registry and tlie shipping articles, remarking 
ut the time that she surrendered as a lawful 
prize to the Queeu. Upon a hasty examination 
of the cargo it was found to consist of powder, 
Enfield rifles, &e. 
On the 21st hist, a boat expedition from the 
United States bark lying in St. Andrews Sound, 
captured a sloop laden with 74 bales of cotton. 
Certain of support, Harrison advanced and 
drove the onemy precipitately out of the town 
of Tunnel Hill. 
In the engagement at Tunnel Hill, Gen. Pal¬ 
mer captured over 200 prisoners, who had been 
brought to Chattanooga. Wc lostaboutTo killed 
and wounded. 
A reliable informant, leaving the front on 
the 26th ult,, reports our army then five miles 
from Tunnel Hill, and two miles from Dalton; 
that they bad ascertained the enemy was in 
force at Dalton; had full rations and would 
attack Dalton when deemed advisable. On the 
contrary, intelligence received by military men, 
of the same date, says our army having aceora- 
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There siems to be but little activity in this 
Department al our army. Washington specials 
furnish t he fallowing items : 
General L#e’s orderly, a deserter, has arrived. 
The strength of Lee’s army is now 25,000. He 
expects our army t-o be ready for operations by 
the middle of March, at which time he has 
ordered all bis men to be back. Stuart’s cavalry 
is used up, and horses have been sent south for 
forage. Lee expects by March or A pril to have 
60,000 men to check any advance of our army, 
or drive it back on Washington and invade 
Department of the South. 
Dispatches from Newbern dated the 24th 
ult., state that Maj.-Gen. Peck since his return, 
has been busily engaged in making a rigid in¬ 
spection of all the fortifications of the Depart¬ 
ment. He has received reliable intelligence of 
the enemy's intention to make another effort to 
dispossess us of our possession in East North 
Carolina, with the assistance of three rebel iron¬ 
clads plated ten inches thick, which are nearly 
ready to move simultaneously down the Me use, 
Roanoke and Tar Rivers.. Gen. Peck is taking 
measures to impede the progress of these iron¬ 
clads. for which purpose is moving con jointly with 
land forces on our three most important points 
AFFAIRS IN WASHINGTON, 
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men, discusses the relation between slavery and 
| the fugitive slave act, which it says may be 
viewed as part of Lbe system of slavery, and 
therefore obnoxious to the judgment which civi¬ 
lization is accumulating against this barbarism. 
It. is bad enough to thrust an e.-capcd slave buck 
inlo bondage at any time. It is absurd to thrust 
liim back at a moment when slavery is rallying 
all its forces for the conflict which it has chal¬ 
lenged, but the curse of such a transaction is 
not diminished by its absurdity. A slave with 
courage and address to escape from his master 
has the qualities needed for a soldier of freedom. 
The Committee report in favor of annulling the 
fugitive Slave Law on the ground that it 
Mould simply draw aa irrelationul sunoort 
Work is progressing rapidly on the Iloosic Tun 
New York is taking measures to have a street tel¬ 
egraph. 
There are TO miles of pipeago in the Detroit Water 
Works. 
Hoop skirts five yards in circumference are the 
rage at Paris. 
— The Montgomery Mail says there is an abundance 
of enll in Alabama. 
— At. Alexandria, Texas, a coat is worth $500, and 
a pair of pants $450. 
— Not a dozen pipes of real Madeira wine now leave 
that island annually. 
— Ex-United Slates Senator Borland, of Arkansas, 
North Carolina, Hence, the desire of the enemy 
to make a formidable and desperate effort to 
obtain possession of this State and its extensive 
water communications before re-enforcements 
can arrive for us. 
The Wilmington Journal, in its recent decla¬ 
ration that North Carolina would be lost to the 
Confederacy unless this achievement is realized, 
gave utterance, says the Raleigh Standard , to 
the condition on which Gov. Vance would 
pledge the further co-operation of this State 
with the Confederacy. The presence of an ad¬ 
ditional number of formidable gunboats, and a 
small increase to our present force which Gen. 
Peck is anxious to obtain, will make th 
died in Texas recently. 
— Raisins, equal to the best which are imported, 
produced in California. 
— The firearms taken from the people of Baltimore 
a year ago have been restored. 
— The Nashville Union learns that Parson Brownlow 
is dangerously 111 at Knoxville. 
— During the last month California contributed $53,- 
110 to the Sanitary Commission. 
— Tim Chnrlealon Mercury complains that the South 
is being flooded with greenbacks. 
— At Su .Tohnsbury, Vf., the thermometer was 18 
degtees below zero on the Uth ult. 
— The telegraph lias been completed to Little Hock, 
Ark , via St. Lonis and Fort Smith. 
— There are 27chaplains of 20 denominations in the 
Sixth Army Corps, Gen. Sedgwick’s. 
— Large quantities of cotton are stored at Huntsville, 
Ala., now in possession of our forces. 
— The men at Fort Smith, Ark., are suffering and the 
mules and horses are dying for want of food. 
-The first case of garroter flogging under thonew 
act of i uriiament has just- taken place in .England. 
-President, making is lively in Washington-the 
nation's opinion, however, seems to be of no account. 
— A French physician has discovered Unit brandy or 
rant is the best antidote for an overdose of chlnrnrnrm 
enemy’s 
efforts fruitless, and 1 urn the existing conditional 
co-operation mentioned, in our favor. 
On the 21st ult., a small force of troops left. 
Hilton Hend in transports, and proceeded up the 
Savannah River to Williams Island, arriving at 
that place about dark. A company of men of 
the 4th New Hampshire landed in a small boat 
and made a reeonnoissanee, in course of which 
they met a small body of the enemy. We lost 
four men of the 85th Pennsylvania. The ene¬ 
my’s loss greatly outnumbers ours. The next 
morning our forces were, withdrawn, bringing 
twenty prisoners. 
Movements in the West and South-West. 
Tennessee.—O n the 22d ult., a battalion 
of 11th Tenn. cavalry, stationed on the Virginia 
road, were surprised at daylight and surrounded 
by a large force of rebel cavalry. Two compa¬ 
nies of infantry of the 91st Ind. and 2d North 
Carolina, were with the command of Colonel 
Davis. The companies of the 91st, in charge of 
Lieut. Wise, cut and fought their way through, 
with a loss of about three killed. Two officers 
and about sixty of Col. Davis’ men succeeded in 
making their escape, but the rest of the com¬ 
mand were probably captured. At the same 
eut ofl from the Gap. Colonel Davis is said to 
be severely wounded. 
A reconuoissunce in force, in the command of 
Gen. Sherman, with the forces or Gens. Hascall 
and Haztr, was made on the 22d, toward Bull 
Gap, which discovered that the rebel cavalry 
bad retreated beyond the Flench Broad. On 
Saturday, the 2<Jth. General Longstreet began 
his retreat from Strawberry Plains toward Bull 
Gap, first destroying the bridge, and reports say 
he has his camp equipage, &c. Gen. Schofield 
moved to the Plains with the Union forces the 
22d, assigning the command of the post and de¬ 
fences of Knoxville to Gen, HasoalJ, who will 
send forward the army equipage and stores. 
Rumors of a raid by the Union forces in Uoug- 
street’s rear are current, which are supposed to 
account for the precipitate rebel retreat. 
It is thought that having failed to accumulate 
a force sufficient for prompt and energetic com- 
severe fighting in rear all day; rebels lost heav¬ 
ily all day as the roads were ambushed at. every 
available point. Volley after volley poured Into 
them at short range as they advanced, but having 
so much the largest force they continued to 
press our rear heavily, the rebel column moving 
each flank, with the evident design of reaching 
Tallahatchee in advance of our forces; forming 
a junction to prevent, our crossing and capture 
of the u hole command, but by forced marching 
Smith passed both flanking columns and march¬ 
ing all night, crossed safely at New Albany at 
noon. 
23d—Rear guard skirmishing aU the way. 
24th—Skirmishing continued. 
2oth—Marched 52 miles, arriving at Memphis 
at 11 P. M. Most of the expedition, however, 
stopped at Collinsville. 
The following is an estimate of the results of 
the expedition: 
Destroyed over a million bushels of corn; 
tore up and destroyed miles of track of the M. 
A O. railroad; burned many bridges; captured 
ami brought away over 1,500 mules and horses, 
about 2,000 negroes, and over 300 rebel prison¬ 
ers, who are nowin Irving Prison. It is im¬ 
possible to give our loss, but it is much less than 
the enemy’s. The expedition was successful in 
every point and in every particular, except the 
important one of making a junction with Sher¬ 
man, which is attributed mainly to the slow 
movement of Pennsylvania and New Jersey 
cavalry regiments, causing ft delay of one week 
in starting the expedition. The retreat was not 
at tiny time a rout, although there 
Department of the Gulf 
It will be remembered that 
troops attached to Gen. Gilmon 
Charleston were a r short time 
Florida for the purpose of cuti 
supplies of the rebels. At first 
successful; but at last accounts 1 
a heavy reverse near Lake City, 
is from the N, Y. Ficpre.ss,* 
Our informant says it was thi 
cere who took part in the exp 
losses in killed, wounded and 
tween 1,200 and 1,500. Gen. Sey 
censured for not throwing 
mishers as our 
troops were led into a trap, 
lery led the van, and sutiered 
rebel shar 
$2.17 a pair. 
— Three new daily anti-slavery 
_ papers are to be 
started in Tennessee, at Nashville, Murfreesboro and 
Chattanooga. 
— Crooked Creek, In Cumberland County, Hi., has 
less than 125 voters, bat has furnished 130 for the armies 
of the Union. 
— There are about ten thousand liquor shops in New 
York City—of wihch number only six hundred and thir¬ 
ty are licensed. 
— Wm. M. Stone, the new Governor of Iowa, was 
once a canal driver between Roscoe and Cleveland, O., 
at $8a month. 
A Quaker hoy in Johnson Co , Iowa, refused an 
offer of S1,000 to stay at home, and volunteered to fight 
for tho republic. 
— The liberal party In England have subscribed 
$ 100,(XX) towards establishing a new paper for gratui¬ 
tous circulation. 
— There are eighteen persona confined in Castle 
Thunder, Richmond, charged with nttemping to assas¬ 
sinate Jeff Davis. 
— Property in New York, belonging toTrnricn Polk, 
formerly a U. 8 senator from Mo., liaa been seized, and 
will be confiscated. 
— Sec. Stanton on Saturday week received an anony¬ 
mous donation of twenty-five hundred dollars forth* 
use of Government. 
— The losses l>y the recent firo at Gloucester, Mass., 
amount to nearly half a million dollars. Eighty build 
ings were destroyed. 
— John Burns, the old man who fought at Gettysburg 
on his own hook and was wounded, is to have a pen¬ 
sion of $8 a month. 
— It is asserted that the gold ensloms or February, at 
New York, will probably be over $5,700,000, with only 
$3,000,000 to pay out. 
— A public mooting is soon to be held at nuntsvilte, 
Alabama, to discuss measures for the restoration of 
that State to tho Uuion. 
— Tim Princess of Wales wanted to nurse her baity; 
lmt Mich n thing was never known in the British royal 
NEWS PARAGRAPHS, 
It is one of the most singular coincidences of 
the war, that Col. Straight, for whom John Mor¬ 
gan was held ua a hostage, should have escaped 
from prison at Richmond in precisely the same 
manner as Morgan got away from Columbus. 
1 he Secretary of IVar has given formal au¬ 
thority to the American Baptist Home Mission¬ 
ary Society to take jtoshcasion of every aban¬ 
doned Baptist, meeting house in the insurrection¬ 
ary districts. 
Ex-Gov. MoBTON, of Massachusetts, died at 
his residence in Tauntou on Saturday week He 
Ho was born in Freetown, Doc. 19, 1784, grad¬ 
uated at Brown’s University in 1804, and was 
vuiuon that our 
mL-hing are be- 
mour is severely 
out scouts and skir- 
ti oops ad vancecl. As it was, our 
Hamilton’s nrtil- 
I severely. The 
P'hooters picked off the horses, and 
the guns had to be abandoned. The 40th Mass, 
mounted infantry have also suffered severely. 
In the retreat many of our wounded were left 
behind in the enemy’s lines. Our troops were 
right in front of rebel batteries, in a piece of 
woods, before we were aware of their presence * 
and when their butteries opened a galling fire,' 
our men were driven back panic stricken and in 
disorder. The rebel force is not known, but it 
is supposed to be large. One of the prisoners 
captured stated that troops had.recently been 
sent down from Charleston, and Gen. Beaure¬ 
gard was in command. 
Two'Union soldiers named Wells, 9th Illinois 
cavalry, and Ingram, 16th Illinois cavalry, who 
were captured at Moscow, Tenn., Dee. 6th, had 
arrived at New Orleans. They escaped from 
prison at < nhuwba, Ala., and walked though 
the country at night, eating nothing for six 
days. On reaching East Escambia Bay, Florida, 
they were taken on board u schooner hound for 
Pensacola, and thence taken to New Orleans. 
any, moverl out trom Chattanooga near the old 
battle-field of Chickamauga, and took the direct 
route for Tunnel Hill and Dalton. Gens. Pal¬ 
mer, Johnson, Baird, Davis and Carlin directed 
the movemeut. 
The force advanced without opposition east of 
the Chickamauga, acrosss which and back 
through Rlrigold’s Gap and Taylor’s Ridge a 
party of rebel cavalry wore driven in confusion 
by Col. Harrison. The head of the column 
inarched on, driving tbe right on Ringoid. 
The ad varioe cavalry had several lively skirmishes 
with the enemy’s mounted forces, consisting of 
the 1st Tenn. rebels. They were, however 
was some 
family, and so she couldn’t. 
— About $7,000,000 of the new national currency 
have been issued to the national banks. This issue is 
of lives and tens exclusively, 
— The Wisconsin legislature is seeking some consti¬ 
tutional mode of punishing those who have run away 
to Canada to escape the draft. 
— There were '150,326 barrels of salt producod in Sag¬ 
inaw, Mich., during 1803, the fourth your In which the 
works have been in operation. 
