been in insurrection until it lias been an¬ 
nounced by Presidential Proclamation that armed 
hostilities have ceased and a Republican Consti¬ 
tution has been adopted and approved by Con¬ 
gress, 
A. H. Stephens, Vice President of the South¬ 
ern Confederacy, R. M. T. Hunter, and Jos. A. 
Campbell, left Richmond for Washington on the 
31st ult., to sec what could be done in t.he matter 
of a Peace Convention. They were met at For¬ 
tress Monroe by the President and Secretary 
Seward. A conference was held of several 
hours’ duration, but what was done has not yet 
transpired. The three rebel gentlemen were 
volunteer commissioners with the approval of 
Jeff. Davis, hut without credentials. 
While the depot, was burning they robbed the 
stores and everybody they met of watches and 
money aud then started down the Versailles 
pike at lull speed. It is reported that the gang 
was led by Quantrcll, La Mnndy and Mag ruder, 
and that they had just previously been driven 
away from Georgetown by the Federal forces. 
A dispatch from Louisville, of Feb. 6, says 
Litchfield was visited a lew days since by Wil¬ 
liams’ gang of guerrillas, and the next morning 
by seventy or eighty of Quantrel’s mounted men. 
They appropriated to their own use boots, shoes 
and whisky, aud then left without doing further 
damage. 
From Cairo of the 3d iust., we learn that 
large quantities of cotton are arriving at that 
place-, much of it consigned to Cincinnati. 
Twelve hundred and fifty bales came up on one 
steamer. 
A dispatch from St Louis of Feb. 4, says that 
Maj. Gen. John Pope arrived there that day, and 
that he is to command the North-western De¬ 
partment. Gen. Cnrtis is to be transferred to 
the North Department, with his headquarters 
at St. Paul, Minn. 
A dispatch from Omaha. 2d inst, says a large 
number of Indiaus have been hovering round 
Jewelsburg for several days; but the garrison is 
too small to attack them. They attacked the 
fort and burned the telegraph office and stage 
company’s warehouse containing a large quan¬ 
tity of corn, hay, &c. The station, consisting of 
several warehouses and buildings, was reduced 
to ashes. A considerable amount of telegraph 
supplies were also destroyed. 
An entire train was captured west of Fort 
Laramie within a week One man was killed. 
The telegraph being down, the particulars of 
the attack on the fort at Jewelsburg are not 
yet known. 
From the South-west. 
New Orleans advices of the 27th ult.., say: 
In accordance with Gov. Hahn's proclamation, 
the'26th was observed throughout the State- as a 
day of festivity in honor of the emancipation 
acts of Missouri and Tennessee. Forty thou¬ 
sand persons outside of the city of New Orleans 
celebrated the day. 
The news of the capture of Fort Fisher was 
received in New Orleans the previous evening, 
and gave increased spirit to the enjoyment of 
the occasion. 
The courts adjourned; the streets were 
thronged with white and black people ; public 
aud private buildings were draped with national 
flags; the military schools and numerous socie¬ 
ties of colored people were in the procession; 
speeches were made by Gov. Hahn and several 
officers of the State and General Governments, 
and by colored orators. 
A salute of 100 guns was fired, and the city 
was brilliantly illuminated at night. 
Advices of the 2Sth, say that Admiral Lee and 
staff had arrived at New Orleans. 
An expedition, 15,000 strong, was reported to 
be fitting out at New Orleans destined to operate 
against Mobile. 
In a late rebel raid on plantations in the 
neighborhood of Concordia Lake, La., nearly 
everything of value was destroyed or carried off. 
Rebel deserters from Mobile, who recently 
reached the Union fleet in the bay, stated that it 
was the general belief that the city would soon 
be evacuated without waiting for the advance 
from Pascagoula of Gen. Granger, whose force 
they represent as having been increased to 25,- 
000 men. 
The Paducah correspondent of the St. Louis 
Democrat of a recent date, 6ays that the rebel 
Gen. Chalmers, in a speech at Corinth. Miss., in 
the early part of Jan nary, accused General Hood 
of selling him out, and expressed the opinion 
that the Confederacy had gone under; told his 
men that they could do as they pleased; he 
Gen. Grant, it is reported, has made arrange¬ 
ments with the rebels to exchange 3,000 pris¬ 
oners a month. 
We have but little news “from the South” 
this week. 
Ulst of New Advertisements 
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Tolmcco Reed .1 B Bishop. 
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tained on or before Feb. 1st, and for the first lists of 
specified numbers (fifty of 30 each, seventy-five of 20, 
etc.,) were issued iate, and bealde tnuuy persons wbo 
have obtained large clubs, preferred to take extra copies 
instead of competing for premiums. Wu therefore find 
that many of the Specific Premiums are not yet taken, 
and have concluded to extend the time for both Large 
PrUos and the others (Specific) uot yet woo, until March 
1st. I,et it be understood that all remittances mailed on 
or before the 1st day of March will apply on the Large 
Prizes, and the remaining Specific Premiums will be paid 
as fast aa persons become entitled to them, fST As no 
agent has been advised as to the state of the competition, 
(as to his or her chances,) or will bo before March, none 
of our friends cun reasonably complain of this necessary 
extension of time. We hope each and all will continue 
their efforts With vigor and energy', resolved that the 
Rural Bkigade of 11165 shall largely exceed in numbers 
that of last year—thus fulfilling present indications. 
AFFAIRS AT WASHINGTON 
The most important transaction of the age took 
place at the National Capitol on Tuesday last, 
the 31st ult. It was the passage in the House, of 
Representatives of a Resolution submitting an 
amendment of the Constitution of the United 
States to the Legislatures of the different States 
to forever abolish Slavery throughout the entire 
land. The Constitution provides that an amend¬ 
ment mast first pass both Houses of Congress 
by a majority of two-thirds of all the members 
of each House, aud then before it becomes a 
part of that instrument, three-fourths of the 
Legislatures of the several States must ratify the 
same. 
The amendment was passed by the Senate on 
tbe 8th day of last April by 38 yeas to 6 nays. It 
reads thus: 
Be it Resolved , By the Senate and House of Rep¬ 
resentatives of the United States of America, 
in Congress assembled, two-thirds of both 
Houses concurring, that the following article bo 
proposed to (lie Legislatures of the several States 
as an amendment to the Constitution of the 
United States, which, when ratified by three- 
fonrths of said Legislatures, shall he valid to all 
intents and purposes as part of the said Consti¬ 
tution, namely: 
Aut. XIII—Section 1, —Neither slavery nor in¬ 
voluntary servilude, except ns a punishment, 
for crime, whereof the party shall have been 
duly convicted, shall exist in the United States, 
or any place subject to their jurisdiction. 
Section 2. — Congress shall have power to 
enforce this article by appropriate legislation. 
On the loth of .Tune the House passed upon 
the resolution with the following result:—yeas 
95, nays G4 — not two - thirds. The vote of 
the House in June last, when the amendment 
was lost, was reconsidered - thus bringing the 
matter again before that body in u shape for 
the action which lias been taken. 
Tbe result of the vote on ita passage, was 119 
in the utllrmative and 5G in the negative—a ma¬ 
jority of two-thirds, and three votes over—184 
yotc6 being tJic whole number of the Houso. 
It requires the assent of twenty-seven of the 
thirty-six Stales to make the amendment a part, 
of the Constitution. There arc twenty-five 
loyal and eleven rebel 8tates: it is expected that 
all the loyal Slates will give in their affirmation, 
and that several of the rebel States will do the 
same. Men of intelligence seem to think that 
there is no doubt that the amendment will be rat¬ 
ified by the requisite number of States. Illinois, 
Rhode Island, Michigan, Maryland, West Vir¬ 
ginia, Massachusetts, New York and Pennsyl¬ 
vania have already ratified it,,] 
A negro was Adrjdltcd t o practice in the Su¬ 
preme Court of tie 1 /United States on the first 
inst. lie was from it-assachusctte, and a practi¬ 
tioner in the Supreme Court of that State. 
Senator Sumner brought him in and moved 
his admission. Chief Justice Chase quietly as¬ 
sented, and directed the Clerk to administer the 
necessary oath, and the whole ceremony that 
marked the practical reversal of the Dred Scott 
decision, by the same tribunal that had pro¬ 
nounced it, was over In three minutes. Judges 
Nelson, Wayne and Grier, who united in render¬ 
ing the Dred Scott decision, were on the bench, 
but made no objection. The negro admitted is 
a tall black. 
President Lincoln has ordered that the quota 
of the State of New York on the last call for 
300,000 men be reduced twenty-live per cent. 
The Supreme Court decided on the 31st ult., 
that the United States bonds used as bank capital 
are not taxable. 
A bill has passed the House of Representa¬ 
tives to construct a Ship Canal around Niagara 
Falls. 
The President’s son Robert, is to go into the 
army as aid to Gen. Grant, with the rank of Cap¬ 
tain, without pay. 
Brig.Gen. Geo. G. Meade, has been confirmed 
by tbe Senate us Major General in the regular 
army, his commission to date from the 17th of 
August last. 
Mr. Sumner has introduced a resolution in the 
Senate determining what number of States shall 
be considered as constituting the three-fourths 
required by the Constitution to ratify the pending 
amendment — declaring, In substance, that no 
States arc to be regarded as in the Union, or 
entitled to the privilege of being counted in on 
such a question ub the. amendment, unless they are 
represented in Congress and contribute to the 
support of the Government. 
The adoption of this resolution as a rule of 
kctlon w ould reduce the number of States to be 
counted from 36 to 25, and would reduce the 
number required for the ratification by three- 
fourths from 27 to 19. This would insure its 
prompt ratification. 
The position taken by Mr. Sumner would 
seem to be in accordance with that which Con¬ 
gress lias already assumed on the question of 
what constitutes a two-third vote, and, if adopt¬ 
ed, would place the status of the seceded States 
on a definite basis, and one highly desirable for 
the United State* In the settlement of future 
complications. The whole question is of the 
gravest importance, and Its solution in some way 
cannot be much longer postponed. 
A joint resolution has passed both Houses of 
Congress, which declares that the eleven States 
in rebellion shall have no voice in the late Presi¬ 
dential election. 
Representative Wilson, of Iowa, Chairman of 
the House Judiciary Committee, has introduced 
a bill to establish the supremacy of the Consti¬ 
tution in insurrectionary States, declaring that 
hereafter no Representatives or Senators shall 
be elected to Congress in any State which has 
SPECIAL NOTICES. 
Brown’s Bronchial Troches. 
NEWS PARAGRAPHS. 
®I)C News €0nkn0a* 
The wholesale price of coal at Elmira is $8,- 
85, for large egg; $S,15 for sipall egg, and 
$9,55 for stove. The retail price delivered, is 
$11,50. 
Lieut. Gen. Scott, in good health and spir¬ 
its, was present at one of Mr. Racket's Shaks- 
peare monument entertainments in New York 
last week. 
Alice Dutton, a “child pianist,” and pupil 
Of Mr. Lang, the organist, is attracting much 
attention in Boston. At a concert there she 
recently played the music of Chopin and Schu¬ 
bert. 
Tun members of the press of New Haven 
were to give a grand fancy dress ball ou Tuesday 
eveuing, the 7th inst. Anticipations of a good 
time were largely indulged among the invited 
guests. 
Mb. Frank Lawkk’s letters from Richmond 
to the London Times are so often intercepted, 
that each one published is said to cost the pro¬ 
prietors of the Times one hundred aud fifty 
pounds. 
A correspondent with General Sherman’s 
army on ita new march, asserts that a floor with 
wet overcoats for eoverlidsand a log for apillow 
can be called a bed. This is a question for a 
debating society. 
I 
Governor Andrew, of Mass., has commis¬ 
sioned three negro Sergeants, who were given 
medals for gallant conduct in storming Fort Wag¬ 
ner, and whom Gen. Foster recommended for 
Second Lieutenants. 
Seventy-two degrees of Doctor of Divinity 
have been conferred by American Colleges upon 
clergymen in the United States, and twenty-nine 
degrees of Doctor of Laws upon various individ¬ 
uals, during the past year. 
The House Military Committee directed their 
chairman to report a bill to increase the pay of 
officers of the army. It provides for an increase 
of twenty-five per cent, on the pay of all officers 
below the rank of Brigadier General. 
A ladies’ fair was held in Honoluln, Nov. 
8tli, for the benefit of the United Stales Sani¬ 
tary Commission. It produced the net sum of 
$5,500. Nearly $13,000 have been raised on the 
island during the past three years for the same 
object. 
The Fort Fisher success is still declaring divi¬ 
dends in the shape of fat prizes, the heavily 
laden blockade runners still blunderiug right in 
under our guns, not having received the news of 
change of holders of the mouth of the Cape 
Fear River. 
Max STRAsoscn arrived at New York on Sat¬ 
urday by the Cuba, bringing with him Mille Hel¬ 
ena de Katova, a Russian violinist, and James 
M. Wehll, pianist, artists of European reputation, 
with whom he purposes to make a concert tour 
of tills country. 
In the beginning of the month of September 
last Sheridan was simply a captain in the 13th 
infantry; twenty days later be became a Brigadier, 
and in less than two months’ time a Major Gen¬ 
eral in the regular army. Such are the rewards 
of gallantry and skill. 
The people of Memphis arc in consternation 
on account of a report that the rebel General 
Forrest is concentrating at Houston, Mississippi, 
for his long threatened raid against that city. 
He has eight thousand men with him and is 
organizing negro soldiers, 
A very disastrous lire occurred in Buffalo 
on Wednesday morning last. A large block of 
buildings, including the American Hotel, were 
entirely consumed. The 1088 Is estimated from 
$600,000 to $750,000. Three firemen lost their 
lives while in the discharge of their duties. 
Titb Richmond Dispatch of January 24th, 
says“ The downward tendency of gold is en¬ 
couraging. Private sales were made on yester¬ 
day at $158 for $1, a fall of more than a hun¬ 
dred per cent, in less then a week.” This is 
rather a large jump, even with us wide a margin. 
White passengers on the Philadelphia street 
ears are voting on the question whether negroes 
Shall be allowed to ride in the same conveyances. 
The N. Y. Tribune suggests that after the vote is 
polled the negroes proceed to pans upon the 
question whether the whites shall bo allowed the 
same privilege. 
Tub Boston Advertiser, in an article upon the 
prisoners at Fort Warren, says it is understood 
that an order has been received for the dis¬ 
charge of the crew of the Florida, with the con¬ 
dition that they shall leave the country in ton 
days, f We learn by telegraph that the prisoners 
have been set at liberty—that they have left for 
Canada on board a British steamer.] 
Mr. 8. Drake, an uelor of Cincinnati, arid 
one of the stock company now performing at 
Pike’s Opera House in that city, inherited from 
his grandfather a tract of land In Virginia, 
hitherto supposed to be worthless. A few days 
ago he received a letter from a prospecting com¬ 
pany, who have found oil on his premises, offer¬ 
ing him the snug little sum of $270,000 cash for 
liis land. 
— The poet Tennyson is to be made a baronet. 
— The national banks will soon issue $t notes, 
— They have a “ Ilomc for aged men ” in Boston. 
— Iowa has filled her quota under the pending call. 
— The Texas “northers ” travel from 30 to SI miles 
per hour. 
— President Nott, of Union College is in a bad state 
of health. 
— There are five million native Germans in the Uni¬ 
ted States. 
— Three millions of eggs were Imported into Eng¬ 
land last year. 
— The Philadelphia Evening Bulletin has been sold 
at auction for $89,000. 
— The number of New York officers now in the field 
amounts to abont 10,000. 
— Gen. McClellan’s friends gave him $30,000 in gold 
before he sailed for Europe. 
— The oldest Boston pilot died last. week. Hisnamo 
was Wilson, and he was born in 1778. 
— Counterfeit 9s on the Wurrcn bank aud 10s on the 
State bank, Providence R. I„ are ont. 
— In Pennsylvania there are 18,000 public schools, 
with 10,000 teachers and 709,000 pupils. 
— The new three cent fractional currency has been 
issued by die Secretary or the Treasury. 
— Mrs. Gen. Lander (formerly Mies Davenport) re¬ 
turns to the stage in New York next month. 
— Since 1859, the French government has expended 
$45,000,000 upon public Improvements in Paris. 
— A turkey was exposed for sale in the Petersburg 
market, on the 8tb inst., at the small figure of $112. 
— The proposed tax on ladies corsets is objected to 
on the ground that it would diminish consumption. 
— A public lecturer in England has solected the cu¬ 
rious title and subject oP'Old Women of both sexes.” 
— A gentleman in Pittsfield, Mass., is said to have 
spent $20,000 recently celebrating his sliver wedding. 
— Major General John E. Wool is falling somewhat 
in health, and is engaged in writing his autobiogra¬ 
phy. 
— On the JSth of January the thermometer at Chip¬ 
pewa Fulls, Wisconsin, was thirty-eight degrees below 
zero. 
— Senator Sprague of Rhode Island has bought him 
a new horse—Dutch Girl, a ten thousand dollar gray- 
mare. 
— A home for destitute children, simi lar to that at 
the Five Points in New York city, is proposed at 
Boston. 
— The colored men of New Orleans own $15,000,000 
worth of real estate, and own, print and edit a daily 
paper there. 
— The State debt of Vermont is $1,642,815, and the 
valuation of the State according to the last census is 
$122,477,170. 
— Anson Goodwin of Ashtieid, has raised the past 
Bcaeon two bushels of Albany blue potatos from one 
single potato. 
— A Connecticut man has invented a watch which 
will run three, hundred and seventy-eight days with 
once winding. 
— A pine tree was recently cut in Lyman, Me., that 
was seven feet, through at the stump, and made 3,000 
feet of lumber. 
— Counterfeit 5s on the Eastern Bank, Bangor, are 
again in circulation. The genuine bills have checked 
backs in green. 
— False back hair of a golden hue lias been selling 
in Puris at $10 a back knot; with small diamonds 
studded, tit $400. 
— The raising of ostriches for tho sake of their 
feathers is to bo attempted by English capitalists at 
Cape Good Hope. 
— The German papers announce tho resignation by 
the celebrated chemist Liebig of his chair in the Uni¬ 
versity of Munich. 
— Miss Ifoemer’a statue of Zcnobia now on exhi¬ 
bition at Boston, lias been visited by 9,000 persons in 
the past two weeks. 
— The number of divorces in New York city is said 
to have increased twenty-two and one-half per cent, 
during the past year. 
— Tho Colorado river is navigable GOO miles above 
its month. It is proposed to establish a depot there 
for the Suit Lake trade. 
— They are getting beach clams at Newport which 
weigh four pounds and five pounds each. One ts a 
mess for a largo family. 
— It is said that Edwin Forrest has built a private 
theatre in Philadelphia, where poor boys and girls may 
be educated to the stage. 
— Two hundred and twelve babies were born in 
Northampton, Mass., last year; an increase of twelve 
over the preceding year. 
— Earnest offer Is are about being made in Spain for 
the abolition of slavery in her colonies. In Madrid an 
anti-slavery society lias been formed. 
— Tho railroads lu the loyal States, as reported in 
the Railroad Journal, have a length of 25,372 miles, 
constructed at a cost of $1,050,356,407. 
— A man in Bristol recently mixed ratsbane in his 
meal tub to kill rats, and in the night u horse worth 
$300 got loose, ato some, and soon died. 
— The case of a contested grindstone, worth $6, has 
been decided in tho Superior Court at Hartford, and 
the expenses of the suit are $300 or $400. 
— Since the breaking ont of tho war the Adjutant 
General's office of New York has Issued no loss than 
30,000 commissions to officers in the army. 
— The returns of internal revenue taxes for the last 
fiscal year show that New York paid $16,851,113 01: 
Massachusetts, $ 8 , 277,368 02; Illinois, $8,389,496 02. 
Our flag on tie land, our flag on the ocean. 
An angel of Peace wherever it goes; 
Nobly sustained by Columbia's devotion, 
The angel of Death it 6hnll be to our foes. 
Truo to its native sky, 
Still 6hall oar Eagle fly. 
Casting his sentinel glances afar: — 
Tho’ bearing the olive branch 
Still in his talons staunch, 
Grasping the bolts of the thunders of war. 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., FEBRUARY 11, 1865. 
Front the West. 
The N. Y. Herald’s St. Louis dispatch says 
a fight recently took place at Dardauelle, Ark,, 
in which, it is reported, Shelby was whipped and 
obliged to evacuate the place. 
The Herald’s Eastport correspondent of the 
24th of January, says a reconnoissance from 
General Thomas’ army at Eastport, Miss., 
showed that the main portion of Hood’s force 
'was, on the 20th nit., at Tupelo. On the 
appearance of the main troops before Corinth, 
some four hundred rebels stationed there evacu¬ 
ated, after buruiug the railroad depot and the 
Tishomingo House. Between thirty and forty 
of them were captured. 
An order has been issued by the military 
authorities of Missouri for the banishment from 
that State of the wives and children of all men 
in the rebel military service. 
We learn from St. Louis, Feb. 1, that after 
three days of spirited debate in Committee of 
the Whole, the Convention adopted the third 
section of the State Constitution, defining the 
qualifications of voters. The section takes a 
wide range, and amoDg others embraces the fol¬ 
lowing provisions: 
“No person shall be deemed a qualified voter 
who has been in armed hostility to the United 
States after the 31 st of July, 1861, to this 
date, or who has ever given aid, comfort, coun¬ 
tenance and support to the persons engaged in 
such hostility or disloyalty, communicated with 
them, advised or aided persons to join them, 
manifested adherence to them, or expressed 
hope for the triumph of their cause over the 
arms of the United States, or has ever, except 
under overpowering compulsion, submitted to 
the authority or been in the service of the so 
called Confederacy, or been connected with any 
society inimical to the Government of the 
United States, or this State, after July 1, 1861, 
or been a guerrilla or bushwhacker, or who has 
harbored such, or who has left the State to avoid 
the draft, or who has not enrolled himself, or 
who has, after having exercised the elective 
franchise of this State, tinder the claim of 
alienage, obtained exemption from military ser¬ 
vice.” 
The fourth flection provides for the registra¬ 
tion of voters throughout the State. 
N. B. Davis, identified at Newark, Ohio, a 
short time since as the keeper of the Anderson- 
villo (Ga.) military prison, and who confessed 
ou his arrest of being the hearer of dispatches 
from Richmond to Canada, has been sentenced 
to be hung ou Johnson’s Island on the 17th of 
this month. 
Ludiug, a notorious guerrilla, was caught and 
executed the 30th ult.. by Capt. Tersell of the 
Union Guards, a few miles from Bloomfield, Ky. 
In the afternoon, Capt. TcrselJ had a fight 
with the guerrillas, and dangerously wounded a 
guerrilla chief named Colter. Another promi¬ 
nent rebel named Berry, was killed, 
Chattanooga advices of Jan. 30, say that Col. 
Sansom, N. Y. 68th infantry, In command of his 
regiment and a portion of the 18th colored regi¬ 
ment, has returned to Bridgeport from an expe¬ 
dition on Town Creek, 12 miles from Ransom 
Landing, where he surprised a guerrilla band, 
killing and wounding eight, aud capturing four, 
with thirty-three horses and their equipments. 
Lieut. Morton, 18th colored regiment, was 
killed —the only loss sustained by Saneom. 
The guerrillas at Athens the 29th, captured 
and murdered Muj. Devine of the Federal 
troops. 
Col. Grover of Steadman’s command, has 
driven the guerrillas out of McMinn county. 
We learn from Louisville, Feb. 3, that the 
evening previous, twenty-six guerrillas dashed 
into Midway, and burned the railroad depot and 
contents, including the telegraph office. 
sent a message to a personal fricndBPhe Union 
army, stating that he had lost alWaifh in the 
rebel leaders, and wished to surrender himself 
to Lhe Union commander. He is now waiting 
near Coriuth to ascertain what terms can be 
offered loan officer ofhis rank voluntarily return¬ 
ing to his allegiance. 
The noted Gen. Rhoddy is al 60 said to have 
applied for pardon. 
The N. Y. Herald’s dispatches from General 
Thomas’ army ft day or two since, say deserters 
report the remnant of Hood's army at Tuscurn- 
bia, Ala., and that Gen. Ripley had relieved 
Hood in command. 
From the South. 
The N. Y. Herald’s correspondence from 
Sherman’s army describes the opening of that 
General’s new campaign. 
The left wing of the army, under General Slo¬ 
cum, had arrived at Sister’s Ferry, on the Savan¬ 
nah river, fifty miles above the city of Savannah, 
without meeting any opposition whatever from 
the enemy. 
Two divisions of the 20th corps, which struck 
out for that point through the State of South 
Carolina, Lad considerable difficulty in getting 
through the swamps. The other troops who 
marched directly up the Georgia bank of the 
river had not such embarrassments to contend 
with. 
On the 30th ult., all of 81oemn’s men were at 
Sister’s Ferry; and supplies were being rapidly 
received. 
The right wing of the army is operating in a 
better country for marching than the left, and 
at some distance from it; but communication 
between the two is kept uninterrupted. 
One correspondent states that Gen. Sherman 
proposes “stirring up South Carolina at the 
rate of 20 miles a day.” 
We. have not been able to learn yet the des¬ 
tination of Sherman—whether it is Charleston 
or Augusta, Ga., or both. 
