The New York Herald Newspaper, January 31, 1864, Page 1

IMPORTANT FROM THE GULP. aN ad MEADE’S ARMY. The Sich Sent to ReareThe Gueril- lap Aveund—Railroad Accidents, dit. MB, WILLIAM YOUNG'S DEAPATCH, ABMy 07 THB Potoms0, Jan. 80, 1604, NEWS FROM MEXICO. IMPORTANT FROM GRANTS ARBY. 3 IMPORTANT FROM MATAMOROS ARRIVAL OF THE EVENING STAR, Retreat of the Rebels from atalli ¢ oe, wae knocked a ma An orca hao bac ined crcing Aha new bespla go gen iy Tunnel Hill. . arrapgemen| for ihe field, and that al) tbe , 0 levees will be made, NEW REVOLUTIONARY DIFFICULTIES. | 28n2"2 sick now ip the army be ses to ihe rear, Arriva} of Admira) Farragut | inane igomery Brothers éold at auc- ve sound of Everything is quieh to-day on the lines and ip al parts : tty Nee ge ye - wats 4 of the army, though ibore were some upimportanh' gue rf at New Orleans. haga ep anar, Ho Ane edb ibe ee Capture of a Rebel Cavalry Pilla operations last night. ¢ renders are well aware. ’ i DEAPEEATD OPERANIONS OF CORTINAS. | Sur re rardenahe e =) i ceo he aa an secemnit in th Company. 10 ; ‘Bada smasb-op beyond Warrenton yesterday afiorncee, I” HE ILE LOCKA. soattoring the mail car and shattering eeveral ether care, bs ae BIACE LDS, Wo one on the train was injured, PRN wit Hist oat trio bowen, Weshogta nee ace: | BALE OF and slex- ‘ ee er BLOOD HORSES. Fiding op top of ® freight.car and did vob stoop whom § passing under the canal bridge. Conav) —————— seit | INTERESTING FROM NORTH CAROLINA, tid ner | The Progress of the Menction im the O1af -' aera ate x ml « ; num! concerts will be STP ror HEHE fo, ou, Uhehogte of Mr, Gatehe, the Morale | i, Bremerscemeraclas ecu ty. BT ao eres Cate ba tte Oa || Correspondents Sota cay, Slee BM derwenes come | OMGLal Dospateh trot Géneral i FLIGHT OF RUIZ AND HIS STAF?, i Victory Over the Rebels Near ; roe mee “u Darties Kn ox vi All| Quict tn me ‘Teche neces “ | Fihis Near’Atteas and” Firence, —_ HH i i c Pet, Tmlaine Sak, He. 8 Bars tise is, nonauna nen, 4 Tention, tbe Wilmingion (N, ©.) Journas anytime Poster, men, Red and Cortina’ | aentiy concocted, 7 ro ee, ts ss seeinad Ped rout Stee, | eis Gants tele Br. Finley AnderseD, Anctber Correnpendent, a ‘Wanticr0n, Jan. 20, 1664. ‘The following despatches have been. received at the headquarters of the army here:— ‘Haapqvanrsns, Miurany Division oF tas Misneerrry, Nasavitis, Jan. 20; 1864. } Major General J. G, Foster telegraphs from Knoxville, ‘Tenn, , under date of the 28th, at nine o'clock A.M., a9 follows:<0 T have the honor to report that the cavalry under Gen. Sturges achieved a decided victory over the enemy’s cav- alry yesterday, near the Fair Gardevs, tep miles east of Sevierville. MoCook’s division drove the enemy back about two miles, after a stubborn fight, Iasting from daylight until four P. M., at which time the division charged with the sabre and @ yell, and routed the enemy from the field, capturing two steel rifled gune and over one hundred hot cease; “a6 bullets over the Con- | ‘The Raleigh (N.C. Slandara, In He appeals to slave “ another revolution ball; ow foll-down By'the door and were | poiaers for peace, @aysien nt ej to be Released, Ho was placed tramn’s forces remained until the morni ‘We went to war to protect the State Alon and } wie «ney returned. to Browsavillo, aking with them | $0 defend and to perpetuate, the tneitution of slavery | | as Spans To chmsasiot, She ees ee on jee | Dut it it should apport’ mause and gousicer well ihe | Serious Disaster in the arbor of od + ‘and family, {t being deemed wiser to take them across. een things are Seas auarweas cont sqain make Rimsell Governor, o.0 ues" Be qititto. twelve months longer, with n0 greater. success Brazes Santiago, her ws cuntrl sis ig neni a | rane mh Cnml ned, from | SMS urine Gogo aie aan ' Matamoros'on the 1th instant, during which General | moment 4 y Great | Vin be hopelessly destroyed. a, &e, a ‘Slerron, commanding our forces at Brownsville, despatch- It ig paid, and it bag nos to my knowledge been con- Dr. J. T. Leach, the conservative metaber elect in the os et thé ‘Twentieth Wisconsin, Ninety-fourth Muigole and f iadicted, although Rave mate evary eftes ho Ameringg | uew rebel Congress, which moots in February, saye in J Th steamship Evening Star, from New Orleans on the ve pieces of the First Missouri battery across the river. Cortincs got frightened and fell back to the other eee oes pebraubaged = mainte 24th, via Havana on the 26th inst., arrived a this port All bub the Twentieth Wisconsin bivouacked on the: N wulz’s forces pursued, one now claims iilmens com: | yesterday afternoon. Sho was detained one day at New ‘Banks; bus this regiment went almost up tothe plansy and Seieear ri arnSa te pu Yoon ssa Poot, oF the right to depart from the eonfedersey 12} Gpiegng to bring deapatchee from General Banks, laze, is ‘At the great meeting held reeently in Fach conaty., Admira) Farragut, in the Hartford, arrived at New Or+ tions. Meet- Hs ll 4 “ if ai iy ret favoring a cail for a State convention, Dr. Jeans 0 the 22d inst. Fee aeitrng ‘beld’ ti aidrent counties tavoring ine Tbe steamer Yazco, (row New York, arrived at Now same object. Orleans on the 222, ‘The Raleigh State Journa? says the proposition for @ ‘& letter dated Mobile Bay, January 9, in giving an prisoners. ustasm State Convention, so close on the heelo of Mr, Lincoln’s } account of an attempt to destroy a rebel steamer aground 4 © ainoeltes eX Ceriaast® | proposition to it ove-tenth of che people form a State | on the bar, roporia quito fight between our feet and | President Juares Tas arrived at Sutil, on his way to} , ihe envemye cue me ames Mane re ee — Pata pad wane up as oo wet not opens overs Lanenec aie icin pr os @ very strong odor of disloyalty aud a Wo were unable to get ihe steamer out, J Another gentleman, who was in San Louis Potosi on the } Garrard and Welford’s divisions came up after a forced oe ‘sharpshooters there, event treagon about it. us nodamage. . 18th month, states that Jusrez left that . t pel cee with ‘ia Cabinet, cu tuo 20th, wititso, ana proceeded ve J ™ared, 0 time to be pushed in pursuit, although tbelp ‘Gould nos permit armed foreign soldiers to remain on | Ruia's — place. ‘The Henderson (N. C.) Times is delighted over the Cotton at New Orleans was frm, with po advance. Mon heraes were jaded. american poll. They were most hospitably received by top mt hide Teported retirement of General Butler, and by the re- | Sugar=Stock ‘was light and prices 3¢0. ® 340. Digher. Mo- iy have not take n of San Lute | General Starges hoped tofbe able to make thé rout com @ar troops, who sympathized with them in their defeat, ‘shot would thre hats establishment of the Department of North Carolina, | insses was. dull and neglected, the supply being of the Pat be have entrenched at dioangustine, Seventy: T riete, INO: A. RAWLINS: ‘which wan owing to other canses then agaok Of courage. { shout repi their enemy. which the Times says remove the most serious obstacle {| poorer grades. Re era cactrtnhor fs bacll cb vensahe: lo (dh Brigadier Gonefal end Chief of Stall. ‘Tae Hight on the night of the 12th was not very san- die Hidalgo, | to the return of North Caroline to the Union, sv, Henry Thompeow’s Dasbatew sition Some tise, as to advatoe thay would bye to maze ‘Sdoot thirty were killed and ninety wounded re which fiflemen;}- The Raleigh State Journal sdys:—Our exchanges from «6 So see Oneniee te ao, 1cog, | 21 2100.dangerous distanes from the coast and thetr ba8® | sre, ycasrms, wtiifane Divmnom oy sh Msc, ail quarters of the confederacy admonish us thet an anon, saanots—momn Taare, 2 or rep turaished with the full partictlars of the revo- Names, Jan. 29, 1864. } advance by Beast Butler on some point on the Wilming- Admira) Fa is in New Orleans, His-fleet crorseg 4 ution im Mexico on the Bight of te 15th Om the morning of the 25th the enemy, six hundred it. At this | ton and Weldop Railroad is probable. Va the ber 00 alias hd night ab balf-paat five o'clock: ged rcrcenyyion at faery i iutetnty fal Strong, attacked our garrison of about one hundred at Previous to his arrival in'this city it wae reported that he | Through the of eta, er, 1 kindly GENERAL KELLEY'S DEPARTMENT, | ecw osu, wit armen wt comoncng | SF¥4 Hoiean er Anat « 690 oar’ sgn teensy waned ena ee ee an attabk againét that stronghold. 4 farther report was * ’ ‘cmp ibentest; | Retarn of s Reconuoltring Party=Ime | aiso cisoviaied thet tbe garrison of one.of the forts at the NEW9 FROM TEXAS. Our lom wad twéhty. ‘The weap rages em portant Information Gained=Captare | entrance of Mobile harbor ypd inopen mutiny ; A - On the 87th Oolong] Miller had o get ea. thie of a Rebel Captain=What He Sa; nt enue Sah Mr. James F. Latbamy’s Despatch. ide of Florence, repalaitig the enemy: Our Joss wen Shee pte! 8 of | that a force was cent by the ant} to dient the die hs fijgen tiled and bwenty-Ave wounded, the Enem: turbance, and that the mutinesrs opened upon it with the POR omy iomary miuoepoas et Nan ir leg} ee ty WING, 5 guns of tle fort, driving it back with great slaughter. ‘This rumor probably arose from the fact that there te consid@rable disaffection among the tr0o} rrison in| ing to them Cortinas poured & severe This morning a reconpoitering force that had been sent : af : fire, [he@a clear view of titi until Forts Morgan and Gaines, aud that many of the soldiers ee eTy or vighis, bes uv 8 siagle Kant, an po ane out from Colonel Campbell’s command returned after | neq degerted and joined our tect off the entrance of the hor did Cortinas’ men pursue them in Any force. From | having gone to Romney. There they divided into three | harbor, These deserters also reported that a regiment of the lower side of the city the Ruiz men were tomy for | columns, one going out on the Winchester road thirty | cavalry, six hundred strong, stationed a short distance in the Bs le Bese leading to it | mites, the other down the Grassy Lick road to the viclo- | the rear of Mobile, absolutely refused to serve. spy 25 | ity of Wardonrvilie, and the third om the old Morefield entire | road, to above Through Mountain. None of these columns met with serious opposition tn their advance. INO. a, That all may be familiar with the Thirteenth army corps and ite commander, who are on the shores of Texas, and who are destined to restore that great State to the Union, afew brief facts will not be out of place. The fhirteenth army corps ia composed of the Firat division, commanded by Brigadier General Benton; the ‘Second, Major General Herron, now detached at Browns- ville; the Third, Brigadier Genera) Maginnis, now at Indi- ‘anola, and the Fourth, Brigadier General Ransom. It oc- cupies at present the southwestern portion of the penin- sula of Matagorda, and is commanded by Major Genera} N. J.T. Dana, under whose command it is destined to play no unimportant part in the present war, INDIAROLA. 5 the _ with ~ were seen renting fs Beapqvantans, Derarrusst op Weer Vinomu, ia re y and from every hous be j Jan. 80, 1866 _ : Five Mie Nosrs oF nen Ba} General Palmer, with General Davia’ division, moved here yesterday on a recomnoissance. ‘The Twenty-eighth Kentacky sud Fourth Michigan rove in the rebels’ advance pickets apd captured A come pany of rebel cavalry. ‘The rebels retreated from f@nne} Fill daring the might. ‘They lost thirty-two killed and wounded. Our loss was two wounded. ‘The object of tne reconnoissance was effected. General Claiborne’s rebel division is above Tunnel Hi17, "The balance of the rebele have disappeared, They ave probably gone to Mobile or East Tenaeneed: longer, and the authorities were trying to persuade ‘thém with kjnd words to retarn to their duty, but, up to latest accounts, were unable to do co, The reason force baving gove. ourin; nd nity, and not | rds qrenbioorer, 6nd belloved thet Cortinas intended to evacu. | tbay returned with Afty ar fsizty of the Tegulare, who | Tbe information whieb they gained proves to be of ‘igh for thelr retural fs that they are sick aod tired ‘Wo the cliy and march against the French; others, better | Tesmed very downosse, ‘The della of the atnearal now | importance, and tells of mysterious movements, proceed: | of the war, and say that there is n0 use infighting any Sadermsed easel thiair Sends; aid dathared’ that the cooly | SiFCN wets Srantet Swantorted around the oisy, enc | 1098 024 preparations within tbe rebal tines, riore, a8 the cause of:the Southern confederacy is hope. @eatacle to fighting was the cold weather—the coldest, a ) women and | We took einer sh Dd. goiion “i Company A, _ lessly gone. There is every reason to believe the “oldest iohabitant,” ever known in Matamoros. Ti yA malt sttraction, Here | afth Georgia, prisoner, This rebel officer says some Sveor | ment, asnearly ail the deserters tell the same story. : sald they, until the drat warm ga ttanssaed logeiber; but at no time | gic Georgie and ‘Alabama regiments have been divided [ "tT algo tenrn that many of the cltigens of Florida, at | ,_Adnite at Iadiancle besin to amune & mote tenting you shall see whether what we say is false or truo. ‘Calm and aoe no way | into small squads and stationed at different pointe inthe | Pensacola and on the peninéula, are enlisting in the Union ceed Wiblce totka eaca ba s-otah it ‘asthe ‘The cetensible cause of Cortinas remaining in the city orders. | People gatpared around the few dead | vailegg and mountains to proveut desertions, Ho reports | army, ana that two regiments are siready forming of oT _ sear lanpppmesteraneend: sacalypl ie saeco A mg a sy " _ 2p pmengren pperegeedpl vscor teres pom oe aes ALL QOMeT ON THR TRCER, Indiqnols ig @ small town, situated on the prairie, at * scrip var le yi ge) por herrbhgrsdttd upset ‘i y daddle, This tebel officer algo reports that the enemy is A considerable force, under an efficient commander, hag | the edge of the bay, and boasted, before the war, of okie os. yal ouse. | an actually pressing all men {nto the service between the | been sent across Lake Pontchartrain, for purposes not yet containing @fveen bundred ipbabitanis, @ fue court * nee pre Ee Ae cpr tatgtaag Ae i gta oat s mt shell buree | ages of aiztonn tad ‘Afty-five, From his story it seems | made public. Government vessels are also manceuvring | House, school, commodious hotel, &c. *But at prosent it ery that Ruiz - ee eS eee aera the jus- | started, the ory crowd, broke and raf: Bat a wave of | that come of tbe North Carolina and a few of the Virginia | about tbe mouth of the Pascagoula, Al) remains quiet } Presents quite s dierent aspect from what is did.in 1800. ps! — aclgsabonasat od balay dare poe ree Cortinas soomed 40 quiek thes, and again | regiments are being looked upon and watched with sus. } on the Techo and Mississippi, The citizens, who were principally Germans, and who | The arkansas State Conven! pate ae nom ness — was over seporal pillaging scat Seamediper yet Vee icion. ‘A cartel for the excbange of ail ihe prisoners captured | Were induced to seitie at thas point only by the com PR ry election of John eante py Bula, In: the mesatime, Nowever, Cortinas veld find fo pay vas mot techn, threo loc General Milroy is at Cumberland ae a witness in the | by the command of General Dick Taylor has been agreed | mercial advantages tliat it offored 40 the industrious, on 4” Abous que-halt of the teritoy of the State me catbedsal, which was filled with ammunition; but he q@ Was quiet, and now, while! writesiz P. cf i the breaking out of the rebellion and the establishment ‘members : . Latham court martial case, upon, and another for the exchange of those in Texas is sented in Convention. Out of -$wo ‘twen- Ah ches teapepe arta Bad pea ridire Latect vows frocn the Kanewbe valley toports all quiet Sik tuveeehts eoeainann 3 ot the blockade deserted the town for © more pros. | {y-tive were born in slave hates, dre "a. free Sater ithdrew his forces to Plaza de Allende, or, Maramonos, Jan. 14, 1864, and safe, ‘THB REBELA AT WORK ON THB RAILROAD. perous one. When the confederacy called upon ber sons "The Convention was called by Jar meetings % is commonly called by the people, Plaza de Capello, un DAMAGE On Tueeday night last the track on the Opelousas and New | % come forth and ehed their blood in defence of Southern | the different counties of that Portion of to Biste which, tm English, signifies * Little Church.” Here he heroic Dion lin peers er Ne sanets placed his aritienycave { 1°, 8 Bowser ip oot go great at 1 Dad expected. to THE CHESAPEAKE CASE. Orleans Talltoed was tora up by rebels near Bayou Boeut, | Fights, the herole youthe of Lodlanole, inspired by & tore HOeUnice aes, ae os.» med, moekiad Nias'el thelve: hell ent rida i A aT adlbara Mimo? raph ayaggeasiag feng A train which came down the road a short time after was joined the rebel forces. in Texas, and, ander which mass meotings were held at pounders H and afew Dave been penetrated py sbell, » few of Testimony of Rebel Civilians and thrown from the traek. No persons were tojured. Scouts ” determined to de- . ee cares hag tle — ee ek which exptoded, but did little damage. Almost Soldiers. from the Ninstieth New York regiment, Colone} Morgan, dena every building on the plaze and the two streets £2. Jouna, N. B., Jan. 30, 1864. ‘were immediately despatched in search of the parties, 1s is & known fact that in revolutionary a | Twnisy slongside the Cavnedrdl, and tbe towers | The Chesapeake case was resumed in the Admiralty | and cucceeded in capturing three men, oue a citizen, and », ica ; es opine . yi of the inite?, are covered with marks from bullets | conrs to-day. the other two wearing the dress of rebel soldiers. The rovolution—the fighting I meanemis started by sppsrently | 1445 naq vo large shot to fre from their artillery, aud, | The letter of marque to Captain Parker, of the Retri. | former confessed to having eesisted vine others in tear- @riting ‘cause, ‘There are, of course, antecedents which | pegides, it was almacst all directed down tbe streets. potion, was produeed by the prisoner's counsel ing up the track. Gave ripened—the occasion ts offered by trifling causes. THR PLUNDERING tion, need by the pri a is man also states that a force of the enemy bad ; My own observation confirms this fact, A pistol shot was not HA etd as was anticipated. Two or three Dr, Luke P. Blackburn, of Mississippi, testided to Jeff. | come down the bayous, and that four regiments were fore bareh word oote the ball ja motion, and grent.svents | {07eigh houses on the Rute svoeree, Vavocs, Peatenystaer | Devs” signature. Par fas anode wen | orate we foun * 810,00 Wik k'Cocoeverai | Captain Thomas H. Davis, of Vitginie, who says hewas | crown to be, and then’ move on 10 lately aftor‘our forces had taken possession of ‘nutans island of Matagorda it became essen, b Co. lost about $10, and Focke, 5 thousand. between ‘three and four theusand dol in taken prisoner at Gettysburg, aid escaped from Jobibson’s Bayou Beuf. The night specie, Their safe was broken into with axes. Wome } isiang on. the ist instant, was then sworn, He testified | regiment vecersane tie guieewes; when sey prisoners by the just have been with the men; for women’s combs were . ou taken MOTE ee eae Tere | that, according to the practice of the Confederate service, | Cres” an they bave ack bean beard from since parel were left bebind. - officers authorized to do a particular duty have power to ‘The residence which éuffered belonged gana delegate authority to others, and that parties go acting family by the name of Monanton. Becom! ened 4 Scat cence caramel ecto ant | “yume Caen cama atten abe cee icon It seems Cardenas, second in command to Cortinae HY Beir 7 o BOCRIECS } 5 i A Mr. est credit, From the hostile demonstrations made , ana bieprivate adyjser, with three other officers, wout | ‘Sent through tbe houve, and it wes Complete desolation | Kentucky, privates of the Confederate service, who ee | Sit. c0P)"on ine Teche, aren eee tT seussen curssiven cf Osa toern, owt Gown W tho palace, insulted and attempted to force the | dresses, overyabing scattered about the floor and | caped from Camp Douglas on tbe 24 instant, testided to | ang arrived in this city on . His settlement on the bay three miles above lndianols. for it qvardwherenpon they were fired upon, and Cardenas | ‘estfoysd. They were mwealthy {amily. Antonio Looge: | the same effect, which I eend, will be found of great interest and im: | became evident that the enemy meditated an attack, ‘end bahaczaretio (J cannot learn positively bout this Mat or Maa uiclatons ‘toot severely. “ibis Ba penes Eden Lock, of' Nove Scotia, brother of Capt. Parker, Portas NERALD CORRESPONDENT MR, FINLEY ANDERSON. force of rebel 0 <eMioer) wore taken prisoners, Without any trial, Rojas, {bout all the pilaging s yet knows. “4 oh pins eter cae agers olan danny to beable te stale 6 the fly nd frends On the 13th afore of cavalry of between five ene of Rais’s officers, had him led out into the palace ee, - Retribati May; that be aleo caw bis comm! ‘another of your . Mr. Ny Ant ; Fane | wSiaRRStar tates, ule fat | trem ota atthe pr ort | focaccia uae pan wine Wen sopenaniet it a yg Cid Court was the same document, ‘after having lin- old, wi ‘QCrOES ithout taking farther tAtimon: § Kio Grande, pear the arvrneviile i on the Ngee ee han arate will goon BO atthe bends the ball passing out cae of is ever eg ‘ oun Seneas Me tno freedem of tbe ‘own, but I earned yesterday a AE for the | in March next. 5 WJ i He wast hoone ndings te and Ruta did not ying i pnp anny eye from, Mao? General Franklin that be is yotln Tyler, pa oe y' The new coustitution, if ite adopted by She people, oes map xt ” burn! meeting into the palace, who returned, Ca Ruiz, 20 Campnines, Jan. 26, 1864. The following ‘mportant order was published this y > goldiers, were there. He and a fow of friends ran i of Dig — Gown to the bank of the and while at 0 An article in your paper of the 25th inst. implicates me | mo i ‘ en crvas he wae. abot Sera teatny 200 tend ro be's | 10 certain contracts with Stuart Gwynn, and as concerned auanea cad -_ frit ia end Caring has eclred he wil pay al loasen ne laren pe munt eae eee Sadie tis toes, UB yy pe Gf ad through pillaging by bis eoidiers, 1h i of him |B La 2 | Bow iabe mt Foor al parties interestod. that when two j2’8 oMcors, who were captured saw to deny explicitly that I am or have been, directly or ‘will bays 3 led opl--| bim next moralog, and sald to him, “General, we are | indirectly, Sonteadh, either | iivesbyect to {2P Ruvolment, ise obte the Ruts party. 1s was evi. | your prisoners,” abd, with anxicty, saked, ‘What will | with Dr, wynn: I bave written 10 secure. ‘economical end just Oe) pene as of i HE =35 4 & k “E 8 °ig BE i i i Be: a2 2 i # i ee ite § I ! i 4 i i i i fl fe PH i Bie ris fs at ga3 E : if 5 u f Be i ange BY. x + . pevenge. wes reaning higby' ntl nl wll tet ‘ — Ay K Vt pe ic “ Reavily-all day, and ati! continues. ; "Beste, Mase: Jan, 30,.108K {7% fusndere a a HE ae ‘Weather thick, wR Mew Gnd rain, Ne arrtvate, ; under the mgngonond t0 tho cud of the f* . m « "i . ¢ . *. ‘