The New York Herald Newspaper, December 22, 1864, Page 4

4 « NEW YORK HERALD. @aMES GORDON BENNETR ESTTOR AND PHOPRIKTOR THE BITVUATIO ‘The exceedingly mteresting despatches of the Fsnat> correspondents which we publish this moraing give a detailed account of the important ana wonderfal cam paign of General Sharman in Georgia, from the timo ‘that be commenced bis extraordina y march from Atlanta, ov the 15th of November, down to Sunday fast, the 18th fost, His army moved across the State, sdout three hun red miles, in twenty seveo days, living on the way on the fat of tbe laud, vastating forty-two counties, stripping ‘the country of everything that could be of service to the rebel armies, destroying two bundred miles of railroad, buruing millions of dollars’ worth of cotton, capturing four thousand prisoners, ten thousand negroes, fifteen thousand horses and thirty pieces of artillery, and im- mediately on arriving on the coast wrested Fort McAllister from the enemy and Jaid siege to the city of Savannah. In the perfermance of ell this marvellous work Geveral Shorman lost mot ope gum or wagon, and bis entire casualties were ‘only fifteen hundred men Savannah was stil! in posses sion of its rebe! garrison on last Sunday morning, no de. ‘Mand for its surrender having yet been made by General Sherman. He had it completely invested, however, and all com munication between it and the outside world was The map of Georgia which we give this morning will serve to illustrate the despatches of our correspondents, The Charleston Courier mentions what it calls ‘something of & pavic in Savannah” on last Fri. rr It says (hat “some croakers were reedy and will ing to give up,” and that some of the warehouses and depositories of provisions were opened, and all persons told to help themselves."’ Tbres severe charges of Sher ‘man’s men on the rebel lines in front of the city, om last Saturday, were reported. The two days’ battle before Nashville between the ‘ational forees under General Thomas and Hood’s rebel army, on Thursday and Friday last, and the fighting on the subsequent day between the fleeing rebels and thelr vigorous pursuers, are faithfully and graphically de Scribed in the special despatches laid before the readers of the Hxr.tp this morning. In these three days Hood’s army was completely routed and disorganized, end his prestige, if he ever had any was irrecoverably lost. Twelve thousand men and fifty pieces of artillery ‘Were taken {rom him, with @ loeson the Union side of ‘only about three thousand men, Of the two subsequent days—Sunday and Monday—of the pursuit of- his defeated and panic-stricken remnant of that army with which he e0 boastfully entered Tennessee we have siready given some accounts. Up to Monday night it was reported that out of sixty-five cannon with which he laid siege to Nashville he had bet four pieces left, and he was at Duck river, forty miles south of Nasbvilie, endeavoring to place that stream be- tween bim and the national troopers slasbing relent- Jeesty on his rear. We have yet received nothing of consequence regarding the continuation of the pursuit oa Tuesday and yesterday. From the poiut at which he ‘was op Monday night, Hood bad some seventy-five miles over which to drag bis dispirited troops before reaching ‘the Tennessee river, at Florence, Ala., for which place De was supposed to be retreating. And even should he Succeed in reaching that point, be will probably find it (mpomsibie to cross Lhe river, as it is patrolied by Union guobdosis. ‘Three more of the St. Albans raiders were rocaptured tn Canada yesterday, on their way eastward, A special mensenger with despatches from Secretary Seward has prrived im Quebec. It is said that the fullest understand Joe now exists between the Washington and Canadian of miele. A Quebec despatch states that immediately after Prsuing his recent order relative to parsuing rebel Paiders ncrove the Nortuern border General Dix de- patched to Cavada a confidential agent, who returned ,| ‘with the assurance that the authorities there would do ‘ail in their power to prevent raids io the future. There is little occurring just new to break the mo- Botony in the armies before the rebel cap'tal. The rqpeis early ov inst Monday mornisg madean attack on the pickets of General Miles’ division of the Second corps, Army of the Potomac, on the extreme lefi, but were driven ‘back after they bad captured ten or tweive men and killed One, it is rumored that on last Saturday the rebsi Gene- Fal Lee was so severely wounded that he will be for @ome time incapacitoted for service. This report was Drought iuto the Usion lines by rebel Geserters. Con- @iderabie movements of rebel troops have recently beea Observed in front of the leit wing of the Army of the P tomac, but the object is got known, It is reported that the rebol forces in Western Virginia re beiug concentrated some where ov Newfriver, with ‘the design of interfering with the operations of Generals Broveman and Burbridze im Northeastern Tennessee and Pouthwesiern Virginia. A rebei brigede in the upper part of the Sbenandonh valley is said to be busi'y engaged im gathering in suppiios from the eurroundiog country, for which the secession portion ef the imbubitants are Deing paid in specie, The Richmoud Ezaminer of fest Monday states thet the Union forces, supposed to be under General Stoneman, recently destroyed tbe depot aod made some captures at Wytheville, Va., on the Kast Tooressee and Virginia Railroad, moved ome miles further eastward, and then retraced tooir Bleps, and wore supposed t> be moving on Sultyilie, that Point so vital to the rebel stomach. A small naval foroe on board the gunboats Cour de ‘Leos and Mercury, of the Potomac Sotilia, eaptured, on he 15th inst, in Coon river, thirty-one large boats and two scows which the rebels had collected there for the (purpose of making @ raid oo Chesipeake Bay, In the rebel House of Representatives on Saturday last Mr MeMalien, of Virginia, offered resolutions in favor of @endiug within the Union lines commimioners to treat ‘with the representatives of the government at Washing- ton for a restoration of peace. In reply to # question, Air, McMullen stated that Bishop Lay, who recently ar- Fived in Richmond, had been assured by General Grant that avy such commissioners would be allowed to pase 1 b Hough BEE CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday, the House bill taxing whiskey wo dollars per gallon, on and after the Ist of January orl, wee passed by a vote of twenty-two against tweive. # resclotion requiring citizens of the District of Columbia ‘Po ‘ake an oath of allegiance to the government was ext off. Pelotee —ewenty-four agatost ten, The cowsideration of an proposition to terminate the Canadian Reciprocity resty wae postponed till the 6th of January. Io Deeoullye seemion, a number of appointments wore ed, including that of the galiaut Farragut to be joo Admiral. . | Ip the House of Represevtatives the bill appropriatiog 000,000 to make up deficiencies was pessed. A bi tax todaoco and ite manufacture was referred to the ye and Means Committees. The sams commiites wore fostrocted to inquire into the propriety of reducing or pooding the duties on prioting paper, and to report itbout delay. \ MIOCCELLANEOUS NEws. fy the Orig Rdwin Rowe, Ceptain Groverick, at this 't, We have files of papers from British Guiana, dated Demerara to the 24 of December. The prolongation the dry seamen wan neversiy felt by (be poorer Inhab. NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22,. 1864, ‘ ‘tants of the town, the supply of water falling. A nom- ber of umm )grauts had arrived from the other isiands aad foreige ports. Tbirieea persuos died of yeliow fover in Demerara durisg three mouths; but the disease had almost disap, eared. ‘The Board of Aldermen met yesterday afteraoon and trepsacted a large amount of business, A mea:ge was received from the Mayor, vetcing the resolution giying Permission to John Matteson to erect a recruiting tent in Chatham square, on the ground that it would obstruct Street, and that it was unwise to trust the recruit: bosiness with any other than the Supervisors’ commmitiec ip the Park. The Board of Councilmen met yesterday and atopted a Tesolution appropriating two thousand four bunded and thirty-three dollars to the Church of the Covenant, to enable it to pay an.assessment, A resolution in favor of donating two thousand dollars to the Iadustria! School was covcurred in. Two vetoes were received from the Mayor, He returned without bis approval resvlutions ranting permission to recruiting agents to erect tonts ft the corner of Canal aod West sirects and in Chatham square, Alter discharging several committees from the further consideration of reports, the Board adjourned till Saturday, at one o'clock. The Board ef Education were in session Inst evening; but there was little business of public interest transacted by them In thg United States Circuit Court yesterday, Jobn Buzzy was accused of passing counterfeit money, and was held to bail in the sum of five hundred dolmts. ‘The case of tho alleged Headerson navy frauds was up agate yesterday before United States Commissioner Stil- well, on a motion to increase the bail from twenty theu- sand to thirty-two thousand dollars. The Court decided to increase the bail. Accordingly William Cullen Bry- ant, of the Evening Post, and William A, Hallare still the sureties. Eight seamen from the American ship Mercary were committed by Commiesioner Osborn yesterday on a charge of mutiny, iu attempting the life of the captain. ‘The Prussien extradition case was brought toa close yes- terday. Commies! ner White, after hearing the summing up of the case by the counsel on both sides, reviewed the salient poluts of the evidence, decided in favor of the ex- tradition of the prisoner, and ordered the necessary pa- pers to be made out and forwarded to Washington. The punishment for each offence with which the prisoner is ebarged, of which there are nineteen, is ten years’ im prisonment. ‘The Updyke.Weed care was resumed yesterday moruing in the trial term of the Supreme Court. General John C. Fremont was placed on the stand carly in the day, and gave very interesting and atraightforward evidence. The court rooms were densely crowded, despite the heavy falling of snow and the geveral discomfort of a stormy day. Three or four other witnesses were é: amined in addition to the G.seral, and on the whole the day’s proceedings wore characterized by a degree of interest in no way inferior to that exhibited on previous days. Luther C. Tibbets, the prodice merchant who at- tempted to kill a policeman on ’Change some months ago, was mulcted in the sum of three thous.nd nine hundred dollars in the Supreme Court yesterday, before Judge James, for breach of contract in refusing to take tbirty- five thousand bushels of corm which be had agreed to buy, as alleged. The jury in the case of Wm. Munech, tried In the Court ofGeneral Sessions on Tuesday for robbery, acquitted the accused. Judge Russel presided yesterday, in the absence ef the Recorder. Margaret Reardon, indicted for larceny from the person in stealing one bundred and seventy-five dollara from the pocket of Ann Simon, of 201 Woouter street, on the 9tb inst , pleaded guilty to the offence, aud was sent to the State prison for two years. Peter Gaillard, jointly charged with Wm. Bell (who es- caped) by John Ritten, with assaulting him and abstract- ing thirty-Ove doHars from his pocket, im a lager beer saloon in Albany street, was tried and acquitted The Complainant was very much totoxicated at the time, and could not tell which of the men attacked bim. There were other cases om the calendar; but, in consequence of the engagements of counsel, they were postponed. The city was visited by another snow sterm yesterday. About eight o'clock in the morning the snow made its Sppearance, showering down quite heavily, and covering the ground in afew hours to the depth of about three (aches. A little after moon hail dfove off the snow, aad im the space of half as hour a sbower of rain had dis- Gipated both snow and bail. While the snow lasted several people were rash enough to venture out in sieighs, but enjoyed themselves very pecriy id the crowded parts of the city. Last evening Hon. N.G. Taylor, of East Tennessee, by invitation of a number of distinguished geatlemen, de- livered an eloquent acresa io the Brooklyn Academy of Music, op the heroism apd patriotiam of the people of bis State. A committee was appointed to solicit subserip: tions for tbe suffering Teonesseesos. Admiral Farragat promised to be pr-sent; but he failed to attend. The General Committee of the Mercantile Library As- sociation, for receiving subscriptions to extinguish the debt on the building (Clinton Hall), met last evening in the Librarian's room, to bear the reports of the various sud-committees. Already over twenty-five thousand dol- lars have beep subscribed, and the prospect is that io a few weeks the whole amount—sixty-two thousand dol- lare—will be forthcoming. Two iads, of sixteen and nineteen years, named Robert Flyun and James Gorman, were yesterday committed for further examination, charged with having, ou Tucs day night, in Madison street, knocked dowe, beaten and attempted to rob Michael Welsh, of No. 12 Aamiitea street. Another youth, who it is alleged was equally guilty, escaped arrest. Officer Cole, of the Seventh precinct, was severely stabbed tp the shoulder, on Tuesday night, by one of an asscolation known as the Rutgers Club, who meet in Rutgers street, near Madison, and who, it is charged, are in the babit of congregating on the corners in that vici- nity at nigbt, and conducting themselves in a disorderly manner, None of the members were arrested. George Prown, @ colored porter, and Marcus Locia were yesterday locked up in the Tombs, the former charged with stealing at different times, from @ Maiden lave atore in which Le was employed, ive hundred dol. lare’ worth of opera glasses, ond a(terwards pawning them, and the jatter with purchasing the pawn tickets, Tedeeming the glasses and eelliag them. Two young men, name’ James M: Donald and Joho Ryan, were yesterday committed for further examination, charged with attempting to pass counter‘eit five dollar Dilis purporting to have been izsued by the BuiTalo City Paok. A fire early ygetcrday morning, io the ebip chandlery store 195 Wess street, destroyed and damaged property vaiaed at fourteea bandred dollars, all of which was in- sured. ‘The Phillips Academy building, to Andover, Massacbu- setts, was burned down yesterday. The loss is about twenty thousand dollars,on the greater part of which there ia insurance. ‘The large avd costly court hours at Muscatine, Iowa, was burved iast Sunday morning. Al! the books, furni- ture, &c., in the building were saved in a damaged coo. dition. The stock market was dull yesterday and lower. Gold was firm, and, after qoonmg @t 222%, closed at 225%. Government securities vy. The severe snow storm which prevailed yesterday added to the duluess which previously existed. In im- ported goods scarcely anything was done, In domestic produce trade was slow and prices very irrogular, and in many cases nominal, On ‘Change the flour market was quiet and witbout decided change, while wheat was juiet and vory irregular, Corn was also inactive, while oats were dail and drooping. Pork opened firmer, with a fair demand, but closed dull and heavy, Beef was without decided change, Lard was steady in price, with a fair demand. Freigbteduil and heavy, while whiskey was umsettied and lower. Turkeys To Suenman’s Army — Carrring Coats To New Castie.—The good news re- ceived from Sheyman’s army since its arrival in front of Savannah has led to the gencral im- preseion that taking down a dinner of turkeys to his well fed soldiers, after their feastings for ® month on the fat of the land in Georgia, would be like carrying coals to New Castle. Shersfian’s veterans say that the turkeys, chickens and egys, geese and ducks of Georgia are very fine, iu size and flavor, and were very abundant on their lines of march, This must be so; for the soil, climate aud Indian corn of Georgia are admirably adapted for the raising of fowls. We congratulate the veterans of Sherman on the euperior poultry which they enjoyed on their late holiday excursion, and likewise on the opportunities which they now command for luxuriating om turtle soup, oysters and fresh fish. Hood is utterly grashed, has lost all his artiltery, twenty thousand men, aud has to get his disorganized rout across @ swollen river witbout bridges, and with ‘an energetic and victorious foe at his heels. Thomas is master of the whole country from Nashville to the Gulf, between Macon and the Musissippi; and in ali that country it is not possible for the rebels to raise or concentrate a force that could Tesist him for an hour. In Georgia Sherman is now at (he first of a series of operations that will divide the rebel territory on the Atlantic const just as the opening of the Mississippi cut the original confederacy in two. And to this operation the rebel authorities are net able to offer any resistance. Sherman will capture Savannah and the men that are in it. Then the enemy wil! bave no armed force in that part of the country worthy of mention. Augusta will fall next, and no defence of it will be made. Sherman will then held the line of the Sa- vannah river, This stream fakes its rise in the mountains in the western extremity of North Carolina, and, as it empties into the Atlantic, it crosses entirely the strip of plain country that lies between the mountains aod the sea, and forms a practical strategic line for the separation of the Gulf and Atlantic States. From this line Sherman can operate for the capture of Charleston, Columbus, Raleigh or any point between the Savannak and the James, and can, in any other way necessary, assist the operations against the rebel capital. And while Sherman initiates this grand scheme the Richmond rebels, seeing it all, and knowing that now is the time to strike against it, are utterly powerless to put any impediment in the way of the great soldier. They have not aman to hurl against Sherman, and can only look on and groan ani curae. Admiral Porter goes meantime to close up, apparently, a rebel port, and, as there is but one rebel port open, his destination is suffi- ciently obvious. We doubt not that he will deprive the rebellion of the last harbor that has enabled it to ge: supplies of war materiel! and to keep an army on foot by means of pur- chases in Europe. It can hardiy be premature to say that the last Enfield rifle for the rebel armies has been issued, and the last percussion cap that the rebel ordnance officers will ever get from England, Germany or France is now in their hands. Outside of the trenches that protect Lee’s army the confederacy has no military power— no army, no material of which to make an army, and no means to equip an army. Such fs the military situation ef the confederacy. Lee’s one army is what is left of the power it lately boagted. And what does Lee’s army do for it? It holds Richmond city, eats its ra- tions, and stands still. The presence of Grant’s army controls it, and it stands still and looks on, unable to interfere, while thé fate of the confederacy is decided at other points. Vir- ginia was the frontier line of the confederacy, and that army held it. Meanwhile our armies have gone round and conquered the country, aud Lee’s army still stands there to defend the frontier. The frontier is all that is left, and Lee’s army clings still tenaciously to that shadow. Lee's army has yet got to learn that there is nothing left of the confederacy but that froutiet. Strenuous efforts are made to keep it in igno- rance. All the wild lies of the Richmond papers are told for tbat purpose. So are those of the News in this city. The remarkable falsehoods of the latter sheet are printed pur- posely that it may be circulated in Rich- mond aad in Lee’s army, a8 “a Northern paper that says Hood has not béen beaten.” But the army will learn the truth in spite of all thie, and so wili Richmond and its citizens, And when Lee’s army learns that Hood bas been annihilated, and that Sherman is in Georgia with sixty thousand men, and when Richmond knows the result of the wild goose chase on which Davis started Huod, the reaction will be terrible against the rebellion, and éspecis:ly against Davis, The grand rebel- lion will collapse like a big balloon with all the gas let out at omce. So soon as what is left of the Southern people and the Southern armies come to know the real position of the confedce- racy, we shall see just what we see after our elections—it will be hard to find a man on the other side from tbat which wins. Our political struggles are conducted earnestly on both sides, and both sides are, until the last moment, perfectly confident of success. But as soon as the result is definitely known there is an instant acquiescence, and the minority is hardly heard of again. it will be the same now. So soon as the people sball know all, and shall see that we really have the power to put down tesist- ance, resisiance will cease, the rank and file will go away and go home, and the collupse will leave nothing but the leaders, accusing one another, and eager only to escape. 7 Tre Parting and Singular Meeting of Two Herald War Corresponden As an evidence ef the rapidity of movement and great military strategy ef Generals Sher- man and Thomas ia their late splendid achieve ments, as weil as to illustrate the fidelity and enterprise of two of the Hrnatp war corres- pondents, we will relate a few facts:— On the 11th of November last two of our correspondents shook bands together in the city of Atlanta, wondering where and under what circumstances they would again meet. One accompanied Sherman, the other Thomas; one South, the other North, The one who went with Sherman participated in all the prominent events which marked that magnificent undertaking. We was present at the taking of towns, the sacking of treacherous villages, in fights with guerillas and rebel cavalry, at the capture of thousands of prison. ers, negroes, horees, mules, forage, and wit- nessed the devastation which was spread through forty counties of the richest State within the Soutbern borders, on @ line averag- ing sixty miles in width and three bundred in length, all the while living on the fat of the land. The devastation was terrible; but, as Sherman esys, “war is @ cruelty,” end the rebels have been made to learn by himself that it is indeed. Our correspondent was present at the assault and capture ef Fort McAllister on the 14th of December, only a little over four weeks from the time of Sherman’s depar- ture from Atlanta, and the date of his junction with General Foster on the seaboard. This re- presentative of the Henan left Hilton Head on the 18th of December, and arrived here yester- day, the 2ist, im the Faltom, with « full budget of stirring intelligence. The correapendent who accompanied General Thomas participated in the first fight with Hood at Franklin, on the 30th of November, retired wth our troops to Nashville, underwent the brief siege which Hood was crazy enough to lay before that city, advanced when Thomas again advanced, and when that peerless chief- tain fell with such terrific force upon the rebel lines the Heratp war correspondent was in the melee. In the batcde of Harpeth, on the 18th of December, the precise date when our correspondent with Sherman left Hilton Head, our representative with Thomas was taking notes of the unexampled rout of Hood’s forces, horse, foot and artillery; and subsequently taking the Louisville cars, made his connec- tions through, and reached the Hxnaxp office yesterday morning, almost at the same moment that his confrere at Atlanta entered the build- ing. Of course they shook hands again, and congratulated each other upon their fortunate escape from the many perils they had encoun- tered in different sections of the country while upon similar errands. The parting and the meeting, with the splendid budget of news each brings, furnish a striking {instance of the enterprise of our un- rivalled corps of army correspondents, and of their desire to serve the public as well as to sustain the bigh reputation of the Heraxp for fresh and reliable intelligence. The Opera. FIRST] NIGHT OF FxA DIAVOLO, ‘The firdt presentation of Fra Diavoto in this country at the Academy last night, with the Italian libretto and the fresh ploces added by the composer, was an unqualified success, The music bas beon so long familiar ¢> the pub Ho thet notbing need be said ooncerning it, except that the additional passages introduced by Auber appoared to meot with much favor from the audience, which was very large, fashionable and critical. The new duo, “Zo son Signori,”” and the terzette, ‘Sono ¢ ver un cavaliere,”” were very fresh and entirely in tone with the original music. The latter, indeed, was very brilliant, The same may be said of the new aris for the baritone, all of which occur in the first act. The opening aria for Zerlinain the recond act is delicious; yet while it strikes the ear at once as not in exact harmony with the rost of the music, itis perhips the freshest of any of the ‘new number with which the compoger has ornamented his work. Thi whole of this act, which comprises the bed chamber scene, was given ina manner which called out repeated expressions of appiause. The artists were called before the curtain after every act. The encores were num ous, and upon the whole the apera was admirably pro- duced and gave general satisfaction. The scenery in the first and third acts was most etectual, and entirely new. Fra Diavolo will be repeated on Friday might, To-night Don Sebastian will bo given in Brookiya, Broapway THEATRE.—The extraordinary success of Mr. ‘wens’ representation of Solon Shingle will be marked in. &@ very positive manner, to-night, at the Broadway ‘Theatre, by his performauce in that character for the bundredth time. We have n0 doubt that old Sulon will de as fresh as he was a hundred days ago, after endurin; aterm equal to the life of the Albany Lectsiature, an infinitely more satistactory tothe public. We understand ‘that the holders of reserved seate for to-night will be presented with an excellent photograph of solon Shingle. Obituary. HERMAN, INFANT SON OF MA- AL W. T. SHERMAN. Charles Celestine Sherman, infant son of Major General W. T. and Ellen E Sherman, died at South Bend, In ana, on Sunday, the 4th of December, at the age of five months and twenty-three days. He died of pnoumonia. ‘This is the second child which the General has lost within hort space of time, bis littie som Willie having aiedio Memphis, Tennessee, about feurteen months ago, the Al- mighty in His mercy visiting his home and heart im their dearest and most tender points at a moment when his chivalrous course, gallant bearing and brilliant successes thrills the entire nation, and will enlist its sympathy for bim ip his bereavement, Charles Celestine was buried in the sanctuary of our “Lady of the Angels,” the property: of the society at South Bend, of which bis brother Willie. was a member. Mrs. Sherman having taxen up her residence. in South Bend, for the purpose of being near ber obildren, whom she {a educating at Notre Dame and St. Mary’s, the beau- tiful remains of the babe were immediately conveyed to ‘St. Mary’s Academy. Teey were appropriately received Dy & procession of “Children of the Holy Angels,” with white veils and lighted candies, and were tsid out in the cHaB perlor of the academy, where the young ladies, belong. ing to the “‘Obildren of Mary,” kept ‘constant wateb id of the child was crown: day and night. The noble with fowers, which flowed. like wavelets o' light, almost to the feet, and bis mother, with touching propriety, placed a paim branch in the alzbaster hand of the little one. A nilver orncifix stood at the head, and lights were kept wemepre'y Olbeeinie | around him. yaded with drilliaucy and beauty, ull who beteid Bim thought of him an 2 triumphant citizen of paradise, ‘Un the Weduesday after his decease the touching rites of infant burial were performed by Very Rev Father Sorin, in the Chureh of the Sacred Heart, Notre Dame. Tho Right Rev. Bishop of Fort Wayne delivered an appro- priate and excellent sermon, and th headed by the cross, with fights carr! followed by a long line of “Children of the Holy Ang (little boys who serve at the altar) in red cassocks and white surplices After these came the little coffin, covered with « pall of embroideret white satin, @ dove of gold in the centre, It was borne by four of the ‘Children of the Holy Angels. ’ Next came Mrs. Geoeral Sherman, accompanied by the Supertor of St Mary's, 8 near relative, with the other mombere of the family, and Very Rev. Father Pri - cial, Rev. Father Carrier, the obiid’s godfather, and Fatber Lotournean,; then foliowed the pupils of St, Mary and the people None forgot that the valiant Genoral who in engaged in the pertions defence of his country had never seen the fair Dud which drooped £0 soon, and fetvent prayers were offered both for his consolation and triumph, B. HOWLAND, UNITED STATES CONSUL aT PORT ELIZATEIB, C. @. H. (From the Port Fitzabett (Cape of Good Hope) News, Det. Tho mail per Saxo brought the sad news of the un- timely death of EK, Howland, Exq., American Consul, than Whom no man was more respected in this town. Mr. and Mrs. Howlsnd were ona trip to Switzerland Mra. H. had just stepped out on the balcony of the house where they were etaying, when her husband, in the very Act of cautioning her against leaning over the rail, over- balanced himeeit, nnd fell with great violence on the rocks below. The height war but afew feet, but his bead waa severely injured, an ter four days’ sutfer ing, Mr. Ho ed, The deceased will be much missed here, tpg by the circumstance tha made the more strik- 8 was expected to return to Port Elizabetb by the very steamer whidh brought the tidings of his death. - Bos: Dec. ‘The faneral of Lieutenant Colone! Lucius M. Sargent, of the First cavairy, who war killed at the head of bis rezi- ment, in the recent movement of General Warren, took place to-day in St. John's church, Jamaica Pisina, The attendance was large, including Governor Andrews and staff, and the exerc: were solemn and imposing. Marine Ada’ Boston, Deo, 21, 1864 ‘The schooner Arrow, of Salem, laden with lumber, wan fallen im with at 3A, M. to-day, twenty ftve miles from ‘Thatcher's island, ed, water-logced, and bow Stove in, her bow snd sails were gone which | @ supposition vessel. The The steamers Geveral Shepley, from Pertiand for Fort. Fess Monroe, and the Octavia. Boston for New Yor! were ia Provincetown barbor to day; also, the steamer Ciarioo, from Wiscasset for New York—ali detained by the storm. The Weather. Portiawn, Deo. 21—6 P. M. It bas been snowing ail day. and is now biowing a tre mendous gale, The weather ia very thiek. . Atnany, Deo, 21—9 P. M. Snow to the depth of several inches has failon here to day and this evening. All the oad traina are bebind time, The #torm coatioues quite heavy to-night. Poston, Dec, 21, 1864, A snow storm of uncommon violence commenced at noon continues this evening. Several inches hay wready fallen. The Biockade Rw v Vid Dominion at Heltfax. Hatarax, Dec, 21, 1964, The blockade rannor Old Dominion, fifteen days from ‘Wilmington, via Nagean, arrived hero today. Mortaurr ad Sea.—The brig Emily Fisher, of Eastport, Captain Corning,,arrived at this port yesterday from Miragoans, Three deaths occurred on the passage, viz:>— ‘Ub the 4th joas, George aman, and native of Frankfort, Me; on 10th, ‘odin, second officer, and on the 13th Mrs Corning, the captain’s wiie—all from fever. Arrivals and Departures. ARRIVALS. Port Rovat—BSteamship Lieuienant Oslone: Bs Gea BK J Bel Dis, Ub olpls, 1) Has Geo kt vd wa L ST ‘8 Holm HM Tempirion, F K Smith, BB Hopry, Lieuienan Bainmis, HA Baterson. JQ tall, 8D Wheat, G ® M Cribbs, 4 Forbes, © O Hal 2 Keowies, Geo W Heose w . the extreme darkoess and a heavy fog, crept through a RICHMOND. i General Robert KE. Leo Re- Ported Wounded. ME. WM. M. MERKIAM’S DESPATCH. Ia Front oF Kicamoyp, Dec, 20—A, M, It ia reported that Generai Robert E, Loc, commanding the rebel forces, was wounded last Saturday in front of Petersburg. Tho nature or severity of the wound are not avouched, but @ rebel deserter, in confirming the report to-day, says General Leo will not be able to report for duty again for some time to come. A deserter of stalwart Proportions came within our lines yesterday morning, and his apparent intelligence led me to place confidence in what ho asserted. by bels, being without newr from Sherman, owing to severance of railway connections betwoen Savannah and Richmond, sought to supply the want by an inter- cepting of picket firing, after this manoer:—General THE SOUTH. Important Speech of Mr. Foote te the Rebal Sonate. The Ke Jeff. Davis Preparing a Grand Coup D’Etat. Graphic Descriptiom of the Military Situation, Pickett, a revel commanding a diviaion on one of these dered a company to att r picket lines; and Bun soc cous Saye ae sl pence enable to cal o deperdwovur cee war ay iiomenes wey | Foote Retires to Private Life ines bave been quiet aad are the present weather boing the arbite in Disgust. All the deserters vow concur in saying that for the fu- {ure desertions from the rebel lines will be stupendous iu Bumbers, The rebel leaders have exhausted every re- source and deception upon the men, who now begin to see for themselves that their cause is utterly hopeloss, aod they will take nobody’s word as to the existence of any Other possibilities or probabilities, Lincoin is to be Presid of March, and they see dependence. the otber delusive mirages carefully instituted for their wonderment and deception by the criminal leaders have faded away. Peace Resolutions in the Rebel House. They koow tbat Mr. for four years ensuing next 4th their im- Bishop Lay Asserts that General Grant will Fight of the Pickets in Front of Peters- Beceive Peace Commissio: burg. MR. WM. J. STARK’S DESPATCH. a, ae., an, Hranquarrnes, Bxrorn Putensnura, Dec. 19, 1864. At about baif-past two o'clock this morning a party of | Speech of Senator Foote om the Affairs of the enemy, not exceeding fifty men, taking advantage of the Rebels. Tn the rebel Senate, in the discussion of the Curreney bat a melancholy pone ‘© of the failing feer- unes @ confederacy was drawn bj - Foote, withdrawing trom that body: snes = Ho said that in maklog this last effort to sustain ear sinking currency, acd to supoly the sinews of war te our Dieeding and suffering country, be had experienced ings of anguish and chagrin which he had scious of before, He saw much ground f¢ lespond and apprenension io every quarter. If this nancial be waid he, is defeated in the two houses of Congress, 80 ed- mirably digested as it is, 20 Ba ago A avouched 1 si ute! despair and sustained as it is, ‘expedients resorted small ravine near the Boswell House, ia front of our lines, and coming on to our vidette posts without creating alarm made a vigorous attack. ur line was driven back for short distance, and one man killed and a namber captured, The reserves hasteced forward to the support Of the posts, and the enemy were soon driven back and Our Line re established, The followlug is @ list of casualties:— KILLED, John Pratt, Co. B, Fifth New Hampshire, RED, CAPT! Charles Barrington, Co, F; Corporal —— Flurley, Co. F; Joseph Garland, Wm. Barnes, Jeremiah Fisber, ‘Co, B: Corporal Jataes f1."Hanoars, Frank Eis!, James’ Curley: August Butlor, Corporal Gilvany and John C. Collin, Co, 1—all of the Eighty-first Peonsylvania Volunteers, | Considerable movement of troops has been observed Upon the rebel right during the past few days, the nature of which has not yet transpired. Ev.Governor Hale, of New Hampshire, with several other civilians, of leaser note, visited the Second corps to-day. They were entertained by General Miles, com- a (ing the Firat division, who escorted tbem along the of our cause. The character of the to for its defeat are unwise, unbecoming, unpatriotic, amd not at all in harmony with the intrinsic dignity of thie great atruggle for indepeadence and freedom. I comf- dently believe that if this bill shail become a law oar currency will be reformed, our whole financial system will be solified and made e(ficient for all the purposes of the pending war, our armies will be supplied with all things needful for their comfortable subsistence, and enabled to meet with success the invading best new threatening us with ruin. If this measure shall be de- foated, [ sbull regard tho war as virtually at au end; amd all the generous hopes of our patriotic and mucn guffer- ing Count: ymen as orueily and criminally biasted. The honorable gentiemen suppose it is safe at this perileas moment to indulge im vain and visionary oxperim upon the currency. If they regard the present as a able time for the utterance of such language as we bave heard in this ballin the Isst forty-cight hours, looxing manifestly to the wholesale repudiation of all our preseas currency, then dol differ fom thera essentially. Str, I beseech honorable gentlemen, on this last occasion, per- haps, that I sball have the bonor of add House, to look with me upon the present condition of the country before they resoive to withhold their suppert from this measure. What is our situation? Let us danger io the face, and provide for it while it is bie to do a0. Sir, we are upon the verge of ruin. Our finavetel affairs are most seriously diserdered abroad, owing to the most criminal mismanagement of every kind. Nore im nadie consideration has beon yet accorded to us, er Uikely to be accordea heresfter. At home a series Of leg lative measures have found sanction here which must be toevitably fatal to State rights and State sove- reignty and to popular freedom, if not speedily modified, py} = rapidly —- te i important and building up an Irresponstble militery despotism, Hike of which has never been seen be‘ore ‘ Rebel Accounts. THS SHOTTED SALUTE IN GRANT'S ARMY ON THR 18tm iNet. (From the Richmond Examiner, Dec. 19.} On the right of the Coniedorate lines beyond the Appo- Mattox the enemy, fired this moraing a owed salute of ‘thirty four guns. * The salute was not continued along the lines of Chestertield and Richmond, ag on previous vcca- Sions. Deserters who camo in lator in the day say that the salute was in houor of a victory gained by Thomas over Hood. Accounts of this will be found in other columns, taken {rom the enemy's jourmais of the 16th. The de- sorters aforesaid affirm that lator news had been received the Yankee camp greatly mgnifvying the results, and iming @ victory tn @ renewal of the combat. All that ‘we know about the aflair comes from the enemy. THE NEGROES phe, 5 Sen: KICHMOND. [From the Richmon: ner, Dec. 19.) heh trea pnt Roe aly the direo- tion of the Yankee lide’ om Satu hight. Yesterday over @ dozen cusce were wt Nice; in one instance a whole family of negroes, ‘taxied with th ‘3 horse thetr owner’ end wagon. It is not i bal earth’ Other acts sre in prc ‘0, which, showid that some uudue iaduence bas beea brotgie ta'bect apes | they pass, mit produce papallt ctavelslous which wid eden aed ad Eek ow Sennen evay. miy be the jar taayne on cae of one Ue our meet. rasan a ‘milted to the Executive it have ccourred whieh bas everywhere eee ae Cae re gat hg hen Pres- ent House seems (ta be to crush out dis- WESTERN VIRGINIA. aration” Sy armed Vomoee eae, mt tas nad Of Safford, the First to the own heed. fos The may not provabiey, There ia a rebel foree still in the South Branch valley. | COM? 10 8D end about the gin d It tasaid to be Pogram’s brigade of Rosser's division. | (thts bail, ‘In the wildst of these alnrrelog secerroneost They are gathering supplies and paying secret symps. | and while corruption is knows to be diffusing iteolf along thizers for the same in gold and silver. Tne quantity of | $i, {he Cpannels Of ciMclal latercourse, what le the x3 Supplies they are gathering is reported to be tolerably | defending Richmond and Petersburg. The unjust, am large. The rebels are reported to bave concentrated on | wise deeply criminal displacement of the gal- the line of New river, with a view to checking the com. | lant and efficient Johnston from the command of bined ions of Berbridge and Stover as cise. | the Army of Teontssee, and the transfer of that where rivers and are very high in South. | army to the neighborhood of Nashville, have opened westera Virginia, all Soutbern Georgia, South Caroline und Alabama by the army of Sherman. Fort Mcal has fallen. Savan- Rebel Accounts, nab is about to fall. The fate of Charleston seems (From the Richmond Examiner, Dec. 19.1 to bé deferred a few days later. Hooa’s army ‘We have before us 8 number of brief telegrams from | already met with great disaster at Franklin, and, im Dublin depot, on the Virginia and tennessee Raliroad, | my judgment, is fatally com) ential tae They are contradictory in some points, but consisteatiy | terference te the cause of all these dire ee, as it was of the result of the unfortunate ver robe that the onemy has beeu in Wythe- ville and destroyed the depot; second, that they came some miles furtber east, and then turned back the way they came, leaving Wytheville, and are supposed to be now making their way to Saltville: third, that they have yuld come round to this vicinity in ships—wbich I de succeeded in destroying three engines and a number of kick. doubt he now intends—what will be the fate of mond? ir, is it under such circumstances that it is deem- ed unwise to throw unseomly obstructions in the wag The Dras of passing ap efficient financial bill? Is this the CIRCULAR MO. 109, time to talk about repudiation, or the ume we Ovvice ov tum A. A. Provost Marsnat. Gawreit any entertain all propositions looking to an hi peace? SpmRINTENDENT VOLUNTEER RECRUINNG SERVICE, So think‘many in this House, who, perhaps, constitate e Soumneay Livision or New Yor, bag majority; bat 90 de not bthink. Sir, I bay = New York, Deo. 21, 1864. my views frankly and explicitly; and Hat Vee President oF tee Sched AS at aeaie | bere, ‘ond. cloauheret’ tem Behe teeietny eee call the President of the United Stat 1 i | » recently a 10%, of December | iat I aball deem it a duty which T owe alike to my cha 19, 1864, for 300,000 men, will be sent to the provost marshals as 6000 as Lhey can be completed. The Acting Assistant Provost Marsbal Geveral directs the provost marsbais to ure every ellort in their power to stimulate recruiting in their respective districts. By @ vigorous effort on their part, and securing the co ope ration of Joos! committees, and the citizens in general, the quota of this division can be filled by the 15th of Feb- ruary next. H. F. BROWNSON, Assistant adjutant General. racter and to my privelpies, which I have heretofore eteadily maiptained, to withdraw from this body aite- gether, Jam a free man, and the representative of free- men, «nd 1 donot know’ how to legisiate in chains. — will no lonzer be reponsible for meaeures adopted tm gecret session of this body which my whele abbors and my whole I al Police Imtetit - Ax Orricen Stavump—“Tas Rurcers Cice,”’—There exists in the Seveoth precinct an organization kaown as the “Rutgers Clyb,”” composed (according to official in- formation) of bounty jampers, thieves aad other de. Praved aud desperate characters, whose chief business withdraw to’ sequestered spot, where | can en) littio repoae aad freedom from taxation. If distar' my retreat by the band of oppression I will seek foreign climes that freedom aod happiness which I cse- sider are denied to me here Peace Dise Bights seems to be to congregate 00 street corners wh. Among the prooresings in they insult females and abuso and beat aay one who ven. | Meutatives, on Satarday tures to remonstrate with them concernivg théir various | 4) ‘The question recurring upon the resolutions offered by Mr. Barksdale ag a substitute for those offered by Mr. Turner, Mr. McMullen, who was entitled to the flour, of- fered the following resolution as a substitute (or these misdeeds, Late on Tuesday night Oilcer Cole, of the Seventh precinct, met several membors of the Rutgera Club conducting thomesives in a disorderly menner, and ordered them to dieperse, Thys they psromptorily re- fused to do, and words ensuing one of them drew a kuile with which be stabbed ja the shoulder, inflict- ing &@ severe but not rous wound. The assailants then took retuge in their club house, Ratyers street, near Madigen, and as yet none of them have been arrested. Captain Jameson, of the Seventh preoiuct, will probably Pee that effectual measures towards dispersion of this dangerous crowd of outla They need looking after without delay, and should a descen be made upon their headquarters it might reselt in an important capture. oilered by Mr. Barksdale:— Whoareas. according to the Declaration of In the United Stat oa the conatitution of the each of said and government of the ed for reasons which 1 ix not need/ul here to state; whereas, the people of the Confederate Siates have orgam- hed a distinet_ government tor themaclvess of the Confederaye States tread [4 ent Ei ernment of ibe sulted ‘Slaten hove 'e. mueuiente eer, Wubinne war upon them; and wheream, Dawes asd wife called for Orleans yesterday 10 the peed as to which of the, come steamship Morning Ster. commencement of the expedient, and woud be incompatible with the dignity of. toda rate States, 0 seod commission too Clty for the purpose of securt hostilities, yet it would be, in the ju ntly proper that the House of Representa. Confederate 8 1—$:30 P.M. 400 ahs Erie RR...b8 907% a coma 500 do... 80% 200 do... BB 89% 100 Hudaon River RR 115% | icy “to some convenient potnt 308 a Uhirveen io Rumber, com pose each of anid Btaton. to ment and confer with sich al as may be appointed Uy the government of the Untied Staten, In regard. to all outstanding juestions of di‘teresee soveramenta and to agree, If possible, aTnsting and honorable peace, mb ject te the resppetive goveraments and of the repress #1 therein. jad to widtrees the House at upon the terma the ratification of sovereign States res, ective! Mr. La non proceed. or the United States government, uncivilized, barbarous war, nt of a speedy pe Mr. ATKINA, of Tennessee, said be would like to of the gentieman from Virginia (Mr, any other member of the House tion of intimation that propositions entertaived oF oven received by the United Htates gow~ ernment. 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