The Sun (New York) Newspaper, December 26, 1864, Page 1

nye baw ee pn ar THIRTY-FIRST YEAR. ) NUMBER 10,129. f a | By Telegraph to the N. ¥. San. —-—o — - SAVANNAH OURS!! THE ENEMY EVACUATE. “Sherman's Christmas Present’ Prisoners---150 Guns----Vast Amount of Ammunition~ 8 Steamers---13 Lo- comotives---190 Cars. The Navy Yard Burned. PORTER'S EXPEDITION. WILLEN ‘ON ATTACKED, Rumored Fall of Fort Fisher, IMPORTANT REBEL NEWS. More Union Expeditions. SHERIDAN ON THE WAR PATH. &e., ; < os &e. Capture of Savannah, OFFICIAL DISPATOA War Department, Washington, Dec, Wth-8& P, &.—To Mijor-General Diz, New York :—A patch has teen received this evening by the P.em- din- dont, from General Sherman, It is date! at Savan- Bab on Thursday, the 22d inast., and announces bis occupation of the city of Savannah, and the tapture of one hundred and fifty guns, plenty of ammunition, and ab 5,100 bales of cotton, No» other particulars are given An official dispatch from Gen. Foster to Gen Grant, dated on the 241 inst, at 7. PM. that the atates y of Savannah was cocupied by General Bberman on the morning of the 21st, and that on the preceding afternoon and night Hardee escape with the main body of hie infantry and light ar- Ulery, blowing up the Yard 150 guns, 18 locomotives in good order jron-cials and the Navy He enumerates as captured 400 prisoners, 19 cara, a large lot of ammunition and materials of war, 3 Steamers and 23,000 bales of cotton, No mention As innde of the present posit.on of which bad been estimated at s Hardee's force, mab 18,000 The dispatches of Gen, Sherman and Gen, Foster areas follows: * Savannah, Ga, Dee, % Bident Lincoln : I; beg to mas gift the City of Bavannah, snd fifty heavy guns and plenty and alao about twent (Big His Excellency Pre present you o8 @ Christ- with one hundred f ammunition, -five thonaar “Ww, T, Sit ! bales of cotton 10d, MAN, Maj -Genl, General Sherm “Leend Major Gras bespatches from Gene the President of Sa ish stuif as bearer of nan to you, aud als e mnessage t e Oty tnt of the 21st just tontem plated assault, escaped with the main bed of hie of the 20h, by way, opposite the annah wad oceupied on the morn- Gen, Hardee, anticipet the uisniry aod at artille: n the mort rossing the river to Union Caum The rebel iron-clads were Blown up and the Navy Yard was burne’. Al! the reat of the city is intact, and contains twenty th and citizens quiet an‘ well disposed The captures include sO ners, one hun dred and fifty guns, thirteen locomotives, in ¢ order, one hundred aud ninety guns ® large su of ammunition and materials of w three f cotton, P seaipers and Wirt axiely stored in warehouses -three thousand bales « All| these valuable fruits of an almost bloodless victory, have been, Lke Atlanta, fairly won, ’ 1 opened cation with the wearers supwhatt ver others f all obstructions, Youre, &e. J. G, Fost soe, and pars are wade to cloar the suse! (aigned.) ny Majortieneral WILMINGTON, fhe Richmond papers of yesterday state that on the 23d twenty-s.x vessels of the Wilmington expe- dition bad reappeared, The dispatch of General Bragg, ee published tn the Ruchmond pepers, is as follows: 28.—Twenty-six vessels of the Federa! feet reappeared thie morning, Tere Bas been uo change mace last dispaich."’ THE The Latest News|... 80,000 Bales of Cotton---800| “Steamer Golden Gate, Savannah River, 7 | P.M, Dee. 22, 1834.—To Lieut.-Geveral Grant and Major-ieneral HW. Halleck: IT have the honor to report ¢hat I hay t returned from | | reception. Arrangements | This is the latest intelligence received from thet Epwts M, Stawton, Secretary of War, Description of Savannah. The city of Savannah, captured by Genoral Sher- man, was before the warone of the most prosper- ous cities on the Atiantic coast, and, next to New Orleans wae the chief exporting city upon the Southera seaboard, In 1500 it contained a popule- tion of over thirty thousend persons, but this num- bar haa been consideraldy decreased by the war, and General Sherman pow est.mates the = popn- lation et twenty thousand, The city je mitvated on the Savannah river, on the horthwestern bounds of the State, on the dtvidi ng line of South Carolina. unhealthy, fice grounds baa rendered it salubrious, Ik was formerly but the drainage of the neighboring The venteen miles from the mouth of the river, but the harbor is very good, veasels drawing fif- teen fees cf water being ablo to approach the wharves. The principal trade of Georgia and « large portion of the trade of South Carolina wae formerly done ot this por which is connected by railroads and rivers with an immense fortion of the richest and mont tertile States in the South two thousand An sggremate of miles of raidroml converge from Savannah, aud the river is navigable for largo stearners as fur a6 Augusta, 120 miles distant, The Ogeechee river, which flowa rough the interfor of Georgia, enters the sea fifteen or twenty miles Lelow the city, and is connected with Savannah by canal and railroad. Nearly four hundred thousand bales of cotton were’ exported from Bavannsh in 1560, besides en tm- mense quantity of moe and lumber. The prin- pal defences were Fort Wayne on the east side ; Fort Jackson, four milea below, sud Fort Pulask!, at the entrance to the river, The latier place has been in our posseasion for some time, The city ts very handsomely laid out is chiefly built of brick, and contains numerous public squares, churches and public buildings, Attack on Wilmington-—Reported Capture of Fort Fisher Baltimore, Dee. %.—The Associated Preas Let ter from Fortress Monroe, dated 6, P. M., on the ‘4th inst., says: The mal! steamer Thomas Collyer bas just ar- rived. A telegraph operator named Raker, belong- ing to one of the chief offices in Richmond, escaped night before last, and, having succeeded in eluding the vigilance of the rele! picketa, mace his way successfully into our lines yesterday afternoon Ho was subjected t) = severe examination by General Grant, and stated that intelligence of the fall of Savannah, had reached Richmond a few hours before he made his escape. There was a report prevailing atthe same time, that Fort Fisher, commanding the entrance to Wil- mington, had aleo fallen through a combined at- tack General Butler's and Admiral forces, but this could not be traced i source The spirita of the citizens of Richmond he de- seribes as in a very Porter's any reliable mich depressed state, and it was with difficulty that the authorities could exer- cise any influence whatever over the press and was the manifestations of contempt for the action of the Rebel Government, citize rs, such frantic General Griffin ja @ passenger in the Thomas Collyer, and places the utmost confidence in the atcipent of thie operator, aud is of the opinion thatthe report of the capture of Fort Fisher true, the extensive preparations made by General Batler on the sailing ofthe expedition warranting its early surrender, Rebel Accounts. The Richmond Examinrm Dec 22, says :—'' Tole- eray aliernoon by the storm with all points except Pe- tersburg. Wo have consequently no official ad- vices from W Imington, Savannah, or from South- The continuance of the north- easter last uight has no doubt prevented! Butler from We have very little fear from d forces of this expedition."* ecommunication was interrupted yesterday western Virpinia, landing bis troopa, the Wilmington, Dee. 20.—The enemy's fleet, some thirty odd sail, appeared off New Inlet this morn- ing. Up to the latest accounts no demonstration has bec de to land, The wind is northeass and id, The weather is unfavorsble to land- ing. song the fleet the Co! recognized, #rowing ¢ lo and Wabash are Our people The War in Kentucky. Operations of the Rebel Gen. Lyon, Etc Louisville, Dee. 24 Gen. Ly 2,000 ¢ a'a rebel forcee, estimated at from 6,000 cavalry, and six pleces of art llery, struck the Louisville and Nash e Railroad at Elizabethtown, and destroyed a few un rtant spans over Bacon Creek, a eal stream, They then turned northward, and are now threatening the important trestle works and Mul- rauch’s AN, Lagrange's brigade of McCook's division is cluse upon Lyon's rear, end our military authorities are prepared to give Gen Lyon @ warn Yesterday evening the stearner Morning Star, ut in at Lowspor where she was jruerrilias, under Capt, Davidson, passengers af about $2,000 in the rot sguregate, and fired shota while on the boas at per- fons in the cabin, Jjuring ne, but subse. ntly killed two discharged soldiers on the deck, | the ‘apt, Ballard to traveport to € they roleasod the bowt Southern News. The Miltary and Political situation, The late Kichmond papers present an interesting view of the condition files of of the Confedera- indicate a feeling of gloom and ap- nirast with the The following from the Rich- mond Examen, Dec, 21st, affords an illustranon of this prevailing sent:meut ; The news from Tennessee is bad, The mtuation {s bad; but it is far from being irremediable. Tho simy in Tennessee bas been terribly misused, and bas suffered ewful iniury; butitis not lost, and may be restored to full efficiency by the same band | which redeemed \t after Missionary Bidge. But to change the fortune of the country, the Executive end the Legislature must change ther character, } and slendou she roed to ruia hitherto systemau mn which isin striking ec | former bravado, Capt. Ballard, bound upward from Evansville to | _NEW YORK, MONDAY, DECEMBER cally purwned by both, Let the Rxeentive cease to mterfere with the armion eend fohnean to the wreek of that army whieh be surremiere| to Hood in euch magnificent condittey ; give t Besure- gard complete diseretion of action on the comat ; Yeave & Leo his whole army sed fil powers in Virgin's and parity will return, good for fine will again fall the Army of the South The follies of the Gowerrivent ase manifest to ail, but ifany one who pays their cost, proposes oppost ton, oF even « remanatrance, the amsalde majority ory, Hush! ob, bush, hush | We caruct yet rid of bin, and be will do thus and eo all ibe more if he is oppesed, Doo’ say anything. We niin have concern —nnanirmity— and there mnt be no Opposition to Governmont—therefore the onty voter thas is Leard at all, ia the voice of flettarure—iho voice of those who bate netaber head por beart, neither knowletge or principle, Hence the Exec ‘itive i encouraged to ax’ tts fancies, aunt al- though every milttary juisfortune of this country is palpably and confersediy due to the personal interference of Mr Davis, the Legalatre contin. hes at ouch seamion to le his aubserviens tool and b furnish now incent ves to perversity, new meane of moaschiel, Of allexterual dampen, there is not one that cannot be succesefully roct, Bit a greater ia within-folly, veeted with hoense and flattery to encourage folly, No calauity which has happened is in itself ruinous: bat what will ruin ue se this that the Government should go on to dey and continue to do the klepticnl acta which bave male calamity by the necersary sequence of cause and etlect. re tore barmony audthe mare concord, and the more self-abnevasion we de evince under sue! cirowmetances, the more repid ie our prog- Tess to Costruction, Tho Sentrns. has also something in the same vein: The factions spirit that prevails to ao grent an extent ia the greatest perm! that besets the Confed- erate canse, We deem it our dnty to warn the fran thas the danger from this seourve is worthy of their nost serious attention; for it ia great, and seems to be growing. The confidence of au army in ita general ie balf its wtrenvth., The confidence of the people in thelr rulers is equally important in times such aa the present. We noed not aay that there are many whoee chief employ is to make fn like fatal attesnpt on the pablic tutereats by their incessant assault on the President and hia admin. jatration. It is no cotrpliment to these men that they yo not rumed the country long ago. because the people did not believe them that Wey have done av little harm, It is because the poople have bad no confidence in them that they have continued their confidence to the President, But it is too much to believe that their perwistent and industrious @fforte have been totally fruitiess fb is too much to hope that she peop'e will not be hereafter found w give them many an ear amid the severe trials incident to such a war, Where » mueh mud is thrown some will stick, Why can we not ditter in opinion aa friends? Why can we not judge and criticise as friends and compatriota, and not with the virulence of encuios and the ferocity of Mobawks? Why can we not suppose that it is, at least, poamble we mnay be tis taken in our personal pi nlons an! that those who are better informed of facts may be, afver all, right? And why sbould it bea bard thing to sequiesow with a cheerful good temper in the decision which may be arrived at by the proper tribunals, and to adopt itasourown? ‘Lotus all hang together," reroarked one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence in 1774 “You roplied anothe “for ifwedo not bang together we will all hang separately." Lot us take the loason to ourselves If we do nut cease these bickerings and criminations among ourselves, if we do not rally together, and rally around our constituted authorit if we do hot unite to strengthen the! entrusted with the conduct recause will go down, and we shall be ruined, forever ruined Again we tell the poople that we are in serious peril. The beginning of strife is ae the letting out ot ters, The leak in the levee soon becomes a roaring crovasse, We iinplore all good citizens who have fallen into censor ous tempera to pause and take their bearings anew, Why should we the ene. my'a work? “Along pull, a strong pul!, anda her,” can alo ie bless xl, in theekiyency that is upon us, ‘Vo wrangle in to die, The Wiua wind: wa. 6 wave Us, Wilt sudeavora to whistle down the Tow often e.uce the fall of Donelson Lave our af- fairs been of eo gloomy an aspect as to ronke the faint-hearted predict the Simp saitulisy of escape Kvery considerable disaster trings @ repetition of | these predictions, ‘Now," exclaimed the weak kneed, ** the worst has come to the worst, This ia undoubtedly the darkest hour we have ever seen, How we shal! get out of the present d lby no roan can tell’ And yet, over and over acain, we have emerged from the diffien)ties iu a manner and | were surpriaing only tu conme> | quence of their extreme ainpleclty., I it be con. tended that ali previous troubles we nothing compared to those which now surre weashall | not bake the trouble to refute so y error. It it should be affirmed that our cause ia in more pen! than it has ever been since the bogiuning of | the war, we shall ding wehavo norlesire tu overraie any evil, however | groat ite maynitude. We counsel paueuce and hope and @ recurrence to the lessens of the past, Hood has been badly defeated, Ihe army was | larger aud more important than FBarly's, but is may learn @ \}eson of euduran » Barly 's cau pain, and Howl may protis t y'dexample of obetinete courage, We uever knew until this | Hurnmer how 1 y reverses an artuy could stand Wy tue | without being « yur @Ven Virtt jured in ita defensive and offensive cere it Now | that we de ow this, is would be folly t pond becmuse Hy ta gumber of cannon aud prisoners, If I v » worke than | the Yankees’ and our ¢ ears at first led us to believe it will be the first instance of the kind which bas occurred dunny the war, Let us be patient and hopeful, and the cloud which pow haugs over will soUn pass aWay. Negro Soldlers he negroes receives fresh The The subject of | stimulus trom velo: The subject | with every * defeats, Fyuciunn conser!ption gain ground tnot the Congress she State Le their attention to re moving the popular projud hat existe against this fmportant mensure, and prepare the pur lic mind for that which ia inevitable Y Why endeavor | to hug to the delusion that the arming of the ne- | | Kroes will not bee necessary, When the march of events steadily pro non bowar | that measure ¥ Wisdom would sutic pate the event and prepare the public for the radical change whieh military events are hurrying wpon us. Tt would pow be very proper to begin to aria the negroes ; in a few months more it may be absolutely necessary, sad | before six months hive ymosed it may be beyoud that necessity, Every day is itpportant, and every day's delay is just so much lot, Whether I bas been defeated or not, peace will not be ya wi it more men, Aud tue begrous we lear, can give our army The BxaMengs coolly recor mendy that the siavea shall be purchased suc pressed, the same as mules, and put tnto the fie! The bill for the impressment one branch of Cong retss rged and amended placing at the disposal oft not 40,000 neg % but 9,000 | leaving it to Gen, Lee, at his dineres) init to the ex vies of the service, to use ther i any way he y think neetful Phere seems also to be good sense in the limitation of their service to twelve months, and, in fact, when they are im- pressed by Government, they should be paid for on a certain scale of prices, according to their present value, and thereupon should cease to be the prop. erty of their owners, but becorue the property of the Confederate Governimoni, as a pressed mules end borses do. The Savannah Rervpiicay seve falaves. which bas leis | bot an iobkling of ite « | telegraph wires were cut on Yoewtay night, seven | miles from Gordonsville 5 it us supposed by # Yan te the proposition, because | | party came tip from Pensacola and cut the Mobile | from Mobile Bay, gives the particulars of the blow. ~ on " wig! 1a? “F PRICE ONE CENT IN GOLD 26, 1864. {vo Clevts IN CUMRENCY, ; e _ ee ath tht rete , commumary, orinance and ais jy te tm Virania, have been alear- bodied age fe teamstors, amd they are being grecually by negroes. From the atatiethes of the elork of the Libby Pri- oon, Mr. Roma it tnat from Ghe let af Jan- vary, N64, to the of December of the same year, $1,450 Yankee petsoners of alhwredes, nations, tonxctes, complexions an! Kindreds, pamsed the doors of the Libby aa priemers of war, Tha mimaber is independent of about twanty thoumnd capture! in Bpottevivanta aad eteewtere tn Vir- um, whe ware sem Bowth without touching Rieh- mond, Binee the wer bayen, 125,000 men heave peesed the doors af the Libhy end departed as prisopers of war The North Cardine Legidinture = resoiniions declaring that the Staten, in thelr sovermgn capecky, bave the righs to decide the qimation of peace or war for themselves, were tabled by two majority, Avother Bark at Batler, The Augusta, Ga, Coneveretionarorr has the following notice of General Tater : Te will be seen by a resent tolegram, that tins notorioas and fidby animal narrowly cacaped » meritat scorehing ty the conflagrauoen of bis favorit) steamer, the Grerboun!, Bamehow, the wonderful doctrine of oe donee will assert iwelf tn af things, wheaber be eubltme or tavial Taking mito consideration the pelpa- Die feet thet Butler has the beart of « timor- oun doy, i 19°tn aarict postion! keeping that he should affect a steamer called the Greyhound. Te cromeh efx off, when bokder dogs than hin- wif are marting and “ybting, is bie apeecial forte. If by any chance he menage t) jeopardies hiv carcass, the minute @ocb peril is comprebend- ed bo ie off foetanter, Ove who wituewsed his fiebt fran oo piekcata at Petarsburg dectared ta colerity amoh that « * yarne of euchre might have bean played upun bis oomt-tell, If tho Dhear- eyed Yankee posanmins the heart of a dog, it ia vo lom certain that the soul thes inhabits the aty called » body te the eoul of a fend. Sooner or later, the burning lake is the reward of ali Geods, pre or post-Adatmite The Masaschusotia fond came very near suflertug the extremity of a harbecue, but the dox was «fil uppermost ani Lartarus was cheated of imown, tis tue had not yet come, sroximation waa vouch. safed Socrates had hus feomon and Petrarch his foutiiar apirtt, Let Butler beware of tire, Fight at Brimel, Tenn. The Richmond papers contain an account of s successful raid by Geaeraa Blioneman and Bur. brictge's forces on the Virginia aud Tennessee rail- road ot Bristol, Tenn, They destroyed consider- adic amount of government stores. An engine and train on the Best Tennessee and Virginia railroad, emian eastern bonud tran on the Virginia and Tennessee rout, between Lristol and Abingdon, wore destroyed, No positive intelligence of the onemy's punmiber had been rece ved, but they are supposed to beee been five or six thousand. A portion of tho fares is said yet to cceupy the town, towards Bean Ata. ton, enconntered r forces at Zotticotfer, a sta- tion on the Mast Tennomwe rallroad, uine miles weat of Bristol, where a Oght waa sald t be pro- gresming at lnat acowonta, More Federal Expeditions. The Richmond Diwatonu of Thursday reparte that Gen, Puluer, & a diviaion of infantry aod @ battalion of artillery, bae oceupled Bower BLN, cight miles east cf Portamouth, Tt ty sugwested for edindnistering the onth of thet confederacy, was brought before the magintrates at Bicibbereen snd: commiteed for trial, The investigation occupied fone boara, and excited great interest. Fail wae refueni, Three others, who are charged with md- ing Keane, ware liberated. The London Tums bas an ed{forial strongly ure ing the opening of negotiations tm America, and ays it must come to that at \oet, and the sooner [6 dons come it will be the better for America and the word at barge. Tt ernphatically divelurhe all selfish. motives, bat for the interests of hnumanity urces pecitlo advances, It believow that the war unless etmled by negotiations and mutual compromise mus goon until the South la made ahowlue wil- derness, and the North prostrated fiaanctally snd commercially for years. The 14th of Decemnber being the third annivermry of the death of Prince Albert, Queen Victoria, ac- companied by the royal family, paid a protracted vieR tothe Royal Mausoleum, and spens a day i complete retirement. The London Tiwi in alluding to the mubject, trusts that now three years have elapsed, and every” honor that a nation and gratitude could pay bo the memory af the Drives hae been offered, the Queen will now think of her subjects’ claims, the dation of her station, and not postpone them longer in the indulgence of unavailing grief. Ik was rumored that Federal agents were at works at Preston, seeking to beguile the factary operatives there to emigrate to America, Galiignani's Mrewencen haa the following : Wo have reoetved vin, Tolland « letter from Japan three days laser than the news atready pub— Niwhed. Th has been already ataled that the Prince: of Nagats hewing refused to poy the war indecmmity” att edtn the treaty of poace signed by bim, # jw ent of the criminal tritanal ef Yeddo had do- cided that histwo palaces should be razed to the farsa end bie servants putto death, We pow" earn that this cingudar and sangulnery soatanoe was approved of Dy the Migado and by the Tai- coum—the apiritual and teinporal soverel of Japan—and that the number of servante killed im the execution of 4 was 420 men and 15 women andechbildren. The Prince, on learning thene facta, was deeply concerned, and sent to the capital his first mintwter, op board the English corvette Bar< owen, which was placed at hia disposal by Vice- A‘ioiral Kuper, The Minister, on arriving at Yedilo, waited on the represantatives of France, Fogland, Holland, America and Russia, and bem fwought them to intercede with the Tacoum in, favor of the Prince, his master, who had decided in. favor of executing all the provisions of the treaty, aud Trt ing the sume due, Such waa the menation of efuirs at the last date, A Constantinople dispatch says that the Porte had scvepted the proposal previously refused for the appointment of & comininsion by the grea@ powers to replace the police of the Danubo under international control, The Auwrican brig General Ward btew ap af Bbanghae on the Met of Ortober, All the crew wore killed except one. The ahip New York, frorn Burderiand for New York, foundered off Dagger faland, Crew gavel) A body of the enerny returning Commercial. Satterth walte's Ciroulne reporta a steady marke® for Anserican securities, Quotations were al toaltered except for Erie whieh have dealt: Two dollars. ive Twenties, alter ape | 43, slightly frpeoved, cloning at 42 a 4% 4%, from Fravkfort stato that Amertoan Stocks remato- ed firm, bus the demmam! for them bas decklodly ceased, and they are pow always s tractom below loree aw of 00 one New York prices. thas this foree is supposed & perate again lt p00, Dee. 18.—Corron,—The B *Olre | Weldot cular reports the gales of the wook 42,000 bales, of | The Examimen of the same date siates * Sheri- | which 11,500 were to nlators and 4,750 to ex », ony " dau’s jufantry have come up the valley to «point | Porters. Price $53¢ 8S. The market to caatery and quotations berely maintained, Dreadatifls quiet and mwady. Provisions quiet and stamly, except Lerd, which is slightly lowem and flat, and Racon, which ia easier, London, Dee, 10.--Counois for mousy are quoted RO, aly Tho Rank miniroum rate of intercat has been re duced to 6 per cent. lilinom Central shareg 5@461 discount, Erie shares, 87% a lS. between Harrisonburg and New Market. His ad- Vance Is supposed t) be intended aa a» diversion tn favor of the cavalry movement on thin de of the mountains, Karly bas mereched out totucet him, The mounted force which baa crosed the mount. eine is four thoumand in norte, end bee four I sof urtill Thoy were yestorday in Macdl- aon al ounty The Sewtinan baa the folowing: “Tt was re- ported yesterday that two divislad of the enemy's cavalry had crosaed the Dhue Lidyve at Chester Gap, hed arrived at Madison Court Houae, and were We aiey learn thet the Wows Items. (By Telegraph to the New York Bund Tur several Government Departmenss at Wash« ington will be closed to-dey, i order to enable the employees to onjoy the Christ as holiday, BoorTs who bef Biaunton on Tuesday, esy thes the rebel force im the Sheaandosh Valley 1 sow about five thousand, half being cavalry. Tae subscriptions to the Ton-Vorty loan for the week ending with Saturdey, amounted ta §29,055,< 550, and to the Beven-Thirty loan, 6,824, 000. Tie formal opeaing of the Unten Pacific Railroads froan Kanane City to Lawrences, Kangana, took place on Monday aml Wednesday, A grand jollifcation was had. ‘Lie steamer Golden Age sailed from San Franck. co on Friday with passengers and $1,063,000 im treasure, of which only $383,000 is for New York g the remalnder yces to England and Mexico. Ges. Dana has ordered all ariny smmunition and military pyrotectnics held by private citizens by military permissions, to be shipped north of Care previous to the Istof January, Persons found south of Cairo with such property, or materials used for their manufacture, after that dat, will be impris- oned, ‘Tus wife, ron and danghter of the rebel General moving ou Gordonsville, koe apy {The Washington Svan of Baturdey says ‘Sheridan's cavalry i off on a grand raid again in the valley, but in whieh direction is would be im- proper for us to state at thie time.) The Wiig says that several days eince a raiding and Great Northern Reilroed at Pollarda, seventy~ two miles east of Mobile, and Uuon retired, From New Orleans * Lom of the Ganboat Narcinus. A correspondent of the New Orleans Bra, writing | ing up of the Uaited Bhates gunboat Narcissa, on the nyht of the 4th inat. Tho vessel was on picket duty, near the obstractiona in the channel leading to the city) At balf-pant tan o'olock # terrific storm arove, and the vessel bein m only eight fect of water, ber commander, Capt, William G, Jones, jetermuned to take Up 0 postiun farther from the eit Accor tingly the Narcissus steered out about » iile from her vonition, and anchored in nine feet of water, Hardly ten minutes bad elapsed after | Prestou, of Kentucky, care aa passengers in the | dropping tbe anehor however, Wha 9 terre Sts Atrice, at Boston. Orders from the War Depart- sion was beard—te veasel waw lifted up bodily Lge | pst ber boiler burst, and in falhing all the | @eat refused them permisaion to land, and alao connoction-pipea were broke, and the veasel was | declined their requemt to leave ly rall for Canada, | otherwime daruapged The vessel wae inatantly en- They therefore remain ov the steamer, to be care ried beck whence they enue, General Tntelligence. (By Matl to the New York Sun.) GOVERNMENT expecta to consurne 500,000 tons of Coal this year. n stesin, but she Captalu quickly ordered to extinguish the fires, sent np signals to the fleet, and organ the crew into bailing squaie, Toe steamer Octorora quickly came to the reweuc, and the wen who were wounded by the | explosion were taken on board. ‘The Narciasus | filled with water in Ofwen minutes after the expho- sion, but the water beng only nine feet deep she of course did not snk KE ythmg movable wae taken from the vomsel, and the Captain prepared to set her on tire, but afterwards concluded that she micht be raised and co lef— ber, The torpedo ex- | ploded amidships, and jt is remarkable that none | were kijled aud #o few injured —three being acald- j ed, The tireren wl) bop peued to be on deck, or whe Hravy teams were crossing over the ico on the Hudson River, at Albany, on Mriday Tne tide has been so bigh at Newbern, N C,, that the wharf-rais bave nade e sudden raid upon the city A Gevwaat Lee ix reported by the Nassan Gran- DIAN to have left Nassau om the Lbth inst. in the meamer Darin, for Meru.uda, Tax main building of the Kalarma 8mall.por Flospital, Washington, was destroyed by fire Batur- day evening. The pationte were all safely re- loss of Lie would buve been greas, From Europe. Fivo Days’ Later News. St Johna, N F., Dee, %A.—The steamship Peru- | viany from Liverpool 16th) vie Landonterry 16th moved, | ven coed pe, Baan am ealide ia Boel Cou, Rovrstom, 24th N. ¥. Cavalry, the leader of si AMES SEPP S80 to Portland, tus | ae iinion officers Ip atiempting to break out of afiorauon, Danville Prison, and who was shot on thas occa- ion, died of his wound Thuradey, 1th, A CONVENTION to forin & Dew political party fm Kentucky, devoted to ernancipation, hes becn call- ed, under favorable auspices, to meot in Frankfort on the 4tb of January. Lares Naseau papers contain ridioulous accounts of Sherman's army being dreabfuily cat up, disp'r- ited and divided, and there betag 6,000 troops in, Continued on the ast page, GREAT BRITAIN, American advices, in view of Sherman's opera- tiens in Georgia and Hood's movements in Ten- nos#o, were regarded with the greatest interest, Tie disaster to the Florida was gonerally re- garded as design, and Southern sympethizers in- dignantly denounce the American Government, In Lretand the Fonien emitgary Keant arrested