MOVEMENTS OF GEN. SHERMAN. 
gtill in the vicinity of Florence, Ala., on the 
Tennessee river. There are reports that Dick 
Taylor has joined him with an additional force 
of 10,000. His latest movements do not indicate 
an intention of early offensive operations. 
Beauregard, with Stewart's corps, was -till at 
Corinth, Miss., when last heard from. 
Gen. Thomas, commanding the Union army de¬ 
tailed to check Hood’s advance, is rapidly con¬ 
centrating his forces as though disposed to make 
an attack on the rebels in some direction. 
"We now learn that there was only one build- 
destroyed. The 
NEWS PARAGRAPHS. 
I.ist of Now Advertisements. 
We give some very spicy rebel documents “ to 
the people of Georgia, ” which show that the 
“ movements” of the army under Gen. Sherman 
are beginning to weigh heavily upon the minds 
of the controliDg powers of the “ Confederacy,” 
News from the “war path” in Georgia may 
soon be expected in a reliable form, which it is 
believed, will bo highly gratifying to all those 
who are in favor of pushing the rebels to the 
“ last ditch.” Gen. Sherman divided bis army 
(about .'>0,000) into two wings, and started east¬ 
ward from Kingston, Ga„ bet ween the 10th and 
15th of November —his destination only being 
known to the “ governing powers.” 
The following is taken from the Savannah Re¬ 
publican of the 21st. Nov.: 
Com nth Nov 18th. — To the people of Geor¬ 
gia Arise for the defense of your native soil! 
Rally around your patriotic government and 
gallant soldiers! Obstruct and destroy all the 
roads in Sherman's flank and rear, and his army 
will soon starve in your midst! Trust in an 
ever ruling Providence, and success will soon 
crown your efforts. I hasten to join you in the 
defence of your homeB and Presides. 
G. r. Beauregard. 
RICHMOND.Nov. 18th.— To the people of Geor¬ 
gia:— We have had a special conference with 
President Davis and the Secretary of War, and 
are still doing all that can be done to meet the 
emergency that presses upon you. Let every 
man rally to arms. Remove your negroes, 
horses, cattle and provisions from Sherman's 
army, and bum what you cannot carrv. 
Kura all the bridges and block up the roads in 
his route. Assail the invader In front, tlauk 
and rear, by night and by day. Let him have 
no rest. 
.Julian Hartridgk, Mark Blanforp, 
J. H. Reynolds, Geo, N. Lester, 
Geo. S. Shoemaker, Jas. M. Smith. 
The gentlemen whose names are appended 
to the Richmond document, are rebel Con¬ 
gressmen. 
The Augusta Chronicle contains the following 
appeal to the Georgians by Senator Hill: 
Richmond, Va., Nov. 19th.— Toihe People of 
Georgia:— You have now the best opportunity 
ever yet presented to you to destroy the enemy. 
Put everything ut the disposal of our Generals. 
Remove all provisions from the path of the in¬ 
vader, and put all the obstacles you can In his 
way. Every citizen with his gun and every 
negro with bis spade and axe. can do tbe work 
of a good soldier. You can destroy the enemy 
by retarding his march- Georgians! be firm. 
Act promptly and fear not. ’ B. H. Hill. 
I most cordially approve of the above. 
James A. Skddons, 
Secretary of War. 
There are many rumors from rebel sources of 
the doings of Gen. Sherman,—much of it proba¬ 
bly mere rumor,—but there is no doubt that 
the Union army is meeting, thus far, with suc¬ 
cess. Rebel papers report that the whole coun¬ 
try through which the hr. my of Sherman is 
marching is being devastated, — that Atlanta 
and several other towns have been in whole, or 
in part, destroyed. W/l wait with intense 
anxiety developments of a reliable nature. 
The Richmond Examiner and Enquirer of the 
24th, both admit that Milledgeville has fallen. 
That Sherman occupied it on Tuesday. 
The Savannah Republican of the 22d, has the 
following: 
Augusta, Gu., Nov. 22d.—The central train 
from Davisboro reports that Milledgeville and 
Gordon were captured yesterday. The State 
House, Governor’s Mansion and Penitentiary 
are burned. 
Gov. Brown, of Georgia* has issued a procla¬ 
mation making a levy en masse of all citizens 
between the ages of Its and 55 to serve forty 
daysi 
The Soldiers’ Cnsltet—O. W. Alexander * Co. 
Cabinet Organs— Mason Hamlin. 
Pineapple Cider— B. T. Knbhltt. 
Cntnstoi’k’s Rotary Sp ider—,1. (\ bid-well, 
fcfoetri *I'M Per Month —Edward F. Hovev. 
The Tanner Bo> - Holier hi Brothers. 
Merry'* Museum—.1. N. Stearns. 
H or the Holiday!—Milton, Bradley & Co. 
The Soryo Journal and Farm Machinist. 
U. S. Gov't- Art.ltl'-lnl Lea Deno'8—Douelafi illy, M. D. 
Farmer*’ Steam Unller—dS, R. I’rindle, 
812.1 a Month—Shaw .V C hirk. 
Raise your own Codecs—'W. Garrison. 
SPBCLAL NOTICES. 
The Soldier’s Casket—C. W. Alexander A Co. 
[ROCHESTER, N. Y., DECEMBER 3, 1864. 
The Army in Virginia. 
The N. Y. Herald’s dispatches from the 
Shenandoah Valley of the 2od of Nov., say that 
General Sheridan’s cavalry has had another 
very spirited and successful engagement with 
Early’s army. On Monday last the three 
divisions of Union cavalry in the Shenandoah 
Valley, under Custar, Powell and Devin, com¬ 
menced a movement for the purpose of ascer¬ 
taining the rebel positiou and strength. Detin 
marched up the Luray Valley, and the two other 
divisions pushed directly up the Shenandoah 
Valley, meeting and driving before them small 
parties of the rebels. No resistance of impor¬ 
tance was met with until on Tuesday, when 
the main army of the enemy, consisting of about 
15,000 infantry aud a division of cavalry, was 
found at Rood’s Hill, a position almost as strong 
as Fisher’s Hill. Fighting immediately com¬ 
menced and was continued for six hours, being 
through part of the time quite severe. Early 
made repeated attempts to flank Custar and 
Powell, in all of which he failed. Some mag¬ 
nificent charges were made by the Union cavalry. 
The rebels showed little spirit during the en¬ 
gagement. 
After gaining sufficient information of Early’s 
strength, object and position, our forces com¬ 
menced to retire. Some feeble attempts to fol¬ 
low and annoy us were made, but without any 
success to the enemy, and Custar and Powell 
returned down the Valley with their com¬ 
mands in safety, having lost altogether in kill¬ 
ed wounded and missing only about sixty men. 
Lee’s dispatches furnish a confirmation of the 
report that some of Early’s men have been with¬ 
drawn from the Valley, but these the rebels say 
have been replaced by scattering detachments 
gathered in from various sections. 
Early’s army is stretched across the Shenan¬ 
doah Valley, its right resting on the Luray Val¬ 
ley, and both his flanks well covered with 
cavalry. Early’s headquarters are between 
Timberviffe and New Market. His situation is 
said to be well suited for observing our move¬ 
ments, and for receiving supplies he is gather¬ 
ing in the valleys of ’Western Virginia. Nearly 
all the horses, cattle and property are seized 
and carried off by his forces. He has lately re¬ 
ceived some new artillery. It is now believed 
he intends remaining in the Valley on the de¬ 
fensive. 
The Richmond Sentinel of the 19th, says Grant 
is massing troops on the right of the rebel lines 
in the vicinity of Battery Harrison, and that 
Sheridan ha3 sent a considerable portion of his 
command to the James. 
A slight demonstration was made on Wednes¬ 
day on Butler’s front by his troops, but it was 
forced back without accomplishing anything. 
The Express reports Ihe arrival of heavy 
re-enforcements for Grant withiu the past few 
days. 
The World’s Washington special of the 24th. 
says officers who arrived here to-day direct from 
the front at Petersburg, state that the enemy 
show no signs of evacuating Petersburg; on the 
contrary they have resumed picket firing in a 
most animated manner. 
No demonstrations have been made by them 
since they captured a small portion of our 
picket line in front of Butler, which they stiff 
hold. 
The Herald’s Washington special of the 24th, 
says it is reported at City Point that two divisions 
of Early’s army had arrived at Petersburg. 
Vienna, Fairfax county, has been re-occupled 
by our troops, offering protection to the inhabi¬ 
tants, and enabling refugees to return. 
A dispatch of the 23d, says there is nothing 
later from Sheridan. The rebels have apparent¬ 
ly abandoned the idea, at least for the present, 
of further contest with Sheridan for the posses¬ 
sion of the Shenandoah Valley. 
Moseby has written a letter to Sheridan an¬ 
nouncing the execution of seven Union prisoners 
in retaliation, and stating his intention to con- 
tinne thus if any more of his men are executed. 
ing in Johusouville, Tenn 
place is still held by a division of Union troops. 
The rebel Gen. Breekenridge is suspected of a 
desire to march from East Tennessee on an in- 
vadiug expedition into Kentucky, and Gen. Bur- 
bridge is making rapid dispositions of his forces 
to prevent the movement, 
We have advices from Nashville of Nov. 26tb, 
I which say that Hood’s army, numbering proba¬ 
bly 40,000 men, has been for several days past 
concentrating at Columbia, Tennessee. Our 
forces, in the meantime have evacuated Pulaski, 
Huntsville and Decatur, which places arc now 
in the hands of the rebels. Our forces are near 
and about Columbia, in Hood’s front- They are 
commanded by Gen. Thomas. 
On the 24th inst., some severe skirmishing 
occured, resulting in a loss to the Federals of 
44 killed and wounded. The rebel loss is esti¬ 
mated at 264. Among the killed was one rebel 
Colonel. 
Large bodies of troops are being massed in 
Hood’s front, and some heavy fighting may be 
expected in that direction in a few days. 
Communication by telegraph to Columbia has 
been interrupted since yesterday. 
There are rumors in circulation that there 
was heavy fighting yesterday between the op¬ 
posing armies; but no official advices of an en¬ 
gagement have yet been received. 
Hood’s demonstrations in Tennessee have thus 
far been fruitless, retrograde movements; and it 
is confidentially predicted by those who are well 
informed in army matters, that he will be made 
to retreat on this occasion. 
Nashville is filled with thieves and murderers. 
About twenty deaths by violence have occured 
lately. 
Kentucky.— Louisville dates of Nov. 25tb, 
say that about 30 of Jessie’s gang of guerrillas 
were at Shelby vlffe last night robbing the stores 
and gathering in all the plunder they could. 
Jessie, with another gang, was at Eminence at 
the same time plundering. Federal forces were 
sent out from Frankfort to-day to look after Jes¬ 
sie ard his gang. Gen. Burbridge with his com¬ 
mand has arrived at Cumberland Gap. 
A detachment of our cavalry pickets were 
driven in within three miles of Columbia, when 
the rebels were repulsed by our infantry. 
®tje Neroe Coubmsrc 
— Southern Illinois raises a very good crop of cotton 
this year. 
— There are 142 steam and sailing vessels owned in 
Cleveland. 
— It is said that Admiral Farrignt is to be Secretary 
of the Navy. 
— In Paris shops of tobacconists are agencies lor the 
loan oI umbrellas. 
— The debt of the Canadian Confederation will be 
over $100,000,000. 
— A lady in Leamington, England, recently gave 
birth to four children. 
— Philadelphia has not only filled her quota"; but has 
a surplus of 2,000 men. 
— A salute was fired from the pirate Florida in honor 
of Mr. Lincoln’s election. 
— The New Haveners have subscribed $60,000 to 
form a coal-at-cost company. 
— Dr. Livingstone, t he explorer of Central Africa, is 
preparing for a voyage to India. 
— They are having extraordinary sport ahooting 
ducks on the shores of Maryland. 
— The new ten cent postal currency notes will be 
printed on paper made of com husks. 
— A young nobleman just, dead in London had his 
life insured for half a million dollars. 
— Mr. Lincoln, says a foreign correspondent, was 
burnt in effigy In Loudon on the 5th nit. 
— A patent for 66,000 acres of California land was 
lately issued to Gen Halleck and others. 
— Chicago, with 40,000 less people than Cincinnati, 
polled 1,000 more votes at the late election. 
— Garibaldi has declined to receive the yacht which 
some English friends proposed to present him 
— The King of the Sandwich Islands has decided 
upon the Episcopal as his established religion. 
— W. H. Fry, the musical composer and critic, has 
gone to St. Thomas, West Indies, for his health. 
— The canine returns for the State of Vermont show 
that there are 12,000 dogs among the Green Mountains. 
— The total extent of emigration from Ireland since 
May 1st, 1851, to the end of 1863, was 1,499,64* persons. 
— The cigar manufacturers will petition Congress to 
transfer all taxes from manufacturers to the raw to¬ 
bacco. 
— The Empress Eugenia, during her three weeks’ 
stay at Schwalback, lately, gave away to beggars 20,000 
franks. 
— Seventy-five bounty jumpers were paraded through 
Washington Thursday week to the tune of the Rogue's 
March. 
— Since the resignation of General McClellan, Gen¬ 
eral Hallcck Is the ranking Major General in the regu¬ 
lar army. 
— The blLl providing lor an Agricultural College 
under an Independent charter has passed the Vermont 
Legislature. 
— The Dayton Empire contains the card of Mr. Val- 
landigham, announcing that he “ fcas resumed the prac¬ 
tice of law." 
— The number of persons or firms engaged in the 
manufacture or sale of books in the United States Is 
now about 4,000. 
— The silver plate to be presented to Capt. Winslow 
of the Kearsarge, by the citizens of Roxbury, Mass., 
will cost about $3,000. 
— A man was recently tried in Fairfield, Ct., for at¬ 
tempting to “ kiss, hug and tickle”—so the indictment 
read—a certain woman. 
— Uriah J. Jones, one of the editors of the Harris¬ 
burg (Pa.) Union was ran over by a train of cars lately 
and his body cut in two. 
— A new census of Chicago, taken by the comptrol¬ 
ler of that city, shows a population of 169,353—an in 
crease of 81,167 since 1862. 
— The rebels In front of Petersburg recently cheered 
the band of the 2d New Hampshire regiment, after it 
bad played “ Sweet Home.” 
— Whole banks of the pearl-bearing oysters of Cey¬ 
lon have died during the past year, making the increase 
in the price of pearls unavoidable. 
— A letter from China states that when the Imperi¬ 
alists took Nankin they cut off the heads of the rebels 
to the extent of nearly ten thousand. 
— The colored folkB of Memphis had a riot Friday 
night week. The military killed twenty-five or thirty 
of them in quelling the disturbance. 
— Isaac Camp, a gay Lothario of Deerfield, Mich., 
decamped from that place recently clad in a suit of tar 
and feathers, applied by the matrons. 
— A mortgage deed was left at the registry office in 
Portland lately on which wore U. 8. revenue stamps to 
the amount otjl/urn hundred dollars. 
— From a tree that measures about a foot in diame¬ 
ter, in Sheffield, was gathered this year 22,750 apples, 
averaging nearly 1,200 apples per bushel. 
— The coolie slave trade is still going on. Vessels 
under the French flag are continually taking cargoes of 
coolies from Macao and Canton to Cuba. 
— An ingenious Pennsylvanian has Invented a ma¬ 
chine for coal mining which weighs 800 pounds, costs 
$300, and will do the work of twenty men. 
<— Charles Windsor, the absconding teller of the Mer. 
can tile Dunk, New York, took bis departure on the 
Teutonia, which sidled Oct. 29, for Hamburg. 
— Oar gunboats on Jamea river have shelled and de¬ 
stroyed all the houses within their reach, because the 
enemy made use of them for signal stations. 
— The blockade runner .Annie, recently captured, 
dropped $50,000 in gold into the sea while being chased, 
beside a large amount of Confederate bonds. 
— In Paris the cat is the most useful of all domestic 
animals The skin makes kid gloves, the for makes 
sqairrel muffs, and the lleah makes rabbit pics. 
— Mrs. Nancy Rhodes ot Bremen, Maine, had 6 sons 
In the army—4 have been killed In action, another is 
made a cripple for life, Uie sixth is still in the service. 
— The Mobile Tribune says there are men under 
arms in Mobile with beads as gray as badgers—men 
who have not only lost sons In battle, but grandsons. 
Department of the Gulf. 
The Herald’s New Orleans correspondent 
says: 
On the 18th inst., a Union expedition attacked 
and defeated a rebel force and destroyed their 
camp, baggage and a number of boats. 
The rebel Governor of Louisiana has organ¬ 
ized at Shreveport, in that State, ten regiments 
of negroes, who are to be armed and equipped 
form the proceeds of the cotton sales at Mata- 
moras. 
There is a report that the rebel Gen. Buck¬ 
ner has 10,000 troops at Morganzia. 
'The House of Representatives of the Louisiana 
Legislature has authorized the issuing of bonds 
to the amount of two millions five hundred 
thousand dollars for tbe purpose carrying on the 
State Government. 
General Canby (who was reported dead last 
week,) was rapidly recovering from the effects 
of his wound received on the White River, 
Arkansas. 
Late rebel papers say that eight transports 
loaded with Union troops, and two batteries of 
Parrot guns, have left Morganzia, for White 
River, Arkansas. 
An account is given of on attempt and failure 
to escape from prison, at Columbia, by 88 Union 
011106171. 
Twenty-seven rebels were captured while 
crossing the Mississippi river at Choctaw Bend, 
recently, and had arrived at New Orleans. 
Among them w ere Capt. M. D. Montgomery, 
who was moving to Texas. He had a large 
amount of stock, and t wo h imdred and fifty thous¬ 
and dollars in foreign exchange, all of which 
was captured with him. 
AFFAIRS AT WASHINGTON 
Admiral Porter communicates to the 
Navy Department the arrival at Fort Monroe 
of the United States steamer Iosco. She cap¬ 
tured iu the Gulf Btream the schooner Sybil of 
Nassau, which had a cargo of cotton. Acting 
Rear Admiral Stirling, commanding the East 
Gulf Squadron, communicates from Key West 
the following captures: 
The schooner Lucy, under English colors, on 
the I4Lh inst., by the schooner Sea Bird, a ten¬ 
der to the Hendrik Hudson, and a schooner 
with no namo, on the 24th, by the steamer Nita. 
Both had assorted cargoes, and were near the 
shore trying to run in. Also, the schooner 
Badger, under rebel colors, from St. Marks the 
6th, by ihe steamer Adeffa. She was loaded 
with cotton. 
The Quartermaster’s Department is making 
preparations for a severe winter, collecting a 
vast amount of supplies, and arranging to keep 
the Potomac open with the boats. 
Camp Stoneman has been removed to the other 
side of the river for better discipline and to pre¬ 
vent desertions, which are facilitated by prox¬ 
imity to the city. 
Charles Williams, a colored U. 8. soldier, 
was executed, by banging, in the yard of the 
Old Capitol Prison on the 25th of Nov., for 
killing a colored woman near Casey, a short 
time ago. 
The agent having charge of the numerously 
signed peace petition from England, has arrived 
with the intention of presenting it to the Presi¬ 
dent ot the United States. He was politely in¬ 
formed by Secretary Seward that unless it was 
an official document from the British Govern¬ 
ment and he could show proof that he was au¬ 
thorized to present it, he could not be granted 
an interview. He now proposes to lay it before 
Congress. 
A ttorney Gen. Bates has concluded to retire 
from tbe Cabinet. The exact period fixed for 
his resignation is not known. 
From infomatiou received at the Indian Bu¬ 
reau, it appears that peace prevails in an imsual 
degree with all the Indian tribes. 
Eleven ofiicers of the pirate Florida have 
been sent from the Old Capitol Prison to the 
U. S. steamer Wachusetts, which vessel is now 
lying in Hampton Roads. 
Movements in the West, and South-West. 
Arkansas.— A dispatch from Fayetteville, 
Ark., says Col. Brooks with 2,500 rebels, attack¬ 
ed that place October 2Sth, but says he was re¬ 
pulsed with considerable lose. 
From that time to November 3d, the town 
was pretty closely invested, when Gen. Fagan, 
with about 0,000 of Price’s returning forces, 
came up and bombarded the place for two hours 
with two pieces of artillery, but were held at 
bay until the next day, when General Curtis 
and Gen. Blunt arrived, and the rebels skedad¬ 
dled. 
They lost nearly 1,000 killed and wounded. 
Our loss was very slight. 
A missionary, who traveled over 400 miles 
with Price in Arkansas, reports that the Gen¬ 
eral told him he had lo->t over 10,000 men killed, 
wounded and deserted, and that his expedition 
into Missouri had been most disastrous. 
Tennessee.— A dispatch from Louisville of 
Nov. 23, says after Gillen's recent defeat, Breck- 
enridge advanced to Strawberry Plains, and 
Plain’s Cross Roads, threatening Knoxville and 
Cumberland Gap. On the 21st, Breekenridge 
advanced to Powelifts Bridge, six miles from Cum¬ 
berland Gap, and there was heavy skirmishing 
all day. Burbridge has moved out from Lex¬ 
ington with a strong force to protect the K en- 
tucky border from anticipated invasion by 
Breckenridge’s forces. 
Late inteligence represents Gen. Hood with 
two corps numbering together 35,000 meu to bp 
An Attempt to Burn Neav York City.— 
It will be seeD, says the N. Y. World of Satur¬ 
day last, that a regularly organized attempt to 
fire the city was last night made, and only by the 
exccrcise of the greatest energy was rendered 
wholly abortive. No less than ten or a dozen 
of the leading hotels and other large buildings 
were fired between the hours of 9 and 12 o’clock, 
and by these acts an immense amount of life and 
property was put iu jeopardy. Fortunately the 
fires were not simultaneous, and after the dis¬ 
covery of three or four attempts had been made 
to carry the fearful plot into execution, the de¬ 
tective police obtained sufficient knowledge of 
the affair to lead to the conclusion that a wnole- 
s&le conflagration was imminent, and accordingly 
extra vigilance was exerted by the police and 
Firo Department, and the late fires wore extin¬ 
guished almost immediatly upon their break¬ 
ing out. 
The buildings upon which the attempt was 
made were the St. Nicholas, 8t» James, Metro¬ 
politan, Belmont, Tammany, Lovejoy, Howard, 
Br&ndretb, and Lafarge Hotels, and Barnum’s 
Museum. 
The fires were set by meaus of phosphorus, 
and it is very evident that the incendiaries were 
agents of Jell Davis. 
