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1 , 440 , 4 - n e w pardon tne for so ionic ruar
ircting yes. I did not intend told 60 ;Ong Mir
without writing to you, but I And that a, Es
c umate, with the pure laziness crecoda m s '°
shar to eVer bad
most enough to make one forges
an Inteations. - - I cannot now attempt Os tble letter to eV° rots
butory of viii? rseetigs and travels, so I
c ommove.e time of our leaving Callfor
will
a fter-sitaking that State our headvartera for
mote sears a Tar and a half.
On the I.9th of ()Maher we left Sag Francisco bar
tor and proceeded very leisurely soilathward,'
lug at Cape St. Lucas on the V.fth, where we ;came
to anchor to await the arrival of the mall steamer
J. L. Stages, as she was returning to San Francisco
from Ls Paz, Guaymas, and Slated= She made
her appearance In the afternoon, and after taking on
.„.... , •-•••ra tiernber of passenger' who were returning
' ma im minesond-disebarging a small amount-.of
freight, condi:mar - ear her way. We neighed our an
chor Immediately after, end-cet sail for Mazatlan
where we arrived about D p. ra., of Inefollowbig day.
At Cape St. Lucas we had been informedTthat ,
andunlideslat Mazatlan had been fighting mongA
themselves and that a Mexican General by , the name
(Atlanta Corona had taken possession of the city and
constituted himself " Dictator at Mazatlan and Gov
ernor General °Ellie State of Sinaloa" by force of
arms. Tee next rooming we learned the foliowbag
Idatory-of the affair from our Consul :
The troo',e under General Santa Corona had a
number of 'months pay due them, and, as chance or
the cosigenelm of war had brought them near Ma
zatlan, the General concluded to repair thither with
his a:my and have them paid off. On their arrival
their camp was pitched just outside the city, and a
requisition for the amount of money required sent
to the Governor of the State, who usually resides
there. The Governor refused to receive the requi
sition, and as much as told the General that be and
all his troops were but a hand of Guerrillas. Of
Mine this procedure led to en.open quarrel, and re
sulted, as Is generally the case in Mexico, in the tak
ing possession of the city by the one who bad the
greater military force at his disposal,
Santa Corona, however, had very li ttle time to en
joy hie titles, for on the day following our arrival,
he was Informed that a large force of guerrillas from
the southward were marching on the city, with the
avowed intention of sacking the elect, and then, for
a previously stipulated sum, delivering it Into the
hands of the French. He immediately set about pre
fer the emergency, and, it was said, would
have obstinatelycontested for the prize with the
southern cutthroats bad not the following event
changed the whole face of affaits.
Early on the morning of the lath of November
three French men-of-war were discovered off the
; harbor, and before 8 a. Ea. the gunboat Lucifer came
in under a tke of truce and formally demanded; the
surrender of the place, at the same time informing
the Commanding General that, if the demand was
not complied with by the next morning at sunrise,
the fleet would open Ire immediately. Santa Coro
na refined to comply at once, and from the active
movements obsensble among the Mexican soldiery
dating the day we were led to suppose that the rity
would not be given up without a severe struggle and
• thorough testing of the metal of the French! All
of the SaranaeUss went to bed that night in great
expectation of witnessing a "tall time" the next
day, and could hardly prevail upon ourselves to go
to sleep, so anxious were we for the commencement
of the fray; but just Imagine our disappointment,
'Ludt may asy chagrin, when we were informed,
early the next m orning , that theta Corona, with all
his hest, had taken fright and skedaddled into the
country under cover of the night. We Were so
much irritated at Thu 5bm , ,a ,,, ..-4........gstaffairathat we
could have been easily provoked into fighting
French or anybody else. " Confound the cowards !
We would have tried the Frog-eaters one round at
imy rate," was the general exclamation all over the
411 / V ite French bad tot beard of this procedure when
the sun made his appearance, and therefore, accord
ing to agreement, the fleet opened tire on the tenant
less fortifications But eleven shots were fired before
• flag of trues boat was seen to leave the wharf and
snake for the fleet. Of course the firing Immediately
ceased, and In a few minutes it was known to the
French commander that the blustering Santa Corona
was gone, and that the inhabitants were ready to
give up the city and give in their adhesion to the
new government Preparations were made to take
=ion of the city forthwith, and about noon a
party landed at the wharf, marched through
the principal streets, and took up their quarters in
the line brick barracks which were, the day previous,
occupied by the Mexicans.
Thus has Mazatlan, the most considerable town
on the Nellie coast of Mexico, fallen Into the hands
of the French, and thus, I fear, it will be with every
other port which is not yet in possession of the bl
esdex, for it is too true that the Mexicans are not
able to cope with the foe, having neither able Gen
erals to command nor a powerful government to sup
port there. Poor Mexico is in a lamentable state,
sad from present appearances she will continue to
be so till some good friend desists her to drive the
Invaders off her soil hack to the other slde of the At
hletic where they belong. That it le the true policy
of our Government to be that friend, It would be use
less for me to stop to prove , for it is a fact too self
toltedou tea by any lover of free govern.
men sD Papee yby a iteproan:m.• The Milted
States ought not, and, I believe, will not, allow a
monarchical government to exist in Mexico when
our own affairs have once become fairly settled.
I bad intended to give you a brief description of
Mazatlan It this paper, but as I do not wish to weary
your patience In my first communication from the
Parana; I will defer the matter.
We remained at Mazatlan till the rights of the
American citizens were properly cared for and then
left for this place, where we arrived on the 224 in
stant, As soon as we have coaled and watered ship
we shall run up to Guaymas, calling at Mazatlan
again as we peas. .7. F. Snoestatten.
Lettere from Gen. Lee
The following letters from Gen. Lee, written soon
after the outbreak of the Rebellion, have just been
made public:
Azrzfforalc, VA.., April MI, I.BGL
GENERAL : Blnce my Interview with on on ;,the
18th last., I have felt that 1 ought not longer to . ' re-
Min my commission In the army. I, therefore, ten
der my resignation, which I request you will recom
inktdfor acceptance. It would have been presented
at ones, but for the struggle it has cost me to sepa
rate myself from a service to which I have devoted
all the best years of my life and all the ability I pos
sessed.
During the whole of that time ',-more than a quer—
ter of a century—l have experienced nothing but
kindness from my superiors, and the most cordial
friendship from my comrades. To no one, General,
have I been as much indebted as to yourself for tint•
form kindness and consideration, and it has always
been my ardent desire to merit your approbation. I
shall carry to the grave the most grateful recollec•
tions of your kind consideration, and your name and'
fame will always be dear to tne.
Save in defense of my native State, I never desire
again to draw my sword. Be pleased to accept my
moat earnest wishes for the continuance of your hap.
pintas and prosperity, and 'believe me, most truly
7011/1 1 / 2 R. E. Lau.
Wliseratia Score, Commanding United
States Army.
A copy of the preceding letter was Inclosed in the
following letter to a sister of the General, lira. A. 2,L :
Aaimariros. Va., April 20th, 18GL
-My Gala &smut : I am grieved at my inability to
see yon. • • 4 ' I have been waiting " for a mamma
vralent season," which has brought too many before
me deep and lasting regret. Now we are in a state
of war which win yfeld to nothing. The whole
South is in a state of revolution, Into which Virgin
ia, alter a long struggle, has been drawn, and though
Ireeogni.v no neeesniti for this iiote of Minya, and
would have forborne and pleaded to the end for re
dress of grievances, real or supposed, - yet in my own
person Ihad to meet the question, whether ehotild
take part against my nailer State. With all my devo
tion to the Union, and the feeling of loyalty and du
ty of an American citizen, I have not been able to
make up my mind to raise my hand against my rein ,
twee, any children; any home. I have, therefore, re
signed my commission in the army, and, save In de
fense of my native State, witli the sincere 'hope that
thy poor services may never be needed, I hope Inlay
never be called on to draw my sword.
I know yon will blame me, but you mast the k as
kindly of me as you can, and believe that I have en
deavored to do what I thought right. To show yon
the feeling and straggle it cost me, I send you a copy
of my letter to Gen. Scott, which accompanied my
letter of resignation. I have no time for more. • *
• May God guard and protect you and yours, and
adMtreropon you day blessing, is the prover of
yeardevotal brother. E
Arming the Slaves
prreepentaerice - le the Liverpool Eng. Courica.
- Bacnworio, Va., Nov. sth, Isol.
I sort you a letter, dated "Sing George County,
Va.," which, I fear, bas been detained by Mr. Sew
lira who does not favor the freedom of the press.—
It advised you of a movement in high quarters here,
toward aitentire change in Me law ova:ming alarm/.
'Hine° writing that Utter I spent a day with ,Gen.
B. h 5. Use, and - when this subject was introducedal;
Interrupted the conversation and said. "I wish yo
to understand AT views on this subject I am fa
vorable to the use of-nur arzvants in she army.
think wrocaumake bettersoldiera of them than Lin
coln can. He claims to have 200,000 of them in his
service. We can destroy the.valtur .of all such sol
diers tohira, by win ours against them. Ido not
see-why I 'should not lave the usis.ot such available.
material as welled he. I would hold 'out to them
the certainty of freedom - and Whotrae, - when they slistl
here rendered efficient Berrie.. He: hal : not 'Oren
them ii home.,- Nor can be give them traleem who -
canendembui and manage them as well as We freq.7l
On the next day rcouveraed with Hsu. S. Cooper,
Adjutant and Inspector-General C. 13. A. He slid,
" /agree with Gen. Ime in hls / istruld not
ownitthstalow action-of legislatXtres cm the enhjaev.
We have already used tloms in place of soldiers!, as
teamsters,. sad LucUgineerserviCo. We Mu tureth.eut
111 ot-her wars- 'There is go reason for delay. - let
them leplarw in the field. andiglFo . th e m for felentul service to -
floret-mew has itistrgarated.Auctr.lsinoie-.
meat by =Xing Noting the ,assent rnantb - In draft
.ar free and slays 11 % - reell, notr,inclirfor erection of
deldworli&c but really.to - drill and-Bcreeppaarraetifem
tor tom --Wanftl XraveledtorßicluilaWiddthaw
trontaingAtortworreragotraftgrettiflAddll
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"A ifid. •, • lakes and a Union of horde,
~:.;:. of States none can serer
••• a, and a Union of ti9ds,
‘... of our Union forever.
CIRCULATION aotoo.
H. H. FRAZIER EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
Montrose, Pa; Tuesday, Jan. 3, 1865.
Thatwurptrary Width ittott.h. Armies haretwen
ratird, scar is Levied tooreomplish it. There are only faro
rides to Me question. Every man must be for the United
&ate; or. against U. Then can be no neutrals in this
fear—only patriots ortraitors.—STErzben A. bouau.s,
at Chleago,, - April 11, 1661.
tar. Mat right has the Yorth assailed I That Jus
tice has beat denied! And what claim, founded in fus
tier and right, hai been withheld! Can either of you to.
day name one single act - of wrong, deliberately and par.
posely done by the Gotrrnsnent at Washington, of which
the South has a right to complain! I challenge the an
swer.—Hox. A. H. STERIFENS: IS6I.
THIRTEEN lIIILLIONS.
The amount of General Sherman's captures at
Savannah, In the shape of cotton, is valued at
Thirteen of Dotlars! In addition to this
the Immense captures of railroad cars, Locomo
tives, ammunition, &c., will amount to several
millions more. This truly a valuable Christ
mas gift to the nation.
TEN-PORTT WA V.
lut Secretary of the Treasury has decided to
issue another hundred millions of the ten-forty
loan—one of the most popular put forth. Those
who invest their money in the loans of the Gov
ernment, know where their money goes, and
that they will receive in time a
... big interest es
as well as the principal whenever they desire it,
as these loans always sell readily at an advance
WlaL;l . ==irAa.L..j;il
Admiral Porter and General Butler have gone
South from Fortress Monroe with an immense
naval force, accompanied by a powerful body of
troops belonging to the army. The fleet is com
posed of seventy-four vessels of war, carrying
not less than 666 guns. We learn from Rebel
sources that a great number of ships have ar
rived within sight of the harbor of Wilmington,
NOrth Carolina, which is no doubt the point
which the erpedition Is meant to operate upon.
The weather since the sailing of the fleet has
been so unfavorable that its movements have
been much retarded, and nothing decisive may
be accomplished for some time.
TUE MI:LIT/LILY SITUATION
"Universal and unbounded joy is felt at the glo
rious aspect of the milliary situation for the
Upton cause. The horizon is bright all around,
while throughout the Confederacy a wail of des
pair deep and prolonged goes up. Before Sher
man the path of conquest and glory lies open. He
s. arm? as awbierk-wksh •
demands to be led into South Carolina, and the
General expects to have Charleston by the first
of January. Meanwnile, the fleet will ascend to
Augusta, and the line of Savannah will be held
en permanence. Butler, largely reinforced, is
not confining his efforts to a direct attack on
Wilmington, but, according to the statements of
the Richmond Press, he has a powerful force
moving up the Roanoke tosever communications
between Wilmington thod Richmond.
From Tennessee the news is equally suspi
cions
THE cara. FOR TIMES TIVNDRED THOU
=
. The President has issued a call for three Min
deed thousand more troops, and the country will
approve.' The credits given to the several States
on hist call to make things easy made the draft
fall below the number of men wanted, and. this
Call is partly fur the deficiency. But many vol..
teas under the last call were for one year, and
their places must be filled next summer, and the
call for more men is none too early. There will
be no difficulty in getting men now. The rebel
hon is staggering, and the death blow worst soon
come. The veterans of the past three years will
want to ism the end. The hard work will be
over irefore a new army can be put into the
field.
THE TABIPP ON PAPER.
The Superintendent of Public Printing repre
sents that the interests of the Government have
suffered} heavily because of the exorbitant pri
ces now,' naked for white paper. The tariff on
imported printing paper Is now twenty per
cent., payable in gold, which amounts to a total
prohibition of the foreign article. American pa
per-makers are careful to charge enough for
their products to bring them just below the cost
of foreign paper, with the high duty added—
which ts said to afford them a very heavy profit ,
As the Government is now feeling the great in
convenience and loss of a high paper market,
we hare hope that Congress will either reduce
or abolish the paper linty. -which does not bring
into the treasurys cent of income, while„it for
ces thu whole printing and publishine Interest of
the country to submit to whatever exactions the
paper-Makers may gee tit to impose. Our Meth-
Ten ofthe press should enforce the importance
of such action upon the attention of members of
Congiss and of the public. '
arnws 'ROM ataxzco.
Official &Patches from 31exico state that
President Juarez entered Chihuahua on the 12th
of Oefober end met with a very enthusiastic re
' ceptiqu, net only from the people of the city, bat
from the inhabitants of other towns of the State.
The Mexican President dPsigned to establish
his reiddence in Durango, after that city was oc
cupied by the national forces, but the French
haft obtained a victory at the Estausuela on
the 2d of September, the Mexican army had to
withdraw to Chihuahua.
PrCsident Juarez is now busy organizing an
otheriartnY to carry on more effectually the war
against the , invaders. He writes to
_friend of
his 4this' country in the most hopeful way,
The genera; InsPressitre in Mexico seems to be
that Maiirnilfint's tale bas so many ohabielts
its way that it alined stand mote than ali
months longer, even in case the Mexican- patri
ots Wbuld he' hereafter as unbittunate as thiy
havelbeen heretofore in their efforts to oppose
the conquest. •
•Pr.ettmillan has set aside the Church party,
whl4a was the means by which he went to Mex
ico, and has 'exiled two principal leralera. lie
wishis to Conciliate the Liberals, but in that he
ill.certaialy fail, :and wilt remain without
any hold .011 the McClean people.- His principal
trouhle plat now Ws, srA..?of motley 'end . Of
oeedl tOtoriow, l
_it 4 gravenSy *tit the Itatimktchw
r•
eminent of Man isilllie t age not only to hold
on until our*er to orer; butibat even they may
gain_before vat Ague l advantages over their
adieneiries. The. news of the capture of Sa
vannah and of Bood'e defeat, will, it is thought,
be more severely felt by Maximilian than the
lose of two great battles by the French army in
Mexico.
WILMINGTON AND ITS DEIPMCICS.
Wllmington,-tbe principal city in North Caro
lina, ie situated on the left bank of the northeast
branch of Cape Fear Rlierott. its junction with
en estuary of that river, a little more than thirty
miles from the sea. It is the terminus of the
Wilmington and Winn, and Wilmington and
Manchester railroads, the former of which is
_threatened by the_ cooperiting expedition up
the Neese. Before - the war Wilmington con
tained about 9,100 inhabitants. The principal
exports were timber, turpentine, resin, tar, pitch,
shingle:, and cotton. Ever since the outbreak of
the rebellion, and more eswcially since the ports
of Charleston, Savannah and Mobile were closed
against blockade-runners, or so strictly guarded
by our blockade squadrons as to render the op.
erationffot these enterprising gentry wilt diffi
cult and dangerous, Wilmington has been the
grand entrepot of the contraband foreign trade of
the Southern Confederac"; and all the vigilance
of a powerful blockade squadron was insufficient
to put an end to It. The approaches to the city
are admirably adapted to blockade running, and
the rebels, fully alive to the Importance of the
foreign trade in arms, munitions of war and oth
er supplies of every variety, have increased their
nafaral advantage by the erection of forts and
batteries on the shore of the channels at the
mouth of the river. A glance at the map will
show that a long narrow island atreches directly
across the mouth of the river, leaving two nar
row' Inlets at either end. These are denominated
Eastern and Western Bar, or Old and New
Inlet.
The channel for vesels entering Old Inlet runs
directly under the guns of several strong batter
ies on Oak Island, near the lighthouse, and it is
also commanded by the guns of Forts Caswell
and Johnson, old Federal fortifications, which
were taken possession of on the Bth of January
!NI, by the militia guard of Smithville, a vil
lage on the right shore of the inlet. Fort Cas
well is a very strong work, with five sides, three
of them mounting guns, about sixty all told.—
This work has been strengthened recently, and
is undoubtedly a very formidable affair. Just
above Fort Caswell is a small work, located on
Battery Island. Orithe right-hand side of the
river, coming down, is Fort Johnson, situated at
Smithville, and about one and a half miles from
_Fort Croswell.
The channet Inrutigu rtis. - w....ai.rn__lnlet runs
within fifty or sixty yards of the shore, com
manded by the guns of two very powerful
works, Fort Fisher and Fort Lamb. Fort Fish
er, on Federal Point, is one or the most formid
able earthworks in the South. Its armftent
consists of about fifty guns. Besides these main
defences, there are several minor batteries strung
along the shore, at points commanding the
track of vessels seeking to enter the Inlet. Close
by Fort Fisher, on a point of land between the
" Rip^ and the bar, stands a very powerful
earthwork, mounting tiqiumber of heavy guns,
which have proved a frequent source of annoy
ance to our vessels when endeavoring to cut cif
some adventurous blockade-runner. These
guns have a plunging fire upon the channel ;
and the rebels believed it to be impossible even
for an iron clad to run' the gauntlet of their fire.
News Items.
—Mr. Gladstone tells the Rebels and their sym
pathizers in England that if the United Slates ex.
de two millions a day In time of War. Great
The new pirate Shentrudo4 Is commanded by
Lieut. Waddell, formerly of the United States l'Favy,
whose family has been residinc for some time et
Annapolis, enjoying We Protection of our Govern
ment.
In the reconstruction of the Cabinet the Lancas
ter Ermaincr recommends John W. Forney, as r,
proper person for Secretary of the Interior. No man
has worked with greater zeal for the cause of the
Union party and for the good of the country.
Bergen county, N. J., is threatened with the
oil ferer. It seems that near liohoken a railroad
embankment baa covered up a "greasy obi
to which people wind to ee.ort for medicinal per
poem% rrts now whispered it is en oil well, and
should be bored.
—The bill creating the rank of Vice-Admiral of
the navy was signed by the President, and he at
once sent to the Senate the nomination of Rear-Ad
miral Farragut, which was confirmed at once, and
without the customary reference. Vice-Admiral
Farragut is now commander-ln-chief of the nary.
—The ilecretary of War luta promulgated an , order
directing every officer and soldier capable of doing
duty to repair at once to their places In the held.
lie says: Every effort meet be made to fill up the
ranks, strengthen our armies and aid the patriotic
and gallant troops now smiting the reeling enemy
with Victorious blows."
When Sherman made his advance upon Fort
McAllister, the rebels burned a bridge, eight hun
dred feet long, to prevent his approach. In one
night the bridge was reconstructed by Sherman'.
engineers, and the fort secured. This shows how
complete all his arrangements were for accomplish
ing Us work successfully.
Rear Admiral Porter, under date of the 15th
bat., informs the Navy Department .1' the destruc
tion of the blockade-runner Petrel, which was drawn
ashore at New Inlet, Cape Fear River. She was
then fired upon and sunk, and finally was totally de
stroyed by the northeast gales. She had on board a
large an-go of arms and munitions of war, all of
which was lost. •
—On Friday morning a party of guerrillas of
White's command attempted a crossing to the Mary
land shore on the Ice, about Muddy Branch, on the
Potomac. They were discovered by the pickets of
the First N. H. Cavalry, and were driven back. One
gaerrilla was shot dead. Major Andrews, wbo
commands at the point, is in nightly mcpectation of
raids, now the canal and river are frozen, and has
accordingly strengthened his picket line.
The English press. though industriously nurs
ing the wrath of Brazil about, the Florida affair, Is
not likely to make much out of It. Intelligence from
Rio Janeiro to the 9th ult., represents that the affair
will be amicably settled, and Nib:dater Webb's letter
was entirely satisfactory. A more significant fact is
the dismissal from Dikes of President Gonu z, of Ba
hia, probably because or his manifest !caning to the
rebel cause.
A wild boar tau killed a few miles from Bridge
ton. N.J., a few days ago. Ills appearance Indicated
an age of about fifteen years. Ills skin was half an
inch thick, and several loads of buckshot were re
quired to despatch him. The carcass weighing 500
pounds and tusks were PA" inches long. It is sup
posed that there are others in the same vicinity.—
About a year ago a pedestrian of that neighborhood
was pursued bya wild hog, supposed to be the one
pat titled.
There Tel Lrguish In Rebel slaughter-pens of
nl
the Andersonic pattern filly thousand of our
Northern soldiers. 01 the hundred thousand Rebel
prisoners in comfortable and well-warmed barracks,
those at Elmira receive ten cents a day for their la- -bor In making their quartets more healthful and
comfortable. Those at Point Lookout receive for
' similar labor whisky and tobacco rations; To all,
everywhere, vegetables are regularly Issued, and to
most blankets have been given.
—The managers of the Ladles'Fair at New Orleans
having objected to the display of the natitroal flog in
their rooms, on the ground that it was a "
symbol," Gen. ffuriburt bad sent an official note to
said managers, informing them that the'Btar-fipsn•
gird Banner is the "symbol of the sovereignty of
the nation' under whose protection they' are," and
dicgl i le that it - be immediately placed over the
entrance within their ball, or that their fair
t r e at once closed. The instant arrest of any person
showing disrespect to the Hag was aLso ordered.
The Navy Department has received folOnnatiOn
of the results of the cruise of the United Siete*
steamer Chiconi, Capt. Heade, off Velaseo, Texas,
by which it appears that on Nov. 24th she chased a
schooner ashore, which was totally Wrecked by a
tutivY gale onDec. 4th raptured the three•masted
schooner Lowood, %Rh a cargo of 2:1 bales of long
Staple cotton ; f,on Dec. Sth, captured the British
schooner Julia, with an assorted cargo • 'and on Dee.
6th, Captured tke British schooner Hciiley, late of
Montreal, with an assorted cargo.
—A rebel "lady" thus describes the , eaptnre of
Milledg,ville, Gi., by Sherman's scouts,' Nov. 20th
"Early In the afternoon Ave Yankee scants cline
dashing pell-mell into the town, when :the men—
the Mean. craven hearted wretches, fully two hun
dred etrong---eketinddled, laming our baby Mayor to
go out and aurrenderthe placermeonditionatly to Aire
Yankece, ten Mean advance of their army, Oh;
the Men are, chicken-hearted wretches, and
the Mayor a putrup old tool, Had r been in town.
rd eollecte4 thew Omen " end danks
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2b Major. Genrrat Aiz , Nero. Yorks
A dispatch has been received this Merits% by the
Fre:Meat from Gen. Sherman. ',lt la dated at Sa
vannah, on Thursday. esp Nit Mid annemnees his
occupation of the City of Savannah and the capture
of .15 0 heavy culla, Plenty of ammutliion and about
25,000 woo of cotton. No :saner parties:lmi are
given. -
An °Metal dinViibb from pen. Soitoo Ocuerill
Grant, dated on the 22ct at 7 P. le, states tb.e tbe
city o Savannah . was occupied by Gen, Shersttamirb
tt . e . morning of the 21st, and that oil the preceding
tftmoon and night Hardee escaped o Mt the main
body of Ida intent* and lig ht art:Seri, blowin g up
the iron - clads and 0517 ya rd.
Ho enumerates as captured, 800 trisoners,
guns, 12 locomotives in good order, 190 ears. a large
supply of summation and materials of tear, 9 steam
ers ancT23,ooo bales of cotton.
No mention is made orthe present position ot
Hardee% farce, which bad been estimated at about
1,5.,=
The dispatches ot Gen. Sherman and Geo. Foster
are as follows
GA., Dee. 21
To Wu Eneßenry, President Linersln:
I beg to present you 115 a Christmas gift the tit' of
Savannah, Da., with 150 heavy inns and ammuni
tion, aryl also about 33,000 baps of cotton.
(Signed) W. T. SDEltakS,
MaJor-General.
.STCANIEN GOLDEN GATE, t
Savannah River, 7r. Dec. tr.i.
7b Lkuhvinnt-Genera! U. S. rant anti tilafor-Oenerui
Jt: r. Jldlrrk :
I have the honor •o report that I have Just re
turned from General Shertuan's headgttartere• In
Savannah. I sent Stator Gray, of my staff, as bearer
of dispatches from General Sherman to you, and also
a message to the President The city of Savannah
was occupied on the morning or the fast. General
Hardee, anticipating the contemplated assault,
escaped with the main body of his Infantry and.light
artillery on the atternoon and night of the 'A:ith, by
crossing the river to the Union Causeway, opposite
the city. The rebel iron clads were blown np, and
the navy yard burnt. All the rest of the eitris in.
tact, and contains D),000 citizens who are quiet and
well disposed. The captures include 800 prisoners,
150 guns, locomotives in good order, ISO cars, a
large supply of ammunition and materials of war, fi
steamers, and 01,000 bales of cotton safely stored In
warehouses. All these valuable fruits of an almost
bloodless victory have been, like Atlanta, . fairly
won.
I opened communication with the city with my
steamers to-day, taking up what torpedoes we' could
see, and passing safely over ethers. Arrangements
are being made to clear the chatmel of obstrrnztions.
Yours, .Cc., (Signed) POSTER,
liajor-General.
Tho Richmond papers of late date state that ha the
ni Inst., twenty-six vessels of the Wilmington e•x•
pedltibu had re-appeared. The dispatch from Gen.
Brut= as published in the Richmond papers I, as
TVir.strsGroN, N. C., Dec.
Twenty-six vessels of the Federal fleet re-arpeared
this maiming. There has been no change since my
last diboateb. This is the latest Intelligence recelvtul
frt?ffi l ktLexredltion.
- C IL srensmoax,
flecretary of War,
Further Datails
FORTRESS Mormon. Monday, Der.. 2e,, 15114.
BALTIMOUE, Tneeday, Dtx 27, 161
Major Gray, of Gen. Sherman's staff, arrived here
last evening, on his way to City Point, with dis
patches to Gen. Grant, announcing, as you have
learned ere this by telegrsph, that Savannah.capitu-
Wed on the 2lst inst. Gen. Hardee, with nearly all
his command, escaped across the river, via the Gn
ion Causeway, under cover of the rebel rams brought
up for that purpose the previous night. The rams
were afterwards scuttled and sunk by th , e rebels
themselves. Eight hundred prisoners, one hundred
and (lily-two guns and thirty-three thousand . bales of
cotton remained in the city i and fortilleations, and
fell into our hands.
The surrender was made by the Mayor and Conn
ell. Gen. Sherman entered Savannah on the 2l•d,
and the city Is now occupied by a portion of his
troops, His headquarters, and those of Gen. Slocum,
are to the town. The demand (or the surrender or
the city was made on the 17th Inst Gen. Sherman
closed his dispatch to Cre IL Hardee by quoting the
concluding words of Gen. Hood's dispatch demand
ing the surrender of Halton and the negro trnoP 4
last summer, to the effect that If his demand was
not complied with he would take no prisoners,
Gen. 'Hardee replied in a beautiful manner, stating
that he was In daily communication with his own
strong enough to hold, and ,e eruin . Co told, - the
city. Gen. Sherman had no further parley with him.
but esntlnee himself to perfecting the inveatmenlpf
the city. The Investment was complete to the solfth
and west, ' , hut the swamps rendered approach so
difficult on the north that lines (mold not be at Once
completely extended in that direction. Gen. Retell's
di-Mon, of Foster'a command. held the left or 'our
line occupying the upper part of Hutchinson's. la.
land, commanding with its guns the Charleston and
Savannah Railroad, but not, as the rebels holdithe
lower end of the island. completely tolocbding,iog7Vss
and_c„,„ , tycas over the river, below where 't,a ferry-boat
was discovered to btplYing . 1,,, t , ,,,, 111. 0.—alts•;aud
1
the Union causeway . This was the one ole thrqueh
which Hardee End Ida men escaped, an Oven :this
outlet would have been blockaded wit in two or
three days. The nnmber of prisoners aptumi Is
being daily increased by frequent discove les of rebel
officers end men stowed away in the dwel ng-house:
of the cite. Col. Clinch of Gen. Hardee' staff and '
Gen. flarrison, is militia General here, were taken
prisoners some days previous to the surrender of the
city.
Savannah is literally overflowine with a popula
tion not only of its otni, but composed In part of
the refttzces from the interior, who tied to the city
for safety from before Gen. Sherman's ndvane.. The
houses were unable to hold them all, and , (Come are
living In the streets.
A mixture of confidence, obsequiousness, fear and
trembling, marked Gen. Sherman'+ reception by the
people of the place_ The fifteen thonsand negroes
who followed the army on Its march have not been
finally disposed of.
Nearly three thousand ilnion officers, lately pris
oners In rebel hands, escaped, and are now within
Gen. Sherman's lines_ The twenty thousand Union
prisoners removed from Andersonville to Millen
hare been vain removed, and are now supposed to
he about forty miles below Savannah.
giterman's Future Movenientki
WABIZINGTOI, Tuesday, Dee. 27th, 1564.
Gen. Sherman, fn his tHapateh apaormelnu thq t il l
of Savannah, stated to the Secretary of War that
he intended to move up the Savannah River lime-
Stately and capture Augusta, the mtist valuable oh.
}active point in the Bottth. The news today is that
he has already moved up the river. Sherman: aisn
says that when this 131:11:CCIS was obtained he would
switm around upon tilt rear of Charleston and: cap
ture that city, destroyhg all Its railroad comitiuni•
cation on his way.
Fighting Begun at Wilmington.
.
WAn NPAIITSIENT, WASIIINGTON, i
Tuesday, Dee_'27th, 1f,54. •
Maj. • Genere Diz :—The following , extracts from
Richmond papers of tuday. hare been forwarded to
the Department by General Grant :
WILSIMOTOX, N. C., Dec. Mil, 103 i.
"The enemy's fleet, over 50 vessels, Including two
monitors, ssveral armed vessels, and many heavily
armed frigates, and aloopa.of war, made a luiimna at
tack on Fort Fisher, about one o'clock yesttirday,
and kept up an avcragt fire of 30 shots per minute
until night, Our loss I; al wounded.
"The attack wan renewed at 10 o'clock , this morn
ing and has been very farious and continuous. No
report of casualties to-day. Col. Lamb,. who la In
command of the fort, replied to the eticiny'a fire
slowly and deliberately.
"The enemy under cover Of the heavy fire, landed
about three brigades 24 miles above Fort Fisher.—
They were immediately, engaged by a smaller force.
The enemy held the ground at night."
SECOND IMSPLTCYL
Wu..irmotori, N. C., Dee. 26th, 1%1.
" The enemy's !canary attacked Fort Fisher late
last night. They were repulsed with considerable
loss. There was Levy wing and min through the
. night. Prisoners repo the Twenty-fourth Corps of
the Yankee Army prestnt under Butler."
El ortuL.
MIJITNOTON.—Prora our Wilmington divat,h
es. It will be seen that the Yankee fleet attacked Fort
Fisher about one ceckick v. is. on Saturday, and
bombarded it. heavily trail nightfall, renewing the
bombardment at ten: O'clock on Sunday morning,
and continuing it throughout the day; that tinder
cover of the lire of the fleet the enemy landed en
fontri ion* above Fort Fisher 'which attacked this
fort on Sunday night and was repulsed. Fort Fisher
Is encoded on a seal spit on the right hank of the
Cape Fear River at its mouth twenty miles below
Wilmington. The encmy,we presume reached their
position above the fort, not by passing tip the. river
where limy Would be obliged to rya thergauntlet of
theguns bath of Fisher and of Caswell ion th e left
bank, but by landing On the beach coati , the month
of Cape Fear River. rhealemylaminge ogoierkeig•
men! above !before is o'serions mailer, :It ma cost
double the force to did.odge him- that would have
prevented Ws landing.
Elm* W. STANTON, BanOry (If War.
mood again Defbated.
Ncw Yons,,Dec. 2dtb, 1884.
A special ' 4lspatch dated near Colum4l, Dee. td,
announces R victory over General flood by Mach's .
division, capturing 15 guns, 43 wagons ,110 arnbulan
ces,ll3B priboners and -3 division batilb Saga rite
loss to the fight was -400 V pontoon ;equip
ri2P iEgs mts amity 00:041rAted
most oi thwr wage% Wins. •
From Gen. Sherblan'e Army
Amor or THE Buenalioen, Dec. 2),1861.
The 2dCavalry Div. of Gen:OnstemetUntad early
today from a reconnoisance nplbe Valley.as far ea
Lace 's Spring, nine miles (him Harrisonburg.
division, which has been absent about live days, had
a cold march, but met with no enemy until they
reached Lacey Spring where they eramm_ped on
Wednesday night. Before daylight on Thlarsday
ntbrning, intending to take advantage of the Union
camp , ..and catch them napping, Rosser's cavalry at=
tempted to surprise them, and *mate a dash Into
camp. The Rebels were dressed In blue overcoats,
and Mixing with our own men. It was impossible for
a time to distinguish friend from foe. There was
conitision worse confounded. Had the enemy really
found our men of! their guard, the consequences
would have been serious; limit they were on the alert,
and the Reba only penetrated into the wive of the
camp. Their tiring assisted our men to distinguish .
theet
They Struck that part of the camp where the N,li.
1 - Caitilry Were', and in less time almost thartita takes
to describe It, captured, and were making off with
- some RAY Prisoners., These, however, were all. re ,
elptheeil with the exception of three m en, and Lieut.
Colonel Ilutchins, who were canted off prisoners.
The' Rebelsere driven out leaving if ten dead and
mnay woun d ed behind. Onr loss was two killed
,
and; tWeen twenty-five and thirty wounded—all of
"a° were hwatOt ott. Rhode's division of infan
try, now commoan...ed, as it-tasopposed, by Wharton,
was advancing hp the pike, and omit
accomplished the object of the expedition fell bat*.
The reconnoisance lee. established Important facts
touching the extent and location of the Rebel tortes
In the Valley.
Rosser did not panne our Cowes atm:, the Valley
On Monday alle i ron a t tarty of gnerriljas made a
dash Into the etun of the 44Penusylvania entreaty,
part of gen. Vowel 's tin e Front Royal pikes, and
atter tiring smile tbrage, and losing one man killed.
retreated again, having failed In accomplishing any
Iniportant moult.
The weather is very cold, with snow enough On
the ground to make good sleighing. E. S.
The Pursuit of Hood.
IlAstrviti Thesdrly, bee. 2ttb, 104
The advance of oar, arthY *ea no Sunday night
twenty-One miles tooth of Columbia, about half-way
between that place and the Tennessee River. The
roads on account of the heavy rains are nearly Itn
pa.s.thle. flood is steadily retreating before our ad
vancing troops. Prisoners who have straggled be
hind their commands, or w 6 have deserted, are be
ing brought In every day. Tto hiludied reached
here Yesterday. It It t•eported that flood intends
to reach the Tennessee River near the mouth of the
Elk River. f;on, Thomas having forced him consid
unibly to the east, military authorities consider the
situation very encouraging. Railroad and telegraph
ic communication is open to Colombia on the Ten
nessee and Alabama Railroad, and the road will soon
be its running order to Chattanooga.
The river is at a stand, with eighteen feet of water
on the shoals.
Conduct of Hood's Rebels In Col
umbia, Tenn.
A correspondent of the Montgomery .Ifail writing
from Columbia, Tennessee, describes thP evacuation
of the town by the Yankees and the entry of the
Confederate., and adds :—" Some of the boys plun
dered confectionaries and tilled their Anna with nick
nacks. S:me were laden with boots and shoes and
hats; some with bags of flour; some had tinware
enough to open a Confederate hotel ; everything
was plundered. But whit. this Juhliant melee for
spoils was at its height, General Forrest, with the
good taste characteristic of both of us, rode along
the pavement weighted to the gunwales with pretty
girls and plundered the honey trout hundreds of wil
ling lips. To see them running to the streets, rats
ipe: their IVA a innmde. loy, paid, eging, • Ler ! you
uer's Gehl Forrest ! yonder paid,
I NOrreet, how
d'y Gen'l Forrt !' and an ocean of similar exclama
tions, and then turning up their little faces and pout
ing their pretty months with a lamb like submission
for his kisses, makes one thrust his hands to the el
bows In his breeches pockets and wish that he was
In Forrest's boots."—Richmond 11-hay.
The St• Albans Raiders
CONCORD, N. 11., Tuesday, Dec. 27(4, 1864_
Three of the St. Albans raiders made their escape
from Canada by secreting themselves in the cars nn.
til across the line. They then proceeded to Lebanon,
N IL, and enlisted, receiving the bounty, and hop
ing to get back to Dixie at Uncle Sam's expense.—
They were, however, detected, and are now lu the
State Prisoa at Concord. A considerable amount of
money woe found in their possession.
TottoNro, Tuesday, Dec. 27th, l8&1.
Another of the St. Albans raiders was arrested
here to-day
The Desperate Situation of Jeff. Da
vis—What Nest?
The sit nation of Jeff. Davis, his ruling junta and
his army is Itielonond, may now be aptly compared
to that of the unfortunate Jews, when, in their re
bellion against the authority and power of imperial
cityfVrilu , a 771:ireViiiiii T4 o t ini l ugg i Afilrg-
Fistanee, cut off from every hope of outside relief,
and reduced to the extremities of famine, there were
yet added. to the terrors of the siege the most violent
discords within of divided councils and clashing
factions. Such now Is the situation of Jeff Davie
and his ruling confederates at Richmond. Whether,
from an incapability of agreeing upon a timel ca
pitulation or retreat, they will await, like the Jews,
the alternative of a wholesale destruction, is the
problem which now remains to be solved.
We Incline to the opinion, from the developments
of disaffection against Davis that have leaked out
through the itiehmond Journals, and the debates In
the retro, sa.maress. that the despotic reign of the
arch traltoe hangs upon a mere thr.of„, which may
at any time Sc broken in a reactionary revounton
and ecup d'e r eal at Richmond to behalf of ipeace.
What was the work wideh he was set up to per
form as the military dictator of the so-called Con
federate States The establishment of an independent
Southern Confederacy, bounded on the north by Ma
son and Dixon's line, the Ohio river and the northern
boundary of Missouri; on the extreme west by the
Pacific ocean ; on the south, temporarily, by the Rio
Grande and the Gulf of Mexico; and on the east by
the Atlantic ocean, Including the possession of the
Mississippi river, from the Missouri to the sea; of
Washington, Maryland, Fortress Monroe and Ches.
awake Bay. Such was the Southern Confederacy
which Davis was to set np and establish, and upon
the corner stone of African slavery. lie and his lead
ing confederates entered upon this atnpendous enter
prise, it must be confessed, with inadequate means,
but with abundart promises of success They prom
ised their deluded followers that the Yankees would
not tight; that If they did their romerteree would be
swept from the ocean; that the Northern democracy
would join their Southern bretlinen ; that King Cot
ton would bring England and France to the rescue;
that the finances of the United States would soon
be brokan down, and that should all these expecta
tions fail in the Interval, the Presidential elect.on of
I Adi would surely settle the contest, In the reeogni-
:lan of the southern confederacy on 'satisfactory terms.
The Incel'at is end of the war, In any event, was to
he a Southern confederacy, restlti on the corner
atone of slavery, from which Ring Cotton would
dictate the law to the continent, andthe laws of
trade in the four quarters of the glove.
Dazzled by the magnificent programme the alayes
holders of the South, as by a sort of spontaneous
combustion, were Inflamed and eager for the war,
with the sound of the aignal gnus opened against
Fort Sumpter. Where are they now? Where are
their expected Northern and European alliances?
Where Is King Cotton? Where is their oversha
dowing Southern Confederacy I Where Is the corner
stone, that Meeinating Southern domestic inatitu
' that of Aft icon slavery? Let Hood, and the helpless
remnants of his shattered army, from the northern
herder of Alabama; let Magruder, from Texas; let !
Price and his routed troops, front Arkansas: let Joe
Johnson, in his undeserved diagram at Macon; let
Hardee, skating off from Savannah into the swamis
of South Carolina; letamureg,ard, from Charleaton;
let Bragg, from Wilmington; Breekinadge, front
mat Tennessee, and Davis himself, from beleaguered
Richmond, give the answer. All their great ex
pectations in succession have signally failed. Their
confederacy is now, for military purposes, reduced to
the contracted area between the Allegheny Mountains
and the sea, from Richmond to the Savannah river;
while Wilmington the last link of connection between
the "confederacy" and Nassau, is cut off, if not in
our possession.
Against this hopeless condition of things what is
the alternative to which the slaveholders of this dis-
Joined Southern confederacy la now invited? It la
the foolish experiment of emenelpaUng and arming
their negroes as the last but winning card for South
ern independence, It is the alternative of tearing
out the foundations In order to save the building:
it Is the Japanese alternative of hurl-Hari, In order
to avoid destruction by other hands. It is iipon this
proposition that the slaveholdera of the South are
now called by Jeff. Darla to make their election
'Here, however, that delicious Southern panacea of
State sights and the question of suicide come to the
relief or the aim:holder. Hence the wranglings
which prevail among the rebel Solana at Rielanotal. I
Fite-eaters who have 1011 t their slaves, and eta:ldeas
politicians who have never been blessed with alsvea, I
arenegro clamorous for negro emancipation and a
army; while those slaveholders who atilt posaeas
their negroes, who know what they arc, and who are
still hoptful that "something may turn up" in their
favor, even in the old Union, better than: Slouthern•
emancipation, fight stoutly egalust the Sacrifice of
their slaves to the Moloch who rules the roost at
Itiatirhorid.
The crisis is at band for the settlement of this
controversy; and them is every reason to believe
that it will very soon be settled In the overthrow of
Jeff, Davis, In the abandonment of his hopeless
nanoe a n d the eaphalation of the rebellions States,
each tor its.if, or all together, to the supreme goy
eminent of the Union. We expect soon an Igno-
minious ending to the cruel, bloody and remorseless
reign of Sett Davis.—Y. Y. Herard.
S d ivAwnen nes ones TWICE gamma) byan love
ding force. It was taken by the Engllab, under
Col; Campbell, on the 29th of December, 1778, They
had a column of 3,500 widen, beside a imuadron
under Corn. Baker. Their prieoneri amounted to
38 001cen3. and 415 men ; while their lora was only
7 men killed and 19 wounded. Beventpone pieces
of arillerY and 817 Magda of sulall arms tall into the
, tutees of the British. Iry ten Allyn_ after thie• mint s
largetar il let thol
w hunt, ts or. gOorgl, Onolct
ttlXing ar
CM!
=CI
Attack on. Wilmington—Fort Fish.
er Taken and Retaken.
Wasp:melon, Wednesday, Dec. 28th, 1884.
•
Dispatches received at the Navy Department t tet••
day present a picture( of the disembarkation of 5000
colored troops from the transports of Gen. Butler's.
Expedition. Their tak:nr ups strong position and
holding it against a viol ro US attack or kiragg's tftrOpt,
their irsnming then th 3 offentive and carrying, at
the point of the bayonet, an - earthwork in front Of
Fort Fisher,and 1103) this advantage tilde dashing at
Fort Fisher Itself hih they entered, and whose
flag they hauled d o w n , are 'worthy bf the highest
commendation ; but the hatidiel of heroes being ic
explicably small In numbers, could not hold their
victory. The expelled garrison, largely re-enforced,
returned and retook the test, and tirovo out oar
black troops with heavy lois.
The remnants of them weld re-embarked, but the
fleet remained at anchor, atalthe meteor-war opened
their fire again upon MI fort and the Rebel troops.
it was known in the fleet that Lee had sent two
divialous Of the best troops to Bragg. It was also
known that 'Hardee wart hurrying up from Savannah
under orders to save Viihnington..., -
Dispatch from General Bragg.
WILMINGTON. Deceinber .2"lth, 6 p. m.-4b lIL
fiteettency Me livrkterze zlj the thitfederate Starer:—
The enemy has re-embarked under the cover of his
fleet. -Ills movement It turfluveloped. 1 have %fe
lted Fort Fisher, andllnd the damage slight, except
or „,„ • '. necessary for defense. Only
two gun 3 Crtt; fr.'trks tematnin4lll
- that the bombardment 'ZitiVerY
or-Oen. Whiting, commanding the defenses at tHe
month of the river, col. Lamb, commanding the
fOrt, and the and hien coinposing the garri
son &Acne special cOmmendattnn for the gallantry,
ellieleney, and fortitude displayed under very trying
circumstances. Sits.rrog 'BRAGG.
Hood Crossing the Tennessee
Counnua, Tenn., Tuesday, December 27th, 1534
—From ramped prisoners who have just arrived
from Florence, I learn that the advance of flood's
army reached Florence ota the evening of the lit,
and during the whole q t mutt, day his itlfantry was
crossing the titer. From Dock River, Hood re
treated rapidly to the Tennessee, his main army not
once making a stand: Qur cavalry crossed Dock
River in time to have all occasional brush with For
rest's torte, who covered the enemy's retreat. No
lighting of any consequence, however, has ocean d
since the affair at Spring Bill. It is safe to ray the
Tennessee is no* free'from rebels.
Gen. Grant seems to IMve a good many Irons la
the tire just now, Scarcely a force under his com
mand that Is not actively engaged in offensive ope
rations—the notable eseentions tieing the two ar
mies of the James and the Potomac, which are close
under hi: eye, and which , he hold.; In the leash to be
let slip at the moment Nrhen their spring shall be
decisive.
Oar news Is mainly from Rebel papers, and of
course doctored .to suit the Richmond market.
But even If we accept each report of the defeat or
delay of our different armies as true, we still cannot
fail to see that the Confederacy is severely harraseed
on all sides, and that at some point it mast shortly
gi ee war.
Gen. Sheridan Is again.far up the Shenandoah Val.
lsy threatening Gordonsville and Churlottesritle,
and even Lynchburg. Lee's dispatch published yes
terday states that one division of cavalry under Cus
ter Was coming ep the Valley towards Harrisonburg
while o others under Torbert had passed the Blue
Ridge through Chester Gap. It is not to be sup
posed that a single division of cavalry could be real.
iv meant to move on Lynchburg; we presume,
thetelore, that the columns cast and west of the Blue
Ridge had a common object, and were to milt° fur
ther South. Custer might cross the Ridge below
Barrisonburgh through. Swift Run or Brown's Gap,
hot it Sr Musky Dahl tp concentrate with Torbert at
Madison Court Douse; and eo would take the North
ern road. Lee has found It necessary to strengthen
other points by withdrawing nearly all the garrisons
of Gordonsville and Charlottesville, and though
these towns are fortified ttmir capture is by no means
lie probable.
Gen. Butler's activity is characteristic. Besides
the grand demonstration upon Wfinaincton, he has
sent a considerable force from Suffolk towards Wel
don, apparently to do the work whleb. Warren left
unfinished. A second force has moved toward Fort
Brunch, onthe Roanoke River, and after being "se
verely handled" by the rebel telegrams, resumed
the attack with such success, apparently, that it
was not thought worth while to continue the ac
count of his operations. Poplar Spring or Point,
near which Fort Branch seems to be situated, Is thir
ty miles above Plymouth, and the movement in this
direction Is manifestly Intended to clear the naviga
tion of the Roanoke River, on which Weldonds sit
uated. The expected co-operation of the gun-boats
failed from torpedoes.
Of the two or three columns which are cutting the
railway connections of Mobile and moving apparent
ly upon the citylitselt; we have no definite accounts.
'the rebel papers are mysterious, as their way Is
when they have bad news. The little fight at Pollard.
seventy miles north of Mobile, indicates nothing
either way--for Beauregard's name is to the dis
patch, and It Is not probable that man could tell the
truth if he tried. Nor is it probable he ever tried.
Thomas Is well to the north of Duck River, and
treating enemy. '1 etc is reason to suppose a heavy
force has been sent to cat Mr llood's approach to
the Ttertesbee, and that his pontoons been
swept away. At any tate, the Tommee is high,
and Hood's prospects for a retreat across It, if lie Ii
pushed bard, are not favorable. The rebel com
mander has a good many men left, no doubt, but he
can scarcely be said to have an army. What remains
of the force with which he moved on NFahville must
he wholly re-organized before It can be again fit for
the held.-- Tribune.
Gen. Earley's name is Jabal and Juhal Is s
Hebrew name, sig, - nlfylng "He that runs." The day
of •
Jubol - E has come.
rir'Gold may be aR the time in a man's mind
and yet cone orhis thonstiate be golden.
cut Adrertionuento.
I I.ltiti :r1),1 for Tl.Ntorrna - &•-• F:11:1 - 1 tiort , g t+r Ifont.h
Up BALDWIN A ALLIE.N.
.M.mdmrt.. Ltsember.l . I' 1.--6 c.
N 111 STANZT. IN Iti.e.TTRONE, Deconber 104 1 ROLL OP ORKNNItACKt..—tveu :n one tAI, the
Ind
5 . eXcutet tee. vs—ft, we. etre. 100:,r••••
ivAre.c,l n returning the .4100 to., 07 leaving it at
I,OT nr,I3I.ICAN °Mc e. tl. C. LCCN,
Muumuu. Dec
DISSOLUTION.
11 . 11 Z:". 4
(?,Ift, 7 . 1 , 7e h t:::. who tdlr the p l ; lir :tu r
fs In fl o
tuts. The books and sanents sill he to banes of u. pe. hlte 11n. eettlemera o f ht. en user the :item where be I. asstnns to
ud sthf. hate sheet Lda TM:COUTO. 31 S. WILSON tin
WV.
11 , ,truss. Jontisty IST,
11AF , IN. antFris A WARNER hate cater.d Into a co
y. ..,,e,14!!. for tn. pnrr.o• or kelltz (4-le,
Crockor, liArdwrsi, lion and aleeL nOn.l essrA,
at ILe Gcrga: Finding Stkav pevlonAlly occupl“l by M.S. {5 14
am S. non
We trit, , ectfully'aollat the pate r nLa4c afx;l.
!lf
Mantrov, January JFE_F. GRIFFIS.
ARNEIL
S. Sir,ILECKII will all. on law his cum. in x.v.i
Li• We ...day. Ihn ith thy or Soon.lip, Vs.\ at IO o'clock, a. in,
two Cows, then Yearling Ilclren, three Calvert, one Yearling Colt,
and a lot of troy and Straw.
Teases —Three rooatha' credit Co Hay and Straw ; the other
Droperty, woe month,' credd. with tnterea& and spat... 0d scarity,
hew .11Ilford, Dec. Vid, WALKER,
Ceodt Paid For Buckwheat
BALD WLV .L• ALLEN.
•
Ifontrnoe. Docender 1901,
MITE' imbeertber ofrcre for sale a few choice littlldlng Lott In
L ;rest Deed lidltme. in e 1.,. arca Imlty toile exteterlre Wort.
of the I.), L.. W. IL IL Co. now In promote. They ant la:d 001
U. convenient shape and ere of rood .1213, sad on tryparrimend at
:them! rat" sod on easy !cane nrievment. PA.TIt WK.
Groat Decd. December It.
NEW GOODS
•
JUST OPENING.
inay Grode Grobuirs.l3oote and a great earicli of Mallon
ILP the 11LIDA Yg.
niISLIg, Church Pedndrt, y . .&o. Muir% Alb...
and Good hook? for Prelude, Lre..ll:e. Jurioraerd u2d far rats by
J. LYONS Az. SON.
Montrose, Dearmt;er 11,
NEW GOODS T NEW GOODS :
HALE, L 43 CO,
3! Court "drool, latughtnton,N.X.,
lure rmetantiloh hand a taro stock of goods adapted to Ras 'mg
of their oven Importatisn.
GRIN A,
OLABS-WARE, LASIPS.
TOTS FOR THE ITOLIDAYS.
FANCY GOODS FOR ALL TINE;
ROUSE FURNISHING GOODS,
CARPET; OILCLOTHS, •
WOODEN-WAR;
CUTLERY,
1 ••
AC.
litsstants be taiv tied st Ircski,obtirett & co.
Bbstutsts&i:lf. t.Daosaabef Nth. Iddf f
REyNot,Ds.
AUCTIONEERs
laraaz -DRY GOODS sod all bazda of Mercksodlok tads)
ra moots.
Dfoutroes,ra,Doo.p.M.—tf
wAN rup,
Gapasamor t garArvutag,..or •
4443"'"T'
r ~.~CaLV"'~tI.:~~Y
The Campaign
.r.osor,
ri EW FI WM
VENDUE.
LOTS FOR SALE.
wlham'alLl
IMPERIAL Olt 'courtly
08108189 Bputh,Fllth Street.
• .
• PHILADELPHIA.
Capital 81,000,000
300,030, Shares, at $5 each
A
RESERVED CAPITAL 8250,000
preiidoiit; 24.0L.VP
MnIEVIITMM
, _P-r/PIA 1 0 . !: 11,01A.,...
.1. O. 11.0311,113.M4 , 111LTRI1loyty.
JAMES U. SELLERS. ELI ' W. 'DAVIS.
k.z.WoLms.
moat' S.
TWA Crummy thu ILO sera or land. In fee. en kikahezry Mat,
unnuelately oppodte Ott Ctry,anel adJornerglayronle. ink Ito
rode front on the lives, mid ire rods front on Lay% Truk. Ron: e.
• tl l , editor Cl the Oil City loans, and agent he MY
it..rut roll to 0l for eICO.OOC, re.
'erring the oil right, stale 10.= jitA),:rizt.....—___Lihrgn.
irri neuruce went DO 0011110 PM timepiece:err Mu nit Mg
of suzfx Lois: and the Catapult ham two good engtmei with
complete !tattles to operate treelatellate.y for oil. The territory In
this immediate locality 13.1411t,11 Wed to produce pneetablyi
also, one hundred serer. to fee duple, In the- eeltbrated tteittrY
Roo dlstrice, hanordlately nenednlng Cherry fun Petrolonni Cola
piny. whore Hoag be now worth over 410 per elan. The °Unreal
taw hate otter. which ant be aecernted. for !deicing well or, tem/
*Mont any net to the Corporation, and Qua her the pecteede to
td to the Compaq. She Cottle , end et. illtholiACcinPlrats it,
In Ws !emanate treeing. and their stank 14 DOWCOinnftlrit2ng
high premium. In addition, the Commit hoe 40 can, In I'M *M.
pie. on Cherry Tree Ron, latch empties Intel:III Creek, eta In the
bad producing erctlon of the Oil Territory. pod 110 acua, In la
duple, on Walnut Bond. deo mle above the mouth or Oil Clerk,
and not our two mina from the eekbrtled Read writ, taw peen.
dna ore, tee buret per der.
. &L., the team agave trade 0,1=4 lend tla Oil Creel. filth pm
duchy: over ten barrel& Per day. and Otte on ,Allegheny Mier. pro•
dueled tea barrels gee dy of heavy Ca, worth novr pei barrel:
The Company now receives Ltuen(ovothe of the pomade of theta*,
named well. sod one-half of the other Poo.; Toth of these texts
ottt be tie,lopetl by the Cempany by oinking addition%) wen;
and the engmes and tett:nes ale now on hand to do It.
The dare:mot this Coropanymazt to pmeneute the development
of these land+ meld too inticall.Y. and th,ibrra 0011, 04 . 24 axes
that they *oil yteld very large dividends On the ea%ital stock.
CIP - 15olocriptie= mast he made promptly, as more tlumanntall ,
of the dock Is already calmed,
•
isconry 1, IS+3s.—Evr
GROCERY AND SALOON.
prig ealueribers continue their btaleems at the ON fitaltd oe
Meta %trt,lt, where those wheal.: oe their paean-no wilt we
trow, receive awn treatment as will eusee Om to tall win. We
haee beitowed parttecklat Attu:Mon to fluing,up our, •
LADOES' SALOOIit
sad itto [xl,lllllll°,ll' desintd.prlnte roams to LADIES Li 4
TL LIMN, or for Ladle. alone. or O•nUemen Dona .
•
REFRESHMENTS
Among mar list of ertib!es cut be forced Opfer& Clease; Barra ad
Eal% Rout Fleet Beefsteak. Mutton Cho e. Mame be " aim
form bet or cold, Pickled Tonne, Lobster olke,—ln Act
everything the market Minn!,
In the way of &Wm. We U.? mmfrldni except eptrlbtona or Si.
cantle beverages. our Malt lawny, on of th e beet qua li ty and
warranted mire, Also Dominate Mans, Wm. Sarenuills, boa
Nintltr. Srnail user, he. lee Cream In awn., —1
We inveeCerLeeetite eeroleesof n firetelees Coot { ad teaainf
tverythlresprepareatonitthemnatilleetrepledtastes.
CONVECTIONER I i t +:
W. Earn as amid tbs broest dock at Ciarectlowriter
Into the County. Wo mum:MM. st whotemlo or retail at=
In Ws line Mutt may tea:Wed for ' atm as cheap as maws David
=Velem
Tobacco and:Cigairs:
Uheviog wad wookitig Tobacco of overi brand. and dtauaotai
cry quality. !tom a" cant a - m.II"W the flarst 'Savored Ilsou.s.
vir3reca , c3c3l-14esiii.
Ctuy dock of aroceties can't be beetlnfbta Dart a the Mar
Mi stralltv and lotnitta of prtet,_not excepting Ellasharnton. •
Witt in rolsb Floor. Salt.Snenr, Ilotaaes. Cotten, en, Chia"
Baiting. Kitts. and evt,rything In that line of the beet (truilitles, In
as quantity Rua nue wand to a ton.
Oar cralctror •111 boloplow ail who may Wry, Atli pstroanze, pledging °melee. to fermi:eta deal sad to . the eiekitif
One Price System !
I=l
Toys for the Holidays!
A Very Largo Arsortment of
alailaX . E2Llet s : Toys,
t.. which we invite the attmlloa tbrwe Inlcrewcd. Call mad et.
amine. rod St , s will ,e e,ry ADZ to buy.. EIRBY & BACOIf.
ifoctrasc: December 9t,1F.4.
HIRSCHMANN BROTHERS
BEll leave to call the attehtion of F. T.T.R.CIZELI3IEFLS
to their extend re artorthreut of
DRY GOODS,
Millinery and Fancy Goods!
Yankee Notions,
WOOL. AND COTTON HOSIERY,
Carpets, OH Cloths, &c., &c.
iclicAt'lev are prepared to .ell et namable kares. Deirstocilts
DRESS GOODS
le %mum:Lally large, acroptialng the Latest and Mau* GOodtala las
mutat. punt/mad at the late Anattao &lea, salaams much below
the market pdke, al:Lavin aa sold with a email ad•azta.
ALSO.
ELEGANT CLOAKS AND SNAVILS,
A Deautifol Ho* of
CLOTHS, C.IB.4IAIEHES dlitp CLOAECINGN,
BALMORAL SKIRTS,
A lut ,f
LIDIICS ECIAIIPA
I=
N
tuCEAIWesT strAsits.'
A lea • Complete, /Jae of
FANCY GOODS,
121=1
HOLIDAY PRESENTS.
lIIIRSCHHANIN BROTHERS.
No.:0 Cand Btnet. Slim of the .DESAMT."
Bthattamton. Dceemter 'OM.
SCOTT'S
POPULAR REIVIRDIES,
Those medicines are warranted It unqd aerondbra to dtneenrrial
Try them an4lt uo , .atietaelory return one halt the roeoter‘e and
the tn.,ney will be rolhndal. I tareoord thonsa.lo of UMW, bet
none bare returned. - /
SOOTY'S firiOLERA GURATEd
FOR DYRCETERY,
CIIIIONiC DIARTMEA,
CHOLERA ifOnnra,
ROWEL COMPLAINTS,
CLAMPS, COLIC,
NERVOUS, MUGU'S?,
AND WOK IMADACRE,
SOURNESS OP Tilg STOILIOR.-
COLDS SSD COLD CHILLS.
This medicine Is composed of Gam and Soots, aid Canine as
inObt° meth= In the *Yana. and Is ham eut to all. It boa teestud3 14 Um
SPOTTED FEVER.
In n number eteves. and waled etrectuaT. Pun diketinni as each
tnntln. ytmn GU Crux's.
SCOTT'S
SANATIVECEFiATE.
FOR BURNS, SCALDS,
OR SCALD DEAD,
FROSTED FEET,
INFLAMED NFU'S,
wovjula t OLD =CND;
• I CEI D AZ ENTu
FD Tt
5
SPRAINS, BADMAN
FILES, CORNS,
It It tempered of vegetable"' sad le rieVetlit Lamle. ee. ItYlke
twesty.deo mole a bee. . . . • .-
Dean Bce ::-. We have hag stelae up:elver:ugly ct tom=
toe of your Corlito for Many yews, and to ass 700 loco
U. ill(1 wo tau no OLD Wonlll tisorwootara 01 0 OA PnbUC• •
11....K.P. 1 .q.f 1 H .t . Y.% 4 .01 . .r t " W A 13 . f''',...
Wm. H. rltrat, M. V., Wllkesbarni.
Ilan 1A byl, Be Al, gerzntnti, 2'4. and to tale bt
n Watt). G ramm .•
WABD At BON, New Jilifittl'
lit A BOOTT, pp:tar:Ate,
Bersram, Doc, DA, 1844.—1 f
NEW.COODS.
A LARGE ADDITION TO MY STOCK, OF
Dry Goodsinid Ciotbit
Fuca° sitawkarellCullSlU WWI&
• Warillatetti VAL ORMIZAA
123
L KIRBY,
a, BACON.