The New York Herald Newspaper, December 25, 1864, Page 1

THE NEW YORK HERALP. WHOLE NO. 10,346. - WILMINGTON. ‘Wasumaton, Dec. 24, 1864. Despatches bave been received this evening which ‘Btase that the Richmend papers of today contain official ‘despatches tethe rebel War Department from Wilming- ‘ton, dated Friday, P. M. At that time It was announced that twenty-six of the enemy’s vessels had reappeared ‘off that plgos. No attempt had been made to land troops or attack ti forts up to that time in consequence of the storm, The rebel papers also contain a rumor that Charleston (probably Savannah] had been evacuated. New Iniet on The Porter Ficet the 20th. Witmnatoy, Dec. 20, 1864. The enemy’s fleet, some thirty odd sail, appeared off New Inlet this morning. Up to the latest accounts no demonstration has been made to land. ‘The wind is northeast, and growing cold, 48 unfavorable to landing. Among the fleet, the Uolorado and Wabash are rocog- nized. Our people are quiet. Nothing Later From Wilmington, (From the Richmond Examiner, Dec. 22.) Telegraphic communication was interrupted yesterday afternoon, by the storm, with all points except Peters- burg. We have consequently no official advices from ‘Wilmington, Sayannab, or from Southwestern Virginia, ‘The continuance of the northeaster lass night bas no @oubt prevented Butler from landing his troops. We havo very little fear from the land forces of this expedi- tion, General Bragg is in command at Wilmington, The weather The Last Mammoth Expedition—Im: ortance of Wilmington. [From the Richmond Examiner, vec. 22.) Of all the mammoth armadas yet sent forth by the North, the Port id Butler expedition against Wi Perbaps ise of tbat gigantic people is always more enormously uge than the last; and we perceive by the report lately pudlisbed Mr, Welles, Yankee Secretary of the Navy, that our enemies are impressed with a due senso of the difficulties of the feat they hive now undertaken, and ‘with the necessity of making their effort lurge and stue Pendous in proportion. Mr. Welles admits, with regret that not only have the Yankee army and navy failed bitherto to take Wilmington, but they have failed so much as to blockade it agaiast foreign trade. Indeed he goes 80 iar ag to declare that all experienced naval officers who bave been off that coast ‘do not concur in the pinion tbat the port of Wilmington can be entirely clesed by biockade.’” ‘The Secrotary may say that we write now upon paper &nd with ink imported regularly through the port of ‘Wilmington; and most persons in Richmond eat, drink and wear every day articles which bave passea through the Con ederate Custom House at that place; not that we could not well dispense with these foreign luxuries, hay- ing all necessaries at home; but men will not, and’espo- cially women will not deny themselves English and French products wi ‘hey cam have them without any difficulty in spite of Welles and his steam mammoths. ‘This is very sad from the Secretary's point of view, and he sets himself to account for the untoward fact. He gaye proudly, ‘‘The navy has been always ready to per- form its part in such ap expedition (to capture Wilming- ton); but the army bas not been able to unite in a con- Jomt movement, and neither branch of the service can expect to be successful independent of the other.’ ‘This seems an unkind imputation upon the army; as if it also was not ‘always ready.” But in truth the Yan- ees never had armies esough, nor large ennugb, to do ‘the work they undertake. If Grant go to take Wilming- ton, he must let go that hold which be says be has upon Ricbmond’s throat. Sherman cannot be in two places at the Ogeechee and on the Cape Fear. Thus the mighty comprehensive ideas of the Yankee mind are often spoiled by the inadequacy of the material to be worked with; and ii ‘times appears to hue ny im thwarting the most mam- moth undertakings. example, the Cape Fear river $8 not altogetber the kind of river which Mr. Welles could wish, and which in fact his countrymen might have Teasonably expected to be, for the Secretary says:— “Were there as high water at Wilmington as at New Mobile and Port Royal, either of those operations at that brea ‘bat be Aa poe of water, an exclusively naval opera: be mcoomeal i alt off Wilmington. ot ‘be will rob the stores of our worthy But the comfort is, that Butler Dever taken any place whatever; and although it ‘were Grant or Sherman who led the land troops of that ‘wondrous expedition, tbe enterprise is one that would tax and test their very utmost confederacy is not, we apprehend, about to be deprived this time of its chief port of entry for fereign commerce, Neither is it our only one: for many vessels do, even now, enter many another harbor whieh the enemy flattered himseif he had hermetically sealed long ago. rai business of closing the port of Wilmington, too, is an affair which will rather strongly excite the ‘British government aud commercial public. Secretary Welics ‘mentions the extent to which the English interest them- selvcu with a certain dignified regret, and that exalted tone o! stern morality which so well mes the Yan- kee nation. He is pained to think that men and mer- chants should be influenced by ‘cupidity.”” “The cupidity of English merchants, aided by their ‘vast resources, together with the advanteges dorived from thoee trian, lepots of blockade runners and of rebel supplies- ports of Halifax, Bermuda and Nas. fan, ports which will always be in ‘sympathy with the enemies of this country—has induced them to engage in this trade.” ‘Shocking, indeed. And the good Secretary cannot re- fraio, evenin an official eo, from improving the sub- jeot by a moral lecture. He say: “The tllioit trac with the rebels who are making war upon our government belongs to that code of commer. cial morals which prompted the smuggling of opium into China, and the rule of those who engage in it is to trade — or illegalty.”? And again— Almost every vessel empleyed in violating the block- ade has been constructed in England with great skill, re- gardiess of cost, and with sole reference to engaging in ‘this illicit trade, the profits of whic! t discountenances. ’” il to us mess beef, or cloth, or shoes, fie an enormity which Mr. Welles can liken to nothing but ‘the opium traffic, which poisons China, or the slave trade, which Christendom discountenances, And then think of the villany of building the ships for this trade “with great skill! ana regardiess of cost.” If they had been built by bunglers, and of inferior power and tonnage, Welles would not have thought so hardly of such behavior. To be sure he srems to admit, almvst in the same breath, that the English are quite right to trade with us-so long as a port is open, and says:-— “If the trade be illegal, it is the business of the Ameri- cane to prevent it.” Just.so; andas the said Americans bave never pre ‘vented it, those English being ao industrious and enter- prising people, finding a port open where cotion is known to bedying ready pressed in bales for shipment, will come—it js weak human nature—and will sell their uso- ful wares and buy the said cotton. Indeed, as we learn by iate publications of statistics in E cotton from Confederate ports, thou; from ite aucient amouots, has been increasing, and does actually a Dumber of the Lancashire mills going and their bands out of tho workhouse. Now it also happens that at the very moment when the Yankees their vast fleet al ‘my to cl ‘up this port of Wilmington, and cut off even the mod rato supply of cotton from England, the same Yankees— as was pointed out the other day—aro opening the block - ade for their own peculiar and exclusive behoof, and per- mitting, not only.cotton, but tobacco also, to be shipped from Confederate ports to the North. There is nothing which, according to all the laws of nations, so completely Vitiates a ‘blockade and dispenses all foreign Powers from recognizing it, as this very act of using it o¢ @ Pretext for secu & monopoly to the bic Power —itsel! Docoments furnished a th) to be Inden at cotton, worth half a h the blockade into a 8 which, for the future, may be sont under tho same arrangement to any of our prisoners held atthe North is “tobacco,” and iu one of the lotters General Grant, with charming courtesy, ox- presen himself “perfectly wiiling to receive at any place eld by federal twoope,”’ all auch articies, incliding, of course, tobacco, We believe bim weil. ‘This arrangemont is here mentionod, not.to censure or object to it; our poor prisaners (who are turwed importing merchante) will, one way or another, get some com ort by it But as it affects England aud France, it may become serious. Legally and techoically, it t# ao end of the biock- ado; and as England is famisbing for want of cotton, and Franco pining for tobacco; end as the Yankee vation is aking @ gigantic effort to close up from the eupidity ‘of those wisted European inerchsnts aimost tne only port ich bas been hitherto open to them, one canvot but to think the hollow and fraudulent character of pretended bieckade will soon be admitted on all haods. The very port of Mobile, which ia now opened to Jet the Nortb have a fine cargo of cotton, is the port which ‘was not permitted to be used soine time eivce to send to Fogland the money we owed them. It may be difficult, ‘and we know it will be, to make England resout anything the United States may do, but where her trade and profits are directly struck at, and where France has a common ‘eause, perhi she may be capable of being kicked up into some activity. Death of Mr, James M. Weod. Boston, Deo. 24, 1864. Mr. Jamon M, Wood, formerly member of Congrese from Maine, died thie morning at the Revere Hove, from ap attack of lung fever, He wap forty-nine year old, de this City Intehige: THE BEEKMAN STREST ¥IRE—FURTOER PF. LARS—INSURANOBS AND LOSSES—THB sorauiuoas BSTIMATED AT $375,000. ‘The losses by the fire in Beokman street are larger than at first supposed. The damage by water to the stocks in the adjoining buildings is quite large, The following list. of the ocoupante and the insurances are as full as could ‘de obtained by our reporter:— No, 66 Beckman street—Firat floor and basement were occupied by J. E, Halsey & Co., general auctioncers and bardware commission merchants, They estimate their loss at about $35,000, on which amount there is only $15,000 insurance, as follows:—American, $2,000; Fire- men’s Fun 000; Importers’ and Traders’, $5,000, and ‘$5,000. Wm. Van Name had $12,000 worth of whis- key in tho cellar, It is.all destroyed. $4,000 of & Co,’s insurance is on this wht . KE, Robbins & Brad. ley, of No 40 Warren street, hadabout $30,000 worth of hardware stored in the cellar, Loss total and fully insured. ‘The Baldwin Too! Compapy had about $3,600 worth of lanes; total loss; insured. The basement was used by mon Bache & Co,, for storage of window glass, Stock valued at $40,000; insured for $35,300, as follows:—Hoff- man, $5,000; Greenwich , $5,000; Bowery, $5,000: Common- wealth, $5,000; Merchants, $3,900; Lafayetto, $3,000; Hope $2,600 and Lorillard, $6,500, ‘The second floor was occu- pied by Foster & Tower, dealers in hardware. Loss about $15,000; insured for $10,000 in the Croton and North Ame- rican insurance companies. The third floor, front, Wolf, Albartus, bardware merchant, also occupied part of th third floor, front; Loss $4,500; insured (or $3,500 in the Nit Insurauce Company, The rear of third floor, on pany, the Aun street side, was oconpied by Samuel Glenn & Bro., hardware and cutlery, Loss $30,000; insured for $15,500. The building was owned by the Wyman estate, Loss ubout $30,000; insured for $85,000 in city companies, No, 63—Firatfloor and basement, occupied by the ‘Lamson & Goodnow Manufacturing Company, hardware. Damage by water about $25,000; insured for $120,000, as follows:—New York] clty compantes-—Staudard, $5,000; Jeiferson. $5,000 ;Washington, $5,000; Continental, $5,000; Arctic, $5,000; Hanover, $6,000; Home, $15,000—total $60,000. Boston companies—Merchants,’ $16,000; Manu. facturers’, $10,000; National, $5,000; Killot, $5,060; Ameri- can, $5,000; ‘North American, $5,000—total $45,000. Providence compavies—Moerchants’, $5,000; American, $5,000; Washington, $5,000—total $15,000 ‘The ‘upper floors are occupied by the Whipple File Manufacturing Company—Stock damaged to the extent of $6,000; insured for $70,000, as follows:—Metropolitan $5,000; Hanover, $5,000; Liverpool and London $40,000: Eliot, of Boston, $5,060, and Shoe and Leather Dealers’ In Bu of Boston, $5,000, ‘there are two ames not remembered, The building 18 owned by Jonu D. Wendel. It is damaged to the extent of $4,000; insured in the Bowery, Knickerbocker, National and avother company, No. 57—Uccupied on first floor and basement by Bas- sett & Mnce, dealers in hardware. Damage by water about $50,000; fully insured in the Corn Exchange, New Fogland, Market and other insurance companies. The second, third and fourth floors are occupied by J. H. Scott, dewler in hardware. Loss about $60,000; insured for $75,090, in the following companies, in sums of $5,000 each, viz:—Resolute, Reliet, Germania, Adriatic, Yonkers and New York, Columbia, Croton, Hollman, Mercantile, Williamsburg City, Park, Citizens’, Hafmony, Empire City | and Manhattad. The filth floor and attic were occupied by the Stanley Rule and Level Company, Loss about $50,000; insured for $46,500, as follows:—Mercbants’, $5,000; Im. ters’ and Traders’, $5,000; International, $4,500; ome, $4,500; Baltic, $4,000; Tradesmen’ #5,000;, Hum. Ddoldt, $5,000; Jersey i $3,000; Empire City, $5,000; Greenwich, $6,000, ‘The building is owned by the Endi- cott estate. Damage about $10,000; Insured in the Wash- intou, Home and other pompas! ies, basement, Norton & Bassett, No. 69—First floor saddiery hardware. Loss about $6,000; insured for $40,500, ctic, $8,000; St. as follows:—Continental, $3,000; At ¥ 000; Citizens’, $5,000; Nicholas, $2,500; Grocers’, $5, Home, $4.000; tna, of Hartford $5,000: Commonweaith, $2,000; Firemen’s, of Newark, $2,000; Charter Oak, $1,000; American Exchange, $3,000; Albany City, $5,000. Second floor occupied by Augustus Peitibone: damage slight, Third, fourth and fifth floors occupied by Endi- cott & Co,, lithographers. Loss $600; insured tor $14,000 in Washington, Firemen’s, Attna, of Hartford, and Me. cbanlcs’ and ers’ insurance companies. The build- Samuel Foote. It is damaged about $1,000; Fire Marshal Baker is investigating the cause of the fire, which at present is unknown. PRESENTATION OF 4 GOLD SHigLD TO INSPECTOR CARPRN- Ter.—The officers attached to the various police courts of this city assembled last evening at the residence of Tospector Daniel Carpenter, 411 West Thirty-fourth street, for the purpose ot presenting that officer with an elegant gold shield and chain, of the regulation pattern. Ser- geants Lefferts, Gilmore, Brackett and Potter, in com- mand of the different court squads, were also rt, and Sergeant Gilmore made a brief but pertinent speech accompanying the gift. In receiving the shield the In- Spector made some remarks, in ‘bo alluded to the Police force of this ety; tad wan happy to keow that bis conduct bad so far met the approval of the men of as being an emblem of his office. An elegant collation fol- lowed the presentation. The shield iso! the regulation form aod size, is made of pure gold, and on the reverse Dears the inscriptiou—'‘Presented to Inspector Daniel Carpenter, by the officers at'ached to the police courts, as-a token of their esteem” It ts.an elegant gift to a most worthy officer. ‘Tus Fair ror Sick and Wounpep Soupiers,—This benevo- lent undertaking will continue open the forthcoming week. Ibe show rooms, at the corner of Broadway and ‘Thirty-fourth street, are crowded nightly, and the affair promises to be a great success. It would be well that the public patronize the Fair extensively, as its objects are of a charactor to recommend themselves to all. Dean oy Cartain R. A, MORSELL, OF THR Unitep States: Revenvk Sreamen KANKAKER.—On Tuesday evening, about six o’clock, Captain Morsell, in company with Liew tenant Briggs (one of his officers), stepped on board a Darge lying at the wharf at Hoboken, N. J., preparatory vo golog on board his sbip, The captain was waikinug on ‘a tarpaulin on the deck of the lighter, which was covered with ice, when bo fell down, and in his offorts to re- cover himself feil overboard. Lieutenant Briggs hove bim ® rope, but he could not hold it, Ho then took the skirt of the lieutenant’s overcoat in hismouth and en- deavored to support himself with that, but lost the bold on it, swam to a spile of the wharf and held on to it until & boat from the cutter arrived, when he was taken to a hotel, medical assistance called and all efforts made to Tecuscitate bim, but in vai, He did not speak after being taken from the water, His body was packed in ice yes. terday, awaiting the action of his relatives. Captain Morsell was a young captain in the revenue service, and commanded the steam cutter Bronx, sta- tioned at this port, unt month past, when be was transferred to the Kunkakeo, now stationed bere, The death of Captain Morsel! has cast 4 gloom over tho many warm and personal friends he had here and throughout the service. He was a pride and ornament to the service, and none knew him but to love him, He bas passed away. Good, kind soul, farewell ! New Species of Pavement.—A great many complaints have been made of late respecting the condition of our Street pavements, and the attention of many inventive geniases has been attracted to the subject of getting up a spocies of pavement which will befrec from the disadvan- tage of prosent and past systems. We have been shown a Specimen of a new plan, which, it is clanned, will accom- plish all that is required. It consists of a grooved, the grovves running parallel with the street. ‘The grooves are only three-quarters ot an inch wide on top, 80 that no wheel ovald enter them, By thts arrangement @ horse cannot sail. A horse pever fali forward or back. wards, he slip, but always recovers; but the frame of @ horse 18 such that once he slips sideways he must fall. for he cannot **catch sideways” as maoy other ani- mais cao, As filth will immediately fall into these grooves (and being parallel to the street), it can be swept up by machines in the day- time, for no dust is mide, and none can rise when there is none, The whole payement will be compact, being jointed together in such @ manner as to be easily taken up and pat down, The gutter is so a Tanged that a wheel can be drawn from it with the facility that it can be drawn on the pavement The great drawhack to every pavement yet invented is that tho jarring bas disturbed it. In this case there will be a con- ‘{iouous smooth motion, as in arail car wheel, and tber fore no jamming. A pavement like the Russ must come smooth, $0 as to torture horses to av inconcei extent, indeed, it is known, of ali the horses tat a driven on Broadway the logs ts equal to the whole in five years, or, in other wor 4 horse will cooly leet tive Years whito he should last ten. Tho Belgian pavement ts destroyed by the jarring of the wheels on the suriace, A set of wheels in a rat or crevice of one inch deep, of an omnibus load of passengers, would require some two toousand pounds to lift or start it from ite position. Ow this pavemont it would require to start the same load cr euflicient powor to overcome the Iriction say fifty pounds, It would seem that a horse might slip back or fortn, but im starting, the leaning of the horses against the tra would start apy lond when in rost, and, if necessary to draw against it, the natural spread (a thing not generally noticed by those not conversant with the horse; of the hind fect would prevent slipping, for they wourd catch the edge of the grooves. A horse falls on his kuees by his legs shipping under bim, and not by the foad pusbing him dewn belore it, A smooth iron pavement omid not be adopted, because A smooth iron Pavement has nearly all the conditions of a smooth stone pavement. A smooth pavement could be used if there was no duet, no mud; but this {@ impossible; and the Russ pavemeat bis this reat disedvantage, that it is not a plain stone to a piain iron shoe, but a stone polished with iron—so much so, that when it Is clean it glitters like a smooth iron surface, In fact, t0 see the Rireet that in time is to be the greatest thorougb(are in the world, perfectly clea, free from dust, the sidewalks without smear, the windows perfect. ly cloar, the stores and persons free from dust, only a low sound of passing whorls and horses moving with ens, and the horrid sight of tortured animals done away With, will be @ condition of things most desirable, Opening ef the Union Pacifie Rail ate St. Lovie, Doo. 24, 1804 ‘The formal openiig of the Union Pacific Ratlroad, from Kansas Lity to Lawranoo, Kaneas, took place on Monday and Wednesday, A grand jollification was bad at each end of the road, Daily walne now running between she points named. NEW YORK, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1864. GENERAL DAVIDSON'S RAID. Destruction of the Mobile and Ohio and Mobile and Northwestern Railroads, DISSENSIONS AMONG THE REBELS. A Factious Spirit Existing and Ruin- ing the Confederacy. Jeff. Davis’ Organ Prepsses that “All Hang Together,” ae, ae, General Davidson’s Cavalry Raid. A PIGHT NEAR YAZ0O CITY, [From the Richmond Whig, Dec. 17.1 ‘On the 1¢t # telegram trom Benton via Canton was re- ceived by the Meridan Clarion, which stated that the enemy, having crossed the river the night before, were skirmishing with our pickets on the morning of the lst. According to the information received through @ negro who had escaped from them, the Yankoes designed per- manently occupying Yazoo City. On the 3d a despatch was received from Dover, Yazoo county, by the same journal:— “The fight yesterday was at Concord church, on the Yazoo City avd Vicksburg road, Tho Yankee force was two regiments, Yhey were completely routed. Twenty. three prisoners were captured, including a lieutenant, They carried away most of their wounded. Their entire loss is between seventy and a hundred. Our loss is one killed and six wounded. A large quautity of arms avd equipments and several horses were captured THE MOBILE AND GREAT NORTHERN RAILROAD CUT AT POLLARD, ALAs (rom the Richmond Dispatch, Dee. 22. Several days since @ raiding party came up from Pen- sacola, and cut the Mobile and Great Northern itailroud at Pollard’s, seventy two miles northeast of Mobile, and then retired. | ANOTHER PARTY ON THE MOBILE AND OHIO RAIL- | ROAD. (From the Richmond Dispatch, Dec, 22.) Official information has been received here that a | column of five thousand of the enemy are on the Mobile and Objo Rajlroad, north of its crossing of the Mississippi | Rasroad, Condition of Atianta, [From the Richmond Whig, Dec. 22.1 General Howard, despatcbed by Governor Brown to Jook into the condition of Atlanta, has, we learn from the Macon Confederate, returned and ‘submitted a report of the state of the city. ‘The destruction nas been far greater than we supposed. Out of the tenements of all kinds which covered the site of Atlanta, only four hundred have been left, and about four thousand huve beea burned; aod it is believed the destruction would have been tar more universal but for the interference of the Catholic priest, who made a manly Tesistance, backed by the Vatholic soldiery ta Sherman’s army, against ,the firing of houses, which would have endangered the Catholic church and e. We are sorry to learn that after the departure of the enemy the few remaining houses, together with the dobris left by the flames, including large quantities of iron, tools, and so on, were remorselessiy piumderead by the people trom surrounding counties, who brought their wagons from long distances to carry off*the plunder. Hundreds were engaged in this shameful work for many days before their operations could be arrested. The fow remaining dwelling houses have been plundered of their furniture, and the State bas been despolled of large values. Atlanta Since Its Reoccupation by the ebels. A letter from the City Marshal of Atlanta, who has re- tarned to that city, gives an account of what has been done to thiat unfortunate city. It says:— i From the best information I can get there have been from fifty to three bundred wagons per day in atlanta since the federals left, hauling o!f iron, furniture, wagons, window r bo" ks, , &eo., amount: came miles in every direction. They broke open ali the houses that were left, including the churches in which the exiles’ furniture was stored, and | plundered indiscrimia tely. Wesley chapel avd Trinity, the First and Second Hap- tist, First and Second Presbyterian and Catholic churches | are standing. The First Episcopal churen is standing, but badly damaged. The Yaukees used it,] have becn told, for @ tenpin alley, Every depot, railroad turn-tabie, water tank, pump, | crosetie, bridge, blacksmith shop (except one), and all the mills are burned | think more than two-thirds of all the residences in the city are destroyed; but I can give Dut @ faint idea of the detruction. The cemetery fence is ail destroyed. The Yankees bave buried their dead all over the city, und bave taken tho fence from around the cemetery to build some separate | lots for themseives. They have put their dead into pri- vi waits, and have stolen tombstones f'om Mr. Oat- man’s marble yard to put at their heads They have taken the moss and shrubbery from other graves to cover the graves of their dead. and have robbed our dead Fe the vaults of the silver coffin plates to make finger rings. We bad an election for Mayor and (Council to-day, James M. Calhoun and Pr. J. i. Alexander were candi- dates for Mayor, and we had a@ pretty good ticket for . Aldermen. One hundred and fifteen votes were polled, Calhoun received teu majority. Dark Days of the Rebel C [From the Richmond Whig, Doc. 22] How often since the tall of Donelson have our a been of so gloomy an aspect as to make the jaint-heurted predict the impossibility of escape. kvery cousi disaster brings a repetition of these predictions, exclaimed the weak koeed, “the worst bas come to the worst. This is undoubtedly the darkest hour we have . ever seen. How we shall get out of the present difficulty no man can tell.” And yet, over and over again, wo bave emerged from tbe difficultica in a manoer aud by means which were surprising only in consequence of thoir extreme simplicity. If it be contended that all previous troubles were nothing compared to those which vow surround as, shall not take the trouble to refute so gross an error. It it should be affirmed that our cause js in more perj| than it has ever becu sinco the beginning of the war, we shall dispute the projosition, because we havo no dosire to overrate any evil, however reat its magnitude. We counsel patience and hope and a recurrence to the lessons of the past. To go no further back than the campaign just ended in Virginia several occasions when the fate | Of the confederacy, so far as its capital and tts chief army { ‘were concerned, was, to say the Jeast, doubtful.e Within two weeks after the campaign opened every railroad leading into Richmond bad been cut, Sheridan was in Lee's rear and had destroyed bis provisions, Jenkins had been defeated, the Virginia and Tennessee Rajtroad | had been terribly damaged, and Butler, advancing (rom Bermuda Hundred to Chester, inter] bis army be- tween Richmond and Potersvurg Two weeks ai this whole network of difficulties bad disappear after reckinridge had left the valiey, Jones had been defeated near Stauntcn, the whole of Vir ginia seemed open to the legions of Hunter and A\ A fow days elapsed, and Huvter was ileoing for life be yond the Alleghany mountains, So again, when defeated at Hunker Hill and Seemed that our resources, so fai was concerned, had been e: ‘was no power to stay Shorid without de- Pieting Lee's army to An extent which would make it the easy prey of Grant. Yot, alter the first (ash of despou- ancy was over, it was discovered that we had ample Means, not only to arrest Sheridan, had he attempted to advance, but were able to force him back to his intrencn- ments at Winchester. tiood has been badly defeated. Hie army waa larger and more important than Karly’s, bot it may learn a les- fon of endurance from Harly’s campaign, and Hood may roftt by karly's example of obstinate courage, We never new until this summer bow tnany reverses an army could stand without being destroyed, or even virtually its defensive and offensive capacity, Now that ow this, it would be folly to despsnd because Hood bas lost a number of capnon and prisofiers, If Hood’s dofaat proves to be worse than the Yankees’ and our own fears at first led ua to believe, it will be the fir instauce of the kind which has occurred during the wat Let us be pationt and hopeful, and the cloud which cow hangs over will soon pass away, The Dissensions Amo THB RICHMOND DAVIS ORGAN DEPKSCATING THE TIOUS SPIRIT PREVAILING IN TAK SOUTH. {From the Richmond tinel, Dec. 17.) The factions spirit that pr to Ro great an extent ; ds the greatest peril that Uesets the Confederate cause, We deem it our duty to warn the people that the danger | from this source i worthy of their most serious attention: | for it ia great, and seems to be growing, The contidence of an army in ite general is balt its strength. ‘Ibe cont. dence of the poople in their rulers is equally important jo times such as the present. If men of jearving and eloquence were found traversing Genera) Lee's camp, making ft their business to traduce him to the soldier: his capacity, decrying hie merits, imputi imaginary faults, charging bim with i porate passions and corrapt designs, )ust in proportion as these persons were believed, would t\e glorious army of Nortvern Vii ginia be demoralized and ramed. We neol not say that there are many whore chief employ is to make a like fatal atte On the public interests by their ineessant assault on the President an& his adminisiration It ie 00 compliment to theee men titat they ha ined the country long ago. It is becan we the poopie a 1d not believe them that they nave done wo |,ttle bar; is because the people have had no contklen 06 in them that they have Contioned their confidence t the President. But it is too imvob 40 Deileve thas sheir pei'giatens and industrious | all grades, nations, tongues, complexions and | toe magistrate at the Essex Market Police Court, | | Interestin: efforts bave been totally fruitless. It is too mush to hope ‘that the poopie wii! not be hereaiter found to give them = amid the severe trials tucident to such a 80 much mud is thrown some will stick. ing! of our cause, by felicitations, as if im cruel mockery, on of the press, and the salutary influence of Instead of generously sustaining the hands ‘are beavy with the cares of a great responsibility, parsue the opposite course, whatever the effect oa our struggling fortunes, This conduct is exhibited day after day. Are these men so humble or so unreusonable ‘as to suppose that the good sense of the people will re- ‘main proof ageinst ail their efforts and their arte? Shey succeed in lodging !n the minds and foel- ings of others those prejudices wkich they daily indulge, and those barsh judgments aud suspicions which they #0 constantly utter, there is no cne who does not see that Our cause would be lost and our ruin assured. That our hopes bave not been wrecked is due not to the discretion of these persons, but to the wholesome instincts and sound semse Of the poopie, But we confess we are often Glarmed for fear tbat the poison so diligently dispensed will novalways prove innocuous. If popalar confidence and sympathy be once destroyed, the men who have plucked them down may be alarmed at their work: but ‘il ‘their compunction, if compunction they shall feel, will not ayail to arrest the ruin fd will have wrought. Jt ig far easier to raise the whirlwind than to direct the storm. It will be too late when mutinies shall’ bave broken out all the country, when combinations to resist tho Iaw shall be found in every borhood where men shall refuse to honor the levies made upon them, 1% will bo too lute then, we'say, for the persons who are now.sowing the seed for such & harvest tO subdue the evils they will have created. ‘These evils will baye come at their calling, but they will ot down at their bidding. They are sowing the wind now; it will not be their merit if they do DOL compel us all to reap the whiriwind, hey are diligently assuring the people that President Davis is Incompetent, tyrannical, usurping, vindictive: that he squanders our resources, mismansges our allairs, and is intent only on overturning our liberties, and securing to himself despotic power. ‘They declate'aixo that Congress is woaic, pbsequious and corrupt; aud that it is bent on such treachrous and fatal dentane Against our liberties as are not to be publicly dis cussed. Will It be a wonder, should the people betieve the halt of ail this, if they shall show the same reluctance to assist in the public detence that some o! the editors who tell them tbese things are now evidencing? Will itbea | wonder if men shalt not patiently pay enormous taxes for | no profit, and shati not be prodigal of their lives in a ser- vice that 13 hopeless from mismanagement? Aye, rather will it not be the natural, the iwevitable result, that the | whole country will seethe with sedition, mutiny, anarchy and violeuce, and witl be overtaken with terrible, iguo minious and hopeless overthrow and ruin, if these busy teachers shall impress their noxious jessons ou the people? To ask these questious is to unawer them, We confess, | thorefore, that we aro filled with the most painful Apprebeorions, when we reflect oo the tendency of the factionists that ure go nugierous and so busy «mong us. We shudder as does the farmer when torches are being flaunted about hie stack yards. We have oniy to Jook at the state 0: sentiment which prevails in sumo neighborhvods of some States to realize, in @ fart de- gree, the evils which would overspread the whole land. A people rent with local dissensions, neighbor warring with neighbor, loyal men and traitors everywhere inter- mixed, aud the country fulling an and inglori Pez seiner cnemnien—tuch would be our St:te and our fate. Such is the logical result of the course whic the catastrophe for whic! pasrion or design, it matters not, is there not cause for pain, distress, anxiety? 1s there not reason why we should almost forget our dread of the evemy in our greater dread of this greater peril? It matters not how good our cause may be represented to be, if, at tho name time, it be insisted that it is made a bad aad hopeiess one by mismanagement People cannot bus abandon it if once they are thus convinced; und, alas! with what pains is sucn a conclusion pregeod, upon, thelr min Why can we not differ in opinion as friends’ Why can we not judge and criticise as friends and compatriots, and not with the virulence of enemies and the ferocity of Mobawks’ Why can we not suppose that it ts, at least, possible we may be mistaken in our persona’ opinions, and that those who aro better informed of facts may be, aiter all, right? Aod why should it be » hard thing to acquie-ce with a cheertul good temper ia the decision which may be arrived at by the proper tribu- § they are laboring. SHENANDOAH. Sheridan’s Cavalry Moving on Gordonsville. The Virginia Central Railroad Threatened. Fight Between Custer’s and Rosser’s Cavalry, oe ae, Mr. Theodore C. Wilson’s Despatch. RADQuARTERS, DePanraent or West VIRGINA, UMBERLAND, Dec 24, 1864, GENERAL CUSTER ATTACKS THY RRURL ROSSER, Day before yesterday Goneral Custer attacked a por- Vion of Roeser’s cavairy, at a point nine miles this side of Harrisonburg. Rosser has lately beon threatening another raid in Wost Virginia; but the cold and sudden rise in the stroams haye for @ time interfered with his plang. {™r. Charles H. Farreil’s Despatches Wrivciestee, Va., Dec. 9, 1864. What the People of the Valley Think of the ments of General Sherman in Geor'gia—Change tn Potitical Senti- ment—Lamentations of the Penitents—Conversions Fre- quent—What Sheridan has Contributed Towards the Kesult—The Military Stiaation—Camp Sporis, ‘The movements of Sherman in Georgia and the success- ful movements of our several armies command not only the attention of Sheridan's army, but the inhabitants of the town from which I write this letter. It must be re- mombered that Winchester, when the present rebellion broke out, early gave its adhesion to the Davis pro gramme, on tho supposition, as many of the jubabitants now confess, that the war would be ended in sixty days, cr as goon ag the general government of the United States saw that the slaye States were unanimous ‘on the question of separation and a slayeholdiag con- federacy, ‘The rebellious sentiment of the towns- men found a medium for its expression in the person of Hon, J. Y. Mason, now rebel, Minister to England, who had his bome here, residing in a palatial mansion in the suburbs of the town, but which {8 now a heap of ruing, At firet there was a division of sent! ment among the people; but when Virginia, by her convention, decided to ieuve the old government, the sentiment of rebellion, was aided by the arguments of the leading men of the town, and a consolidated expression of the inbabitants was given for aslave-holding oligarchy or war. Unexampled prosperity, accumulated wealth, the soil of the valley, matchless for its fertility, were all things that conduced to make the people of this town and valley haughty, self-suiticient and independent, When tbey decided to rush beadiong into rebetlion they sunk into forgetfulness their primitive bistory—they forgot all the reminiscences so oft related to them by their fathers, their early ancestors, and the great victory of independence won by the united efforts of Southern and Northern men alike, preforred being lod by handfal of leading politicians and adopting the optoio of these men, rather than allow themseives to exercise their own thoughis or will. The people of this section, as I said before, tuought {t was only necessary for the South to show their hands on the question of @ confed- eracy, and ail that would be necessary to complete tho meagure Of separation from the Northern States would nals, and to adopt it a8 our own? ++ Let us all hang together,’ remarked one of the signers of the Declaration of Indejendence in 1776. “Yes.” re- plied another: ‘for if we do not hang together we will all bang ately”? Letus take the lesson to ourselves. It we pot cease these bickerings and criminations among ourselves: if we do not rally togeihor, and rally | Sround Gur coustituted authorities; if we do not unite to 20 the hands that aro entrusted with the conduct at of our Cause; thea our cause will go down, and we «ball be oe forever ruined. in we tell. bhe people that ‘® roaring crevasse. We implore all good citizens who have talien into cengorious tempers to pause and taki their bearings anew. Why should we do the enemy’s work? +t tong pull, a strong pall, and a puil altogether,” can alone save us, with the blessing of God, in the exigency that is upon us, To wrangle Is to die, Statistics of Libby Prison. {from the Richmond Examiner, Dec. 22.) An army of barmiess Yankees have parsed through Richmond within the year just expiring. From statistion of the clerk of the Tabby prisou, Mr. Ross, we Jearo that, from the Ist of January, 1864, to the 19th of Lecember of the same year, 31,630 Yankee prisoners, of indreds, pass'd the doors of the Libby as prisoners of This number 18 independent of about twenty thousand cap tured in Spottsyivauia and elsewhere in Virginia, who were gent sou'h without touching Richmond. Since the war began’ 125,000 men have passed the doors of the Libby aud departed as prisoners of war. Tne Newly Elected Governor of South Carotina. (From the Richmond Whig, Dec. 22.) The Hon Andrew Gordon Magrath hai Governor of South Carolina, avd Hon kt tenant Governor. The Columbia Guardian Governor Magrath is a native of Charleston, in the prime of life, in vigorous health. of ripe exper : quainted with affairs and fully identitied with the State Tights views of our South Carolina schdol of politics He bas jong filled very acceptably, and dignified with learn. ing, taste and sound judgment the oflice of Judge of the Confederate Court for the District of South Carolina. His experience and studies, his well settled opinions and bis sterdy perves eminently qualify bim for a faithful and successful discharge of the bigh duties which now devolve upon him, We wisb him ail success in his new sphere of duty, and a brilliant administration of the affairs of tbe State. Movements Of the Rebel General Dick Taylor. [From the Richmond Whig, Dec. 22.) Lientonant Genera! Dick Taylor is ia Montgomery, and has rooms at the Montgomery Hall. ys nber 22 contains the pro- which it appears that resolutions deciaring that’ the States in their sovereign capacity have the right to ceedings of the North Carolina House of Commons, by j ! ! decide the question of peace or war for themselves were { tabled by two majority. i The Kebet Steamship Era Ran Ashore. [From the Wiimivgton Journal, Dec, 12. On the night of Friday, or the morning of Saturday, vy fring was | the steamshij»Era, belonging to the Bee Company, w Hi run ashore on the Bald Head beach. heard in that direction, Police Intelligen AN Extensive OrekaTor IN HaRowann, man named David Barry was yesterday arrested by officer Pike, of the Seventh princinct, charged with having atolea two chain cables, valued at four huodred doliars, from the pier foot of Coenties The cables belong to Mr. Isaac Hall, of No, 124 Broad atreet. Officer Pike found the stolen cables in possession of Mr. F. N. Gore, of No. 79 Mangin street,to whom the accused had sold them for the small sum of ¢ighty-seven dollars. Barry. it is (urther charged, appropriated to bis own use eight iron ship knees, worth one hundred dollars, which be found lying on tho pier Fast river, they being the property Wm. D, Andrews & Brother, of No. 414 Water street, The ed firm algo accuse the prisoner with stealing two loads of ship knees, valued at one hun. dred dolla Patrick Cassidy, of No ooklyn, obargiog Dim with having stolen a steam boiler, weighing three tons, and valued at two hundred and fifty dollars, Ali the stolea property bas been recovered. It ap pears that the accused, on finding the property lying on | the piers, would employya trackman to convey it to any bat be might designate, The accused was taken before ‘ustice Mansfeld and committed to prison for examina- tion, Any other persons who may have been victimized by Barry will further the ends of justice by calling on of Gene mt. The following documents is on file in tho office of the County Clerk of St. Louis county, and is Inbelot © Appli- cation LA 8. Grant for the office of County Engineer’— ‘Rejected )— St. Lovis, August 15, 1860, How. Covrry Commissioners, St, Louls county, Mo.:— GENTLEMEN—I beg leava,to submit myself as an appli cant for the office of county engineer, should the office be rendered vacnut, and at the same time to submit the names Of a few citizens who have been kind enough to recommend mo for the office. Ihave made no effort to got a large number of names, nor the names of persons with whom Tam not personally acquainted, 1 enclose herewith aiso a statement irom Professor J. J. Reynolds, ‘who was @ classmate of mine at West Point, ag to quali fleations, Should your honorable body #69 proper to give me the ointment, | pledge myself to give the ofies my entire attention, and ehall hope to give general satisfaction. Very respectfully, your obedient servant 8 GRANT. ‘The above document i leaned by coveral of our prom! nent citizena at the present time, axl aieo by a number Of individuals wo ocoupy positions in the rebel army, j have been bn 4 like bes | in making sbelter hu be the making of the dividing line, and all would be fin- ished. Indeed,,so gonoral was this belie’ in the valley and i the State, perbaps throughout the South, that the poople in the interior of the State. when Johnston’s army ‘was at Harper’s Ferry, thought they could not get there in time to witness the closing scenes of the rebellion. Nearly four years of dire war, with {ts attendaot has brought these people down of trom pride to the footstool of the band of local traitors to mislead the people of itives from their homes or wali othe town with bowed heads and stricken aroma; their high seats humility, and to- goience. Perhaps in no part of Virgin held to their rebellious faith with more tenacity inhabjranta of the valley of the Shenandoah. | Tru ‘war was carried into their bordors ut an early ati 1 the conflict: but it was gocerally bya force of Union tre inadeuate to accomplish «ny great measure, or by geveral who adopted the kid glove policy of affording protect ion to the kin and property of traitors, Not until Genersis #heridan and Crook came into the valley did the people have a practical idea to what extent they covid be made to feel it, and, ns @ result of the closing scenes of the present campaign, we lind the once proud-spirited people of the valley humbled and despondent. Their once hoped for elysium of @ South- ern confederacy is very little talked of; they egin to adit that the confederacy is a shell, and, were their in Uboughts reveuled, peace at any cost would be their sentiment. it is not vow aqueation with the rebeis of tho valley, will the rebellion be put dowa? bot, how soon will it’be ended? 1¢ was this town that was the principal rendezvous of the famous Stonewall brigade. The command was made up entirely of the young men of the valley. In this or- ganization was the famous Second Virginia iniantry, which was conceded to be the best figbting regiment in Rebeldom. But where is this brigade today? On its original organization it numbered forty-six hundred men. Four years of war have intervened, and to day there are but two hundred aud fifty to answer to the names on the roll of the living. The famous Second Virginia regiment was el‘ectuaily wiped out by General Sheridan in the battle of Opequan, 10th September iast. ‘Truly may the rebels of the v opt the language of the prophet Jeremiah, when be wrote the pitiful complaint of Zion, in prayer uote God,—‘*Remember, U Lora, what is come upon us: consider and behold our reproacn, © is turned to our houses to e orphaus aud father We have drunken our we labor and have signed and are not, and w | Servants have ruled over us; there is pone that doth do- | liver us out of their hand, We gat our bread with the | peril of our lives, because of the sword of the wilder hess, * * * The elders have ceased from the gato, | the young men from their music The joy of our heart { is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning The crown | is (allea’ from our head; wo unto us that we have hey The new policy of Genera! Sheridan bas been just the thing that has eifected ail this, and “conversions” to the Union cause, a# the robels term it, are of daily occur. rence, ‘The military situation remains unchanged. Our troops rs for the past few weeks ta to protect them from the cold and eather. The officers of the army are just now affected with the horse racing mania. A match was made last night for a ‘ace to come off within ten da: aside, play or pay. One of the horses sorrel—is the inclement ' property of Colonel Caphardt, of the Second cavairy { division, and the other—a black—is the property, so I learn, of Lieutenant Colonel Kingsbury, Jr., the Adjutant | General of the department, The race is to be a single dash of s quarter of a mile, The race course is near Major Genoral Sheridan’s headquarters, on the Winchester and Staunton turnpike. ARMY oF THe SiewaNDoart, Dec, 14, 1964. The report that was published a fow days ago, stating that Generals Breckinridge and Early were to combine their forces and attack our army in the valley is untrue, Breckinridge has his hands full ia Tennessee, and if he had the orders or disposition to make the trial, the cold weather and the presence of snow in the valley would dofeat his forces without the firing of gun from our army. 7 coMMANDRR OF THE PROVISIONAL DIVIRION. Colonel Kiwards, of the Thirty-seventh Massachusetts regiment, Sixth corps, who has been in command of the post of Winchester for the last three months, in addition to his other duties has boon appointed commander of the provisional division now engaged in gyarding the Win- chester and Harper's Ferry Railroad This is @ well de- served reward of morit to an able officer, Rebel Accounts, SHBRIDAN’S CAVALRY OPRRATING NEAR MADISON courT HOUSER. (From the Richmond Examiner, Deo. 22.) It was currently reported yesterday that two divisions of the enemy's cavalry bad crossed the Blue Ridge and were moving towards Madisen Court House. They will gain nothing by this movement, as the condition of the roads will seriousiy impede their progress towards the Central Raiiroad, and long before they can reach it we will have an ampie force of cavalry and infantry in their front. LATER. Sheridan's infantry have come up the valley to a point between Flarrisonburg and New Market. His advance is supposed to be intended as a diversion in favor of the cavalry movement on this side of the mountains. Early bas marched out to moet him. ‘The mounted force which has crossed the mountaine |# four thousand in number, and have four pieces of artil- lery. They were yesterday in Madison county. THE CAVALRY TMREATRNING THB VIRGINIA ©) TRAL KAILROAD, [From the Richmond Whig, Deo. 22) The Coutral Raitrond ie again threatened by @ raiding PRICE FIVE CENTS party, who crossed the Blue Ridgewesterday, eight thou- sand strong, and are reported to be moving in the disec~ tion of Gordonsville. We have « large force of cavalry im the valley, who will basten to pay sheir respecte to these marauders, GORDONSVILLE THREATENED. [From the Richmend Sentinel, Dec. 22.) It was reported yesterday that two divisions of the enemy's cavairy had crossed the Blue Ridge at Chester Gap, had arrived at Madison Court House, and were mov: {pg on Gordonsville, We also learn that the telegraph wires were out on Tuesday night, seven miles from Gore donsville; it is supposed by a Yankee spy. No apprehension is felt for the safety of Gordonsville, if the above report is not greatly exaggerated, as there bad been ample time to concentrate a force to meet the BURBRIDCE. Rebel Accounts of a Union Raid on Bristol, Tenn. Destruction of Government Stores and Two Railroad Trains. A Fight Progressing at Zol- licoffer, &e., ke, ae Fortress Monroe, Dec. 22, 1864, Tho rebel papers contain the following despatch:— Lyxcunvre, Va., Dec. 14, 1864, Paseengers by the Western train to-night report a raid On the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad at Bristol, Teno. The enemy are supposed to be a portion of Burbridge’s con id, From Bean station they advanced rapidly, and entered the town at five o’clock in the morning. They dostroyed aconsiderablo amount of government stores; an engine and train on the East Tennessee and Virginia Railroad and an eastorn bound train on tho Virginia and Teuneseee@ road, between Bristol and Abingdon, were destroyed. No positive intelligence of the enomy’s number had been received, but they are supposed to have boen five or six thousand, A portion of the force ix said yot to occupy the town, A body of the enemy, returning to- wards Bean station, encountered our forces at Zollicoffer, a station on the East Teonessee Railroad, nine miles weet of Bristol, where a fight was said to bo progressing at last accounts. THE CHRISTMAS FESTIVAL. Its Celebration in thie City. ‘The Christmas festival will hay double celebration this year. Falling on Sunday, it will be observed with ail the more imposing roligious coremonies at te various Churobes, particularly the Episcopal and Catholic, which keep up the old customs with more pomp and display than the otbers, But the grext mass of people bave re- solved not to be cheated out of an extra holiday in conse- quence o! Christmas occurring on Sunday, and hence to- morrow business will be suspended generally in all parte Of the city. CHRISTMAS EVR AT TRINITY ORURCH. ‘The nonua! Christmae services at Old Trinity brought together a full audience; for all the friends of the old chutch mustered in force in honor of the day, afew of them being merely annual representatives of devotion to | the church, and these, with the regular attendants, 80 filled the place that it could hold no more, Theservices were of the moss interesting kind, Tho chora) and instrumeotal parts were perfoct in every respect. Old Trinity seems to improve with age, The musicians and singers deserve the bighest praise for what they yesterday achieved. At half-past two o'clock in the afternoon Mr. Ayliffe, the cbimer, commenced ringing the following chimes on the Trinity bells :— 1. Rondo, with variation in major amd minor composed by George F. Bristo 2. Christmas Carol—“Children ta 3 Evening Be! 4. Chris 5. Christinas Carol— 6, Christmas Carol— Tu-DAY AT TRINITY. At ten o'clock this morning the following chimes will de rang:— 1. Ringing the changes on eight bells. 2. Coristmas Carol. 3. Koude, with variations, composed by Dr. Hodges for ity chimes. 4. Christmas Carol—“Brigbt, Bright in Silver Light? ‘The Christuas Tree,” 5. Coristmaa Carol 6. Vesper Hymn. Durteg the services to-day the juvenile choir will sing Kemptou's service (7e Deum and Jubilate) in B dat, and choruses from Handel's Meseiab, AtSt. Ann’s (Episcopal), St. Stephen's (Roman Catho- lic), Grace, St. Clement's, St. George’s, St. Patrick’s Cathedral aod St, Francis Xavier's, the services will be most Interesting. DINNER FOR OUR SICK AND WOUNDED SOLDIERS. While our more wealthy citizens who may have tasted Dut little, if anything, of the horrore of war are partak- ing of their most sumptuous and recherche Christmas, dwaere, it is extremely gratifying to know that the sick and wounded veterans who are now in our city have not been forgotten; for the ladies of New York, on thie as om ail occasions which demand the exercise of their gentle and sympathetic ministratious, have made ample pro- vision t give them @ good aod substantial repast. The Ladies’ Visiting Committee of the New York State Sol- Home and Depot, in Howard street, will er to eight hundred ‘soldiers 0 Temple.”? us Carol—Sileot Night, Holy Night.’” The Christmas ‘tree, ’” “Qnee in Royal David's City.”? sion, and in the afternoon will’ be given for the delectai who have fought and bled tor their country. government, (00, bas taken the matter in han Soldiers ia the hospitals throughout the coustry will ‘as well cared for a8 those in New York. OUR CHARITABL® INSTITUTIONS. The inmates of our charitebie institutions, who, on @ solemn as well us festive occasion like th uever forgotten by those whom furtune may hav plac-c ia a more enviable position in life, witl have bounteous supply of geod things Our litte fulks wha are depeadent ou the outside world for their support educaticn will youthful bi Island, the House of Indus- try, the Ladies’ Mission and the Juvenile Asylum will be made happy and “light ag the morn’? by the hospital ties prepared for them, SKATIN ‘The skating prospects for tn that great breathing place of our citizens, the P doubtless be visited by thousands, both un and off skates, enue pond is in five condition. Let all who the be Cairo, Dec. 26, 1864. General Dana bas ordered all army ammunition and military pyrotechnics held by private citizens by wilitary permission to be shipped north of Coiro previvus to the 1st of January. Persous found south of Cairo with such property, or materiais used for their manufacture, alter that date will be arrested and imprisoned: Marine Disast THR SCHOONER FOWLER ASHORE AT BARNEOAT. SQuankum, Dec. 24, 1864. Tho schooner Fowler, Captain Isaac Oliver, of Balti+ more, from New York to Baltimore with merchandise, came ashore at Barnegat on Friday night, She is full of water. All her cargo is damaged. LOSS OF THE SCHOONER JAMBS BARBOUR, Bostox, Dec, 24, 1864, The schooner James Barbour, from Ellsworth for New ‘York, was wrecked om an Island near Georgetown on the Qist while trying to make ® harbor. Vessel and cargo ‘area total loss, Crow saved, badly frostbitten, News from San F' Say Francisco, Deo, 23, 1864. Business at a stand still. Owing to the blockade of the roads by mud freight communications acroen the Sierra Nevada are prevented, ‘The overland mail has arrived with St Louis dates of the 26th alt, The steamor Golden Ago sailed today with a small number of passengers and $1,053,000 in treasure, of which only $583,000 is for New York, The remainder g008 to Fogland and Mexico. ‘The « g Of the next mail steamer is postponed to January 4 00 accouut of the b iidare