The New York Herald Newspaper, February 27, 1865, Page 1

THE NEW YORK. HERALD. NEW YORK, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1865. WHOLE NO. 10,409. THE SOUTH. | A REBELLIOUS SOUTHERN SENATE. A Speck of Revolution at Richmond, The Rebel Senate Refuse to Pass the Bill to Enlist Slaves by One Majority. INDIGNATION OF THE JEFF. DAVIS OBGAN. & Mob Called to Coerce the Rebel- Mous Senate Into the Adop. tion of the MZeasure. The Rebels Accusing Each Other of Cowardice, The Northern Army Conquering Three Times Their Numbers. Northerner Better Than Three One ; Southerners, FORREST ON THE RAMPAGE, Rory ke, kee ‘The Senate Opposition to the Arming of Slaves. A MASS MEETING CALLED TO COBRCH THE REBEL SENATE INTO THE ADOPTION OF THE MEASURE. [From the Richmond Sentinel, Feb. 24.) ‘We doubt if the world has ever before known an exam- ple such as is presented in the Confederate capital this ay. . @ur armies are outnumbered and pressed by an enemy ‘that secks nothing lees than our utter and eternal de- struction. In this extremity a number of citizens aro @eairous of proffering their servants, with the consent of the latter, to assist in the public defence. The General- f-Chief of our armies warmly advises the policy of eeouring this aid, agd pleads that it would bo of great ‘and essential valu@ The President and the House of Representatives unite in his views, The Governor of Virginia warmly advocates the policy. The Legislature @f the State concurs. The Confederate Senate alono— and the Senate by only one majority—assumes the wesponsibility of baffling and disappointing the verdict of all the rest, of vetoing the universal will, and of prohibit- fag to the people and the army an aid which the highost Professional and the most universal popular opinion pro- ® shall not be conceded. This aid, which either we or the enemy are to have, they say shall not be received on eur side. All this the Senate decides—and by one majo- wity. That majority israade up in part of the votes of the Senators from the State of Virginia, whose capital is tm danger; 8 Senator from North Carolina, whose capital threatened; and the Senators from South Carolina, capital has just been sacked. In the name of own immediate people we implore our own to reconsider their action. That their threatens to be injurious, if not fatal, is, we assure them, the overwhelming conviction of that through whose partiality they hold their present ‘The fearful responsibility of the course they to the earnest convictions of those who be- ed them and who are to suffer wo terribly if they are that the Legislature now in session to our Senators ere this its wish and people. We trust, if it has it will act to-day. If it shall fail—if hesitation and timidity which have ike @ nightmare over all our legislative es, people with distress and alarm, shall still con- urge the to met in mass assembly in a voice cannot be misunder- or their opinion of the measure consideration, and their judgment upon the course of their representatives. This isne time for mawkish @ public life is in danger, md the public gust say whether it shall choone to live rather than to Ge in compliment to one or two of its servants. Let us have a grand mecting in the African church to- morrow night to consider this question, and declare at least the sentiments of the citizens and slave owners here. The people of somewf the counties have spoken. Our gallant soldiers have kpoken. Let Richmond, too, tier her thunders in the hearing of those who represent ber in the State and Confederate councils. It does seem wonderful that people who have been gursed and waited upon and watched over by negro ser- vants are to be told that rather than be defended by them they must run the peril of a Yankee yoke. the Richmond Dispatch, Feb. 24.) The Confederate Sonate yesterday removed the injunc- from the proceedings on the Senate bill fatroduced by Mr. Brown, of Mississippi, to provide for two hundred thousand negro troops. It appears Ghat the bill was lost in the Senate, on Tuesday, the 21st Instant, by a vote of eleven to ten. Those who voted for an indefinite ement of the bill, which amounts to its defeat, were Messrs. Baker, Barnwell, Caperton, Garland, Gratiam, Hunter, Johnson, of Georgia; Jounson, of Missouri; Maxwell, Orr and Wigfall, ‘Those who voted in the tive were Messrs. brown, Burnett, Haynes, Benry, Oldham, Semmes, Simms, Vest, Walker au Pare In official circles’ this is considered as disposing the Tar | already done fatal delay and & question of putting Negro Scidiers into our armies ally. The House negro goldier bill, which is very simi lar to the Senate bill, has not been, and it is now believed will not be, acted upon by the Senate, [From the Richmond Examiner, Feb. 24.] ‘The fact that General Lee favors the employment of aegroes in the army alone would seem to be suificient to stop all discussion about the matter, and to prevent all gavil or opposition. But « few days ago the whole coun- wy was for the appointment of a commander Mm-chief. It was impossible the people should not see shat some able and experience: head was need d to con- trol military affairs. Beyond the !tues of the Army a Man perches poy | seemed in confusion, and every movement in OF at least was productive wf only negative results, Reports from the South vevealed a state of things decidedly unpleasant to con emplate. There were rumors of strife and contention wmong general officers, eminently active of faction and insubordination in the ranks, that attracted more at vention than the real interests of the country. Sherman marches through the very heart of Georgia, while the wmy that sl have conironted him was = a given ic raid through the valleys of Teaneeseo. While our forces were scattered through the country, and atretohed in quads along the always indefensible seaboard, the memy concentrated and mobiiized bis troops, and went at will through the country, ending in the captore of a ortified city. This remarkable feat accomplished, with vat slight opposition, he menaces another State, and rom the savannahs of Georgia makes rapid marches towards the inland hills of South Carolina, snd still we hear ot no formidable concentration strange, then, the people should yogin to question the wiadom of such mysterious move nents, or that they should ask that our forces be made wwailable before the enemy devastates another state or narches through another two hundred miles of hostile erritory. At this crisis of our affairs the pablic spirit waa aroused, and General Lee was demanded ~ Commander-in-Chiet of the Confederate armies Yo other man could fill the place #0 creditably: {0 other could so fully moet. the wishes ‘uf tho peopl ‘hey had confidence in bis abilities, notwithata ing his own modest estimate of them, and they believed a new ra would begin to dawn from the dato of his appoimt- ment, that a ‘new and more vigorous ke would be naugurated and a fresh impulse gives the war, In hie they were not nted. Gen. Leo was made jommander-in-Chief, and the orders he hae teened 2 what capacity give promise of @ better etate of things ‘othe future. ey all tend to the correction of past and call upon the country and the army at an hour whon Do assistance could be refused. They ring out et thia time like a newly awakened slogan , and sound in our ears like a bugle note for a frosh cry to aul- noate then But while the people accord General Leo their love and yoniidence, something furNher is necessary, He must wave their ald in carrying on the good work he has 80 promptly begun. ok could be expected from hin if his hands wore tied, or if he were limited by conditions \m tho power entrusted to him, Ho must have the cer- vent, th Fe are Seles naan 2 ey, ie poole, THE SEAT OF WAR The Whole Theatre BUNTULLES sh . i pot te / BEBENEZER \\ KINGSVik temeannl Tei SMITH: eclattie a Z re sen 27% cucoTer Sy i acuncaw Siecomnwecds ro, CKY POINT S BstacKsroce CASH: (PARLDILLE *S browcurs S 4 ; WEST, >¢ VEQCIETY HILL Hebb” LEMMING TON Cdag vewers % (efownncrow in Wee, ey WRECISTEAS PARR SIMPSONS af RIDGEWAY iy RENCE. 1 A y <. 4 CAMPPELL Rennes < ; 2 eye a \ i ‘ gy jaa | pre Do) ‘caadetiads LywrHBURG IS MARS BLUr Sv(S Cane swamp A) 7 FrOTSM HF acinar? ~ LE Rt Y pp a ~ a 3 PazcrincHam 2 \ Bime q COLUMBIAGs e a conwaygoro peg”. peobltat mionLzrow wSOW4RQS Ey WAT La <a ee reat Aig \ | ae mY oe {Sea 006%, Prog sewer Ryne eee Pa =< “ : be put at his him this and oxpect hitherto been done. command. It is folly to deny from bim more than has He must have everything affords. We give him the control of our e place the fortunes of this confederacy in his hands, and we hazard its future independence upon his well tried generalship andexperience. Whatever ho asks for, then, should be promptly placed at his disppga! with- hes or arguments as to the manni of doing it; for to delay while a few captious men were discussing red tape and precedent might destroy his best laid plans and prove suicidal in the end. General Lee asks for neg! nd believes they can be made serviceable in his armies. By all means let him have them. Whether they can be made into soldiers is an experiment tu be tried. The quondam staves of Louisiana and Mississippi now fili Grant’s ranks, and they have been found no despicabie antagonists even to our veteran troops. Is there any reason to suppose that with tho same inducements before them our negroes would not ight as well upon their native soil, beside the men with whom they have been reared? But there are still other considerations that undoubtedly influence General Lee to favor the moderate proposition now be- fore the country. Many believe, and Mr. Davis in his message has given his opinion, that the actual arming of the slaves is for the present unnecessary; but even if this be tho case, were they placod at the disposal of the Commander-'n-Chief they could be employed in duties subsidiary to that of fighting, such as driving teams, making earthworks, Qurees, ser\ ants in horpitals, mess cooks and other me. nial services. Dy this twenty, thirty, per thousand white soldiers could be put in the re scheme of employing even a limited number of slaves rejudice not dificult to un- ground of inexpediency; but since the army favors it, and Goueral Lee thinks the time has come when our negroes can be made available, it would s¢ m that all further opposition should Coase ‘be Confederate Fenate still withholds the ne- groes from General Lee. That body actually joopardizes the safety of this city, the hope of our cause, the liberty of this people. Senators who are thus carcloss of their country's liberty are unfit to be entrusted with its inter- eta. Eveata are rapidly hurrying this people to the crisis of their fate. More men are needed to save the cause. Withhold now and all must be lost; and yet the Senate detitver aud that is all it does—deliberates, delibe- fates? Will not the Legislature of Virginia come up to the defeace of the State and provide by State law for arming « lerge body of slaves from this State? The danger to this olty and State is imminent. The Con- fedorate “enate is deliberating, discussing, talking. Can- hot the state Legislature actt to know the We suggest to them to be quiet for a few days only, and he will bring Tejoiclag to every true Southern beating heart—as he is now geting ready for the move, and when he docs move he will make the bowl of bis roaring heard among the negroes and Yaukoos in the West, Fight with Our Gunboats on the Upper Tennessee. {Correspondence of the Selma Reporter. Gowtenevite, Jan. 26, 1865, Eprron Reronten—We have again been visited by the Yankees, and their conduct was even more cruel and atrocious than ever before On last Sunday week Gene- ral Lyon succeeded in crossing his command over the river at this point and Beard’s Bluff, ferrying over in canoes and ewimraing his horses, and even succeeded in bringing over atwelve pound howiteer. Before all his command had over the gttnboats came down and Commenced sbeiling him. With the gallantry and daring which has al oe raed him, he deiermined to give them afight. He carried his gun to the hill by a pee e (his nog he having ‘gyro over) kept up a brisk cannon. eding pon P yy some time, Nearly all of his command quceeeded in crossing a! nd it is believed the balance mado their escape, General Lyon removed he gun to Beard’s Bluff, and alter some ng. nade out to reach Red Hill and camped for The Yankees landed a cavatry force twenty rear and made a night of the Operations of Grant, Sherman, Schofield, Lee, Johnston, Bragg, Beauregard .and Hardee. "4 {ROCKINGRAM GLAUREL HILL “Sete, \_\ ‘% STEA WZ doing so, drew a revolver and shot the ; the other two, while guarding as they » the only door in the room, he made good hi through a back door. General Lyon is a gal- lant soldier, and turn up yet to the damage of many a federal, Disappointed of their prey, they returned to recross the river at Fort Deposit. The gunboats acting in concert with them, they determined to wreak their vengeance apon our devoted, ittle town. Every building but ten dwellings was burned to the ground, and the dwelling of Major Beard, at the bluff, without giving the citizens an opportunity to save auy- thing they contained. It was a pitiful sight to see whole families of old men, women and children turned out of home and house, shivering before alog fire in an open field, without food or shelter, deprived in an hour by a remorseless foe of all they possessed on earth; but crueltios like these stir the soul to vengeance, and our people, with every successive visitation of federals, are more resolute in their deter- mination to be free and independent. The fire that con- sumes our dwellings only confirms our hate and tempers our spirits to endure all and do all, and sacrifice even life itself to relieve our country of its oppressors, and seoure t our children the priceless legacy of freedom, eant tial) des Personal Liberty at the South. From the Montgomery (Ala.) Mail Under the rigid military surveillance of Lieut. Gen. Dick Taylor, commanding this department, no branch of government officials have been more assiduous in their duties than those gentlomen attached to the secret service. They are, or seem to be, ubiquitous, and if a strange face appears upon ovr public thoroughfare, the best of pupers must be produced, or the candidate ‘finds himself trangferred to the front in double quick time. strange faces can be found in Montgomery at this time, and those few havo the bést possible guarantees for being permitted to roam the street at will, We have every reason to congratulate ourselves on the thorough efficiency of this branch of the department; for in thrse perilous times every man counts in filling ‘up the ranks of those whose province it is to defend the South from the merciless attacks of her invaders, Few High Prices at Mobile. {From the Mobile Advertivor. } Every one necessitated to purchase anything in the provision line is woll acquainted as we are with the enormous prices charged. Provisions, groceries, broad- stuff, every thing in fact, seems to be ‘on atilts.”” Flour the past week went up to $100 per barrel, and almost everything exhibited a proportionate increase. Th» only abatement of prices noticed by us was in a lotof eggs, AuninauneX¥ons Lannie a \ LOUISHORGE AATF TEROROR SCARE YSU! ‘Y Lo. Ws en — MARANGH VIL. ET TS VU Ate JACKSON : Pirct LANOINEN on @IcH SQUARE Palwyrape S\) mer ROCKY MOUNT fem Ne Rey ~ éWindso! re \ ve ons § eres Re AN a Mashyitte 4g » ONS nveyitce\ NAC" TARBOROM wit To! TROKERS x \ a aa 7 SESSA GARONERS NE ihL BROOKS 0 rNEB Ss : = AY s (SPARTA = S STANHPO NWIL SOW \\ on | on QE ~~ FALKLAND & eA R BLACK CREEK SS ePAcpLu STALLING: ——\/ ACKo, - eR ut /AHUNTAN OS GREE! a SiMITHFLEL > oNow TILL, 5 ae TOONIER WL LS ened AV EVERETTSUILLE| - QUDLEY y sfounr oLive ] FAISONg TOMB = BOWDEN § c zz NTON “L TEACHEY LEESBURC go. The South undertook the enterprise of secession with a clear knowledge of the fact that their success would depend upon their ability to cope with a power four or five times ws strong, and the gage was gladly taken up by our chivalric volunteers of fighting each man two or three or four to one. It has now be- come a question whether snail arnties of the enemy, Qumbering tu the aggregate less than two hundred thou- sand mun, shall be permitted to roam at will over our twrritory in the presence of more than (bree times thoir number of arme-beariug Southern mon. The enemy are boldiy making thiv audacious experiment. Apparently despising the pusillanimity of oar quanés chivalry, they bave U:rown aside all caution and, with a temerity as invulting ae it har Litherto been successful, are bearding our manhood in iis very homestends. If che spirit of tue South does not rive up and punish thie insolence, subja- gation is not far of; and it will eo ehamefully befall us that neither sympa'hy nor honor will attend us in 0% ealamit athern people were without arms, and ui to the use of thom; if they were, from long a mm, Without the instincts of purage and resolution now taking place we remember that ye six hundred thousand resist- ants, te superior tn every mark and quality to each in- divideal man among the invading forces; that he is well armed ond well skilled in the use of weapons; #0 fs ng schooled and educated to subordi- » reared with ideas of independence in nd, and in the evnstant exercive of authority—we say when these things are considered the tame submission of a great community of euch a people to the present condition of ailaire would be the Moat remarkable pomenon that was ever exhibited in hnzan conduct. It i# not credible that the Southern people do intend to permit the insolence of the public enemy as exhibited in’ his present audacious expeditions would not be surprising. each individual man of th into the interior of their country to pass with out a terrible rebnke. It is not possible that @ mero handful of Yankees, foreigners and ne groes, will be allowed to pass at will throngh the heart of thelr country, when a small portion of its inhabitants could, by rallying together, envelope. overwhelm and exterminate them. If the present move ments of the onemy are permitted to be ruccessfully exe- cuted, Len it wil e become manifest that some tn- herent demerit inthe caune iteelf, or some ineradicable fanit in We authorities whieh direct public affairs existe to paralyze the enorgics of the country and lay it open to the mockery of the meanest and weakest external fue that may choose to aeeail it. ious at the present moment to com which were selling in market yesterday morning at $6 invaded. That the State of perdozen. We should think the fall in the price of gold should have been overrun and the past few days would have had some effect onthe | put under the heel of an invader without a markets, but it appears that it has not. The money reat battle, almost without che drawing of dealers seom to be as liberal as any other class—almost any of thom being willing to lend $6 on @ $20 gold pivce. A Proclamation Ag inst Famine in Mis- sini ppt. Tho following proclamation, dated Macon, Mise., Jan- uary 19, 1865, is published by Governor Clark, of Missis. aippl:— Vheroas, the destitution of @ portion of the people calls for immediate relief, and other matters of import- ance to the State demand protopt legislative action; and whereas, the city of Jackson remains di rous from the proximity of the enemy, therefore I, Charles Clark, Goy- ornor of Mississippi, do Jirect that the Legislature of the State convene at ‘Columbus, Mississippi,on Monday, the ‘20th day of February, 1865. The Rebels Accused of Want of Sptrit. THE SOUTH BEING CONQUERED BY ONE-THIRD HER NUMBERS—ONE NORTHBRNER BETTER THAN THRER SOUTHERNERS. {From the Richmond Examiner, Feb, 24.] The emire force of the enemy oust of the Misses on Southern soil, is not supposed to exceed ono bun and seventy-five thousand men, This is the power which pm peg hd, ate pulation of at least three mil- ions of people, embrac! ng at the lowest estimate, six hundred thousand men able to bear arms, who may bo 8 from the business of producti he audacious effort of the enemy is to conquer and subjugate seven times their number of population, and more than three Umos thet number of fighting men. They march boldly into the interior of the count small band of Cortez amidst a myriad cans, spread and, like the aboriginal Mexi- and paralyze wherever joy 4 pated pi protr red blood; that North Cerolina should think of subo from the antecedents of the present etruysle. these great communities will turn their eyes to the soil of Virginia, which has been the battleground of the war, almost every foot of which exhibits traces of the havoc and devastation that attend the stops of invasion, those communitics will eee that invasion is anything but the equivalent af subjugation, if only the people are true to themselves. It is a proud fact, not only for the credit of Virginia but of the South, that these very districts of this Commonweaith which have felt the scourge of invasion and of war most severely are the ones in which the spirit of the inhabitants i# the most unsubdued and indomitable. It is with no cy or offen- tive vanity that attention ja thus invited to ihe fesolu tion which Virginia has exhibited under accumulated and acted atversity; butit is fur the laudavle purpose of encouraging the newly overrun States by presenting an example o! fortitude and untaill worthy of imitat on and full of salutary admonition. [t is not iin- possjble that six hundred thousand brave men al succced in subduing and expelling from their borders one- third their number of merce soldiers, rendered anda. cious by unexpected and unmerited success, who would immediately love all courage after the first decided re. vorve. If the country be depressed and enervated from dewpair of the capacity of Jts rulers to conduct the great concerns which have been confided tw their unworthy hands its hopes will revive under the partially new auspices by which the old state of things has been suecended. It requires but @ revival of popular conf. dence iw the cause and in the direction of military ope out again the strength of the country ‘the invader on every with the same rations to ent and to coulro MOREHEAO Cy re — Ci wf burning patrictium and irresistible courage which mey | Imed him {x previous stages of th Fredericksburg, at Chickamauga W w, the Wilderness and Gold Harbor. What Will be Lee's Route When He Re- treats from Richmond ? (Fypm the Richmond Examiner, Feb 24 J The newspapers of the enemy are discussing the route of Loe’s retreat from Richmond. An invasion of Mary- lend and Pennaylvunia is regarded: as not unlikely, even as highly probable, with Sherman approachin” from the South. These journals say that retreat southward is impossible; that it would be running into certain cap- ture; thay Lynchburg may be the point which Lee will first full bac! np and then take bis line of march for Tennessee, now occup Is supposed by those best infor we (the chem) might hear of his army making his way to Maryland and le mond to the defouce of tis works and a limited p hoping, with a gambler's desperation, that sor would turn up, that Weshington or Phil be captured, ‘and the North th the war. But all this we suppose is over now, apprehension.” d, we do t see why the “all this” should be ‘ve enemy ourse he wil in Richmond, go bot North’? According to the enemy, to go south is but swapping Grant for Sher- man—the ‘devil for a witch. To riay in Richmond is even worse, The first 1s capture, the second starvation and capture, Either horn of that dilemma is certain ruin, What, therefore, is there for Geacral Lee to do but to try once more the fortunes of an invasion? Twice we have failed; but there is luck in odd numbers, and the third tims may bring the crowning “But,” the Zimes says, “on the pears altogether most lik torrible necessity is upon Lee of abandoning Richmond that we shall have another great battle on the soil of Virvinia with the last of the rebel arinies.” Fortified ax both armies are before Richmond and Petersburg, su ” king party to the neceseity of ded by « force equal to that of the reat baitle , go south into surrend ie, by r, it ap seallanta, renders a on the soil of Virginia far too uncertain for General Grant He will never again attack the Army of Northern Virginia, bh it ight an general = en- wit le n taught by a master ily or soon forgotten. He such atta , and as it is of Lee's to defend We think it, there that General Grant will Fisk bis Lee's works, Strategy isa Times, and when at a lore pon itsforte, Hence ote ko usual with the ability, it must be (s worth—nothing, Grant is done nough to keep up appearances «(remains (0 be done tn this war, He 4 ome way or the wher, He is now eats — Co-operating colnmns from the East and from the West moy start to his aid, but If there is any inlitury ability opposing Sherman he will not be permitted to receive aid and comfort from any source. This matter of converging columos from different points has olwaye been regarded as dangerous and seldom snecessful. Last year's campaign illustrated the failure of several, and this year's may put such an extinguisher upon the enterprising Sherman as will put out the lightof this invasion altogether. — We inust stop gagemont, be whose knows th q will bring w (0 beyond reinfor: there people, and we believe it will be effect ally done; but how of when or by whom we do no not know, the route of Lee's retreat from Richmond has decided tice; bu But t yet been upon. If north, the Times shall have due no. since the “personals” have been stopped, the await General Lee's mode of conveying in- Honors to Admiral Bachanan, Sonate of Virginia has passed « resolution hailing 4 satisfaction the return of Admiral Buchauan ‘confederate States, aul tenders its thanks to bi. * role services, The Cincinnati Enquirer office Destroyed by Fire, Cinciwsatt, Feb, 26, 1966. A fire this morning destroyed the composing room of the Dnquiver office. Lowe not agcertained. ihe paper will be ao upoal S| PRICE FOUR CENTS. SHERMAN. Grand Preparations to Check the Advance of Our Army Through the Carolinas. Sherman’s Doom Looked Upon as Sealed. | |The Rebel Prospects in His Front Highly Favorable. The North is to Hear No News from Him, via Bichmond, Until His Defeat is Announced, ke &., &e. REBEL ACCOUNTS. Sirerman’s Advance to be Opposed. NO NEWS TO HAD OF SHERMAN, VIA Kt MOND, UNTIL THE REBELS LEARN HE 18 DEFKATED. [From the Richmond Whig, Fo. 24.) The march of Sherman through South Carolina seems to have inspired the Yankees with a good dea! of that sort of braggart confidence which they have so often ex- hibited in the course of this war. It is amusing now to read the Northern papers. One would iraagine the whole Yankee nation to be afflicted with Sherman on the brain; while the rage of prophecy has broken out with uncon- trollable flerceness, As often before, predictions of the | imminent euppression of the rebellion are rife throughout | the columns of the vaticinating journals. They refuse to see, or even to conceive, any possible obstacle to the triumphant progress of their darling chieftain. The un- opposed transit of a Union army through the hated State of South Carolina bas raised them to quite an unparal- leled exaltation, ‘The capture of Branchyille and Kingsville, and the oc- cupation of Columbia, are heralded as so many premoni- tions of a continued series of success, culminating in that | grand theatrical coup which forms the denouement of every Yankee programme, ‘Sherman finds no resistance tn South Carolina,” cries the Times, “The rebellion is dead. Sherman ig burning and destroying ad Whttum,?? shouts the Trivune. How charming the spectacle, how | grateful to the Yankee mind, which can at least conceive | tue picture from afar, and satiate its cravings by imag. ings of inextinguishabie conflagration ond unresisted de- | struction! How coleus de rore appear Yankee prospects through the lurid glare which Sherman is s"pposed to have cast upon the Southern sky For not less agree- able than the assumed prognostieations of victory over Confederate armies is the thought of the carnage whtch Sherman’s co.umns may wreak upon the terror-stricken population of the districts through which the federal forces are to pass, But, after all, there is some misgiving mixed with all this seeming confidence, While in one place Sherman's march is describod as the unresisted advance of a cou- queror—a mere thumphal procession through a subja> gated country—in another we tmd speculations as to the probabilities of final success, guesses as to what are Beau- regard’s intentions and what Lee may do, surmises as to why a battle has not already been fought, and as to when and where it will be fougut. In spite of all, the situation differs much from that which presented itself during the march througa Georgia, It was then a subject of gratu- lation that Sherman finally reached the sea, even when there was nobody to oppose him; but, as the Tribune | says, there is little likelihood that Loe will let one part of his army be devoured by Sherman while the other ie devoured by Grant, Neither of these voracious Yankee commanders will have the pleasure of satiating his appe- Sherman i anything ether f: € Lattle which he will have t0 | the meantime we may ox) } tite on any pari of the Confederate army. But even the confident Yankees know that a fight must take pl before Sherman reaches his objective point, wherever that objective point may be. The Tritune speculates much as to the forces that can be brought to oppose Sheri.an; and by depreoiating Confederate strength and conveniently exaggerating y about one hundred per cent, reaches ¢ conclusions, Nevertheless, it Is plain that the Yankee papers, in spite of their assump- are entirely mm the dark ard nothing from or of and their a to the tru and inquiring curi vain they wil glean the Richmond papers for news from the South. In vaim they will listen for reports of continued marches, evacume Hons and victor Nothing. wilt go to them ‘rom hero unt I we vend theia news which very probauly wil much abate le for information. We intend to tell them ¢ ing. ie that Sherman's ar will be met, defeated and prolably destroyed without over irginia soil y not bel this little piece of Information ; assure them that the C erate mind 19 fally made up om that potot, and that, conseguenily, Sherman's dom may b looked upon as ceaied, Row the thing will be done, wher it will be dono, and where, we have no intention of i inv oor inquisitive Yankee friends. All these thin y will learn in good time, ARATION POR STERMAN, euwnel, Feb, 24.) Despat ecoived at the War Department from th pablish, as tho enemy w formation in advance of ‘n source of intelligence. But Hat the pronpect is fasr for @ moed to Mr. Sherman, that re this much y say, decided check being given Affairs in North and South Carolina Wearing a More Pleasing Aspect to the Ke ts. rom the Richmond Dispateh, Feb, 24. The city w erday filed with rumors relative to military mover North and South Carvliua, bat we have no official i from that quarter. We, , know that affairs in that quarter are already ing aspect. n was on Wednesday or- and it is the general 10 the command of all instr i seked al Joint Gener News from the Pacific Const. Sas Francisoo, Feb, 24, 1965, The bark Carlotta, from Hong Kong December 21, re ports n violent storm, which swept overboard the chief officers and four others, who were all drowned. The steainer Oregon, from Portland and Victoria, brings $150,000 tn gold The reports from Frazer river and Cariboo mines are very favorable, Agents for the Russian-American telegraph have ar Westminster, and will soon explore the route Britieh Columbia, Telegraphic communication between Westminster and Ban Francisco will be opened fn about a month, ‘The firet overiand mail from San Francisco to Prescott, the capital of Arizona, loft this city t-day. Arrived, ship Thatcher, Magoun, Boston. The Steamer Oceanus Ashore on Narrae Geneet Bench. Provinence, R. 1, Feb. 26, 1866, Tho steamor Oceanus, Captain Crowell, from New York forfrovidence,{wentirehore early Sunday morning, during athick fog, on Narrganset beach, westward of Whale rock, and remained at last accounts with loss of her pro- poller, Mr Gardner, azent of the Neptune Steamship Company, left this city this afternoon, in the steamtag Charlotte and Ieabeita, (or the purpose of getting her of. The Seven-Thirty Loan, Pur.aveLrnta, Feb, 26, 1865, Jay Cooke, the subscription agent, reports the sales of rties on Saturday at over nine millions and a half of dollars, including ono Philadelphia subscription of $500,000, one from Cincinnati of $122,000 and individual subgcriptions of $60 and $100 each to the number of 6.651, The total amount for the week le $27,000,000, and since February 1, $68,000,000, leaving yet unsold about 120,000,000, seven-t