who rcntlered efficient service ns guides. On 
Thursday evening they came upon a hody of 
cavalry, about five miles from Tonug's Cross 
Roads, and captured the entire party, numbering 
•28 men and 30 horses, with their arms and 
accoutrements, A quantity of corn was also 
captured and brought in. 
An expedition left Tort Royal on the 6tb, un¬ 
der Gen. Seymour, Consisting of three brigades 
of infantry and one light battery, and landed at 
Jacksonville. Fla., without any casualties. The 
reported expedition w ill push on to Tallahatchie. 
Gen. Gilliuore and staff sailed on the 8th lor 
Port Royal, to join the expedition. 
A refugee from Savannah states that Beaure¬ 
gard's headquarters have been removed there 
in anticipation of an attack. The rebels bad 
150 torpedoes to float down the Savannah River. 
Eight thousand troops are quartered around the 
city. Georgia regiments have already mutinied 
in consequence of short supplies. Two blockade 
runners are at Savannah waiting an opportunity 
to pass our gunboats. 
The Savannah Republican gives a gloomy ac¬ 
count of rebel affairs, and states that only one 
month’s supply of subsistence is in possession 
of the Commissaries. 
The Navy Department has received the fol¬ 
lowing: 
Newport News, Feb. 14. 
To Hon . Gideon If 'tiles, Secretary of the 
Navy: —The Pequot has arrived and firings the 
report of the destruction of four blockade run¬ 
ners, viz:—the Westfield,OR the 4th of February, 
by the Sassueus; the Dee, ou the 5th of Febru¬ 
ary, by the Cambridge; the Emily and Anuie, 
and Jennie, by the Florida. 
Tbc army of Chattanooga is by this time in 
motion for Timnell Dill and Dalton. Its move¬ 
ments may have been delayed by circumstances 
unknown to us, but it is under marching orders. 
On the 8th inst-, the following dispatch was 
received at Army Headquarters: 
Nasiivu.i.e, Feb. 8. 
Major-General JTalleck : — Gen. Foster tele¬ 
graphs from Know file, under date of yesterday, 
t hat an expedition sent against Thomas anti his 
band of Indians and whites at Qnullstown, has 
returned, completely successful. They sur¬ 
prised the town, killed and wounded 215, took 
50 prisoners, and dispersed the remainder of the 
gang in the mountains. Our loss was two killed 
uud six wouuded. 
U. S. Grant, Maj.-Gen. 
The Memphis Bulletin publishes a card signed 
by 300 of the best citizens of that, city, addressed 
to the people of Tennessee, upon the subject of 
re-organization of the State and re-establishing 
relations with the General Government, It 
recommends immediate and unconditional eman¬ 
cipation as the best and truest policy, and the 
only alternative, and calls upon all to support 
the same by meeting at Memphis on the 22d 
instant, 
Mississippi. — A 
Cincinnati Gazette g 
Hat of New Advertisements. 
I bo American Agrirulnirist— Orange JurM. 
r.i n. tirautand IllsCampaigns- Derby A Miller. 
I'ulllvailmi of the Crxuberrv— R VI Waison. 
I holer Vineyard f.auils—W II .V KJ Scott. 
1 'holer l**lo\v*l-Serd'i (t.oti Norris. 
l'rojy>eslS for State Fair ist;i- it p Johnson. 
Tlb»State l.eagtic T I.CaPSOii. 
Farm fur Sale 1C Voting. 
Ayrshire Cattli f .-r Nitlv-Ttenryll Peters. 
Averts Wanted—S Mai'i.-mi. 
ThWfttlgli-Kl'efl Jersey Cattle for Sate—John Giles. 
Agents Wanted—John K l.nrd. 
Kvergiven Sweet Corn M 1) Aldrich. 
SPECIAL NOnCES. 
full for tile Best D. B. Do Land A Co. 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., FEBRUARY 20, 1864. 
The Army in Virginia, 
Ox the 6th inst., an expedition was sent out 
from Fortress Monroe by Gen. Butler, with the 
intention, if possible, of making a raid into 
Richmond and releasing the Union prisoners. 
It was unsuccessful, We have the following 
facts in relation thereto: 
On Saturday morning Gen. Butler's force 
under command of Brtg.-Gen, Wistar marched 
from Yorktown, by way of New Kent Court 
House. I,,The cavalry arrived at 24 o'clock Sun¬ 
day morning at Bottom's Bridge, across the 
Chickahominy, 10 miles from Richmond, for the 
purpose of making a raid into Richmond and 
endeavor by a surprise to liberate our prisoners 
there." The cavalry reached the bridge at the 
time appointed, marching in 164 hours 47 miles. 
A force of infantry followed in their rear for the 
purpose of sustaining them. It. was expected 
to surprise the enemy at Bottom's Bridge, who 
had for some time only a small picket there. 
The [surprise failed because, as the Richmond 
Examiner says, a Yankee deserter gave informa¬ 
tion in Richmond of the intended movement. 
The enemy had felled a large amount of tim¬ 
ber, so as to block up and obstruct the fords, 
and make it impossible for our cavalry to pass. 
After remaining at the bridge from two o’clock 
till twelve, Gen. Wistar joined them with his 
infantry, and the whole object of the surprise 
having been defeated, Gen. Wistar returned to 
Williamsburg, On his march back to New Kent 
C. H., his rear was attacked by the enemy, but 
they were repulsed without loss to us. 
The rebel flag of truce steamer .Shultz, with 
Commissioner Ouki and Capt, Hatch, the truce 
officer, arrived on Sunday at City Point. Two 
citizen prisoners brought down by the Shultz 
were sent on board of the New York. They 
were (.both Marylanders. One of them, Mr. 
Brengle, of Frederick, was captured at Middle- 
town on the 20th of June last, while acting as a 
volunteer assistant to the Sanitary Commission, 
and the other, Geo. W. Langley, of Baltimore 
County, was captured while driving a wagon of 
the Sanitary Commission, near Chanoellorsville, 
on the 27th of November. They brought excit¬ 
ing news from Richmond, which they repre¬ 
sent was in a state of the most fervid excitement 
from midnight on Saturday, up to the time they 
left Suuday afternoon. 
At midnight on Saturday the bells of the city , 
were rung, aud men were rushing through the j 
streets crying, “To anus! to arms!'' “The 
Yankees are echning!” During the remainder , 
®l)c JJctns ^enbenser, 
— Illinois has furnished 145,078 men for the army. 
— A State Geological survey of Kansas is contem¬ 
plated. 
— France consumed $43,225,000 worth of tobacco 
last year. 
— Garden “ truck 
Carolina. 
— Amsterdam is to be connected by a canal with the 
North Sea. 
— There is one Methodist to every fourteen persons 
in Baltimore, 
— Photo graphic pictures are now transferred to china 
ware with groat success. 
— Ten-ceni contributions for the benefit of Valliuidig- 
hnm are making in Ohio. 
— Gangs of gi e rillas are desolating Wayne and ad¬ 
joining counties in West Virginia. 
— The people of Jamaica are turning their attention 
to thgcultivation of the cinchona plant. 
— The rebel General Vance, captured recently, is a 
son of tbc present Governor of North Carolina. 
— There were 443 cases of small pox in Nashville 
on the 31st nit Small pox also prevails at Natchez 
Miss. 
— More than 79,000 trees, shrubs and horbnceons 
plants were planted in the New York Central Park last 
year. 
— Rev. Frederic Monod, leader of the free chmch 
movement in France, died at Taris on the first of Jan¬ 
uary. 
— It has been recently ascertained that less than two 
hundred of the privateersmen of the war of 1S12 remain 
alive. 
— One hundred thousand acres of homestead lands 
were taken up in Nebraska during the month of De¬ 
cember 
— The Conrt or Qnceu’s Bench, Dublin, have deci¬ 
ded that women have a right to vote for town Commis¬ 
sioners. 
— A trial is in progress in the Supreme Court of 
Kansas, involving the title to a large part of the city of 
Atchison. 
— The best newspaper in Constantinople is 
is flourishing nt Newl>ern, Nort 
ives the following official 
news: 
General Sherman entered Jackson, Miss., on 
the 5th instant. The rebels offered but little 
resistance, and are falling back over Pearl river. 
It is believed the rebels are reerossing re-en¬ 
forcements from Dalton. There is nothing new 
of about 400 tuns, a new, line and powerful 
boat. 8tie sailed from London in December last 
with pork, Ac. The Dee Is a double screw iron 
steamer, built especially for southern trade, at 
London. She is a new vessel of light draught, 
and is said to have made 18 or 20 miles an hour. 
The Emily and Annie is the old prize tbe Stotia 
captured in 1862, condemned and sold to outside 
parties, not being considered fit for naval ser¬ 
vices. The Jennie, a new screw steamer, built 
iu London last fall and owned by Bigbie. She 
was a handsome boat of about 500 tuns. 
Auk a ns as.— The Little Rock Democrat gives 
the following report of the wiicreubouts of the 
rebel forces in Arkansas: 
Gen. Price has about 6,000 demoralized troops 
at Washington. Gens. Marmaduke, Brooks 
and Cobell are in the mountains in the vicinity 
of Murfreesboro. Gen. Shelby, who was re¬ 
cently routed with his command, is on the lower 
Saliue River. Gens. Cooper, Steele and McIn¬ 
tosh are with their Indian commands at Warren 
and North Fork, in the Indian Territory. Total 
force of rebels. Including guerrillas and camp 
followers, is about 14,000. 
man¬ 
aged and edited by an Englishman by the name of 
Churchill 
— Tn Nevada, artesian wells arc bored horizontally 
into mountain sides instead of perpendicularly into 
the ground. 
— Refugees state that Longstreet is conscripting all 
white males between twenty and fifty, and negroes in¬ 
discriminately. 
— A bill is before the the Iowa legislature authorizing 
the Governor to send a State Commissioner of Emigra¬ 
tion to Europe. 
— The pipes through which the supply of water for 
the city or Montreal is drawn, measure upwards of 77 
miles in length 
— Gen Sickles has been appointed commander of the 
defences of Washington in place of Gen. Augnr, who 
goes to the front. 
— An American named Slater has taken a contract to 
demolish the walls of the burned church in Santiago, 
for the sutn of $8,260. 
— There is a Government medicine manufactory in 
Philadelphia which gives employment to two hundred 
and twenty-five persons. 
— Some folks in New York are endeavoring to make 
it fashionable to open private parties at 5 P. M., and 
close them by midnight. 
— Orders have been issued to the Boston and Ports¬ 
mouth Navy Yards to have the iron clads building there 
ready ns soon us possible. 
— Insanity, induced by exposure, Is prevalent in the 
Western armies. 25 insane soldiers were sent to Cin¬ 
cinnati a few days since. 
— The Senate of Ohio has passed a bill by which 
nearly $3,000,000 will be raised for the benefit of sol¬ 
diers' families in that Slate. 
— The people of Iowa, tbrongh their representatives 
In Congress, are moving for a ship canal from the Mis¬ 
sissippi to LaSalle, Illinois. 
— There are 6S4 free schools In New Jersey. The 
whole amount expended in the State for school pur¬ 
poses last year was $617,106, 
— Com. Wm. J. McClnncy, of the U. S. Navy, died 
at hia residence in Brooklyn, Friday week. Du had 
been tn the service fifty-two years. 
— There are 4,064 sick soldiers in the army hospitals 
in the Department of the Susquehanna, which includes 
Philadelphia and suburban towns. 
— During the last two years 6,416 prisoners have been 
confined at Johnson's Island, in the Ohio river, and 
there are 2,612 still remaining there 
— Gen Fisk has ordered the gamblers of St. Louis to 
leave town, on penalty of being sent to Benton Barracks 
to chop wood for the negro soldiers. 
Both House* of tho Iowa Legislature have passed 
the bill repealing the law of 1681 depriving colored per¬ 
sons of the right to live in that State. 
— A convention of forty women representing soldiers’ 
relief societies, is Lu session at Washington, more es¬ 
pecially for consultation with Miss Dix. 
— The Officers of the Iowa Orphan Asylum have de¬ 
termined to raise $ 160,000, by voluntary subscription, 
to build an asylum for soldier’s orphans. 
— During the last six months letters have been re¬ 
ceived at Yp.-iliuiU, Mich., on which the name of the 
town is spelled sixty four different ways. 
— A company of Frenchmen has boon formed in Chi¬ 
cago for catching rats, curing their skins aud exporting 
them to Paris, to be made into kid gloves. 
— Assistant Sec. of War, Fox, oilers to put one of 
the recently constructed war vessels against any sea¬ 
going side-wheel steamer afloat, for speed. 
— A railroad track was laid on the ice of the Upper 
Mississippi during the late cold snap, for the transports 
tiou of freight from one shore to tho other. 
— Kentucky has fnmiBhed for the war 51,9<15 men. 
3,183 have been discharged, 2,252 have died, 010 killed 
in action, 5,030 arc missing and in hospital. 
AFFAIRS IN WASHINGTON. 
State capitals. Hereafter the monthly reports 
of men thus enlisted will be forwarded to the 
State authorities, such reports to commence 
from Jan. 1st, 1864. 
The Secretary of the Treasury directed Mr. 
Skinner to pay to all creditors of the Govern¬ 
ment, until further orders, legal tender, instead 
of 2-58, as heretofore. Tho remainder is to be 
paid in certificates of indebtedness. 
Ten million dollars, in one am) two year 5 per 
cent, legal tenders, have been sent to pay the 
Army of the Cumberland. One million dollars 
of the same description of funds have beep sent 
to New Orleans to pay the troops there. 
Tbe friends of the President assert that be 
will veto the confiscation hill which passed tho 
House last week. 
The amendments reported by Senator Trum¬ 
bull to the law forbidding members of Congress 
Movements in the West and South-West 
Tennessee.— The following dispatch from 
Chattanooga, 12th inst., is interesting: 
The cavalry expedition under Grierson and 
Smith, crossed the country from Corinth, mov¬ 
ing South. It. Is understood that these columns 
intend to act in conjunction -one to attack, the 
otlior to cut off Polk’s retreat, disperse the cav¬ 
alry of Forrest reported as scouring Central and 
Northern Mississippi. There is no reason to 
doubt that beyond this enterprise the combina¬ 
tions are conjecture, hut a great flank movement 
on Johnston’s army is intended. 
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