THE Pte. DAliTt (naIDAYB IXONPTED,) ' JOHN W. FORIWW. t0117104' 58.417 014511111 T EVISOT .*.EE DAILY Puss, I"MM'. OuTa Pu Win, payable to • the Carrier Maid to adman+ oat of the pity at 8, DOLLIIOI rill Allint, loos Doid,aaa von Ulm. Monne, Tansy VOLUM /On, 8u MOlTga—in Intintay In advance for tte;ttote ontand. ' - tug Titi-wirmi PRESS, - Nailed to Itubsci eat of the CIO et Tsui Dote. Siee Pale AMIN; to edema'. FORNEY'S "WAR PRESS." The Intense Interest everywhere felt !n the mighty con• end in ',Wok the Armies and Meets of the Nation are 'Pe e k AioN TIM POTOMAC, 'IN WESTERN vrsorne, ' KENTUCKY, IN MISSOURI, ON TN! 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Under this arrangement—entirely complete, and extending through all the departments both of the Army and Navy,—we can offer unequalled facilities to lifer eistinta,Mainfactment, and Inventors, in readiness of wale, saving of time, and the many envenom unavoidable anon& the towel tedious channels of sale to the De- Diertments, Camps, and Neva! Stations. Those wishing ea avail themselves of the benefits of this thorough and extenairely.organized system of agency, can do so by Sarwasding samples of their geode to our address by encase, and prices and explanations by letter. All wimps for camp delivery marked to our address, woothiston D. O. All goods, Inventions, wares, or ,Initstetnlise; of whatever nature, ordered by this Adentry, wM be paid for on delivery. Letters of inquiry WiliThet with prompt attention. 'Assets well referred, with man steatir, can find pro fitable employment in tide organization. A few are welded. Office No:911 PENNSYLVANIA Avenue, op posite-Willard'. Hotels Wsahington, D. O. zormainiols : "WM 'LAW, Pow York. Nooorrio Coornrro, Albany Moon IL , Gwrorowl.r, 66 NORTM & Ogees, Philada. Airetdr* a Biros., 6 ' J. - 11, nada BT, 11 AMMO =nixes, 41 AVM. Ornisoroo, w Nos. MUT WILSON, lifuosobnoetto. *moo & Co., Banken, W _llO4l ' 4011N130 It, IiWEISTLAIITO, & 00. •THE ADAMS EXPRREB 00111,PANY, WO paliaMM 111111044iiiietdi %rob, 1140~4,. Ifferobacellss, Bask alagy sad Sysisontber Dr lie own ibmsfir ht eausailio Woe Itiprisilo itbe ithiebsil "swim Ni.GU allisThplid Stan 11. Gaistoi lloortaindid. VOL 5.-NO. 147. G REAT BARGAINS IN FINE CLOAKS, TO CLOSE OUT THE STOOK —PARIS MANTILLA, CLOAK, AND FUR EMPORIUM. 708 CHESTNUT STREET, PREVIOUS TO REMOVAL. sviorsis or REDUCTIONS. rBOSTXD BEAVER CLOVIS, From 820 to 820—From $22 to $l7. BROWN BEALBRIN OR SABLE CLOTH CLOAKS, Wrom elti to sl.4—From $lO to $l2. BLACK SRALsgis OR OTTER CLOY% CLOAKS, From $lB to sl4—From $lB to $l2. 01:131 FUR DEPATITNENT, Willett hi replete with every desirable style and descrip tion, will be open to Inspection at prices corresponding to the general reduction; particularization, among such en infkkity of qualities, being, if not itupossible, at all events, unsatisfactory. de3l-1m SHEPHERDS' PLAID CASHMERE. Ono casainst opened. Black and White Chocka, double width. Fine AU .wool Cashmeres. jag BIIABPLEBS BROTTIBBI3. NEW BALMORALS. - Four hundred imported Delmore). Skirts, At prices lower than before offered. ATI OBARPLESS BROTHERS RUSSIA. CRASH, In medium and fine ounlitlea. Scotch Crnali and Towelling. . SIIAMPLESS BILOTEMIIS EEMBROIDERED MUSLIN CUR TAINS—At very low pricer, to Bell theetcek. MEN'S WEAR-BOYS' WEAR. 50 to 75. cent Union Cassimeres, Satinets, ao. $1 Oaselmerea; best in the market. $l.lO Cassimeree ; best ha the market. $1.20 Cassimeres; beet ever sold for the money Mack Cloths for Ladies' Wear. Stack Broadcloths for lifea'a -Wear. Some Bargains in our Cloth Stock. Tailors' attention is Invited. COOPER d; COMAE)), jag B. E. corner NINTH and MARKET. CLOAKS AND SHAWLS Bodaeetl in Price. Good Stock of Cloaks. Blanket Long Shawls ()hear. Blank Thlbet Shawls Cheap. Black Blanket Square Single for $l. Brooke Shanks at half price. COOPER .4. C0N.4.11D. Sa9 B. E. corner NINTH and MARKET Ste PYRE & LANDELL, FOURTH and /MOH, open to.day, a fresh assortment of Double-faced Black Figured Bilks. Solid Colored Brown Figured Silks. Pfodes, Green, and Purple Silks. [jab EYRE & LANDELL keep the very heaviest Plain Black Dress Silks. Heavy-bordered Stout Black Silks. Widow's Silks, wilbdut gloss. Rich Plain Silks, for city trade. iatt $2.50 B . ALDIORAL SKIRTS, full Balmorals Wholeaala. 13almorala Retail. iaB EYRE & LAM/ELL. HOLIDAY PRESENTS. DeWpm', at 18% cents; Calicoes, 12ji cents. Bladk and fancy Silk Handkerchiefs, iracEr- - nen, umvmq-veiny mums. Aliases' and Ladles' Shawls In vArlotY. Nice assortment of Dress Goode. Balmoral shirts in groat warl H. at, J. y STOKES', 702 ABM Street. N. B.—On hand, Jack-straws and Solitaires, made by and sold for an invalid. They are nice games as well as presents, and any one would confer a favor by porches'. WOO same. dell-tf HEAVY CLOAKINGS. Brown and Black Sealskin, 76 0 to 0 1 . 5 0. Cheap heavy Coatings and Cloaking!! Fine Black Clothe and Beaver'. Good stock Casalmmo at old prlcos. COOPER elt CONABD, deli B. B cor. NINTH and 151.1.115. EX HOUSE FURNISHING DRY G00D13.--SHEPPARD,, VAN HARLINGEN, $ AMMON, Importers and Dealers In Linen, and Howe Irurnlehhig Dry Goods, ate. Have now on band a full assortment of Linen Sheeting, Table Clothe, Neeklne, Table, Dlapec Towelling, eto., etc., imported under the old tarlff, or bought a groat sac rifice. .... N.B.—Five per cent allowed on purchases as above, If pain for on dolirerr. non' CLOAKS AND MANTILLAS. CLOAKS! CLOAKS ! CLOAKS! WATER PROOF MOM OLOARS, In endless 'scalar,' LIGHT AND DAM( CLOTH OLOMES, of every allude; BLACK OLOTH CLOAK% of every quality; BLACK SILII-VELVET "CLOAKS, EVERY NEW STYLE, EVERY NEW ALATERLaL; THE LARGEST STOOK AND THE MOST BEABONAHLi PRICES IN THE MTV IVENS, °on No. 23 South NINTH Street GREAT BARGAINS IN LADIES' OLOAKS, • To close out, At the AROH-STREET CLOAK AND MANTILLA STORE, N. W. corner TENTH and AROM. Std. autll,om JACOB HORSFALL. PRILAZICLPITIA (1.140.M18 NJ Handsome styles of woll-made, serviceable gar ments. The beet made, the best fitting, snd the beat materials for the price. A largo stock from which to Select. COOPER 6. 0014ARD, dad S. E. cor. NINTH and MARKET. CAKB! V The Largest, Cheapest, and Best assorted Stook in the city, SHIPLEY, HAZARD, 86 HUTCHINSON, 001111tIBBION RIEBOHAIUTO •01 nfl BALI OF PHILADELPHIA-MADE GOODS. etABINET FURNITURE AND IDELr WARD TABLXI3. MOORE No. 281 South BXOOND Street, It connection with their extensive Cabinet Business arc wow inannfacterhag a trocorfor article of . . . BILLIARD TABLES, And hare now on hand a full allbyly, finished with the 111.00101 & CAMPION'S IMPROVED CIISRIONS, which are pronounced, by all who hare need them, to be superior to all others. Nor the Quality and finish of these Tables the menu banters refer to their numerous patrons throughout the Union, who are higfillsr with the oharecter of their work. aufill.thn MANAGERS CRAB-APPLE CIDER, OLD CURR.MT WINE, DErLI,EII IN FINE aItDOEUIES, fe&tf Corner of ELEVENTIf and VINE SW MACKEREL, HERRING., SHAD, SALMON, .80.-8.000 bble Bees Nos. 1,2, and 8 MAHEIBUL, large, medium, and small, in Sigorfed beckages of choice, late...caught, fat fish. 1,000 MAL New Halifax, Zastport, and Labrador NON dogs, debates qualities. 11,000 boxes extra now aged Herrings. 2,000 boxes extra new No. 1 Herrings. 0,000 boxes large Magdaline Herrings. 1160 bbla. Haskins. White Sieh. AO bbis. new Hammy Mew llbelL 16 Mac new Halifax Batmen. 1,000 quintals Orend Bank Hodge& SOO boxes Herkimer Bounty Cheese. In store and landing, for gale by MURPHY n SOON6 I I 106 Fo. 146 NORTH 2/BAUM. EVERY LADY WHO WISHES TO .1-:aBE BEAUTIFtiL should purchase RUNT'S COURT TOILET POWDER. /t M need by the Court Beauties in Europe, and It is the only Powder that will not injure the akin or rub off. Price,l2, 21, and te cents. RUNT'S BLOOM OF ROSES, a beautiful, na. twat color, for the cheeks or lips; it will not wash off or injure the akin, and remains durable for years. Price $l. Tbeeo articles are quite new, and can only be oh. tamed of HURT & C0.,83 South SEVENTH Street, above Walnut. All Undo of Palm Boos and Per. Amery. htlB.lin TT ANS.-1,000 pieces sugar• owed. Have for sale by 0. 0. BADLEEt & 103 KROH Street. 24 door above Front. rpm QUALITY ROOFING SLAT E saws's an Winer Ws at trrdon Wheal, IN MOB 9*(4 . T. TRONA.% MN! SW WALNUT kilt, news& • Yrk s .41;*'s",, *.tz ltr o A AA mow _ r m*' ---- 2 all 71. RETAIL DRY GOODS. / * ROUND 'IMAM OLOAKB, From $lB to sl4—From $lO to $7.60 lirmyrr Cum Ciotg, From sao to s22—From $335 to Et 26 FMB BLAME MKAVER CLoMES, From 846 to s3s—From $35 to $26 Frats BLACK Batmen Masao, From $25 to sl9.so—From $2O to Ole Hum Bt.eatr. BRAVVI. ()Lodes, From $l6 to sl2—From $l2 to $9 FANCY Bg(vex Closes, From $4O to 880—From $BO to $24. , Fetter CoLORISD BItiVER C 1,011 09 From $24 to slB—From $lB to $18.50 LYONS YUMMY CLOI.BB, From 390 to 865—From $7O to e 56 simartiss CHESTNUT and EIGHTH Streets 110IIGO. do CO., No. 26 South TENT)! Strout, Oppoelto Franklin Market COMMISSION HOUSES. No. 1111 CHESTNUT STREET, CABINET FURNITURE. & .CIA_MPLON, GROCERIES. OWE INtra. BUPPLY, 3135 T RECEIVED ALBERT C. ROBERTS, g4t :111rtss FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 1862. Law Literature from California.** Suppose that even so lately as fifteen years ago, any one had predicted that San Francisco, then a village with one hundred and fifty inhabitants, should be a great pity, with book-publishers, who would have believed bins? Here, however, we have a law-book, of over nine hundred pages octavo, as well got up in binding, paper, and print as if it had been published in Philadelphia or Boston, the great nurseries of Jaw-literature. Mr. R. W. Hillock was formerly in the army. In 1846 he published the "'Momenta nf• Military Art and Salome," and subsequently gave to the world a practloal work of no small value, entitled "Mining Laws of Spain and Illexioo." He states, in a short and modest preface, that during the war between the United States and Mexico, while serving on the staff of the Pacific squadron, and subsequently as Secretary of State for California, he was often re quired to give his opinions on questions of national law growing out of the operations of war. Ile directed his attention to the subject; read what books of reference he could obtain, made extracts and took notes, and eventually arranged, con densed, and consolidated his information, thus gar-, nered up, during many years, until the present volume (" International Law; or, the Rules Regu lating the Intercourse of States in Peace and War") may bo said to have grown A valuible book it will be to many, but espe cially to naval end military officers—as, from the case of the Trent, it seems that officers are expected to have Vattel and Puffendorf, Wheaton and Phil limore, Kent and Story, at their fingers' ends : Lord Stowell's authority, it seems, after having boon bragged on for over sixty years by Groat Britain , is now repudiated as no authority what ever. Mr. Ralleck divides his subject into thirty six chapters, each elucidating some particular branch of International Law, and commences with its history, very dearly and succinctly related. This volume is woßtimed as well as well-written and will find a place in lawyers' libraries as a work of reference, Mr. Halleek gives his authorities at the end of every paragraph. We have taken the trouble of verifying some of these, and have not detected any mistake or misstatement. The book has one considerable defect. It wants an index. Such a work as this should have an ana lytic index, to complete it as a book of reference. It may easily be appended to future editions. .* International Law; or, Bolos regulating tho Intsr course of States in Peace and War. By 11. W. Balled:, A. M. Author of "Elements of Military Art and Science," Mining Laws of Spain and Mexico." 1 vol. Pro. pp. 907. San Franclsc2: B. 11. Bancroft eh Co. Philadelphia: Ray th Brother, and J. B. Lippincott & Publications Received The January number of the Eclectic Medical Journal of Philadelphia, edited by William Paino, M. D. Peterson's Ladies' Magazine, for robruary.;— The Illustrations are numerous and good. The frontispiece, engraved on steel from an original painting by G. P. Densell, Is apropos to tho season in subject, and the colored plato, Owing tho graceful Parisian fashions, is at once pictorial and graceful. There is any quantity of wood engra vings with pattern for chair or footstool in colors, children's fashions, crochet, embroidery, with an agreeable variety of prose, and verse. Truly, a marvellous magazine for two dollars a year. Here is Godey's Lady's Book too, a very good number, with a protty frontispiece, on stool, a su perb, double colored fashion-plato, and numorous Other illustrations. From Mr. S. 0 Upham, 310 Chestnut street, we have Illustrated London News, (with double sop plemeat,) and Illustrated .Arews of do World, both of January 4 ln- l'hey literally abound in engra vings illustrating the °Tem...., the passing time, all over the world. We also have, from is.. _ the fae-simile, (half•sheet foolscap octavo,) of the fifty-fourth number of the New England Tour- exp... Of 1[1,40. Xlavvyi amp. ping news and a few advertisements, it has no local news. All the rest of the intelligence is from England and Jamaica. We notice two an nouncements which would startle Boston of to daYnamely, " a very likely Negro Woman,"ftged 22, to be Sold ; also, a negro girl, about 13 or 14 years of ago. Ono Mr. Pigott advertises a school for the instruction of nogroes. Coffee was eight shillings per pound. We have seldom seen a:finer magazine engraving than The Death of General Wolfe at Quebec, on steel, by our John Sartain, from Benjamin West's original Lpainting. This was the first time of an artist treating a modern alibied in other than a OIREEIO " manner,—that is, introducing people in the Lordinary costume of the period, and not in a nude condition, liko antique statues. This en graving appears in the Eclectic Magazine for February, together with a good deal of woll-ae lected reading from the leading British periodicals. The Eclectic is an excellent periodical, worthy of its great popularity. It can be procured from W. B. Zither, South Third street, or from T. B. Peter eon, Chestnut street. Harper's Magazine, for February, is out, and procurable at Lippincott's, Petersons', and Up ham's. There are several articles of more than or dinary attraction—such as the concluding part of J, Ross Browne's Coast Rangers of California, with illustrations; Washington Irving, and the Peanut vania 'Whisky Insurrection; but the third and clo sing paper an Money-Making, by Mr. A. 11. Guern sey, we believe, is best of all It shows, by pen and poise% the operations of the American Bank Note Company, in New York, and all description is made doubly plain by the addition of twenty-five good engravings, among which are fac.similes of the first American paper-money, Continental ,bills, and the new United States demand notes, for $lO and $lOO. Harper has its usual quantity of entertaining articles; and, in addition to Mr. Trollopo's "Orley Farm," and Mr. Thaelteray's "Adventures of Philip," Mies Mulock here commences a serial, called "Mistress and Maid; a Household Story ;" the mistress is Miss Leaf, and the maid is 'Lizsboth Band. There are three Misses Leaf, by the way— Johanna, Selina, and Hilary. This tale will be continued through the year, by special arrange ment with the author. The Editor's Drawer has Some good dories and wood-cuts. It opens, how ever, with a double mistake about the snuff which Lundy Foot sold, by the name of "Blackguard." In the first place, Lundy Foot never kept a to bacoe.shop in Limerick, or any where but in Dub lin; secondly, his manufactory never was burnt down ; thirdly, ono of his workmen, who booamo oblivious through drink, left a tin of snuff too long on the lire, until it became high-dried, and his master reproved him by the sobriquet of "Irish Blackguard," but changed his tone when, taking a pinch himself, ho discovered how much the extra toasting had improved the snuff. "There, Pat," said he, throwing him a guinea, "You've made good snuff without knowing it. What shall we call it ?" "Ah, sir," said Pat, "Just now ye abused me, and I was an Irish blackguard—call it that." This, and not the account in Harper, is the true version of the anecdote. Mention of Harper reminds us that Ilulwer's Strange Story," now running through Harper's Weelly, le very nearly finished, awl is to be RUO. 000d0d by a now novel from the pen of Wilkie Collins. Confirmations by the Senate. W4IBIIIIIGTON, January 23.---The Senate has con firmed the following appointments : Wm. Huntington, of the Territory of Washington, to be marshal of that Territory. Benj. H. Smith, of Virginia, attorney for the Western district of Virginia. Joe. 0. Broadhead, of Missouri, attorney for the Eastern district of that State. - . - Robert G. Tooke'', of Missouri, attorney for the Western district of that stato. Robert Crozier, of Kansas, attorney for the die triet of that State. B. F. Rexford, of Now York, commissioner of the United States under tho Convention of the 2d of July, 1860, for the adjustment of claims of the citizens of the United States against Costa Rica. Samuel D. Ilowo, of Washington Territory, es agent of the Indians in that Territory. Jas. D. Doty, of Wisconsin, superintendent of Indian affairs in Utah. George Bowen, postmaster at Batavia, Now York. Joseph r. Brawn, Zenaa O. Bobbips, and George B. Gideon, all of Washington; William H. Tommy, of Georgetown,' and Bayles J. BOIVOD, of Wash ington county, commissioners of the metropoli tan police of the District of Columbia. Bland Ballard, of Rentucky, judge of tho Dis trict Court for that district. . . Joseph N. Struter, of Illinois L assooiate justice of the Supreme Court of tho Territory of Ne braska. Thomas R. Jarvis, collector of customs for the diAriet of Cherry Stone, Virginia; Henry P. Parker, surveyor of customs at the port of Acco• mac, Virginia. The following named consuls have boon confirm ed : Daniel Evans, of Illinois, at Ifilboa ; Edward B. Cowles, of New York, at Singapore; Wm. S. Campbell, of New York, at Dresden; Win. H. Dabney, of Rhode Island, at Tenoriffe; Richard C. Hannah, of Indiana, at Santander; Enoch J. Sualthers, of Delaware, at Selo; J. W. Massey, of Pennsylvania, at Paso del Norte ; J. 11. Moieties "neYi of Illinois, at New Castle ; D. Card, of New York, at Tumbez ; Isa, Thomas, of Ohio, at Al glen; Georgo S. 'Fisher, of California, at Kanaga. ; Thomas McDowell, of New Jersey, at Cape town ; Thomas Hogg, maraud of the consular court of the United States at Nagasaki, Japan; John H. Cowden ' of Pennsylvania, consul at Nagasaki; Charles L. Berry, of Missouri, at Elsinore; Roys ton Betts, of Virginia, at Onion and Trusillo; Wm. 'R. Williams, of Ohio, at Para ; Joseph Vanolor, of PHILADELPHIA, FR)AY, JANUARY 24, 1862. Wisconsin, at Tahiti; Thomas F„ Wilson, of Pet Sylvania, at Bahia; Carl J. Kraby, of Wisconsin, of stopping communication. Mont Seized f°l' the purpose lea will attend the espedi- Porsgrund ; Hiram Tuttle, of Wisconsin, at Much of the success eof this railroad in North Carolina that may . be o t 53 the fast that the rebels cannot video ; Chas. Winslow, of Massachusetts, at Payl Bon wi ll be duo to intimation - Old E. Dreutser, of Wisconsin, at Bergen. aimed until the blow is struck. For a long time it have a certain intimation of tho point at which it is had been supposed that its destination was up THR R EBELLIGN the Rappahannock river, and it is possible that that river's banks may be studded with batte ries, Now, when it is evident from tho course it has taken, that it is intended for the North Caro lina coast, the enemy is still uncertain as to the Important News about the Reny 11preoise point to defend. The four points =on side Expedition. 'Coned as liable to seizure are Wilmington, near the mouth of Cape Fear river; Goldsboro, Weldon, at the junction of the Seaboard and 'Roanoke Rail- THE PREPARING TO ATTACK NEWroad, and Rickford, at a junction twenty miles BEAN, NORTH CAROLINA, nearer Richmond. It is possible that Wilmington may be taken, which would, probably, be easily accomplished ; and the despatch stated to have THE WOMEN AND CHILDREN LEAVING THE TOWN."'' received at Richmond from that place, to the fleet that there wore thirty Federal vessels off 'ape Fear river, and that an attack was hourly greeted, adds to the probability of such an event. olden can be reached by way of Albemarle Sound id the Roanoke river. Goldsboro is reached from ewbern by the Nouso river, and would bo the ost effective point that could be seized. The inure of Washington as well as Newborn, and the struotion of the bridges over the Tar and Name 'era, combined with tho occupation of Goldsboro, , uld totally cut off the great coast line comranni don with the South, so that six months' work uld not replace the present facilities. Rebel Opinions. THE LATE BATTLE AT SOMERSET THE INSTRUCTIONS TO OEN. THOMAS, Affairs in Gen. HaHeck's Division. TIM RETURN TO CAIRO OF GEN GRANT'S EXPEDITION. WHAT IT ACCOMPLISHED. THE MISSISSIPPI GIIIHDATS AND FLOAT• ING BATTIIES INTERESTING SOUTHERN NEWS. AFFAIRS AT PORT ROYAL THE REBEL DEFENCES ON TIIE MAIN LAND OPPOSITE FUT PICKENS. &C., &C., &C. THE BURNSIDE EXPEDITION. Its Arrival in Pamlice Sound—A Battle Expected at Newbern—The Women and Children leaving the flown. FORTRESS hiontioE, Jart.22, via Baltimore.— There has been no arrival hilt from the Burnside Expedition. The .Norfolk Day Book , 1 Wednesday lies a deepatch, dated Goldsboro January 21, four o'clock P. M., announcing th.t one hundred Fede ral vessels of the Burnside lxpedition are inside of Pamlico Sound, and twent! largo steamers out aide. No attack had been rade, but the women The instructions to Gen. Thomas, and children were leaving Neibern, N. C., whore ' LOUISVILLE, Jan. 23 —The Louisville Journal a fight was expected. Faye that the instructions of Gen. Buell show that .13sLeiniono, Jan, 23.—The pedal correspondent he is fully master of the situation. It was arranged of the Baltimore American, at Fortress Monroe, that Gen. Thomas should 3eave Jamestown and says that a nag of trues went b Norfolk yesterday Gen. Schcepff advance from Somerset, thus hem with Lieut. Berta, a relonad prisoner returning wing in Zollicoffer from the west and north. South. Ile was made a prissier in Western Vir- Some Secession spy carried the intelligence of ginia end is released on pane, and will be ex- Gen. Thomas' movements to the rebel camp, and changed for Lieut. Gordon, rho was made a pri- Zollicoffer, making a forced march on Saturday d inner by the rebels in Missouri tornoon, reached Gen. Thomas' encampment on The Norfolk papers of Wednesday contain the Sunday morning. following telegrams: • Gonesnono, N. C., Jan. 21,4 o'clock P. In the meantime, Major Sheppard, wi,h the M A largo 'number of women aid children have ar- Eighteenth regulars, and Colonel Manson's brigade rived here from Newborn. .fi fight is expected of the Tenth Indiana, Colonel Harem's Tenth there. No other news." Kentucky, Colonel Fry's Fourth Kentucky, reach " Witatikarort ' N. C., Jan. 21.—An express ar- ed General Thomas' clamp after a forced march of .rived at Goldsborough, from lowborn, reports twenty-five miles, so that ho was able to advance that, at 4 o'clock P, bi. yesterday there were ono upon the rebels and drive them before him until ho hundred vessels of Burnsido's expedition within Pamlico Sound, and twenty-five large transports reached their entrenchments at night. outside of Hatteras Inlet. A private letter from Somerset says that the citi "Private information received here says that acne and soldiers are struggling in loaded with the the enemy will attack Newborn, Hyde county, trophies of battle, Our bullets wore sent with un and Roanoke' Islands simultaneously. Oar forces erring aim, and many of the rebels are shot In the are Completely prepared for them." The Norfolk Day Book has the following : forehead, breast and body. The Union pooplo here have flocked to the battlefield in droves and aro "SAVA/MAU, Jan. 21.—From forty to fifty ves sels are ou Broad river, fifteen miles from Port jubilant at the result. Royal." It is thought that General Crittenden is among None of the Southern papers make any referents the prisoners disguised as a surgeon. to the fight, or defeat and death of Zollicoffer, in - Humphrey " Humping" himself. Kentucky.. The' funeral of Tyler took place on the Mot, an d (Correspondence of the Louiseffie Journal.] dig Wooded by President Davis and Cabinet, and Louisa, Ky., January 14. The Day lveroilongress. It has been my purpose ever sumo I joined tho nets paper, saying that tuirxestm_h from a Poi,— prostysseeend Reettperit—OolopeLA—V‘Lindstay's, not escape trout the Potomac. witticfatirifiCell Twenty-second should bear a part. Our en gentleman who examined her with a app-glass I etunpment at Camp Swigert, at Camp Clay (Ash after she passed the batteries, gives that paper the .; land), our halt at Catlettsburg, and our advance assurance that she had a hole RS big .%* al - tha - river to Loulea, -- ecoupied only about two in her bow,' etc. weeks. On Tuesday, the 7th, three companies of The special correspondent of the American adds : the Twenty-second, Swheitzer's, Ellis', and Scott's, " A personal inspootion of the Pensacola to-day embarked on the Sandy Valley and a little pro enables me to assure these gentlemen that the only peller for Paintsville The lest company named holes in her bow are those essentially neoeseary to was left to guard stone at George's crook, 12 the right development of her forward pivot gun." miles above. The two former wont forward and The Norfolk 'J_Yanstript, in an editorial, says :joined Colonel Garfield's force, consisting of the "McClellan is going to oross the Potomac, and the Fortieth and Forty-second Ohio, the Fourteenth Yankees, confiding their cause to the direction of Kentucky, and a detachment of the Twenty-second, Providence, observed Saturday last as a day of together with a squadron of cavalry. thanksgiving and prayer." When Humphrey Marshall espoused the already The Day Beek publishes a long ar*le record- toppling fortunes of John O. Brockinridge, I well ing the adventures, misfortunes, and nfaltreatteent, remember the Journal's valedictory to this now of Mies Poole, lately released from the prison for ally to the Disunion cause. " And now let Hum females in Washington. The Day Book calls Miss . pbrey bump himself." Well, first strongly on- Poole a heroine, and says, according to her own trenched on Mount Hagar with several pieces of story, there was no possible indignity or outrage to cannon, he first began the humping movement be which she was not subjected. fore an enemy inferior in numbers and without BALTLIIOnE, Jan. 23.—The Norfolk papers ro- cannon, burning a part of his supplies, without ceived hero make no mention of the reports Circe- firing a gun, until a filo of our cavalry, pressing his rated hare by the Sooessionists, that some of the rear closely at an angle of the road, received a fire vessels of the Burnside Expedition have boon driven from his cavalry, killing two of the pursuers. Re ashore. treating to Spurlock Mountain, three miles from (The following description of the points upon Preetonburg, having a second time the advantage of position, supplied with cannon and outnumbering which the enemy anticipate a simultaneous attack us four to ono, the doughty colonel was seen large will be' found interesting :1 as life upon Ushers° on the mountain ; driven from Position of Newbern. his stronghold, he was made to hump himself again The town of Newborn is situated at the confluence to a point on Beaver creek. of the Nouse and Trent, near the head of a sound The result of this brilliant action—lasting three or extended bay, which itself empties into Pamlico hours and twenty minutes, on Tuesday afternoon Lest, until night closed over the scene, and thus Sound, the command of both the principal entrances ; favored the limpet's all to carry away a part of to which—llatteras and Ocracoke Inlet—has boon their dead and to secure their train—was, by their secured by the national forces, The advantages to own confession, eighty rebels killed, ono hundred be obtained by taking possession of Newborn are wounded, One hundred prisoners, arms, clothing, Gana summed up : and accoutrements captured indefinite. They lost From Newbern, the Atlantic and North Carolina two captains and ono field officer. The next morn- Railroad stretches through about fifty-five or sixty ing four wagons were overtaken by our cavalry, miles of level country to Goldsborough, which is loaded with their dead, the wagons fast bound in upon the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad—the di- the mud. Thirteen rebels were found dead on the rect line of oommunicaten between Eastern field, and a pile of bodies covered with leaves and Virginia and the Southern seaboard cities; and bushes. The rebels reported, as they passed along, from Goldsborough it is but forty-eight miles by that the Union army lost six hundred in killed and the North Carolina Railroad to Raleigh, the wounded. The rebels overshot all the time, and capital of that State, but which possesses at least their shells fell without exploding. Perhaps soma equal importance as the point through which Union man made them, and filled them with saw the secondary and indirect communication of dust to pay for the trick played off at Washington. the Southern seaboard States with Eastern Vir- We may truly say, the Lord hats gotten us the ginia is kept up. This is effected by the connection victory. May the glorious flag of our Union float by railroad of Charlotte, the western terminus of in triumph over the land and sea, Peace soon the North Carolina road, with the Columbia branch unfold her halcyon wings and cover our whole of the South Carolina Railroad, and the connection country, and we all, knowing no North, no South, of Raleigh with Petersburg, Virginia, by the Re- no East, no West, be united on closer, firmer bonds leigh and Gaston Railroad. If, then, a competent of brotherhood than over before existed since 1778. force could be landed at Newborn, and pushed ra -1134 Bowling Green and General Buell. platy and boldly into the , interior, Goldsborough might be seized, and thus the principal rebel line of We must not underrate thp difficulties of the communication would be cut off. This enema. Western campaign. Not only is Commander Foote plished, the same spirit and decision of movement hindered and embarrassed in many ways In his na might soon place Raleigh in our hands; and thus val expedition ; General Buell, also, has more to the second and last avenue would be effectually encounter than those who form their opinions from closed. The harbor of Newborn has water enough the late condition of the rebel army, is under John for any vessel that we would desire to sand on such stop, probably conjecture. Ills force superior in an expedition ; and, at our last advices, there had numbers to that of the enemy. That is a fortunate no fortifieations of any importance been thrown up circumstance, certainly. But the rebels are every near it. To cheek, by military force, this passage day strengthening their fortifications about Bowling of such an expedition as we have had in mind, from Green; their forces have been reorganized and Newborn to Goldsborough, would cost the insurgent their communications made more secure. Seventy leaders such a loss from their main body in Fir- thousand mon—if the rumor is true that there are ginin as would expose them to a fatal advance by so many—thus fortified and entrenched, are no in- General McClellan. significant foe—especially under the conduct of ao Roanoke Island. able a general as Johnston is known to be. The rebels have only of late boon in earnest in If Roanoke Island is taken possession of, it will the West. A few weeks ago they had not even a put a atop to the mwfgation of the inland coast, defenaive position that oould command respect. which means of transportation has been so useful They now threaten to make Bowling Groon a from its safety against outside hostile endears. It Western Manassas, and General Buell's position will give the Government the inside track In this the counterpart of General McClellan's. The important matter. If the Government cannot stop throat does not, at present, seem so formidable as a all the Southern seaport "rat-holes "by the stone few days' delay might make it. The national plan fleet, they may at least prevent the communication will admit no such delay, as He mein purpose in between the different ports of the rebel coast along the West necessitates a rapid possession of certain the Sounds hereabout and the deem falling into points as preliminary to other and more important them, by placing them in occupation of Federal movements. vessels. Before the national troops oaptered the We may not, therefore, look for any relaxation inlets through the coastline sand bar, in at Bat- in the operation so successfully entered upon in terse, the rebels lead inland water commanioation Kentucky. The rout of Marshall and Zollicoffer from Chesapeake Bay by means of the short Dismal only clears the way for the grand advance upon Swamp canal. But further and more efficient Bowling Green, so long threatened and waited for. Means are required for terminating any advantages And while we' anxiously await the result depend of this kind, and the occupation of some military ing, as it does, upon so many unforeseen eireum station in these sounds, like Roanoke Island, is stances—we have no serious apprehensions. Gen. needed. The Buell, besides being himself one of the bravest of most important object of the mimeo will, however, be the threatening of Nodolk, and, if • generals, is also eminently fortunate in the subor- dinato °Satire by whom he is supported d it is thought advisable to follow up the advantage, stuff of which his forces are ma the up., and in the The Gone the flanking of the robot army ant Norfolk. A ral-in• Chief sae sot him an arduous task, but he movement scouring Pamlico and Albemarle Bounds, has shown himself fitted for just such undertakings. and thus commanding the Dismal Scamp canal, would command the adjunct canal known as the —New York Times. Jericho canal, connecting through halm Drummond The Commander of the Eighteenth U nited with an important railroad junction at a town called States Infantry at Somerset. Suffolk, on the Nation:amid river, mere the main In the reports of the repent battle and brilliant railroad route from Norfolk branchei into what are victory at Somerset we find mention made of the sailed the Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad and Eighteenth Regiment of United States Infantry. the Seaboard and Roanoke Rallruids, thus con- The Colonel having been appointed an Acting pletely emitting off all connection iy rail or water Brigadier General, the command devolved on the between Norfolk and its aurrouniing country and Lieutenant Colonel. The following is a sketch of the other parts of the robot regions The strategic that officer: importance of such a movement if successfully Sketch of Leant. Col. Shepherd. made, will form ono of the most clearing features of the war. It will afford an impmtant nucleus for Lieutenant Colonel Oliver Lathrop Shepherd was born in Saratoga, and le a native and citizen of New loyalty to rally around, if there are, as we hope York. entered the Military Aeadem at West there ore, some loyal men in thoseparts of Virginia Point i theyearlBBo, and graduated Jul y y 1,1810, and North Carolina ready to idly again when when be waaapp . (Anted to the regular army loyalty once more finds protectim under the na brevet second tientenant of theFourthlnfanTry a . ritual banner. The expedition has been well planned and ad- In October of the same year, he was appointed a mirably managed, and has a mope of operations second lieutenant ol of _ . ovember, 1845, when he was the Third Infantry, which aesigned it wide and important. Its success will rank he held until promoted to a first lieutenanoy.. Ho served in be one of the most disastrous Bows of the many Florida during the Florida war with the Indians, that are ready to fall thick and fait, and from every and in Mexico during the Mexican catopidgn, and side, upon the causa l t rebellion was brevetted captain for gallant and meritorious Another writer, in disoussirg the effect of the conduct in the battles of Contreras and Churubusoo, capture of Roanoke Island, say • his brevet bearing date August 20,1847. He was The rumor of the taking o' Roanoke Island is also brevetted major for gallant and meritorious eon also likely to prove correct. Tie object of a descent duet in the battle of Ohepultopeo, dating from Sep upon this portion of the coastis evidently to seine tembor 13, 1847. In December, 1847, he was rep some point or points on therailroad running di- pointed captain in his regiment, which rank he reotly south from Richmond and thus effectually held at the breaking out of the present rebellion. I to cut off the supplies from the Southern States. and During the Interval, he has held several important to assist in the combined increment of the Union positions as commander of military posts and expo armies for surrounding and capturing the rebel ditions on the Indian frontier of New Monies and forces in Virginia. The prolabilitios to be gather. Texas, and during the past year was connoted with ad from the last news are, that Gen. Burnside's at- the mustering board of officers In New York. When tack will be upon Washingta or Newborn, or both, authority was given for the organization of new re situated respectively near the mouths of the Tar gular regiments he was appointed, at the extra sea and Kenna rivers, and from which Goldabore„ an won of Congress, the lieutenant oblongs' of the important junction on the railroad, will be within Eighteenth United States Infantry, which rank ho striking dietaries. now holds, his Commission bearing date May 14, Tera are at least foursaliant points upon the , 1801. Cho Richmond Examiner, of the 20th instant, In E article referring to the Burnside Expedition, ,Ye have important intelligence from the Burn sae Expedition. An official despatch has been re !rived at the War Department, Lilted yesterday uorning, stating that the expedition had made its ppearanee at Hatteras, inside the bar. The con- WS of the despatch are, that twenty-six Federal [earners were inside the bar and six lying outside, esides sixteen sail vessels, making a total force of Day- eight vessels. , There appears to be n strong disposition, Leven in Metal quarters, to believe that an natter is medi ttcd in the rear of Norfolk. To carry out this lan of attack the enemy will have to ta.le Roa 'oke Island, which lies in Albemarle Sound, and 'mild then have water communication within some airty or forty miles of Norfolk. Tho Idea, how 'seer, appears to be extravagant, that such an at ,ack would be meditated unless with an army ()m -ild° in all its appointments, and not in the situ- Hon in which the invaders would be, in danger of laving their supplies cut off at any moment. Another supposition entertained in well-informed tureen it the, Netobern is to be the object of attack. town of Newborn is situated at the head of the Nemo river, an estuary emptying into Pamlico Sound, and is an important station on the Atlan -tie and North Carolina Railroad. There is a tonsideralle body of State troops there to meet Mc invaders, but we do not deem it prudent to 'mention the amount of our forces. 1 ROM GEN. BUELL'S DEPARTMENT GENERAL ,HALLECK'S DIVISION. The Objects or General Grant's Expedi tion—Rebel Reinforcements Prevented from going to Camp Beauregard or Bowling Green—Occupation of Camp Beauregard by Gen. Smith's Command. (Special Correspondence of The Meese Tenn.) Chino, 111., Jan. 19. After live days' hard travelling, being most of the time in the saddle, through ravines, climbing huge hills, crossing muddy streams guiltless of bridges, General Grant and escort, with the expedi tion into Kentucky, got back to Fort Jefferson last night,completely tired out, and thankful onto more to lie down to sleep safe from any chance of being Molested by rebels, which accommodations were afforded us on the capacious steamer Aleck Scott, Capt. Riley. The furious rain-storm, which raged for one day and two nights, has probably . disarranged operations for only a short time. The immediate objects to be first accomplished have been attained, which were to prevent reinforcements from Columbus going to Camp Beauregard and Bowling Green, and to learn minutely the geography of the country, and condition of the streams, roads, 4-e. Both were successful. So far, an armed reconnoissance has been made of the whole country. Gem Grant has examined, in person, every road leading out of Columbus, and was at one time within four or five miles of the place. Rebel pickets ono night were driven in, and, no doubt, the bravery of the rebel troops at Columbus has been overrated by us, or they have been greatly misinformed as to our force in and around them, or they would have given us battle. From deserters I learn they have been constantly under arms for the last week, and had one or two alarms every night. As Camp Beauregard could not be reinforced from Columbus, Gen. Smith,loith, the Paducah forces, had ?to trouble in taking possession of it, although after it had been crionated, for on his approach the rebels decamped, leaving their bag gage and camp equipage. On Thursday, the 9th, General MoClernand's brigade, composed of the Tenth, Eighteenth, Twenty-seventh, Twenty-ninth, Thirtieth, Thirty first, and Forty-eighth Maoist infantrp regiments, two artillery and seven cavalry companies, occupied the mouth of Mayfield creek, until Tuesday morn ing last, when they took up the lino of march, fol- lowed by Paine's brigade, composed of the Eighth, Eleventh, Twenty-second - Illinois, anti Tenth lowa regiments, Taylor's Chicago artillery, and Nola man's and Burrell's cavalry, and Cot. Cook's blade the Seventh anti Twenty-eighth Illinois, an Delano's cavalry. Portions of the Fourth and Seventh cavalry regiments also accompanied the expedition. Tho Twentieth Illinois, Col. Marsh, remained at the mouth of Mayfield creek. These brigades. were divided into several commands and took different routes, all tending to got in behind Columbus, MoClernand'e brigade getting nearer that place than the rest—some twelve miles die tent. On Wednesday morning last General Grant and staff, with Captain Osband's Chicago Cavalry Com pany as a body-guard, accompanied by several re porters, left Cairo to join the column, and the first night overtook McClernand at the Cross-roads, some twelve miles distant, and returned the same night to O'Neil's Mills, some four miles back, pass ing Oglesby's and Cook's COIIIIBI2B encamped at different points. Thursday morning General Grant, with escort, left O'Neil's for Blandeille, a mile dis tant, taking the Milburn road for soma miles, when we struck the Lovolacoville road, intending to go there ; but, finding so many cross;toads which had to bo examined, asseell as creeks and bridges, it was given up, and we returned by another route, pass ing ' .through Blandville, and got to O'Neil's Mills at eight o'clock at night. During the day's ride men were impressed into service and acted as guides, some willingly and others not Friday morning wo loft O'Neil's in the direction of Fort Jefferson, leaving the fort to the right, Passing Palmer's Mills, reaching Putney's Bend on the Ms - - siesippi river, Ewen miles below the fort, where we were twenty minutes behind a company of rebel cavalry from Columbus. At the Bend the steamer Aleck Scott and gun boats Essex and .St. Louis were lying, and Gen. Grant wont on board the Scott, and came np to Fort Jefferson and remained all night. The next morning, Saturday, ho left for Blandville, and re turned by a different route to the fort, reaching it at dark, I have thus been particular in giving each day's work, to show you that all the country has been traversed in the vicinity of Columbus. Atone time we were so close that their pickets wore frightened by our advance guard, and went pell-mell towardsthat place. The commandant has a perfect diagram of the country, which will be of incalculable benefit in future operations. On Friday it commenced raining, and continued until late Saturday night, which has changed the programme, forcing the recall of the whole com mand, part if not all of which would have held their positions if the flooded country had not made it necessary to return. That it was and is the determination, if the con dition of the country will admit, to give robeldom a Buell must; if he has not already done so, voiiz a battle at Bowling Green, or some less important point, to insure active operations from this quarter. Ills success was undoubtedly a condition of torn-ant movements from hero. A portion of the expedition has returned—all, I believe, except McOlernand's brigade, which may not arrive Sill Tuesday. MoClernand has double the number of men and en immense train, and the swollen streams and wretched roads will prevent Lim from moving very fast. No attempt at an at tack upon any portion of our forces was made, without one has been made on MeClernandsinee we left him. is The bravery of the rebel troops, which has been so much extolled, is not thought to amount to mush sines their Miura) to give the late expedition bat tle. Our movements were known daily at Colum bus, as some of our men disguised were sent to in quire of farmers as to where General Grant was, and they could tell to a certainty whore he was. The people in this section are all Secessionists, and one of them, O'Neil, where we stayed three nights, was honest enough to tell us that parties were con stantly going to Columbus, and undoubtedly in formed (loners! Polk daily of our whoreabouta. If I a rebel force was within from flee to ton miles of Cairo, and continued there for days, they would be forced to fight if they did not get out of the way. They either ara not as bravo as they have credit for, or expect to remain inside their fortifications until shelled out, or are surrounded' and starved out. The impossibility of successful oporations'in Ken tucky since the late rains, and the stoppage of boats coming down the Mississ ippi river by the ice, will delay movements for a few weeks at most, but that they will be made as 80011 as possible is certain. Every indications shows this—the strict military discipline, the refusal to grant furloughs except in extreme eases, the movements all over the country, and another indication, although trivial in itself, which is, that a portion of General Hallook's bag gage and some private tranks belonging to him ar rived hero to-day by express. Four soldiers, deserters from Columbus, reached our lines at Fort Jefferson on Tuesday night last, having succeeded in breaking out of the guard house at that place, after exhausting nearly all other resources. Their names aro : Jesse Gilbert, from Brooklyn, N. Y., went to New Orleans a year and a half ago, forced to enlist, was at the battle of Belmont, was in guard-house for insulting an officer; Charles Cox, from Watertown, Now York, printer, had been in Memphis Appeal office, forced to enlist; Joseph Gardner,, formerly lived in Twenty-ninth street, New York, captured by pri vateer Calhoun in April last from bark Chester, of Boston, forced to enlist; 'W. J. Morrell, formerly lived in Mulberry street, New York, forced to en- MB. COS and Morrell had been sentenced to be shot for desertion. They were furnished with a file by which they filed their irons off. They then sot to work to dig their way out, and bad to re move earth largo enough for a passage the whole length of four buildings to a spot not exposed, where they could escape undiscovered. When they wore filing off their hone, their fellow prisoners would, when the guard was near, dance and sing so as to drown the noise of the files. They got out at three o'clock in the morning, and passed the pickets at a point where they know one of their friends was on guard, and succeeded in reaching . Fort Jefferson in two days afterwards, laying by in day time, and going round all settlements. They are intelligent moo, and give about the same account of matters and things sts others who have escaped. They say the ice which was running in the Mississippi, some two weeks ago, had knocked the scows out from under the large chain which was stretched across the river this aide of Columbus; that Hollins' Manassas ram bad been there, but had gone back, as it would not work to advantage except in deep water. The largo floating battery which had been brought from Now Orleans was too large and unwieldy for uso. Pillow had gone to Richmond to justify his resigna tion. They were passed up the Illinois Central by President Osborn, who arrived here this morning. The Mississippi Gunboats and Floating Batteries. A correspondent of the Boston Journal, writing from on board the steam-battery Beaton, on the Mississippi river, under date of January 15, says : Lying off old Fort Jefferson, from which place my last letter was dated, are the steam floating batteries Essex and Sr. Louis. I call them steam floating batteries, for that is a more appro priate term than gunboat. They have no external appearance to a ship or boat, but are much more like one of the great rafts which float down these Western rivers with houses on them. Raving re ceived a courteous invitation from Captain Porter, commanding the Essex, I went on board and passed an agreeable hour pacing the debk with him. The Essex What American boy has not read of the naval engagement between the American eloop•of--war Essex, and the British sloops Cherub and Phebe, in the harbor of Valparaiso, during the last war with Great Britain? What boy has not wished over and over again that Captain Porter could have had a fair chance in that terrible fight, one of the se rarest ever fought? Well, here is another Essex and another Captain Porter in command—eon of the captain who refused to strike his flag till the last hope had departed. This mart is totally unlike the Essex of fifty years ago. That was a fast-sailing, staunch-built vessel, which for a long while had un disputed away in the Pacific, and sent many rich prizes to port; this is a " turkle," a slow creep ing oblong box, with no resemblance whatever to a ship. But this is as staunch a craft as her old name sake, built of pecan timber, and carries a heavy battery. But as I propose to give a diagram of the Bentan,whieh is to be Commodore Foote's flagship, I will pass by the peculiarities of the Essex and speak of Caputln Porter lie is a solid man, and one glance is sufficient to satisfy yott that ho is a fighting man—a chip of the old block. Ile is but a little more than five foot bigb, most compactly put together, does not use the razor, and when paerng the desk, Which is nearly all the time, has the rollicking stop of ono accus tomed to the seas. Be is about forty-fivo years old, I should judge, and is very anxious to have a chance to do something. Ile did something worthy of mention on Saturday. Two rebel gunboats name up in slat of Fort Jefferson, and Capt. Porter imam thately-had the anchors up and steam on to moot them, bag way at haat; htit gig oivitity gas 40. TWO CENTS. dined. They steamed back, and Capt. Porter fob' lowed, accompanied by the St. Louis. The Essex has one 10-inch Dahigren and two rifle forty-two pounders at her bow. The thirty-two's were worked deliberately, and Capt. Porter is confident that a gun on board the rebel boat was dismounted. All their shot in return fell short. He pursued till within range of their batteries, then penning an in vitation to the rebel naval commander to meet him in combat, and fastening it to a pork, which he dropped into the stream, he returned to his posi. tion. A boat was seen to put out from the shore and pick up the cork. Yesterday, Commodore Foote came down on the . Tyler, which is a gunboat, having some resem blance to sea-going steamers, and, accompanied' by the Essex and St. Louis, reoonnoltred Columbus. The rebel boats were not to be seen. About a dozen shells were tossed into the batteries on shore, bat elicited no reply, although there was a visible coin- - motion around them. There are batteries at the water's edge, also on the bluff. The guns mainly were directed to those highest on the bank, and it was ascertained that they could be shelled by our guns. The rebels, it is said, have been chuckling and comforting themselves with the confident ex pectation that our guns could not be elevated suffi ciently to reach them, while they would have all the advantage of a plunging fire upon the floating steam batteries. They will find themselves mis taken, for the floating batteries, at long range, will be able to drop their shells into the works on the bluff, and if they see fit to come to close quarters, by running close in shore, the batteries on the bluff will not be able to depress their gum suffidently to obtain the range of the steamers. It would not be very' strange if those manning the batteries on the bluff should soddenly find themselves sliding down upon the water batteries, for a ten-inch dell , lodged in the bank would modems no ineonsidera f blo avalanche. It is repelled that the rebels hive thought of such a possibility, and are trying to protect the bank Yesterday, Captain Porter brought his ponderous ten-inch gun to bear upon Columbus, and at a dis tance of nearly two miles lodged a shell directly in the town, with what effect is not known. Com modore Footo expressed himself as highly satisfied with the reconnoissance. The " Benton." Whlle on board. the Essex the Benton came down on her first trial trip. She is commanded by Captain Pennock, and will be Commodore Foote 's flag-ship. Ile was accompanied by Captain Stora ble, of the Lexington, not yet in commission. Two togs, like smart, attentive valet de charabres, or waiting maids, danced attendance on either side, ready, at a wave of Captain Pennock'shand, to run on errands. One of them flitted to the side of the Benton, received the two captains and• brought them over to the Essex with the utmost politeness. Capt. Pennock invited me on board, and kindly afforded me an opportunity to make what observa tions I pleased upon the Benton, requesting me to knock round and make myself at home—an 'invita tion which, of course, was not declined. Captain Porter also gave me an invitation to be present when he has another interview with the enemy's batteries at Columbus, which I shall try to accept. Leaving the Essex, we soon reached the Benton.. Bore we are making our way slowly up stream. I have, as yon may believe, made myself thoroughly at home—on deck, in the engine room, by the gnus, or wherever I pleased, in accordance with the spirit of Capt. Pennoek's invitation. In a former letter, I gave a general description of the appearance of these steam floating-batteries. but having abundant leisure this afternoon, I will give another look, draw a few lino, and make a few figures which may be of interest. The boat is one hundred and eighty feet long, and about seventy-five wide. As it is not designed for sea going . service, and will not encounter ocean waves, there is no objection to such breadth of beam. Its general internal arrangements may oe understood by the following diagram : Prow. Bow Deck 4 I 4 t Guns. B. Boilers. E. Engines W. Wheel. P, Pilot House. nuns._ renanmluered, is the form of the box or casemate, as it is tecfnewauy termed:, Intim sits noon the hull. - The prow of the boat projects about fifteen feet from what is here designated as the bow. Imagine two convex lines drawn from the prow back to the casemate, and you have the form of the bow, and also of the entire hull. At the bow is a deck, on which are laid the =bora and cables, but leaving unobstructed range to the guns. The casemate, or, as one not educated in scientific terms might term it, the side of the box, is not perpendicular, but sloping, like the steep roof of a house, not steeper, however, than the roofs of come of the cottages yon have seen built in the gothic, style of architecture, made sloping that the shot of the enemy may not strike point blank or Biunro against the side, but at an angle which will diminish its force and cause it to glance off. The front wall of the casement is three feet thick, of solid pecan timbers, which Is more firm than oak, but, as the timber does not stand on a perpendicu lar, it is more than three feet, and the line of re sistance being diagonal across the grain of the tim ber, there is, of course, an increase of resisting material. In addition to this enormous thickness of wood, the sides op plated with iron two and one half inches think, not cast, but tho best hot-rolled and annealed Tennessee iron. The top of this box or casemate is of six-inch oak earlin, and is plated with one half inch of boiler iron. " The wheel-house rises like the convex roof of an omnibus. The pilot-house is not within the casemate, but you aro to imagine an olovationsome what in tho form of a tunnel, or as a tunnel would look if turned with tho month downward on tho top of a box. There are small holes through which the pilot from ig The loopholes of retreat" can sec all that is going on without much danger from a shot. The engines and boilers are in the bold below the water line, and, so near the centre of the boat that it is hardly a cL iissibility that a shot can reach them. The officers' rters are in the space immediately in front of the heel and between the engines, but above them. It will be seen that there is ample room for working the guns The Benton has a powerful battery.. It is a floating fortress. At the how are two 9-inch Dahlgren guns, and two 61- pound rifled guns. The side guns are 320 and 64a. The stern guns are 425. As it is intended to fight mainly head on, the heaviest armament is placed there. It is intended, however, to keep in motion, and bring each battery in turn to bear. The wheel is in two sections to aid in turning. The inertia of this floating fortress is very great, and, when once stationary, it requires considerable time to make headway, especially against the stream. The highest rate of speed which has been attained this afternoon is only four miles an hour against the stream. We have been moving in cir cles for the last hour, but not very successfully, or rather, not very rapidly. With such great weight it is net an easy matter to keep complete control of the boat in a current. If it were still water there would be leas difficulty. The engines are not sufficiently powerful. The boilers are large enough to supply engines of much greater capacity. The engineer informs me that he is 'working under heavy pressure, whereas, if he had lamer cylinders, he could reduce the pressure, and work the steam expansively, and with much greater economy. It is possible that other engines will he procured, the boat meanwhile remaining in commission. When once obtained, a few days• would suffice to put them in position. Taking all things into consideration, these float ing steam batteries may be considered as saceessful inventions. We have yet to see how well they will stand the fire of the shore batteries, but aside from the inefficiency of the engines, the naval officers highly praise them. Although the air has been keen outside, yet in Capt. Pennock's fort we have bean comfortably quartered. I had hoped that we should have turn ed down stream rather than up, for I would like very much to see the effect of those rifled sixty fours and 2-inch Dahlgrens on the Columbus bat teries and rebel gunboats. tiorrever, perhaps I shall have an opportunity when all is ready. CARL-ETON. NEWS FROM THE SOUTH. From the Richmond Examiner of Monday morning bait we obtain the following items of newts. The Examiner comes to m in mourning for the late John Tyler : Death of John Tyler. On Saturday morning the public were startled by the intelligence that a little after midnight ex- President Tyler had breathed his last, at his rooms in the Exchange Hotel, of this city. The announce ment of the melancholy fact occasioned the most painful surprise in the community, as it had not been known that Mr. Tyler had been sick, or even generally known that be had at all been indisposed. On the Sunday morning preceding his death Mr. Tyler came to the breakfast table, at Exchange Hotel, as usual. While sipping a cup of tea he wasseized with a sudden faintness, and on attempt ing to rise from his chair fell to the floor. He was taken into the ladies' parlor, whore lie recovered, and was then conveyed to his chamber. Several physicians were present, and came to the assistance of Mr. Tyler. This sudden attack of illness was not supposed to be serious, and gave but little alarm, as it was known that the deceased, at different periods of his life, had been subject to severe attacks of vertigo. Hopes were indulged of his speedy recovery, and it was not doubted That he would get well until the night ho died, when he was suddenly taken worse, and failing rapidly, but without pain, died pre cisely at fifteen minutes past twelve o'clock on Fri day night. It is not determined, in detail, what will be the order of the funeral ceremonies of the illustrious dead, and they will not be determined until the committee of arrangements in the Provisional Con gress, of which Mr. Tyler was a member, is ap pointed, which will be done to-day. The melan choly event will be noticed in Congress this morn ing, and appropriate eulogiums pronounced by distinguished members of that body. 'The remains:of the deceased were yesterday taken to the Capitol, where (the will lie in state until re moved for interment. Three o'clock in the after noon the solemn ceremony of laying the remains in state was performed at the Capitol, the body being disposed by Lieutenant GOVOMOT Montague, Mr. Isbell, of the State Senate, and Mr. &cook, mem ber V# Congress; tllq 14+81;1190 p# Cymru; of the THE WAR PRESS. Tx. 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Cln Saturday the bells of the city fvere tolled in testimony of the public sor row ; ail the legislative bodies were adjourned; and the tieE,''s over the Capitol, the public office; and other buildings in the city, remained drooping at halfmast finder the wet and clouded skies of Saturday and Sunday. At the time of - the decease of Mr. Tyler there were present in his' chamber Drs. Drown, Peachy, and Miller, Mr. Josiah C. Wilson, of Charles City, Mr. and Mrs. Ballard,: and Mrs. Tyler and child. These were the witnesres of his last moments. Dr. Brown had been sent foe', and on entering the room Mr. Tyler said : "Doctor, I am dying." A few momenta and he fell off into the utter weakness preceding dissolution. One of the attending physi cians approached the bedside with medicine, and said, "Mr. Tyler, let me give yon some stimulant.' " I will not have it," replied the dying sufferer, and in a few moments quietly breathed his teat. Ilis last intelligible words were the reply to the doctor. Stirring News from the Northwest. We have stirring news from General Jackson's command. At last accounts he was in pursuit of the enemy and had advanced to New creek, twentythree miles west of Romney, where he again touches the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. It will be seen by this movement of Gen. Jackson that he hes obtained a position of great importanee, which will soon place him in the. rear of the eneSnY at Laurel Bill, Cheat Mountain, and in that neigh borhood. Government Aid to Railroads. We learn that the railroad connection through Tennessee and North Vaseline, recommended IT President Davis, is to be made a teat question us Congress as to the propriety of the Government extending aid to some other railroads The matter of aiding three roads is under the consideration of the Government—viz: That recommended by the President, that completing the line now wanting between Montgomery and Jackson, and the Texas road, to complete communication between that State and Louisiana. AFFAIRS AT FORT PICKENS. The Rebel Defences on the Mamihand—The Black Flag Flying. A correspondent of the Boston Journal, writing under date of December 28th, gives the following graphic account of the condition of affairs in and around Fort Pickens : "From the ramparts of the fort and the top of a rustic look-out, in the old camp of the ZDURTOB, where a sentinel is constantly on duty, we obtained en extended, view of the island, the opposite "Shore and the rebel fortifications. Away to the eastward for forty miles, Santa Rosa was stretched out like a huge serpent, basking in the sun. Be tween the island and the mainland lay Oak Island, invested with three thousand Confederate troops; and beyond, in the distance, rose the dark shore of Florida, clothed with a magnificent forest of live oak, from which the 'United States Government has in times of peace obtained large quantities of timber for the navy. -Across the" bine waters of the fair bay which has made Pensacola what it is, the town shone brightly; and nearer, on a point jutting out into the harbor, appeared the navy yard, the relative position of whicherith Santaßesa is not dissimilar to those of East Boston and the Charlestown Navy Yard, save that the distance is about double. The workshops and yard bad - a de serted look, no skate of life appearing. The frame of the steamer Fairon is still on the stooks; at the point the rebels have mounted a heavy columbisld; the ruins of a large workshop, burned by the troops, are still standing. The Union pickets up the island report hearing the sound of workmen in the yard at nights, and it is not improbable that the rebels carry on operations there. At the commence ment of the late attack on the steamer Time, a train of army wagons, with supplies, was entering the yard. The negro drivers seera struck with con sternation and alarm, and, abandoning their teams, they fled out of the reach of the shot and shell. " The shore from the navy yard to Fort Mcßae and beyond is low and sandy, but behind the vil lage of Warrington, and the forts and batteries, a think wood shelters the Confederate army, and pro tects their camp from the observation of the Unionists, whose every movement is open to ins speetion. Between the navy yard and Fort Be rancas is the village of Warrington, now half de molished, and entirely - deserted by the inhabitants; the skeleton forms of a forest of white chimneys standing alone in their desolation, melancholy tokens of the fate which.awaits a wicked and per verse generation.' The rebels have a line of shore battenes extending a distance of five ladles from the vnlega Ileckso,_east of Pickerel, to Fort Mcßae on the south, many ofthe guns - of which have been removed. and scattered along the ereseenteshaped shore. This arrangement enables the Confederates to concentrate all their fire upon Pickens, white their own guns are comparatively safe from the fire of the fort, diffused, as it necessarily is, over so great an extent of country. "The rebel flag was flying over the navy yard, Forts Bareness and Mcßae, and at various points along the shore the Confederate ensign waved, each one indicating the location of a rebel battery, the numbers and strength of which it was impossi ble to determine, many of them being masked. Near the Maximo Hospital, a large white building, with a lofty portico and a dome, over which the yellow flag was flying, Bragg . has a powerful mortar battery, and while denounotng the commander of Fort Pickens for firing upon his sick and wounded —only one or two, as has been learned from con trabands,' being kept there in order to protect the building from our fire—the rebel General kept up a continuous discharge from his hidden mortars. The statement that Colonel Brown fired upon the hospital is without a shadow of truth, not a . gun having been trained on the building during the fight Scanning the shore fromright to left, the Marine Barracks and next Fort Bareness stood out prominently in the picture. The former appeared deserted, and we were told that the rebel troops no longer occupied it, but - were encamped in the woods behind Bareness. This for tification is the stronghold of the Confederates ; oc cupying a commanding site, elevated somewhat above and within easy range of Pickens, the rebels 1 aro enabled to pour into the beleaguered fort a ter rifle, fire. It appears to be built on the most scien tific plan, and its substantial brink wails seem to defy the most protracted assault. The rebels have sand-bag batteries on the ramparts, which alone ex hibited marks of the late bombardment. A senti nel was sitting composedly under the rebel flag, and around a conical tent, a short distance from the fort, several Confederate soldiers were lounging labout. " Between Barancas and the light house, the rebels have a battery, and at the left of the light is a pow erful fortification, which Colonel Brown fears more than any other. The lighthouse had two windows' fronting Pickens when the fight commenced, and a third opening in the walls was made by a shot from Santa Rosa. On the left side of the channel, and below Pickens, on the south and west, stand the castellated walls of Fort Mcßae, gray with age, and shattered by time and the guns of its grim op ponent on the island. There are fissures in the walls, two embrasures were knocked into one, the magazine destroyed, and other damage inflicted to the fort. The last of the line of rebel fortifications is a long, low, sand battery, below Mcßae, faced with brick, and pierced for at least thirty gnus. There is no armament there at present, nor was it engaged in the late bombardment." , The Rebels Fly the Black Flag. "Whatever may be said of the truth or the falsity of the report that after the capture of Port Royal the rebels hoisted the black fla g at Charleston, their brethren at Pensacola, either imitating their diens Neal example, or carrying out the - piratical sugges tion, actually display a Bag 'with death's head and' cross-bones wrought in white on a red ground, over what is probably one of their encampments, in the woods in the rear of and between Bareness and the lighthouse. There is no mistake about this, for I saw it with the aid of a powerful telescope b - longing to one of our party. 'Death, and no quarter,' is therefore their motto." The Border Troubles between lowa and Missouri— quite a Different State or Facts. A few weeks since we quoted from the De Moines (Iowa) Register a very sensational pare-. graph about war in miniature that was springing up on the western lowa border, and the forays that had been made on either side. Later intelligence from Fremont county puts quite a different con struction upon the matter; indeed, the boot is on the other leg. The loyalists, it would imemalive in Missouri; the rebels in lowa. It will be remem bered that a party of Missourians paid a visit tO llicKissock's Grove, lowa, and retaliated upon some of rho people. Thereupon, under the cry of outlawry, the lowans rallied and made a raid into Atchison county, and arrested eleven men. The Register says: The prisoners, along with another one who was wounded and captured in lowa, were lodged in the jail at Sidney. They were strongly guarded by thirty or forty persons employed by the sheriff for that purpose. One of the prisoners, named Lewis, en active Union man, waived an examination, and gave bail in the sum of $5,000 for his appearance at court. He had been repeatedly threatened, by the Secessionists, with personal violence. With the exception of Lewis (out on bail) and the wounded' man, every prisoner was discharged. Not one of, them, on examination, could be identified as belong ing to the party which invaded the premises of Mr. Fugtit. Not a particle of evidence was presented against them. The evident - wrongfulness of these arrests created intense excitement among Union men in Missouri. The prisoners all claim to be strong Unionists, and they characterize their captors as Secessionists. A short time before the examination, a captain of the Missouri State troops (loyal), with twenty men, came up to Sidney, and requested the surrender of the prisoners to them. The county judge and sheriff refused to deliver them, and the Missourians returned without them ; and on their way back to Rockport, they stopped at Singleton's and arrested a traitor who bad been in Price's army. They ar rested in Moßissockas Grove (in Missouri) Allen Cox and Charles English. Saturday before last, one hundred and fifty Wat son rian a, under the impression that their State had been invaded by Seoesk lowans, armed themselves, Mounted, and started for Sidney, resolved to effect a rescue. They came as far as Hnmbargh, in Fre mont county, but being assured at that plane that no violence would be done to the prisoners, and that a general release was certain, they were per suaded to return. Judge Sears writes that the eireumstanees which we have just detailed have embittered the Union men of Atchison county, Missouri, against the du eons of Fremont county. It is their oPtelew that fifty p ar cent. of the men in Fremont are semi:Secessionists, and they have had enough to do at home with that class ofpeople to know hoW to kfit9 them sad 'mak native ly against them,
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