The New York Herald Newspaper, December 31, 1863, Page 1

THE NEW YORK HERALD. PRICE TURKE Cl NEW YORK, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1863. { WHOLE NO. 9967. wounded oificera and men. Kespectabie. mand down to Jackson’s river depot, and directed the | persons planting agd cultivating 0 tho State of Florida | five hundred and five well-fed fellows whom we sent up ) } ‘ NEWS FROM THE SOUTH. Island Ford bridge to be burned as’ soon a it was | Over @ certain quantity of land in cotton agg aye re co tip . N Sepeersh G R A N T Ss A R M y . gentiomaaly ta fathers have, coe dare dacortained thal the enemy were advancing to- | during the continuance of the present war. hi as | | tile coniry will bo anxious to kuow what General but: from Serta wo cconiaorabio camber bate g wards it, Jackson then & strovg position | limits the amount of cotton that may be plant one 8 $0 Bay about all this. | understand that be last i Gud sweating Loder a load of bageagé, (bey wuene ala . ‘ bE 1 | the subject, It seems to me they will bo worth seeing. If Othor old gout t and mleck, but F the Rich Paten road connects the Covington turnpike. | The penalty for violation of tho Jaw is one thousand do z rr y nt limited. The act | be Was very angry last iug be bears no mark of pas- $ have come dowa to ur a far didepen A Rebel Account of General | He ten alrocted nie mounted men, under Capt, Sprague, | lars for every acre over the amou ib imitation. sion to-day, Tor I uet hia toa, the ramparts and ne | LC Rebel Guerilla Operations | GeV vamiow. soos to caylee b ‘4 advance, and to attack them desperately, and | The Legislature fajied to pase a militia bi sl . . elo! , however, doubt that tien shook mblor'a tra ‘ om ¢oluma im two if possible. At four o’clock op Ei ver, | have po dou! the Cy a ir wae ae i or pg ig Ges oe pea aT Cin Several of Argh many sorlng vg hf m ah rket on | Of the cartel; bat I think the rebels demanded that all the Ghotk. eine, hres card ones aan ; exchange, but sub tly made # full oF quasi agreo > bieds binaagil w an advance of the Twentieth Virginia regiment by,a blind | citivens—there being but # small supply of oysters in she + Spr Begs by . order bauished the rapacious cutters but near the Jackson’s river depot, at the point where | acre to the hand, and oue narter of ap acre of tobacco. | night forwarded despatches to the Secretary of War on ww wart woandted pe 4 home ward {or the ba to move on ihe Rich Patch roaa until they met the | provides for the practica! enforcement p odlery : ed as placid as the heaveos. Notwithstanding ap- persons {rom Avorill’s Raid. i and Their Check. evening, the 19th iaetant, 6 csarier from Cis. | Bales oe Cumers pnd Milk tm Richmond. | “| have net before me the terms, in words and figures, nena Away Bours in swindling soldiers wee colored : ‘i's advanced forces. Jacksou immediately ordered | Chris ‘ad 6 of Lhe necessities of the ¢d troops shall be counted outside the privileges of “4 , », yg. | Ter deve very ® and 1a The Southern People Asked to Bring | Aves stsmcet once: immediately tmas day, taking advantag: Wheeler and Forrest’s Caval. | ee meni to call thom meu, and 80 pass them over under Ls road, 60 a# to attack the enemy obliquely, He also | market—had the unDiush:! 7 , ~ pion Their Plate to the Treasury ordered the Nineteenth Virginia regiment to advance on | per gallon for their oysters, Milk was at the samo | fore" = Lnahengnemen. | Therepels Utby ice demandes ry Put to Flight. CT ee ee Moegt mip . the Covington turupike road, aed to attack the | rate per gallon by a few dealers. Strange to say, these | Yel niies an exchange had Deon mado of mav for man ‘aaalion, che oi sadurinail tp dealing with 1 enemy directly. At that point Jackgon conceived | and otber goads, though held at such exorbitant ratos, | Met uill parole the surplus of their meu in our , necnnnminndinneatonhy be rary a wh at eer - the ides of taking » detachment of about fifty | were purchased readily by negroes, whereas 4 white man, | Tor) —— or twenty thousand prisoners, Or perhaps canoes ae c wart noble and fast saitiog men, and ‘move forward with them for the pur. | when informed of the price, nearly always refused to pure | Sopp), 0 RON tin oon ee at Vicrwurg, ty | MORGAN'S WHEREABOUTS, | frrcrmmrritinn meses bows hocks we rate for Nac SUPPr'te, the liberated rebels at Vicksburg, the t REBEL SUBSTITUTHO LAW. | Pro! wrkng the enemy vigorously and rey, | coe ™\obce wwell and strpogtbon the eauke of te publi Ville atid Louisvilte. Readguartors of tho milttary div) 4 High Price of Negroes. enemy. | do not know how far our government sion of the Missimtppi will soon be ertatinhed 1 tbe - (Frow® the Hunieville Confederate, on the latter joint; but the rebels, 1 am quite well in- last ened Vown, Ura, Sberroan acconapgnied him. Gen. At Macon, last Tuesday, Jobo B. Habersham & Co. sold ‘nai WOR it, and declare that they will accept Grant han not yet entirely recovergd {kom the effect of bundred es received Dy jhe fail froce hit. horse Maat aur Results of the Battle of Chat- taneoga. General Butler and the Bxchange of Prisoners. DEATH OF GENERAL T. J. GREEN. THE REBEL CONGRESS, &o.. &e., &e. the Exchange of no s {From the Richmond Enquirer, Dec, 28, “Adattempt at infortnal renewal of the carteh pas been made by the enemy, uoder the immediato agency of Gen. ', who initiated his. effert by sending five hundred rate soldiers to City Point. Commissioner Ould Returned five hundred federal soldiers, but igformed Oom- missioner Hitchcock that the Confederate authorities could no Communication with Gen. Butler, and that there must be no further effort ata partial exchange. If the ememy desire to renew the cartel, it must be done y| fair ierms. and through an agent not outlawed and be- yond the paie of military respectability. MXCHANGE OF PRISONERS, {From the Kichmond Whig, Dec, 28.) The Yankee government have deputized Butler, the Deaat, to negotiate a new cartel, giving him, it is under- stood, plenary powers im the matter. A preliminary ‘Question to be considered by our author ties is, whether Jada |i.treat with a person whom they have formally wed, If this difficulty can be got over, we dare say de dealt with on ws good terms as any one Limcoin will'select. Hitchcock aud Meredith both proved Shomscives very scurvy fellows—falsifiers and tricksters. ‘Baoy are well got rid of. Iti: known that Butler disap- proved their conduct, and that be bag all along favored, er pretended to favor, a just and liberal plan of exchange. ‘The first cartel that was entered into was negotiated, if remember %, between him and General D. H. Bill. Upon the wi in view of the accomplish. ment of so desirable an end as the liberation of go many ‘our noble fellows, vow the tenants of Yankee prisons, bope the President may not find it incompatible with ‘the dignity and doty of the povernment to waive the Cutlawry and recognise tho Déast. It will be necessary tor Colone) Quid, though, to be wide awake when they get fo arranging tho terms of exchange, (or this cross-eyed ‘Vankee tas io him the cunning of the evil one, y i The Hebel Substitate Law. (From.the Richmond Sentinel, Dec. 23 Cofigress nee not oply in byth houses repealed the Sub- stitute Iw, #0 &8 to prevent the reception of amy more @cratituces into the army, bub ihe action of the House of -efuntatly’#, a8 Set (tb in onr yesterday’s report, to- shea a determination to dig itup by-the roote, By a ‘vote of four Wo one the House resoived that a person otherwise lable to military duty sh ompt by reason of having provided cinred also that the substitute should vot be discharged, bud rejected a proposition to refund vo the principal any tbe money paid for his substitute. ‘tainly making 60 Jaw as strong as it could ‘b6, and perbaps a little stronger than would bave been ‘mont agreeable to the popular idea of justice. The seatie meeot of the army cn the subject doubtiess bad much to ‘The conduct, Wo, of the large majority of the ho bave relieved themselves by furnishing subst- was not without ite effect. These bave, in many ene. Memseives of their |.beriy vo devour the people with an eapecial greedivees. A bundied Limes ever have many of them got beck the price they paid Qheir substitutes by extortions on the people. We have beard o! a manufacturing establishment, and could pate Mt, which t substitutes for all its employes rath than exompt them, and thus come under the iaw whic Featricted ite profite to seventy-five per cent on the entire @ost of manufacture, The od by the House wiil operate substantial if pot echaleal Just ‘nD ail such [oon 2 agua the sort of justice which pleases the 5 g land of the Isiand Ford failed to do 80, however, owing to the rapid advance of the enemy upon that pont. The savaate. under Cog person; foe poet (= ene nF opcape acroes the bridge; but Pat po command which had been cut off—consisting of ove reei- ment and ap entire wagop tram—were held in check by Jackson’s dewchment of fifty men during the entire night. Sood after sunrise on Sunday, the 20th, the heavy force whieh Averili had left at the’ bridge after he had crossed, to ent Jackson from burning it, themselves nd. thie prodvced’ enue “conewernation amoug "the ani ced rue! nm Yankees who had been cut off from ‘the bride by the detachment under Jackson, Had Jackson's order to attack the Yankees furiously pot been so tardily ort the whole force which had been cut off, together with the entire wagon train, would have been captured, By failing, however, thus to attack, tho Yankees had time to burn their train and to escape by swimmin—in doing 80, however, many of them were drowned. ‘The result of Jackson's operations was the complete capture of the Yankee ambulance train, about two hun- dred prisonors, their horses and equipments, & number of carbines and revolvers, forty or fifty negroes (whom the Yankees wero taking Off), eight of Averill's officers, including bis adjutant general heutenant colenel, Aver- Ps horse, bis servant, and a number of his maps of fif- teen or twenty counties, in which nearly every houre was put down, and, in numerous instances, the occupants: of the houses given. Jackson also captured a number of mules and wagons. Jackson’s ions was small. Virginia and Tennessee Road. {From the Richmond Sentinel, Dec. 28.) The bridges on this road, which were burned by the Yankees, bave beea rebuilt and the cars now ruo through to Bristol, Tenn. A Dash Upon Cleveland, Tennessee. Dartox, Dec. 25, 1863. A aqaad of forty men, under Major White, of the First regiment of Contedorate ccvalry, made a dash into Cleve- land oo the 224 inst. driving in the enemy's pickets, killing one, wounding sdveral, and capturing six, besides twelve horses and some smail arms, Our gcouts report two thousand Yankees encamped at Cumberland Shed, two miles north of Cleveland, and a timilar 1orce south Of that place, Hebel Losses in East Tennessee. {From the Richmond Enquirer, Dec. 23 Our josses by the evemy gaining p: ion of East Ten- nossee, says a correspondent of the atlanta intelligencer, are incalculable We are not only deprived of the vase flour mule of tbat country, which previously eupplied the whole army, Dut also of vast machine shope and depots which we bad extensively organized at oxville. Be- sides this, we are now entirely cut off from the coal, iron and copper mines of that region, which were worth mil- lions to us, The roiling mills at Cleveland, which were superin’ by Culone! Peet, the government agent, which were burnt by the evenry, formerly turned out si# thousand pounds of copper, per day. Over ‘three millions of pounds bad been delivered to the gov- ernment, This was the only copper rolling mill in the pepe eg kept us supplied in efor cape and canpoo, is our lonses of the of ‘Cbattagooga, which are 00 af merely ting iD | lew thousand mee an irty eight cacnon. reals Johnston and Bragg. fi the Richmond Enquirer, Dec. 24. } The manly sentiments and loity sense of honor exhibit ed by Geveral Joseph F. Jobneton, in the correspoudence with the Presitent, recently published, relative to the re- moval of General liragg, have given him a new claim that the announcement of the appointment of E. to the command of the army Of Tennessee will be hatied with delight by the army and the people,” adds that *‘ne is an of geperous and noble impulses, as is evidencea by his letters to the President io reference w tke tero of Murfreesboro find Chickamauga,’ Rebel ) Report of the Cavalry Fight in Mississippi. The following is Genera) Stopheat D, Lee's official report of the receut cavalry engagement in Missisalppi — Hoty Sraixes, bec. 5, Via Anneviiin, Dec. 6, 1863. To General J, F. Jonnsrow — Chased evemy’s cavalry, eight bupdred strong, from Ripley ioto Pecbontas on ‘the Ist. The enemy concen trated at Pocahoutes and evacuated Sauisbury on the 2¢ rt tnd ove hegroee Gt an average price of Botbins leas, it ia probable that our government, moved | His Recent Narrow Escapes and | in DY Wotives Of humanity, bas assented, or will assent , to ope $2,200. these, -Lour sold in six persons, land's tat’ apd. & woman. sold soparately , brought 5 of snceiteae foe rc to Shdicate that our people little fear of Abe Lincoln’s threats of our subjugation, the universal eman- cipation of the negroes, and the general confiscation of the property of rebels. Death of Gen. Green, From the Richmond Dispateh, Deo, 28.) ‘Thomas Jotferson Groen died at bis randenoe, in Warren county, N.C., 0m the 12th inst., in the sixty second year of his age. General Green had borne part in many stirring scenes, He figured as Geveral ia the Texan war of independence, a member of the Texan Congress, leader of the Mier expedition, one of the band of “Mier prisoners,” and subsequently historian of that transaction. He was afterwards a State Senator in Call. fornia, and Major © cause, Mmited hospitality to refugees. , NEWS FROM MEXICO. MOVEMENTS OF THE FRENCH TROOPS. Juarez and His Cabinet Gone to Durango. GEN. COMONFORT’S SUCCESSOR, de, &., &e. Ean Francisco, Dec. 29, 1863, ‘The Frenot paper of this city bag received pews from the city of Mexico to the 7tb inst. ‘The French troops entered Morelia oo the 30th of No- VYember without opposition. Geoeral Berthier bas occup: ' Acamboro. General Pazaine was at Calieya, where General Comon- fort was atgassinated. Genera! Mejia occupied San Miguel. Juarez and bis ministers are said to have left for General Bazaine bad concentrated twelve thousand Prench troops at Calieya, and General Dousi was at Sala- mMANca, #ixtoen leagues from Guanajuato. At is stated that the goveroments of Holland and of ‘Spain have recognized the aew Mexican government. General Nogrete.bas succeeded General Comonfort as Minister of War of Juarez, THE EXCHANGE OF PRISONERS STOPPED Our Fortress Monroe Correspondence. Fortame Monon, Va , Doc. 20, 1868, The Rithmond Government and Jis Actt—The Bachange ymissionert-—The Recent Attempt at Eychange—Why Pelt Through— Return of Five Hundred and Twenty Prisoners to Literty—Teir Condi'ion— General Butier— The Revel Demangs— How General Butler Views Them— Bnergy Required, he. ‘The Richmond goveroment is as capricious af a woman. Although it i# an unacknowledged thing, and on the very rge of tottering, it still, with all the andacity of strength, dees acts which nothing but the forbearance of u and acts of barbarity—as, for example, the execution of Kellogg—which it bas sanctioned,” the holding of prisoners without the ability to teed them the refusal to permit the federal government to supply eral of the roilitia of that State. He ‘wna & thorough and devoted friend of the Confederate ving of bis means liberally, and extending am un- people can be pleaded a@ excuse, Recall the thoo. | DAMe® a hair's breadth on fay if the rebel do not deal fairly on this question of @» y conditions which the rebel mi thelr retunap to negroes, Pea hones tna Nv Sxchange w re Liberation soldiers from the prigons Richmond, Pe ‘rercue them from famine and death; and yet I hope Since writing tho foregeing T have conversed with Genera! Butler on theso matters, He tolls me that the robel | vauggeronbe of Exchange, Mr. Ould, insiats that uniets the United States give up all claims which they have made in bebaly of their own soldiers who are isoners of wer, consent to sacrifice the cole soldiers, pass over their ofticers for punistment, under a special law made for thelr pupjshment by the rebel Congress and employ Another commissiouer of exchange to represent the Unite: States, no exchange can ve effected. Thix, you See, '* pretty much as 1 Dave stated it on tho authority Of otter sources. The General thinks that there is but One way to ect thik new state of things, and that Is by the sterness ret ie savered at the throat held tors s’ proclamation against bimself aod Dis orbcors, and doctared that if a bair on the head of one Of bie officers or soldiers be injured, except in just war- fare, tue day that that is dope ball be a day of sorrow apd mourning for al: men included in the so-called “Con. federate States ca," He pronounced the interrup ton of the exchange on Sunday by the Richmond ta fetch. He now thinks that our government, having ex- bausted every form of appeal to the rebel govern- ment to exchange priseners whom they cannot save from Starvatiou—e state of things which all writers on the usages and laws of nations declare to be just grounds for the men so held by au euemy to be liberated—there is otbing teft to the United States but to authorize that a Gufliceat number of rebel viticars be placed under such keeping aud be put upon such diet ae stall in all respects correspond to the treatment as t2 clothing, food aud fuel that ovr wretched tnos receive in the steuch houses of the Febe capital. | did vot thigk the Genera! ia any degree excited, but be was emplratic in all that be Aoi’ fo retahation, And 1 think be but iaterps nothing Adan the common feeling of the whole army. It is evident t appeal to the na ‘the country bav- jag pow exbausied uogotiation, conciliation and offers of os, it is time to call upon the loyal North for volum to relieve the national prisoners confined at Rich- fond, and there cu be,’ he added, “sir, no occasion for bounty or other inducements to fill up our armies. Why,” be remarked, “the rebels could iw Dettor thing to unite the North, to revive anew the s, evoked throughout the nation ‘to the point at which it ‘Bt00d upon the receipt of the intelligence of the attack ou Forti Sumter” And I believe all this to be true: and farther, that no man, loyal or disloyal, would dare to raige his voice in opposition to such au appeal [or succor to the pational prisoners The truth ts, the rebels now see clearly that should the be carried out,as verbally agreed upon between Mr. and General Butler, we would, in less than two weeks, Dave all our men out of the rebel bands, and still oid a’ surplus of about twenty-tive thousand rebel Kol Gere and Afieen Luadred rebel officers. That is the bitch: and the rub. In thes circumstances the decrepit and rotted #ud sinking coacern at Richmond would be-com- plevely at our mercy, they baying nothing left upon which 0 Upod uy for auything tbat to the tuture night transpire. Thie is where the shee pinches, and is the very Peagon why the rebels lowiss that before excl cap be renewed—as | now learn positively that they do— we must agree and bind ourselves to parole this immense surplus of peieoners m our cus tody. They bave determined that no exchange «nail be made hort of this, and, to prevent the frieods of their prisouers in federal custody making @ point vf the bar. barous covduct of the Richmond vent, Fenort baw been had to the Patty suvierfige the ban of outlaw ry ie General Butler Aad who wit shat outlaws him? Why Jefferson Davis, the so-called President of « thing which be calls « coufederacy, whieh {as ali the world is © is Dot rocogu ized acy where upon earth How long will the governmems of with twenty millions of freemen at ite back thin sort of @ictation from @ cabal of etarveli not exceed four, if they number mor than j two, millions? ‘I tell you fraukly, it will ‘dangerous to ask such #ubmission from the Northern pocple. T thitke I hear them exclaim. ing. in voices of thuoder, *No more submission—ex peu equal terms—man for tm: black or white.” It war only bo was one of the exebange | men from Fh told we on board the New Nork that oo oitice jo the Richmond prisons wanted our government to yield iw matter. On the contrary, they mer, and the ricknese has mace gad w Present Safety. and has come to eioe convey any idea of suller: cers at Chatl had cause to Know hin fre GEN. GRANT'S ENDEARING QUALITIES, He Allows Wo Cne to be Between Him and His Army, Capture of o Supply Train by Wheeler's Rebel Cavulry—Subsequent Fight and t of the Enemy—Capture of Onc Handred and Twenty-five Prisoners, | ough to take a chance at 6 Cnarranooaa, Doc 20, 1863. | Major General H. W. Harzeck, Gei Colonel Loug, of the Fourth Obio Cavalry, commanding the Second division of cavalry, reports from Calhoun, Tenn. , December 28, that the rebel General Wheeler, with one thousand two hundred or one thousand five hundred cavalry aud mounted infantry, attacked Colonel Liebert and captured @ sapply train from Chattanooga for Knox- ville about ten o'clock this mornung, at Charleston, on the south bank of the Hiawasse The train escort had reached the encampment at Charleston last night, and Colonel Lieberts skirmishers wore wholly engaged with the enomy this morning be. fore Colonel Long was apprised of their approach, Immediately moved the «mail force for duty in bis camp (atthe time ove hundred and fifty men), aud crossed to Colonel Liebert’s support, The rebels shortly after. wards gave way, Colovel Long pursuing them closely. Discovering a portion of weir force cut off onthe right, be charged them with rabr ishing and scattering them in every direction. Several of the enemy, number pot koown, were killed aud wounded, twenty-one prisoners were captured, including five oum- missioned oifcers ‘The maia reve! column fed aod was pursued fr Ove miles on the Dalton road, and when lant sean was Seong mpictely demol- fusion and in Ove bundret and Colone! Long's lors was one man slightty wounced. The officer in @ommand of the Courier ation ot Cieve jand aiso reports @mt ho was attacked carly this morn ing, Depember 28, by # force of one hundred rete's GhO, H. THOMAS Major Genera} Command cg. Grove them away, | moreahen Rebel Raid on the Memphisand Chartes- A FPorrest—Parsait of the Mrwruse, Dec. 20, 1863. After sufforing defeat at Summervitie and Middiobury, tho particulara of which have not been received, the Wided thin forces columns, which were reported to be four thourand strong and crowed Wolf river, wear La Fayette. Yenterday afternoon they destroyed several wmall cole vorts, tresties and the telegraph on the Mecmplis and Charleston Railroad, Between Collicr#yilie and Moscow, and beve gove South, with General Grierson cavairy | aud Morgan's brigade of infantry jo bot pureuit, who, it is hoped, will bring them The bridge over which this force crowed Wolf river baa orn ordered to be destroyed, b bis now working General Forrest @ stand at Coidwacer t the order wan dine let the power of the na with bie oweo ake slowly, Kometime# with Acano, Put toe ebeery lok , doos Bot robust fram which brighton jot a cords tanooga wil mise bum very tm in daily wah wo eney to ap) among them. Then, (rant Ubey. If a sud officer oF private wiser to cai the pri- vate ear of the General, and the request # well founded, 1b is not necemsary to wade Lrough a “recular channed” of thirty-two gorgeous and curt etal! offic 10 nee the chief, General Grant will bave no one (oe! ween hun and his army Dot bia ec utant, Prigadier @fceral Rawlings, who la @ hearty, jovial, plain epeken, bard working atadt officer, jut much’ da \« Ind spensable to ab energetic chiet like *Old Vicksburg THe DMAPT. Considerable discurtion and excitement were caused yesterday by an order for the enrolisent of ail persone subject to draft in Ct ‘ Th was confined prines pally to sanitary men, Matern’ Clerk, BewRpApOr correspondeuts and th ke, who baye talked long ont ng Letter from Major General Grant, Ab ite into anniversary, (ie Miswonary Bociety of the Cincinnati Conference elected General Grant an hovorary member Rev. J. P Mariay commanicated the fact to the General, and the follow ig is hin reply — Cnarranooda, Lec 7, 1663. Rey. F. Mantay, Secretary Bocwty Dean Sm Through you permat me to exprorn my thanke to the society of which you ate the honored Kecretary » fur the compliment they have seen Gt to pay me by electing me One Of ite mem dere. Laccept the clection ov at keo af ournest eappert, By members of the Methodiet Mienlonary Society of the Cin. cinuat) Conference, to the cause of cus country im thig hour of trial. Tbave the hover to be, very traiy, your onedient mere vant, U. 8. GRANT, Major General 0, B As Affairs on the Misetnetppt. THE GURMILLAS QUINT CAPTTKES BY V1 MARIND BRIGADE THE MEMFILLS COTTON MAKKET, RTC. Camo, Dec. 80, 1863, Tho guerillas along the river have been remarkubly quiet since General Fiett’s Marine Prigade has been ia the neighborhood. The brigade has ciptured during the past thro weeks over fifty prisoners, many of them offcers, ard also npwards of one hundred wuley aod horsen. he sieamer Nelle left Mersphia with one Duodved Balew 1 for OL Lous, and by ber we Baye Memphia dates 6 Lt oge bo Rows The alee of cottop at Mempiiiw on Satantay were nine hondted and forty seven & The palem of (he weele ome to ope thousand fx Dendred sna forty ame bier, beleg two bundrea than (be Ahion of the pre- sweek, The amOvotetipped daring the week woe hundyed abd Pixty five Dales, belDg seveuty Reven Hiptent of Uke previous week, The ebip- Cowber 19 to December 26 ibclusive were mente 22.010 bales Two Colton Premed are ja operation at Carbondale, Jackson county, Hiinem, about one hundred bales being shipped from thas pout (hie peamow A large number of refugees in @ dortitute coudition have arrived bere from Alabama, GENERAL KELLEY’S DEPARTMENT, Important Movements of tho Rebels. Effect of the President's Armnesty ‘view which prevailod was thet the !aw simply ac. | Two miles of railroad destroyed at Sauisbury. Forrest a ‘ change, thea in the name of by toumorro to certain citizens to exempt them. | puswed safely over. Kouted and drove adfts« inta Woif | food to those languishing mee tn an overcrowded pridon. | Chang i ay, to the | om Oe eeenee OF tomennom, eetves by furn ubstitutes; just, for example, as it Moscow, two regiments of the ehemy's cavalry, | Recall these acte, and place them before the loyal people ara tieee penta tee alee in Proclamation, Ving because of their beng | Killing, wounding and drowning about one husdred and | of the Joyal Staten, and then ask then if they are not ; Mr, E. D. Westfall's Despaten. fie. the latter privilege may be | seventy-five, capturing forty prisoners aud forty horses, J 7 Cuatraxooga, Tena, | is " baisad ae pooirs bye ‘untry. | bold’ enough”? That being the sentiment of men wi ubdred horses. rts tga Of thelr Tamniahing country | sive carried the heights ot Vicksburg and Port Hodecr and dimpayed the euemy at Gottysbarg Kod Coattancoga cart AY Bt ADY time, and ip fact has beev ju the case | and killing about o1 @f maby, 80 it in affirmed that the former also may be The trestling betweea Lafayetie and Moscow (about | men. If the North will act now—and the provocation it | | risonere. and damued be they who first cry, | | | | OORmiLLAS, OMeint De awn Tho fact that so may, indeed nearly all, of | one hupdred yards) destroyed. Lafayette was evacuated ai , " ‘, aBt anticipates trouble fro guer\ low during TeaRM AGL tava Tos barns, aoe nach gelin’ id aiinn’| ood cages baseed. fufficient—the war can be ended before July. Bat al om kball be the response Of their frieods in the prow sated ting inyglamngsardamnd| BS Ty argument why the privilege of the principals should My loss was fifteen killed y aig? rounded, buckstering for substitates must stop. The work at hand * | papnene 4 pPbrnsdipspenan R - OF FOUR HUNDAEO PRISONERS AND MUCH rROFmE- 8. D. LEE, Major General, must be performed by the American people, and they | Presentation of a Carriage to the Mayor emame end Georgie, SYED WS AaENaNOEs, Whe conedt rY, ere, malotaic that Wi diventing citiveue of rights wich they should be told thie plaitly. Their friends are starving ie Elect. | 100 the Rapelessnens of the rebel cxsse-—meo who bura en's Venay, Va, Dee. 33-07. M. have secured under the law of Congress, acd that it would [Telegrams to the Richmond Papers. Richmond, and the ouly relief for them is iu forcible | DINNER AT THE 6T. JAMMe’ HOTRL—SrERCH oF ux, | With patriotic fre, which incites them to dastardiy arty | vriadier General Cain, Obi fot Peal De an unwarrantable and unconstitutional bresch of faith YER REBEL OBNEAAL nOenER'S haiD. liberation. The rotten rebel ehip of State is without GUNTHER, BIC. \w the bine of bridge buraing, highway robbery, obetruct Cover v te Lam returned ailely bemnetog Be 3 Onaxce Covxt Horse, Dec. 26,1863. | walle oF ours, abd it will require but one woiied effort to | A mumber of the personal friends of Mr Charles God. | lig failread tracks, » on, Champ. Ferien, | in one bundred #, BbeUt Ga Dupdred horsey 14 tee Rosser has just completed an entire eink ber, sod with her ail whe pirates and robbers, | frey Gunther, Mayor elect, assembled lact evening at iinken, Deve, Beatty and Colowel Murray— «ho wa } me t Benate will promptly concur iu the Du of tbe House, or | {be Yauxeo army, atattn from Davia down, who mau her. st. Janes’ Hotel, corner of Broadway and Twenth-aixth | mised the regular rebel service for cowardive—are pro | Wy gicceut colvtnue are ail DOW ately back They 24 lenat to ite main features. over # Head run, pear Sany You aro already aware that the business of the ex. | street, for (he purpose of presenting tbat gentieman with | ™ 4 in Middle Tommenee | have castrad 0 vee tr Rate prieery wed 8 from Alexandria, cepturing and dispersing the troops left i we oa seatteh ware wee ‘ ud | U0 the 1oth ¢ Kwon, with forty mea, | nos amennt of pr Bambe Exempts From Mi Ser- | seaguard. Owi 4 soi ‘igh water ee ted weather | Change of prisoners wa taken by the government from | & beautiful carriage, axa testimonial of their agora es ame ; : ; Kew progeny Virginia, North and South Caru- | be was preven from doing more damage, Gregg’s | Brigadier Geveral Meredith and placed in the da of | attachinent. The company was of @ vory select cinta | ba “7 n : avalry » the ‘ There been promptly and faattuily: Pe Sve pins site, Tedien) Yankee cavairy pursued, but did not overtake bim. | Malor General Patler, This change wae made because \ | ter, Conrieting Of about ope hundred and gentlemen | ib from MeMianvilie to Spare je! dene shelly ecuted Da Oty heoploe, abd with bole emmd rom ychmond Enquirer, ra} Honser wae forced to fwim Bull rap. Hit iow triene yor elec rout half past | Murdered four mov—one of t eter Fbve “ ©.8. A., Wan Daraxeuert, BUREAU Or Cosscrirnon, was Very plight, any. The coamy, while ia parse, | Vee woveht-gwing oan alleged personal afair beween | Pereooal (riendsot the Mayvr elect. At about half past | muarterad Mlk | tue A ; ‘ our jar FP MELLEY, Brigndier Gooerah Ricumonn, Va. Pec. 16, 1868. deatroyed two tanoeries aod a lot of leather at Sverry. | General Meredith and Mr. Robert Ould, the rebel Com | seven o'clock 1 inoue of | sutler of the Ninth Peunsytvania cavalry — ar Ben. Jaum A. Sxdpox, Fecretary of War— ville, Raprabanocck county. also, two tanneries, a four | missioner of kxchange—that the work of ameliorating | jne,beauiitl Fariors of thm vow aod wlegant hovel Mr | with them game twenty Wowsaud vollare worl, Mr TC, Witenes Deepaten ee ee Seer Malena bere bag | mill andeome government workshops at Luray. in Page | ine condition of our prisoners would be the more apeetily | acting as seerevary, MP Guutber shortiy after arrived. | PTperty. Joe Wackburo, » 1a wt at Liberty, baw exe ano, MA, ven Peon referre ureau, aod i reply, y coanty, They also commitved many other excesses, in- “ e seores vtors oon a | ‘ rs t maid 6 my t honor to submit that the number of exempts, by opera- ceding the cing way of negroes, and ehot a voniea | secompliebed. It was known to the world beforehand | hep (he chairman, 0 bebaif the 4 t a force organized which ® or 4 he opera | pera! Ke s 4 wiforimation from Generad tion Of law and other reasons, im the States ot Virginia, | erate. named Smedley, at ‘Wasbiugtoo, Rappabanoock | that a good feeling existed between Mr. Quid aud General | Mreseatation In a brief but appropriate speech, to tho | tious of theme robe a the Unkas geaperine veleyrapt aiathe \asrer A from Wye ae erters jut North Carolina, South Corolita and Georgia—the four | county alter be had arrendered > 6 ~ bg - course of w WOntees CON GIUT | os cucneed mate seceuestellll every any; 706 the wevrd Biates ander charge of this bureau—is (4,490, viz —Virgi Parties just out from Cuiperper report the enemy to te | Busler. ‘Thin was shown ia the graceful correspon foes of the Mayoralty cans expressed the hope | a . , y— that the eebed General Bia, 20,°7 rth Carolina, 22,807; South Carolina, 6 814 Si veeun. aka’ Seb tnonr fas which passed between (hem op the oeeaion of the ¢ that this simple gift Soa te yy eee ned emnedies hy hens eebet eutcnsta cane f 14 en 6 between New Markos ia, 15.437—Tolal, 64,820. “ D quer. cin ; vail, { the donors be prevented. No mercy will be sown (vem ” Mount Jacks eurral Ramee b ’ ‘ I most repeat my conviction that twenty Lhourand or Meson venbe citisecs ty os Soor py baa aoa red Lows ‘ tn 7 sonnet bearing | Mr Guuther in response made the following short | wr ' ek quency eer : ee hao Swenty-fivo thousand submitutes bave been pul io the PECL. | that the emalipox threatened the poputation of that city; | mpeceh j inline ‘ ret rebel toeye acd Gemerss Dien , aod that thero are, perhaps, over ten thousand act ae 4 it wae evinced in many other ways, but | have not we, GER THRR # REPLY } PA supstebade i i “ e i mene Fare Sees U7 egae pot © the | frout picketa, to relieve ihe cavalry to gv rearward 10 | Jemure pow to recount them. Me Lyng ot Se cea ou po Ai, —_ : This ecrmoag De a 9s : dew | Great Citak ackom Among Ube rebels aod the pervice A { ‘ " 0 van yon jentiary during the letier part of tte won 36 FREETON, Colcoe! ana-foperintescens, | ss You will remember that on the 26th of December— wih you sent (omy stable this after. | \'1 Denienlin? tare ae deserters honed of the Preeident's prociapat pean tie Rebel Co Christmas Duy—the steamer New York left bere with nevee Seave eee one See | aailie erithin the ¢ j wiih wurprine tnd borere “ein hey The Southerm Peopie Asked to Bring ERNATR. Ove hundred and (wo prisoners, whom she bad takeo oo rT at coal dosent dn on that if the precamatin Q6uld Be datribuid fe ‘Their Plate to the sory. a SEL Bit ‘ J It thanks, aoa oes mynet iy | river at White Creek Shoals, sixty miee above bere, lant | {Corrrepondence of the Richmond Sentinel, Dec. 26.) Mr. CLanae, of Missouri, submitted the foliowing | "AP &t Point Lookout (the depos for rebel prisoners), Tt ee eee Ree ee eee ty, | Sunday gunning. steunen femmds have avded ium all the | * os Cenaen Seer @ ¢ © The plate that i® ip our couutry, and ite | bill — with inetructiooe to deliver them to the rebel author! con WA thie mark of your kind way fram the pricy deer te Um r e Aye ’ y vey the [reclemsion @ bey irom the ee eee eee the veopie can be id woe to ‘ An Act tor the Temporary he wot of the Legislative and | ties at City Point, Va, and with a request to Me | inte the Cumberland Movota tr mn we bY} the officers bave wes 4. ca oa occurred to many minds— | Executive Officers of the Confederate Goverument on | ¢, o ate age | Of White creek, be wnpremwed a tu Cuneeia taker tt ail ‘ ' Hi Deen, porbape, weighed and repudiated—bat yet, 1 pre. | Duty im the city of Rickmond prior tiamennchynmeainapvntaiees -ysorertye adoedineds bene Pnmegefin, | each toole as he need i promeded with bis | neral K akon thet Gemeras Parly (beuid em @ume to think, might be made to act, if pot a priccipal, Be it euacted, That trom the let day of Cctober, 1663, | Men, OD corresponding conditions The New York pro tremens chich | @ould ctherwwe feel On thie | Cmertot forty me yank of tie (ennewen, one | 104d bin march towards Harper's Perry er Mari uebury .velansie saveleny pare, Je ae digested schemé | iv adduion to ‘their tok alowed BY | ceeded ob ber mission, and Mr, Ouid, in accordance with | Sreasion | bave uo offices to give, and 1 hace nothing | mile below that none of | as General Kelley hae made fail preparataous to give tim jore the ered Treasury, to give stability to {OF @ a “ sem lpn wy had ; expect. | the citizenn le receyt Say sytem of finance, to arrest depreciation of Conled- | (uel, according W the following rates Low pad ths terme of Ge spenrranged Agreement, pleted. the-| to. penmine, entens, iat Zoe SS Oh 8 righs Se abe T ieee te . mses botew and stock, by furnishing that, io kind, whicu | of the army apd navy ob Guty @ Rictmord, required number of Our men on board. Presently there | Yan | mill os i 1S theereae J shall wot forget the words | Lea ee! donot # » fw the basis of ali credite—gold and silver. | tink we teh from Richmond to City Potut, The rebel | OF try Sie. cep Gain: aero te o6 Oe goaroe he of Union OMeera in Tr Bave it and in jarge amount. We have in the poesoseiom | ti ‘ tention, and an angry Gebace was | te ie te eee Agate, geotiorwen, tor your | <ibi@g imtelligence. Infantry beg Fhocedhi ths Kindnalé of ib. Gh Wide, secty ov @f our people, in the form of acd = siiver The Heads of Burenan, to wit, ~The , going ob over Mtapt paragraph whieh bad appeared | Kindness. permit me to take my seet. . (roope ab Gitenpie ®, they were rived from Texas, we ere enabled to give the f Plate, © vast and waproductive fund. 'y housebokd | and Second Auditors, Ti rer, Register and im the National Inielligencer, ob tbe subject of the hew This speech war received with applause, after which | (eek Stone with a view to inte ‘ . id . less of 't. Was there better time | einer of Patents, and Ch f Bureaus of the Post fice | arrangements for the exchange of prisoners. I haveset | the company adourned to the dining room, where an | BUt (hey arrived a few moment inte. Morgan him | Dames Of Uaioe ofbeert whe Ged at Camp Greve wm thet » to bring \t forward?—ever greater veed Department, the same aa © of ry een the paragrapl Ww question. but it bas done more mis pone J 7 . well, moanted & five thoons te ve | while prisenere on (he hande of the reten t repast wae prepared It Mm uncecesaary to etate The Secretary of the Senate and ( of the House of | chief than the journal in which it appeared can ever age were dove full ow rewled him in Kentucky aw of i . y Lhave ne means of Representatives, and all chief clerks, (he same es major® | though it live another oeutury, expect 0 expiate. (4 MeLetay one cpeech tananh ory ‘ocsigns | 2, | MAW of bis axcurt, danbed sl yd mae pn hw ape any eh ce mae Amount oF value in the confederacy, but t must be of cavalry courte it would Hot 100k well before the world to have it 1s late hour’ mi 6 nt on. Porky « Ma ‘ Can jt de had? Two years ago this would admit Heade of divit one the eame ae captains of cavairy kvown that the Richmond Cabinet seethed and fumed over ad he | t Why seed Marrachureite © no question. It would bave becn tlung into ibe rea | All accountacte apd clerks (be enue as leuteuatte ct | a Unio vewspaser paragraphe poci® tbe fos ob tee fabevchea "te oO ae Gary—a gratuitous offering Wo the cause 0” indepeudence. | cavalry. correspoodence i regard to the amalipox preventive—the elaborated \0 ‘ humeey. (Vormeriy a emperor a Bat now, | fear, thore will be found & more bergaining All sneseengers the same at wagon aud forage masters. | Executive of the rebel “tates resolved that, inasmuch as > and beventy temper, and it must be purchased aod paid for in the | Sec, 2. That ail ibe aboveoamed officers shall Lave the | Jet) (ave bad outiawed General attempted we Donde Of tbe government. If this cao be dove (and | priviege of purchasing. for cast, for thewseiver aud | preation could be had with ll ven set Machine Hayer dues Seventy ere Tork Vouunteer Mr lowe 2 at present stopp Adore ought 10 be no reasonabie dowbs aboct is), theo, | famuies, from the supplet procured by tue War Depart. | with thi large fund of actual woney—bullioo—you may | ment, eiber by purebase, impresement, of the tox in Day ap, oF olberwise rupplant, an iwdefnite amount of | Kind, at the nctua! cost to the government, ex bear in migd that during the past rin weeks the | ernment agents bave been in weebly, if not mor St the Revere Nowe, ve of 1. correspendence with tbe eo r | corner of Broadway ord Meorter et robe wit Our depreciated currecey. and, by dimit.sbing the circu | iractportation abd ower expenses, as apartment, aad begr te. mind appthos tie me where bin trouyers are to ¢ itaasdte on ages te ere ath rg ctv lation , reduce prices and eoabie us to eupply Our armies For bumse!, and each actua) member reepondence bas teen mbrked by franuness and friend eras | happy to give any Wiformaton be Poseeneee Ww relcrouce a i pot A pins Both, TOI hip aod civilization On the top ail thie lic | eatiefaction ¢ maniiertad at present, om gee yew comers Ww the death f the above otteore Ino, clothing Averili's | allowed w do. Sec. 4. That neither sugar, coffee, molassen, (From the Richmond Enquirer, Dec. 28 shoes or clothing, eball be sold cr m@ued 10 we Ao officer who participated \n the recent fgtt between | offeers bere® Bamed,or to apy officer of ibe the forces under General Wm. | Jackson aod the Yao | pavy stavioued or op duty in Richmond the officers of the army aud bavy are | tunetionary at Richmend— indeed, the \dentica! Robert 8 oe wes . | aid pot receive thew pay, amd the iden it prevalent luppties ome to us bow | Ould, we, io the name of his government, the other 4 the river from friderjert General Patier for hie hamanity aod the vac they have boom ewicdied sh4 | Besdgepurt in worked Wo ie Arrival of «he North Ames “tthe op of this, | aay aud Ws the ince of it, | cbeaied” by vomebty. In order to take acthon io | steamboats are io course 4 ; tend. ve goverument of ihe (mited States tbat, by the att sing of 4 increase the ‘scilites The wong bridge at Diridg@yarrt » Ul Poarsamn, fee. 30, 1803 | be army 0 | proclamation oF the Preeidect of the rete!’ stares, | * apillastherstoy, the daaicieg members | Wr cowbed before the omimencement of the are year, | “' & Rebel Acco t of Gem Ri mat Port. among them th Kees vader Averill. giver ue ihe follow.ng interesting bar | the feld are Ropplied Wiib theme articice according Wo ike Geverai Puter bas been “cursed,” aod ") | wae beld yesterday, at the Bowery Garden, where ” tmiddie of January | TH* Stenmabip North Ameraee, Cape Dovow, frum us cursed , cutew . And thas at Kumswg \aior before the middie of Jamon vetive of that gallaos afar — ; army rezulations. | The im medest. God belp ue! A yoramaeloted a ‘so | Mr. Finaeser prenvied A fall set of officers were | ee ee ee en Uy Nachvime, When ruplin | Liveryeot 17th and Lon@enderry 16D, arrived (lus even Ou the 13th inetant scouts belonging to Genera! Jack Sec. >. That thie actabal) continue ip force until the | papged and impoverwhed ae to unable to feed the | Ciected, whereupon wme stormy TeReedings C8006. | semugh shail have been piled op | ha thane wow het Gews © atinipated. pune brig: sepereee tani 8 Yankee ‘orce # about five | ood of the present war, oF wats the Seuretary of ibe | preccers who {ail into ie hande i the cop. Carian offcinia susp cled were denounced in severe | rests iorward movement, { beiere it wil) be ahdertaxen, | ne 7 thousand cavalry, melu i two datieries of artillery, | Treasury #ball aopounce’ the currency wo he so near uo | Bice of war ¢ \aflee, and after teach debate @ comets wed appotases wwent. | : cute wore advancing down Giack creek, towards Galewooa's, | aj proximation to par ag lobe bo longer vecemmary cm ou w yt) roy 4 rociame! | 0 dev ys aod meane of obiaining Justion ead the | Coss wii sue iar the rece aa within tweive miles of Warm Springs, in Bath ov. tty The fouow.og bie bave bee — eo of Jeflerven Levis forbids that General Patier | oe? the Gieafreted Members, A resis was 9 c Information ad at that time been received from Gece | A bill w prohibit dealing 6 \be paper currency of the | phould be admitted to the provection of the robe ras’ | Wukeb, acd wo about ball a0 hour the commmiites returves , 4 Tal Samuel Jones that a heavy force of Yankees was alto | enemy ore Ment—denres him ood wi he officers the benew' } | sod submnted r uiious With regard t@ the course to edvancing upom Lewisburg from the Kanawha valley. | 4 vil providing that oe person stall be exempied (rom | privilagge of the fag of itu. IP you wit core 10 the | Puli, winch, 10 OOrluMeD, were aiepted These reso Geveral Jackson at cvce cowciuded that tbe free ot Bve | m,lilary service by ronson ot be baying furciebed 4 FUD- | proclamation you will Hud Mtust Geueras Patter aud ter | MUGDE Are to (be eitect that ibe mombarw of the Fifth re would virke jor ike Teapessee | puitute. oicert, if eagut by the robe, are to be barged, ie | «moot, io recriving their jay for vervines rendered te the Sweet Springs, an) be igme- view of (bie Tochmend manifteis (aed ibe paragraph in | Ot erty, have bewe “ewiudied.” aod (bet (wo members hie force 18 motion wo interce;t them on the Weeb ington paper more est eeiaily). Genera: tutier he appointed 16 return, a& be could vot pursue aed by the rebele ac abt person foran | to having only about one hopdret The Retet carve frm & gentle, bo ban bar just FO | agent of exotanse bus be will do wel enough io nerve | preted en, tbe balance of torued from a visit to Tecbexse au: soutbera portion | cruste”” bo ibe tmallpox emiiien poopie of whe rebel | \wtiour rt Bownted infantry. Crossing at Mot of Keuvucky, tbat men who bave from our sree | exprta Bot ies ue go covwnb ibe history | #itD ibe Jackeou one Jsckeon's river, aud fo and returned Lome are ebuirely eutmawed (rom al) cereal | o the case. and the money due wo them = ft = a1 pant fording, with no bridge exvept ibe acqwty. They are vot recognized by thope who w ate taes oven: . age iawyer caveetion in Dridgo. infantry could crom on thas folmariy tbeir beet friends, una 1D maay lentascen frome ¢ ity Poss, barep ve Ueard Ove Duedred sod veeesy Oa to there renoint m & Bro's Tebacce Factory ot €t. Loats ee a se | Loew, feo 26, 1868 ge tin | 1 OW Abd entenmtve Whmces feelory Ut Memre tows Wat Mepham & Drvther, 0 Howth purest, burned thir morning ents Me. Weighieg the Aan me | with © large amenant of Wbatee ready Yor watbes, aed © moor tow wore Deane nar (or the Union ming | SE* Guamtity of famey groceries gered i) te tome it The valee ct the bull@ing rice aed the ciege weet oo, loys! baton eo!» me numired theurand deilar comet tow PAenty of orrnjpetere i tbe etoremen! of ith Billorkn ted mewndis of poison var eieng dig tantliah Geb tasared dil Aipreed wer ording Wo ibe direrivee For & town veahy the present tires, « the rete bed | hele aid Found phot tbey © GAVE 6 noel Ws life, Weighing the The Doom of Revel Deserter From (be Richmond kuqu iret, Lee 28) heew Oe madvens to ailempt to Crowe wagonk and artillery ov | repudiated by their relatives. The indiew do not wlerale | of one men, win w theme A yoled to carty ou : wet Nt. Jackson, However, with indom.table energy and per. | Weir visite and Whey are (he objects of universal eoora Ab the vows that nee tee werd petoreg. 10 ae - - vey Bi fy pre toy yerance, bad the wagons and artillery draws over tbe | aod contempt cose bely because ibey were of board. but wilh ibe fm A Case of Mera canes for © t rans yotte mee oho bering ridge by the men. He then continued the march 06 to . live enmouncement wich | have siresdy made iba n° Sa visorsen ered , Calinuan’s, but from formation derwed from De soous, | Restriction Im the Cultivation of Cotton | further ssobange could be tna WIth Ube proser!ted com Jets Hewiborne 8 teamen bewag! w ‘ot vem & be was convinced that Averill would return Dy the Rich aed Tobaceo in Florida. mander £55 Gegrwen. ater pteamer Tucoserega, ao tant a ° road, which tape the Covi turopike pear [From (he Rich mend Sentinel, Dee 24 The returned ‘mre are emaciaiad and oak Es | wh the Borin part of the «ity OAc wih (hie ermy eves out (1 aptare Lie eee mene of river depot. Be forthwith moved he com The Leguisiare ot Viorida passed an act to funint all | aNare weak Sed tougbiog They are acite wullke (be ot four rewden Te bewwerd to Phvadeipnen. wee = Many furougte beve been grein’