The New York Herald Newspaper, January 23, 1865, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. = — Volume XXX — AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. NIBLO'S CARDEN, Broadway.—Tue SaaaRocg, BROADWAY THEATRE, Brosdway.—Tas Lave In- biax—Pxoris's Lawr ak, WINTER GARDEN, Broadway.—U ares. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway.—Mxm ov tux Dar. OLYMPIC TIIEATRE, Broadway.—Tasz Stuxets or New Yous. NEW Deuny Anuusnaw—Timoiny To THE BOWERY, THEATRE, Bowery,—Guexpowze— Rescux, a THEATRE, Bowery.—Vaisna—Taw Jeuser irre BARNUM'S MUSEUM. Broadway.—Two Mawworn Far Wouxs—Living Sxe1.erox—Dwaue—Liaknep Szat—URAND Grsoracus—Fanins, Tix MHavns, &0.—Day and Evening. BRYANTS' MINSTRELS, Mechanlos’ Mall, 472 Broad- ; aaa Sovas, Dances, Boucesques, &¢.—Live ain, WOOD'S MINSTREL HALL, 514 Broadway.—Sruxxts oF RW Cay “hen Pusy But—Ou Husu!—Eruoriam Songs, JANORS, SALLE DIABOLIQUE, 585 Broadway.—Ronent Hxuien’s AMAGAMATED PROGRAMME, VAN AMBURGH & CO.'S MAMMOTH MENAGERIE, 889 and Sil Broadway.—Open froin 10 A. M. to 10 P. BL HIPPOTHEATRON, —_ Fourteent! FYuNASTIC AND ACKOBATIO ENt LURBHARD. BROADWAY ATHENUM, No. 728 Broadway.—Mr. Hac xxrr’s ReaDines. atreet,—Equestrian, TALNMENTS—LLARLEQUIN NIBLO'S SALOON, Broadway.—Miss Lavra Harris? Concur. AMERICAN THEATRE, No. 444 Broadway.—Bavvets, Panrouines, Borussques. &v. HOOLEY & CAMPBELL'S MINSTRELS, 199 and 201 Bowery.—Sonas, Dances, Buaussques, &0.—Roap To Ricu- MOND, NEW YORK } Open from 1 A. M. UM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— bio i, ML. New York, THE SITUATION. Wo bave again the report that the rebels have evacu ated Wilmingion, and that it has been tak-n possession ‘of by General Terry’s troops; but it still needs confirma- tion. This time the report comes from Annapolis, Md., und it ts addod that before the rebels left the town they set fire to about thirty millon dollars’ worth of cotton, but that the national forcss, being close at hand, extin- guished the flames before much damage had been done. Admiral Porter's entire fleet was in Cape Fear river on last Wednesday, On Wednesday night it captured five dlockude runners which wero coming in, wholly ignorant of the changed position of aitairs there, A largo numbor of the vessels of the Admiral’s floet have since arrived in Hampton Roads. Thirteen hundred of the rebels cap. tured in Fort Fisher and the adjacent works arrived at Fortress Monroe on Friday and Saturday iast, en route to prisons in the North, An oxe-cdingly interesting recital of the rumors rela- tive to the mysterious movements of Francls P, Blair, 8:., in Washington and Richmond is contained in the despatch of one of our Washington correspondents. One roport is that Mr. Blair brought an autograph letter to President Lincoln from Jeff. Davis, saying that he is teady to treat for peace, aud that a communication from the President has boen taken back to Richmond expres sive of a willingness to send or receive commissioners, Many well informed people in Washington are aaid to be looking for imporiant results from Mr. Biair’s second visit to the rebel eapital. A very significant article appeared in the Richmond Bnqire, of iast Thursday, which would seem to be de- aignod to break the inevitable and now plainly foreseen full of the rebel confederacy. Admitting that, “after every manly effort,” they may failto achieve their in- dependence, it asserts that policy and interest, as well as foeling, rebels to submit to the United States rather than to England, France or Maximilian Joining their military forces to those at they would would Incline the present constituting our national armies, “endeavor to extend the power and influence of that (this) nation from pole to pole, and, uniling every country of America by alliance, seck to make this continent a unit against the world.” “ With the wealth and popula- tion which peace and anion would lop in a few years,” it continues, “we might find at least a hiding place for our shame, and perhaps consolation in the fact that America would become the colossal Power of the » General arrived at A on Faturday, on board oat, and diate 7 departed for Washington. He jeft the lateer city ay evening to return to the of os on Jaines river, General Sieridan w ton on Saiarday. A Cairo despatch states that it is not probable General Thomas’ army will soon move from its t position on the Te » rive. It is said that Lis men are con- structing winter Our New Orles em despatch giver additioual partioulars esiesipp!, some accounts of which were published in the Teaau Of General Grioron’s last grand reid {a on the Sth and 12th inst. General Grierson left Mem- phix on the 2ist alt. @ry, and arrived at Vickobarg on the Sth tust., having with about three thousand cay in tho meantime destroyed about seventy miles of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad and thirty miles of the Micviwippi Central Railroad, with all their bridg-s fand vast amounts of rebel military stores aud rail foad running stock, factories efeated and scattered the rebels who opposed him ferent points, cut their communications, and played ceneral havoc with them, During the expedition General Grieron's men marched four hundred m‘les, and mot with a lows of Tea than one hundred in killed, wounded and miveing, reaching Vicks burg with nearly eix hnndred prisoners, about ons thow fand contrabands and the same number of horses and mules. The exchanged Umon sol!lers who have lately arrived from Rehimond represent the sufferings now being en- @ared by our mon there as vroater even, if posefble, than they have beon eubjecied to at any previous time, Out ef eighteen officers and three thousand privates thirty @ix died in ono day, from starvation and cxposure. Now that the reb-le have lost all their seaports of ‘any consequence, thelr newspaper editors are tax. fog the utmost extent of thelr ingenuity to Prove that these disasters are really a bless. tg, and that, instead of having a depressing elfect on the fortanes of the confederacy, they will only tend te develop its innate and latent rosources, They argue What tho loss of these places only puts them tn the post- Mon that they should properiy bave assumed at the be. @taclag of the war when thelr entire abandonment, itis Paid, was Advised by some vory wise rebel statesmen, The fox would bave us veliove ho ts much handsomer ‘without his tail end, the rbels » As blockwle running ts brought to an hat war must now be thelr sole bust 6a8; the conscription must be moro rigorously enforced, nd every dic who can must bo made to Hight Tite @aimod that whon Jem Davie nat at least @ne-tbird of the men b ing to bis armies Wore abwont, without a he tet fr be bow the mark, snd that there are cnoogh of -NEW .YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JANUARY 3,. 1865. sweep both Sherman's and Grant's into the At fantic Ocean.” The Richmond Whig believes that ne- groos im the prime of life will make bett r soldiers than white men over Ofty yoars of age. General Joo Joba. sion, Ina specob lately to some soldiers at Columbia, 3. C., told thom that be was “out of service,” and “re- gretted that he could nod serve with them.” Mr. Henry 8. Foote refuses to be released from arrest, and insists ‘hat bis prosecution shall go on, and the Provost Marshal of Fredericksburg be compelled to show cause for taking him into custody. Captain Semmes has arrived in Rich- mond. EUROPEAN NEWS. ‘The steamship Canada, from Liverpool on the 7th and Queenstown on the 8th inst., arrived at Halifax last night. Her advices, though two days lator, are not important. We publish a telegraphic synopsis of her news in another portion of this morning’s Henao, Consols closed in London on the 7th inst, at 89% for money. The Liverpool cotton market on the same day was dull and unchanged. Breadstuffy were quiet and steady, Vrovsions were firmer, The Manchester market was reported flat, with prices still declining. MISCELLANEOUP “EWS. O:r files of South American papers, dated in different cities of Brazil to the 15th of December, contain some Intereat'ng po nts of detail of the late news from that emp're. It was known in Rio Janciro that Secretary Seward’s reply to the Cab’net of the Emperor on the subject of the seizure of the Florida bad been received; but nothing further had transpired. The Brazilian Dlockude of the ports of Uruguay had deranged trade to a@great extent, and produced much political indignation, The latest Brazilian news concerning the movements of the rebel pirate Shenandoah are also given. Our correspondence from Central America makes some important developments in regard to intrigues now in progregs there for the purpose of bringing about the ab- sorption of the Spanish-American republics of that region by Maximilian’s Mexican empire. French agents are re- ported to have been for some time past negotiating for tho consummation of this object with Carrera, President of Guatemala, and actual, though not nominal, dictator of Salvador, Honduras and Ni-aragua, If Carrera can succeed in making these republics a portion of the em- pire, be expects, in return for his cunning handiwork, to be made imperial viceroy over thom, It is sald that the coming sugar crop of the British portion of Honduras will be a larger one than that colony has ever yet produced. A cargo of coolles was expected there, and anticipations wore indulged in of being able to ship large quantities of rum, sugar, rice, cotton, tobacco and corn, a8 soon as their labor could be made effective, in addition to the established staples of mahogany, logwood, fustic and cedar. The Catholic Bishop of the republic of Honduras has issued an order forbidding thoee under his charge to read the works of Victor Hugo, Eugene Sue and the two Dumas, when, as our correspondent states, there is but one library in the whole country that contains them, and not one in a thousand of the inhabitants had ever before heard of them, Governor Fenton, of this State, was In Washington on Saturday and yesterday, and had conferences with the War Department in reference to our quota of troops under the Prosident’s last call, It is stated that the Governor is endeavoring to obviate the necessity of a draft in th's State. Wo present this morning to the readers of the Herat, in the narratives of adventurous explorers, a most in- teresting description of the Territories of our republic on the Pacific slope of the continent, including accounts of their apparently exhaustless auriferous, argentiferous and lapideous weulth, the eplendors of the climate and scenery, and the magnificent prospects which they hold forth for future populous and opulent States. We illus- trate these important details by a map of the region dcveribed. The Venezolans are apparently becoming enterprising. They propose to hold an international exhibition of natu. ral, industrial and artistic products in Carucas, to be opened on the 19th of next April. All articles from foreign countries will be exempted from import and ox- port duties. A Pearl street borkeeper named Wi'liam J. Maloney was yesterday committed to prison for trial on the charge of having etolen, on Friday last, a certificate of deposit for two thousand five hundred dollars in gold, iexned by tho banking house of Eugene Kelly & Co. to a Mr. Thompson. Two more men, named Martin Kelly and Henry Wil- Mama, were yesterday sent to Blackwell's Island from the Tombs Police Court, in default of one thousand dollars bail cach, for being picked up drunk in the streets apd carry!ng concealed weapons. The lifeless body of a Gorman named Kautzborger, aged forty-five years, who had been missing since the Sth inet., was discoverod on last Saturday evening in a room which he had oce “pled at 688 Second avenue. It is supposed that he had been dead about ten days, and the body, when found, waa in an upright povition in a chair, The cauge of his death bas not been made apparent. The Crivts in Richmond—Jeff. Davis Dis- graced and Lee Exalted by the Rebel Senate=The Impending Collapse. Down to the capture and occupation of Savannah by General Sherman the rebel press, from Virginia to Mississippi, were furious against the alleged despotic designs of Jeff. Davis and the manifest readiness of his “servile Congress” in all things to dohis bidding. Since the memo- rable “Christmas gift” of Sherman to the notion, however, all these things have wonder- fully changed. Jeff.’s late “servile Congress” is no longer servile, but rebellions and defiant, The movement of one day in the House to enter into peace negotiations without him, and in spite of him, is followed the next day by the adoption of resolutions in the Senate creating the office of Commander-in-Chief (General Lee) of al! the armies of the confederacy, and recom- mending that General Joe Johnston be rein- siated in his late command. At this awful crisis in Richmond these pro- ceedings are s'gnificant and momentous. Their object is manifestly the supersedure of Davis by General Lee as military dictator. The rebel Senate broadly declares, in propos'ng to make General Lee commander-in-chief, that Davis is incompetent to hold that posiiion, while the resolution for the reinstatement of Joe Johnston emphatically throws upon Davis the responsi- bility for all the crushing disasters, east and west, that have fallen upon the “confederacy” since his fatal visit to Georgia and his removal of Johnston in September last, Thus pointedly rebuked by both houses of his heretofore ser- vile and sabm'ssive Congress, it becomes a question whether Davis will throw up his thankless office in disgust, or from sheer despo- ration persist in his hopeless struggle against the powerful hostile combinations closing around him within as well as without bis own lines. oa Bing In this connection there is something re- markable in the return of General H. S. Foote to his seat in the rebel Honse of Repre- sentatives, A few wecks ago, after various un- successful motions from time to time in behalf of peace, he, in a farewell speech, denounced the despotism of Davis, deplored the sinking fortunes of the confederacy and the apparent readiness of its Congress to clothe its Presi- dent with the absolute powers of an autocrat, and then declaring that, as he (General Foote) could not be a consenting party to such con- templated proceedings, he would leave, and re- tire to “some sequestered spot, where he might eacepe the embarrassments of the times.” He accordingly did leave, and did retire to a “se questered spot’’—the little sequestered village of Occoquan; but there he was arrested by a rebel equad of bushwhnckers, and taken back and deliyered over to the rebel provost mar chal of Fredericksburg. and held by him under arrest, subject to ofdyrs from Righmond. The Geese deseriers “wo woke an army which would | rebel House of Representatives ordered Foote’s release, De was, therefore, discharged; and free to go in any direction; but, instead of re- suming bis search for “some sequestered spot,” be forthwith returned to Richmond and to his seat in that Congress, Why? Because daring his absence that Congress had undergone a re- volution—is had turned against the despotic designs of Davis; and becanse, from the move- ments of General Sherman and the fall of Fort Fisher, there was a commotion in Richmond which promised to General Foote @ successful and speedy issue, with a resump- tion of his labors for the overthrow of Davis, and in behalf of negotiations for peace. The extraordinary individual in this case may go for what he is worth. It is the incident of his return to the rebel Congress that serves our purpose, as it marks the changed condi tion of affairs at Richmond. General Foote evidently thinks that great events are at hand; that the day of peace is fast approaching, and that it will be to his advantage to be in at the downfall and political death of Davis. The term “servile” will no longer apply to his two houses of Congress. They denounce his incom- petency; they meet his threats with defiance; they are resolved to supplant him and to place the destinies of the “confederacy” in the hands of a man who will know what to do when fight- ing will only invite destruction. Davis has been reduced by his troubles and disasters to a raging and senseless fanatic. He would arm and liberate all the slaves within his lines; he would risk the horrors of a servile revolt; he would turn over the Southern States and people as colonies and subjects of England, France and Spain; he would see them all destroyed and their homes given up to the flames rather than yield to the penalties of his crimes by submission to the Union. General Lee, on the other hand, is an unselfish soldier and a man of cool reflection; and we regard the movement of the rebel Senate in his favor as a movement for submission and peace, The test will probably come with the urgent necessity for the evacuation or surrender of Richmond. Rumors are again afloat of prepa- tions for an evacuation, and the removal of the rebel concern—Davis, Cabinet and Con- gress--under the escort of General Lee, to some safer place further south. It is evident that such an evacuation cannot be muck longer de- layed. Wilmington, if not already abandoned, is no longer a place to the rebels worth defend- ing; Sherman is heading in that direction, and Grant is on the watch in front of Lee, The game of the latter is blocked, except in a re- treat to Lynchburg or Danville; but in falling back to either of these places he will retire only to the “last ditch.” On the other hand, as the abandonment of the rebel capital by the enemy must now inevitably complete the de- moralization and confusion, and precipitate the dissolution of the “confederacy,” we ehall not be surprised if the peace party at Richmond succeed in a revolution, under the wing of Gen. Lee, which will save the honor of his army and yet secure the inevitable Union ultimatum of a treaty of submission and peace. Whe Curiosities of the Income Tax. Some of our contemporaries express surprise at the smallness of the returns made by certain individuals for taxes on incomes for 1863, as published heretofore in our columns, and are inelined to question ihe accuracy of the lists. This surprise is natural until it is considered how much the vanity or the extravagance of men leads them to live beyond their means for the sake of making a show of opulence, and for the purpose of obtaining an undue credit in the world. A merchant in ticklish cireum- stances is the most apt to live ostentatiously, and to dwell ina costly house, either heavily mortgaged or for which he pays an enormous rent, the charges on which: are deducted from his income, Others, abounding in lands or other property not productive, have frequently a beggarly account of gains and profits to exhibit, occasioned by the war, which, while waking others rich, has almost deprived them ofrevenne. In many instances the enormous price of store rent, clerk hire and labor has reduced the profits of hueiness to a very small figure, while those not behind the scene sup- pose the returns to be «ample; besides, many firms are composed of three, four or more members, whose individual shares are in differ- ent proportions, and are returned as the law requires, from their separate residences. There is nothing more fallible than the jadg- ment of the onteide world as to the microcosm of mysterious man in his individual state and circumstances. A scrutinizing eye and the obligation of a stringent oath reveal secrets that the gossips of the world had never pene- trated. It is curious to observe the extreme fallacionsness of Madam Rumor’s truampetings. The acknowledged Croesus of the city con- triates less than one half of the taxes paid to the government by « single dry goods mer- chant of the metropolis. The Colossus of Roads pays less than a dirt contractor; the mighty chief of on illustrious clan sinks into insignificance before the Bailie Jarvie of the Sant Market, and the kid gloves and patent leathers of the Fifth avenue fade beneath the shadow of the under soles of the Swamp. Small tradesmen of a few years growth become luminaries of the first magnitude, while quon- dam merchant princes, like feeble satellites, “hide their diminished heads.” Brokers of last year, that were broken yossels of the year previous, bave brought their rich arg into port, and show, like Sinbad the Sailor, well freighted from “the valley of diamonds,” Shoddy and contract have come up glori- ously, whiJo old fashioned plodders not in the ring of fortane’s favorites, shrink into no- thingness at their feet. It would almost seem that the wand of the good fairy had been at work turning rags into robes, cabbages into chariots and old rats into jolly charioteers, Who does not see with satis- faction the Lazarus of his neighbor’s gate changing places with the lordly Dives, to whose mansion it was the entrance. It is re- freshing to find the poor clerk transformed into a millionaire, and the widow's son raised to opulence and honor without a miracle. And all this without petroleum, that “gem of purest ray serene,” which “the dark, un- fathomed caves” of 1863 had scarcely brought to light. What may we not expect hereafter, if spontaneous combustion does not ensue from the too rapid development of inflammable ma- terials raised so suddenly to the surface? Gorp Down anp tim Reset Oreratons Drrro.—Gold fell on Saturday to 198, @ fact which has made the rebel operators here very shaky. With all their mancuvros they could not keep up tho price of the precious metal. They baye gone clesa dywn inio deit boots with the sudden deoline in the gold market. I¢ is evident that they do not agree with their collaborators in Richmond that the fall of Fort Fisher is a “blessing in diaguise,” or “a legiti- mate source of congratulation” to the rebels. The Greatness of the Republic—Its Amaz- img Resources—The Newly Developed Gold and Silver Territorics. We publish to-day highly interesting and im- portant information concerning the newly de- veloped gold and silver regions of the United States. This valuable information is fur- nished by our own correspondents and by Warren Leland, Eaq., of this city, who has just returned from a tour, on special government business, through and around the magnificent gold and silver belts which encircle and suf- fuse the western half of the American conti- nent, Our own people will be amazed and foreign nations astounded at the facta, figures and data of these precise relations concerning our vast national resources. . It appears that while great wars in Europe and Asia have had the effect of prostrating the energies of the natives engaged in them for centuries, in America the contrary has been the case in @ most wonderful degree. The war of the Revolution relieved us from a state of vassalage to a foreign Power. The war of 1812 pronounced us competent to take rank with the fighting nations of the earth. The Mexican war demonstrated our powers for conquest, and the gigantic rebellion has shown that the energy, courage and indomitable reso- lution of our people, both in the North and in the South, are without a parallel in the history of any other people in ancient or modern times. If it had not been for the Mexican war the immense riches of California would have re- mained undeveloped—perhaps for ages. That war unlocked the stores of wealth embosomed for centuries in the wildernesses of the western slope of the continent, and moulded pow- erful civilized States out of the barren wastes and the homes of the savages, Perhaps a thou- sand millions would scarcely cover the product of California in precious metals within the brief space of eighteen years. All this bas been added to our own and the world’s wealth ag a consequence of the Mexican wat, and by the in- vincible spirit and ceaseless toil of American pioneers. That war closed, finding many thou- sands of enterprising men, accustomed to pri- vation, hardship and danger, with nothing more advantageous to do than to enter into the hardy enterprises of exploring and bringing out the golden treasures of California. The present war, devastating and terrible as it has been in the Southern section of our country, has not dampened the ardor nor extinguished the pro- gressive character of the American people. In the midst of the shocks of great battles we hear of stupendous undertakings involving the ex- penditure of millions of money. Capital was never more plethoric than now, and capitalists never more caruestly bent upon investing in great enterprises. The rebellion has made money more abundant than ever before. It is rarely that an industrions and thoughtful mon in the North is found without his hundreds of dollars, while the wealth of the richer classes is almost beyond calculation. The immense sur- plus of floating capital of the country is con- stantly secking investment; and hence we find it at one time engaged in developing the resources of regions abounding ina valuable oleaginous product,. at another in the en- couragement of great railroad enterprises, at another in heavy manufucturing aod com- mercial projects; und now we find it touching with its magic wand the hitherto sealed and grenite-harred mounteins which are found to be seamed and interlaced with the precious metals, Money spared in such enterprises, upon reasonable calculations, is seldom money lost, The riches of Colorado, Nevada, Idaho, Montana—the new and brilliant quartette of wealth producing territories, to say nothing of California, Oregon, Utah and Washington—are continually being brought into active and worldly service by the infusion of capital; and itis safe to predict that within a few years, nay months, the actual product of these newly developed gold and silver regions will eqnal in amount all that bas bitherio been produced in the betier kuowa auriferous regions of Cali- fornix and Australia, Truly is the great republic on the highway to unexampled grandeur and power. But it is not to our own people alone that the prospective expansion and greatness of the nation must be ascribed. Emigrants formerly came here to avoid the tyranny and persecutions of the old monarchical countries. Now they flock here because of the amelioration in the rigors of our national and Siate naturalization laws, and be- cause, slavery being abolished, they can enter upon the luxuriant plantations of the South, raise cotton and the other rich products of that fertile soil without entering into competition with slave labor. The opening and civilizing of our new mouatain territories and plateaus also present dazzling inducements to the intelli+ gent and hardy emigrant. But what can we eay when, the war being ended, haif o million adventurous and resistless spirits shall euter this new arena for the exercise of their indoml- table energies? After attending to some little matters we have outstanding with England and France, this great army will swell the column of Amorican progtess until it shall subdue forests, level mountains, people plateaus and plains, and overcome all obstacles that may obstruct a safe, speedy and easy transit from the Atlantic to the Pacific. We have room enough on the great North American plateau alone for a dozen first class empires; and there is solid wealth enough in the gold bearing mountains surrounding it to supply the most exacting exchequera. With peace at hand and the immense resources of the country being exposed, as we sce they are, by the comprehen- sive reports we present to-day, truly may the American peeple be pardoned for indulging in 8 little selfglorification at the magnificent prospect before them. Tae Carrunxp Oorron at SAVANNAR, AND Waar to Do wir It,—General Shorman gave a fair and square answer to the commiltee of Savannah merchants who applied to him on the 15th inst. to restore to its owners the cotton seized by the government. He told them that the cotton belonged to the government, and that if overy fibre of that material and every brick in Savannah were made of gold their porsession would not indemnify the govern- ment for the loss of blood and trensure ex- pended {n the capture of tho city and the forts which dofep‘led it. This he gave as the opinion of an lamest soldier; but he told them at the wind time thas they might appoal +o Washing» between Hilton Head and Savannah, they were delayed, and will probably arrive here by the next steamer. statement that this cotton is the property of Joyal men; that they saved it from falling into the hands of the rebel General Hardee, and that its seizure by the government will not only prevent more cotton being sent to Savan- nah from the country, but ‘that it will induce the rebels to burn the cotton stored at Mobile, Wilmington and other places, This is the argument of the Savannah merchants; but the government argues that it has a right to sell, and will sell this cotton, turn it into gold, and allow the owners to put in their claims after- wards, and prove their loyalty if they can. The idea that the holders of cotton at Mobile or Wilmington will be induced to destroy the article, if the Savannah cotton is not restored, is absurd. The adjustment we have suggested will have the very contrary effect. The cotton owners are not so deluded as to prefer a hand- fal of ashes toa fair price in greenbacks for ‘their material. They will prefer letting itgo into the hands of the government, and sending their claims, properly. authenticated, to the Treasury Department at Washington. The Sa- vannah committee design to wait upon our Chamber of Commerce,,and ask the interference of that old fogy concern with the government in behalf of their mission. The Chamber of Commerce can exercise no influence in the mat- ter, and the probability is that when these Sa- vannah gentlemen proceed to Washington they will find that the question will be setiled just ag we predict. Woar Wu. Become or THe Freer oF Brockape Rvynersi-—It is curious to specu- late upon what is to become of the block- ade runnera now. There are at present some dozen or fifteen of them due at Wilmington, Trom Nassau, Bermuda and Halifax. Their eantains, of course, are still in happy ignorance of the state of affairs at Wilmington. It is not improbable that Admiral Porter will let them slip in, as they arrive, and then grab them all. Five of them have already been entrapped. There will be a fearful panic among the rebel agents and sympathizers in Kurope when the news of the fall of Fort Fisher reaches there, of the rebels to maintain a loan in Europe has gone with the capture of Fort Fisher. They depended entircly upon their exported cotton to raise gold to pay the interest on the loan, and now that Wilmington is effectually shat up the loan must go to the dogs. Juve. Davis on Peace Necormations.—When Jeff. Davis wrote his famons letier on peace to the Georgia legislators it was on the I7th of November, 1864, and his tone was correspond- ingly etfff and uncompromising. Since then Hood’s army has beeu battered and shattered by Thomas into a nonentity; Sherman has swept Georgia as with a besom, and captured Savannah, and Wort Fisher is ours. Now that Wilmington is also at the mercy of the Union army, we wonder what are Jeff.’s opinions on the peace question January 17, 1865, THOMAS. Goneral Thomas’ Army Constructing Winter Quarters. Camo, Jan. 21, 1865, ‘The present indications are that General Thomas’ army will mot soon move from its present porition on the Teu- neesee river, a8 winter quarters are being constracted, Adjutant General Thomss aud staff have passed down the river on the steamer Rocket. Over two hundred rebet prisoners have recontly ar- rived from Rock Island, destined South to be exchanged. FORTRESS MONROE. Return of Part of Admiral Porter's FicetArrival of Rebel Prisoners, &e. Fourie s Moxnor, Jun. 20, Via Baurimoun, Jun, 22, 1565. } The frigates Minnesota, Wabash and Colorado, and the groater portion of tho larger vessels of Admiral Porter's fect recently operating against Fort Fisher, have re- turned, and are now anchored in Hampton Roads, Tho steamer General Lyon arrived bere this afternoon with Qve hundred mon of the Tenth North Carolina regt- mont, captured at Fort Fisher, who are to be sent to Fort Delaware. Our troops are actively engaged in reconnotiring along the banks of Capo Fear rive#, and sounding for torpedoes and removing obstructions to free navigation. Ayxavotis, Md., Jan. 22, 1865, The steamer Adelaide, from Fortress Monroe, 2ist inat., has arrived, and brings the following :— Fouts: Mosnor, Jan. 21, 1866, The steamer Demolay arrived here to-day from Fort Fisher with eight hundred rebel prisoners, captured in the late assault Aheavy rain storm commenced here thie morning, and continues this evening. Compliment te Gen, Thomas F. Meagher. The following complimentary jetter was addressed to Brigadier General Thomas Francia Meagher by his commanding goneral, Major General Steedman, upon the departure of Genoral Meagher from Chattanoo- @ t& join General Sherman's army at Savennah, to which point he fe now en route, He will arrive in New York within a day or two;— Heavgvarrens, Disturcr or rx® Erowan, Cuarranooaa, Jan. 32, 1865. My Daon Guwvzat:—-As you vie about leayig this de- wimnent with your commend, to take part ix the pro- ed eampaixn of General Sherman, I leave to ex. press to you my profound regret that the fortunes of war ‘coal you from tus department, Your administration of the afairs of the District of the Rtowah, while communt- cations were interrnpted and your commnnd isolated by the presence of Hood's army before Nashville, ae well ag your aplendid cuceces in protecting the railroad and tele- graph to Knoxville and Dalton, the steambout transpor- tation on the Tennessee river, the public property ex- to capture by the enemy's cavairy, and the har- mony and good order maiuteined district—d ring the trying period sponsibilities devolved upon you have given me much watisfuction, and secured for you the confidence and esteem of the Major General commanding the depart ment—as well as the officers of the entice command. All deeply regrot the necessity which takes you rom nus; but the hope that you may be pleasantly situnted, and have « command worthy 1 your splendid abilities, reconc.les us to the separation I am, General, with oem, friend, ‘ ater JAMES B, STEEDMAN, Major General Commanding. Brigadier Genoral T. F. Muacur: ‘oramanding Provi- sional D.vision, Ariny of the Tennessee. ‘you throughout the jn which all these re- Nantosan, Exeurtox ox Vewrzveia.—From informa tlon received from Judge Culver, United States Minister at Caracas, wo are ad\ ised that the govorament of Veno- ucla has ordered a “gNational Exhibition of the Pro- ducts of Naturo, Industry and Art,’ to be held at the city of Caracas, the capital of th mblic, on the 19th day of April next, | The exhibit not to bo revtriebed to the prodacis of Venezuela, embrace thore of any or all nations desiring to contrebate thereto, Provi- sion is mace in the deerec, that alt articles intended in good fa th for the exh.biton, shell be exempt from im- port and export dutias, and frow al! costa and charges for Toighls transyortat on, &6., from the port wheuce the; are Alsipped to the place of exhibition, atl return to auch pork The Venezuelan Covsul in New York or Vhite Aelphia will b ¢ to furnish apy eud all information ia downil ax to th avd manner of shipping, and che wet fof articles shipped, Venez ends this exhibltion he on & magn gtent it aa the bathing poling wibberws wukwor 1) frebe abd cosou WILMINGTON. Reported Evacuation of the City by the Rebels. : Thirty Million Dollars Worth of Cotton Said to Have Been Previously Fired. Probable Occupation of the Place by Our Forces. Further Results of the Fall of Fort Fisher. Five Blockade Runners Captured in Old Inlet by Admiral Porter’s Fleet, &e., &e., &o. Barons, Jan. 22, 1965. The American's special cays, under date of Annapolis, | January 21:— General Grant arrived here to-day in his flagboat, the M. Martin. The General loft at eleven o'clock for Wash- ington by the express train. He is reported to have sal@ that a deserter had come into tho lines of Gen. Terry, | who reported that the rebels were evacu®ing Wilming- ton after having get fro to some thirty milliun dollars | worth of cotton, but that our troops were so neas as hand as to prevent the destruction of it, A bearer of despatches also arrived in the gunboas Queen from Admiral Porter, and proceeded to Wash- ington, . Pauapsrma, Jan, 22, 1865, The United States steamer Massachusetts, from the South Atlantic blockading squadron, arrived bors to-day. Sho left off Charlosten on the evening of January 18, and off Wilm ngton, N. C., Thursday evening. All of Admiral Porter's fleet are in Cape Fear river, On the night of the 18th five blockade runners rag Into Old Inlet, N. ©., and were captured by the fleet, Their names were not ascerta nod. ‘The Massachusetts brings two hundred invalids end discharged men. THE GULF. Additional Particulars of Grierson’s Raid from Memphis to Vicksburg. Destruction of Railroads and Capture of Prisoners, Key Ke, &eo Our New Orloans Correspondence. New Onixans, Jan. 11, 186% TOR PARTICULARS OF GRIERSON’S EXPEDITION FROM MEYERS TO VICKSBURG. On Thursday afternoon last the cavalry expedition under Brigadier General Grierson arrived al Vicksburg. It left Memphis on the 2ist ult,, and consisted of three brigades of cavalry undor Colonels Kargi, Winslow an@ Osband, in all numbering about three thousand men. THE MONILE AND OHIO RAILROAD REACHED, Proceeding in the direction of Boonville, {t struck the Mobile and Ohio Railroad in the vicinity of that towm, and continued on as far as Egypt station, destroying the track the wholo-distance, A PORTION OF FORREST'S COMMAND DEFEATED. Col. Kargi’s brigade was in the advance on the masem to Verona. At this place they surprised a portion o8 Forrest's command, encamped. The rebels were easily repulsed. Several prisoners were taken. Here fous thougand new carbines, three hundred wagons, twe railroad trains, a larze quantity of ammunition, and com- missary and qdartermaster stores in abundance were captured. The camp was destroyed. Col. Kargi’s bri- gude consisted of the Second New Jersey, Fourth Mim souri and the Seventh Ind ana cavalry regiments, and the First Missouri Mount d Rifles, CATIORE OF PRISONERS AT ROYT?, A sharp fight took place at Egypt. Here wns concem- trated the command of the rebel General Gholson. The enemy were repulsed with considerable loss in killed am& wounded. After the fall of their chicf the rebels fled tp great disorder. Five hundred prisoners were captured, G.neral Gholson was among the killed, DEXTPUCTION OF THE MS:1SS17 CENTRAL RATROAD, After leaving Egypt the whole force took a weal direction actoss the country, for the purpose of -strik jasippi Central railroad. The road was ort d stance below Granada, and thirty miles of the rack destroyed. VATION OF CRANADA AND BANKSTON, Tn the m:antime a foreo of about three hundred mem, under the command of Colonel Noble, was sent to Gra nada, Here several locomotives and about fifty carp were destroyed. Bankston was occupied by our fe ind shoe factories whieh have Does d hands, wor ‘destroyed. JOMMUNICA’ IONS CUT OFF. ese brilliant achievements I may safely state that all communication with Hood's a1 rail west of the Mobile and Ohio and the Mississippi Com tral Railroads is most eflectually cut off for some tine; this being also the case by the route over the Big ¢ recent destruction of the Big Black bt js army will fare very indifierenily, to the least, for some time to come, ag it is known thas this army depended entirely upon the supplics wh c® resehed it by these routes, The covntry also, whic mainly furnished him with theee supplies, is laid waste, This hae all been socomplished by our foro swithin a few devs, and with a loss of not quite oue hundred men te kilied, wounded and prisoners. Nearly one thi horses and muler and about the same number of conwra bands came in with the expedition, THR PLONERS, ‘Two lieutenant colonels, twenty-five line officers, and over five hundred privates are captured. or latter were several of our own men who had joined the rebel army to escape from their terrible sullerings ap prisoners ip the “Georsia jail’’ at Andorsonville. 4 ‘were‘all clad most miserably in rags and covered dirt. They were probably the most wretchedly clothed rebels that have been captured during the war, Lieutem unt Colonels Harris and Burke, rebel fleld officers, were among thoee captured. In the ohai the ato. Kade at eypt by the Secene in the upou the stovkade § New Jersey, Captain Gallagher, Licutenants Burd an@ Burns, and sixteen men wero killed, and Lieutcnante Hoffman and Phillips wounded. This’ rosiment niso lost one hundred and ten horses killed. Capta'n Henede, the Fourth Missouri cavalry, was among those pore by the enemy. COLON), WINHOW'H AND O°BAND'S COMMANDS, ‘The composition of Colonel Winslow's comma the Third and Fourth Iowa and Tenth Missouri and of Colonel Osband’s the Second Wiscons and Eleventh Iiinois and Third United States cavalry regiments. THE DIVTANOR MARCHED. be nthe tat th cneniy ‘eountry snd "may through heart of the y's " truly be ranked as “one of the brilliant wad ie REET ON ful expeditions of the war.’ The Missouri State Convention. Sr. Loum, Jan, 22, 1868, ‘The Convention passed yesterday in Committtes of the Whole on the ninth, tenth and eleventh sections of the bill of rights. The ninth section declares that all mem have a natural right to worsh 'p Almighty God according te the dictates of their own conscience; that no person cam, on account of his religions opinions, be rendered ineligh bio to any office of trust, honor or profit under this State, nor disqualitied from testifying; and no person might by any law be molested in his person oF estate on uccoums of bia religions persuasion, profession, of religious pra tice, uniew# under tho cover of religion he disturbs the good order, peace or safety of the State, or tffringos the laws of moral.ty, or injures others in their civil or fe ligious rights, ‘The tench section declares that mo person can be Fy, pelied to erect, support or attend any place of word pow teachor of religion; but whatever contract® ®y Horo may enter iuto for such ought In law to be bY iiag an capable of enforcement, asin other contracy | | ‘The oleventh section declares that NO ¥ reference onmp | over be given by law to any sect Oh ch or mode worship. Personal Inteliz;ence. Ex.Governor William Gilpin, fae first Governor Colorado, and a very zeelous aw{ active pionccr in de veloping the resources of tha? and other newly opened old gad silver regions, ®/ stopping a the New Yor@ dotel.