposition to arm 200,000 ne groes, which passed the Rebel House of Represen tatives was indefinitely postponed by the Senate bv one majority. —General Gillem, with 4500 men, is re ported by the Richmond papers to be advancing through upper East Tennessee. His outposts are north of Greenville. —There is a report, believed in Knox ville, Teun., that Longstreet is moving against that city. —Brig. Gen. Meredith has been relieved rom command in western Kentucky, and persons arrested by him have been set free. —ln the army of the Potomac a shotted salute was fired in honor of the capture of Charles- , ton. —Maj.-Gen. Palmer has assumed com mand of the Department of Kentucky, and estab lished his headquarters at Louisville. —The rebel Golonel R. J. Breckinridge was captured by our troops, near Midway, Ky., 011 j Wednesday. —The guerillas are again becoming troublesome on the Arkansas river, firing into pass ing boats and committing other outrages. —From New-Orleans we learn that 011 the 17th inst., the Legislature ratified the Consti tutional Amendment, only one Senator voting in the negative, and that the draft liegan on the 15th. —Eight Railroad disasters occurred last week in different portions of the country, and for-' ty-ttoe since the commencement of the year, in- • yolving the loss of 63 killed and 441 wounded. .—Fred. Douglass lectured in Hoboken 011 Saturday evening. He discussed the general status of the negro and the proposition of the Confederacy t > arm its slaves. —One of Dupont's powder mills, near Wilmington, Del., exploded on the AT.th, killiug . three ot the employes. fßtatlffltd Hcportcf. Towanda, Thursday, March 2, 1865. j THE MOXROR DOCTRINE. Since a French army has taken posses sion of Mexico, public attention has been more or less drawn to the Monroe Doctrine, as it is called, and which naturally grew out of our last war with England. The ex-; act boundaries, the limitations and appli-, cations of this doctrine, were never fully settled ; and to this day, there is much di versity ol opinion on this point. The Mes sage of President MONROE, in which this j policy of our government towards the oth er States on this continent, was first pub- j licly announced, though it had been fully | discussed, and generally entertained, some ! | time prior, declares "That any attempt on i the part of European powers to extend j their system to any portion of this liemis- i 1 phere, would be regarded by the United j j States, as dangerous to our peace and safe-i : ty." It was however, subsequently declar- : jed in Congress, by leading republicans, j t " That the President had taken too wide a j range on this particular subject, and that j it was never intended by the republican i | party of that day," whicii was at that time i i dominant, " to extend the protection of the i government beyond the independent South ' American States." So that the correct in- j terpretation of the Monroe Doctrine, is fur , i from being settled : and we think it is well j j that our government is not in condition,and not in disposition, to attempt its practical ! application. For the more time we have to j examine its merits,and the more experience i we have as a government, the more its im- I practicability becomes manifest. Besides, when we remember the condition of the I country, and the causes which give rise to i this doctrine,we cannot fail to see addition i al reasons for the exercise of circumspec j tion t and for holding in abeyance a theory j so clearly surrounded with trouble, so pos ; itively aggressive in its tendencies, and so i at variance with every consideration of ! public tranquility. It will be borne in mind ! that some time before the war broke out . i between England and the United States, in t' 1812, some under-handed means had been r resorted to, on the part of the former, to seperate the Eastern States from our gov ! eminent, with the view of attaching them ' to the British provinces. For this purpose, J JOHN HENRY, an Englishman, was employed j by Sir JAMES CRAIG, governor general of . | Canada, to undertake a secret mission to • Boston. CRAIG had promised HENRY for this j service, an office worth a thousand pounds ! a year. But failing to fulfill this engage | inent, the latter, in a letter written in Phil | adelphia, on the 20th of June, 1813, dis- I closed the whole affair to Mr. MONROE, then ; Secretary of State, for fifty thousand dol | lars. This project,with others of a similar, ! though less notorious character,very great ly aggravated public sentiment in the United • States against Great Britain. These trans i actions, together with the English blockade | orders against our commerce, and the im pressment of our seamen, culminated in a war, wherein we were triumphant. To ; master, as we did then, after we got fairly to work, both by land and sea, the most ! powerful nation on the earth,and one which i had whipped out all the other nations of Europe, was well calculated to excite the vanity of JEFFERSON, MADISON, MONROE, AD AMS, CALHOUN, CLAY, and their democratic compeers, who had wrested the govern merit out of the hands of the federalists, broken them down, and against their coun sels, and with little of their aid, had made the war a success, and a glory Under such circumstances, they were excusable for competent to protect the whole continent. It may too, have been wise, in view of the propensity of England to meddle with our affairs, to proclaim a determination to protect in future the hem isphere on which the United States were located, from those insiduous wiles of the mother country, she was ever projecting against it for purposes of aggrandizement. While theiefore, we can, not only excuse, but justify, this position of our government, at the time referred to, because of her pe | culiar surroundings, yet we are not so ready to admit that it is either the part ot wisdom, or of good morals, to insist upon the same position now, not only for the reason that it is not tenable, but for that stronger, and higher reason, that it is not right. A government makes itself redicu lous, in assuming to command that which it has 110 means of controlling ; and if we now declare the Monroe Doctrine to be the | policy of our government, how will it ap- I pear before the world, with British and Russian possessions on one side of us, Mex ico and Brazil on another, and the other 1 South American States, as much, at least, under foreign, as under our control ? The doctrine thus viewed- -and this is its true aspect—is a positive nullity ; and such in reality, it has been ever since it was pro | claimed. Aside from this, how would it look, if a rich, successful,proud man,should proclaim that the particular district, or township in which he resided, and which was thickly populated with property-hold ers, was under his protection, and that no system of farming different from that which he practiced, would be tolerated in it ? Would not this be looked upon as very ar rogant, and would it be the rights of prop erty were respected ? Moreover, the gov ernments of Canada and Brazil are dissim ilar to ours, and can we consistently, pro tect and foster them ? Do they want any thing of this kind from us? in short, is not the Monroe Doctrine, an absurdity.with Canada under the protection of England, and Brazil under that of Spain, as applied to these governments? And how much better is it in respect to Mexico? With its indolent, ignorant, restless, and vicious population, a republican form of govern ment can not be maintained there. It is ] idle to talk about it. Any dav, since Mex ico declared herself independent of Spain, adventurers, and brigands, could call to- • gether, in any part of the country, bands | of the discontented population, for pnrpos- • es of plunder, or to prey upon, or oppose i the government, or all combined ; and so ! long as the present inhabitants remain un changed in these respect, so long is a re-j public in Mexico out of the question. Xoth-! ing but a strong government backed by a large and well disciplined army can main- ! tain itself there ; and for the United States to undertake to foster, or protect one there, I would be simply, the most impracticable, and the hardest job it ever assumed, the ! ... 1 crushing of the Slave-holder's rebellion not excepted. For these, and other reasons we have not time or space to give, it appears j j to us, that the policy (tin - government has i pursued towards Mexico, since its occupa tion by the French, has been eminently ju- j dicious. FRAUDS ON THE DRAFT. It lias been a great wonder to many peo ple what becomes of all the soldiers sent to the army, or why it is, thai the armies of the United States are not larger, after the several largo drafts which have been made. This matter is about to be explained to the country. The authorities at Washington have discovered that thousands upon thou sands of fraudulent papers, such as are re quired to be made out for each actual sold ier, have been palmed upon the townships, boroughs.and cities, that have been bring ing up men to fill up their respective quotas, taking heavy sums of money from them, but furnishing no men, and therefore, none going into the army, thereby swindling the government out of the men, and the town ships, boroughs, and cities, out of very great sums of money. Immense fortunes have bean made out of this business by the bounty-brokers, some having realized as high as tico and three hundred thousand dol lars by means of these swindles But the game is played out,as we are glad to learn. The Nev%York Herald, of Feb. 8, gives the following account of these operations in that city : " It is well known that these bounty-brokers, in following their business legitimately, would make a great deal of money out of men honestly enlisted and placed in the service. But when the men lie came scarce, and profits did not accrue as rapidly as wished, they cast about for means of making them reach the desired standard. This was soon found, and has been worked to such an extent as to make many of the enormously wealthy. A re cruit legitimately enlisted at the naval rendezvous in York street, Brooklyn, would be sworn in, it re cord kept in the office, and he sent on board the North Carolina, where a receipt from the officer iu charge for him would be good for the bounty and hand money. So far so good. Col. Bakerhas dis covered the following mode of procedure 011 the part of the brokers : One of the party who has been arrested, and whose name will presently appear, would go to the chief clerk of the Naval Rendezvous and procure from him the names of all the men recruited on the preceding day. Taking the names of these men, who were already on hoard the receiving ship, the parties engaged in the work would forge duplicate enlistment papers, descriptive rolls, Ac., making out a full set of pajiers, to which would be affixed the signature and seal of office of John Devlin, no tary public, making all appear straight and correct. These papers thus prepared were presented on board the North Carolina, showing the men enlist ed, a receipt would be given by the officer in charge, which presented at the rendezvous, called for and was good for SOSO. Again, there are always to be found in this city numbers of men from other towns looking after substitutes to fill their quota. The brokers employ runners to find these men out, who are waited on and told that they can fill their quota, asking how many men they require and how much their town pays? On being informed, a bar gain is struck, and the happy man is informed the men to save their city from a draft shall be forth coming in the morning. The brokers go to their office, forge the necessary number of enlistment papers complete—each list representing a man— and, having attached to it the seal of office and signature of the notary public, who is represented as having sworn them in—this notary in all cases being John Devlin. Everything—so far as the pa pers go—looks fair, the broker representing that the recruit has been sent on board ship, or 011 the island. The man pays his thousands of dollars and goes home, congratulating himself upon the quota for his. town being filled, the broker pockets the money, and the government receives "nary" n soldier, although the papers carried olfby the men who have paid their money, and which are in the hands of the provosts of the different towns, show their quota is filled, and they receive credit for the same. This is part of the system of fraud and forgery perpetrated by the brokers in this city and Brook lyn which Col. Baker has been able to trace up, procure the proofs, and arrest the scoundrels. To j do this he has had an infinite deal of trouble ; but, with his efficient corps of detectives, he has been able to go to the bottom of the whole matter. The i first arrests made was through representing liim i self as a man from an inland town wishing to raise \ a large number of men to fill his quota. James I Devlin, living at 128 Hudson avenue, Brooklyn, i brother of John Devlin, and James Cahill, both | substitute brokers, operating through John Devlin, ; called upon Col. Baker, at theAstor House, and iu- I quired if he was the man who had some inland town quota to fill. He said he was. and would give i five hundred dollars apiece for the men to till it.— At that time he purchased from them four sets of papers, for which he paid them two thousand dol lars in greenbacks. He then told them that he wanted one hundred and twenty-six sets more, and if they would furnish the men he would pay five hundred and twenty-five dollars apiece for them. They promised to do so, and would have them the next day. The next day they came again, but'said they had been able to get but ninety-two, yet would procure the remainder in a day. Col. Baker took the papers and gave them a check on the Hanover Bank for sixteen of them,amounting toover $7,000, saying he would go with them to the bank and get the rest. A receipt for the money paid was asked for by Col. Baker, which was signed by the two men—one as James Cole, and the other as James Higgins. Immediately upon seeing the signature of James Higgins, which appeared in one of the four sets previously bought as a recruit enlisted and sworn in by John Devlin, the notary, as a sold ! ier, Col. Baker knew he had the right men. He then told them who he was ; that he had been af ter them, and that their game was up, and at once arrested them. As soon as they found out they were trapped, they owned up the "whole affair, told who were their accomplices, how the work was done, and gave such information as has led to the arrest of twenty-seven of the principal actors in the most stupendous fraud ever attempted, They confessed the papers were forgeries in every ease.* From this beginning Col. Baker went on and found that the practice of bounty jumping was carried to an alarming extent, almost passing be lief, and that these brokers had a regularly organ ized plan by which they would enlist the "jumper, " help him to "jump,' enlist him again, pocketing the city and county bounty in all eases, carrying the same process on until the man had been put through ttrenty-seeen times." Maj .-Gen. George Crook and Brig.- Gen. Benjamin !•. Kelloy, commanding in the Department of West Virginia, were re cently surprised in their beds at Cumber land, Md , the headquarters of their depart ment, by a band of sixty or seventy moun ted Rebels, who came forty or fifty miles through Union territory, surprised and captured first a cavalry picket, then an in fantry post,then dashed across the I'otomuc into the city, woke up the two Generals, together with Kelley's adjutant, made them dress in a hurry, mounted them on fresh horses, and, supplying themselves with other such, made away into Dixieuneaught and unharmed. RATIONS OF FISH. —A recent order of the War Department directs the issuing of a ration of fish, namely, fourteen ounces of dried fish, or eighteen ounces of pickled fish, to be made to the troops once a week, in lieu of the ration of fresh beef. THF RF.BF.T.K IXXtKIITG OFT FOR THK ' FITI'RK. The rebel leaders, through their public and private agents, at home and abroad, 1 and their newspapers, are making a desper-; j ate effort just now to draw the French and | English into their support,by exaggerating ; ! American sentiment on the subject of the MONROE Doctrine. It has been even intima ted,by one,at least,of the Richmond papers, i that they would not care much to give up j their scheme for an independent confederacy, j i if we, on the other hand, would make it I j part of the condition, to help them drive j | MAXIJUI.UAN from Mexico, the English from 1 Canada, destroy English and French com ' merce, drive the one out of Asia, the other ' ! out of Africa, taking their possessions, and their trade, for the purpose of taking the ' j haughtiness out of these nations. A pretty j large job to be sure, but one they say, can bc easily accomplished by the United States, i when the South is again united with it. All this,however, is intended for a foreign mar ket, and is designed to drive European mi- j tions into a recognition ot the rebel govern- > ment. From our stand-point, the means to 1 the end, in this matter seems very illy pro-! portioned; but it is said that "drowning! men catch at straws," and we guess, this is '■ what the rebels are doing in this instance, i In this scheme to work upon foreign gov ernments, there is visible, however, another project, more reasonable and therefore, more feasible,and'one which the rebels may attempt to carry out, if they fail to secure independence ; and that is, to go over to Mexico in a body, and undertake to conquer it, with the view of creating there, what they could not here, a government of their own. Some of our cotemporaries have been j inclined to look lightly upon this ulterior ; purpose of the rebels ; hut to us it appears plausible. The rebel leaders must see that to establish an independent government out of any part of the United States, is an utter impossibility, and it looks as if they were preparing for this. What becomes of these men, in the event of the failure of their present enterprise, if they do not look out for some means to escape, and they are not hanged, as we believe they ought to he? They are almost all past middle life, their property has been confiscated, their negroes freed, their desolated country has no employment for them, and they will have the most damning load of disgrace to carry any mortals were ever burdened with, and under these circumstances, how could they live ? And does any one suppose these rascals do not look at all these tilings ? No, no. If they fail here, as they must, they will try somewhere else ; and what place, what locality, so favorable for such an enterprise, as Mexico ? They can reach that point more readily than any other, and two-thirds of the population of that coun try would hail their coming with rejoicing. It is objected, that although the rebel lead ers might he willing to go themselves, they could carry no considerable share of their army with them, and without it they could do nothing. This latter is not so certain. A large portion of the soldiers, are in no better plight, in many respects, than their leaders, and they have learned to hate us as bitterly, and would therefore, as much dislike returning, after being whipped out. Then, conquests in new fields, with the of fer of large bribes, which would be held out, would he very tempting to the sold iers ; and think you, that the men who have been able so completely to mislead the public mind in the South, would he want ing in devices to attract the soldier, in such an emergency ? There is, moreover, above and beyond all this, the f act that as at present situated, the Mexican government could be very easily overturned by the rebels. Fifty thousand of their •veterans, with the aid they would soon draw together among the discontented Mexicans, would drive MAXA MII.I.IAN, and his French cohorts out, in less I than six months. There can he but little | doubt of this, and we wish they would un ! dcrtake it speedily. It is the easiest way ; to get rid of them, and the war they are making upon us ; and the sooner they un ; dertake the business, the better for us and themselves. A few more of SHERMAN'S movements will convince the rebels that j the time for the exodus lias come. THE Ft RATE RAM OI.I.VHE.—The Oovern ; ment has reliable advices that the pirate ram Olinde, which has been the subject of | so much speculation, has put into Gorunns for repairs, which, there is reason to be- I lieve, she will not he allowed to receive, and without which she will not he danger | oris to any nation or port on this side of the Atlantic at least. THE On. BUSINESS.—But few persons rea lize the extent of the business carried on in the Pennsylvania Oil Regions, unless they visit here and judge for themselves. Ihe number of teams required for the transportation of Petroleum from the wells to the different shipping points, in seasons i when both river and creek are low, and navigation suspended, is immense. For . several days during the recent good order of the roads, there have been an almost i continuous train of wagons loaded with oil, traveling on the road from Cherry Run to Franklin, a distance of over twelve miles. Just think of it, reader. A train of wagons leaded with the product of one single township in this State, over twelve ' miles in length, And this too only from a portion of the producing locality of this same township. For it is remarkable to suppose that the amount of oil being ship ped to the Shaffer Farm, and other railroad po nts, is equally as great. The load for these wagons is generally seven barrels, and the weight of a barrel of oil is about 3HO pounds. In view of this immense daily traffic carried on by means of wheeled ve hicles, is it any wonder that our roads here soon become impassible ? No road could long stand such wear and tear, without eon-1 staut extensive repairs. If, therefore, our roads, and even the main street of Oil City, which is the great thoroughfare, should appear almost impassible to the denizens of other places, they must take into oonsid-; eration that -a good reason exists for it.— j Oil Cifi/ Register. (JOI.II at Now York. Saturday, sold at 199 fell to and elosed at 199J, against 204}, on the 18th. FX OM TTA XRTSX rX G? ~t' HABKISRCBO, Feb. 25. f865. MK. EDITOR : On the 16th, the Senate considered i a joint resolution sent up from the House, asking the President of the United States to remove Maj. It. J. Dodge, from the office of the Provost Mar shal General of this State. On the motion to pass to the second reading of the resolution the pre vious question was called. Then commenced a system of een, more funds are still wanted to procure the comforts needed by sick and wounded soldiers. In all prob ablitv, there will, early in the spring, be the great ! and decisive battle of the war. Then hqjidrods of men and women, and hundreds of thousands of dollars will be wanted to alleviate the suffering of that terrible day when it comes. Let our people 1 be rendv to meet the emergencies. X. OCR RELATIONS WITH FRANCE. —Advices ! from France shows that the reported ces sion of Sonora is without foundation, and indicate that the relations between- France and the United States are not likely to un dergo any disturbance. EXTRA SESSION OK THE UNITED STATES SEN ATE. —President Lincoln lias issued a proc lamation calling an extra session of the United States Senate on the 4th of March next. • ! LATEST WAR NEWS. EVACU AT 10 N OF CHAR LESTO X —TIIE OLD FLAG WAVE.S OVER SUMPTER ! WASHINGTON, Feb. 21. This Department has received the official report of Major General Gilmore, announ cing the surrender of the city of Charles ton, South Carolina, to the United States forces under his command, at nine o'clock on Saturday morning, the 18th inst. Among the captured property are two hundred pieces of good artillery and a sup ply of fine ammunition. The enemy burned their cotton ware houses, arsenals, quarter masters' stores railroad bridges, two iron clads, and some veseels in the ship-yard. EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of War. OFFICIAL REPORT OF GENERAR. GILMORE. CHARLESTON, S. C., Feb. 18, via NEW YORK, Feb. 21. M njor Qtntrill ll'illn-l, Chi if at : GENERAL : The city of Charleston and all its defences came into our possession this morning, with about two hundred pieces of good artillery and a supply of fine am ! munition. The enemy commenced evacuating all the works last night, and Mayor Macbeth ! surrendered the city to the troops of Gene ! ral Shimmelpfenning at y o'mock thismorn ! ing, at which time it was eccupied by our forces. . Our advance on the Edisto and from Bull's Bay hastened the retreat. The cotton warehouse, arsenals, quarter masters' stores," railroad bridges, and two iron-clads, were burned bv the enemy.— Some vessels in the shipyard were also burned. Nearly all the inhabitants remaining be hind belong to the poorer classes. Very respectfully, Q. A. GILMORE, Maj.-Gen. Gom'dg. DETAILS OF THE OCCUPATION. NEW-YORK, Feb. 21. The steamship Fulton, from Port Royal and Charleston Bar on the 18th instant, at t p. m., arrived this morning. Parser McMauus furnishes us with the following memoranda : Charleston was evacuated by the enemy on the night of the 17th, leaving the sev eral fortifications uninjured, besides two hundred guns, which had been spiked. The evacuation was first discovered at Fort Moultrie, on the morning of the 18th, at ten a. in. Part of the troops stationed at James Island crossed over in boats and took possession of the city without oppo sition, the upper part of the city being on fire. Previous to the enemy evacuating they fired the upper part of the city, by which six thousand bales of cotton were burned, and it is supposed that before tliey could subdue it two-thirds of the city would be destroyed. A fearful explosion occurred in the Wil mington Railroad depot, the cause of which was unknown. Several hundred citizens lost their lives. The building was used by the Commissary Department, and was sit tuated in the upper part of the city. Admiral Dahlgreen was the first to run up to the city, where he arrived about 2 p. i m. Gen. Q. A. Gilmore soon after followed in the steamer W. \V. Colt, and had an in terview with Gen. Schimmelpfenning, he . being the first general officer in the city, and for the present in command. It is supposed that Beauregard evacua ted Charleston in order to concentrate ami give Sherman battle. The remains of two iron-clads were found 1 which the enemy destroyed by blowing uj previous to the evacuation. The blockade runner Gyrene,just arrivec from Nassau, fell into our hands, and two , others were expected to run in on the nigln of Febuarv 18th. The first flag over Sumpter was raiser by Capt. Henry M. Bragg, A. D. C. on Gen Gilmore's staff, having for a stall' an oai and boat hook lashed together, r The houses in the lower part of the citi were completely riddled by our shot ant , shell. The wealthy the populatioi have deserted the city, and now all that re main are the poorer classes,who are suffer , ing for w ant of food. It was reported at Hilton Head that th< left wing of Sherman's army had reaehei I Midway, on the Charleston and August: Railroad,and that the rebels,in consequence j had evacuated Branchville and had fallei | back on Orangeburg, j A movement had been made by the fore: " j under General Hatch, which resulted in tin 1 i capture of six guns, which the rebels ha: ", abandoned. The carriages were destroyed ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS. The New York Eivning Poxt gives th< ■! following additional particulars of the new: ■ brought by the Fulton : I THE EVACUATION. r The evacuation was discovered by oui forces under General Schimmelpfenning from James Island. Exactly at what tim< j is not yet reported though the occupation o . | the city and of the fortifications took placi . j at about ten o'clock in the forenoon on th< , 1 Stli instant. The departure of the rebels from Forts i Sumpter and Moultrie was, it is understood seen from our picket boats which reconnoi tie the harbor at night; and the operations ■| of the rebel garrisons began about twelv: hours before the evacuation was completer | —namely, at ten o'clock on the evening o ! the 17th. THE FIRING OF THE CITY. Early on the morning of the 18th, twe | terrific explosions in Charleston were ob I served from our fleet. Fire, smoke, ant i burning fragments filled the air for a greai ' distance, and the shock was severely fell ; by all our vessels. Soon afterwards, and before daylight ! fires were set in other places, and extender i throughout the upper part of the city. 1 has since been ascertained that many thous [ and bales of cotton were burned in couso i quence of the explosion of the warehouse and other public buildings that were fired by the rebels. OUR FORCES TAKING POSSESSION. Our foi - ces took possession of the city in the forenoon, as already reported. Gen Schimmelpfenning was unopposed, the reb els leaving as the Union troops came in sight.* There was not even a show of insis tence. REUF.I. THIEVES. It appears that the rebels who remained to the last were ot well organized, and a majority of them were thieves, whose ob ject in staying was plunder. It is resorted by the inhabitants of the city that these men were guilty of many disgraceful acts They had little difficulty in effecting their | escape with their booty. • REEEI. DESERTERS. Several hundred rebel deserters wen concealed in the houses in Charleston, and when our troops entered they surrendered declaring that they were tired of the re bell ion, and would no longer fight for it.— : They were received as prisoners. THE NEGROES Crowds of negroes met our troops, and made many demonstrations of joy. There were men, women, and children. They wanted food. Many of them said they , would be glad to work ; some proposed to take up arms against their masters. THK I'DITI.ATION. The population of Charleston consisted entirely of the poorer classes, who Wtr( . unable to get away, the rich had for seve ral days been removing. The persons w |,, remained were in want ; they had nothing to eat, and had no means of obtaining an v. thing. Their situation is described as mue| | worse than that of the inhabitants of sa vannah after the rapture of that eity. CONDITION* OF THK CITY. The lower part of the city, within read of our guns, was in effect a ruin, and was almost uninhabited. Comparatively f-v persons dared to remain there. Some of the houses were knocked down ; bricks and timbers were lying everywhere, aid the streets in particular were strewn with the fragments, in many placrt entirely ob structing travel. Shells were lying among i the rains. Ihe appearance of the city— the lower part uninhabitable and the npp< r i part in flames—is described as dreary and desolate in the extreme. ! THK RKBKI. ARMY AND SFPHMEB. . lheie is information tliat the evacuation of Charleston began nearly three week> ago. A rebel officer, who deserted am! was examined at fort Royal, gave some of the details,hut they were not then believed Since that time the rebels have been a; work removing stores,though all the hcavt j supplies were left. . i The only information in regard to th. rebels is that the direction taken by then, in their flight was northward, and tha: their mtmbor was about fourteen thousand | An expedition of Union troops at Bull', Bay,a short time before the evacuation,wa it is understood, intended to cut the rail | road north of the city , but, if successfulj; could have prevented the escape of only few of the rebels. REBEL NEWS. As was expected, the rebel journals |, r . nounce the loss of Charleston " a Ll >sih, in disguise " The Richmond Whiff of Fi uary 21 has the following allusion to tl event, with a statement of what Slierim, can do : "On last Tliursday night, the ltttli i stant, our forces evacuated Charleston, ai it is believed that the enemy took poss sion during the next day. Many guns mm have abandoned by our troops, but it consoling to know that the Yankees g little else. There was no cotton at <'| lu lestoii to gladden Lincoln's heart, ami ti city itself was little better than a des<-rt ruin. Several telegraph operators, all them men of northern birth, did not r. i out with our forces, but remained t r ccive the Yankees. "The evacuation of Charleston slum rather inspire cheerfulness than gloom.— Sherman can only be checked by an hum diate concentration in his front of all troops, both in North and South Carolit If this is done he may be defeated and 1. present expedition broken up. If he is i. defeated lie will march straight up them road to Charlotte, thence to Salisbu: thence to Greensboro and Danville, and on to Richmond. Many different estiinu: have been made of Sherman's army. S think he has sixty thousand men. V know he lias four full army corps am strong force of cavalry. ilis corps u not number less than twelve thou men. The question of arming the slaves agitates the rebel Congress. The lb mond Sentinel of Febuary 21 says : "It was generally known that h Houses were in secret session yesterday the bills to put negroes in the army. It understood a bill on the subject passed t: House yesterday, and it is believed OIK* the same character will pass Senate toda As they differ in detail, the subject tv come before botli Houses again. There • but little doubt of the adoption of tl measure. The Coinmander-iu-Chief at the rank and file are in favor of it, and is grefwing in favor with the people " CAPTURE OF WILMINGTON ! WAR DEPARTMENT. WASHINGTON, Friday, Feb. 24—12, midnight. ( To .1 raj-Gen. Dix, Ave-- Yuri : Thefollowit. official report of the capture ofWilmingt ; has been forwarded to this Department! Gen. Grant. EDWIN M. STANTON, See. -it' W... FORTRESS MONROE, Va., Feb. 24 lop. m. ; To Gen. I . S. GRANT, City Point: Our ti ! entered Wilmington on the morning oft 22n inst. After the evacuation of Fort A. • derson, Gen. Schofield directed Cox t> low its garrison toward Wilmington, wL Terry followed Hoke on the east side of; river. The latter took up a new line, 1 I miles from Wilmington, but was so close!;- pressed by Terry that he could send troops to the west side. On that side tl Rebels made a stand, behind Town Crm but on the 20th Cox crossed his troop low them on a tlat boat, attacked them the rear and routed them, taking two gu and 300 prisoners. On the 21st Cox pushedjto the Bums--; River opposite Wilmington, where t bridges were on (ire; and on his arrival Rebels began burning the cotton and I • in the eity, and left it that night. Our captures, including Fort Anders amount to about 1.00 prisoners and 30 guu* Citizens state that the Rebels bun. 1,000 bales of cotton and I.nOO barrels ' rosin. The I nion feeling showed itself q" strongly in the city. ferry followed Hoke northward. C. B. CoiISTOCK, Lieut.-C01.,A. D. C. and Brev. Brig.-Gcii THE CHENANGO CAXAI. EXTENSION. — V are gratified to learn that the surveys! this work preparatory to putting it un i contract are about completed. The wri should be prosecuted without delay. The is no other way in which so much may done to reduce the present high prices coal, as by opening additional avenues! the coal fields of Pennsylvania. That tin avenue would accomplish that end,in ina: lest from the fact that our citizens liav been able to advantageously to stipp' themselves with coal this winter by brin ing it from Athens, a distance of 21 mile and Towanda. a distance of over 30 milc in wagons and sleighs—points both mi d canal the Chenango extension is to conne' with it.— thcrgo (iazette. THE AMENDMENT. —The Kentucky legisb* tuie Thursday rejected the constituti"i" aigeudniont. The vote in the Senate 'J taken on the 22d, standing 12 in favor ai 21 against; in the House,standing2l i" 1 -' vor and 02 against. Minority reports the subject were presented in both Hons* favoring ratification on the conditio" compensation; but the majority report-* rfatly rejecting the amendment, wore tina adopted. Two states (Delaware and Kentucky have now rejected" the amendment, seventeen have adopted it. SECRETARY OF THE TREASCRY. —On \lonL-V President Lincoln nominated Senator M" ! gan of New York as Secretary of the Tro;'** ury, but subsequently withdrew it.