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MllfO&ANDUil OF EVENTS—OAMPimn OF 18S4. !
We hsTe prepared the following meaoniiidam |
of the traniAotioai of 1864, for the gntifiottiov. |
of our readers It woald be worth their trouble
to preserve it, as it is desirable sometimei to refer
to dates which may hare esoapcd the memory.
[The record of the SentiDel commenoet with
February. Tj make the yearns rcoord complete
we oompile> the events of January from ether
fiouro'B —Ei). Stat* Joub«al ]
JAIDA.ET
S. Oea W S Joaes fight* and r«at« tbc e&»K5’s raid
ers in Lm oo 'Qtj V* , captariBg 400 prisonera and 8 j
pieo«* of artillery.
4 Heavy 9«ow eterm oo the RapUan and Rappa
h»DD ok, blockadiag arm/ novaiaaatc for •everal daja
Mogbj maw«f etveralraidt—one on Harper’s Ftrrj.
R3->a«r and Ftit L««’s expedition into Hariy aa^ otKer
couitirs verj «aooer^al.
The eB»my retaliaie and make a raid into P*(e, d«s-
Irojia; taonerlas, &o.
Longstreet wM aoti^e in Sasi Teaaeesee dnri^'f^ this
mintb.
T:>e -n«ia bodj of Barntide’a army was conaemtrated
at Knoxrilie.
24 'edi«ral Q.-n. O^vhaa witk gvnboa s ard 2,000
men mM* a raid ap»n Brandon, Jamss ti«er.
28 Eaeuty attack Oen Martin near fr«neb Broad,
£ :t T*an«as8?. comp.i')liag him to retira with a 1;>S3 of
200 men an 1 two eaacon
'^bont the oloas of the month Whatler was employod
in (he re«t of Cb&UanooKa, tsaring ap railroads, &o.
At. ths 2v.ne tiote dctaohnents of the 8lst K 0 a d
4^ c Tib Va cavalry oaptared a gaaboat on the Nanse-
mard ri^e**.
Mi>T?mentii bvcan in the Trans Misrssippi Dspatt-
m»nt Baaks left Texas for New Orieai^ to opaiate in
W.'«terB L misi^aa.
made a ra^d on the B%Uimor^ and Ohio raU-
roai f! ly ^hout closed the month
rSBBUAKT
’7th. ‘U il Sloop-of war Hausaionio Mown up off
Oha'lMtoa Ffarbor, by Lt Diz>a, with a terpido boa^
Lt Dixon ■' id'his crew never haard '>f afterwards
20 (Sa«ard%7l Battle of Oj-'a« Pond, or 01usee, in
Florida. 0*n Ftunegan repolsed and routed the yan-
k«es nadcr Qaa. Seym ire, with a gr«at loss to them
XA.BOV
14 (Monday) Fort DeBassey, on Bed rivsr, captur
ed by the eaemy.
16 Alexondria, La., eaptured by Admiral Porter’s
fl^et, without opposition.
APBIl
8 (Friday.) Battle «f Mansfield, on Bsd Kiver,
Banks defeated with great leas by Qsn Taylor
d Battle of Pleasant Hill, followed by BsAks’ retreat
to Soore.
13 Fort Pillow, on the Mississippi, above Memphis,
stormed and captured by Oen Forrest.
14 O^ld in New Tork 189, higher than ever before
dnrtiig tot» ?rar.
iO (W .aesOiay.) Capture of Plymonth, H C, by
Qea Hcke
28. Atuck or. Camden, Arkansas, by Qen Price.
Steele c soaped ^ Little Beck with lai^ga loss in wagons
and prifloaere
30 The enemy evaeuated Washiugtoii, N 0, burning
about balf the town
MAT.
4. (Wedaesday.) den Grant erossad the Bapidan at
Ely’s and Qeraanna fords, and advaae*d on Lee.
6 G S steamsr Alsemarle attacked Federal flaet of
nine gunboats in Albemarla Sound, sunk oae, erippled
two.
5 ani 6 Battles of the Wlliemess. Gen Grant re-
p'ilgtd at all points, and retreats to intrencktfd lines on
the Brco^ roa^ Gen Longstreet wounded 6Ui.
6 £nemy, under Butler, landed a large foree at Ber
muda Hundred Fight at Port Walthal^ in which the
enemy ars repulsed.
7. Grant retreats towards Fredsr'oksburg Battle of
Port VValthall Junelion. Enemy repulsed.
5. (Cand'y ) Gen Lee follows Grant by parallMroa ls.
Two eBfageaents at Spottsylvania Court House by
Grant’s fifth eorps, which had been held by cm civalry,
was heavily repulsed by Gsn Anderson.
Bftttls of Cloyd’s mountain, near Dublin Depot Gsn
A G Ji>akius rs^olsei bv Federal mounted iafan^ry,
anJer G»n Crook Gan Jenkins mortally wounded
W. Qon'^ederates, under Col MeCausland, repulsed at
Msw River Bridge. Bridge destrsyed by the eiemy.
10. (Tuesday.) Grant attacksd Lee in his lines aear
Spottc.Tlvttma Court House, aal was repuleed with
great ilaughter Battle near Chester. Barton’s bri
i^a-'ie dro-f* the aneny, and then fell back.
U. T£« enemy’s cavalry, nader Shes'dan, having
ma-ie a move a$ainst Riehmond, wore feUewed up by
Gen Siuart Heavr fighting north of Richmond. Gan.
J E B Stnart wounded
12. (Thur^ay) Heavy cavalry firhting eontlaaed.
Gea Gordon wsaa led Col Pate and Meui Ool B«n-
ddlph killed. Gjn Stuart died of his waund. The en>
emy attacked batteries on seeond line of fortifieationr,
MeshaQiftsTille road, and ware repulsed
Great battle at Spottsylvania Court House, between
L\a »dd Grait Grait attempted to storm Lee’s poii-
tier:, %ni was reou sai w>th pradigieas slaughter.
18 Shmian’s cavalry abandon their attemp* oa
Bichmoad, and retreat.
Heavy battle at Besasa bstween Johnston’s am4
8i«rmaa’s forsds Johnston snosesefaL
Heary eaaa^naie it Fort Drawry. Butler moving
agaiist it. Bsanrogard in eommand of the Confeder
ates.
14. Spaare’s cavalry defeated at Fiat Creek Bridge,
Daaville rai’road
aad 15. Heavy skirmishing near Fort D^wry.
^5 G^n Breokiariige attaeke and defeats Gen Sl-
g;t near fTew Market, With heavy loss 8ig«l flses.
15 (Moai«y ) Gsn B3»ur«ga?l attacked and de
feated Builar’a forsr's near Drewr/s Bloff, drlvisg them
at aU points. Gen Heokmaa and iaa'ny prisoners aap-
tured
17. Butler retreated towards Bsimisipi Sundreds and
fortifitOS
18 Grant assaulted E veil’s lines, but was ''easily
repulsed.”
19. Sheridan’s cavalry after resting en the James,
moved baok to Grant. Gsn Gerdon died ef his wound
of the 12th.
Gen Ewell moved «a Grant’s right flank at Spettsyl-
▼ania Court House, driving in the letter’s liaes.
20 Gea Baauregard captured Butler’s rifle-pits, and
pressed back bi^ lines. ^
21. Lut night au'i this morning, G^nt meved «ff by
hij left fliok, to Milford and B)7liag Green. Gea Lee
m%ved towards Hanover -unotion.
22 Lee arrived at Hanover Jonation.
23 Skirmujhing on the North Anaa at the Bri>g3 on
the telegraph road, and at Jericho Ford^
24 Grant in large force, seuth of the Hor^h Aana.
27 Grant, on the night of this day, reorossed the
North Anna, and moved towards the Pamnnkey.
25 Grant on the South side of the Pamunkey, hav
ing drossed'at Hsnovertown.
Heavy cavalry fight at Hawes' Shep, seven miles be-
yoni Mechanicsville.
30 Disaster to Pegraas’s brigide, la a ehacge on the
enemy’s works, near Bsthesda Church-
iUMM.-
1 (Wednesday.) Heavy and eontinaous skirmishing
between Grant’s and Lee’s armiee, beyond Meohanics-
wille. Grant assailed Heth, Rodes and Anderson, and
was repulsed wifh mush slaughter
Hampton and Rosser defeated the oaemy's cavalry
ml Bftuover Court Heuss and Ashland,
2 Eirell t>imed Gfant’s right flank, eapiorlsg ia-
trenaha?nts and 500 prisoners.
United States’ steamer Water Witab, oaptarad sear
Ossabaw Sound by Lieut Pelot
8 Heavy fighting Grant attaoked our right under
Kerfhav, Breckinridge and Hoke, and our left under
Heth, end was repulMd with ^eat slaughter.
Cavalry fight at Hawes’ 8hop. Enemy driven.
A 'light engagement in which Breckinridge and
Hok wt»o aittoked, are viotorions over the enemy.
Hr*' ;k'T»rH.re’9 horse killed under him by a cannon shot.
5. (8aud:ir,) Battle sear New Hooe, Augusta county.
Tne '’oof'derafos under Gen W B Jones, defeated by
G«n Hantor. Oan Jones killed.
7. Q-in Breckiuridtte returned to the Valley.
8. Sheridan crossai the Pamunkey, oa an expeditioa
afrainft Charlottesville and Lynchbo^.
9. (Fbursday ) Gen Kants attempted to capture
P:>;er' burj ani was repulsed.
10. 43'et between G^ant and Lee sioos the Sd.
P rreet gained a briiliaot victory at Tishiaingo
Or»ek, in Nf'rth Missiseiopi.
Morgan atlaoked Frankfort, Ky., without suoqsss.
11 iluater, after oecapying Staunton, appeared be
fore L.'X'Dgton. Resist^ by MeCausland. Eatersd
ts»l» iOWS}.
Q;n H^kmpton defeated Sheridan near Trevillian’s
D -pri
Morgan captured Hobson and his cammand at Cyo-
thiaaa, Ky. '
12 v'^^mday) .Hunger buraed the Virginia Muiury
lueutaie ouildinge. '
H-mpton geined further sncaess over Sheridan at
Trcviliian’s
8her!dfcu renounces his expedition, and aeta out on
bis return.
Grant ia the night retired from Lee’s front bv hla
left flank aad.ssarotMd fer the James. ^
Morgan defeated at Cynthiana.
The Emperor'Maxlmilien enters the city of Jkl;:xioo
18 Balding party from Lsxiagton tappe! Charlottes
ville and LjBchburg railroad at Arnng'oa dapof
Skirmish at Long Bridge, Chiok«hcmli!>y Qf«nl’a
forces drives baok.
•en Early (wilh E seU’s «orpi>) started fer tfec T*liey.
14. Grant crn8Sng the James at Westo^'ran-i Wil-
tox’s.
Gtn Puft killed by a cannon yhot
ftauthside railroad lapped at Ooneord devot.
Lynohbarg threatened
li. The intrenchmeats of Pstorsbnrg attacked, and a
portlen ef the works carried by the rncmy
1* Th« enemy uader Hascock Kttaok oar woike at
Petrrsbvrg. snd are repul«“d with beivr losa
17 Ranter at Nev Lsndon, 12 roiUs from Lj rcbburg
T» ? enemy ag*in a, Lurg wiih great
loss. Tift fcat\le at nii^lit »«ry bv t?.
Bher.tiaa attvked Jobuetoti i»left ne?vr Loet Mountain,
aad was ropuleed wlth»#re»t 1'- a
8kiroishi3g b twi'.'^n Brcokinrid^re *aQd Hunter naar
TjjaebbnTf.
18. aiBari figbtinjr aronai.^ P sersbur^
E«rl?, haviip arrived at Lyccbburg, w*s attacked
a^out aig^tbj Hauvfr, a-d repulss'! him easily—fivo
miles from L.nchburg. Huater retreated duricg the
aiaht
19 Bwly 0‘attfid iu^rir^jBlt f Haafr, wfcorotroated
riti- f eai p'rcciQit^tion.
C0Afed«rate 6'at*fl’ eteamer AUb’.aia .:ank n a fijat
cff rheris&rj by tbi CaHei Stat- p st‘a«aAr K«areage.
Heitvy .-«.;>aaon«din$ near Petersbu g. Shells
thr ~n iato th-r ;cr e*v;*ral davs pwt
21 S'sjf.aa’s ligBt r^i 'j sed y Hstdee, wii.ii gr n^
a!augiiier.
MeCans’aad Ciwturia tca'place? »f Hunter’i arblUry,
near Sftlem
22 Hao^eck’ sc.-rrs Gra^i’a ar;.vy, aJranoed on Wei
den railroeJ Driven buiik aud flui\,cd by Mahone,
with less of 1.712 r>risoners.
Federal oavalry at Re -aif’s s(a‘ian.
28. Gnat^eised Weldon l ailroAd, B milsframPeters
burg. Driven off at nigfat hy M^iopp. wlih loss of 4h3
prisoner* * F*.ser\l c^v*l-y I'urnt Burlnvine e^atio*
24 (F iday.) SVrldan’s cavAlry heavily d^featrd at
Nanoe’s S- op, C;‘*arles CMy county, fey Hampton
27. Bkttle of K^nnesav Moantsin, Johnston inll‘0B
hea»y less cn Sli:r-D n
28 CenfederAte oavr.iry Tictorioas at Buppcay's
-ehnrcb, (Sonthside )
v9 Federal oavalry routed with heavy loss at Raasts’
statiaa Weldcn ra broad
JULY. *
2. [Saturday.] Gaa’l Early "arrives at Winchester,
boond for Maryland.
8. Gen’l Johnston evaouales Marietta and KsnnsRaw
Mountain
The enemy attack Fort JobnSv'n, near Charleston, aad
are heavily repulsed
Gen Esrly enters Mirtlcsburg..
Bnemy’s force, which had advanced from Vicks
burg. evacuated Jaoknon
Hagerstown oecupiei by the Oaafftdv^rates
Gea Early crossed into M ryland near Sharpsburg.
Qen Jehnstoa retires soa'h of the nuttahoookee.
7. Confederate priscnera at Point Lookout gent to
Eimira for fear of rescue
8. Grants 9ih eerps ^Wright’a] embarked for Mary
land
9. The Oonfederat«>p occupy Frederick City.
A battle near u«j Mo^soaey, In whi-ih G«» L.;w W»l-
laes, comnundiag tbe Fsder la, wa- defeated with hea
vy 1*95
11. The Fed^rjJs attacked Baltrry S’.mpkins, Charles
ton, but were repulsf ’
Sh«rsaaa eroscsd th- Obaitahooehee
Bvlj skiriais'aai near Wvhiagtcn. '
Traia bitw'ea Plii'sdc'piiirk ana Baltimore oaptarad.
Ga«: awier bridge burnt G.*eat pacle ia Washing
ton and B Itin-ore.
12 Ea-]y tkirmisbe.i baf-jre Withlngt^a. Retire^
at night.
18 aud 14 Gics Lie an! Forrest do*'3 Q :n’l A j
Smith at Tupslo, klti hjxry iilaagsttr. Smitb retires
to M^mpkis
14. Gqu Eir’y rscroaaed ih> ^otouna a.ar L^et'-urg,
bringinf; off larg^ caDtur«?B
17. Q^a J h ?VJn tu'ne.^ ore.* th'i e vnmani of th-
arry o T3Hlji«»sc'J to G.a H o4.
18 Lincela t«lli ‘ whom it m^y oo;jcerii” j^itten i^d
for M*5?rI Clay H■»lc•^a^^3 o Wi,%' lerms pe^O"
m\y be had.
■ 0 Clood *t'*ik^i t'le tn«vr, drivlnir hi.n into his
works.
Gen Rimseur dsfeaied by Crook near Wiaehsater.
21. Sherman attieki Gl'burae's di?isi>a aeJ is r.'-
pu’»ed
22 H-iol su': SiMlr attask^ Shoral^n. Har?ee
made a fl*.nk mxra' ai n»/ht.* 2000 pn«onsr% 18 ^nne
captured Gin’J W» k-»r kiUal. »iso Gsn 1 MiPae»‘«33
USA • ' ’
24. Gen E>rly -U’oits Qea Cro^k at Korn-towa whh
be%rj loss, drlvin.; hi’a thnug'i Wiuc'a^st.er
26. Earj re-oooapi* Mirtiasbu-g Tae railroad
track torn up for tug .^ix h line. Tin enimy retr'tt
into M\rylaad
30. [Satur4ay.J G"vat fxpl^les a mine uader our
works cue and a h*lf taliei "*3‘ of Petersburg Eismy
repu'.sed with grsat lo«3 i« killed and captured. -
A raiding p%rty at Newaan, 0*. severely whippel by
G«n Roddy
Atlanta shelled very firi'*nsly for ssvoral days rast.
Chambersbarg burned [in re»aliation] hyGjn’l Mc-
Caus'and
81. Gen Stonemaa irhip^j asd tak*n prisoner aear
Macon, by G.'a Iversoa Hid oommand captured or
scattered.
A-oawsr.
fl. [Ffiday.1 The Fed ■T.^! fl :i;t, F^irragn, 17 vessels,
ran by Fr>rt Mirg*a, aad entered Mobil* Bay Naval
engagemant, in ’vhieb the Osafjdertea Wisre overpow
ered and defea*ed. Admral B jol>aa«n wau'tded ani
captured.
At night, Fort Pow«ll was evaluated and blowi up.
6 Heavy fi^htirtg at Atlanta Ba^.my rspulsed
7. Gsn Bradley Johnson defeated near Maorofield bv
Averill
8 Fart Qalnes, nq-*r Mobile, capitulated.
9. Heavy firing opened upen Fan Morgan by the
enemy
18 Col \^sby captured Crock’s supply train near
Berry ville
16. The eaamy, under Fjs'er, *sj->uUei oir works at
Charles City road, s'x :a':M fr>m R ohraoni; severely
repulsed Gsn C'iam>'li«8, f! H A. k lied
17 Partialengaafamantat Wiu3'-f)8_cr E i«ray routed.
18. Gra4 attackj our ri^ht b^y ai fy ry-rnr^ and
roaches the W*l!oi ra'lraCd, wher> b-> fjriifiia.
19 [Friday ] The e'i^.Ty on th? Weld-)-! raitroad at
tacked fiy Gen a P Hid, a-'.d driven two nsilnd, witb loss
of Gan H*yes and '700 pfisaners. Nat diilodged from
railroad.
20 The Oonffld^ra^es uosnojessfally attaak tha enemy
on the Wei Ion railroad The latter fortify strongly.
20 Fa?.- -St d^sbes i ?*o M emphis.
24 Fort Morffi’’, netr M.b'Ie, capitulalei.
24 Yankee rail in^o R?g rsrUle Hon J Hoiskell, M
0, and 0(h9.'*8, cariturjd.
25 Gen HiM attM^kei ea«my at Reaxs’ Station, cap>
taring 2150 pris. nars, 9 guns, &i
Geu Eirly deflatei ani drove the enamy near L:e-
town.
29 SLer-nan made a lo Jg.-nent on the West Point rail^
road.
30 Sherman reached Jonesborouga by a fltuk mcve-
ment to Haod’s rr>ar
Gen Hardoe attacked the nenay at Jonesborough. but
failed to dislodge theoi.
SBPTBHBVm. •
1. (Thnnday ) G^n Hood evacuated Atlanta at
night. Gen Hardee attaekad by the enemy at Jones-
bero’, *4id repelled them
2. Atlanta ooeuplei by the enemy.
«. Confederate foren h*ik B'off, in Missouri-
thirty mil's from CharU^rcn
4. Gen John Morgan surprnad and slain at Green
ville, by Gillem
Sherman oeasad hie purjui; of Hjod, an^ rdturnedto
JouesHwo>
6. Sherman retired towards Atlanta.
6. Hood re-oocupled JonesboriT
8. MeOlell^a aoaept«dl lus nomination in a War letter.
^ Sherman notified Hood that ha had ordered away
thi populatio> of AUanta. and asked armisl ce. Hood
denounced order, but agreed to armistice
16. Hampton captured »00 prisoners, and 2,485
beeVes, in Graat’s rear, at 8ycamoro churih.
19. (Monday.) Federal oavalry burut railroad bridge
over the Rapidan
Battle aear Winchester. Gea Early defeated by Gen
Sheridan with heavy loss- on both sides. Gen Rodet,
C S, and Gen Rastell, D S, killed.
22 Gea Vaughan defeated the enemr at Blue Spring,
driving them seveu miles.
Goa Early attacked by Shsridan, at Fisher’s Hill, and
arain defeated
24 Gen Forrest captured Athens with 1300 prisoners
26 Gen F^est captursd Federal garrison, 800 men,
at Sulphur Spring
Gsn Price at Farmiag'on, 20 miles S E of Pilot Bnob.
26. Gen Ewly, near Port R'jpublio and Browa’s Gap,
repulsed assault of the enemy’s oavalry,
Lieut Bain, 0 8 N, captured at sea U S mall stekmer
Raanoke, from Havana for Hew York
28, F^eral oavalry destroy depot aear Wayaesboro’
Were defeated near there by Wiokham’a oaviify.
?y Barly’s troops drove away the enemy from
WayeesbarougH. Sarij'e oiVjdry cater Pt*antoB.
Ti.e «n mT ar.a^r G.;4> Ord. carried Fert Harrison,
bc>cw Ch»ffi‘5’«, •'y awrfH** a»d sscaaU.
F»;rt Oiin'-r, (»a»r Ohaffia’#) was am«u^t«d. but tha
easTi y were Te'^ulse^ Dif h great sinugh&ar.
Shrri'sm’fl CA-R'fr erierad t« icvcstate the Tallef
a-ii it a btrren wastp.
80. An ;;zisu'cr8tffal atceajpt «ai to rMJVtr
Fort HarriHdB.
Toe enexiy atisoked oar llaea fear mUas bayeai
Pctereburg, wi h soms suecess. They mevad tawecdi
B''yd(on pl'.ink r«*d. and were attaaked bjkffea’la laih
and Famrton, who routed and drove them off irith graal
slauich(er.
OOTOBSB.
I. (.*-.tor’ay.) Gen tarly having 4bec>ed •heri-
Jan’H pr.r^resd, ibe latCe* retreated •ioaa the Valley.
3. Gee Birbridgo attacked Gen Williaat§ near Salt-
villc. and wts r>j>uls?d with irreat slaughter.
4. G'>i> Puc‘L srho had ft;ov»d aroua4 to Sherma’l
re*r, captured Big Shanty statiea, oa the Atlanta aad
5. Hocd’e trovps attackt-d AUatooaa. wltheut •«««••■.
Pi'ioe’fl trar>rs burned the railroad bridges ever tha
0.’«g(» and G »sooada rivcr».
7. G)n AMdarsan, Lm’.' aro*. attaeked Graat’t rlfht
.on i> '? O' arh.s Oity r(«d. axid drove it saveral m'JMo,
.-;%P’urBfc p iso^era, tes oaaaoa, &e Gaa'l Greag, of
T*'?!i.., kiiicd.
Hb«ridat', i>^ tn effidal di«’pateh, boaatad that ha had
bUTBvd 2,000 barns aau 70 miiki, aad seised l^nr hards
of cattla and 8,000 shsep.
O. B. »tT Plbrida capturad at ai|At ia tlM Peft af
BaHia, by the W^iehnsstt CapC Collins, U 8 N.
9^ Otvnlry fight near Btrasburg. laamy riatarlaus.
II. (Tnqsd&y.) Forrest defeated aad drove aff a knedy
af the cnetay at S*«tport, oa T«Bn«ssee rivtr.
i^. Tae esfm*. unJer Genaral Terry, attseltsd Laa*sl
*^f(, on the Djurbytovn avid Charles City reaii^ aa'
yers repuhad with heavy slaughter.
Gtfcerai Vaugiiau attacks aad defeats the eaassy^at
GreitnvUle,
E i:'ly a'tacVs end drives ths enemy bey and C«dar
ir,’ n^'ar Stras!2urg.
i4. M»by oa|>tare« a traia at SuSeld, B^ltiaote ft
Ohio rtiiroftd. with two yankee paymasters.
D iUon a»id its ganrison iurreaderad to Gsa Hood.
G«» Price L ft BooreevlUe, whieh he had held, and
ffiC'Vcd to«ard Lexicgtea.
15. SsdftUa, Mo, oap;iu‘eO by J;ff Thompsoa
t7. G^n Beauregard took eemmaad ef the MUitary
Divistcn of the West
,19 (Wednesday) Gen larly attaeked Iherldan
near Cedar ''reek, aad gaiacd a greal advantage ia the
e»r’y part of the esg^euenl^ which was afterwards lost
by aa uaaeocuatable etampede ef his troops.
Grn Long«tmet, who w«s wcnndsd May f, rssasiss
eommaKd of his sorps
G«a Price defeated Blnat, and eaptared L*xtagtea.
22. Price defeated Cnrtii aear Kanaas City.
25 and 2. Gea Lomax repalsed Sherldaa's aavalry
at Miifcrd.
27. (x'uursday ) Graat attaeked Gsa Lea’s liaet ea
both fianke Oa our left, the attack waa ea tha Charles
Oiiy aad Williamsburg roads, aad was easily reaolMd,
with heavy laid to the eaemy Oa ear ri«^t tha saa-
nay seised Bnrgets’s vili, but were severely defsatadby
Hampton and Mahoae, aad retreated doriaf tha aifht
Ga» Prioe retreating from MiMourL
Gsn Vaughan ^ttacfcsd aad dsfeated by Ges Gillem,
ue^r y o'tijtovB, E«8& Tenasssee
28 Iren cUd AlbeoiafU blown ap by a terpade haat
cf ti e enemy, at 2 A M, witila anoher^ at Plymeutk.
■‘1 G.-a Mahoae oapiured 250 pieketa ia his freat
wiiiioBt loAing a mj^c.
G- b Forrest captared aad detcroyed at Paris, Tea
n?^~e^ river, three gunboats aad four transports.
HOVSMBBa-
t Fi ro^t e-'ptured at Jahnsonville, Tennessee, # gaa
boats and 84 lraa*ports, and destroyed vast steres of
ae ea*%tuy.
7 (Maaiay.) roa^*c^3 met ia Riohvoad.
8 Abraham Liaeala re aiacted by a large aujorlty.
11 Shenaan’s feree^burned aad evaeuated RoaM, #s.
12 Gea Ros-'er d*fa!«ied two divisioas ef the eaeasy’s
O '*Airy, near Midd.et4«a.
bercan evr.«u«ited A Uata, aai s;artsd oa >a sxpe-
'It^ou aorors 0-,.rg!a.
1^ Hoad ea juanced the passage of the TeaasMae
rv«r. noar Fl-jr* ace
14 iM idiy.) G’a BrscVnHdga, having tnraed
Bail 3 Gip, si-'uck tiiiileai s ooluoui, while rsireatlaf,
aad rcuui^i it, with heavy leea.
15 Gea Fagan oapiarei F*yot.eviile, Ark, with 809
(.riioaers.
17 Gen Pickett eap*tu*ed the enemy’s pickets in his
fJC*.
20 GlMhermaa’s faroas oeoupied MUledgeviile.
ii Gci^^afsar repulsed Sheridan’s cavalry, drivlag*
th^.-n through Bdlabarg
Tbq Gaargi* piate troops, (^en FhtUipn, attacked sad
dcfa-.i a eckl-iMu of tiaar««,:)’■ foresa at G.'iawaldvUl^.
Fbp eoemy absadoa tne attempt ea *^ason.
^hermau’a treopa repalaed «t Oconee bridge by
yijof fi[»"m.iga
2? Bh2rta:;a va^u*t«d M'.iledgaville, after burafai|r
t^e peaitenMary, are*n«ls and bridges
(3Aturi>y.) Th) enemy evacaated Deoatur, bars-
ini’ tba staree
27. ^ heeler’s cavalry wixlpped Kilpa rick at Wayaes-
ba/ >ugh, Ga
The eneny evacuated Euntsviils, Alabama,, aad
Columbia, Te''ae^^ee, and retraated towards NaahvUle.
T"e Osnfedsrat? States ate^mar Florida, while
lyinf in Hampi.oa B-oais, held as a capture by the ene-
mf, w&s ran iar: b/ cuc of their veesels and suak.
G .noral Basher captured Fart Kelly at New Oraek
iepo*, and also Piedmont; hot^ on line of Baltimore aa'i
O^Jo railroad, with cumercus prisoners and spoils.
General Mefitt, with 3.00D oavalrv, ravages portieas
of the oouTi«ics of Ftuquier aad L.udano.
30. (Wedn:aday.) General Hood attacked the eaemy
under Sohcfie'd.'at Franklin, Teaaesseo. Tat aaamy
fstreat daring tha nignt te Nashvills.
DBOKXBBE.
1 (Thursday.) Gr/vnt’s oavalry, General Gregg, tap-
tared and burnt Stony Creek Depot, Petenburg aad
Weldon Railroad.
Ilaod s army appeared before Nashville.
2 The enemy, G^noral Foster, attampted to gala the
Chariest m and Savanuaa Railroad at Grahamvills.
Hiavily repulsod at Honey Hill by Gen S W Snlth.
tdn’ral DAhlgrea repalsed at Ooosawhatehia.
4. G^n Waevlar r'puUes and rouis Kilpatrick batweea
ai'il^dgevill^ and Milieu.
6. Tae eitejay driven back from aa attempt en Pooo-
laiigo, Charleston aad Savannah R>ilroad.
A heavy column of tfac enemy, under Warrsa, start
au an .'xpddition agaiaat Weldon.
7 Figiit near Paoataligo, between ths saemy aad the
S'iuth Uaralina Cadets. The eaemy iatreaehed aear
b# r-*ilroad.
8. Warrei’a expsdltioa at Jarrett’s Statioa.
Pav^rican’aadvaaeeQocauatered Hardee, tweaty miles
fro 'jt Savannah.
Q in Hampton dsfeatel and drove in en the iafaatry
the cavalry of Warrea’n expeditioa.
9. General Hampton, who had jainei the guard at
MeHerriu Bcidgo, repuUed Warrea’s attaok at Bellfleld.
Wanes tbaadaced his expedition, aad ret oat oa hit
r..'lura. after having torn up six miles of railroad traok.
12. Warren rej aiaed Graat’f lines.
She^iaan’s forces felt our lines around Savaaaah to
day, but laade no attaok.
18. Shermaa stormed and captured Fort M»^Hetor
at the mouth of the Ogeecheo, and.optaed aosuauaioap
tion wiih the sea.
24. Bristol, Teaa., oeeupled by a raidiag txpefllloa
uader Burbridge aad Sioaemaa. ^
1ft. (Thursday.) Thomas atiaoktd fleed war Nath-
ville, and foroed baok his left wing
16. Gen Hoed falls baek to Broatwood Hills.
A raiding expedition of the eaemy oeonpv aad bum
Pallard
17. Hood ooatianos hie reireat. His rear gatrd at>
tacked 6 miles beyond Franklin at 6 P M.
17 and 18. Breakiaridg^e \n callislon with Burbridga
ce«r Marion. Huidled him roughly. *
19 Hood crossing Dack Rivor at Colnnbia* Skir>
mbhing at Spring Hill
20 Forrest jaiaed Uaad at Columbia.
Burbridge gained pad:>rssion of the Salt Works ai
Saltville, to-night. ^
Qen Hardee oa^mencid te evacnata SavaaaaS
21. Breckinridge advaaoed oa Saltvilie Burbridaa
retired at aigbt.
Savannah evac'iated this morning
Qen Sherman receivas the surrender of Savaaai*
from the Mayor. l>ccupled the city.
Qen Rosser, nine "r«il^8 aorih of Harrisoabanc. rta
pulses and drives baok Cnstar.
Hood reported at Palaski.
23. Lamax, two miles and a half north of Qordoai-
vUle. defeated and heavily pinisbad Torbsri, who wai
moviiig agunit GardonsvUle and Charlottotville. Tor>
bert retreated wi^h preeipitation.
24. A great land and naval ej peditioa Woh loft
Hampton Roads under Butler and Admiral Porter, on
the 18th, oammenoad to-day a furious bambardmant of
Fort Fisher, bslow Wilmiagton.
26. (Sunday.) Bombardmeat of Fart Fisher aout’au-
ed. 3utlor lauded three brigades abo7a Fort Fishsr
Attacked by nr troops, but held their grauad, At
night they «*a’tod Fort Fithtr ud ware repulMl.
27. Butler’s tr >apij ro-ombarked. Btmbardm’triiAt.
28. P«ter’eflattaol*ger Tidbit bdawWileii5e».
RISE AMJ^ PXOGRISS OF THE BNQLISfi PRIiS
From Maeaula^’s Er^^la'id, vol IV, ah XXi.
Meanwhile, [A. D. 1694] events which no
)rapediiig historian has condesotodcd to mentioo,
lat whioh ware of far greater importasos than
the aokiatemontg of William's arooy or Ru:
0alFs ftat, were taking place ia London. A groat
•zpariment was making. A great revolution was
in profraes. Newspapers had made their ap
ptaramoa
While the Lioanaiog Act wai in force there
wtf na lawtpaper in England oiuept the London
G^Mtta, whioh was edited by a ^«rJc in the offias
of tha Searetai’j of State, and whioh oontaioed
nothiag but what the Saoretarj of State wished
tha nation to know- There were indeed many
Mfiodiaal papart: bat cone o£ those papers oould
>0 oallad a newspaper. Wolwood, a xealoos
Whig, pnblishtd a joornal called the Observafor:
ljut kit Obaerrator, like the Observator whioh
Laatraage had formerly edited, oontained, not
tha newf| but meralj ditaertations on poUtios
A aracy booksellar, named John Danton, pub-
lishad tha Athaaian Mercury: bat the Athenian
Mafonry macaly disoasaed questions of natural
philosophy, of oaiaistry and of gallantry. A Fel
low of the Boyal Sodaty, named Jahn Houghton,
?ablishad what ha oalM a Collection for the
mprovamant of Indottry and Trade. But his
oolleotion contained little more than the prices oi
stooks, explanations of tha modes of doing basi-
nesa in the City, pnfia of new projects, and adver-
tiaaaaanta of bMks, qnaok laedioines, ohoo >late,
tpa water, oivet cats, sargeons wanting ships, va
lets wanting masters and ladies wanting hosoands
If aTor he printed any paiitLcal news, he tTan-
scribed it from the Gazette. Tha Gaxetta was so
Mrtial and so meagre a ohraniala of events that,
mavppllk had no competitors, it bad bat a small
mevlalion Only ei^ht thousand copies were
priataa, saoh 1«M thau one to aaoh parish in
the Ufo^om. In troth a person who had stud
ied tha nistory of his own time only in the Ga-
lette would have been ignorant of many events
of tha highest importance. Ha woald, for ex
ample, Iato known nothing abaut tha Court
Martial on Torrington, the Laaoashire Trials,
the baming of the Bishop of Saliabary's Pasto
ral Latter, or tha •impeaeameat of tha Dnke cf
Leeds. But the defioienoies of the Gaaslte were
to a oartain extent supplied in Loadoo by the
coffee hoasaa,’and in tha ooantry by the news
letters.
On the third of May, 1695, the law whioh had
sabjeotad the press to a aensorahip ezpifed.
Within a fortnight, a staunch old Whig, named
Harris, who had, in the days of the Exclusion
Bill, attampted to set ap a newsjMper entitled
Intalligenoa Domestio and Foreign, and who
had been speedily foraed to relinquish that de
sign, announced that the Intelligenae Domestio
and Foreign, suppressed fourteen yeara befor>
by tyranny, would a^in appear. Ten dajrs after
the first Buoiber of the Intelligence Domestio
and Foreign was printed the first number of the
English Ooarant. Then aame the Packet Boat
from Holland and Flanders, the Pegasus, the
London Newsletter, the London Poet, tiie Flying
Post, tho Old Postmaster, the Postboy, and the
Postman. *Tha history of tha newcpapers of
England from that time to the pressnt day is a
most interesting and instractive part of the his
tory of the ooantry. At first they were small
and meanlooking Even the Postboy and the
Postman, whioh seem to have bden the best oon
daoted and the most prosperous, were wretohedly
printed on scraps of dingy paper such aa would
not now be thooght good enough for strtat bal
lads. Only two numbers came out ia a week,
and a number contained little mare matter than
may ba fouod in a single oolumn of a daily paper
of our time. What i^ maw called a leading ar-
tiale seldom apptartd, except when there was a
seartit/ of intelligence, whan the Dutch mails
were detained by the west wind, when the Kap-
p«r««s ware quiet in the Bog of Allen, when no
staga aottah had bean stopped by highwaysaens
when no noojuring congregation had beta dis
parsed by eonstables, wken no ambassador had
made his entry with a bag train of co%ehe6 and
six, when no lord or poet had been buried in the
Abbey, and when oonsequeatly it was difficult to
fill up four scanty pages. Tet the leading arti
cles, though inserted, as it should seem, anly in
tha absccoe of more ab'.raetivo matter, arc by
no means contemptibly written
' It is a remarkable tact that tha in^t news
papers were all on the side of King William and
tha Revolution- Thia faet may be partly ex
plained by the eiroumstaoce that the editors
wert, at first, on their good behaviour. It was by
no means clear that their trade was not in itsclt
illegal The printing of newspapers was certain
ly not prohibitad by any statute. But, towards
the olosd of the reign of Charles the Second, the
judges had pronounced that it was a misdemean
or at common law to publish political intolligeoce
without the King’s license. It is trae that the
jadges who laid down this doctrine were reVnova-
ble at the royal pleasure ^d were eager on all
occasions to exalt the royal prerogative. How
the question, if it were again raised, would be
decided by Holt and Treby was doubtful; and th^
effect of the doubt was to make the ministers of
the Crown indujgsnt and ta make t'ho journalists
cautious. On neither side was there a wish to
bring the quesiion of right to issue. The govern
ment therefore oonnived at tba publication of the
newspapers; and the eonductors of the newspapers
carefully abstained from publishing any thing that
could provoke or alarm the government. It is
true that, in one of the earliest numbers of ono
ef the new joamkls, a paragraph appeared which
seemed intended to oonvey an insinuation that
the Crincess Anne did not sincerely rejoice at
the fall of Namur. Bat the printer mado* hast«
to atone for his fault by the moat submissiva
amlogies. Daring a considerable time the an
omciatgaiettes, though much more garrulous and
amoaiilkAihan the official gaiatte, wert scarcely
Whoever examines them will find
ia always mentioned with profound
ut the debates and divisions of the
^ a revereatial silenot is preserved.
There is^ueh invective: but it is aHost all di
rected against the Jaoobites and the French. It
seems certain that tha government of William
gained not a little by tbe substitution of these
printed newspapers, oompoied ander constant
draad of the Attorney General, for the old news
letters, wMoh were written with anboanded
iieeoie. nm
The pamphleteers were ander less reis&ain^ than
the journalists; yet no person who has studied
with attention the political controversies of that
timo can have fiuled to perceive that the libels
on William’s person and government were de-
eidedly less coarse and rancorous during the lat
ter half of his reign than daring the earlier
half. And the reason evidently i^ that the press,
whioh had been fettered daring the earlier half
of his reign, was free daring the latter half.
Wlole the censorship existed, no tract blaming,
eren in the most temperate and decorous language,
the conduct of any public department, waa likely
to be printed with the approbatioa of the liceaser.
To print such a tract without the approbation of
'the licenser was illegal In gene^, tharefore,
the respectable and moderate .opponents of the
Court, not being able to publish in the manner
prescribed by law, and not thinking it right or
mfe to publish in a manner prohibited by law,
held their peace, aad lefb the bosiness of eriti-
iUM ik» •dsiiwsmtiM ib mo olanea of
fknatieal nonjurors who siaoerely thoight
the Prince ef Orange was entitled to as little
tharity or courtesy as the Prince of Darkness,
and Grub Street hacks, eoarseminded, badhcarted
and foulmoutked. Thus there was foarcely a
-^iBgle man of judgment, temper, and integrity
among the many who were in the habit of writiof?
against the jiroYernmetit. Indeed the habit of
writing against the government had, of
an unfavorable efFeot on the character. For
whoever was in the habit of writtnfr agsinst
tht government was in the habit of breaking the
taw; and tho habit of breaking even an naryason-
abls Uw tends to make men altogether lawless
However absurd a tariff may be, a srouggler is
but too likely to be a knave and » ruffian
ever oppressive a game law may bi’, the tranbition
is but too easy from a poaoher to a muiderer.
And so, though little indeed oan be said in favor
of the Bta^atea which imposed restraints oa liter
ature, there was mueh risk that a man who was
oonstantly violating those statutes would not be
a man of high honor and rigid uprigfatneps- Ap
author who was’*de+ermined to print, snd oould
not obtain the sanction of the licenser, must em
ploy the services of nee(fy acd desperate outcast^),
who, hunted by the peace officers, and forced to
assume every week new aliases and new disgaisrs,
hid t^eir paper and their types in those deos of
vice which are the peat and the shame of grfa^
capUals. Sutb vrretohes as these he must bribe
to keep his secret and to run the chance of having
their Meks flayed and their ears clipped in his
^tead A man stooping to such companions and
to such expedients oould hardly retain un
impaired the delicacy of his sense of what was
right and beooming. The emancipation ol the
press produced a greal and salutary change.
The btst and wisest men in the ranks of ^e
opposition now assumed an offioe which had hith
erto been abandoned to the nnprinoipled or the
hotheaded. Tracts against the government were
written in a style not misbecoming statesmen and
gAntlemen; and even the compositions of the low
er and fiercer clasx of malcontents became
somewhat less brutal and leas ribald than ia the
days of the lictnsers.
Bome weak men had istiagined that religion and
morality stood in need ef tht proteetion the
lloensar. The event signally proved that tfiey
were in error. In truth the eansorsbip h^
scarcely put any restraint on licentieusness or
profaneness The Paradise ho»t Bad narrowly
escaped mutilation: for the Paradise Lost was the
work of a man whose polidcs wert hateful to
the ruling powers But Etherege’s She Would
If She Could, Wycherley’s Country Wife, Dry-
den's Translations from the Fourth Book of Lu
cretius, obteiatd the Imprimatur withoat diift-
culty: for Dryden, Echerege and Wycherley were
courtiers. Frtm the day on whioh the emancipa
tion of our litaraturt was atoomplished, tht puri
fication of Aur literature b«gan. That purifica
tion was effptted, not by the interventiAn of 8> d-
aies or magistrates, but by the opi^iion of the gr.at
body of eduoated Eaglishmen, beibre whom good
an^ evil wert set, and who were I'-ft ir^o: to make,
their choice. During a hundred and sixty yoar.^
tha liberty of our press has been e^nstiintly
bteoming laort and more entire; and daring
thcs3 hondrtd and sixty years the restraint
imposed on writers by the general feeling of read
era has been oonstantly becoming more and more
strict. At length even that class of works in
which it was formerly thought that a vcluptaous
imagination waa pri^eged to disport itaelt, love
songs, comedies, novels, have beeomt mort de~
oorus than the sermons of the sevsateeath eeaturv.
At this day foreigners, who dare not print a word
refecting on tht govtr^ment under whioh they
live, are at a loss to uaderstand how it happens
that the freest prtss in Earope is the moat
prudish.
UWARD.
STRATBD or atolaa, oa tha 18th iaiit., fraa my plaoa
on Bow straet, a yooog CO^, heavy with aalf, white
and black epottad, with amall hama and six taata. The
aboTe reward will ba paid to aiy qb« who will dalirar
tha same to ma.
W. DIBNfTBAOH.
Jaa'y Ifi.
A
FOlft MALK.
BOHO. 0. B O^fTOH LOAN. Ooopoas payable
ia Gold nr Uattea. Ap|^ to
JAS. H SMUrw.
Mitf
Jaa’y 7.
Non-Titxablc Bonds.
(00 KiUi9a IfMULMSale Coatlaied.
ap^Hsatiees bavisfr b««B mda at ib«
11 eawb'Jahedpriaetf flt6aa4iaf«»«6t,aMiar0b‘oaia
rvascas that tii£.:s ta fa«anri^le e»cslSeew6i*., H
Kas ba«a detarmlBed to eaatfcoae tlia salt ua(8
AVG. W. finSSL, '
§0r sale of Oo»^«i«te Bi^dB
WAiVTfiB,
OR the Naval Oroaaaoo Work«, twa gead Negro
Blacksmiths. The eurrent wages will be paid for
t ieir serrices Apply to Oftae Naval CMn—ea Wari^
Person street
Jan’y 11, 1866. 1«»^44
F
«f e. s. IVaTstltlrdAaawe Works* i
F*>e'tevtUe, Jan*y llui, ISC-i j
PROPOS.4LS will be received at this >a»* LUM
BER of the foUowiuj; dimensions:
SiUs, 12 X 12
P ifits, 8x8 aad 8 x 10.
Plates, 0x7
Sleeps rd. 8 x 14,
Rafter/f, 2} x i
* Fioorinv, X II
Fence Pa* a, fix*.
Fencinx, 1 x It-
Weathar Baardiag, Ssa'ttiing, ft).
PrtposUs will also ba rcaalTei for 60 909 Brick aad
forty baiTals of Lime.
D P^oCORKLE,
1400 2 irj Lt Cam’g KiVil Ord Wofki.
Conlederaie Tax I^otlce.
1W1LL attend with the A»««Mora at tae oSoa of A If
Campbell, from Welaesiay ^ftaaary to SalAir-iay
January 21et 1865, to reaeive tae OoB?ciaraie Tuwt
due JaauAry 1st 1865, te-wik
Speoifia Tax, (for Laoenaa;)
Tax on Sales for the Qoart*r eaUog D-.t’r tlst 1*81;
Tax oa laoomaa, Proits ui.t Salarieo;
A.^diumal Tax on Pro4ts nude by bujln^ aad s'^'ttag
at any time 3etw«en Jaa’y 1st 186S aad Jaa y 1st 1865;
’Addititaial Tax ea Profits ezoeediag twoaty-flvo per
osat B>adii iux.u^ t^e year 1S('>4 by any oarp«ratioa er
joint stock company.
1 woaU oaii tae attealloa cf dealers tu the following
'•xtract from iastmctlcns rso?iTed by m^
“Twbaty da;s arc allowed rtwiiataied persdos to make
qaarteriy retaras after the . ti'aiioa ot a quarter, aai
pibymeat aa -.ae tax s nqnirfd , j oa la wiiix\A thmt
*»»« R W. UARDIl,
•'ol^eoiar 224 Oiit, N C.
10. W4
PRIVATE '
TSfi subseHber oaa aaiwaiaodate a few G«atlemtn
and Ladiet with botfd and lodgiag, or with board
alone
p « -.n I . . ' ANDERSON
Fayetteville, Jan j 6. 99 4^jp^
The Enterprise i;ottoa Factory
ia aow^pared to Change for oara or batioQ Uie
Finest Naoaibera of dpoa 7fU‘Q|
le for Spiixtf aad Sammor Oi-jth. Tbie Thread Is
oasrf'i- Tnafity ^5* ia tkaQea
W.4RNJ{''» ^
/V#m Tenne*set> ar.d fhorgia—RlCHMONI),
Jan 10. —Tha lollowir g ’a as noeiVod last night.
Macon, Jaa. 9—ToG*i;pr»lS Corp'*'-: Oen.
Hood reports from Tupelo, iho 6 b, th.t t h.mas
appeared to be movieg up th.r T i.n' ?;jee rivrr,
up to 9 o'elock, a luvon t;.e 5th.
Soouts report 6 gunb -ats and 60 t.arspo;(s hstd
passed Savannah going towsrrs Kirporf. ladtn
with troops and supplies G BEAUKkOAi',, .
'Whe*hr'» C-yv,'.lry—BICIIM ND, Tan lO —
The follow5f.g was r oeivcd to day:
Charlkston. Jan 9—Hi.s ExeclK r.cy, .J. f-
fera^n D.ivi’: Wnoc’er’s c ’.airy hi-ve b* cn >r-
gautz d under irsy mj^rvi ion. j: d n* w
of 8 divi?ions, 8 biiga-lea It is » well orgsnix d,
cflBcii nt I ody. Rf po’t.*’ of it« oisn*p--ij.z if,on and
deinoraHz'»tioD ?ro witLcut f^. uo'Iatioii Deprr-
ciating fctories cr-, di rd to his comicand oan gcc-
Aral^y be tri)C'cl tj binds of marauders olai^in^
t^' bclon*? t> it I know cothirg at j>-CBcnt to
«dd '0 it«> eff ctiver>c:8, tzcept tKa prcujrtion cf
fn-^mc b’-ank), for which reo *wn’»*njati*ns havo
been sent in W. J HAKt)E£
Yiink^e N~ — lUcliMOND. Jan’y 10 —la the
Ne*- York T.m s o* tiu 7ih the only item of in
terest is a telegram rom Greeley at WasEington,
capi. d from ti c Tribune, it^dic aisg that Greeley
s‘ill attaches import^sce to Blsir’i: peace misdlon.
He says Inrth'^r ard intercntiig developments
muftt a JrpH the’r prop si^li Frank Blair has re-
turi*ad to City Poiat from Wsehini^toa
Richmond, Jaa y 11 —T«^o Elxamiaer of tkis
morning stairs, on the authority of Mr. Pollard,
that Butler h»s been relfevi'd of his command and
ordered to rcpart jit Lowell, Mass , his plaee of
residence Gen. Ord hsa been a^ugned to the
oommand of the army of the Jamea.
Reiumed Fritonert —Biobmomd, Jan 10 —
Amongst the returned ptiaoners who arrived in
Kichmond to night from Yarina, art E A.. Pol
lard, of the R'chmond Bs^miaer, Col. Mike
Wood, of the Montgomery Advertiser, and Jndgo
Bush, of Marianna, Fla. Some of the most ht-
te'ligent prisoners report as their convittion, the
result of observation, that the North is tired af
war, and that if the Southern people hold out
manfully, sa borotofore, they will secure their ia-
dependence before next summer.
Hood*» Arm^—Wc learn fhat Gen. Hood has
crossed his army to the south side of the Ten
nessee river. On Thursday last G«neral Cheat
ham's eorpe was at luka. Forrest was expected
at Gerinth oa Friday. The army erossed prinei-
pally at Bainbridge, near Tnscumbia.
Selma JUiMiMippKuf.
The Salma (Ala) Rcbal sa^s, we havo relia
ble intelligence from a gentleman who left Tup-
eumbia on the 27th ult., and who was with tho
army of Tennessee there, that all the yankee re
ports ab-^ut tbe rteino?alix:*tioa *of the army are
.iicro ia’iic*iious—that the troo| s are in the most
cxecllent spirit^, at>d that the army is'larg^r than
when it went into .Middle fcnnc-^see, tlic reoroits
more thitu making up for all io-:see safiered in
the expedition J he army was resting at Tus-
OTimftia after its arduous mareb. It was not
known iu wbat direction it Vould movt, whathcr
for Biu^ Mouniato*or Columorns, Miaiiseippi.
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Rei»/^-rc«ment».—As we pen these lines, glad
shouts, ringing louicr and loader in the night
air, greet our ear. They aome from the ■JieMta
of our own gvllant sans, lad by a Soath Cart-
ilnian, who ties, with fcu sweid, tngravea his
name upon tbe tablets ef fame; ikey otae froat
tht vet^:ianB of a Loudrfil ILl^, saw for tkt irs;
time, in a teriible war of nearly foar years, tail
ed apOB to battlt lor liberty oa tht soil tf tktir
own beloved State. Tiie rteord thty kavt wta
ia ether States presages wkat tkay will dt ia tkt
deienee ef their m3ther. We bid ktieM, aad wa
knew with us tin cntira State will bid tk^, wet-
eaais heme.—(hlumin'm Oar»Unimm.
MhaM«
t saasrf'i
AVOW B. BALL,
rwRcr^lRga C*BB]«3ira Mereteat,
WILL pTe qmek despatek to goods eousigaed to bi«
Psrticuia»*t*tatioa givtato all pcoiaet st«t Ww
or tale. Ooangnsewus «• lffa«%i aio^e *tr t»'» ••
JNl^ Hr*
R^ignMd—Lt. 8. D. Hampton, Utk Acig't
N. 0. Troops, haa resigned.
Ool. G. -U. Fankault has resigned Lis posiiiea
aa Colenel of the 47th Reg’t N. 0. Troept.
Ool. 8 D. Bryson, of Uie 26th Begiment, aai
at present Senator from Maoon, Haywood, Jack
son Mid Oherokee, has resigned kis posidoa as
Lt. Ool. of the 26th Regiment.
The 14th N. 0- Battalion State Troops kas
been organized into a Regiment and numbared
the 69th Regiment N 0 Troopa. Lieal. Ool.
George lUt, of the 40th Regiment, has been ap*
pointi^. Colonel; Jas. L. Henry, Lieut Oolonei,
and Isaac A. Harris, Migor.—Hal. (Jo#sifrea*s.
TJu IVeth.—We learn that two or khraa
bridges were washed away on the N. 0. Railroai
on Tuesday last, and that oonaiderable damage
was done te the Pisdmont Bail-Road by the ra
cent heavy rains. We further learn thiU one or
more county bridges havo been carried away ea
Haw River, Gon$ervatite.
We leuo a portiea of the Rillroad bridge at
Weldon was carried away by the Ute flood. We
further learn that a uambar of bridges, nulis, k» ,
were swept away in Graaviile oouuty and that
Tar River was never known to be so high before,
even by the “oldest inhabitants."—lb.
Deep River TramportatioH ■ 'o.—The D>iep
River Transpcrtation Ujmpany was organiied at
the office of the Raleigh & Gaston R R. Co, in thia
city, on yesterday. Tue following gentlemen were
lebted Direetoro: 0. B Mallett, Fsq., Col. J M.
Heck, Dr W. J Haw^ias, Capt. B. P. WiUiam-
son, and Kemp P Battle, Esq. Ool. J. M. Hook
was unanimously electcd President, and Wm. J.
J^orwood, Treasurer. Tois Company expeo's to
operate on Deep River, aad will no doubt run
oov^ta between Loeksville, at whioh point tha
Chatham R. R. lor the present ends, and iflgypt,
where th* Fayetteville s. Western R. &. crosses
Deep River, and will afford speedy and easy ooa*
munication between Raleigh and Fayetteville.
Bal. Oenstrvcttvvt.
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Hltwrtf ReptcUing ludf.—^The following in
cident of the Bevolatixm is not withoat its paral
lels in the nresent war:
Daring the seTerity of the winter campaign in
North Carolina, General Greene, passing a seoti*
nel who wee barefooted, said, *‘l fear, my goo^ fel>
low, yoa must suffer from oold." **Pretty mueh
so," waa the reply; “bat I do not oompiain, be*
cause I know I should fare better had our General
power to procure supplies. They say, however,
that we shall have a fight in a few days, and then,
by the blesring ef God, I ahall take care *0 seoore
a pair of shoea.*'
Is is never too late te do right; so, for instance,
a gentleman b^n to study grammar after he
^ad wriffcten for the press ten years. It is never
too late to get married; Naomi the daughter ot
Enoch, took her first husband at five hundred
and eigl^ty. It is nut t >0 lata to drop any inbit;
Mr. Ji !ucs, the novelist, wrote sixty moo v »l-
umee betore he eouid s^uko of his “s.i^ ary
horseman." It is never too Ute to bo a
awake character; aa old ^eazlemaa, wha ais
ceased to reaJ tf^e E/eniog Bladder sasa, hsis
tirely recovered f*om the sle^^pina'S that used to
affeet him. It is sametime« too late to pop tha
question; a mw once did so to a ebarmitg widjw
jast as she had reaehed her home after burying
her ftnl hoslmid: “Yoa are too late. The 4e»*