The New York Herald Newspaper, December 29, 1864, Page 4

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Richmoed papers of yesterday, Secretary Stanton In- forms us, cootain a despatch from the rebel General Bragg, dated ot Wilmingtoa, N. C., at six o'clock on the evening Of Tucsday of this week, stating that Genera) Butler's forces, who eflected a landing in the vicinity of Fort Fisher on last Suvday, bad reembarked, udder cover of the fire from the naval vessels. Bragg says the designs of Butler and Porter bad not been devel- Oped, but does not state anything regarding the movemouts of the Union fleet. Evidently it still re- ‘mained in the neighborhood of the robe! works, because 4f it bad moved off he would not have been siow in announcing the fact. He says that th® bombardment of Port Fishor was very beavy, but that the damage to it was alight, only two guns being disabled. From gthor sources we have some further particulars of the attack ‘On the fort, which was continued last Monday. A detach. ment of men from the gunboat Santiago de Cuba captured ® compacy of North Caroline soldiers in the rebel @utworks, and some of General Butler's soldiers ac- (unily penetrated ope of the forts and carried off @ robol Gag. We also learn that the Union powder Doat Louisiana, containing three hundred tons of gun powder, in accordance with previously concerted arrange. ‘monts, was exploded within three hundred yards of Fort Fisher early on last Saturday moraing, but with what @ffect te not stated. On all the days of the attack— Saturday, Sunday avd Monday last—the enemy’s ‘Gre was effectually silenced, the rebels being riven from their guns and forced to take refuge ta their bombproofs. Our correspondence giving the Getaiis of Butler's and Porter's expedition and the opera- tions preliminary te the assault on the rebel works, and ur sketches of Wilmington, Cape Fear river and Forts Fisher, Caswell and Jobnsoa, will enable our readers to ‘@rrive at a better understanding of the present position Of aMfairs io that vicinity. We eccompany these with a map showing the location of Wilmington, the entrances to it, the forts constituting its defences and the sur- foanding region. A despatch from Columbia, Tennessee, states that Hood thas euocesded in getting the remnant of bis defeated, do- ‘moralised and worn out army to the south side of the ‘Tennessee river, at Florence, Alabama. Little fighting of aomsequence betwees bis men and their pursuers has taken piace since Duck river was crossed, the main por- Hon of the rebels pushing 00 as rapidly es possible, and ‘not once making a stand. It was announced in yesterday’s Haratn that a detach- ment from General Sherman's army at Savannah bed moved towards the A’ .maba river. It was supposed that the dosign of this expedition was to injure the Albaoy and Gulf Railroad. Richmond newspapers of yesterday oxpress the opinion that this force will cross the Allamaba and move into Southwestern Goorgia, in @oarch of the imprisoned Union soldiers. The revels say that General Sberman's plans for his campaign north. ward are to move from Port Royal, 8, ©.y straight to Branebvilie, atthe junction of the Georgia and Carolioa Faliroads, and then to foliow the main railroad lines to Virginia. Mr Btanton’s bulletio, our Wostern Virginia despatches ead late rebel newspapers furoish os some further Tmportant particulars of Generals Stoneman’s and ‘Burbridge’s recent destructive raid (rom Kast Tennesses NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, DECEMBER vv 1804. railroads and army supplies, they captared the import. ‘ant salt works at Saitville, in Southwestern Firgiaia, which they beld from Tuesday, the 20th, till Tham day, the 22d inst., destroying all the salt which had beer taken out of the wells and was stored there, being a very large quantity; bugping all the buildings, tujuring tbe works so much that it is net claimed they oan be put in Operation again before the 1st of February, and captur- ing several pieces of artillery, Whom they left, the rebel papers say, they moved back towards Bristol, Teones- sce, skirmishing with a brigade of rebels who attempted to follow them. They burned all the bridges om the ast Tennessee and Virginia Railroad from Glade Springs, Va., to Bristol, Teen. The rebels were greatly alarmed by these Union move- ments, and Breckinridge’s command, detachments from Early’s force in the Shenandoah valley and convales- cents io the Lynchburg hospitals were hurried of towards Saltville, It is thought ¢hat the remainder of Karly’s troops, with the exception of his cavalry and out- post pickets, have been withdrawn a considerable dis- tapes up tbe valley, to the vicinity of Mount Crawford, His cavalry leader, Rosser, is sald to have designea making a raid on Cumberland, Maryland, about a week ‘ego, But fualty concluded that it would be betcer notte wit Confirmation of the report that the guerilia chief Mosby was Killed recently at Middleburg, Va., by “Union cavairyman, is sald te be furnished in a captured rebel mail, which contains a letter from a Mrs. Stinson, @ friend of the rebel partisan obief, describing the manner of hie death. Our James river despatches reiterate the reports, re- ceived through deserters and from other sources, that General Lee bas recently sent off troops from the defences of Richmond aud Petersburg to the assistance of General Bragg or Hardee, or both. A shotted salute of one hun- dread guns, in honor of Geveral Sherman’s capture of Savannah, was fired from General Grant’s lines in front of Petersburg on last Monday morning. Christmas was a genoral holiday in both of the Union armies before the rebel capital, all work that could be dispensed with being suspended. Deserters from Lee's army continue to come in in large numbers, They gene rally express their opinion that the coutederacy is near its last gasp. The Petersburg Eapress of last Friday stated that the Union force under General Palmer, which was recently enoamped at Bower Hill, near Portsmouth, Va, had started off in the direction of Weldon, N. C., supposed for the purpose of causing a diversion in favor of Geueral Butler’s and Admiral Porter’s operations below Wilming- ton In Tuesday’s Haat we gave a rebel despatoh, stating Uhat the Union gunboats were repulsed at Fort Branch, on the Roanoke river, North Carolina, successively on the 20th, 2ist and 224 iostant. We have now another rebel despatch from Wilmington, which says they were again repulsed on the following day—Friday last. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. The ateamebip City of Dublin, Captain Eynoo, from Queenstown oa tne 12th of December, reached this port yesterday. Her news has been anticipated. Governor Seymour has issued a circular to the town officials througbout the State, urging them to attend im- mediately to the correction of the enrolment lists of per- sous liable to Graft for military service, te view of the recent call of the Presideut for three huadred thousand additi-pal soldiers. ‘The Board of Aldermen met yesterday afternoon, and adopted a series of resolutions eulogistic of the late Au- gustus Pordy. A resolution appropriating twenty thou- sand dollars for the use of Rovinson’s fire telegraph patent during the past cighi years was also adopted. The Teport of the Committee on Salaries in favor of increasing the salaries of the attaches of the Street Department twenty-five per cent was edopted by a vote of thirteon to two. The salaries of the chief clerk and others in the Croton Aqueduct Department, and the employes iu the Mayor's office and Finanee Department, were similarly increased. After transacting @ large amount of routine Dasiness the Board adjourned until ove o'clock this afterneoa. The Board of Councilmen met yesterday at one o'cleck, and after transacting some routine business took a recess till five o'clock. The special committee on the Children’s Ald Gociéty investigation reported a resolution recom- mending an appropriation of three thousand dollars for the benefit of the Industrial Schools, which was laid over. An ordinance was passed creating the office of superintendent of fire telegraphs, at a salary of fifteen hundred dollars per annum. The Board adopted a few unimportant resolutions and adjourned to meet at one o'clock to-day. ‘The Inst meeting of the Board of Education for the pre- sent year took piace last evening. A petition from the teachers of the public schoois to have their salaries in- creased was referred to the Finance Committee. Reso lations complimentary to the President of the Board, Mr. McLean, and the Clerk, Thomas Bolse, were adopted, and the Board then adjouroed, The Board of Excise Commissioners of this oity will hold their final session ou Saturday, the Slst inst., at twolve o'clock, in the City Hall. Liquor dealers must apply before that timo or subject themselves to the pen- aitios of the law by five and imprisonment. In Brooklyn nive perrous have been arrested and brought before the criminal courts for selling liquor without license, and it is expected that the offeuders will be sentenced this week Yedterday was the eloventh day of the Opdyke Weed libel suit im the Suprome Court. The coptinuation of the examination of George W. Farley, Mr. Opdyke’s son-in- Jaw, occupied the eotire session, an early edjournment taking place in order to enable those connected with the proceedings to attend the funeral of Mr. William Curtis Noyes. The case will be resumed at ten o'clock this morning. Judge Leonard, in the Supreme Court, circuit, was en- gaged yesterday in trying ® case of alleged seduction. ‘The plaintiff, a pretty girl named Julia Colwell, alleges that while she was acting in the capacity of stewardess on board the ship Laura Ley, in August, 1863, the cap tain, Charles Schenck, entered ber state room and robbed Der of ber chastity. For this violation of her person she claims five thousand dollars damages. The defence set up @ general denial, and held that the charge wes « tramped up one, for the purpese of extorting money. ‘The jury were ordered to bring in a sealed verdiet at ten e’clock this morniag. Acase involving the rights of married women was yesterday before Judge James, in the Supreme Court, cir cuit, Mra, Leone J, Sauvao, who was carrying on busi- pess independent of ber husband, became indebted to a firm with whom she dealt. To satisfy the debt, Sherif Kelly, under an attachment against the Busband, seized the goods and Oxiures in Mrs. Sauvan’s store, and she prosecuted the Sheriff for damages for the value of the same, The Judge ruled that the property, with the ex- ception of the fixtures, belonged to the husband, and the jury accordingly found for the piainti for the value of the fixtures oviy. Im the Court of General Seesions yesterday, Recorder Hoffman sentenced John Kei!back and Frederick Sweitzer, who were convicted of grand larceny, each to the State Prison for two years. Anthony Smith, guilty of an at, vempt at grand larceny, was sent to the Penitentiary for one year. James B. Mayer, who pleaded guilty to steal. ing some wearing apparel from Josiah Barnum, was sent to the Penitentiary for #ix months. In the alleged lunacy case in the Brooklyn City Court yesterday, some additional witnesses for the defence wore examined, wheu, the taking of the testimouy being covcluded, the summing up of counsel was commenced, The British bark Burnside, Captain Dalgamo, which Gaijled from New York on the 18th wit., for Greenock, was wrecked on the 7tb inst, Om the 17(b inst. but three sarvivors were left, out of a crew of thirteen, and they were rescued by Capt. John Eynon, of the steamship City of Dublin, and brought to this city yest '” The New England Society, of which the late William Curtia Noyes was President, mot yesterday at the Astor House, and adopted reaviutions eulogistic of the deceased qud expressive f coudolence with his family, and also ol thelr intention to attend his funeral in a body. An inquest was beld yesterday on the body of a Ger. man, fifty-one years of age, named Butterhot, who died t © house in Rose street, from the effects of opium, ‘Dich Pe Swallowed with the dosiga of terminating his xistence, NE SES day committed to the Tombs for trial, charged with | achievement after all, and not to be compared baving passed on different shopkeopers ia this city cows: terfoit Ave dollar bills oa the Bauk of Oswego, N. Y. Pau! Dingtemeyer and Nicholas Hore were yesterday Committed for trial, in default of ene thousand dollars Dail each, oa the complaint of having altempted to pass, at astoro io EKighta avenuc, a counterfeit tee dollar bill Purporting to Lave been issued by the Montgomery County Back, at Johastown, in this State, Small horse cars, exclusively for the accommodation of Passengers, will commence running en the line of the Hudson River Railroad, betweea Warrea and Thirty frst streets, soomafter New Year, ‘The Surrogate’s Court was again ceoupled yesterday with the Lawrence will case, Among the gentlemen on the witness stand in the past two days have been some of Our principal citizens, The number of emigrants landed here this week was 120—making the number sivee Janutry 1 181,269, agaiast 155,223 to the same date last year, The commutation Dalance at present is $10,765 46. At the regular monthly coal sale im this oity yesterday Of the Delaware, Lackawanna end Western Company, twenty-five thousand tous were sold. fhe average prices were about the same as those of last month, there being an advance on ome qualities and @ decline on others. in ite damaging effects upon the rebellion with the damages inflicted upon Hood's army by General Thomas. Another republican eotem- Perary prints a despatch from Washington to the effect that in permitting the escape of Har- dee’s army from Savannah, General Sherman abundantly compensated the rebels for the loss of the thirty-two thousand bales of cotton which they left behind them in the city. Now, if there existed a scheming civilian or two in the Cabinet anxious to knoek the heads of Sherman and Thomas together, and espe- cially desirous to casts wet blanket over the shoulders of the hero of Atlants and Savan- nab, he certainly would ‘have suggested, as a beginning, the very course which has been pur- sued by the two republican journals im ques- tion. It is somewhat remarkable, too, that while one of these journals is a truntpeter for Obase the other is a worshipper of Seward, . , Belgian contracts, political contracts, Euro- peao intrigues, partisan manceuvres, personal bills of sale, the only true and authentic ver- sion of the Cataline affair, facts about Greeley, railroad drippings, lobby jobs, and many other rare and wonderful curiosities, worth almost any money to inspeot. If Thur- low Weed will throw open his cabinet we will raise the money te pay bis expenses. What does he say to this proposition? The case of Opdyke ve. Weed would be nothing to compare with the case of Weed vs. Andrews. The Hue and Cry Against Jeff. Davis— Uneasy Lies the Mead that Wears a Crown. In Richmond the greatest depression pre- vails. Dispirited by 60 many disasters ; embit- tered by the failure of so many hopes; dis- gusted at so much official migmanagement and obicanery, and at the demonstrated hollowness of all the pretensions of their leaders ; hungry, SHERMAN. Interesting Rebel Accounts of ( His Movements. An Expedition Sent to South- westerm Georgia. The Programme ef the Grand Cam- paign Nerthward, ae, be Ree Secretary Stanton to Major Gemeral Dax, and that both, nevertheless, are devout believ- ers in the unfailing wisdom and energy of the Secretary of War. We have also heard, in various suggestive rumors, that the Cabinet and its affitiations at Washington no longer employ theaselves so cordially in support of General Grant as they did down to the day of the Presidential election. From all these little manifestations of hos- tility towards our military heroes, we may guess the game of the busy politicians at Wash- ington. Its their game to demolish our gene- rals as Presidential candidates, just as Mo- Clellan, Fremont and others were demolished, by exoiting jealousies among them, combina- tions against them, and by playing them off against each other. We are aware that the first object with the Chase faction is to kill off the Seward anti-radical faction, and that the re- moval of Mr. Seward from the Cabinet is re- garded as absolutely indispensable, as it will be sufficient to secure this result; we know that Mr. Seward is anxious to conciliate rather than to provoke the wrath of the Chief Justice; but we have yet to learn that either the Chief Justice, or the Secretary of State, or the Sec- retary of War, has relinquished the idea of providing the Immediate successor in the White House to Abraham Lincoln. At all events, from the symptoms we have indicated, we apprehend that the juggling poli- ticians, Presidential managers and pipe layers at Washington, great and small, will bear watobing in reference to the popular heroes of the army. We rely upon President Lincoln to see that justice, fair play and no wrong shall be done to our able and faithful generals, whose great claims upon the country have been fairly won. We rely upon “Honest Old Abe’ to protect our armies and their leaders against the insidious and perilous tricks of un- serupulous politicians. We oare not how soon the fight between the Chase radicals and Seward conservatives may be settied, nor how long it may continue. We simply demand, in behalf of the national cause and the army, that the politiclans—republicans or demoorats— shall not be permitted, in their Presidential schemes, to harass, confuse and defeat our generals in the field, aa they defeated General McClellan. Tas Speech or Wrnveut. Puiiurs.—That famous abolition orator, Mr. Wendell Phillips, is becoming a bore. His oration at the Cooper Institute on Tuesday evening was scarcely worth reporting. The racy, brilliant and sar- castic eloquence which made his reputation seems to have deserted him. Mere platitudes, imbecilities and forcible feeblencss now form the ataple of his harangues. We declared some time ago that the occupation of Wendell Phil- lips was gone, and he at length appears to real- ize the fact. In his speech on Tuesday evening Mr. Phil- lips advocated extreme amalgamation and miscegenation dogmas. These were laughed out of existence months ago. In his references to ancient history Mr. Phillips displayed his own ignorance of the philosophy of races. The Romans simply intermingled with varieties of the same race; but Mr. Phillips would have us amalgamate with a totally different race. There is no similarity between these two ideas. History proves that mulattoes svon become more degraded than the original blacks, and the experience of the present shows the same thing. Mr. Phillips is mistaken upon every point he attempts to make. In regard to his criticisms of the reconstruc- tion plan of General Banks, the ex-orator of the abolitionists is equally wrong. His objec- tions are silly and his arguments absurd. In fact, Mr. Phillips has exhausted himself. The slavery question is working itself out and he has no share in the work. The tide has run past him and he is aground high and dry. He abuses President Lincoln; but the President is doing nothing and can do nothing about slavery. Davis and Lee, Grant and Sherman are solving the problem. Whenever the rebels arm their blacks there will bean end of the matter. We Five thousand five hundred tons of stove coal were sold yesterday at from nine @oliars an@ sixty-two and a balf cents to nine dollars and three-quarters, ‘The catire list of casualties by tha late asoident on the Cleveland and Pitsburg Railroad wow foots up eix killed and forty-eight wounded. Of the tatter two are injured 0 seriouslf they will probably die from the ellacts of their wounds, ‘The Provincial Telegraph Company of Canada have finished their itee, and on Friday afternoca lust comma- nication was opened betwecm Hamilton; Toronto and Buffalo, Congratulatory messages were exchanged on the occasion between the Mayors of Hamilton and Buffalo. ‘The stook market was dull yesterday, but firm. Govern- ment securities were quiet. Gold opened steady at 216%, and afterwards became excited, closing at 220. According to the City Inspector’s report there wore 402 deaths im the city during the week ending on the 26th of Decomber—an increase of 61 a8 compared with the mortality of the week previous, and 11 more than 0o- curred duringthe corresponding week last year. ‘The upward lura in gold imparted a firmer tone to the markets in genoral, but the amount of business consum- mated was very moderate, the higher prices demanded by the holders operating as @ chook upon business, On *Chavge the flour market was quiet, and the tendsacy downward. Wheat was decidedly lower, prices having declined 4c. @ 6c., with no business doing. Corn was quiet and steady, while oats were 1c, higher, with more doing. The pork market proved firm, with a good demand, but closed dull and drooping. Beef steady. Lard duil and drooping. Whiskey irregular, and some- what unsettled. Froights quiet and heavy. The Good News from Wilmingten—Our Success. The news from Wilmington indicates hat our operations there will be crowned with success. Up to latest advices everything was going on well. The powder ship had been exploded within three hundred yards of Fort Fisher on the 24th, and was undoubtedly the “earth "? heard at Newbern. Nowbern is more than sixty miles from Wilmington, as the bird files; and if a powder ship, exploded on the water, seemed an earthquake to those on land at that distance, what must it bave seemed to those within three hundred yards of it? Doubtless it made the defenders of the forts shake their heads strangely at the consideration of what Uncle Sam would do when his dander was up. In addition to what- ever damage may have been done by the powder ship, the fire of the fleet had been most effective, and the garrison of Fort Fisher was compelled to abandon the guns and huddle in the bombproofs. The capture of that fort will render the cap- ture of Fort Caswell, on the other side of Cape Fear river, a comparatively easy matter, as doubtless the position of Fort Fisher commands it, and as alse it will give greater facility for the movement of the ships. With the capture of the two forts our government ships will go up the Cape Fear river, and the port of Wil- mington will be, so far as blockade running goes, “airtight.” Over this grand success our people will perhaps rejoice in a very few days; and then the round of successes will have made the circle from Nashville, and the success on the James will be the only one left’to achieve. The Mevements of the Washington Poll: ticlams for the Next Presidency. After the exbausting labors and excitements incideut to a Presidential election, the great body of the people ef all parties are naturally disposed to rest for a season from the agita- tions of party politics. But to the profes. sional politician, ambitious of preferment or dependent upon the drippings of the public plunder, there is no such season of rest. He is like the farmer, who, with the gathering in of one harvest, proceeds to prepare the ground and sow his seed for the next. So it is that already among the leading politicians of the administration camps, the ploughing and sow- perhaps, in the great majority of cases, it is no wonder that the spirits of the people of Rich- mond should sound the lowest depths of de- spondency. Yet it appears that the Richmond people can for one purpose break out of tho sombre gloom that settles over their thoughts. They indulge in “frantic manifestations of con- tempt for the rebel government.” It is the only sign of life they give. Thoy are there—a dead people ; an inane, sombre mase of what was vital; there is no laugh, no hope, no fear; but some one mentions the name of Davis, and the mass starts up te curse. It is alive, then, with the energy of hate, and writhes in its own passion while it vents the horrible tbat is in its nature against the wretch who has the bad distinction to be the highest in that hell. It is the same in every part of the late con- federacy. Allis dead but the horror and the hate against Davis. They who everywhere cursed the Yankees, reviled them as brutal wretches, and who imprecated the “Illinois baboon” with every unclean adjective, do not mention now either the Yankees or the baboon, and when they speak at all it is against Davis. Geergia lately was a turmoil of preparation and struggle, and throughout December her whole people screamed their deflance at us. But Sher- man has walked across her territory, and now her ery isagainst Davis. From her officials we had some time ago numberless letters and appeals; but they have been very scarce lately. Now we get a letter from Governor Brown. What is it? One continued impreoation against Davis. Georgia, he tells us, bas not a man within her limits fit for military service. Davis has taken every one. Her fifteen thousand militia are under seventeen or over fifty years of age. Davis bas had the rest of her sons, and has wasted their lives wantonly. Sherman came, and Brown asked that the Georgia troops in Richmond might be sent to defend their native State,” Davis refused ft. Sherman was quar- tered in the State capital, and the State was devastated, while the men of Georgia were held to defend “the capital of Virginia,” and the residence of Davis; and now, because Georgia bas no more men to give, she is ma- ligned in the Confederate Congress by the erea- Wan Deraneuswe, Wasemerow, Deo. 28—10:30P. M. To Major General Dix, New York:— % : The following extracts from the Riclmend par Pers of to-day have beon received by the Depes® 4 ment:— The latest oficial aéviees from Georgia indicate thas Sherman has already follewed up the occupation of Ga vannah by sending a force of oavairy, artillery ae@tn- fantry upon an expedition, whose destination om only be guessed at from the direction in which it has moved. ‘These troops are reported to have gone towards the Ab tamaha river, and we sball no doubt next hear that they have crossed that stream and are moving to Southwest ern Georgia in quest of the prisoners of war who were supposed to be at Andersonville, ‘Sherman's programnte for his grand campaign nore. ‘ward seems to be no secret. He will start from Pore Royal and move straight for Branchville, the pointer Junction between the Georgian and? Carolinian railroads, He then proposes to follow the main lines of railrea® towards Virgiata, stealing and murdering as much as ho can by the way. All very fine ; but if Sherman propesss, Lee disposes. EDWIN M. STANTON, Socretary of War. The Evac jon of Savannab. [From the Richmond Whig, Deo. 26.] Reliable information has been received here of the evacuation of Savannai—an event whieh the military authorities had decided upon some time since. We leare that the evacuation was effected without loss, exeeptet such materials aa could not be transpested. The last troops of the line crossed the river at three A. M.'en Tuesday, the 2ist, proceeding in the direction of Charies ton. The engineer troops held the bridges until after ats o'clock, when the bridges were destroyed. At that time the enemy ocoupled the city, which has been surrendered by the Mayor about five o’cleex, ender flag of truce, The Dismay at Richmond en Sherman’s Suceess. 7 {The Savannan Republican of December 90, the inst number issued while the rebels were to possession of that city, ovntaing the following tnterssting letter from tae rebel capital:—Eo, Hunan.) Rucnronp, Dee. 7, 1884. Lave not written youregulariy for some days pect come. We leara tures of Jeff. Davis. North Carsimna The Richmond bitterness was bad enough Wile Grant hes not been altogether idle, be has under= , of hostilities ‘The deat inst, Bony Crock depot by o ju agains! few hundred federal cavalry, and ibe’ destruction sie buitdings and a few supplies at that place, - tional enterprise and bad po connection wit movement. Of the same character was the battery at the Howlett Ho! as many batteries om the purpose of preventi ments to before the news from Nashville reached that city. That made it bitterer still. Tbe Rich- mond Enquirer, considering that disaster and Sherman’s successes together, dwells oa the gloominess of the rebel prospects, and finds that the real cause of all the trouble is Jeff, Davis. Hood’s campaign is a failure, and his army is broken; Sherman strikes fiercely at the heart of Rebeldom, and no one can prevent it; yet the Southern soldiers are as brave as ever, and the absolute want of men has not been felt, nor is there any want of military skill and genius. But, says the Enquirer, there is a sad want of ability in the general management. “A war tri i j | i il ‘thoual Purpose than here aliudea Strengthen the belief that ‘ares Offensive measures. As for myself, I know of tion for auch a belief. ‘That fresh instalments of troops from pording Any 3 Feached the James, is not ii like ours cannot be carried on successfully by | more Eeasen to Believe thas ol ey Saver been seat to me separate armies and independent commands. Ses ee cet is of the opinion, ton ory There must be one man at the head of all our ccaee te Coslnec ak, somes eae self of the circumstan:@ and recommence forces. He ought not to be a man outside the army, with a thousand other cares on his mind.” | S¢zecially if he ean | prosure ro isthe, 18 pursuaaes in the vall has sent a heavy And so it goce on in its efforts to argue the | A l'across the Hive Aldge isto Loudon sed Fi Southern armies out of the hands of Jeff. Davis. Now, what the Enquirer here recom- mends {is not that the South should adopt su a system as ours, where the lieutenant general directs all the armies. It argues to hurry up the development of the military dictator and the deposition of Jeff. Davis, under whom it is convinced the confederacy can never have an- other success. To the general clamer the Examiner.adds its ounce in the denunciation of the servility of the rebel Congress, which has just provided that Davis shall draw rations for his support, counties, to devastate that picturesque and rogion, and to render it impossible for [arly to subsist bis army either jo the valley or tho Piedmont district. It ig not to the Potomac, therefore, that the esemy looks for protection of bis capital, not the troops who follow the banner of Sheridan, bat to the “ barren waste,” the wide biack desert, which the federal incendiaries have made on the Shenandoah and beyond the Rappabannook, ‘When their disbolecal work sball have been completed it will be impossible to support a Confederate army em the Potomas, and then the major part Of the vandals whe bave biasted that lovely district may be sent to other fields to renew their devilish work. Meanwhile the troops on both sides near Richmond aa@ Petersburg have been engaged for some time in the wort of winter quarters Iee’s army is in goed spirits, and quite strong for Grant's present foree, ‘Tho men are not discouraged’in the Teast, and were sever more firm in the resolution to win their iedependence er perish in the attempt It a reported that the Committee on Military Affaire tm 4 and shall receive his pay in gold or its equiva. | the House of Representasives have agreed upon & Dill lent. It adda to the discord that rules in tho | rib, nereese of the army. The (sare Set Speen enemy’s councils the voice of another of the | ment vr same doy hn ry if ae andi 1, ile wi eras, al A y enemy’s leaders, and hurls its missile with ¢ nN im be vers Sepien te oem ae gusto at him who is now the universal tar- get. Down with Davis is the cry, gnd evory deine Toompaon and Joneply Ws EMAAR HOEY Leith: ing, the pipe laying and wire pulling, the plots and counterplots of conflicting cliques and schemes for the Presidential succession bave already commenced. With these ambitious and intriguing politicians it is always the old oherus of the witches of Macbeth:— Double, double—toil and trouble— Fire, burn avd cauldron bubbie. Among these Presidential managers and aspirants at Washington Mr. Chief Justice Chase, Mr. Seward and Mr. Stanton are the most conspicuous. Mr. Chase in his new posi- tion, whether still aspiring for the White House, or satisfied with his late promotion, may, if so inclined, exercise the power of “Warwick, the King maker ;” Mr. Seward and his re- tainers, on the other hand, are fighting upon the defensive, to maintain, if possible, the ground which they occupy as a balance of power; while the Secretary of War, though generally regarded as having no ambition be- yond the walls of his department, {s, we aro disposed to believe, actively engineering for nothing less than the Presidential succession, and with every prospect of proving a formida- ble rival to every other competitor from the list of mere politicians and civilians. Batthe whole category of politicians and civilians is in danger of being supplanted by the heroes of the war and the candidates of the army. The claims of such men as Grant, Sher- man and Thomas, upon the confidence and grati- tude of the country, to say nothing of the popu- larity of Butler, Sheridas, Hancock, Banks, Canby and other generals, cannot be ever- looked. The bare mention of @ prominent mili- tary name is suggestive of dangers to the poli- ticians which have not escaped their attention. We have noticed a flying straw or two In this direction from which we may guess the drift of the wind. An administration organ of this city, in commenting upon the captare of Savannab, advise Mr. Phillips either to stand by silently and see the operations of causes which he can neither hinder nor assist, or else to switch off upon agrarianism--the last refuge of agitators of his school. Tae Pourmca Lie. Surrs.— public is beginning to weary of the great libel suit, Opdyke va. Weed. tich and refreshing, like a well-cooked beef- steak for breakfast, and everybody enjoyed it. Its opening was novel, For the pasttew days, however, the trial has developed nothing but shoddy—shoddy in stews, shoddy in bashes, shoddy in cold cutsand shoddy in bones and gristle—and we frankly confess that we are tired of it. The political developments have pretty thoroughly used up one of the parties to the case, as will be re- corded in due time; but, after all, the same practices have been in vogue in every politi- cal faction for the last twenty years, and we have learned nothing new from the evidence. Still, the inside view of the political machinery was more agreeable than these tedious disqui- sitions about shoddy. This public weariness of the case, which we could not but anticipate, was te have been relieved by the other political libel suit, Sweeny vs. the Brooks Brothers; but the pre- liminary examination in this suit bas been post- poned until the fourth week in January, and 80 we can oxpect no relief from that quarter for some time to come. In this dilemma wo appeal to Thurlow Weed to rescue us by bringing @ libel suit against ex-Surveyor An- drews. There is certainly enough to Oght about In the recent letter written by Andrews, and the popular curiosity to see the inside of Thurlow Weed’s kitchen cabinet a most in- tense. Indeed, we are quite oefttain that enough money can be raised by subsoription to pay all Mr. Weed’s expenses if he will con- services. Many ministers of the Gospel took am active one finds a stone to hurl at the “curst cur.” F part in the recession movement, and it seems cseeaednee Let it go on. One day the Jewish war that | 0”,0%,ihe commutes tat tay eee te ae eae John, of Gischala, and Eleazer, the Zealot, bad | } a nN yer leg Entra ae ee gotten up against Rome, in spite of the con- | newspaper offices, such! a8 Yeporters, ory ae F trary wishes of the Jewish people, was sud- | AtTiere i de vont a eday. provebly,or tomorrows ! denly brought to a crisis, and then the highest in regard to of these leaders—Jobn, of Gischala—was com- pelled to fly for his life. He took refage in the city sewers, and there he was found some days later, still alive, up to his neek in the city filth. That is the way Jeff. Davis will be found one of these fine days; only, if we may judge from present appearances, bis time will come before his city falls. Boaue News in Towy.—There was @ report ciroulated in the city early yesterday after- noon to the effect that the naval and military expedition sent against Wilmington had failed, and that the vessels comprising the fleet bad returned to Fortress Monroe. The report found many believers; was posted on the balletins, and was published in some of the evening papers. Gold immediately went up to 224, But not long after it was announced that the first news was bogus; that there had only one veasel of the fleet returned to Fortress Monroe, and that this one bore important despatches from Admiral Porter to the government, anv’ nouncing the success of the operations of ths expedition as far as they bad progressed. /S0 we suppose that gold will go down, although nobody cares how much the gold garublers lose. The more the better. CompiimmnTant CONCERT TO Kk BL Convers Several artiste and others in the §musical*provesaion united ina complimentary testimonigy concert to Mr. Frank B. Converse, the banjoiet, at, “Nibio’s saloon this @veuing. The programme ia at on sly selected, nod will be performed by Mies Mi 'y, Mosare, Lentie, Geary, Noe, Gould, Sivori, Dean Crayton, Giider and Mr. Converse. The fe tended to Mr. Con- ‘Verse in appreciation of bis efforts to elevate the etandard when we shal! know @hat are iis provisions planters, farmers, mechanics, &c. sbe maxes Yast night, was friendly and rathor enthusiastic, At In a brie€’ speech, presented the beneficiare w Dracele set in brill nome/ot her adm: the “usual manner, Lotti doing the best be could with Bias }imited vocal power, and Dubreal and Weintich giving: 4), thotr excellent comio interpretation to the parte of ‘The Opera, ‘The fourth performance of Fra Diavole drew & audience last night. The occasion was the benedt Mies Kollogg, and ber friends were present in consider abl af mbers. The opera was given with the usual caste and with little variation Trom the manner in whigh it has boon previously rev.dered. Miss Kollogg was tha, same graceful Zerlina ¥ costume and action; the latter, perbaps, baving in Dany instances a little more stage fleet than five touch og of nature io it, With the excep sion of @ superfue gs ornamentation in some pessages, sbe sang the my.sic well; and in the absence of those associations whYsh remain with us from the reodition second act Mr. the felose of the Maretzek, cosy a diamond ring, the gift of The other parts were sung im be two brigands, ‘This opera will be repeated to night for the Ddenefit of La Sociele Prancaite de Bienfatsance, a most worthy aa sociation, established for the succor of the peor, the oe infirm of our French citizens, and devoted in ag cspevial manner to assist the widows and orphans whose misfortunes have been augmented by ir, It is wae nocearary to say that for such a cause the public will be well bestowed. Wo to see the Academy crowded to-night, ‘The season will close to-morrow pight with vomes Jacobs re} jug her great role of the Druldess, in wh! he achieved so dec Tuesday Sonat Senor the Sunday Schoo! take place a@ Amusements will consist of tableaux, pantomimes, col Joquies, singing, ko, by the echolars, The exbibitiog last year was a decided auocess, and that whioh will bq Given (hia evening Detopans even greater promise,