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ff y-'t ■ ' ' U VOMJME 3-\ ■ I p^Siww^Sii [). - fV . I r j.;/ amfm«PP**B«P • .1 KVStfY u EXCEPTED, Li * " ' BY •-il: ;jg< fckAfeON & CO. ». P«r Copy «. Fite Cents. Per Hundred ; . ..53 80. Per Year $lO *OO. ADVERTIZING: A limited number of Advertise meets will be re vived at the rate of Twenty Cents per Line ior to?t insertion, and Fifteen Cents per Line for each fttbsequen insertion : invariably in advance. Ad vertisements should be hauded pi before noon of •ach day. • y JOB PRINTING la every esplq,. neatly and promptly done* THE SONG OF SHEBWAN’S ARMY. ' u ‘ A pillar of fire by nipbt, ■ - ‘ i < A pillar of smttka by day, ; Koine hours of march —then a halt to fight, And so we hold bur way. Cflojtua—gome hours of inarch, &c: V : - Over mountain, and plimanfi stream, } . .j; To some hrizht Atlantic bay, , . -, t V \Yith our arms anablf in the raorningheain. ' •• We bold ou'r festal way. (p Chorus -Wi h our aims aflash, &<?. There is terror ofhdrever we corner r . There is verier and Mild dismay, When they see tire Old Flag and hear the drum 1 Announce ui iou the wty. j J , Cnoaca—'Whea they see the Old Flag, Ac. it Never uulimber a gun For those villainous lire* in gray, Draw sabres l and at ’em, upon the run ! • a ~ ’Tis ttuis we clear our way. j Cnoaca-Dra W sc. _ _ \ j The loyaV who long have been dumb, i Are loud in their cheers to-aay;, 1 And the old me® An their erutebes dome, • To see us hold our waj.> Cboeos—And the old men cot, &c, i r :-"r ii'O !.' ; I . :.-r- ■■ ■ '■ .... j Around us, in rear and flanks. Their futile squadrons play; I With a sixty mile front of steady ranks, ! We hold oar checkless way. j Cuoßob—W ith a sixty mile irOrft, &c. | Hear tic spattering fire that starts From the wpods and Copses gray ; fT here is just enough fighting to tprickcn our hearts As we frolic along the way! I Cjsobcs—There is just enough fighting, &c. | Upon different roads abroad The heads of our celurahs gay, f r With fluttering flags, all leeward pressed, Hold on their conquering way. < baoßtrs—With fluttering lias** &c. Ah, traitors ! who braggdl so bold / • 1 l ln the sad war’s early d*y, ,i 1 Hid nothing predict you §4a>ljd fW The Old Flag comiyawßail^^ | cotMiug > 'PBMto. By eh, Uil v* it 1 t vr .-■ (‘ill-’ • jB PB i :V it ci -':!i. t. 1 ' •■< IS' ■ ■ !i< , ;t y was eou ;- n-r^ SIB El CBBH i have ! - . W the a U*c ‘^vossela s ' jf|v i •■‘ rß ■ tihl''- v:i! UOUB ■ BJ 1 : !, ;, felt that SS| Grt jte 9 I's |v'm a get- SAVANT AH, GA., WEDNESDAY,' JANUARY 11, 18(55. tleTOan.Vho 16ft Savannah just before it was sur rendeiedi into tho hands of the .enemy. The works around the city were very strong, and tire place, in ’all probability, would have been held had it hot been iter the fyh of Fort. McAllister.-- The usual garrison of Fort McAllister numbered about one hundred and twenty-five men. A day or two before its fall, however, six huudred more troops were sent to their aid. By its fall, we lost between 700 and B(>qmen. The fort was at tacked on the north side by (Sherman’s forces. It is now known that if the fort had been as strong on the land skle as it was oil the M ater side, it never could h .ve been captured. After Sherman had captured the fort, he com municated with ihe fleet and procured a bounti ful supply of ammunition. Sherman also trans ferred heavy guns from Fort McAllister to a posi tion from which he could shell the city, m case hie wished. No demand was made for the surrender of the city till Saturday. On that day he demanded the unconditional surrender of the city. Gen. Beau regard in substance informed him that lie knew the way to the city and could take it if he was able,. Beauregard left the city on Saturday,— The 1 residents of Savannah did not*expect that the city would be captured, and they, were total ly unprepared for this result, Auid but Very few of them succeeded in getting aMtj'-J Those who did were obliged to leave most of vneif effects behind. The best order was maintained throughout the Entire siege. All whiskey was loeked up, and the stills were all seized by the authorities. Four local companies were assigned to police duty,'and kept lawbreakers quiet. .One pr two small fires occurred, but little property was damaged. All the rice oft plantations in the vicinity of the city fell into, the ,bands of the Yankees. Some esti mate the amount at 500,000 bushels. The Confederate Government succeeded in re moving jpost of its store. Tho main loss sus tained Dy it was the loss of siege guns about the place and gunboats. The pontoon bridge across which our troops passed was built at the foot of one of the streets of the city. During the siege, several attempts to destroy our communication on the Carolina side w ere made, all of which proved futile. S2lik>t4 wasdnhhe pity on Monday. Our informant does.not know .<u. A large portion of the Central Raffooad care were sent down the Ssyau»ah and Gulf Railroad be -1 fore that line was interrupted. Both (printing of fices in he city /ell into the hands of the Yan kees. Both editors left before the capitulation. Sneed, of the Republican, left early last week with the Government funds, of which he was the custodian. Mr. Smith, of the News, did not leave Until Monday night. (From the Richmond Examiner, Dec. 29.) The reader will find in another column the enemy’s, boastful account of the bloodless occu pation of Savahuah. If it be true that he found there thirty three thousand bales of oottou stored in warehouses, it is a painful story. Savannah is a town full of Yankee merchants and Jews ; the cotton probably belonged to them, and we may be sure that they left ho stone unturned, no ap peal nutried to prevent ft foom being destroyed; The excuse for not burning it probably was that the Conflagration would have consumed the Pup*- <R,a*-eftvannali had better be in ashes than pnYankee possession. The selfish proprietors of the cotton probably gained nothing—the Yan kee would not miss its confiscation. NORTHERN NEWS. New York Dates to Jan, sth, We are indebted to Purser Fred. W. Ely, of the steamer Arago, for our full files of Northern papers to January 2. By! >thd politeness of Mr. Rico, of xYdaros Bxfprefc, we have a New York Herald of sth-L A.< ' ).■<:>. •'j . ;•> •}' A We mafee extracts containing the most flßpoitanl iitws. I .'1 •jj. the ijeravld, Jru. 2d-i ' It is &ua that the important repel movement Witicu is ttf the 'wdHop’ afed wh&n hfld heek so mysteri- OUtfly'WlndoclMo Richmond pa pert) is dfcsigfced W.oonsiaf; of »a grand all the rebel military forcqft rand amarjeh thence lino' ‘ NoratfriV fctpcsi. ‘' ere they 'a'*peace oF^dle in/ Y .71 dlTL'l A) o') .oT vil‘l had retume<Fto Fortress Monree on Friday last. During the siege of Nashville by Hood we were cut off from news from the im portaut post gs Murfreesboro’, where the rebels ufider Forrest and Bate have been ncrAl Housstswi. This mom fug we a full account. December 4, M-hroy relieved the besieged garrison at Overall s creek, ami on the 7th, with fw > small bligadea, attaeked Batc’i entire rebel division, and, afU*r a sharply coat* stod engagement of nearly an hour’s deration, carried his breast+ works and captured two pieces of his artillery and nearly two hundred prison ers. At the same time General Rousseau, at the head 4f two hundred cavalry, stir prised and routed Buford’s division of Forrest’s cavalry, driving them from the town of Murfreesboro’ and compelling the rebels to raise the siege. The principal part of the fighting was on the old battle field of Stone river. The steamer Gahawba, which arrived here .yesterday from New Orleans apd Key West, Drought us further important news regarding the progress of the expe dition under General Gordon Granger, which left jSast Pensacola, Florida, on the 15th uit On the luth of December General Granger was at Franklin creek, Jackson county, Mississippi, only thirty miles from Mobile, having met with but little opposition. The rebels in Mobile are busy day and night in endeavors to blockade the water front of that city, sinking large scows filled with old iron and bricks, j The rebel ram J&eoville, from Selma, was expected to come down the Alabaiaa river to Mobile shortly. THE EXCHANGE QV PRISONERS , A Tinges Washington correspondent says 1 •> !' :j; ; .Oil Covode, who has been for several days lu coniotvut with tpe au thorities about the exchange of prisoners, left for his home this evening. He had several interviews with the' President, the Secretary of War and Col. Mulford on the subject of an early resumption of the exchange, and received from them the assurance that, as soon as a few pre liminaries could be arranged, the ex change would be immediately resumed. This will be welcome tidings to the coun try as well as to our suffering heroes in the South. As soon as certain intelligence is re ctived from Savannah, which is daily expected, Col. Mulford will be sent to Richmond to complete the arrange ments necessary to secure the exchange of all our prisoners. Mr. Covode visited Annapolis yester day, and passed through all the hospitals there. He represents that great mortali ty, consequent upon their treatment in the South, continued among our returned prisoners. [From the N. \. Herald, January 8.l General Thomas’ army is in motiop.— The sick and wounded have been sent to Nashville,- and preparations made lor an active campaign. It is said that news of General Thomas’ operations will hereaf ter come from anew direction. The most of the remnant qf Hood’s rebel army was still horth of the Tennessee river, which it was unable to cross, at a vory recent date, i ; • i ’ Mr. Simeon Draper, Collector of this port, sailed for Savannah yesterday, to take charge,on behalf of the government, of the cotton captured in that city. Col onel Julian Allen arrived here yesterday, in the capacity of agent of the Mayor dnu Common Council of Savannah, with the permission of General Sherman, to purchase supplies of food, to the value of fifty thousand dqUare, for the people of W be pkM fb* maniclpal authorities dPffefe* ns iii nni The decision of the Canadian court 1(1 the case of the re-arrested St. Albans raid ers is expected to be given in a few days, when it is supposed that they will be discharged on the point now raised. In that event they are to submit to a trial on thy. merits of the case. At a mectiiii oi the Montreal Common Council oa Tuesday night a resolution was adoptafl censuring Chief of Police JUmofhe far his conduct iff connection with the raid* era. and accepting his resignation. 1 ' * The Richmond Examiner and thte Senw tinel have recently been discussing th# question whether it would be better fur the rebels to submit to the au thorities of the United States or to Ixh come subjects of some strong European Power. Tho Examiner says that th# Sentinel’s proposition to claim the pro tection of England or Franco originated with Jeff*. Davis, and had its birth in a panicky mind. Washington, Jan. 4, 18C5. The question as to the proper disposi - tkm of the* twenty-three thousand bale# of gotten recenUy captured at Savannah* and the additional supplies which may b# expected to be gathered in Georgia and elsewhere, now. engages the attention and consideration of prominent officials. Th# Ckroniele recommends the exportation to Europe of the cotton captured at Sa vannah, and estimates that u million ot bales, or more, may be obtained within the rebel lines. This policy, it states* would transfer the balance ot trade andt course of exchange to this country, and turn the tide of the precious metals uithi* direction. General McCallum, Director and Gen eral Manager of Military Railroads, haft been ordered to despatch a of 018, cers and operatives to take ctftsge of that railroad stock and property eaptured uU Savannah, and, in coujuirallßi with thea officers of the Quarternnurti-r’s Depart-* went In the Department of the South* make flit arrangements necessary foY their efficient repair and use in the opera* tions in Carolina and Georgia* “Hullo, stranger!” said m* fToosier to another, “you appear to iratttlUnr* e ®> {“lwaji travel \fhen mi H jour n7' M Unnk l hav <• seen you sum©*- where. “ Very likely i have often been there. And pra ,r what might your name be?’ “It might be Sam Patch, but it isu t, by a jong slide.” “ Have you? been long in Uese parts?” “ Never any longer than nt present, live feet eiae.’’ “Do you get anything new ?” “ Yea, £ bought i* new whetstone this morning. ** “1 thought so, you’re tiie sharped, blade rve seen on this road.'” “ ‘.zzse: V,/. 1 w * Tall Stoky.— They are bragging of $ tall soldier among the Koval Scots p’uai iier Guards, who is (> feet 7 1-2 inches high and proport ionably stout. Such a man as this is but a trifle compared with a man in a Maine regiment, wbo was bo tall that he could nt be measured with anything but a ten foot pole and was em* ployed to Idt the sharpshooters up iut# the trees. 5 I r is reported that Stephen K. Mallory, ex-Unifed. States Senator and the hfca£ man of .led- Davis’ Bureau of Piracy or, (iu rebel parlance; “Navy ldptmftvymt* has absconded from the Conk deracy artrl* is in Paris. ‘ ,r , aaea *' ’ ,' I,f 1 "*“ The Albany Knickerbocker rivoMBIPS following rebeipif to kill tUfn i boarding' Ikm** pie; e\it slices; and lay -it wherpthe have full Access4o, In BBTOjjPmRiTi , minutes thq >yhpl<ical>odilfcfl£f W’deid with the ttUuftntffM «*l ba» *r? **£-*£? *»m*n**"*M -■■tsk?-.imam m tw^n***?* btcujwnaifef) Jenkins, help yourself to the bacon. i)pn x be afraid of it.” “No, indeed, madam—* I’ve seen a piece twice as large, and it did not scarce me a bit. ’ i PRICK ; U’lvc Cents* •* i