Over $70,000 vcorth of property was burnt, 
consisting of mules, horses and harness. 
GREAT BATTLE IN TENNESSEE, 
NEWS PARAGRAPHS, 
LJirt of New Advertisements. 
A young damsel in Canada, twelve years 
of age, was recently married to a youth of four¬ 
teen summers, with a salary of four dollars per 
month. 
It is significant that the only prominent hotel 
that was not fired on Friday night was the Now 
York hotel, the general rendezvous of the seces¬ 
sionists. 
All the colored troops under General Meade 
and General Butler have been concentrated into 
one Corps, to be commanded by Major-General 
Weitzel. 
An order has been issued prohibiting the use 
of all shoulder straps, sashes, saddle-trappings, 
or other prominent insignia of rank, by officers 
in the field. 
Tiierk are 200,000 people in Missouri who are 
little better olf than paupers. They have no 
provisions for the winter, and know not how or 
where to get t hem. 
A man in Worcester, Massachusetts, has suc¬ 
ceeded in raising four pounds of pure Java cof- 
iVet his season. It is plump and of good flavor, 
j He proposes to try again. 
A man named Fritz was put into jail at Cin¬ 
cinnati, on Saturday, for a debt of $18, Sunday 
night he hung himself. In his pockets were 
found $111 in greenbacks. 
Tin* Congressional delegation from Louisiana 
ha? arrived in Washington, and will claim ad¬ 
mittance to seats in the Senate and House on 
the assembling of Congress. 
Miss Molinda Coryr, aged seventeen, died at 
Pittsburg, Pa, ou Friday week, from the effects 
of chloric ether, which she had inhaled pre¬ 
paratory to a dental operation. 
Fifty'-six thousand six hundred eels, valued 
at $9,000, were caught within the past few 
months on the south bank of the St Lawrence 
within a distance of eight miles. 
Mrs. Sherman, wife of the General, left 
Cincinnati on Friday for South Bend, Indiana, 
where she is to spend the winter, superintend¬ 
ing the education of her children. 
General Thomas has two men in his employ 
who serve as scouts and spies at the imminent 
hazard of their lives. The rebel General John¬ 
son has offered a reward of $50,000 for their 
capture. 
Tns total vote in the Stole of New York for 
President in 1860 was 075,156; in 1864 it is 730 
004, an increase of 56,508, or 8i per cent In 
New York city the increase is fifteen and a half 
percent. 
Congress met on Monday, the 6th inst., at 
twelve o’clock. One hundred and fifty mem 
bers of the House were present Both Houses 
adjourned before the President’s Message was 
received. 
The unexpired lease on the Burnett House, 
Cincinnati, was sold last week to Silas F. Miller, 
of the Galt House, Louisville, for the Bum of 
$125,000 for lease, furniture, &c. The lease has 
five years to run. 
One hundred and twenty-five more turkeys 
were sent to the soldiers on duty in the forts in 
Boston harbor than they could dispose of, and 
were 
A battle was fought at Franklin (Tenu.) 
on the 30tb ulL, between a portion of the forces 
under General Thomas and those under General 
Hood, which resulted, as will be seen, in a Union 
victory. General Schofield telegaphed as fol¬ 
lows: 
Franklin, Nov. 30 — Maj.-Gen, Thomas:— 
The enemy made a heavy and persistent attack 
with two corps, commencing at 4 P. M. and 
lasting till dark. He was repulsed at. all points 
with heavy loss of probably 6,000 or 6,000 men. 
Our loss i- probably not more than one-quarter 
that number. 
John Schovij?wd, Major-Genera 1 . 
A dispatch from Nashville dated Dec. 1, says: 
Parties who have arrived from the front, and 
who witnessed the battle of yesterday, describe 
the attack of the rebel forces as desperate. 
Four charges were made upon the Federal 
lines of masked batteries in a body of four lines 
deep. F.ach time the rebels were repulsed with 
fearful loss. 
The fort is on the north bank of the river 
opposite the town. Extending up the river 
and encircling the town was a line of masked 
batteries, 
Elye-witnesses say that this engagement, in 
degperation and furious lighting, was hardly 
equaled by the battle of Stone River. 
Forrest in person was on the field rallying 
his men. 
About seven o’clock last night the heavy re¬ 
enforcements reached Schofield, which caused a 
complete rout of the rebel forces. 
The city to-day is full of residents of "William¬ 
son and other counties south, who have lied from 
their homes. They state that Hood is gathering 
up all the horses, hogs and mules he can find 
and sending them South. 
There is a great panic among the negroes in 
the counties south of Nashville. Numbers are 
fleeing to the city for protection. 
The Louisville Journal of the 2d inst., contains 
the following: 
Gen. Thomas has abandoned his strong posi¬ 
tion at Franklin and formed his line of battle 
within three miles of Nashville. 
Yesterday evening the two hostile armies 
were engaged in heavy Skirmishing, and the 
rattle of musketry could be heard plainly in the 
streets of Nashville. A battle of terrible fury 
is imminent. 
We do not believe that Gen. Thomas has any 
fear for the result. He is not as weak as he 
would make the enemy believe. He can offer 
battle to better advantage in front of Nashville 
than at any other point, 
Important NetTc j>. i) t Moore. 
(book's Snesr Evaporator—Blymvcr. Bates & Day. 
The H<micu|hjri-t—G. 15 p. \\ T , Woodward. 
Clark's School visitor W. DnlU’haday. 
Rochester Weet.lv Express—*D. Tracy & Co. 
stock Farm f. r S d, -vVm MIT- 
Improved Cross C-f Maotilne-t'lark Sorgo Co. 
The Prairie F'srtner—Emer> & Co. 
25,000 Acres Land for Sale ’ ,*V. Cote tc Co. 
Maple Sugar Makers—J5. Mosbrr 
Farm for Sale— Itovey A. Wheeler. 
Apple Seeds for Hale—V.'m Ar milage. 
W silted—15 M Potter* Co 
Dwarf AppleTeecs—KU wanger & Barry. 
Paradise and Dtraein Stocks—Ellwungcr & Bam 
For 25 Cents—.Tnlins Rising. 
Short-Horns for Sile-E. K. Ward. 
Department of the South. 
Wk have intelligence from Port Royal to 
the 30th of November. All the citizens there 
have been enrolled for military duty and the 
prelection of the place. 
A movement of an unknown character had 
taken place, and all the regular troops there had 
been ordered away. 
An expedition sailed from Port Royal on the 
29th, but no information could be obtained in 
regard to it. 
The Charleston Mercury of the 24th uJt., says 
the enemy (Federals) have 40 pieces of heavy 
ordnance on Morris Islaud bearing on Sumter 
and Sullivan’s Island. They are busy moving 
mortars, have buoyed out Bull’s bay, have a 
fleet of some dozen monitors at Port Royal, and 
somewhere on the coast a dozen and a half 
more. These preparations indicate an attack on 
Charleston. 
The advance of Sherman warns us that lb ere 
is no time to be lost in making preparations to 
meet the issue. 
The Hilton Head Jleraki's correspondent says 
Gen. Foster proceeded up Broad River and 
landed near Pocotallgo Bridge, and marched on 
and captured it. After sharp fighting, the 
rebels retreated. A large quantity of cotton 
was found and destroyed. 
It is supposed the rebel force along the coast 
has been materially lessened to concentrate 
their forces against Sherman. 
The correspondent of the N. Y. Herald before 
Charleston, states that the blockade runner Bea¬ 
trice was run ashore and destroyed on the night 
of the 27th. and thirty of the crew captured. 
Admiral Ilahlgren and Gen. Foster are in 
communication with Gen. Sherman, who Is sup¬ 
posed to be marching on Savannah to join the 
force wl.ieh has been organized to co-operate 
with hlpi, while other expeditions are moving 
on other important strategic points. 
Gov. Vance, lu a Tecent message, to the North 
Carolina Legislature, confirms the reports that 
the laws cannot be enforced in theinteriorof the 
State, owing to the existence of bands of despe¬ 
radoes consisting of rebel deserters. 
They make raids upon the mountain frontier, 
and murder, burn and destroy with savage cru¬ 
elty. He recommends out-lawing and driving 
them from the State. 
Newbern advices of Nov. 29, state that the 
yellow fever had entirely disappeared. 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., DECEMBER 10, 1864. 
ai)c Jforos (ftonitmstr 
— Fruit trees were blossoming at Atlanta on the 11th 
nit. 
— Canadian rebels propose to open a Southern ba¬ 
zaar. . 
— Canada raises sis million bushels of barley this 
year. 
The Mormons in Utah complain of a scarcity of 
labor. 
— The Denver City News reports snow storms on the 
plains. 
— An English Earl is translating Homer’s Iliad into 
English. 
—' Sherman, on bl« march, cuts a swath forty milee 
in width. 
— Of late there have averaged, weekly, three railroad 
accidents. 
— Egypt will raise about $100,000,000 worth of cot 
ton this year. 
— Gottschalk has accepted an imperial invitation to 
Visit Mexico. 
— At the Charlestown navy yard there are 5,000 names 
on the pay roll. 
— The Philadelphia fire department consists of ebon: 
forty steamers. 
— A “respectable” funeral in New York costs five 
hundred dollars. 
About 20 deaths hy violence have lately occurred 
at Nashville, Term. 
— The Davenport boys have been sued In England 
for being impostor?. 
— Lager beer In Hub country costs one million dol¬ 
lars a year to cool it. 
— Maximilian manages to spend forty million pias¬ 
ters u year In Mexico. 
— A man in Mlltord, CL, hung himself lately to a 
tree In hi9 own door yard. 
— The Widows’ Wood Society of Portland, Me, has 
a permanent fund of $7,000. 
— A newspaper Is to bo published in Paris devoted 
exclusively to matrimonial Interests. 
— This month the Oniled States pays out $ 8,000,000 
in interest on her five per cent loan. 
— Bill Anderson, the noted guerrilla, carried human 
scalps tied to the bridle of his horse. 
— The Adams Express has carried 60 tuns of Thanks¬ 
giving gifts to the Boldiers from Boston. 
— Official reports from France state that the wheat 
crop has been a total failure this season. 
— A lady in Maine lately committed suicide by 
drowning herself in a hogshead of water. 
— A paper collar and cuff company has been organ¬ 
ized In Boston, with a capital of $300,000. 
— The substitute brokers in Hartford, Ct., enlirt men 
and then advertise for principals for them. 
— The colliers’ strike in StrafTordsh:re, Eng., is as¬ 
suming a grave character. A number are dead. 
— Two churches in Pittsburg, Penn. 
GENERAL SHERMAN’S PROGRESS 
HU left wing rests on 
Murfreesboro, and when strengthened by the 
forces at Chattanooga, it will be strong enough 
to close upon Hood’s rear and cut off his re¬ 
treat. 
The rebel army is pressing blindly forward. 
GeD. Thomas has prepared a trap, and the foes 
are but too eager to nibble at the bait. The 
lines aie closing around the enemy each hour. 
The threads of the net are being more com¬ 
pletely woven. We do not tremble for the re¬ 
sult, but fiel strong and hopeful for the cause, 
and confidently look for victory to perch upon 
our banners. 
Our troops are brave, and Gen. Thomas is an 
able commander. We predict that the rebel 
arms will meet with a terrible disaster. Gen. 
Thomas has matured his plans and will either 
capture or annihilate the rebel army. 
The Nashville Herald is filled with accounts of 
the late battle at Franklin and its antecedents, 
which, In its general results, was one of the most 
brilliant of the war. 
For three days sharp shirmlehing was kept 
up during the retirement of our army from 
Duck River to Franklin, during which time a 
multiplicity of exploits and successes resulted to 
the Federal arms. Gen. Cox conducted the 
rear guard, and ou the 29th ult., achieved a 
splendid victory over the rebels at Spring Hill, 
while Gen. Wilson’s cavalry gained a series of 
swocesses. 
During the afternoon of the 30th ult.., the 
rebel army was sorely pressed under Hood, who 
had Cheatham’s and Stuart’s Corps and a portion 
or Dlek Taylor’s command, numbering in all 
over-32,000 men. 
Owing to Cox’s gallant check at Spring Hill, 
a portion of the 4th and 23d corps were enabled 
to gain Franklin early in the day, when they 
threw up a line of breastworks extending from 
one end to the other of the curve in the river, 
behind which our entire infantry command took 
position. 
At precisely 4 1*. M. the entire rebel force 
made a charge and succeeded in making a tem¬ 
porary break in our center, commanded by Gen. 
Wagner. At the same time the enemy made a 
furious attempt to destroy our right. 
in the nick of time the troops of Wagner 
were rallied, and throwing their whole force on 
the rebel column, drove buck the -tonning party 
in great disorder and captured several hundred 
prisoners. Four times afterwards the rebois 
charged on our lines, but were repulsed as often 
with great slaughter. 
The rebels numbered at least two to our one, 
as nearly hull" of the 4th and 23d corps were in 
reserve. The rebel loss in killed is three times 
ours, while their loss in wounded is at least, six 
to our one. All attempts of the rebels to gain 
a permanent advantage wore frustrated, and at 
tlaik they retired under cover of the woods out 
of reach of the Federal guns. 
The enemy lostfully 6,000, including over 1,000 
prisoners. Our whole loss docs not exceed 1.000, 
The falling back was in accordance with the 
programme. Commander Fitch is In support¬ 
ing distance with a large fleet of gunboats and 
Iton-clads. Sufficient re-enforcements have ar¬ 
rived to ensure the safety of Nashville, and a 
A New York dispatch of the 2d inst., says:— 
Files of Georgia papers to November 25tb, and 
Richmond papers fir the 29tb, are received. 
While General Sberman is no doubt steadily 
advancing across the State of Georgia, In full 
accordance with the programme which ho pre¬ 
pared for hlmsell before leaving Atlanta, if a 
judgment was formed of Lin movements by the 
records of these frightened newspaper men, we 
Department of the Gulf. 
By the arrival of the steamer Evening Star 
at New York, news from New Orleans is re- 
oeived to the 26th ult.: 
The Era contains details of Gen. Lee’s great 
cavalry expedition, fully confirming previous 
reports a3 to its success. 
Col. Fonda, 118th Illinois, was in command ef 
one column, and proceeded to Port Hudson, 
thence to Jackson. 
On the 16th, ten miles from Jackson, he sur¬ 
prised a rebel camp, and dispersed it, capturing 
25 prisoners, 200 stand of arms and 100 horses, 
with 25 army wagons and a large amount of 
military Etoreg. 
He then moved forward and joined the main 
column under Gen. Lee, who thug re-enforced, 
marched upon Liberty. 
Another column had been started from Baton 
Rouge for Liberty under Colonel Marsh, 2d Illi¬ 
nois cavalry. 
This column reached Liberty and surprised 
the rebel General Hodge in command there. 
He barely escaped capture by jumping from a 
back window', but all the members of his staff 
were taken, including Lieut, Davis, a nephew 
of Jeff. Davis. Several other prisoners, to¬ 
gether with much valuable property, were 
also taken. 
Col. Marsh remained hero until the arrival of, 
Gen. Lee, when two expeditions were dis¬ 
patched still further into the enemy’s lines—one 
going to Brook Haven, under Col. Fonda, and 
the other to Summit, under Col. Bassford, 14th 
N. Y. cavalry. 
At Brook Haven a train of cars loaded with 
all kinds of military stores were captured and 
destroyed. Also, a building containing quarter¬ 
master’s stores. 
Fifty prisoners were taken, a section of artil¬ 
lery and forty wagons loaded with stores. 
CoL Bassford found a large quantity of Btores 
at Summit, and as the place was surprised, he 
secured the whole and destroyed It. 
He then returned to Liberty with twenty-five 
prisoners and some valuable trophies of his very 
successful raid. 
While these expeditions were absent, General 
Lee was attacked at Liberty by Col. Scott, and a 
most vigorous fight was kept up for two hours, 
and although Lee’s force was outnumbered by 
Scott’s, the rebels were finally obliged to retire. 
The result of the fig lit was the capture of 
twenty-eight prisoners, one twelve-pound 
howitzer, and thirty left dead on the field. 
The expedition theu returned to Baton Rouge. 
Our loss was not over twenty. 
A lire occurred at Baton Rouge on the 22d 
inst. ill a building formerly used as a cotton fac¬ 
tory, but. latterly as a government stable. 
that number of poor families in Boston 
made glad in consequence. 
The apparatus of the Philadelphia Fire De¬ 
partment consists of forty steam fire engines, 
with the necessary- appurtenances. The sup¬ 
port of the Department has cost the city during 
the last year about $100,000. 
The production of flaxseed in New Jersey 
shows an increase this year amounting to four¬ 
teen and two-thirds per cent. There has also 
been an Increase of ten per cent, in the produc¬ 
tion as 9hovrn in any other State. 
The London Times says that the coming win¬ 
ter will be a gloomy one in the cotton manufac¬ 
turing districts of F.ngland. There are now 
great numbers out of work, and at present there 
seems to be no prospect of improvement. 
An oil well has been sunk to the depth of 
2,020 feet at Jackson, Michigan, and it is pro¬ 
posed to continue to the depth of 3,000 feet if 
necessary to strike oil,—a depth of 400 feet 
greater than any well yet sunk on this conti¬ 
nent. 
An attempt was made to blow up the Long 
Island Sound steamer, City of New London, on 
Monday. A torpedo was found in one of the 
berths, and the fuse had been lighted, but ap¬ 
parently went out before the torpedo had ex¬ 
ploded. 
The State Agricultural Society intend to 
purchase some thirty or forty acres of land be¬ 
tween Albany and Troy, for the purpose of 
permanently locating the State Fair Grounds, 
The site is said to be a fine one, and the location 
accessible. 
The Chinese are greatly pleased at having 
crushed their rebellion, and the GovernmenthaB 
appointed a committee to examine into the ser¬ 
vices rendered hy the different gods. They are 
goiug to worship the gods according to the ser¬ 
vices rendered. 
Car - t. Howard, presumptive heir to the 
Irish Earldom of Wicklow, died of intemper¬ 
ance lately, and his life being insured for half a 
million of dollars, several of the Ikmdon offices 
have been heavily taxed. All of the policies 
were in the hands of creditors. 
In view of the recent incendiary attempts in 
New York, the police of the city of Boston have 
an understanding with the dealers in phospho¬ 
rus, by which every purchaser of the article 
will be traced, so that it will be almost im¬ 
possible to obtain any for purposes of incen¬ 
diarism. The proprietors of hotels in Phila¬ 
delphia have also adopted precautionary meas¬ 
ures. 
on Thanks¬ 
giving day raised $2,100 for the Christian Cornmis 
s’on. 
— Generals Meade, Uoeecrans, Sheridan, Meagher, j 
mplrloa (Ivrl amJ j Iu _it.„ n_«- 
Sickles, Ord and Gilmore profess the Roman Catholic 
faith. 
— It Is reported that General McClellan has accepted 
a position as civil engineer under the Russian govern 
ment. 
— A new religions newspaper, called the National 
Baptist, is to be started in Philadelphia on the first of 
January. 
— Twenty thousand dollars were recently refused 
for two sheep, which have their home in Middlebury, 
Vermont. 
— Seven thousand acres in South Indiana have been 
taken by petroleum borers. There is “ every promise 
of success.” 
— A clergyman in England has been sentenced to 
four years imprisonment for obtaining goods by false 
pretenses. 
— An unfortunate baby in Springfieid has six grand¬ 
mothers whose united ages are four hundred and thirty 
seven years. 
— Proprietors of cider mills have to pay a revenue 
tax of 20cent8 a barrel for each barrel manufactured 
at their mills. 
— A St. Louts paper says 11 there are not less than 
200,OtW persons In Missouri this day who are little 
better than paupers.” 
— Two professors In a Michigan college have been 
engaged in law. One sued the other (for slander, and 
got $7,000 damages. 
— Uncle Sam's depots are said to be unusually full 
of arms, ammunition, food, clothing and everything 
needful for the armies. 
— A little girl residing in Whitewater, Wisconsin, 
was strangled to death a few days ago in endeavoring 
to swallow u raw oyster. 
— Two Sicilians lately had a dreadrul duel in Hew 
Orleans. They shot each other twice and bayoneted 
and slabbed each other once. 
— The Supreme Court of the District of Columbia 
has decided that notes given to puy gambling debts are 
void and cannot be collected. 
— A McClellan man carried a Lincoln man on his 
back around the Court House at Chicago, recently, in 
fi lfillment of an election bet. 
— The sister of Jules Gerard, the lion killer, fell in a 
fit of apoplexy and died upon the news of her brother's 
death being announced to her. 
A young man attempted to lift a boy by his head 
in Troy lately, and dislocated his neck so that he has 
remained insensible ever since. 
— A man died recently in Paris who had slept in his 
coffin every night for many years. He was an odd stick, 
and they caU.xl him Major Fraser. 
— A number of wealthy families In St. Louis, South-' 
era sympathizers, entertain the view of purchasing 
large tracts in Nicaragua and moving there. 
— Eighty pounds weight of autograph letters, writ¬ 
ten by Talleyrand and the Empress Josephine, were 
recently sold to a butcher of 8t Germaine. 
