disappointment manifested 
among the valiant 
crews.] 
Admiral Porter, writing to the Navy Depart¬ 
ment, says Fort Fisher is larger and stronger 
than thefamons Malnkoff at. Sebastopol. 
The latest news lrom Fort Fisher is, that 
shortly after the surrender of the fort the rebels 
blew up I' ort Carroll and other minor works 
defending the entrance of Cape Fear River. 
The smaller gunboats had entered the river, 
and were actively engaged in searching for 
torpedoes, preparatory to an advance against 
Wilmington. 
Shortly after the capture of Fort Fisher a dia¬ 
gram containing a plan of the whole system 
of torpedo arrangements in Cape Fear River 
was discovered: and our naval officers worn 
P‘ c briefs Port Royal correspondent of the 
17th, says: 
Ere this letter reaches New York Sherman’s 
grand army will be on the move, and we will 
soon hear of the Stars and Stripes floating over 
more conquered rebel cities. 
A brother of General Hardee and others hav¬ 
ing made claim to the cotton In Savnnr.ni, 
General Sli 
NEWS PARAGRAPHS, 
Two thousand of the rebel pris 
mini have made applications to take 
allegiance—four hundred -within the 
days. 
In Bridgeport, Ct., a policeman 
in the vestibule of the Post Office, i 
pose of keeping cigar smokers and i 
ors out, 
Tcik Washington correspondent of 
held Republican intimates that ex¬ 
well, of Massachusetts, will be Mr. 
successor. 
In England a restriction is placed 
companies by law, so that if the di 
eeed a certain per centngc, the snrp 
the government. 
A Connecticut man has invent* 
which is simpler in its mechanism tin 
watches, and will run three hundred n 
Advertisements 
ermangave them a written replv i 
which he said the cotton ought logo Into* th 
I lands of the General Government, which b 
said, conhl never be indemnified for the liloo 
and treasure required to nclaim possession c 
Savannah. Ibis was his opinion, still the 
might go to Washington aid have his dccisioi 
reversed. 
1 lie Time's Savannah correspondent of th 
17th, says: 
At this writing the left wing of Sherman’, 
army is moving from 8avan iah on a line whicl 
the enemy may ascertain fo: himself. 
It is thought the enemy u ay make a stand at 
Ashepo, SO miles sonth of (Weston, and iher 
tall back on that city’. Ti 
or stamina to stand again- 
cent army. 
The Petersburg L'xjtre ** 
completely mud-bound, ai 
cessant drilling. 
Mosby’s guerrillas have 
the Baltimore ftud Ohio railroad again near Duf- 
J, S ® tatiofl i .and threw a freight train oft. 
The engineer was robbed of his money and valu¬ 
ables, and one or two cure broken into, when 
lie rebels, numbering from tW to four hundred 
decamped, disappointed that it was not a pas¬ 
senger train with plunder mire to their taste. 
From the West. 
Wn have but little news from the West this 
week of a military nature. 
Forty guerrillas under Pratt and McGregor a 
consolidation of several bands, at three o’clock 
- . M., the 17t.h, made a dash into Bardetown 
Ky., lor the purpose of securing one of theirmeu 
John Robinson, confined In jail at that place ’ 
Bardstown is garrisoned by a detachment 
ol federal soldiers, under dpt. G. W. NichoD 
The guerrillas set the depot on fire and it was 
burned totbeground. The body of Mr. Sunbury 
was consumed with it. The guerrillas and Fed¬ 
eral had a heavy fight. 
Captain Pruttand Pat, Bud,LieutenantMundy 
and Mason, were killed, and several others 
wounded. 
The guerrillas 
®onbcnscr 
Opr flag on the land, onr flag on the ocean. 
An angel of Peace wherever it goes; 
Nobly sustained by Columbia's devotion, 
The angel of Death it shall be to our foes. 
True to its native sky, 
Still shall oar Eagle fly, 
Casting his sentinel glances alar: — 
Tho' bearing the olive branch 
Still in bis talons staunch. 
Grasping the bolts of the thunders of war. 
— The Ohio Rver rose Id feet in 7S 
Gen. McClellan’s Incomo last ye 
— The small pox is raging tearful!; 
— Ground has been broken at St. J 
honse. 
Ohio oil is said to l»e double the 
vania oil. 
— Geo. Michael Hahn has been elei 
Louisiana. 
— Cincinnati mannfactnn 
in a month. 
— The export of petrolcu 
388.409 gallons. 
— The Superintendent of 
deficit of $ 200,000 
value of Pennsyl 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., JANUARY 28, 1865, 
ays Grant’8 army is 
'is occupied within 
wdehs 4 ’ °‘ Lc " ox - - has an ox that 
^ j wT r“ ■ “ nd siris 7 fcct 8 
welt 4 ™ ' °', U “ one that 
weighs 4,000 pound*, and measures 7 feet 0 
inches. 
ENGT.ANDhus recognized the Dominicans, thus 
pacing our dark friends in San Domingo on a 
wJ ot V ight f ' iends in th0 Southern 
associ tlto?’ T10 nlil’nlry willjgrowl over Ihe 
It is stated that a bill ia to be introduced at 
ic next session of parliament to give criminals 
the option ot heing-placcd In the witness-box. 
,, 8 n ) Ca8nre has lon £ been advocated by Lord 
Public Printing reports a 
advance of prices. ,PP ™ P "“ I “ »*■»* t« 
.d 7 Jl, 7 S mail “ b “ »” p “ 8 - 
coLtZl, l ,T K ’" 10 b0 ,omci “ GrM “ »“» 
■ “T.™ B ”“" 1 “ m "" d » r “» 
el^cd en f«d,ll“° '■*» b««n re 
, ~“ m,i lo b«™ made $S0,000 
in stock speculations. 
— I orter Palmer pays the heaviest tax in Chicago 
flis income is $833,488. h 
— Artemas Ward is paid a salary of $17,000 a year 
to exhibit his “show.” 
— It is said Gen. Grant is soon to remove his liead- 
qnartcrs to Washington. 
- _MS ' Sa,keltof Middle bury, Vt„ recently sold 
a** 
::WlLMtM, 1.0 S 
Jp'-yt. yio-UnW 
jfbefi At-Er.i 
Nf tv INLET 
two ram lambs for $3,000. 
flhe rebel Gen, Whiting, capt 
ta a native of Hartford, Conn. 
— Gen. Terry is unmarried, a ti 
height, and straight as an arrow. 
— Pierre Soule is in Richmond, on a mission to the 
Confederate States from Mexico. 
— Water from the River Jordan is kept for sale in a 
Purls shop for baptismal purposes. 
— J. H. Clint, one of the directors of the Quebec 
Ttanle tti>« /Vv!i ,.1 r ... ^ 
furiously routed and 
The pui-suit was con- 
a stop to further pro- 
ISLAND 
Hopkins, of Vermont, being the 
urviving Bishop, will succeed Bishop 
as presiding Bishop of the United 
Assistant Bishop John Williams will 
him as Bishop of the Diocese of Con- 
' Yorker who had made a fortune in 
bilious, put $10,000 in his pocket the 
- Henry Ward Beecher's salary is $!2,00ftperannum. 
Ilia dither got $-100 in Litchfield, Conn. 
’ rl *T 8tn '" t,r is likely to disfranchise 
tlioeo who Bkndadle to OHi-iipc the draft. 
K-Ii Th L C ° niIUiSSi0nCr of In,urnal Bovenuc has for¬ 
bidden the publication of income lists. 
- There are eight Street railways in Now York city 
wiMi an aggregate capital of $10,330,000. 
- A lady at a ball in Prussia fainted becanse of the 
areonle m her hair and dress trimmings. 
- The widow of He Tocquevllle died at Viloime? 
France, tho 23d of Dec, last, agcn3G ’ 
/)vices from New OrI<*r/t l of the 14th inst. 
state that the hull of (he gVinboat Indianola' 
sunk In Hie Lower Mississippi by the rebels two 
years ago, has been raised and found in excellent 
condition. She will be re bnilt. 
The rebel Gen. nodge, who commands Die 
District of Mississippi and East Louisiana, has 
established his headquarters at Woodvillo and 
begun a most vigorous rule. He has levied a 
lax of $10 per bale on all cotton taken to tfic 
bank of the Mississippi river. 
I be expedition under Col. Braman, which left 
Vidalia on the 11th for a raid through Concordia 
Parish, has returned with several prisoners and 
170 head of cattle. They also bring up several 
bands of guerrillas. 
A gunboat recently made a rcconnolsftanee up 
Red Riveras far as the Black River. 
MAP OP WJLMtNOTON liAUBOR, IX. C. 
[Wilmington is Die capital of New Hanover 
county, situated on the left, bank of the N. E. 
branch of Cape Fear river, 84 miles from Die sea. 
It contained, in I860, a population, of 9,553, is 
in io oo, a population oi y,553, is 
the largest and principal commercial town of 
the State, and is the terminus of the Weldon and 
Wilmington and Manchester railroads, connect¬ 
ing with oDier lines north and south.] 
On the night of the 18th, live blockade run¬ 
ners ran into Old inlet, N. C., and 
Wred by the fleet. Their names wer 
tained. 
On the night of the 14th, Die 17th 
years. 
- a sou them paper says there were 150,000 bales of 
cotton In Savannah when Sherman entered it. 
- There rumors of a matrimonial alliance between 
Mrs. Stephen A. Douglas anil Speaker ColGix of Ind. 
- A Brooklyn pastor has realized $300,000 as the 
result of a little investment in the petroleum region. 
- In one short street in Pittafleld, Mass., there are 
nineteen marriageable young ladies, and not an offer. 
- The number of letters mailed in Great Britain 1ms 
increased from 70,000,000 In 1839 to Mo,000 ,000 in 1864. 
- It is said tho peaches arc killed in Northern Indi¬ 
ana anil Southern Michigan, except on Die lake shore. 
1 lie navaJ ,0rce was under the same noble and 
tried commander who made the attempt last 
month. Rear Admiral D. D. Porter. The land 
expedition was commanded by Major General 
Albert IT. Terry of Connecticut. 
The importance of this victory cannot be over¬ 
estimated. The port of Wilmington has been 
Die greatest outlet and inlet to blockade run¬ 
ners in the whole South since the ports were 
blockaded,—and it has been the only port where 
they could operate successfully for a long time. 
But with the sealing up of this rebel stronghold, 
Vhq foreign interference in maratime affairs will 
corps and 
the troops commanded by Gen. Hatch, advanced 
on the Pocotaligo bridge, on the Charleston and 
Savannah railroad, and captured it, together 
with the fortifications and twelve guns, losing 
in the charge forty men, killed and wounded. 
The guns were spiked. The enemy evacuated 
during thenightand fell back to Ashepo, towards 
Charleston. It was thought the enemy would 
make a stand at that, point. 
The monitor Patapeco was destroyed off 
Charleston at 2 A. M. on the 14Di, while doin«- 
picket duty. Forty or fifty of the crew went 
down with her. Their names were not ascer¬ 
tained. 
The Savannah Daily Herald , formerly the Port 
Royal Palmetto Herald , of the 14th, has the fol- 
- .vsvr UJ CUMPU 
futing: hprsc hair for cotton in their church pev 
cushions. * 
V tvJT. MftCC propo * eB t0fl ght Cobum in Canada for $20 
000 In gold, and lias sent the magnificent sum of $‘3 
e towards it. 
- There are 18,511 houses in Boston worth ovei 
$48,000,000. The total value of land in Boston is ovei 
, $ 100 , 000 , 000 . 
— The oil region of Santa Barbara, Cal., is said to 
f cover an area of 18,000 acres on which there are 20 
natural wells, 
— St. Albaus, Vermont, Isn't a large place, but it 
l •«>» one hundred ruin shops, and there are raids upon 
them every day. 
— I he tomb of John Banyan has been desecrated, 
anil the recumbent statue of the immortal dreamer 
ruthlessly mutilated. 
- Seldon C. Carey, the editor of theAViuona (Minn.) 
Republican, was drowned in an air hole in the Missis¬ 
sippi a few days since. 
— A proposition Is before the Missouri legislature 
to enlarge the limits <>r St, Louis from fourteen to 
forty-two square miles. 
— It is a curious fact that exactly the same numbe.i 
of persons committed suicide in Massachusetts in 1803 
as during the year 1861. 
— California papers publish " Births,” “Marriages,” 
“Divorces" anil "Deaths ’’ in regular order. This ’is 
systematizing the thing. 
— Aifon/.o Donu has been appointed door-keeper at 
Die President's house, in place of Thomas Burns, dis¬ 
missed by Mrs. Lincoln, 
— Secretary Fessenden 1ms asked for a modification 
of the law so as to enable him to issue two hundred 
millions more 7.30 bonds. 
— Major-Gen. John Palmer was recently tried In Ill. 
for violating Its black laws by bringing a negro into 
the State, and wus acquitted. 
— A widow writes to the Richmond Sentinel that 
her Income is $1,300 and her taxes $1,864, and wants 
to know ivhut will clothe her-? 
— The protracted trial of the libel suit of ex Mayor 
Opdyke of New York, against Thurlow AVeed has 
closed. The jury failed to agree. 
disagreeable situation,-the munitions oi wai¬ 
ns well as many of the necessaries of life, must 
be procured from some other source than by way 
of Nassau. The qucsUon where the rebels will 
get their supplies in stub quantities as to carry 
on much longer a war with our government, 
18 uot e«py answered. The matter of Supplies 
however, is not the only trouble the enemy have 
had brought upon them by the capture of Fort 
Fisher. 
H ilmington most soon surrender and become 
another important base of operations. With 
Sukkman hampering the rebels in Georgia and 
South Carolina, Grant in Virginia and Thomas 
in Tennessee, we must confess (and the rebels 
confess it themselves,) Dial the cause of the 
Confederacy is iu the most, deplorable con¬ 
dition that it has been in since tlic war began. 
[Davis has again appointed a day of humiliation 
the 22d of February.] The military skies never 
have worn a more cheerful aspect for our glori¬ 
ous Union Dian at preseut, and we do expect 
before long to bo enabled to chronicle such a 
crushing blow to the enemies of our country 
as to render all further efforts which they may 
make toward a separation, the most absurd folly 
that lias ever yet characterized a people pos¬ 
sessed with an ordinary amount of common 
sense. 
Wc learn that five blockade runners cleared at 
Nassau on the 28th nit. for AVilmington, and six 
arrived at Nassau on the 0th and 7th inst, from 
that place with cargoes of cotton, and seven 
cleared for Wilmington on the 14th, 
[It is more than probable that when those ves¬ 
sels arrive at Wilmington there will be some 
lowing items: 
A preliminary meeting of the Chamber 
Commerce took place on the 14th. 
The Christian Commission opened rooms a 
Bay street The institution is in great fa 
with the soldiers. 
Passengers from Savannah, report that 
best order is maintained in the city, and but 1 
soldiers arc visible iu the streets. Trade is 11 
ited, the prices being regulated by law. 
Il Is said there is not as much suffering 
Savannah as reported, for the reason that wL 
Hardee evacuated the city, and before Gene 
Sherman took possession, they entered t 
stores aud supplied themselves with rr,wt i 
Appropriation Bills, 
Gen. Butler lias turned over to his successor 
$500,000, the proceeds of taxes 
on sutlers and 
traders. 
The Secretary oi the Treasury gives notice 
that no permits to trade with Savanuah will be 
given (except for military purposes) until the 
1 resident opens the port to commerce by proc¬ 
lamation. 
A man who enlists for three years Is to be cred¬ 
ited to his district the same as three men who 
enlist lor one year. 
