NEWS PARAGRAPH 
LUt of New Advertisements 
into the river at least SO gum. He abandoned a 
large number of wagons and ambulances. 
Our official list of prisoners number 9,700, not 
including 500 captured from Rboddy on the 27th. 
Over 900 deserters have also reported. It is 
said that Hood is at Meridian, Miss., to attempt 
re-orgAnization. 
The chase in force lias been abandoned, 
although Gen. Steadman is across the river 
with orders to harass the enemy and capture 
as much as possible. 
A new campaign has been already projected, 
and the corps of Gena. Wood, Smith and Scho¬ 
field are already moving. 
Advices from Court land, Ala,, Jan. 4, say that 
the cavalry belonging to Gen. Stone man’ft com¬ 
mand have pursued, captured and burned Hood’6 
pontoon train, 600 mules, 100 wagons and 200 
hogs, besides doing him much other damage. 
Forrest it* reported near Russelville, and a 
deserter from Hood's army reports that Hood 
has been ordered to Tuscaloosa to re-organize 
Ids shattered army. 
Rhoddy’s cavalTy command is almost entirely 
dispersed. 
The N. Y. Herald's correspondent giveft a full 
account of the recent important raid through 
East Tennessee and South-western Virginia, of 
Gens. Stoneman, Burbridge and Gillcm. The 
injury done tin? rebels is immense, and is Irre¬ 
parable. The lead mines and salt works, 50 
foundries and furnaces, 100 miles of railroad, 15 
locomotives, 200 cars, and a vast amount of 
other rebel property, wore destroyed, and 20 
pieces ot artillery and many prisoners, were 
captured from them. 
The rebels, under command of Walker Taylor, 
occupied Owcnsborongh, Ky., on the 4th mst., 
our forces evacuating the place. The rebels are 
conscripting the citizens. The New Albany 
Ledger says that the rebel guerrillas have posses¬ 
sion of Davenport and Hendersonville, and that 
the Lebanon train was captured by a band of 
Magrudcr’s guerrillas near Lebanon Junction on 
the 6th. The passengers were robbed aud the 
cars burned. The rebels brutally murdered four 
discharged soldiers of the 14th Ky. infantry. 
Taylor has establifhed his headquarters at 
Homesville, and the citizens are fleeing across 
the Ohio to avoid conscription. 
Gov. Bramlette, in his Message to the Legisla¬ 
ture, recommends the gradual emancipation and 
ultimate removal of slavery in Kentucky. He 
rejoices over, and thanks Gens. Thomas and 
Sherman, for their victories. 
From Cairo of Jan 6, we leant that General 
Davis has received information from his cavalry 
force, sent out from there on the 21st tilt. They 
struck the Mobile and Ohio Railroad on the 27th, 
and destroyed a long stretch of it. Twenty-nine 
bridges, a great dcahjii trestle work, 21 cars, 800 
anny wagons, and 4,000 carbines were also 
destroyed. 
Forrest’s (rebel) cajup of mounted infantry, at 
Everona, was dispersed. Six officers were taken. 
Our forces did not ftAv a man. 
Gen. Grierson has orders to destroy the road 
as far as Meridian, aud release our prisoners at 
Cawtawba, if possible 
Advices from Little Rock of the 9th, say that 
military affaire arc unchanged. 
The Legislature of Arkansas on Die 29th ult, 
elected Hon. Wm. D. Stewart a U. S. Senator for 
six years from the 4tii of March next. 
one course to pursue. He said they all felt deep¬ 
ly indebted to Gen. Geary, Commandent of the 
city, for the course he had pursued. 
A blockade runner schooner, with an assorted 
cargo, came up and anchored near the city on 
the 29th, unawares that the city had changed 
bauds. 
The work of clearing the river of obstructions 
is going on, and one of our monitors has arrived 
up at Savannah. 
The gunboat Acacia captured the steamer 
Julia, with 400 bales of cotton, from Charleston 
for Nassau. The Julia arrived at Fort Royal the 
28th. 
The steamer California from Hilton Head ar¬ 
rived af Fortress Monroe the 5th, with Colonel 
Ewing, bearer of dispatches from .General Sher¬ 
man. 
The army was resting and preparing for anoth¬ 
er great campaign. Kilpatrick was actively watch¬ 
ing Hardee's movements, 
A detachment of men from the Potomac flo¬ 
tilla, under Acting Master Toll, landed on the 
Rappahannock river, on Wednesday, about six 
miles above its mouth, and destroyed two barrels 
of powder and the torpedoes which the rebels had 
there collected. 
The New York Tost of Jan. 6, has a private let¬ 
ter from Savannah, which speaks of the order 
prevailing in that city since Us occupation by 
our array, and the confidence tho citizens have 
in our protection. A citizen late one night ex¬ 
hibited his watch to the writer, and said he would 
not have dared to wear a watch or anything else 
of value on the sweets at night before the arrival 
of Gen. Sherman. 
The writer sayahewas also informed thatGcv. 
Brown was about to issue a proclamation before 
Hood moved to Sherman's rear, calling a con¬ 
vention to propose terms for peace, but was dis¬ 
turbed by Hood's movements He was afraid of 
Jeff. Davis. 
It would appear that the destruction of the 
railroad by Sherman, struck a staggering blow 
to Lee and Davis at Richmond. A private let¬ 
ter from a citizen of Savannah, states on the au- 
ithority of an officer of that road, that it sup¬ 
plied Lee's army up to the time it was broken up, 
with thousands of head of cattle per week, com- 
ingfromFloridaandSouthern Alabama. Indeed, 
six weeks before Sherman left Atlanta, Lee wrote 
the President of the road that its facilities must 
be enlarged, or he would be obliged to fall back 
with his army from Virginia nearer to his base 
of supplies. 
There is reason to believe from the informa¬ 
tion in his possession from individuals of Sa¬ 
vannah, that Lee’6 army has not thirty days' ra¬ 
tions. 
A Savannah correspondent of the World bints 
that Sherman will march first on AnguBta, then 
to the rear of Charleston, when, with Dahl- 
gren in front, he wiU lay siege to the strong- 
hold- 
Despatchcs captured on a rebel soldier, di¬ 
vulged the intention to send the rebel rams out 
of Charleston harbor at once, thus tukLug ad vant¬ 
age of the absence of oar iron-dads. 
This led to promptly sending all our monitors 
to Charleston harbor, where they now are. 
The Heraldx Savannah correspondent says 
Many of the citizens have taken the oath of al¬ 
legiance. 
The Third Division of the Twentieth Corps 
bud moved across the Savannah river into South 
Carolina, and there met and drove a regiment 
of Wheeler’s cavalry. No other rebel force was 
found. 
The Adams’ Express Co. have already received 
and sent north over $500,000, and the rush con¬ 
tinues. 
In addition to military reviews, the entire fire 
department had passed in review before Gen. 
Sherman, with the exception of officers. The 
companies consist of negroes. 
Advices from Fortress Monroe of Jan. 5, say 
that Admiral Porter’s fleet is reported to he at 
Beaufort, safely anchored, having safely weath¬ 
ered the storm off Wilmington. All the re- 
maitung transports were on their way to Hamp¬ 
ton Roads. 
The fleet of iron-dads has returned to Charles¬ 
ton harbor, and are to co-operate with Sherman 
in an attack on that place. 
A letter from London Co., Va. the 3d, says a 
cavalry force from Sherman’s army visited the 
neighborhood of Upperviile and Middlebury on 
the 27th ult and destroyed and carried away a con¬ 
siderable amount of property belonging to seces¬ 
sionists of that neighborhood. 
The Worldx Washington correspondent says: 
It is rumored in thi» city that General Lee has 
been placed in command of all the rebel armies, 
and that he immediately determined to put Gen. 
Beauregard in command of the defences of Rich¬ 
mond, intending himself to proceed to South 
Carolina to concentrate the rebel forces in that 
quarter for the purpose of confronting General 
Sherman in liis proposed movement north¬ 
ward. 
Sherman’s movement is considered by Lee 
more important than any Grant, can possibly 
make on Richmond in four months. 
From the Army of the Potomac we have no 
news of importance to note. Matters gener¬ 
ally remain the same as they did last week. 
Deserters from the rebel army have taken 
possession of the mountains of North Carolina, 
expelled the rebel citizens, and defy the rebel 
authorities, 
There are upwards of ten thousand enlisted 
men on detached service in Washington. One of 
the headquarters akme employs over two hun- 
dred as clerks. 
The Secretary of the Treasury advertises for 
proposals for the building of revenue cutters 
(side wheel) for the upper lakes, and one or more 
for Lake Ontario. 
New Yoke merchants are anxious to open com¬ 
merce with Savannah, and to show their good 
will, contemplate making a free gift of supplies 
to the poor of that city. 
A rebel journal stat es that the great bulk of 
the cotton captured by Gen. Sherman is owned 
by Great Britain. It is quite possible that Uncle 
Sam may dispute the title. 
Thom as Sims, the fugitive slave, about whom 
there was such a pow wow in Boston ten years 
ago, is now recruiting ageut for colored troops in 
Nashville. Time makes all things even. 
The coiling of the new Atlantic cable from 
tho manufactory at Greenwich, England, to the 
ship Amethyst, which is to convey it to the 
Greet Eastern, was commenced on the 17th of 
December. 
T rf. police reports of New York city show 
on unconscionable number of murderous aesolts 
on New Year’s day and Monday, nearly all of 
them the fruit of immoderate indulgence in in- 
toxteating liquors. 
Job Cobchn, Hie boxer, had a Christimas pres¬ 
ent of a farm in Minnesota, 150 miles from St. 
Paul, and consisting of 160 acres of land.' He 
had better employ his muscle there than in pound¬ 
ing people to death. 
The people of Philadelphia have collected the 
sum of $30,000 with which they propose to pur¬ 
chase a residence for Gen. Grant. Including this, 
the presents the Genera! has received during the 
war have cost not less than $60,000. 
Three hundred and sixty-two vessels are laid 
up at the Chicago wharves for the winter. They 
are classified as followsSteamers, 4; propel¬ 
lers, 13; barks, 4o; brigs, 19; schooners, 194; 
scows, 27; tugs and canal boats, 60, 
The non. David Sberman Boardman, since 
the death of Father Waldo, the oldest graduate 
of Yale College, died recently at New Milford, 
Connecticut. He was born in Dsc., 1768, and 
graduated at Yale College in 1798. 
In the U. S. Circuit Court, New York, Tues¬ 
day, before Judge Shipman, Albert Reusser was 
sentenced to thirty days’ imprisonment and a fine 
of $1,000, for violating an injunction of the 
Court restraining him from infringing tbe patent 
of a &cwing machine. 
Tire: new rebel pirate Sea King, which left an 
English port some time ago, is now, under the 
name of the Shenandoah, actively at work in 
destroying American stopping on the Atlantic. 
She has already captured the ship Kate Priuce, 
the bark Elena and E. G. Godfrey, and the brig 
Susan aDd schooner Charter Oak, of San Fran¬ 
cisco. 
ilR. Bliss, Missionary at Constantinople, 
writes to the Missionary Herald, that persecution 
has been a great blow to the work among Mo¬ 
hammedans. “No Turks,” he says, “now 
attend our services, and when any advance is 
made towards those who were esteemed friendly, 
they point to the city prison and the men in exile 
and decline our advances," 
President Lincoln pays $1,279 income tax, 
and Assistant Secretary of War Watson pays 
$1,020. W. W. Corcoran, the banker, pays $2,- 
321, and George W. Riggs pays $3,977. Most of 
the Government officials keep up their resi¬ 
dences in other places, and are not taxed at 
Washington, and most of the brokers und bank¬ 
ers made no returns of income. 
• 
Ralph Waldo Emerson is to repeat in Wor¬ 
cester, in February, the course of lectures on 
“American Life” which lie is now delivering 
before the Parker Fraternity In Boston. It Ift in¬ 
timated that these are the discourses he will pre¬ 
pare for public audiences, bis purpose being to 
leave the lecture field at the close of the present 
season. 
George D. Prentice, of the Louisville Jour¬ 
nal, has returned from a five weeks residence in 
Richmond, where he went to save his son, a 
Major iu the Confederate Army, who has been 
on trial for murder. Prentice states that the 
public men in that city are unanimous as to the 
policy of freeing and arming the slaves. Their 
scheme of military emancipation embraces a do¬ 
nation of bounty lands, and the prospect of the 
freedom of the families of the slaves who fight. 
Savannah has been twice captured by an in¬ 
vading force. It was token by the English, under 
Col. Campbell, on the 29th of December, 1778. 
They had a column of 8,500 soldiers, besides a 
squadron tinder Com. Parker. Their prisoners 
amounted to 88 officers aud 415 men, while their 
loss was only 7 meu killed and 19 wounded. 
Seventy-one pieces of artillery mid 817 stand of 
small arms fell into the bauds of the British. It 
is now again taken in the same month by Geu. 
Sherman, with a decided increase in prisoners, 
guns and materials. 
The Louisville l*ress Bays “Tlie whole num¬ 
ber of Union soldiers wounded in the two days’ 
lighting at Nashville, thuft far admitted to the 
hospital, is seventeen hundred and eleven. This 
does not include the colored soldiers, of whom 
from eight regiments, there have been admitted 
to the hospital three hundred and thirty-one. 
The killed in the two days are estimated by the 
Medical Director at four hundred and fifty. The 
prisoners will not exceed one hnndred. Total 
loss two thousand five hundred and ninety- 
two.” 
Prosper tun of The World for 1865. 
G. H. Kills' Parlor Music Store. 
New England Petroleum Company of Bouton, 
Farm for Bnlo—Joseph S. Gray. 
Employment C. Muuro Brown. 
Reward of Merit. 
Clinton Grape Wood Wanted —A, F. Conard. 
Apple Seeds for Sale—P. Bowen. 
Short-Horns tor Sale — C. K, Ward. 
SPECIAL NOTICES. 
Atlantic Monthly—Tictnor & Fields. 
Our Young Folks—ITcknor & Fields. 
®t)c JJcros <&onbtnszK 
— Gen. Tom Thumb and ‘'family” are in Paris. 
— Four thousand deaths in Chicago the past year. 
— Thackeray is to have a bust in Westminster Ab¬ 
bey. 
— Belle Boyd’s husband is now confined in Fort Del¬ 
aware. 
— The extra Income tax of President Lincoln was 
$1,279. 
— Eighty thousand apartments are vacant in Paris. 
Rents low. 
— The oil fever has appeared in New Jersey, bat the 
oil has not. 
— Adah Benicia Isaacs Mazeppa "Menken Boy is go¬ 
ing to Paris. 
— There are 362 vessels laid up at Chicago wharves 
for the winter. 
— They are making Lit extensively in Carroll Co., 
New Hampshire. 
— The Russian telegraph is now complete to the 
frontiers of China. 
— Admiral Farrigut received hie commission as vice 
admiral on New Year's day. 
— A Spanish Squadron has been sent to the Pacific, 
bat not for a paclfid pqiyoec. 
— Ossian E. Dodge is in San Francisco, and intends' 
to write a book on California. 
— A Canada Farmer killed his beet cow the other 
night supposing her a Fenian, 
— 110 earthquakes have occurred in Great Britain 
and Ireland the present century. 
— The Richmond Examiner calls Lord John Russell 
a “ venomous little abolitionist.” 
— The Portsmouth 9pool factory turns out 25,000 
dozen spools of cotton every week. 
— The rebels in Texa3 are ppinuing cow hair mixed 
with cotton as a substitute for wool. 
— Tbe real name of “ Josh Billings,” humorist, is 
Henry G. Shaw, of Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 
— The Chicago und St LouiB railroad is now open 
the entire distance between those cities. 
— At an auction recently held In Paris a pen-and-ink 
sketch, by Victor Hugo, realized 186 francs, s 
— North Carolina has furnished 118,160 men tor the 
rebel armioe, of whom 18,585 were conscripts. 
— The English are piking of building small batter¬ 
ies to be used in the eross-Lreee of men of war. 
— CoL Seaton, just retired from the National Intel¬ 
ligencer, has epent over 00 years In the editorial chair 
— In Philadelphia they talk of abolishing the fire 
department and letting the contract of extinguishing 
fires. 
— Oregon sends a fresh backwoodsman to Congress, 
who had never Been a railroad till he came on this 
season. 
— The Confederates have a machine in Richmond 
capable of taming out 3-10,000 percussion gun caps in 
8 hours. 
— The general impression in Mexico is said to be 
that Maximilian's rule cannot stand more than six 
months. 
— Eleven regiments of twelve months' volunteers 
are to be raised in Indiana by proclamation of the 
Governor. 
— A citizen of Nashville who went ont to witness 
the attack on Ilood had the top of his head taken off 
by a ehell. 
— An immense mine of emery haa been discovered 
in Cheshire, Mass., of a quality unsurpassed by any in 
the world. 
— George N. Sanders takes painB to deny that he 
was concerned in the plot to burn fhe hotels of New 
York city. 
— Dr. Keith, the well known mineralogist, of Con¬ 
necticut, lins found a vein of gold on his land and is 
working it. 
— The compensation of the clerks and messengers 
in the war department and its bureaus reaches the sum 
of $1,200,000. 
_Internal revenue receipts for December were $21,- 
683,882 81, and for the six months ending Dec. 31, were 
$96,558,307 70. 
Thousands of sheep have been lost in Interior 
California from cold weather. They were sheared too 
late In the fall. 
— A Hartford soldier, who went into the service 
weighing 300 lbs., has returned from a rebel prison re¬ 
duced to 56 lbs. 
— The President has signed the hill imposing a tax 
of $2 per gallon ou all distilled spirits manufactured 
after January 1st. 
A number of yonng ladies have gone to St Louis 
from New England for the purpose or acting as teach¬ 
ers in negro schools. 
— It is stated that the culture of cotton in the north¬ 
western provinces of India has Increased fifty per cent, 
during the past year. 
— Eight thousand dollars is saved to the nation this 
year by omitting the usuul Christmas gift of a knife to 
each government clerk 
— A hog was recently sold in Atchison, Kansas, 
which weighed 1,122 pounds net. It brought ten cents 
per pound, malting $112.30. 
_q'he Emperor of Russia has recently abotlahed 
serfdom in Trans-Caucasia—the last of the Russian 
provinces in which it exists. 
— Tho Portland Argus says there is not a paper in 
Maine, with a single exception, which is paying the 
luhuest on the money invested. 
— At Providence last year the transactions in print¬ 
ing cloths amounted to 2,697,150 pieces, a falling off 
from the previous year of 1,225,650 pieces. 
— Admiral Wilkes was suspended from duty for 3 
years from May 3,186-1, by sentence of court-martial. 
The President remitted two years of the sentence. 
— Twelve sheep belonging to D. K. Chase of Calais, 
Me., were killed by a dog one night last weetL He 
had paid seven dollars each for them the day before. 
— At a Boston dinner party lately, Gov. Andrew was 
pit:rented with ou old-Iashloned kitchen clock, which 
kept time during the first battle of (he Revolution. 
“ God bless the old flag I as He ever has done 
Since He strengthened the arm of our own Washington; 
And God bless the freemen, devoted and true, 
Who are ready to die for the Bed, While and Bine.” 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., JANUARY 14, 1865. 
NEWS OF THE WEEK 
From the South. 
Col. Julian Allen has been sent north by 
the Mayor and Common Council of Savannah, 
with the consent of Gen. Sherman, to purchase for 
that city certain articles of food for distribution 
to needy families. 
Tbe Palmetto Herald will hereafter be printed 
at the office of the Savannah Hem, and will be¬ 
come a daily paper. 
On the 29th nit., the Herald says, on the cap¬ 
ture of Savannah, when our forces took posses¬ 
sion of Fort. Jackson, the rebel ram Savannah 
opened fire on the fort. Tbe guns being spiked, 
no response could be made. A battery was soon 
brought to bear on the rum, which peppered her 
briskly. She being well plated, was invulnera¬ 
ble to such attacks. 
She afterwards threw a few shells into the city, 
but the next night she ended her career by com¬ 
mitting suicide. 
Gen. Sherman receives hundreds of citizens 
daily. He is in good health. 
A grand review of the Seventeenth Army Corps 
by General Sberman took place in Bay street on 
the 29th. 
Gen. Geary has been appointed Military Gov¬ 
ernor of Savannah. 
The Worlds Beaufort (S. C.) correspondent 
of December 2Sth, says: 
Increasing preparations are making in Sher¬ 
man’s army to resume offensive operations. 
The edemy evidently expect an attack on Charles¬ 
ton and Branchville. Refugees say Charleston 
being surrounded by formidable earthworks, 
a portion of Dahlgreu’s fleet were engaged In 
removing obstructions from the Savannah river, 
some of them being very formidable. A spacious 
channel has been made for vessels plying between 
Hilton Head and Savannah. 
Foster’s army is still at Broad River Landing 
covering the Charleston and the Savannah rail¬ 
road. 
It is now said Hardee’s army passed over that 
road to Charleston. 
We have had many visitors from Savannah, 
and citizens speak well of Sherman’s rule. 
General Geary has Issued orders dividing Sa¬ 
vannah into two military districts, protecting 
public and private property; registering persons 
formerly in the rebel army; concerning arrests; 
continuing the fire department, water and gas¬ 
works; arrests of straggling soldiers; trans¬ 
portation of persons within rebel lines who 
want to go; to supply destitute persons with 
food, &c. 
Gen. Sherman’6 Inspector of Field Officers 
states that as Savannah is, and will he hold as a 
military post for future operations, it is proper 
to lay down certain general principles, that all 
may understand their duties and obligations. 
Ho then proceeds to state what may be permits 
tedfor the convenience and comfort of the people, 
In which are embraced all necessary privileges 
of a large com munity. The publication of news¬ 
papers is limited to two; the editors to be held 
to a strict accountability for libels and mischiev¬ 
ous articles of premature news, exaggerated 
statements, or any comments whatever on tbe acts 
of the authorities. 
Tbe Savannah Republican of Hie 29th ult. con¬ 
tains the proceedings of a public meeting, called 
by the Mayor and a large number of Influential 
citizens, to take into consideration matters re¬ 
lating to the present and future welfare of the 
city. Resolutions were adopted: 
Hirst. That we acceptthc position of the. surren¬ 
der of the citizens in the language of the Presl- 
dait of the United States, and seek to have peace 
by laying down our arms and submitting to tbe 
national authority under the Constitution, leav¬ 
ing all questions which remain to be adjusted by 
the peaceful means of legislative conference and 
votes. 
Second. That, laying aside all differences and 
burying by-gones, we will use our best endeavors 
to bring back tbe prosperity and commerce we 
once enjoyed. 
Third. We do not put ourselves in the posi¬ 
tion of a conquered city, asking terms of a con¬ 
queror, but claim tliq immunities and privi¬ 
leges contained in the Proclamation Message 
of the President, and all legislation in Con¬ 
gress in reference to any people situated as we 
are. 
Fourth. That we ask the Government to call a 
convention of the people, to say whether they 
wish the war continued. 
Fifth. That it is the unanimous desire of all 
present that Gen. Geary be continued ae Mili¬ 
tary Commander of this Post, and that for his 
urbanity and kindness he is entitled to our 
thanks. 
The Mayor, in the qourse of his address at the 
public meeting, says: 
Our city contains 20,000 inhabitants, without 
food, fuel or remunerative pursuits; without re¬ 
fuge, and cut off from all communication with 
the country. 
From the 8outh-west. 
The steamer Olive Branch from Now Orleans 
the 29th ult., arrived at. Cairo on the 5th Inst, 
She had on board the 19th and 22d regiments en 
route to Louisville to be mustered out. 
The transport Exact was reported in a sinking 
condition outside the bar at the mouth of the 
Mississippi river, having collided with another 
vessel off Tobasco. 
In the absence of our cavalry from Baton 
Rouge, tbe rebels were demonstrating against 
that place. A considerable force of them were 
concentrated at Clinton, Louisiana. 
A movement of troops was said to be going on 
at Memphis, the particulars of which has not 
transpired. 
The steamer Henry Ames from New Orleans 
the 31st nit., arrived at Cairo Jan. 7, with cotton 
for St. Louis. 
The steamship Creole from New York, had 
arrived at New Orleans. Also, the naval trans¬ 
port Union with $4,000,000 for the disbursing 
officere. 
Gen. Hurlburt has issued an order prohibiting 
officers from attending theaters, drinking sa¬ 
loons, billiard saloons, and other places of 
amusement on the Sabbath day, denouncing 
the habits as dishonorable to the profession, and 
the duties which soldiers owe themselves aud 
the country. , 
Col. Darts of the 18th La. cavalry haa been 
appointed Brigadier-General, and ordered to 
report to Gen. Canby. 
The Gunboat Gazelle had retaliated for the 
murder of her commander by burning tbe resi¬ 
dences of the rebels in t he vicinity of the place 
where Die bloody deed was committed. 
Gen. Ullman had sent au expedition against 
the rebels beyond the Atebafalaya, who lied as 
our troop6 came within “shooting distance." 
A Matamoras paper gives an account of the 
wreck of the steamer Rill at the mouth of the 
Rio Grande. Twenty two of the crew were 
drowned, and others were picked up on cotton 
bales by the French ftldp Carlittoue. 
The same paper also notices the destruction of 
600 bales of cotton belonging to merchants in 
Matamoras. Middling cotton was selling at 
Matamoras from 36 to 38 cents per pound. 
There was little inquiry lor cotton at New 
Orleau6. Flour was advancing slightly in price. 
From the West. 
The N. Y. Times has a special from Hunts¬ 
ville, Ala., which says the Tennessee, campaign 
ia ended. 
The last of Hood’s army crossed the Tennessee 
River on the 29th ult. with eight pieces of nrtil 
lery, and {ibonl. 18,000 men. 
lie left Macon, Ga., with 35,000 men and was 
re-enforced by 5,000, and had 110 pieces of artil¬ 
lery. After tho battle at J'Jushvillo both awnics 
floundered in fchc mud ten days. Hood’s rem¬ 
nant of artillery crawled off at night, and hie 
cavalry stubbornly resisting pursuit during the 
day. It is believed Hood has buried or thrown 
Tho yellow lever has entirely subsided at Gal¬ 
veston and Houston, (leu. Kirby Bmith’ft army 
wua in fine condition—well dotted, With plenty 
of provisions. 
Everything was quiet in the trims-Mississippi 
region, and there were no Yankees south of the 
rebel army. 
From Mobile, Jon. 5, the report is that there 
ia a Federal raid in progress south of Siuithere- 
Yille. 
