The New York Herald Newspaper, December 30, 1864, Page 4

ew York. Friday, December 30, ase4. = an BSITUATION. A comsiderable purtion of our cpace to-day ts ecoupied managers of the toam'we"the au pooner ast cote yt Be Tom | ehh Btr.cx Reavy blows at his oppesent, inflicting come ia- jury. Mr, Moran wes eventually seat to the castic of ‘San Juan de Ulloa, in the harbor of Vera Cres, bot was aficrwards released. We bavp dies from British Guiane dated at George town on the @h of December. The Reyal Gasetce of that day says: 'e regret baving to announce the death ef the American Consul at this port, C.G. Heaneb, Faq., who succumbed (0 an attack of yellow fover ab alt-papt ten o’clock this morming. The weather for the past bas been exetedingty ‘Wiliry. We bave had beavy sbowers of rain, which Lave hada most The employes in the business of street clean- Ing, ineluding the ash cartmen, whove services Sixty-two Livia Saved and One dred and Ninety-seven Lest. Dy Aetaiie descriptive of the operations agaings the rebel retreebi ing eftect on the inkabitents as well es thecrops | gre now so important, are, we are informed, works oa Cape Fear iver, Neei® Gbrolias, Hwsides the | Tee epidemic whieh’ hat prevatled for ihe tast fl about co make'e strike because of the long | NAMA OF THE RESCUED PASSENGERS, @M@cial reports of Admiral Porter and General Butler, he Hensip correspondents supply as with highly in Qeresting despatcnss. Ths bombardment of the forte ‘wes kept up by the aval vessels dering a covsid @ravle portion @f three daye—aterday, Sunday monchs is on the decline, The market ons bese largely sup; lied with breadstuffs by the import of over two8,000 Darrels flour from Barbades and three arrivals from the Uvited States, and prices have declined. There bave deem Bo arrivals with codfish, and sticks of good are Getting. low. No pickled Osh at market, Pork is in arrearage in their pay—some eight weeks hav- ‘fog elapsed since any monsy was received by them. _ The City Inspector has up to this time guccegded in keeping them at work, om the /*. oe, = “ ‘The steamehip Arago, which arrived @& this pert yes. terdsy from Port Royal, reperts as follows:— Bristol aud..Wytheville Laid ine that the money should’ be forth Dee. 24.08 Little gg Harbor (fell tn with bark Mary 0d Moneay est—and under their fire, which Ne CR ONS Me cue amber wi Pepe Her Yecr'eanys. butt gry E. Libby, of Portland, an@ took from ber Captain Marsh im Ruins, ; wos Of the mines severe character, com} Suite oak ix fair supply, Stock are inquired tor, Toa. | Mayor has found it expédiént to Wishhold bio | tu torty-esven ec his emocta, passengers und ceome @., a. ae, Proteiy atleccing the enomy’s batteries, a considerable Bumber of troops was landed, but these were re-om- Dorked on Monday evening, It being found impracticable @ carcy the fortifieations by assault, and both the army Gnd aval forces were withdrawn from im front of them. ‘We give e map showing the scene of operations. Adviess from Savannah to the 20th tnst. state that mage abundant. Freights without change.” At the meoting of the Board of Supervisors yesterday © communication was received from the Exeoutive Com- mittee of the Harlem Railroad Company, asking permis. ‘sion to extend their track across the New Harlem bridge. A resclation te autborine this use of the bridge was re- ferred to the proper committee, A motion to have the subject of raisieg the Surrogate's salary reconsidered was signature from the papers necessary in the pre- curement of the funds. So stands the matter, and the probability is that, in accordance with certain resolutions passed by the cartmen and ethers interested at.a meeting held by them, after to-morrow street cleaning will entirely, cease. Should extensive inconveniences be and forty seven of his officers, passengers and crew. CAPTAIN MARBRMAN’S OtATAMaUE. Report of steamehip North Amoriea, of Philadelphia, from New Orleans to New Yorks, 0, P. Marsamea, master. ‘She left New Orteansou tue 16th of December, and Southwest Pam om the 16th, bavilig been detained by @ fog. She bad om board fick soldiers, twelve (wo hendred end cabin pasecagers, and a @onoral Burtridge’s Report. Oseuarsnsne, Ky., Doo, 28, 1064 Thavethe hoaerto report thet my mounted force, four thousand stroag, im conjunotion with General Gii- three, | Feneral George ‘@fforte wore being made to intercept the retreat of the atrentanaenn experienced, and tbe public health become Bi joe *, Lig Sagi Wont o Racoens where wa wey coche tb fede! army under Hardee before 1 could reach Broad | At the meeting of the Board of Aliormep yesterday | ¢2dangered, our citizens will know to whom it ec daet avandia halo euppert Geseral Glilens, who faakea Clver. Canvonading was heard in that direction; but the | 4 CAly business of importance tramancted was she adop. | is oxelusively chargeable. Deavy sea ranning—veseet | ‘bem and killing, wounding end ‘teau't of 11 had met been learmed, One of our correspend- ‘Gate furninbes additions! detalles of affairs counected with Geo cooupation of Sayaanah by General Sherman's army, Bho rebel works im freat of the elty were found to Bave boon very strong, and had Hirdes chosen to wait for ‘Gn nesault @ considerable secrifee of life would’ have (boon necessary for their eaputre, Before evacuating the Pobsts destroyed four of their guabeats, but left behind @wo octhars in geod condition, General Geary’s Givision voing the ret of the Union army to @mier the city, that officer has been appotated q@aillitary governor. Wheeler's cavairy, of Hardee's @rmy, plendered @ aumber Of stores and committed Bumerous outrages while stationed im the city, and betweon the marching out of the euemy and the march. “toa (0 of Goneral Sherman's troops mobs ef the lower Ol-sees in the town broke intoa nusaber of shops aad Warehoungpand continued the work which the rebel foldiery had commenced. The Union army entered Sa. ‘vanvah Om the morzing of the Sist inst., aRd on the morning of the 24ib the first number of anew Unien tom of the following resolutions:—Giving permission to the New York and Weatehester Railread Company to 6x- ied cientauegen nla emia eee ot Pyaar tad dollars for each; authorizing the gas companies Ve termi- nate thetr contracts with the city after due notice, and directing the Common Council proceedings to be pub- Mahed in catense in the Daily News, The Board adjourned te one e’elock this afternoon. - ‘The Board of Cpunolimen met yesterday, and trane- ected a iarge Of business, chiefly of a routine character. A number ef reports and resolutions were Tecetved from the Aldermen and laid over, including a Tesolution appropriatiag one dollars for the Demilt Dispensary. The Board In the paseage of a resolution granting permission to the New York and ‘Webtcbester Railroad Company to extend their track from Harlem bridge, through the Bloomingdale road and ‘various streets of the city tothe South ferry. The Board ‘adjourned to meet at two o’cloock this afternoon, ‘The Executive Committee of the New York Chamber of Commerce held a special meeting yesterday afternoon for the porpose of agreeing on a plan te testify regard fer the and ptotected him, he would never Gungrat, Les Kxxrs His Worp.—When the rebel General Rebert E. Lee was about to cast himself and his fortunes with the South in her mad contest. against the goverament aad constitution, he wrote some letters expressive @f his feelings upon that occasion which bave alnce been published. One of them was his letter of resignation’ to General Scott, in which he expremed regret: for the necessity whieh compelled tim to résign bis coumission in the United States Army after a service of a quarter of. He there stated that, although he about to tikes position hostile to the ‘and flag that had equally | w his sword except in defence of his native State, Virginia. Curioushy-enough the elroumstances of thé war have enabled him to keep that pledge faithfully; for he bas never fought a battle in any other rebel State, and never out- side of Virginia except in Maryland and Penn- ‘Slet—A continuation of the same weesher. 224—Firet part of the day, weather moderating; soon the steamer, en P. MM.. “egg series! fast, hake twelve ag 3 red merning aad began blowing; heavy sea getting up, The engineer fe. | C@eFs, two trains of cars, five engines and immones ' te m dense fog and made for the salt works, 1 dissoverod faring five pieces of canuon and eight onlssons, rebels and taking a wagow traim, pursuing them to Bris: tol, which piace wes attacked a three o'clock ia Quantities of stores. Tlearued that Vaugha was at Zoliwoifer, tweive mile; below, and marched to attack bim; but be slipped away ‘is flight in time to head bi off at Abingdoa, which place I captured on the night of December 14, takiag cae Gun, a large amount of stores and an engine, with rolling wtock, Gon, Giliem coatinged the pursuit of Vaugha, coming driving him from « strong position and cap- 1 aout Colonel Browan’s brigade to the support of General Gillem, whe again came upon the enemy at Mount Airy and drove him im coofusion, cap - turiog some prisoners, seven pieces of cannon and’s largo wagon trata. Colonel Brown, with bis brigade, later ia the day charged the }lome Guard of Wytheville, cap- Major Harrison, of the Twellti Kentucky, who had been detached, by order of General Stoneman, with three bundred ploked mem and horses, struck the Virginia Railroad on the 16sb, near Glade Spring, cutting it aud capturing two trains of cars. He them got in Vaughn's SALTVILLE BURNED. Dundred tb uments nat Athy Captain Crapey Qa from a rain Captured by ‘yilleaud Nashvi't favor of parties ip Cincinnati, City, Albany, Bostoa, Adame’ Exprese ( tiate-or recei Perso: at Inteiligonee. Hon. A; Riobarde, smc te fn of the 4 y of tho Teunei at phe Metropolitan eo Itsilroad on the Z2d in Buffalo, I Hadotpa ad a Genera) Sefton, of Salcm, and Hon. Joba B Hecdenamy ” of Colleville, Vt.,'are at the St. Nicholws Hotel. ee Colonel «i. A. Weodward, U.S A,; Colvnal Teor, = PB USNs, Are at Ube ALOE 4 oa ‘OMecias 8. A., and Bu: Gre Royal Mayan. Lottery.—e drawing of December *. on another page, | aloes vena Lester y= 1 tot ned, tera cinfognain fuemied f « sods memory of the late William L. Dayton, United States | sylvanis, and then it was to protect the fron- rin her our, last front and continued along the lime of the: road, destroy- ‘i etree, a Bere jonal TAM h& CO, Bank 6 Welt Dewspaper, the Loyal Georgian, waa iaaued in that olty. | Minister to Franoe. It was decided to co-operate with | tiers of Virginia, in the battles of Antietam | fir outta yates i FR iinet ing all the bridges and depots as far Aa Wytheville, anc ‘ mace nt (inton Peisowera who have escaped from Florence, Ala. | the uational and loca! authorities in any arrangements | ana Gettysburg. Nor is there the least likeli- | ! lei the stip, taking wilh mo my frst and second olicer | ® large smouat of rollingstock, and the great icon works | 7) TCSAE Ys examined, anevelveg, tn all I. ae ‘Dama, roport thar the advance of Hood's retreating army | “ich might be made by them for paying respect to the and eigut men. near Marion, Colonel Brown destroyed the bridges for | ihe charming litle new ‘Tea Doligr Sewing Machine Won Rapa Y | remains of the deceased minister on their arrival in this | 200d now that he will be permitted, even if he moe Fr ae arrived gn, Bokas toe, harks Welated. she ton mies above Wythesv lle. the Brodiny”) that 39 ore: veda orion 4 che 2 % roe ‘ + Rh, ‘one: ios ave Cal st point on the Zist inst., and the inference | city, Was disposed, to violate that pledge, for he is | yee eee ane et rane a ee etaee atoet are | When the expedition started on its return, the men | {he cuvotusion tne it ixtinnessible t0 On” a congsptiow, tw — Bus veon drawn that tbe entire remnant of his defeated force must bave succosded tm crossing the Tennes- @eo river. Admiral Lee, on the contrary, im a Gespatch dated on the 97th inst., at Chickasaw, “alabama, on the Tennessee, that Hood’ 1 e te Bron ule of xt betel a, says a army is nae pats be ble character to render it very ontertain- | in ¢hoir individual cases and that of their | Prosected on ber course. | fasion towards North Carolina. Colove! tuckley effec Ptah f dt at ae a )roken ‘ep fnto various éGachments, which could not get Ing to the politicians. friends i a f th i ‘ae 2 i tually degtroyed the lead mines ‘near Wytheville. aes 4 to (6 the southside of the stream unto the water fell con- | 4, 72° 2012 the Brooklyn City Court tm which aiseUn- | fiends in advance Of the ceming draft. | The 191 | on the night‘of the 200b, after some resistines, our | water aa shale ers ens are derbill prosecuted her siter and nephew on the chargo | Supervisors’ comuMMtee have made repeated united forces captured the salt. works with eight pieces ef | way, New York (io tue storey, where the litle wonder Siderabiy. " He adds, however, that is was then falling, ‘end tnat there was a report that some of the rebels were @rcesing 6ik miles above Florence, at a portion of the. Btrexm oo shallow that the guoboats could not reach them. Atl their vitibie means of crossing below that Cown had Beem destroyed, Several trassports with sup- ‘Pliee for General Thomas’ men bad arrived at Chickasaw. ‘The libei sult of ¢x-Mayor Opdyke vereus Thurlow Weed was resumed at ten o'clock yesterday morning im the Supreme Court, and the testimony of several new witnesses war taken, including thatof Mr. Rufus F, An- drewe, late Surveyor of this port. The evidence of this that they bad her kept in confinement in the Blooming- dale Lunatic Asylum, againet ber will, was terminated yesterday, and rogulted io a verdict for the plaintiff of eix ceuts damages. Charles Windser, the alleged defaulting teller of the Mercantile Bank, im this city, as was announced in Wed- nesday’s Hyeraty, has been arrested in London, Fngland, Ho was tracked and secured by & New York detective, effectually ceoped up in his native State. Look to tae Esrorment or tap Drart.— We would again urge upon our citizens to attend to the correction of the enrolment lists calls upon those liable to draft in this county, } and those who are not liable from any dis- qualifying cause, to make returns to the Provost Marshal at once. They give notice that this is probably the laet attempt which will be made to secure a correct enrolment in this city, and if it is not attended to there will be mo one to miles. At one o’ciock P, M. tue lights all! disappeared suddenly, and we suppcse the ship to have gone down at that time. vn wy: pid thore was nothing tu sight except a water jade sail and cruised all round, but did not see saytbing of ber, At 12M. gaye up all hopes. The bark made sail and fF. Ransom, Sanitary Commission; Fowler, Miss Mary preore! Mrs. hes h, stewardess ; Miss Mille john 8. ‘Semith, Jane ces W. Migrath, United States GM. Wile rd. ‘avd horses being nearly worn out, J came’ upon Breokiu- ridge, who'wae following, and an ongagoment of thirty. Six Bours ensued, at the close of which Breckinridge retreated towards Saltville. But Colonel Bickley, with &@ brigade, having got into his rear, forced him in. gon cannon. ‘The expedition has been sntirely successful, and will be more felt by the exemy than the loss of Richmond, ‘The salt works and lead mines are in ruins, and cannot be repaired during the war, My forges are now at this place and safe. 8. T. BURBRIDGE, Brevet Major General, the reaim) of mechaw!eai singular A pracioal ul we al are at ee std@, a fav the Varese wil: to loosen Yaak saci ‘at the beseen im operaiion. ss ron TER, 4 0» A Superior py ie oleae of Wines; Brae, dies, Irtab, Scovch and Bourbo: JOUR J. STAPE & NOR Sirenkliastceel, i tts proprii ea rr eiores'of faa the able’ but 20 emer let. wilh & price.w Very nad conbioings. 4 there, and advent rete , and gome (unde, supp sed to be @ portion of these missing from the bank, were found im his possession. Legal arrangements have alveady been made to have Windsor back for trial. He is supposed to nave left New 0 October 29, in a steamer bound tor Liverpool. Counterfeit five and twenty dollar motes of the Mo chanics’ Bank of Worcester, Mags., were put in eircula- ten tm this city lest night, A young led; Spe SGH18H" Heel, was simost instantly Killed ycaterday by falling through the open Batohway of Promiees No. 32 Beekman street. The stock market was weak and lower yesterday, under THE FATE OF MOSBY. | Gewere! Burbridge, in a despatch descriptive of the Mate raid through Northonstera Tesmessee and South- ‘weotern Virginia by the forces under Himeelt, General Broneman aad General Gillem, gives the mest satisfne- Dory ncovent wa beve yot bad ef that amr, Whey started from Bean's station, Rest Tensenoee, om tho arn tast., defeated the rebels enor -Mroekiorider, en pp an Sisileee, Clann eelalieg. mi pr y EEE yh Bumber ef them, takieg from fom many pleoes of artillery, Griatol, 1m Teanewee, and ddingden, Wytheville, Giade Springs, Galtvilie and cther owns in Virginia, were taken, The lead mines near {Wy (bevii Gad the salt works at Baltville were teft in ®uics, and General Burbridge says the rebels canvot blame but ourselves: if the enrolment should Prove irregular or onerous. THOMAS..: —uicaiues Of Hood on the Tennessee, &., &s., ha. Wasumutex, Dec. 20, 1664. — A deapatoh tothe Navy Department from Rear Adil. } ‘ral Lee, dated, flagship Fairy, Ohickasaq, Alay. 27th, says he has destroyed a new ford at that poiet and ell the enemy's visible means of crossing the Teanecsee be- low Florence, and ou that day blow up two caissous acd th af the Wate oe KUT ASO Death of the Valley. :The Rebel Papers Acknowledge His Mortal Wouading. 6KETCH OF THE GUERILLA CHIEF, Ben Bee, bes op Janie Fa ibe a sable x ork ome, 08 A Present. =the Most out emokers ts undoudte:: Batata no ne POLUAK & SON “ithe near Fourth @ixeet. Jipes: qut-te-enter end © secce “Golered intantry; ae w York cavalry; nf tine Deck, ie ‘M rata Bema oe OF THANKS. rave Larowe, Hon Lavontaine, and, after openiug at 224, closed at 2254;. There was sextociy any business transacted yester- day, though there was more firmness than for some time. The markets may, as a general thing, be called quiet. Cotton wes firmer, Petroleum was more active A Thing of one me Serene ast ew tere, te The Death of Meshy. roe them again tn work! ‘ dhrey 4 pa eagines cies cis ee panera 99-0 Wits re mentee ry ge ag gale eg ks pas os rca eae rae on (¥rom the Richmond Dispateh, Dec. 27:) stewie Pr — x = tive and Gc. higher, while wheat was also Sc. ® 6% | saootieg for General Thomas arrived at Chickasaw on the | ¢xoceded by hie gomeroaity Of sonl, which is manifested | 10 was reported on the streets yesterday <bat the dac- | Toc: Dye. Factory 81 ov g@ebdei stores aed ammunition, and afl the railroad | higher, wich a fair demand. Gorn was dull, while onts ‘ridges and depots were captured and distroyed, and the Weilroad track for miles was torn up. ‘were in active demand and Ic. higher. Pork more active, bat without decided change. Beef quiet. Lard firmer. Freighis were active. Whiskey unsettled. 27th, Tt wae found from the General's despatches that Admiral Lee’s movemonts had been in good time, to meet those of the Gemeral. Toe Admira! says:—''Hood’s army } our aad and cnfortunate voyage pl cH. by his coremitting efforts to render tio termination of | jaat and comfortable, MARSHMAN, eae Nortle America. | { {ng and distinguished guerilia chief, Golonel Johe S..Mos- by, bad been killed by the enemy. The story was that he had been surrounded while @iniog at the house of » frieud in Culpepper and, ordered to surrender; that be Bardaait's ar nice “poles tA: —— ae re 7. bee te - + ; shure ‘he insient it ie app fe 4 . Inactivity, #0 far as relates to military movements, TT aang are is reported broken up, and {ts parts cannot cross at or j out it, : Tre Wilmington Expedition. Delow Florence, unless the river falls seriously. It is <a | drewnis pistol apd fired upon tho enemy, when bewas | ¢ < Msohs menre. Sip tte. hentmias - POU RE RRR te The reeults of the operati aaa the Porter- | 20¥ falling, which mado it impracticable to-day to reach | The Opera. | shot dend. But «telegram {rom Frederiokaburg, dated. ageitcent Boots, 6, Phowgraphic Aidums, 40. BBG. 5" @eriers whoeome into the Union lines report that the peratiol the crossing which the enemy Ia snid to bo using above | ‘avoto was given lost night for the beveft of la ' the 26th, was received yesterday moraing whiehoon- BRS, 119 Nassau, next below Beckman, ‘matonal victories fn ail portions of the country have had @ must depressing eifoct cn the men of Lee's army and ‘Bbe peopic of Richmond. Picket firing along the front, ‘which bad been almost entirely suspended for some days, Bas been again resumed to someextent. Richmoud gewspapers acknowledgethe mortal wound- dog of the notorious gueritia chief Mosby, and there can Rbereiore be Little if any doubt that he is dead. ‘The latest rebel newspapers received ocentaia & Butler expedition off Wilmington so far have developed these Important facts: first, that the rebel defences commanding the two inlets te Cape Fear river are strong and difficult of approach by land or water; secondly, that Bragg bas mustered a considerable army to defend them, in addition to the garrisons of the forts; and thirdly, that, unless assisted by & powerful Iand force, operatiig upon the Little Muscle shoals, six miles above Florence " The Sacshvil Despaten. Nasnvitte, Teun., Dec 20, 1404 Union prisoners, who escaped from Florence and ar- Tived at Columbia on the 27th, state that Hood's ad- vance arrived at the Ténneacee river on Wednesday, the ist, ‘The next day bis infantry crossed os pontoons, ‘which he had placed above the shoals out of the reach of our gundoate. One of the priconers states that Hood crossed the Tennesseo with one hundred and ter cannon. o was jargely composed hi our Freach citizens, and the | areat work of Auber appcured to be thoroughiy reliehed. ‘The cast was the same us beiore, and the performance differed nothing from previous pp cee ons, To-night the seaton closes with Vorma, with Zucohi end Massimiliant in the principal rote, « they sus- tained on Tuesday vight with auch decided success. The fearon was & very long, and in brilliant ove It lasted forty-dve nia mativecs were given, and fifteen operar twe of them—Don ere produced, | | Seastian and Fra Diavoio—veing on- | firely new im this country. We presnime that the house : tradicted the report of his death, stating that be hed t, Dut Bot mortally wounded, asd was in ihe is friends. The quection of hie condition is, Bowever, uot yet definitely ascertained. A xentieman who reached here yeaterda} ‘6 learned {i tag's men, that their chief was enot through the abilo- men while ecouting in I’riace Witliara coanty. They fur- ther stated that the surgeon did not consider the woucd mortal, though they themselves thought wae Af ‘This, we are dispored to believe, ia the correct rumor the ‘iawentable casualty, We heard last night that Colones: Mosvy bad been carried to Cherlotiesvitio, {¥rom the Richmond Sentinel, Dec. 27.) Mh was reported last evening tbat Colonel nim tom here, from two of Colave! Mos: from | © Dye, ze whe bee sha ang ugh ap Memgooe A 923—! CLARKE, | Hse ae riaid peat are: Rings of Ali ve titi ac be United States steamer Michigan and ‘liberate | forts and batteries on both sides of tho two pers Sens en SETS | een te, ifnciog, ihe sSiapek, Rave dog” foe. Fe euneh tes Seer tieey tele ‘a be rebel prisovers at Johnson’s Inland, and who | inlets and the river, strong, well placed and { oe cere joa Te gh: mr ine gg i TT WOM pereao ccehe sma’ 4 ‘eae dat below Sunal oares jee ~ 4 ‘was recently released from arrest in Toronto, ie a regu Fariy commissioned officer in the rebe! navy, and was @ospatched from Richmoad speciality for tie purp se of MOTRATION AGAINST WILMINGTON. | teue., Like Morgen, Anderson and sriilas of Gifts, Gin rey outing the work which he endeavored to carry | of the splendid harbor of Port Royal, or even | _ THE 3¥éO! | 9 * iita.—Crey. . ‘The attention of the public here has boom almost exclu- pre ws. | ince character, Mosby haw wot with adoge dagthy Hits | Goede froin Niagara Beant ae | ¢ Beet and © rompest Newspaper in the ’ v @ut Some of tie Richmond papers are ur- the channel which swee;s by the walls of | sively occupied by the reports from {be expedition Somutes. pape’ cued ane @oeien, tan thers tus sagen’ Bi eeseone, and JeWiReok Kar ; jgont im their demands that Geveral Lee shall | Fort Sumter. But the channals loading into | against Wilmington. The results thur far attained nave ‘The Weekiy Hwtaro for the present week ready to. | sdded notbing to the cause of tho rehellion by bts cone Heitaay oe 5 fore . ‘be mace commander in obiet of all the rebel | Cape Fear river are narrow, shallow and tortn- | been eo inedequate to the expectation formed by the pub- | poerow (Saturday) morning | queets. He bas only served to disgrace the country and LINED KID Ony 7c een. - farmice, oF dictator. In the rebel House of Repre | ous, while the river itself, (:om its bar for the ssinepeal scr andicap ites arf _ Liarmopsergcn bu | Terms—Sinele audsctition, 84; Thy 60 copies, 96; Five | degrade the profession ot sims, sails, Yelk oan ‘Denon . uirty-four miles to the ci has hardly an | J ’ jon, $8; Ten copies, $15. Single copies Five ceute ; John Singleton yy was born in Virginta in "aaa, @outatives on the 24th inst. « resolution deciaring that | thirty-fo y y | and the prosomt movement is only the initiation of opera. | bey A lienited mamber of édpcsaane inverted in | Nothing is known of bie youthful career. His early She writ of Aabeas corpus Ought HOt to be suspended was Aoleated by forty-one negative to thirty-ono affirmative oles, The Richmond Sentinel foresees a formidable winter campaign by the national armics agaivet Chariss- Go, Augusta aod \iebmond. EUROPEAN NEWS. The stoamebip Australasian, from Queenstown on the Z5in of December, arrived at this port yesterday morning. The Baxonia, from Southampton on tne 141h of Decem- jer, reaobed this port yestorday. | Our advices by the Australasian are two days later Bhan the ropert Of the Peruvian, off Cape Race Sverman's grand march was the prominent topic ot Piscussion im military circles iv Prossia, le the in- ferost excited by the movement in England was in: heavily armed as they are, would soon fall under the cericentrated fire of the heavier guns of Porter's fieet if he had the ample sea room average depth of seven feet in its winding and contracted channels. The armed vearels of | Porter's squadron, drawing from ten to twenty } feet water, were, therefore, not intended for | | the capture of Wilmington. The object of the , expedition must therefore be the reduction and | occupation of the forts commanding the two inleis to the river, in order to put Wilmington under lock and key against the blockade run- ners, as Beaufort, the fisest harbor of the State, was placed with the capture of Fort Macon. The land forces of the expedition, under Gen. Butler, it was not probably expected in the outset, would be advanced to the city, while the | } i AEWS FROM WASHINGTOR. earl Deo. 29, 1804 | tons destined, at no distaut day, to deprive the revels of j their only remaining port of entry. The maval authori« | ties do not levitate to declare openty that if the land ferces had been as efficiently bandied as was the nayal . part of the expedition, complete success would bave | crowned the operation, notwithstanding (he disparity of numbers of soldiers sout to what were required for the | purpose. FINANCIAL MATTERS, ‘The Secretary of the Troasor, ft last and ponitively fixed the 7tb of January as the for the withdrawal Of the ten-forty loan from the market, This announces. ‘ment is made with the printed circular in view, It may be withdrawn to-morrow, but it is anderetood thas it has Deon made this time under such @ pressure ae to make it stick. There are eighty-seven millions of whé’two bun dred miilions of thie loan yet unsold. cap. tain, steward and a sailor, named Beary Ouarge, were lost. tHE WEEKLY HERALD. the Wwenit Henat BKveniaug Stoek ww xchange. Taumapas;, Loc, 20—8:30 P, gieeee Amer gold. rf — 609 see Fite RR. Ik will be seen (rom the rebel extracts w hich we give | above that tbe rumor ob tho wounding of Moby, | which we published yesterday moruing, ‘proves 6. bo | ter. achievements in the war were Of an insignificant charac His operations auring the winters of 1864-63, ia haraeeing our troops encamped near bredericksburg, Str) be ambushed a ‘io force under oe Dranes ville, killing and woundi ent, was some months after (A i: remained idle until October imaelf famous og Baitimore and Onto fal road, at New Creek, Va., for ‘ich achisvement, on Leo's recommendation, he was Fra In varicty of stylelnd texture, Want t t utes sanascieew a gatena tony, Tee 7 7 "9 every one. Contents tables =inaiiae tre, am 0. Hee Se Siete Chast siveat oS aie i ‘e aaa x Grew fieet would be operating on the seaboard. 22, Promoted Hcutenat colonel, On October 14 kis camp re ee Mr, Soward’s treatment of the foreign “ pence” inter+ | Fort Macon, Fort Pulaski and Fort Morgan were | | Notlee is berany fired ttm 8 bear Moimat, Ya, waa surprised. wy coicnel Canee- | | Wile tragn Fale . older, Parker, is bighly approved of by the London 4 ° in On the 7th of Japuery next. No subsoriptions of the Thirteenth New York cavairy, and bis force eo Soe each brought to a surrender by land batteries; Theretore will be received efter that 4 During the campaign in the between Tim W. P, FESSENDEN, Seoretery of the Treasury, Sheridan and Moaby y bo Liverpool cotton market closed dull, with prices ‘weak, op the 17th of December, Breadstulle were quict gua dy, Provisions were active, head of Morris Island, was reduced to a heap | further texves of currency. fi cloved to Loudvn on the 27th inet 689% |) of rabbish, Land batteries may also be re- EXCHANGE OF PRISONERS OF WAR. eed ear a Bo), (or moary. quire’ to reduce Forts Fisher and Caswell, To J Colonel Mniford govt to Richmond next week, with new Hela of hie iting ar MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. The steamer Moro Castle arrived at thir port yesterday mm (lavana. She brought, however, little newn of com f snenee irom eithor Havana or Mexico, iy way of tho Miestevippt river we have @ report that e@| Yaborde, of Maximillan’s army, bar been de- cied at Matamoros in ® plot agatnst the Fimperor and enoed to twenty years’ confinersent. It is eaid thad (hor officers were abot and thal quite a onmber jon Of being counected with ‘ovr ve boon arrested op 6u # plot. Colon! Cavales bed been killed in a feds Wit B Goes had resulted in no @amage to the work Neel wees 1 bog we senee heneral Cortina, We have received full files of the fiwo guos. The dis- nvestigaved before Judge Hibbs orvior of the Fromier, published ot Matamorvs, to tho beyond the dislodging’ o s ' Ah! coarly eatabiiahed, I Orsccvecee LOM | toward A tone the Rossel po ‘ lodgment of those two guns, however, shows A 2nd mY Care disunivood ay ¢ ts we Dccccgee MOM DIA Sasser a, bine ‘ : ‘ fk f apen woare uniform —(ne HE 8 he Ar, Mora a etlemen well Baoma , that (rom this formidable work, buried uadec WBOMAe BYAF 1B009 Oni in eS bead a. and Fort Sumter, not from the guns on board ships, buat from Gilmore’s batteries at the this end the fleet has covered and will cover 1 the landing and working of Butler’s troops until they shall Lave intrenched themselves and planted thelr gans, when, we doubt not, the fleet and the army w'll open fire together upon the enemy’s den befere them, Bragg reports that a “yery heavy bombardment” of Fort Fisher, of two days’ duration, by our ‘The Treasury Department to-day begaa paying of sus pended requisitions up to the 1st of December, without Propositions for the exchange of the Union prisoners re- maining in rebel banda, He hopes soon to obtain the ox- change of ail Union prisoners not previously liberated by Genoral Sherman's operations. e Intelligence. TO THE EDITOR OF TAB HBUALD. No, 91 Gaarwwicw Staxut, New Your, In your issue of the 25h fast, a paragraph sppeara which states that J was arrested, along wiiba young amed Patrick Macarty, op a charge of tae m- Karly, ‘out in Page aay aot week Abe batt mre ea of bin es wong ie iced K reapect iv dé, Captain Mountjoy, Captwin Some. Ou SePtate eter re Scans