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WWI Ant , 1111,1 1 AINGT OL •-•-• •;, f : OnlYoVeli Reported ' Pile . 6 3 / 13 i*ea • X ORTA SALT wouirf..a • • . • FL70,Y...-.."-, *:e.tterMY.L7.., a , t ,2:::: t" • . , Srev i s lociatePrevi Dispatch. ti 7.: i 1 r,rl i' L iiiiiaci.ksiisaiiri..litYlafailiOx I „' :„, r ,,.. t •,. iPT,liebq A . 11 20 l'• M. -1$ -144,•Get:IIIii--Tho-folldning extracts trona - - Itiaki*a lik.gcrtiofili';'hhfitt breamreciived. by tuotoeptirt4*.s t_ • , i --. •-_, Las*t ofilchil advice!! from Georgia indicate Aliti..aritirilia)(linaitiXidi-iallowell up the it '-'l':- ttatien trtfiairanniiiXby sandhi. * rarebit( . „ f ry '...,,s _ Artilicryand interatry.„ upon an expatilla hose i destination can be„tptieileLat , CA:K64Ir di .srecUratin :ditch It has moved:. These troops are ' :1, * rrpt*/tolutvetgeuetowerdstheAltamalus river, : f in& !lei piilrikti aota4 .4*i :tirar.that, Tbeyt4o46 ./' (1T4410 that 'Stream; and ore moving to South • - .1 western GrergittartAncst or the prhoners-at war a., , ,. reetirposeduir buttt . ,./andeesonvllle;p. , . i 7.rSficrinen'aprogiciranni for hia 0 - and etintimigli ' 1 northward, serensterbe no secret. lie willert. i - ',l' : ,- Stout yti , i . t:ii4a . l . and, _move straight for Branch ; t .... . itife:the point ofiunitleithetireOn the Georgian' : ..`,. -stud earollidarrrallroade; ha then oroposna. to follow .the main road towarda yirgiAla,,fitlating i-.:. .ti - ria - murdering as much, as be - ran g by the:way. , . '.- ..*Il very for, burl/ Sticurnanliectiujeis, Lee ells ,•• poses. . :--- :-: t.. .:. . - • ' .• . "'The following official,diSpktib, w 3, neared - eat night,. • • . 1 - , n inliarn , jo, - Dee. ST; Gp. nt •"- To Ili. I.7.i.dtim ::: 4-fr, 04 Priikliite of Ili4,..CO4fOlirateltqat.# .Ttie .tltetn7.44rYFlq,,trlie4 under -99Ter of his • ',. '; • . fleet.' Ilis mov,e . mcnts ,_ are not . developed. I. .• barc,thrited:T*Vistier, Allir.ll4 the damage ! - e ilitt;-. pisii4 , : !hi . bAililine..s4.ertisa,rY for .., defence, . and only two; guns - were disabled. • ...- "The Maths remaining indicate that the bombard. • anent was eery heavy. :,:idAtor.'delieial sVitriting, commending the defences at the . maid' of the . . /river, Cotonet Lomb, commanding the Fort; and ". . the eflice.r, and men comprising the garrison, demean, sporial commendation for their pain . .. - . : • tey, t enie ietwciAintlgol tlrade-displayed under eery t • • 'I dineelreettrultufnee. (Signed) . Bourns Masao." The I.yncithurgrriviaton has the following ',..:4 , , , itaditicizia , tw.nation tiiiitetaitare of the salt 1 :works, .antertmeei offidally: ayesterdayi ""W el i - have been-led to hoz that these important Rorke '.: were safe; but the source from which the report , ...,. . of their capture comes, leaves no room to doubt -, -, - its coL'ectuestl.L . They were occupied onTnea -1 ,•...N...,,iday., the, Tarilki?ttd by.; . thans, -as is - stated, i - until Th y; *heralds Tankets -retreated bl- . t , : It "Wel that plee4 teal beld_by about WO re ! - serves Tate" Col. -- Priston, most oC Whom . .. escaped capttgc. The world' ire reported to be - ..*:.._:'...but little damaged, and triwittmetbod Aim per ; eons who have visited them since the occupation or the cacmy that they can be put in working • --, - o rder again by the first of. February.l4:lle. • t .. mpuntiltles orsalt;:already". gedtruC out, wart • o. .V. 2:" strafed, grad all the buildings at the place were', , • - burned • Several pieces of, artillery. were also''', ' • ._,... copturodby them, but th.ygot pie else of any ,-, •?1, . °Gen. Bredilitridowas atleSt accounts tit Salt -.V.11c, ..preparing - to follow the enemy on his re ,.. •Isp*ltt%A . l brigade , : prtineed,to t slcirmist( with roar guard. . , ..,,..`No. other.. tilting has u ri ev - en w r o nee thais e th n at cr.. ..2; :.'1.: i -: te r' lt ' rery• l'WEl le t :iil !' . 'ec ti ' it ii ;: tir e° - : ''t •, • 1111P11. places are all .burned, bat .thertraehs are 'Uninjured." • Enacts M. Sri-4104C . , - 1.1 4 131 4 1. HOE NEW 9 .1 4 2111 - A-tr:t_ - Atexiezrzi,.../.4. frit i ice. . , . . . . _ . ..._ - - -., putt ,/ , \ CANT. , piE „IMPERIAL CIIVER4EN"Th, ..:1110,Eis DESERTIONS TO. BROWNSVPIE.r.: 2i)! Raclin of .ptatison.% Eratiisrat fr.pe. 't . • • , • - ' ' ifee:.24.=-riteideitmei - tarter; 'from 'Otieide,: the 2161; Int' arrived.: Brazos 6soljigiiii4Yleeii of the 17tb, faipittitai tia I.WatAigeg. thicetters hive ar4Tod'eit itrAz os4 -!PtY b r ik !I4wkitoTXuta92o,4s thIL . . "ifiin. Weila hits discormeat- aa hoportaat .'plbf.- '''' iraltist- the.imPerlal girrM7inient'sit lial.moras, '• - ' la•bded•by Col. Lahotde, formerly of the Repub. •.,•:. Minim : my; but since-ihe surreader of Cortina% ' " ' l'e• Ili , .o' ll,, 'llif;e 6 rfie"eid r l asastrilliatt.,i a borde - • -.*: Wks waited: AZ. twenty years'.. confinement la ',,'; '. ' ' "Cattle - 6in Juan de Ulloa: Flit4,44ller ottleere . ,„ 7; Three; hundred revoiveri Were. &Mid in Mots . - 'rima '1401104g lci. the •trampirnOrx. Quite a ;.• ,•,. -. ti matiOr.;,'ottilffleene are in prison on iftislllein of - , '''' ' . l'elegiloireitird in the plot. ,-.. .: ; • ..•.4 !..',.-.. .Gen:.CraLlztas .lind surether% ...fmbh With Cal. ' Conally,lnwldeb inelotter*iv , niortallyWounded : .. ,Tradels,very Illiik... • - ' , ' '' •' .; . Lame . number% of rebels continue to - desert from Atm. elanthter at Ilrownsrillo. - ....., • - . --.-.....Creton .at New Orleans was very doll . tho , ...-,.•"".,..:' anoycenanthehizelieekethy _the Increasing dill'- : : ~.estlq fit procuring ereltange, -The wrigq. ma- QC •F94..limr.,tilarkc was overstockeCati. 1,2 7t.9 , 5 ,21 • 30 ; - •r - AuStpriglarlflvlnz 4f , gorgarrala under jridielous manNtratealt. ; • '' •,•' '-"•.,ciiimn)....Villiuners a*oditioe,ldt .51oignazio .i . • ~`!' ~iiitlir4 i s.9fase Ott the A`ifftlig4, Wiliarein(lo the ' '.. • :tack.weiiher high :, water,..not :Innen Was At t 'si 11 1 / 2 soma time another ' erpeditlna I under :'' .trolotiel '' ely - wenito ItSteahlrie, r i -;.:..:)lralciii. Asizerbotebo.OgroyedstuFlik prop . 2- : . crlyir4 optand a !aro number. at : horses and ."- - .-'l(tai , koreii sustained Wri loss - except Ilii, cap: ~AFte.e.tat Lieutenant . Whimcj.. _ - , ... . ... •,. -. ;,.... :rat Alneatli t orarassa iltansoluli of , the rivet tbo 1... f •.. t ather.d.land a rata at the same time was mov ln~ rap ~.,••-* ." - T 'Gen. Liarldsairseilleditlon reterwal after sue leik'sfolle - aecompUsamr, 1: their:, .ohjett. : Tiler traveled through. one hundred mitesin fifteen ... t. - . •-, days, bullt fifteen Midges; and miles or railroad . -,; ... ;.- -. 'were destroyed..rmormont qtumlltlesof property - - '..:•: ',' • ~was alto destroyed: The rald.'sraa one of. the ~ ....mast IstillLint of thowar, and malted in (*owlet , . 4......... i. wane of Wheeler's-fames from-Tennessee, Tar a.7l . ',. % .10,..i, foreei - ficint 31erldian and Iteanrektrd to T, : the let: Gaigt., at St. Loui.j 'Broken, SEVERAL STEAMERS DAMAGED Vie .Slectater fitglifantler"Lost INT. 'FNCIES SIDSAREN MAX s7.l,arls, Ire. ice gorges abovetho tire broke as - av un Monday . and tho river la now • - • r.. — brileved &o be ' drar of Ire from the month of the to , Cairo. Several steamers wero damaged by the lee, and a nutnherof bar gra and flatboats carne_ away. The itemper,. lgbtapder~, firoirt l'ittidir.ll;• -with a car - ,1 of billlk'atilat . ft; .I,e. Gred :Shew.lfl i•ea tafal mote The twat iris:raised at fatnims rain Mannechwei Bunk brioW birV. :,'The total darn:Age br it a itoclug the.lce is _not yet .asdertained.- The -Missouri; and tinker ' tiros arereptrtrat"to,lis..yising, and. navigation will dealaisA goon •be 'r..r.ittnied i, rstriticr.thht didaaecup thyme a'reants 24.—N0 news lue, been ic ,sivetil Rout Flirtresiillourot [Ws - • ADVIMIS FROM WIIMBGTOIi. MEM THE iIEPOLTED SETUPA 0? PORNEFM FLEET. 111PLOFOli oy THE POWDER SHIP. , Fort Vist.rr Bombardcd on Christmas Day. A .DETACIIMENT OF TROOPS LANDED. t s ..> Wiwi forksi Entered ond the Ced Off. COMPANY LW NORTH CAROUNA SOLDIERS CAPTURED ORDEN OF ATTACK ON WILMLN CITON "Sever Storms at ltwbarn and Beanole island. r.r, -- 7.,, • -,- -7..r. 7- -,- • , .' Winfill.ortni;'De64s:l.:lt Whilltectis to be a mistake, as reported this morning, that the mili tary and fleet had return* from NorthCarolida to Fortress Monroe. The Navy Department has no such intelligenerthut that one vessel only . re turnedyeatertlity Isa Alm lzdtetr place, brinOng ' dlspitelfekfrofe Admiroi 'vetoer. Them en ' ger had not yet arrived at Washingan. t , Is. ascertained from an authentic source; how ver, , under date. of Fortzs Monroir - oczttenlay,;that.' tit'Vp&trilet ; • Shfp 7 vr i an - "-r4pAgdeli• within three hundred yards of Fort 'Fisher, about two ti. m. °utile 24th. ___ • • .. , -.:, ; . Later on the same day Adtelral Porter attacked the fort and adjacent ,defenses, and renewed the , botubard&prtial..Chei4Maa day . On each flees- Mon we drovethe rebels' from their guns and an-' deb the shelter of the bombproofs, so as to etTee tuallY. silence their fire in a very few minulds at tre the fidgatesand betty! shipagrot into pasllion. At detachmentof troops landed on Sunday' AC- . tarpon. Theskirmishe Thais* up gallantly . - .• to the fort under coverer nor Ste. Some of the more dating actually entered the works j and brought off the flag: ',', ', ::1' `,, I The 'bombardment 'by the fleet contlnuad on lionday. • ~..- The Settlings de-Caba e ;Inured a centrally of North enrollee soldiers in the outworks; and brought them off. . - . ; `lle order of attack on Fort Fisher was for the flea; with :a:- Tull- head- of 'atenttn, to step off twelve miles, while the torpedo steamboa was tdown up; the whole fleet was then to come n as rapidly as possible. The Iron.clads, led by the frigWronsides;rinEaccorciP4ed by thenn bouts, acting as their tenders, would approach Fort Fisher front the north-east, stand* in close to_the shore, In the Swath Channel,iuntil within three-fourths of a odic from the fort, or_ as near as the Water would permit, the Ironsides standing broadside towards the fort, and the monitors ranged in line, boas on, at a con'veni cot distance bekind. I • in . tint poshlen they would fire OVAL:land at the. frot,lhe frigates, sharips ;at War Ana bther larger vessetammre . ittaltorre, formtnr. a en.4.e . ent shaped line of battle a mile from the forte, ores near as possible, and pour their concentrated batteries into the forte. ' ' ! . While this.was_going_ms, Butler wasted land Ids feral; and -Ookipetatis -with. , tho fleet. I Tho main point of attack .is Federal Point, a narrow strip of land on the north side of New Inlet, and forms part of the eastant of Cape-fear. „River, .and Is hebtlir a ries of works , which command the month of pe Pear River. Their capture Moses the of Wilmington, and renders Fort Caswell i ii, ' no pre to the rebels. Fort Fisher fs the stron or lite! work!, tat Federal Paint; and NU to the friiielpiil poitif - Of 'Attar frith : BllA of troops under Gen. Butler, the lath Indiana is this only Western regiment mentioned. - Forrnr_as Agony); Dec. 27, via Wlstra" :on, Dec. .—J. hale just arrived here t. the Santiago de Cuba from off Wilmington. IThe , attack on Fort Fisher commenced at aotion Sarowleyillta - Itttb,'mnissend all day, au was -retrained on Sunday and kept, up with great, Igor nil day. This fort Is much damaged. .All the. bainitediina' stink; litre!) wMii barbed a*Chet garrison .42jvha .to,, Ute booth proofs, a4noly . venturing to reply A small portion of oar• troops. landed ma (Sunday: afternoon andiskit retailed with sgreat. gallantry. They pushed Op ta the fort and'actuallY Ontitiedthe worE., and tilled the _rubel ....heater of dispat,eites t w .. 7 was viirr . g. . _, - ~,, , . rrile rift:ThdterworntessealPfrest OMR; erred a rebelilag' front she bastion. Our troop' also ernannal a' wlitile - battalion of the enemy who were outside of their works . • but our fovea were widatrawn.from the shore. -When the Saattems ;le Cuba left: r the bombanbrient was continulag. On Broo ley. the sailors. from ; the Banthiga de enho captured Pond-hill liattery,4lth Gli i mat, and b ro ught.tbe Wiwi* party off to the ettlP- A torpedo-boat was successfully explodint on Pater:lay morning at two o'clock, but withl what rterdelskuattierwm.,- s. :..t. , . t ~ :, . (~ ~ Tho weather has been moat violent at Nebens and Imandielsland. Theoldesitlnhabitan never I", eerpetleiscolausit severe - stones. c, , L , l New ,TORN, Lip... 28. - This. Flrdadngtef 'fleet ' z olrta UPULLIGENUE. Tint - wtomormtv:ismes t . ow triln , spzullp, op:, Ti1f...K1.3R!1).t. . --- I REEEGNMO,O ., -Tai,,C o ***C! , DO6NCE6 Between th el"%nilthrdisPatSstezial7 men REDUCTION IN THE Harm lump od Ftellna Intrevarot In Pram Tea - arils tto. tailed IMMO • rontrA,SP, Dee.:lso—Tnesteanignp Peittvlan,• :from Liverpool on thelsth,lnadonderryon the - "Mb OK Cape. Pace on the-evening hr the i (thy et-livid this evening. I ;-: . li t ial) t rding Witte ) - Imiait 44.(c,:i t 'clietoi , ;ion • says :- Assenting it to hefty design; We ans dhposed to waste much indiguatidn,npontke. the method of 'procuring the Florida , well Inch violation , Otnentrilify is to deprive the sufferers of sympathy. TO Bring, this out parly, tll4 rlno Pullets that Mr. siward will , makenriratapotoOr'. ' A blockade running crew ban been Ou.trial in - the Court Rieheqsier, In which the Jud,gi point.' eJ nett that all parties In,theynatter sire foreign. en , ,arnt denlouncecl , stieh; violations of the right, of nsyium. At a large open-air medlng of the opertiGies hintielftviter resolutions were adopted 'Wrongly o pposing the .rec o gnition of the . . slareholdang Confederaey.; - • Tarllontent meets inittie lst of February. Ile, breach between the Papal Government and the i'maslou Mlubder at Rome .mntlusesv f The. rtoes of the }Oat; in int city article) sale Tire reditition le the hawk tate folfpeteeit. la a step entirely In harmony with the state of 'tire matte, sod will be rsPetlally welcomed from Its beine , ralcoloted to lessee the morbid dt4onden, cv a hive has prevailed, in 'all bronchi% of trade elntf *Eyeholes,. Mania, was corrected by the Baturdttes edvavahat np )41 lc and it per cent." ' The dernand for discount yesterday was of the necrege charecter tinder the full cspectatleu that the hank rate,irould he reduced. 'Consols opert.lhi yindentaj Matt InliancoOrNO, end after the redaction. had been torment. au !danced there` eaanotheratudler advance. A Puns icttec says : The good fecllog of France to‘vanPtiro !tailed Stites Is dully increplng,' ' Tie • Cott crate contraiv'sion to .Mactutillan ha- iron pnccr'profisses: ko tteva. found: a route forlianal sows MI linhoorl of rimama; on a #llo,inra and re...lll3ring no Imitv. - - . . . PARTY OF REBELS DROWNED SENTENVE RI:11171ED • - • -- WASIUNt:IO3I,I)(S6 2.5.,-;Lnst algid a party of rebels, nhohad homi for', AOITIC lime 1t Ntaryland: 'butpero,preeeted from returnlm; to Virgiui: , ou actoont of bight water, constructed a - raft nron whiebt.liey attempted to cross the P.oto. mac • nhore Muddy Branch. Our pickete cap lurid one, and fired upon 'll..xe others ; whit teL literati and. mete ti.cosreCA..: ->• - President ' has remitted the sentence ; of the Court., Martial .upott ,AcUng ./11ear- Admiral. Wilkes to , n period of , oneYear: -from its -date' the sentence having suspended .Itim three years from - the • • 'The si , etiannesecitgei• 'dispatches from • Adtotrar POrter. bso !rota, Portr o4 s • • • - - 1 - *lntin cpfry Iliancd, • - 4 , owned py Use United Vino° Maker s In Brooklyn cotnei-'of and West- streets, VMS Gtr.-vrvi fire ta.V. apt,. Lass over 20,000. 1 ••• _sinwrs- iirestmene of 'Clakiiisia l Feared: by tbeLUek.? x A - CiNIP:AIGIf INTO — SOUTH ,COIINA .PRAIABLE. 1"T. t.L.i...'.., -... .' . . . . . .. .. . . .. ... . . The Prepera.tione for the fop* of ! - eieseaussile. '- ; ' : ESCAPE OF HARDEE AND HIS ARMY PRESENT APPEOZANOE' OF TM` mi.. Special western Associated Press Dispatches .11a* TURA, Dee. 5.9.-114. General Ransom, commanding. at Charleston, has Issued orders 'forbidding non-combatants to enter ti city, and renneitbsithat all area whose own re are net Ilving its Charleston, to be immediat y•ecel away. Gila. Banentri evidently fears an e wrest anent of the city by Sherman. There is great anxiety aniong,the officers and soldiers ofShenasn's army, ¢o make a camrragn into South,Carolina. Officers, who have recent ly arrived, thinkthey will be gratified. - The lirerhei correspondence says that the rebels '.planted torpedoes( in the roads leading to Saran . nab, causing our troops; much annoyance. Gen. 'herrn= compelled rebel prizoners to point out these place!. ,s ,- The line of investment Mrouad Savannah sins .neatly, thirty, miles long. In. sever al places it wilt made up of 141:es and swamps; with only a` --single line of pickets. .•The only approaches the yeladsliad to our lines were by fpnr roods, as the swamps at the time of the surretiger were flood ed.- The *preparations -were nearly :completer for cutting off the..Unlon causeway enclosing liardee's army: Along the line heavy artillery was placed in reaffirm. and theshelling about to commence. Gen. Shernian told, the ill:vision com manders that tke first one to cuter should be made Military governor of this past, Which an nouncement brought the . troops up as fait as' possible. • General Hardee at the time of hie 'escape opened afire with the ramSavanah and the`guns along the lino, thus covering his movements. As'secm, as the crossing was completed , the vas.'were. bloirn up. General, Poster's . fleet moied .up next, taking up some of thei tor pedoes, and returned as sown as dispatches were written... Tim city Is Uninjured, end a provost gal yd de dattibtri to preserve order. It is-rumored that a considerable quantity of rebel government property Is In the ciiy„altd a thorough search will be male. The forts for the defence of the city prove ' 1