The New York Herald Newspaper, January 18, 1865, Page 4

NEW YORK HERALD. eS JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE N. W. CORNER OP FULTON AND NASSAU STS. New York, Wednesday, January 18, 1865. We are enabied this morning to announce a glorious Sequel to the news resarding Fort Fisher published in yesterdays Hararp, That work and its auxiliary forts fare now in the possession of the national forces, They were captured last Sunday afternoon and night, after gome most desperate and determined fighting. They were first subjected toa furious shelling of three hours by the navel vessels, after which, at three o’clock in the after- Goacrai Cuitis’ brigade, of Ames? division of the ‘Twenty-fourth corps, led the assault on the west side of Fort Fisher. Other troops fo'lowed Curtis’, and the sail- ors and marines also took part in the sanguinary work. Stop by step, flercely and stubbornly contending all the way, sud over alinost insurmountable obstacles, the soldiers worked thelr way into the rebel strong” bold, and it was after ten o’clock at night when full pos- session of it was obteined. Ite entire garrison, with Genera! Whiting and Coloael Lamb, were made prisoners, end all the other rebel works south of it on Federal Point, with the troops in them, were captured, together with seventy-two gun: sud lerge amounts of property and moor The entire number of prisoners taken wns about ° twenty-Gve hundred. We have no definite statement of the casualties of the national forces; but they are re stores, ported at five hundred. The despatches regarding this greni achievement which wo publish this morning are intensely interesting. We also give sketches of the lead- Sng actors in the briltiant afiair, and a map of the locality, The event caused the greatest excitement and rejoicing gesterday in this city and throughout the country, In rovognition of {ts important cad glorious charactor the Secretary of the Ni: the news, despatched telegrams ordering national salutes tobe fired at all the navy yards, and General Grant yrdered asainte of one hundred guns in each of the armies of the Potomac and tho James, The Richmond Whig of yesterday contained an official despatch from Ge } Lee announcing the fall of Fort Fisher. In com- y, Immediately on tho recoipt of mounting on it tho Wiig says that it created “ profound regret” in the rebel capital. It says that the capture of this work is equivalent to the closing of the harbor of Wilmington against blockade runners, but professes to Tegard it at present as ‘rather an unfortunate than dis- astrous event.”? A rebel nowspaper despatch from Charleston, dated on S\turday last, seys Sherman’s troops havo retired from the vicinity of Hardeville, South Carolina, and fallen back to the Savannah river. Two hundred and fifty ‘‘refu- gees” from Savannah arrived in Charloston on the 14th instant. ‘They reported that Sherman’s men were busy fu removiug the obstructions from the Savannah river, find that moverents on Charleston, Angusta and Branch- vile Among the contents of the late rebel papers is an arti- cle io the Charleston Mercury which gives a most deplo- rable picture, for the @ause of the confederacy, of the Condition of the rebel army in South Carolina, It says the troops are a herd of stragglers and outlaws, under the of imbecilos, It adds:— “The path we are now travelling is straight to destriction, The result of the next stx months will bring the confederacy to the ground or will rein- 8 ate it in power. Without reform we are doomed.” A despatch from Canton, Miss., acknowledges all the damaging effects to the confederacy of General Grierson’s Jate sweeping raid on the Mobile and Ohio and Missis- sippi Central Railroads, already described in the Hxmatp. Mr. Foote was still at Fredericksburg, Va, on parole, on Monday. By the steam transport Star of the fouth, which reached this port from Port Royal, S. C., yesterday, we learn of the arrival there on the 9th inst. of Secretary Stanton, Quartermaster General Meigs, Assistant Adju- tant General Townsend, Collector Simeon Draper, and They left immediately for ere soon to be made. command other prominent gentlemen. Savannah CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday remonstrances from citizens of West Virgin's against the substitction of military for civil government, and of the Boston Board of Trade against th mediate paseage of the Bankrupt act, were proveniod and appr ly referred. A petition of the Pr ‘elphia Boat ng for the imposition of guch duty on foreign vessels as shall render the burdens on domestic shipping les: onerous was presented and referred to tho Committee on Commerce. The rowlution for additional pay to the Capitol em- os was repo: back from the Finance Com- ¢ and indefnitely laid over. General Richard Dela fold was elected a Regent of the Smithsonian Institute, in place of General Totten, deceased. A petition from ex-Surgeon General Hammond, asking for a further in- quiry nto the charges preferred against him, was pre- 1d and referred to the Judiciary Committe also a bill to amend the national Jodicial system. Tho Houso bill regulating the carrying of mails to foreign countries was passed. At the solicitation of the House a committee to confer on the disagroeing amendments to tho Deficiency Appropriation Dill was agreed to. The joint resolution requiring the Secretaries of War and Navy to propare inventories of all articles in their charge was adopted. A bili to regulate the man- fagomont of captured and abandoned property in the rebel States wae introduced and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Mr, Sumner, as a substitute for the House resolution for terminating the treaty with Great Britain defining the naval force which that nation and our own shell maintain @p the Northern Inkes, presented one to tho offect that the notico for such termination already ri by tho President shall be adopted and ratified, as if the same had been authorized by Congress, This sub- BUtute was ordered to be printed, when, after an execu- tive exevion, the Senate adjourned, In the House of Representatives bills wore prosentod making grants of lands for the founding of soldiers’ and Baiiors’ Loepitale in all the States, and for a railroad to connect St. Cloud, Minn., with the Lake Superior and Misciacippi Railroad, ° A rozolution waa proposed, the in- troduction of which wan objected to, inatracting the Ways and Means Committee to prepare o bill increasing the na- tional revenue thirty-three and a thied por cent, A reao- lotion for a committee of Ave to investigate tho causes of tho Indian difficulties was adopted. The Yl! making ap propriation for fhe support of the Military Academy wns passed. Home other business was transacted, and thon the bill to provide republican governments for the rebet tates was taken up and discussed for como time, and finally postponed for two weeks. THE LEGISLATURE. In the Stato Senate yesterday billa were noticed to con firm tho ordinance of the New York Common Counctl puthorizing the extension of the Third Avenue Railroad ; authorizing tae Now York Supervisors to raiso money by tax, and relative to expenditure thereof; also concerning paacongore arriving (1 veeseie at this port. Bills wero fptroduced to enable the Lackawanna Railroad Company fo purchase real estate in New York for offlee purposes; ending tho act to ald the national government in pro- iding defences for the Northern takes; also amending tho act anthorizing tho Brooklyn Common Counell to fasue bounty bonds, The bill incorporating the Home for isabled soldiers was adopted. A motion was introduced hat the commissioners having charge of the construc. Uon of the Harlem Bridge be required to report what jmoufit they have thus far expended, together with be sum necessary for ite completion, which was Mopted. | In the Assembly, in reply to a resolution, the Governor @imerent counties, Bills were noticed to increase the duty on salt; for a railroad ia Grand street; for a rail- road in Twenty-fourth street; also for a railroad in Sixty- ‘sixth street and Lexington avenue. Bills were introduced to amend the Zxcise law; also to prohibit the collection of rent for gas metres in New York. The bill authorizing the Comptroller of New York to pay salaries was read a third time and passed, MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. ‘We had a fine fall of snow yesterday. It commenced about ten o'clock in the morning and continued till about five in the evening, at times descending very heavily, and at others coming down moderately. As the ground was frozen hard, all that fell remained, and as there was not wind sufficient to scatter it it was distributed evenly over the surface, to the depth of three or four inches. It therefore afforded excellent sleighing, and the up town streets and suburbs wero again merry last evening with the jingling of bells. The night being clear and star- light and the air sharp and bracing, just the proper weather for the full enjoyment of the sport was afforded. Supervisor Tweed was re-elected President of the Board of Supervisors yesterday, and delivered an address, re- viewing what has been done by the county towards the suppression of the rebellion, and also showing what is still to be done, and the condition of the county finances. In the United States Circuit Court yesterday, before Judge Shipman, eight seamen, belonging to the ship Mer- cury, pleaded guilty to an indictment charging ‘them with ‘attempting to create a mutiny on board said vessel. They were remanded for sentence ti!l to-morrow. Tho alleged Prussian defaulter, Gustave Voghtman, was brought up yesterday bofore Commissioner White for examination as to the grounds for granting extradition in his case, The hearing was, however, postponed till Fri- day next. In the Suprome Court, circuit, before Judge Leonard, yesterday, Charles W. Kimball brought an action against Charles Burrell, to recover compensation for services rendered, as alleged, in assisting in the sale to the govern- ment, in the year 1861, of the steamship Mercedita, The Jury rendered a verdict denying the claim, In the Supreme Court, before Judge Barnard, yester- day, William Ryan sued to recover five thousand dollars damages from Michael Rapp, for false imprisonment on suspicion of being concerned in a theft of jewelry. The jury were directed to bring in a Sealed verdict at eleven o'clock this morning. In the Supreme Court, chambers, yesterday, before Judge Ingraham, the application of the opera manager Gran fora commission to go to Europe to examine the tenor Brignoli in a suit pending between them was de- nied. ‘The trial of Bornard Friery, for the alleged murder of Harry Lazarus, in Houston street, was called on yeaterday in the Court of General Sessions; but, on motion of one of tho lawyers who have beon assigned to defend him, Judge Russel postponed the case till Monday next, when it will positively be commenced. ‘The Surrogate has admitted to probate the contested will of Mrs. Julia Lee. The Thomas will was still on trial in the Surrogato’s Court yesterday. Orders have been issued to the assessors and collectors by Mr. Lewis, Commissioner of Internal Revenue, for- bidding them to permit in future the copying of the names from the lists of taxpayers for the purpose of pub- lication in the newspapers. In the United States Circuit Court at Tronton, New Jer- soy, yesterday, Judge Field declined to grant an injunc- tion applied for by a manufacturing company against the collector of internal revenue, in order to test the legality of his gssessment, The following were among the cases before the police magistrates yesterday:—Joseph and John McGivens, brothers, were locked up on suspicion of being the per- sons who, on the night of the 1st inst., mado a burgla- rious entrance into the house of Mr. Andrew Burnett, No. 121 West Twenty-seventh street, and when detected en- deavored to shoot Mr. Burnett, On Monday night a squad of police made a descent on the rooms of the Rutgers Clab, in Rutgers street, and arrested six persons who are charged with various offences of an aggravated character, such as outrages upon women, robbery and violence on the streets and in their club house. It is alleged that twoof the number are deserters and bounty jumpers. Against vthers there are complaints of rape and assault- ing officers. The two charged with desertion from the army Were passed over to the military authorities, and the others were locked up. [sadore Friedlander was committed for examination, charged with passing, in payment for some cigars which he bought in Rutgers street, three counterfeit bills—one a ten on the New York Exchange Bank, one a five on the Merchants’ and Mechanies’ Bank of Troy, and the othera five on the New Haven City Bank. A man giving his, namo as Joseph Brennan was committed to the Tombs for trial, charged with having, in company with another man who has not yet been arrested, broken into the dwelling of Mr. Te- van, No 9 Pell street, and stolen therefrom a quantity of clothing. Counterfeit ten dollar bills on the State Bank of New- ark, N. J., were put in circulation last night. Aflso two dollar bills—altcred from ones—of the Bellinger Bank, of Horkimer county, N. ¥., wore passed on several store- keepers in the lower part of this city. The Indians have been committing additional outrages in Colorado, on the overland route to California. On last Saturday two hundred of them burned a mail station and four ranches, etole a large number of horses and cattle and destroyed the telegraph and a large amount of other property. ‘The anniversary of Franklin's birthday was celebrated last evening by the New York Typographical Society by an entertainment at their library, of which music, poetry and oratory were the items in the bill of fare. The Pre- sident of the society, Wiliam McRae, delivered a patriotic address, W. 0. Bourne read an original poem, and P. C. Baker delivered a enlogium on-Franklin. Other exercise succeoded of an equally interesting character. The room was well filled with ladies and gentlemen. Last evening Mrs. Blackwell (formerly Antoinette L. Brown, of Woman's Rights notoriety,) delivered a lecture on “Men aud Women,” at Cliaton Hall, to a select audi- ence. The stock market was dull and drooping yesterday, Government securitios were dull. Gold was excited, and, after opening at 217, closed at 216. Nearly everything in commercial circles was dull and norminal yesterday, tho fall in gold having unsettled values of nearly all kinds of merchandise. It was ox- coedingly difficult to find purchasers at any price: so that litle business was done in any department. Cotton was decidedly lower. Potroloum was dull and nominal. On 'Change the flour market was quiot, and prices were Se, © 10c, off. Whent was inactive and lower. Corn was in better demand, but lower, old having declined lc. a 2c. Oats wero in better demand and steady. Pork was in fair demand at lower prices, while beef was less active at un- changed rates. Lard was scarcely so firm, wtth a limited demand. Froights continue quick Whiskey was ex- cited and decidedly higher: The market for beof cattle this woek, being influenced by light recetpts, ruled decidedly buoyant, and firmer than last week, all kinds of catue selling at an advance of Ke. aloe. per ld, Prices ranged from 1130. to 200. a Zio. for inferior to good. Strictly prime: cattle brought 226. a Me., and vli sold within tho range, The market for cows was the sume. Venls wero steady at 10%zc. a Ide, Sheep and lambs were active and higher, ranging from $5 50 to $10 a $12, an to quality. Hogs “have eold freely at some ndvance—12s. a 140. being the range. The total receipts were 4,664 beeves, 81 cows, 843 veals, 15,004 sheep and lambs and 10,606 hogs. Gnast and SuErMAn—We published yeater- day a brief letter from Lientenant General Grant, offering a contribution of tive hundred dollars towards the proposed testimonial to Major Goneral Sherman. The testimonial, we understand, is to be in the form of a furnished house in Cincinnati, to be presented to Mra. Sherman. In his letter the Lieutenant General says:—“General Sherman is eminently entitled to this mark of consideration. I cannot say @ word too highly in praise of General Sherman's services from the beginning of the rebellion to the present day. The world’s history gives no record of bis superiors and but few equals.” This splendid eulogy shows how incapable General Grant is of any joalouay or envy, and does honor to his heart and bis position. It is true that he, who is go great himself, oan amply afford to recognize the greatness of others; but when we compare his praise of Sherman with the detractions with which little partisan offi- cers delight to assail each other, we can form a better estimate of the superiority of his mind (nt in » communication relative to the cuotas of the | and bis genius. News from Wilmington— Fort Fisher Ours, It is not strange if the news of the capture of Fort Fisher sounded to the whole country, when first heard, almost too good to be true. So well had the secret of the second attempt been kept that the country only knew that another attempt was to be made a few hours before the announcement of its success was received; and such a circumstance was so un- like the usual history of these affairs that it might very justly excite suspicion, But the despatches of Admiral Porter and General Terry, given elsewhere, will remove all doubts—even, we fancy, from the mind of the most ardent friend of General Butler. These despatches tell the glorious story simply. The fort was submitted, on the 14th and 15th inst., to the same tremendous bombardment inflicted in December; and then, at three P, M. on the 15th, the army moved forward and assaulted the fort. Part of the parapet was carried by escalade after a desperate fight. Our men by that means effected a lodgment in the work, and completed the capture at night. Our loss is heavy, but is not yet known. Fort Fisher and its dependencies were garrisoned by fifteen hundred to two thousand men, all of whom are prisoners. By this triumph we gain one very great sub- stantial result, We absolutely close the last sea- port by which the enemy kept open effec- tive communication with Burope—by which cot- ton went out in large quantities, and by which the whole assortment of blockade running goods went in. Some little reflection will show that, in this point of view, the capture of Fort Fisher is one of the most important victories of the war. Cotton does go out from the trans- Mississippi part of Rebeldom, and some Euro- pean products do go in by way of the Rio Grande; but the rebel government never has relied upon any but the Atlantic ports or the Gulf ports this side the Mississippi to supply its wants. When these were reduced in num- ber to two—Mobile and Wilmington, with per- haps an entry now and then at Charleston— it was in a bad strait, althongh then the importation of English machinery and English mechanics had enabled it to manu- facture, at Atlanta, Rome and Augusta, a large portion of the articles that at the commencement of the war it had to get from Europe, With the use of two ports and great activi'y in its various manufactories, it did very well for many months, and kept its armies in the field supplicd—not perfectly, but well enough to make them effective. Then Sherman broke up the immense shops at Atlanta and Rome, crip- pling the rebels greatly, and compelling them to rely still more on Europe. Negt, Far- ragut closed Mobile. Matters were getting rapidly worse and worse, for presently Sher- man was on the seaboard, and between Augusta and Richmond. So, one by one the rebel- lion had been deprived of all the agencies that enabled it to equip armies, except the arsenal shops in Richmond and the port of Wilmington. Now the last port has gone, and it would hardly be hyperbole to say that the last cap has been exploded on rebel rifle that Europe can fur- nish. No more arms or ammunition, blankets, clothes or shoes can go in, nor can any conside- rable quantity of cotton'go out. Now, indeed, the confederacy ceases to exist for Europe. In another point of view also the country is to be congratulated upon the capture of Fort Fisher. It puts the last seal to the popular damnation of General Butler. General Butler’s admirers and adherents are that class of men who never relinquish any position while there is a possibility that argumentative subtlety may make the people believe that theyare right. It does not seem possible to imagine anything so absurd; but the whole world may be made to believe it if any considerable number of men will maintain it with vigor and stick to it Thus there was a chance that by dint of assertion, made under all possible circum- stances and at all times, the people might be brought to believe that there were mitigating circumstances in Batler’s failure, and that thus he might again be forced into position. But how can the friends of Butler answerJhis cap- ture? Here is the fort, made stronger by the enemy than it was before, garrisoned by three or four times as many men, and it falls the first time an attempt is made to take it. Will not this finish all the Butler controversy? The Glort General Terry vs. General Butler—The Finishing Blow to Our Political Gene- rals. General Butler, while explaining before the War Committee ofpCongress, yesterday, why he did not even attempt to take Fort Fisher, must have been somewhat taken eback with the thundérs of the salute in honor of the capture of Fort Fisher by General Ter ry. Wo can now comprehend the keen disappointment of Admiral Porter, as ex- pressed in his regret to General Butler, that “only a few more of your gallant fellows had got inside, for I think the fort could have been more easily taken then is snppoeed.” Accord- ing to the testimony of rebel desertors, it could have been taken in an assault by General But ler without resistance. The rebel garrison ex- pected an assault and were prepared to meet it by # currender, so effectually had Porter crip- pled and demoralized them. But General Butler withdrew from what he feared would be a neeless sacrifice of his troops, Mistaken exercise of humanity! Tho rebels, peering out from their shattered casemaies, were first astonished at it, and next emboldened to prepare for a more formidable visitation. Their damages were repaired, their works were strengthened, they were largely reinforced, #0 that on the 14th instant, in speaking of the ranort that “the enomy’s fleet had commenced * again the bombardment of Fort Fisher,” the Richmond Dispatch said “they will find the fort in much better condition for resistance than when Butler made his attempt uponit.” And so they did, and hence the severe losses in killed and wounded suffered by the assaulting columns of General Terry. Thus we see that while a little boldness on the part of General Butler would have been the exercise of s wise humanity, his unfortunate timidity rendered the capture of the fort impossible without a considerable sacrifice of our brave men. Of all the nega- tive qualities of a military leader, when carried to excess, the quality of excessive caution is the worst, because it achieves nothing and ends in the very disasters which it seeks to avoid. The Committee on the Conduct of the War need not trouble themselves much more about General Butler. Fort Fisher settles his case. General Terry, @ volunteer, who has gallantly fought his way to his present position, is not a West Pointer. It is thus apparent that West Point jealousy of our civilian generals (if we may 60 call those not educated at West Point) had nothing to do withsthe removal of General Butler. His removal may be justified upon the single ground of disobedience of orders; or upon.the plea of established incompetency as the leader of an army against the enemy. His vocation is that of a lawyer, and, in conection with this war, it is the vooation of s military governor, invested with the power of declaring, defining and executirig upon intractable rebels the primitive restraints of military law. In this capacity he is as bold and remorseless as Su- warrow, while as 4 soldier Fort Fisher has shown him to be as docile as a Quaker. In General Butler’s removal, General Grant is relieved of the chief of those political gene- rals and the scheming cliques of politicians behind them, who have spoiled the best laid plans of our best officers from the begin- ning of the war. Having no more favors to ask of his party cliques of mischief makers, President Lincoln can afford now to allow the war to be conducted on military principles and by military men. Down to the appointment of General Grant as the directing head of the army, the arrangements. by the Washington Directory of the officers and operations of our military campaigns were parcelled out to con- ciliate this clique and that clique of politicians as much as for anything else. The mere mention of the suggestive names of McDowell, McClel- lan, Pope, Burnside, Hooker and Meade, in connection with the brave old Army of the Potomac, will furnish to the reader abundant evidence upon this point. If Grant and other generals in the West, meantime, were more successful, it was because they were less embarrassed by the political cliques of ignorant fanatics controlling the Washington Directory. But even General Grant, since he came to the East, though ap- pointed by the special intervention of Congress to the general control of our armies, has been hampered and seriously embarrassed by some of these political or politician generals, fastened upon him for mere partisan purposes. Take the case of-General Butler, for example. There was nothing in his military career to designate him as the leader of the army movement up the James in co-operation with Grant’s movement from the Rapidan in May last. Butler, we must conclude, was fastened upon the army by the Washington radical abolition politicians, We dare say that, in his place, any one ofa dozen of the regular army officers in Virginia at that time would have carried the Army of the James into Petersburg before he would have been required to stand upon the defen- sive, In any event, the removal of General Butler from the army is no logs to the service. His place can be readily supplied os a soldier, though it is possible there is a rebel city or two in which, as military dictator, hereaficr, his peculiar qualifications may be useful in paving the way to loyalty, law and order. On the other hand, however, from the gracious sub- mission of Savanuah to General Sherman, in- cluding some of the ringleaders of secession, we may conclude that no more such stringent examples of discipline as those of New Orleans will be needed to bring the people even of Richmond or Charleston to terms, with the res- toration therein of tho “oid flag” of the Union. And so, while admitting that General Butler has “done the State some service,” we are gra- tified that his unprofitable military career has been brought to a close. When a subordinate genoral assumes authority not set down in his instructions he must succeed or bear the conse- quences. mt. Quewee, Jan. 17, 1865, ‘Tho Canadian Parliament meets on Thursday. | A Cubi- net meeting will be held to-day to dnish the programme for the coming sedeion. A notidenble feature of the passport system is that thoy are demanded on rallway thoroughfares, but om the ordinary ro: ent ing biaine an ‘orm py tA ‘7 ont passporta are Fires in New York. FIRE IN CHERRY STRERT. Avout seven o'clock last night a fire broke out ina stable in the jumber yard of Joseph Duryee, No. 208 Cherry strect, corner of Clinton steeet. The flames et § extended into the piles of lumber, and up to the time of going to press was still burning. The damage a6 far as could be estimated will be about $6,000; folly in- sured. One horse was burned to death. The origin of the fire is at present unknown. FIRE IN BROADWAY. Bhortly sftor four o'clock yesterday afternoon an alarm Of fire originated from No, 313 Broadway, in the Premises of Lee, Bliss & Co., dealers in dry goods. it appears tha, for a day or two a strong smell of gas existed in the base- Ment, and the Gas Company was notified, and they rent men to remedy the difficulty. On examination the ‘was found to come from behind the barement wall ander thesidewalk, when one of the men applied a light and an immodiato explosion took piace, setting fire to the wood- work. An alarm ee and the firemen soon arrived and extinguished the fire. Tho etock waa be damaged by water several thousand doil bad condition of the hose, Block fully neue oo Ten Muzo Concent Trovre.—After a most successful tour in the West Signor Muzio has undertaken a fresh one in the Southwest, and wil! viit in succession Phila dolphia, Washington, Baltimore, Pittsburg, Columbus, &e. Ho ts accompanied by Gottschalk and Miss Simons, soprano. This young lady hag beon most warmly reovived wherever she has been; her pure, fresh volo’ and admirable mothod pleasing universally, She haa entirely got over the timidity that embarrassed her rst offorts here, and when she appears in opera we have ‘no doubt she will make a most successful début, Arda- vanni, an excellent concert baritone, completes the troupe. With such elemonte it cannot fail to meet with Uboral support wherever it goos. Lreronn ow Prrnotevm.—Benjamin K. Browne, Beq., Je announced to repoat hi lecture on the Oil Regions of Penusylvania, with paintings, at tho Brooklyn Athe- haum, this evening, at eight o'clock. ie Joven O'Clock Ar M.. Now. 70m, 165" 00 eloven o'clock A. M, Nos 3, 00%. 953, 963, 865, 007, 75, 981, O88, ORF, O87, rey, Sia eg ¥ 719 , TY, ‘340, 80, ‘nod, ‘nah, ‘at, aba? AL Tek, —Part 1! Court © Cours. 4 Ti2, 682 we eh e " va a te on ie 9051, (4771, rr Aral, a8 get, 4084 8199, 4641, 2646, 4 ee er aI the NEW YORK) HERALD, "WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1865) THE SOUTH. Sherman’s Troops Retired to the Savannah River. The Feint Movement Towards Charleston Ended General Grierson’s Raid in Mississippl. Bellefonte Captured, Granada Burned and the Central Mississippi Railroad Destroyed. DEMORALIZATION OF HARDEE’S ARMY. wee Law, Order and Protection from the Rebel Soldiers Demanded by the South Carolina Citizens. The Crisis Upon the Confederacy in Fearful Barnest. The South Carolinians Want “No More Jeff. Davis Foolery.” “Tho Result of the Next Six Months to Wipe Out the Confederacy,” Kee Ker &e. The Richmond Whig of to-day (Tuesday, tho 17th,) states that the Hon. Pierre Soule had arrived from Mexico, on a mission to the Confederate States, Street rumors in Richmond say Seddon has boon re- moved and Breckinridge made Secretary of War. Other changes were talked about, but there is nothing official. The Confederate House of Representatives yosterday declared, by resolution, in regard to Governor Foote, that, under all the circumstances of the case, it is expedient that the military authority discharge him from custody. It is presumed that ho has been placed at liberty. Sherman Retires to the Savannah, Hav- ing Accomplished the Aims of hia Feint Towards Charleston. Crrartzston, Jan. 14, 1865. The enemy’s force about Hardeovillo havo retired back to the Savannah river. There is somo doubt whether the troops had been sent to Beaufort. There aro ho indica- tions of an advance this way. Intelligent persons from Savannah state that the late meeting there numbered about three hundred, of whom one hundred were Jews, eighty-six Irish, and the re- mainder were of Northern birth and shaky politicians, who no more represent the people of Savannah than a dozen deserters represent Lee's army. Savannah Refugees at Charleston. CuaRuestox, Jan, 15, 1866. Two hundred and fifty refugees arrived here last night from Savannah. The Yankees were busy moving the obstructions from the river, and say they will soon move on Augusta, Branchville and Charleston. No move- ment has been made as yot, though the refugecs think thore will be goon. Sherman and his officers threaten toro- duce Charloston and South Carolinatodesoletion. His rule in Savannah, for policy, continue, mild. Ie has writ- ton a letter to the citizens, saying the only way to have peace is to send members to the United States Congress and return to the Union, and that It is ridiculous to think of any otier kind of reconstruction. The refagees Drought out such servants and baggage as they desired. Many negroes wero returning to their masters. Grierson’s Raid Mississippi. CAPTURE OF BBLLEFONTR AND BURNING OF GRANADA, _LANTON, Miss., Dec, 81, 1864, The federal cavalry force, under General Grierson, who had been operating on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad with some success anti! driven off by our forces under General Gholson, captnred Bellefonte, Mise., on the night of the 30th. After destroying much property they divided on the morning of the Bist, the main body mov- ing on Granada, which, it is supposed, they burned. The other column struck the Central Railroad, twenty miles south of Granada, at Winona, where they burned the depot. They then moved south, destroying the railroad and Uuildings At sunset to-day they were at West Stanton. Colonel W. A. Bordwell, chief of the cotton burcau of the Trans-Mississippi Department, has purchased and in- troduced into the department, pledging payment in cot- ton, 23,800 pairs of blankets, 60,000 pairs of shoes, 150,000 yards of shirting and towels, 150,000 pounds of powder, 20,000 pounds of lead, 6,000,600 percussion caps, a large quantity of guns, 140,000 yards of gray army cloth and ratinet, anda large quantity of bard- ‘ware, copper, saltpelre, and @ great quantity of emall elores, - 7 Governor Foote is still at Frodericksburg on his parole. A Cry of Despair from South Carolina, THB HOTDED OF TREASON IN A TERRIBLY DEMOBAL- WED STATB. (From the Charloeton Mercury, Jan. 12.] The condition of this military department, as embraced within the limits of Georgia and South Carolina, is any- thing but satisfactory to any man who is aware of facts, and bas capacity to understand their bearing. Wo pre- sume there is noone in this department to whom the condition of our present military organizations is [ese satisfactory than to the General commanding. Probab! there is no one so thoroughly aware of the lamentndle di tion that prevails in certarm and sections of his command. Yet it would scarcely fair to hold him responsible for this condition of things. His depart. ment has boen newly turned into his hands, and many of the troops are new to him and to tuis department. They came to him under the command of imbeciles; he has re- ceived thei, @ herd of siragglers and outlaws, What has been done to eradicate this fatal evil we shall not stop to inquire. The time has been short to do much, ‘and the forces have been much scattcred. But the very last moments ere arriving, when all must be done that is to be done, when all must be done that gan be done, ‘The enemy does not intend to wait upon our leisure, And there 18 much to do. Before Bringing ourselvas to face the enemy, it is abso- Intely essential that those in command bring themselves to face the vital evils existent within ourown lines, The path we now are travelling is straight to The Crisis Of the confederacy has arived im fatal earnest, The result of tha nezt sie months will bring the to te grownd, or will reinstate power, Without reform we are doomed, There is more than one bey nee of ah see in which reform is important. Bus reform in our armies is essential—is vital. Without it the death knell of tho confederrey ts alrendy tolled. With the proper reforme made, he is a coward who carries his heart ja bis boots. There aro men in the land—there ia fight In the latid! It is the imbecile that ie sick at heart— it is the coward whoee stomach is weak, There '¢ noth. ing before vs that cannot be overcome; but to do it, there must be a new state of things instituted. We say again, there must be nerve. Mon in command musi not be afraid to die—they must not be afraid to kill. Oieers must be killed—not mare privates. Reform must begin at the top, not at the bottom of the service. To reach the private, captains must be shot We want no child's ta @ Waat an army. ‘hot ig @ man’s life to the institutions and the liberty of the country’ Nothing. Let old things pars awey— Jet us have a now condition of things. We want no more If. ' joolery; we want one atom of braina, one spark of nerve—wo want no more of Bahamism—we wont no mermaids with heads of monkeys and fishy at- tachmente at tho nether extromitios—we want men, real earnest men—North a and South lina are in no mood Sor » They bave had enough of this sort of thing. They ‘t intend to have much more. South Caro! dop’t intend to be a wered. She intends to fight. She don’t intend to ampered or turned over to the enemy. When abe is thus dealt with, there will he reckoning—a reckonin; pte od there will be no ors Of We want implicit order and calm forecast, south Carolina ie. & commonwealth of order; we expect order, and wo de- Mand order. We are dcoustomed 9 order. Wo are not be ag yg os) pig Fh mi m Col ar thorough soldtor, tried and tried. We tenets thas ie he wil) per this duty, We look to hit to unfineh- , Without fear, favor, or of pet- {6 community of Inte. ‘Ks one Teoeted eee ninety.two we Sees Drea, patente, Hie manitarianism to guide us With wolhese still preserved that code pon our successors. We are teft us in their ignorance—sim- Christians, The law of order good. citt- sens = lf for the enforcement of it here, im the aeetn No cir life, The Bsesutive | of this Stare will cheer! 80. fe sland to-day as pair atpped tothe fight; and trained to enter the struggle for life or we are for death. uth Carolina is ready to becoine the arema of the republic. Her sons are ready for the contest Make of ber whole soil a military camp—strip her to will not shnnk. But give her her her pinnae sword, aud sheis ready to stand oF A most onerous but imperative duty devolves bor the commander of this Sopanmnent, whoever be duty—this first and most essential duty—is to cashier aad to shoot, Without it nothing cgn be done, and sher- man conquers us, §=With it, he is a.coward who sic cumbs at heart, Evorything is at stake—everythiag that is in the way must be faced and trampled upon. The map wbo commands here must put his heart in hte pocket and his sword in his hand. ~ He rust know n> thing but the good of the confederacy. bat he must do regardless of official weakness, The end must be radical reform. It is folly to talk of red tape now—we want the | thing—we must have it—reform, shooting, cashieria; order, subordination, soldiers—not runaways, ragamt-- Ons, rufiang, Wo want, and we must have, braing «nd luck ia commanders, and implicit obedience and oraet In subordinates aud soldiers. Six paces and a steady rim will do the business if repeated sufliciently often, esps- clally among commissioned offcerm, ge 44, atin a ate Tf, howe’ commanding officors Will not do their duty in this a oy ‘sy alt »*Sn Banat their books, for cod will wave Well High come, The time is short—wi be umproved? NEWS FROM PORT ROYAL. Arrival of Seeretary Stanton and Collector Draper at Hilton Mead, &C.y &e., &e. ‘The stcam transport Star of the South, Captain Wood. hull, arrived at this port yesterday from Port Royal, whence she sailed on the 1dth inst, X The New South of the 14th inst. saysi— The Hon. Secretary of War, £. M. Stanton, Majot, Goneral Meigs, Quartermaster Goncral ; Briguiier Genera) Townsend, Assistant Adjuignt Genoral; Major General Barnand, Brigadier Gener! hurnes, Hon. Simeon Draper, and Mr. Minturn, of Grinnell © Minturn, arrived at thik post on Monday Inst, in the Nevada and feft imnicdiatesy for Savannah. ' It is expected they will leave for Wash- ington in the Western Letropolis on Saturday, Reinforcements for General Sherman. Nasuviur, Tena., Jan, 17, 1863. » Genoral Thomas Francis Meagher arrived hero Isct night from Chattanooga, with soveral thousand veteran troops of the Filteent? and Seveniconth army corps, organized asa provisional division of Tennessee, en rote to join Sherman at Savannab, via New York, where he may be expected in four or five days, Upon leaving Chattanooga he was the recipient of high comp!imenta from General Stecdman, commanding, on his administra tion of affairs in the district of Etowah, and his success a protecting steamboat and railroad transportation. General Webster, Colonel Sawyer, Captains Rochester, Anderson and other members of Genoral Sherman's staf, leave here to-morrow for Savannah, via New York. ‘The river is fifteen fect deep on the shoals, and is falling slowly. ¢ Movements of the Rebel Generals Vaughn and Breckinridge. Lousviits, Ky., Jam. 17, 1866, noxviilo on the 12th Rebel deserters who inst. stato that Ocner seven hundred men, all he bad left, was at. £ristel on the 4th inst, General Breckiurldge, with his connond, bad the valley of Virginia, and it was thought would not re turn. It is reported that tho rebeis have commenced repeiting the damage done to the salt works by Stoneman duriag his late raid into Southwest Virginia, The most perfect quiet now exists throughout East Tennessee. Brigadior General Ammen has resigned, and General Tileon is now in command #t Knoxville. Indian Outrages in Colorado. VaLier Station, Colorado, Jan. 16, 1866. Two hundred Indians burned four ravches and ope mail station west of here on Saturday, stealing quite a Jarge number cf horses and cattle, and destroying * amount of property. They also destroyed the tel ne and carried off the witc. There was some ‘The number killed is not ascertuined. Heavy Failure. nc, Jan. 17, 1868, J. H. Clint, Director of the Qu Bank, has soppe® payment, His liabilities are about $240, The Case of Burleigh. of Burleigh, th ki ‘ge ue agen ‘The cass |, the rebet ra! was up to-day before the Recorder. He announced that the judgment of the Court was not ready yet, but that ‘would be pronounced on Friday. Goods for Rebel tion. ppt pepe fan. 11, 1 The schooners Fleet Wing, Starling and Marcena then, from Montegan, have arrived here with portions of the cargo of the British schooner Rebecca, of St. Jonm, N. B., Captain Kelly, boand to Nassau, N. P., which was evidendy intended for rebel consumption, x The West Virginin Legislature. Wremrsc, Jan. 17, 1965, The Senate and Fouse of West Virginia met aud organ. ized to-day. General Toramer was elected Speaker & the House, and G. D. Hall, Clerk. In the Senate W. B Stephenson was clected Speaker, and Ellery R. Bail, Cle . ° ‘The Governor's message was received and read at eleven A. M, It is a lengthy and well written documens; speaks very encouragingly of the prospects of the new State and the condition of its fnaaces. Prizes Cashed in All Legnlized Lottore {9s Information given by CLAYTON, 10 Wall street, New orl TO CON cop uve Olt JELLY, APPROVED BY THE ACADEMY OF MEDIC for Coughs, Colds, Bronchial and Tubereular Consami Serofuia and General Debility, The most mfld, bland a nutritious form in w Liver Oil can be aged and Thore Geuwflt eecored to the patient by a single teaspoons this jelly than by double the quantity of ¢ fied dil.” For wale by wr state neared BB» D> ede ae WHO! Am * * MPTIVES. 8 /_ 2 Am VEX, =, . H.TRI Fis SERN arnepe, New York, er. 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