The New York Herald Newspaper, January 10, 1863, Page 1

as \ THE NEW YORK Ht ———————— WHOLE NO. 9614. THREE DAYS LATER FROM EUBOPE. Crd THE AFRICA AT WALIFAX.| a tthe Battle of Frederickaburg Reported in England. ‘Anxious Canvass of the Consequences of the Repulse. British Testimony of the Bravery of the Unien Treeps. ‘Reported Treaty Between France and: Spain Relative to Mexico. ‘Donation from the Pope to the ss French Operatives. G@ARIBALDI AGAIN AT CAPRERA, ke, ae, ae. Haueax, Jan. 9, 1863 ‘The steamship Africa, from Liverpool at eleven o'clock on the morning of the 27tb, via Quoenstown on the 28th of December, arrived here at half-past eight o’ciock this morning. She did not cali off Caps Race, Her dates aro ‘Vhree days later than those already received. She has forty one passengers for Boston. The Afrien sailed at two o’clock this afternoon for Bos- ‘vou, where ahe will be due on Saturday evening. Tue Africa reports:—Speke on the 27th of December the ehip Adelaide, entering the port of Liverpool, and on tho ‘Oth instant, latitude 45 degrees 9 minutos, longitude 68 degrees 88 minutes, steamship Groat Eastern. ‘the steamship Chins, from New York, arrived at Queeustown at two o’clock on the morning of tho 27th f December. ‘The steamship City of Manchester, from New York, Feached Liverpool on tho might of the 26th of December. ‘The holidays Bad completely suspended busmess. ‘The political news js alwo # blank. THE AMERICAN QUESTION. ‘Tne London News editorially denounces the miserablo ‘epite which is constanuy being shown between Americans end Englishmen, which ereutes aud sustains a risk of war. It looks on the contiibutione to relieve the Lanca- ebire distress as am honest and irus manifestation of ‘he abiaing Amertcan feeling towards England, and sets them against the mapy beligorent threats Baving nothing in them ,but the passion of the moment. It concludes as Dollows:— Ou the whole we rest in the conviction that there will Be no war between the two countries; but whether thero te ‘oF not the responsibility for it already reste with calehegen goe who, out of the repose , of peace at speak and write whatever is most irritating to a people subject to the irritations of revolution and war. (he works of the entmy, or @hould fail once more, he will put himself wm the mos estrous position known to a geueral, and an enterprising @memy, according to all the rules of warfere, ought to @eatroy him, horee and foot. 2 Writing before the battle of Fredericksburg, the New ‘York correspondent of tne London 2imes eulogizes the passage of the Rappahannock river by the federal forces es one of the noblest opisodes of the war. In a subsequent telegram, per the China, the same cor- Fespondent pronounces the battle of Fredericksburg as me of the fiercest and decidedly the most calamitous of the war to the federal army. He eays the federal troops it with the mest determined courage, but the pos!- ‘of General Lee was impregnable. ‘The iatest intelligence by the Africa, dated at Queens- town on the 27th of December, in the evening, says. — ‘There js uo political news of importance. The China’s news, giving the partieulars of the defeat \ of the federai forces before Fredericksburg, bas been tho ‘niversal topic of conversation to-day. Tho friends of the North are groatiy disappointed at the result of the battle. Tho goneral deduction drawn in Liverpool from the pesult was unfavorable for an early peace. ‘The London 7imes again adverts to the animosity of tho federals against England. It assumes that lack of Sysipathy In England for the war 1 the only cause of @ffonce, aud jortifies that cause. 'y The London News replies toa letter from Mr. Buxton , member of Parliament, in which that gentleman questions the effect of Mr. Lincoln's emancipation scheme, and says, ft profers to believe that the salvation botn of the negro end the white race will spring out of the war, rather than to accept Mr, Buxton’s sinister predictions. ‘The Londou Times again adverts to and dissects the re- oent Americun diplomatic correspondence, and says hai @ecretary Seward consulted his own reputation he would Bot have published many of these letters, which are es- -@entially private ones. The Pope of Rome had sent ten thousand francs to France for the reiief of the distressed workingmen in tbe Department of the Lower Seine, as a mark of sympathy and gratitude for tokens of devotion received fram France. Rumors had been current of ® proposed new treaty be- tween France and Spain relative to Mexico, but they are said to bo without foundation, Cardinal Morlot, Archbishop of Paria, was seriously ili, and had received extreme unction. ‘Tho Usris Bourse was fiat, but closed firmer, the rentes being quoted at G0f. 90c. (tally. Garibald! arrived at Caprera om the 22d of December. “The Pope did not officiate at the Vatican on Christmas Gay, owingto n slight Indisposition. He, however, re Seived the diplomatic corpe. . The Greek Question, It aeserted two of the great Powers are not in s favor of the Iomign Inlands being ceded to Greece, on the ound that if the present protectorate ceases tBey would + Pocome A pr 1 focus of insurrection. {The uncertaimty,as to the futwre King was giving rise Ap A ssorder in various parts of Creece. ‘ ‘ \ dnd@ia, China and Aust . ‘The \nali# from Caloutta to November 22, K to Vovamber 15, aud Aydney to the aint p Poorly ad pone pd England and were forwarded por the Africa. The news \ ie antics ie ted alk may tokxgram of December 1% reporte shirtings dull; € iwactive; exchange 20, 07%¢. \ ape of Good Hope. Cape ot Jape mails to the 9)et of November had Baon recely England, The news was onimportent, Tae civil ar in franavaal had terminated ©o ied Intelligence. HE DON MOWRY MARKET. i Lowpor, Deo, 27, 1862. American recur We# are Bot mentioned tn the ciroular, there having been o doing there, The balljow in the’ Rogiand bas decreasec 161,000. ned Daniteas to-day, Block Exehango res V to. ‘are quoted at the ehse at 92.)¢ « 02 We of money fe abares, 42 0 43. Central evaren, 42 4 5'I — | nis, Deo, 27, 1609 The Rourea i firm, at 60f. 900. "VF the Fenton, Rar ngs! circnlar femoris horinens Curvended in copee jaence of the holidays. Breadatuffs firm. Iron dull. gar firm: MAREST, ~ Hayns, Dee 24, 1862. ‘The sales of cottton for the week were 9,000 bales. Market firm and steady. New Orleans tres orainaire, 941 francs; do. bas, 306 francs. Stock in port 61,000 bales. THS LATEST MAREBTS. Business is étiil suspended by the holidays, but there is geist transactions in cotton at a further advance. lstuffs are quiet, bas firmer. THE UNION RAID IN BAST TENNESSEE. ant Correspondence Between Wright and Halleck, dc. Cmamman, Jan. 7, 1863. ‘Major Genera) H. W. Harisow, General-in-Chief, Waeb- sugton:— 4 @a—I have just received a despatch Srom Major Genera): @. Granger, that the cavalry force of about one thousand: men, which he sent to East Tenneseee op the 2ist uit, under the command of Brigadier General H. Carter, to destroy the Fast Tennessee Railroad bridges, ax., baw ‘been heard from. _ General Granger bas just received a deepateh from General Carter, at Manchester, Kentucky, who i# on bis return, stating that on the 30th uit, he entirely destroyed the Union and Watauga bridges, with ten miles of rail- road, Five hundred and fifty nebels were billed, wounded and taken prisoners. Seven hundred stand of arme and @ large amount of flour, salt and other rebel stores, and ‘algo a locomotive and two cars, were destroyed. A brisk skirmish took place at the Watauga bridge apd another at Jonesville, We lost but ten men. ‘This expedition, as characterizea by General Granger, has been one of the most hazardous and daring of the war. It wae attended with great hardships and privations, owing to the almost impracticable nature of the country , the length of the route~-of nearly two hundred miles each way—and the inclement season. ‘The important reaults of this expedition can hardly be overrated, severing, as it has, the main rebel army com- ‘Munication between Virginia and the Southwest. General Carter and his officers and men deserve the thanks of the country. Great credit is also due to Major General Granger, under whose immediate supervision the expedition was fitted out, and whose long cavalry experience was a guarantee ‘that nothing tending to tte success would be neglected or forgotten H. 6, WRIGHT, Major Genera} Commanding. THANKE OF GENERAL HALLECE TO GENERAL CARTER. ‘Wasunnaron, D. C., Jan. 9, 1663. Major General Wrcer, Cincinpat!:— The daring operations and brilliant achievements of General Carter and his command are without a parallel in the history of tho war, and deserve the thanke of the country. This expedition has proved the capacity of our cavalry for bold and dashing movements, which I doubt not will be imitated by others. H.W. HALLECK, Genera)-in-Chief, Who is the Tennessee General Carter? Brigadier General Samuel Parry Carter, the Genera) of the Union Tennessee forces, and who bas distinguished himsei! on more than one occasion during the present war, 4 an old vorvant of the United States, having entered the United States Navy in 1840. He is a native and citizen of the State of Tennessee, from which State be was appointed to the navy. His father, before his death, had for many years beon connected with large iron works in} Carter county, Fast Teanessee, and tho wubject of our sketch has now living two brothers—oue a Presbyterian mivister, Rey. William B. Carter, a prominent patrict of that part of the Stato, and the other Coionel J. P. 1. Carter, the commanding officer of the Second Tennessce Voluntegr infantry. Gorera) Carter entered the navy as,uctiog mid. shipman on the 14th of February, 1540, and was first attached to the sloop Dale, sixteen guns, Commander Charles Gauntt, then fitting ovt for the Pacific. The Dale ‘was stationed with the Pacific equadron until 1843, when 4 was ordered home and was laid up in ordinary in Now York, and the subject of our sketch was granted leave of absence, after the expiration of which he was ordered to the pteamer Michi , Commander William Inman, sta- toned on the lakes, with readezvous at Erie, Pa. He re. turned to New York in December, 1845, and the next year was ordered to the Naval Academy to prepare for ‘exaroination in view of promotion. On the Lith of July, 1846, he the Board of Examiners and wae ordered to the line-of-battie ship Ohio, eeventy-four game, then tting ready for sea at Boston. »He returned ‘sea in june, 1847, and was ordered to the Observatory at Wash ington, D. C. He wag next ordered to the frigate St. Lawrence, forty-four guns, Captain (now Adtoiral) Hiram Paulding, on service in the European seas, On this vessel held the position of head midehipman, and, with (he vesel, was shortly afterwards Attached to the Mediterranean squadron, under Commo- dore Chas. W. Morgan. He returned from this station in September, 1860, and was ordered to the Nuval Academy at ‘Annapolis, Ma., where he was appointed Aanistant Pro- fessor in Infantry Tactics, He was next promoted to the rank of acting master at the Naval Academy, aud after- wards appointed Assistant Professor «f Gunnery and Naval Tactice. After being engaged at the Academy for a few years he was sent on 4 short cruise, from which he returned in October, 1853. He was next att™phed to the storeship Relie!, six guns, then lying at New York. Ov the 14th of Seplember, 1864, Le received bis warrant as masier, aud theeRellef was attached to the Brazilian squadron. He returned to New York in March, 1855, fend on the 18th of April, I be wae commissioned a lieutenant, and ordered to the steam frigate San Jacinto, thirteen gina, Commander Hy. 11. Bell. This vease! shortly After became the flagship of Commodore Armetrong, com- manding the [ast India squadron, He returned {rom Fea ty February, 1567, and was appointed Aenistant Conftpand antof the Naval Academy at Annapolis, In 1860 be went on a short cruise, from which he returned in September, He was next atiached to the steam sloop Seminole, five guns, Commander Thomson, belonging to the Bra squadron, ou which he was at the outbreak of the rebel- lion Returning from Uhis station, at the call of the gov eroment, he wi@ transferred to che War Department op special duty, and was directed to organize the loyal troope of his native Stato—a similar duty to that which General Nelson performed in Keutucky, He succeeded so weil with hia mission that on the ist of May, 1862, be was ap pointed a brigadier geveral of volunteers, and was also romoted to be a lieutenant commander in the payy. The nnestee troops have fought in the Cumberland Moun taing and ia Kentucky, and when the rest of the army in Kentucky fell back upon the Ohio they refused to tarn their faces from their vative state. In this grand move: ment upon the Tennessee Railroad the three Carter brothers: have been most prominent—one to plan and the other two to carry out the expedition. And this is not yet the end of the operations of the Tonnesseean Gen, Carter. Interesting from Richmond. Fontarss Mownon, Jan. 9, 1863. Richmoud papers of alate date have been received here. The following extracts are (rom the Ingwirer:— A mau giv! bie name a J.¥. Smith was arrested bear Gordous @ day or tw and lodged in military Prison, He ts supposed to be a spy. A man named Ben- nett Burly also arrested near Gordonsville for attempting to pass our lines northward wab receited yesterday at ‘ime Secretary of Wi rt bas droy five officere, 4 ing to the Pitty cevoath Nortn 4 pro- ged and unhecessary absence duty, they ore ordered to report as conscripts. The Location of General Beauregard. The following General Order determines the headquar yore of Geverat Beaurtgard at the date epécified — GENERAL ORDERS—wO. 15], ‘Dararmeens Sousm Cano, G1 Onan 6. nant on tbe last ec bd tn this in all things. ith army regula aah sorta aoe gee etic ante 8G Ups hal, jer dated Oetoder 22, 1862. ‘ By command of Mas JORDAN AB JORDAN, Chiet of Jorn Mo OOTY, A. A vias News from San Franctece. Bax Francisco, Jan. 9, 1869, Manzavilin, Atééreon, Howland . Bailed--sbips Haze, Toland Money eany, demand lig 2 AUantic corrency exchange ‘ount, equivalent to 80 preminm on gotd During the @ay rater were unsettied by opened in New ¥ Valegraphic advices of m startling advance in gold ter ling aud Atlantic bilie, paysble in coin, are exchanged sinos lastetdamer lagal tenders 81 w be. ; The cancoses t yominate a caniudate for United Stater Bénator with be called next Tuesday. The ahip 7 M ¥, Of Portland, aaited yecterday for Poget Aoune Win apiside the abe drifted ono shoal and went to pieeac, The captayn and five of ike crew were drown Five were way The Weported Death “Eee. reow Prete Rasrow, Pa, Yen, #, 1867 ie noMoowiation in the reported death of ex. tie rberber™ He has been quite iit, but le mew tony OOO Oty F NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JANUARY THE EXPEDITION T0 VICKSB' Arrival of the Flotilla at the Mouth of the Yazoo. SUCCESSFUL RECONNOITERING EXPEDITION, Destruction of a Portion of the Little Rock and Vicksburg Railsoad. The Contrabands and the President’s Proelamaticn, ae, ae. Camo, Jan, 0, 1649. There ie mowing froma viekeburg to-day. The Jackson Appeal of. the 94 charecterines tho fight at that place asa trivial affair ae far as the rebels are'cen- cerned. It says their loee ie emai}, nud places the Union Joos at two thousand. It regards she falling back: ae @&. Arap, arguing no good to the rebe! caure. The telegraph ip in working order from here to Mew phis. ae, On Hoan Sraamen Univense, Dec. 26, 1862. Genera} Sherman's expedition reached the mouth of the ‘Yazoo river yesterday a jittie aftor twelve o'clock P. M., witbout sccident or avy special isterest. Contrary to evorybody's anticipation, not a elint was fred at any boas during the trip. Part of the flees landed on each side of the river, the right resting on the mouth of Ube Yazoo, About four o'clock yesterday afternoon the First bri- gade of the Second division, under command of Brigadier General M. 1. Smith, who ‘8 aleo division com- mander, went out from from here five wiles oD @ econnoi#sance to destroy a portion of the Little Rock and Vickeburg Railroad. aud after ac. complisbing the work returned by ning o'clock to their quarters on board the transports lying at Milliken’s Bend, on the Leuigiana shore. The recounoitering party con figted of the Sixth Missouri Voluntwere, commanded by Lieutenant Colovel Bioed, Eighth Missour) Volunteers: Lieutenant Colonel Coleman; One Hundred and Thirteenth Minoie Volunteers, Colone! Hogue: One Hundred and Six, teenth Mlinois, Colonel Tupper, and one company of the ‘Third Litnots cavalry. The party tore up and destroyed about three miles of the railroad, thus cutting off ihe se my’e eupplies from Texas and the adjoining States, No resistance wan met witb, and the only enemy seen was about reventy-five cavalry, who retired from the avene in baste, Orders were received thie morning for the expedition to go up the Yazoo river twenty miles, where wili pro bably disembark, as it is suppoeed, to woite with Genera; Grant's command, which is presumed to be ab or near Jacheon, Mise. ‘Thia morning the gunboat Fxeex run the blockade from ‘velow Vicksburg, and brought intelligence to General ‘Bherman that Genera) Babks with bie command was just below, Viekeburg. ‘The steamer fost Boy was sent to Vicksburg last even jog by General Sherman, with a flag of troce, but I have Dad no opportupity yet to learn fs mission or the resul A negro yesterday came to we feet from Vicksburg. ‘ana reporte reinforcements coming in rapidly, and tha on the 24th imetant Jef Davis wes there sud made speeches to the army, enoourag: impending. : The Yazoo river, which we are now axcopding, is @nar- row stream, and je re; ed to be lined with guerillar, and jt is highly probable that before we reach the dee ‘ined point we shall hear the crs of their muskew ‘The auticipgtion is more exciting than pleasurnble. To guard agaipet contingencies our gunboats bave gone ahead to look after bat \62, abd throe companies of pickets are drawn up ip line on the burrienne roof of a Tn case the guerillas make thew eppeurarce it to retlect that we sbull bo ap close to them as they will be {0 us, and that our arms are quite as good as theirs, Up the Yagoo river, about forty miler, are about fifty of the Ancet steamers that ever foaled on tbe Western waters, | ‘The river is too low at present to admit of our golug up after them, and It is prebable that if we did the rebels would barn them soouer than permit us to take them, ‘The plan adopted by our commanders of retaliating for the firing juto our boats, by burning aud de etroying the nearest town or settlement to where the firing , seems wo have produced @ salutary effect on rebeldum, and may aceouut for no firiag having been done at thie fi ‘A few days ago, a the Post Hey was passing Napolfon, Ark. , some on doing #0, the captain was cautioned to keep as near the opposite shore a# porsible, ae there were guerillas net below, waiting to firo on the boat. This eauton was aJdittle remarkable, in view of the fact that Napoleon was the first place on the Missiseipp: where a gun was Gred at wl non Fleamner © from the windows and doors of their rewi on each bavk of the river waved their ikerchiefs and threw up their hate eo that there appears be rome Union people #till im the rebel realms. manifested their joy by all forts of wild gestares, throwing up their bands, daveury and jumping. At Games’ Fotut, on board, ai the President’# emancipation proclamation w generally known amoug them, apd tbat they are fully conviuoed that the object of this expedition j# to get them free, From some of them it was ped that a few milew be- jow, not far {rom the river bank, over ten thoususd corde Of splendid seasoned wood was hid away. The Leet landed at the place indicated, and found even # larger supply ef word than the quaatity named. Joudes 10 its capacity, some taking nearly two hundred cords, ‘Ihe magnitude of this advantage can searcely be the boats encountered for the want of fuel At the point where the wood was found there was Je from the river to be ¥ There were a uumber of koldiers were guilty of the vandalism of burving them They committed the sare outrages at every plice where the tieet landed, but always spared the housee which were inhabited. The reason the others were burned wae (hat their owners were pronounced to be in the rebel army. No trace of cotton or other Southern product was found at any piace near the river, avd the country ap- peared to be generally deserted. There are many little towne aud seitiementa oo the banks of the river, but the great majority of the houres appeared to be uplenanted, the stores were closed, so far me could be seen from the boate: Most of the offcere of thie expedition have provided themselves with “contrababd”’ servants, aud the prac tical effect of freedom ou slaves, who have not been prepared for liberty by previous educe tion, is peinfolly manifest. At firet the negroes behavea themselves very well, but by degrees they Tesistance Wo the | oath, There appears a great probability of a big Oght Obe Ob BhOre waved a white flag for the boat to swp, and, | Aw the fleet passed below there many | In many case negroes lined the banks and | where a portion of the fleet ianded, many of them came was apparent from their expressions that latest report, lad certainly Every boat | realized by any oue who bad not wituesred the difficulty | quite a large settlement. #0 far back in the woods ae not | fine residences deserted by ther jubabstante, and the | | House, about twenty-two miles distast from the former 10, 1863. struggle our forces were compelled to fall back and give up tue works. ‘The fighting was terrible, Tho Fourth Fown regiment went into the Sght with 762 men, and came out with 120 men. Gen, Morgan L Smith wae wounded in the thigh and tm the left Dreast. Gol. W; was killed, Col. Smith, of She Fighth Miesourh waa illed, “Captain Gwin, of dhe Benton, had bis left arm shot away,and the muecies of bia left breast are oxpesed. Necovery dout-tful. Hinoie, who, men, bas not PeGouerel Shortaan hae been compelied bo fal beck to the fret works of the anemy captured, and await relnforco- ments. Uniess be gets them, Vickaburg ie gone op. New aper Acco {From tbe ie Bullet By the gunboat Rattler ved di phie Bulletin, Jan, 3.) Captain Langthorne, which has @r: jivect from Vicksburg, we are in possession of a era a eeenner he arent fight for the possession The Ratiler left Vicks oo ‘Meno she joft a terrific ight been ‘The attack was made en Wedn: ratiread.- The impression ‘ABat there is bo doubt-ef the fall of Vicksburg belere this Previous to Genera) Rherman Whing the fortifications, an already indicated, he sent ane brigade to cut of the eommunication with the city by the Hlreveport raiiread, and it wae reported to the Admiral that the work bad ‘Been accomplished. Sunday General Sherman captured ten of the —_ une neven hundred prisouere. Op Sunday night the Rattler, Captain: horme, was ordere:! to make a reconumssance down to Vicksburg, 0 nee if the gupboat Essex, which was expectod from belew , bad made her appearance. The Rattler wont to Vicks- and under the upper batteries, but could see as of the Eenex, and retired. The oncmy did not fre ‘The gunboats Biack Hawk, Beuton, Baron de Kalb and Louisville, with five hight draught boats, wore engaging the enemy’s batteries pear Yasuo cit) Thin waa tho pice where the attack commonéed and prog: essed, whilo | ‘man |juded bis forces at the mouth of Red river, from pixty nine transports Bia miles beiow Napoleon the Raitler came across ono of the coal barges captured from Lhe steamer Bluo Wing. | It had been rua ashore and gouttied in three feot water | It had a stick with wp underekirt floating trom it as a flag | of truce, while U | ithe abject | for the Cuufederate gunboat Lizzie Simmone. stopped and wok of the barge about five hundred tons | coat for bor own uec, ‘The underskirt was captured by | one of the crew. The gunboat Congetoga in acting as a police between the | ArKausas and White révere, awaiting the avticipated ap pearauce of the rebel gunboat Lizzie Simmons. The Sim MOus is Expocted to come ou: of the Arkankas a8 x00n as | there i# a rise. |” Near Millikeneville, m the pend of that name, the Rat- t Judge Torrence un Mon- | ter hailed the smmeauyitiep | day for mail matter. Torrence made known that | Millikensvilie wae a bad ager and asked tho Kattier to wait tit) #he passed if. While pagsing two shots were fired at the Torrence, and immediately the Rattler com- menced ehelling the village. Seventy ix rouud of shell were into tho place, many houses were aot oo fire and consumed, and tho principal portion of the town destroyed. We are gratified to earn fapm the Surgeon on the Rat- | ter that Captain Gwin, of the gunboat beutow, though | seriously injured wae still living, anc hopes were enter. tained of hie yitimate recovery. The wound isa ver painful one, several of the muscies of the arm and ‘hou. der being Wrn off but it was believed that his Life would | worked away taking the coal ont of | it 1s understood, to get out the fuel Rattler | be, i | Mytie Raitier met the grees, with Ceneral McClervand | © Napoleon. the Tigress was cone voved by ueasler, The Captain of the Laucas- ter had stopped at Cypress Bend wth the view of cap- suring the Battery alleged to have been planted there, and t barn the nearest rettiement but it was nrcertained $3 g ‘3 = = g by @ battery, Dat by & field piece which had been planted on the river bank, #9 bo attempt was made to disturb the peopie living in the neighborhood, Al Heleva all was reported as quiet ae usual, There is force enough there to hold it against any force which can be Drought againwt it. Last Sunday wight about | fifteen rebel cavairy went juto the town acd captured nineteen prisonore without fring a gu ADDITIONAL DETAILS. Minnebaha, in D. White, which pass for exchange, arriv- the meuth of Yazoo ri i ing, and by her we have the very latest news from the | le in progress in the rear of Vicksburg. ' battle, according to the latest report, commenced on Saturday evening, and jt was till in progr the Minnehaba left the vicinity, The fight on Sunday was | desperate and sanguivary to the last degree, and the lonn | on both sides very beavy. The federal troope marched up to the intrenchmenta and there fought the enemy in hand | ' to hand encounters over their death dealing and murder. ous guns, Some idea of the intenrity of the confict tony be formed when jt is stated that fortification after fortifi- | cation was tiken, and not umfrequently retaken. It wan in one of there desperate encoun that General J. B. Wyman, whore body is now on the Minnehaha, en roule | for Llinois, ioat bw life. tell while leading the | Thirteenth regiment to cba battery which was taken and afterwards retaken by the en | The Fourth lowa, Thirteenth Iilimols and Fighth Mix sour!, xuffered mort weverely iu the fight of Sunday and M | | | bs | Morgan 2. Siith wa reverely wounded aud . Colonel Smith, of the Kighth Mimeouri wax | ed | “le wae reported that Banke and Farragut’s tleet war arriving, bat the report did pot much credence, am | eteamer® could be ween arriving and departing from | Vickburg, which were mupposed to be reinforcing the | pla Vicksburg, it is ne for mix Jee arouba understood, ie rt General Sherioan, a ral Por- tot th undoubte Divot w diy be a desperate one, aud the fe | more po if the eoemy ean 08 at pleamure, and they | be denied the promired oo-op Me | what uw now needed to make the contest succesefal | the result glorious, When the Minnebana left on Tuesday morning, there | were eighty-five transporta up the Yazoo unboals. At the mouth of the Yazoo lay ondelet, the ram Switzerland and the ordnance and commissary boats Great Western and Sovereign, The troope «| Helena, about fifteen thousand strong, together with & large bumber of transports, under com: Gorman, are reported to be uader march- It ip Rot necessary or proper to meek to divine their dextinativa. THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC. Warusvcrom, Jan. 9, 1868. Information from the Army of the Pototnac shows that our picket# extend from Falmouth to King George Court point Contrabande agree in ptating that rebel incursions are nightly made below the Court House for a long distance, and negroes are carried away and sent South. ‘The greater portion, however, of the slaver on the tong . The} —s are iu the narrow epace of ® boat cabin, jation with thet i# unavoidable, and now the wey remerkable spectacle can be seon bightly of Union of- Ccers and filthy n dunked gide by side on the cabin floor and boiler deck of the various steamers. At first waa not tolerated but the megroes gradually car- their polot, and now oo notice ie takes of it. th affords anctber instance of the readiness with which 0 PieSceps Cemscives to circumstances Linooln's Jon \# ever cprried ‘nto 1, BO Fem sonable man can ever expect yee than ‘he a0. pelmingly. by the cor i ot If avy expectation a bs he any = BS Gy e ~ ig ham py Grant at or near * * to dipap- polntment. When i Jett Gener Granve omy at ‘Oxford on the 14tb inet would nob tt wee upderstood that he ‘ there bie wae of ud be witbio otrik ae. tance of Jacson by the igat, objec 7 pedition fing up an ‘vasbo ‘wou! on w , , Shinn Hon with him ae ily ae for u perpege of furaiehing bie wit % per co-operating With bim in ap attack 60 ¢/ or Vicksburg. tional Part! Battie of Vieksberg. Meurne, Jan. 2. 1068. When Genera: Sherman landed at the mouth of Yasso rivet he wae immediately attacked by an overwhelming foree All aay Saturday end Fon@ay the fighting wae revere, On Bonday he took the outer works of the ene. | my, consinting of nine guns and peven hundred prisonece | The next fortifications were on Walnut i! | an! & bait from Vicksburg, Theme were taken at the | point of the bayonet on Monday, about two clock =the | Foarth 1o@@ regiment and the Thirteenth iNinets ota ng wp to thé gun ant Sghting over thom. Ge Sherman belhphese works only forty m notes. for non | ener) Price's pele army came anand after a verribie | nec of land between the Rappabannock and Potomac rivere bave already made (heir escape to our lines, bring ing with therm their magters’ teame and other property. They aval themec)vee of the night for their exodus. Se WEW UNITED STATES SENATORS, The Michigan United State: Dyraorr, Mich. , Jan. ‘The Legulature yesterday re-elected United Hater Hemator for six years. The Delawere Un! Btatee i The Indiana Senators InmaParoLe, 9, 1008 United Btatée Aenatore did fot ake place o-gey democratic cousue pom iuecs Ate). A Beotredh ae 4 Torpe. Wo business wae transacted in she for want of * quorem, the republicans ing ~The Hovse refused hear ihe Governor's Message withoot & joint bnasitetion of both house, Tt refers privcipeily 1 Biate affaires endorses the e:naacipa- ‘ton pro wer mespure end says whe of the North must pot be deiudet into the idea that compromine of ahandiw ite oferta wo suppress the rebell Hlate has (uriiabed over ove | Bundred and t the veand Polantecre 4 ring the war Whe City Gev ‘The cieetin Of ‘mment of Pittebur, Prevaewene, i'm, Jeu, ¥, 64d The feleet and Common Councils for tke yreneut your mot avd organized today, They pursed an ordinance making «levy sod appropriation of $72,000, & pay the interest for the your 1963 on the whole ef (be Ha\iroad bonse of 1862. yh the bon ed the compromine, and it iw expected neve) whe vs afranged daring t this fact the © provided for the . the intereet upon the whole amour wt bode that the Blue Wing and Gladiator had been captured not | Her © | In thie policy they will fail, aa | nexbanatible ERALD. ISPORTANT FROM MISSOURI Attaek of the Rebels on Springfield. CAPTURE OF The Union General Brown Badly Wounded, PROBABLE THE TOWN, &e, Sr. Loum, Mo., Jan. 8, 1863, General Curtis has received the following despatch from General Brown: — Srunarump, Mo., Jan. 8—3 P.M. ‘The enemy are crowding thé fighting; but my men are Behaving well, 1 am holding all the strong positions. ‘The evemy must fight an'T want him to, whether be likes i oF not. - Genera} BROWN. Dr. Melcher Dan just sent tho following despateh, Gated this afternoon: — General Brown is badly wounded. Theve Ras been no severe fighting since noon. The enemy are in large ferce. The rebdela took one of eur guns, and were repulsed at dark, Militia reinforcements are coming in. Prisoners say that General Marmadake is in command of the redele, and will bu reinforced to-night. Sr. Lov, Jan. 9, 1863. Telegraphic gemenygation with Ppringfleld ceased at three o'clock thle miSrning zh ‘The enemy entored our stockade yerterday afterngod Our force was reported to be 2,000 strong, with two plocke of artilier Springfeld contajus a very large amount of army stor arms and ammupition. Fifteen four horse teams and thirty men belonging te the telegraphic corps, was supposed to be captured a few miles south of Springfeld. 6e Sr, Loum, Mo., Jan, Sekvening. Communication with Springfield is #till broken, A party sent from Lebanon to repair the line had not beon heard from,and apprehensions are felt that they have boon capt pion strongly prevails that Springfeld has been Reinforcement of General Brown. Pasvenger® from Springtield report that a portion of the Army of the Frontier, Jately in Van Buren, Ark., bad ar- rived at that place. Congratulatory Order of General Brown. GENERAL ORDEK—NO. 1. Beane Anrens, SouTHWwEBTERN DeeTHCr Mere} arieLD, Jun. 1, 1868, Trirow Soimrna—My od comrades In arms, and you who have moro recently witnessed ond participated in va fatigues and dangers of the feld, 1 wish a happy New | Year, | The major part of a year has parted since you entered this district For your obedience, your bravery, your endurance of continued marches without reat or food, your exposure to raion, heat aud cold, your m.ccess in arms, your | coumtry thanks you!” You held three hundred | mules “of frontier, susrounded by internal, unsera | pulon# foes, Lundreds of miles from any sup port, against ® foreo four times your own, for four muntbs. You killed, wounded and’ capture! more | @nemies than you numbered. You have never been sar prised or beaten Yon have frequently surprised the wate! cunning foo there ta ‘the-enemien of it. ‘You have beaten him in every en- ement, though lergal outnumbered. You have twice driven Rim beyond the Boston Mountains before the Army | of the Froutier arrived in the district. You fought and | conquered three times your own number on the ground where so many of your comrades fell at Prairie Grove. You bave captured his stores avd munitiens of war. You Rave protected the property of your government. Net a capture has been made from you. Ae the advance brignde in tho Army of tho Frontier, you held the pert of danger. Your long continued marclies are wither paraiie! in * pursuit of the enemy you were without tente, and almost without food, in cold wintry weather, twenty seven days and nights. You never tnurmured, except when you could not fight. You have been villifed, but you al- | w did gg dety. You bave respected the iy! et W Peaceablo unarmed citizen. ma thow a rerice of succerses that has no equal in this evar; & bright record to transmit to your children: @ bright for the old year;a bright hope and prospect for Your country thauks you, your commander uu thanks you. The new year opens with the y driven from the Onage to the Arkansas river. At point be has bee top, The triomph of your 3's flag be mi tharches. New triumphs Jou, new trial# are before you, an ineidious foe, failing in dhe field your government by dirt acting your Soldiers, your duty is to your governnm policy 'y out ite laws, give it, as it @ support, Ita enemies expect tot fled, With wirhes fo Unued ev again Ithavk you. EH, BROWN, Hrigadier General Commanding AFFAIRS.OF THE STATES. Kentucky. MRETING OF THE LPOISLATURE—MBSEAGE OF GOV. BOBLNAON, Frawrour, Ky., Jan. 8, 1669. The State Logislature met to day The message of Governor Robiseon recommends that Kentucky reject President Lincoln's proclamation to Hberate the slayer, and protesi# against any interference with her State policy ae nnwarranted by the conatitu ton Re thinks that the proclamation giving freetom to the slaves in the rebellious States Wiicts upon Kentucky « fatal and indiscreet blow. He ways that the safest fact of the proclomation will be to fire the whole South into one burning man of ‘The jon will destroy all hope of restoring the Union, which is enly porsible by adhering to the constitu. tion ma it wan. urther than that, the most alarmim aspect of the roclamation ja the ururpation of pewers of government y the President utnler the speciour plea of military pecenmity . Governor Robinson concludes bis mevaage by adviving the Lozislature w place on record their plea ageinat the prociamat on. Miseourt. Sr. Loum, Jan. 9, 1969. The balloting in the Legislature for United State Sepator presenta no new featuren, A letter from Mr, Glover, received im the Houre to-day takes strong grounds in favor of the President's procia mation Mr. Strachau's bill disfravchising the rebele wae warmly discussed, Dut no action was taken na nesota. MESTING OF THR LEGISLATURE-THE GOVERNOR'S mmeR AOR. fr Pack, Vian, Jan. 0, 1848. Tye Lagielatgre goprened on Tospcay ‘The Governor's meapage \a mobtly Confined 0 Mate afatre, a64 eepesially Wo the Indias outbreskt. ad whet (uree bagdred 2 cfeebing out men over qt, Indian ever be tbe monkey eta \be etal be ook teat for United Gtates Gepatorst. commeneed —_ Deno, Jam #1848 Tye Michigan Lagisiatare nesombiet st Lansing yeqier. Gey. The Governor's message wea delivered Ww day. Vinancia) affairs ere 1: ed to be iG & mont ratiefen- tory condisiom. Adequate sinking fund bas been provided for the gradual extinguishment of the present Mate debt, eeyram of taxation uot burdenecme |) , baste tin prevent a further increase of the tel ‘fs inte bas furmiehed altogether 46 240 soldiers of whieh 94,2 were went Wo the Bold previons to Joly inn 207) are yet Wo De raleed to Ml) the quota, under the last oa! | Alleding & the proclamation of emancipation, which heartily he nays, We are aboot to etrike baote with the entire Wye popsletion of the Heath Tite or black. We shail oo longer reepect the claim of 8 white traitor to compel & bined joyaliat aid bm te Acatrop ing the government Meee Mpecial « etal ieee rena thie city to W pingvou the merntog Brown's left sheulder is adly shattered. Me | | would have to eubmit to amputation to rave his life, PRICE THREE CENTS’ BORO. MURFREES The Town Entirely Desorted By the Citizens. Genera) Rosecrans’ Headquarters Ten Miles Beyond the Town. The Rebels Reported to Be at Tullahoma, &e., ° Noanviiae, Jan. 8 Murfreosboro in entirely dvrertedt Our army and Genoral Remeoraus’ headocartery Rave advanced ten miles bey The rebel army [x reported to bo at Tullahoma. ‘The Union gunboat W. iT manding, has arrived bere with owe Randred and waty 4, ko. |. 1963, (hat place. Sintell, TW. Van Dorn com. four prisoners from Clarke, Wvlsy brought threy thousand barrels of flour, ten Lhourand pounds of bacon, nine hundred sacks of oars and two thowgand berbela of shelled corp. The guaboat capture’ two rebel captains, wiih borsce and mules, ‘The river is three aud a half feet deep on the shoals. of General Malleck to General Rosecrans. HeapguaKra of THR ARMY, Than Wamusorom, D. C., Jam. 9, 1863 | Major General W. 8 Kone uass, Commanding the Army of the Cumberland: ~ Grxnia.—Rebel accoun's fully confirm your telograms from the battie field. The vietory was well earned, and is one of the moet brilliant of the war, You and your bra your country and th » ary have won the gratitade of miration of the world The fleld of Murfreeshore is made hiswries|, and future generations will point out the place# where so many horoes fell gloriously iu defence of the conntitution and the Union All honor to the Army of the Cumberlang Thanks to the living and toare for the lamunted dead H.W. HALLECK, Goneralin-Chier Nasayjiim, Tenn, , Jan. 9, 1563. One thouvand rebel prisoners were seut Nurth by rail today. Two hundred arrived frem Murfreesvoro Genora) Rosecrans orders all captured rebel olticera to be confined until Jeff. Davin! order i revoked; the rebel prisoners to mubsiat on army rations, tue fuod contributed by friends to be confiacated to bunpital wre, and the re petition of euch contributions to constitute & jail offence, ‘There tea hoavy rain Wo night. The river is station wy There are reventeou eteamern at the foot of Harpeth Shoals. Rebel Attack om @ Construction Tr Loomwuss, Ky., Jan, 9, 1063. Dick MeCann attacked a construction train at Antioch, nine wiles from Chattanooga, on tho raiiroad. He de- etroyed w locomotive, two cars and the Mill creek bridgn, end captured the bridge builders.end paroled them, No Tesistance was offered. IMPORTANT FROM VIRGINIA. Advance of @ Barriwons, Jan, 0, 1863. A correspondent at Suffolk says that General Corcoran yerterday advanced on the rebels on the Blackwater in force, and will give General Pryor au epportumiy for fight if he desires it. NEWS FROM FORTRESS MONROE. Arrival of the Iron-clad Battery Patape- co—Departare of Fing of Trace Boats, dée., dic. “Vorvase Monson, Jan. 6. 1863, The iro clad Patapseo arrived io Hampton Roads wet evening, also the ste mabip & R. Spaalding, The flag of truce eteamboat New York, from Washing ton, D. C..aerived at Fortress Monace thin forenoon, and left this afternoon for City Point, having om beard about five hundred and fifty women and children. The steamboat Metamora, with flag of trues, left for City Point this afternoon, with about owe hundred an? ant children from Norfote twenty-five women charge of Capt. J. A. Ju NEWS FROM NORTH CAROLINA. Via Fortrenn M: . The returns of the Congressional election, bela on the Tet inet of the eleven countion of the peoond district come in quite slowly, Later return are more faverable to Mr. Fouter, the free labor candidate, who received the solid vous of ail the North Carolion Union solders who are qualified eiet ore. Inaemuch, however, as the onth of allegiance was not exacted of the voters, Governor Saniy's candb dete Mr. Piggott, bat do btlew received « considerable majority in the aietrict Hiephen F. Willis, an ¢ in four ld and respected citizen of Beau fort, ond s conservative Coon man, reesived « Satiering vote tn Carteret county, Hunde Unioniate refrained from voting, and the eatire vote polled will not reneh eight hundred, The impression generally prevaile here that Congress will refuse to recognize the validity of the election, in consequence of the reception of many dishoya> votes, which were recetved in secordance with the ex press instroctions of the Military Governor The Union and free labor men of Kastern North Caro- ling are to hold ap indignation meeting to protest againn the recognition, and t appoint an attorney to go to Wash ington city to expowe and diapute It, The immediate re moval of Governor Mtanly #)!| iso be demanded Nearly 800 men Of the Marine artillery are confined in various jaile and forte in thie department on bread end water for \nsubor@ination and vagrancy The remainder Of this regiment are tering about the etree in @ Sondition of eutize destitution, baying por aod men Allowed wo go North, They anvert that they have never received any pay, sad they understand now thet the for vice no longer claims thern that they have wevey belonged w wither Ube ariny or mary Rebel Arcoante, DRATROTED—ARBIVAL OF THE ye WOROTE, WITH & VALCO: ATRIAL MERNENOER. An order was recently eaned to burn Wilmington, ber fore being elirwod Wo fall into the banda of the enemy @minoton, N.C., Dee. 80, 1809 The large (rou teamer Giraffe, witb & valuable cargo of overnweot Moree and & ryecial mensenger from Baroy, arrived at « Coufederste port thie morning. ‘Tae Comanven of ce Mowrvom ow Yous —Captam Rahihend of the Monitor, arrived in thie city yreterday, nod procested the Broskiyn Navy Yard, where he re ported v» Admiral Paulding, for command & the United tater steamer Flogds. qills account of the lam of the famous irom clad doee pot differ from the offelsl report tnade to the Navy Department. The Floris, to tne onene tannd of «bleh he bas been ordered, i & worden weamer parchared ince the oathre tof the rebellion She canned toe ready for nom for some tiene The rid of Capt Mant o yard canned © conalterable vir among the hen eee heat Ctinens, who crow ted abe! he Lyceum te | ot hewn am he onmmed.