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Papers*
[From the IMehmond Examiner, Jan. 2.]
We are highly gratified tp learn, says
the Lyncliburg Republican, from an au
thentic source, that Colonel Mosby is
rapidly recovering from ills wound, and
in a short time will be in the saddle
again.
[From the Richmond Examiner, Jan. 2.]
Sherman seems to be content with the
possession ot Savannah for the
present. A rumor is mentioned that he
nad undertaken to “intercept the roireat
of Hardee's army” by sending around
Jtrcops to Beaufort, bit nothing could be
gained by such a movement. v
[From the Richmond Examiner, Jau. 3.J
There was i*e news from Confederate
•ources yesterday,
The Yankee telegraphists are trying
Aiard to make it appear that Hood's army
has been prevented from crossing the
'Tennessee and is in danger of being cap
tured by Thomas’ forces. We see 110
reason to change the opinion expressed
yesterday, that by this time tln\ army is
overjhe river, though suffering wodbnr, for
want of coinmisary stores. It is siugu
lir that tlie War Department doe3 not
receive some in tel 'gence direct train the
Army of Tennessee,
From the it c uuo.. J Examiner, Jan. 2.
The blind panic of the writer makes
him even unabre to see that neither Eng
land nor Franoe, nor Spain, nor the three
combined, would touch us with the end
of the longest pole if we' once made so
helpless an exhibition of ourselves. Na
tions rwe not “Good bamaritans,” If
they see a weaker brother fallen among
thieves, wounded mid half dead, they do
nit trouble themselves about his hard f tie.
‘i'ney do not even pass by on the other
side, but empty his pockets, if perad
venture there be somewhat left to take
away irom him. ,
If neither England nor Franoe will so
much as recognize us, not even know of
our existence, while we are vigorously
bathing and beating back gigantic in
vasions year alter year, in haughty re
liance on our own prowess and good
cause, and able, to offer them advanta
geous alliance and reciprocate benefits,
how would they receive such an invita
tion as this, now that we are sinking and
perishing under the mighty power of the
Yankee nation.
After alluding to the disaster to Hood's
•a my, the Examiner cl a s its article—
which is a review of Davis' mismanage
ment —in these words :
But ad this was superfluous. The evil
was already done. The enemy had suc
cess, and the last year of war had not ar
rived. These are unpleasant reminis-v
cences, but we must study the past t >
understand the future. To forget what
is disagreeable to remember will not as
sist our judgment in events to come.
The people of this country can only
preserve their lives and liberties by ef
forts tu prevent the repetition of that
conduct which has caused their disas
ters. It is the duly of Congress to take
*0 ic decided steps to prevent our means
4ft defence from being thrown away any
SAVANNAH, GA., FRIDAY, JAN JAffiY 13, 1835.
longer at hap-hazard,* and at the vroru
than uazard fancies, especially of one un
likely man. Common place expedients
for tilling up the ranks are worse than
useless. i
The military affairs of the confederacy’
must be controlled by more judgment
and better sense. Although the condi
tion of these affairs is. not now what we
ha 1 a right to expect they would V.- t
this time, they are not i rr triov-sbiy losi..
The confederacy is still able to. make ah;
indefinite resiDnuee and succes Ad de
fence against.all its enemies, but only 011
conditi m that its efforts are guided by
some cairn wisdom and conducted on a
consistent plan.
Thus has resulted an expedition doubt
less designed for the reduction of Fort
Branch and the capture of Haiitax. The
torpedo bureau has in this one service
merited a claim upon our gratitude and
praise which it gives us pleasure to ac
knowledge, and the brave men who co
operated in the defence of the Roanoke
‘and the signal repulse of the foe have
won a place among those of whom the
country is Plant torpedoes
thick and promptly, say we, and put
diligent and daring men to watch our
rivers, Their utility and efficiency are
no longer doubtful. It will be remem
bered that the looses of the expedition up
the Roanoke consisted of the Ostego and
half a dozen launches. [All the men on
hoard the Ostego reached the fleet in
safety.— Ed. Hz halo]
Sul. via, Ala., Dec. 30, 1864..
The Reporter of this afternoon gap a
well b lown gentleman of Hunts
ft hat place on-the 21st, arrived nt
ridi u on Thursday afternoon, bring
tiiib following . erv gratif’ing iutelli
«uce -r un General Hood s army and
North Alabama.
A (rencral’Hood, on the eve of withdraw
ibg from near Nashville, was attacked
vigorously by the enemy, who massed a
heavy force and threw it upon his cen
tre, c-impose 1 of Cheatham sand Bates’
.divisions. These veteran troops gave
way. [ she telegram has probably been
eliminated at this point.—Richmond
Whig.) Ilood ne ved on Columbia,
where he was at latest dates. On 'Tues
day, the 20th, there was another fight,in
which tiie enemy were badly whipped,
losing one entire brigade captured.—
About the same date Forrest captured
an entire brigade of cavalry and six hun
dred wagons: The population of Middle
Tennessee and North Alabama is thor
oughly aroused, and every man and boy
capable of bearing arms was hurrying to
join our army. Ten companies wer:
termed at Huntsville iu a week. That
place bad been taken possession of by
ten Yankee regiments from Point P k ;
but Roddy had been ordered to ret ike* A
and hold it aIC hazards. Ten gun boats’
came up the Tennessee river and it
empted to cross the Muscle Shot’s
Roddy attacked them, destroying one,
and probably another. The irnaffffier
were injured.
Forrest has been made Lieutenant
General.
{From the Richmond Srptincl, Jan. 1]
Tne Yankee gunb it n. vein- rl up
the Roanoke river ref-abed, as is known,
very adversely. Freon an inte view . i;.
a deserving and efficient officer irom that
locality we gather some int. u .s! Lig items,
which wc present lo our r.*adcrs. The
expedition comnri&id twelve gunboats
and several barges, the Litter of twenty
oars each, Tvo of .tec b.ar.a’S, which
vvent ahead l s torpedo hunters, were
vigorously attacked by our sharpshoot
ers, and lost thirty -ode killed, The
crews then displayed the signal ofsai
render; but before the barges could. La
secured ri gunboat appraacheti and shell-'
cd our ft>r «o furiously as to compel
the relinquishment of their prizes, width
i.ri. te 1 Uuwn mo river to tbe gunb; t
bho arges exploded several ot our t- r
* 4 -
redoes, but failed to clear the river. The
gunboats continuieg thei r prdgrsr 1, sev
er*. 1 of thorn were blown up. Deterred
py these ios s end by the iife .rd of still
greater, th y. then fyait a retreat to
-tiimesvillc, t welve miles above Plymouth.
Up to last dates only six of the twelve
bo *ts he d1 ■ turned. Their offieera stated
to the citizens of William.-ten. twenty
two miles b. low Fort Branch, that they
1 four of tlieilf boats‘l>y,'torpedo .3.
\> r iu n asked win re the other two were
t: ley th vde r. > reply. They al.v ><id mPt ffi
the loss c- ' one HioU'-iad men. A ■ wit
ting their statement —which is bell ve t
to be true —\vv. can account for the oilier
two mix ing boats. The ofilci rla charge
rtf the torpedo force, in recommit! ring,
discovered a sunken boat, of which no
one.was aware, and cut from her about
fifteen leet of her boarding nettings, of
very large size. The sixth gunboat was
sunk by our field battery. Among
the gunboats destroyed was tne power
ful Otsego, a double-ender, bearing four
teen eleven-inch guns, and manned by a
crew of three hundred, reinforced by ihe
same number of infantrymen. Four of
her men,who were pickuu up at different
times, all agree that of the six hundred
inen on board not more than sixty es
caped with life Irom the wreck. A
worthy and reliable mechanic who was
pressed into Yankee service to make
coffins for the officers and boxes for the
men fished up from the wreck, declares
that up to the time of his release over
two hundred had been made and shipped
to Plymouth, the men to be buried there
*«d .officers to be sent to the United
States. Tne work of fishing up
was still being prosecuted. Mir yof the
bodies of those blown up on the different
boats had Unrated down to Jiuaesvitte.
From Alabama we learn taat General
Steedma i’s cavalry have captured and
burned Hood's pontoon trains, and taken
from him six hundred ninles, one hun
dred wagon a fjul two' Irdudre ! hogs.—
The rebel Ih»ddy‘a c avalry l ive nearly
all bedispersed. 1 is id that Hood
has been ordered to Alaba
ma, to reorganize.Lis fragmcni try army;
R;chmvnu .:j e<s oi juLuiurj an
nounce that Hood’s army is smith of the
Tenner-< river ; but t' re is reason to
doubt the truth of the story. They ad*
in* t that he is suffering lo.r the want of
rations and commissary stores ; but claim
s veml before unhc.-ird # of succt -a s for
him. A terrible picture is jve •In these
rebel prints of the di- \Bt r to the Roanoke
! river expedition, which lacks materially
in the imp *rtant fea.i ire of truth. The
id viuninm’d dares Jeff. Davis to be panic
stricken at the condition to which he has
reduced the confederacy,- auu thinks ir
- needs a :u> -in compekvit Iciher. G icral
pK iur.-., rd, in a dcsputduiateii at Char
i‘‘ -m, 6. 0.. on the 2d L,d., informs the
redd War Department that the lluiosi
raiuhrsdiaVe returned from Mobile and
Ohio id dlroad, g ing westward. He says
that the damage done by thcin “will be
repaired in alvntt d n ys ’
A capt-dn, fieufc.iruu .audKsVca m°si of
M esby’S- coimiian ’, who were oh their
way t > carry out a raid on the Pullimore
and Ohio Railroad, have been arrested at
the ii lay House, on niat road. A large
amount of tiiunev anti valuable pipers
were touud ou their persons.
One 61‘ our Shenauuoaij vrtuey crrres
ppiuletit s says that infurflaation has h en i
received direct from Richmond that
rebel troops' are being • hurried off to
B:'jiiC)yi;ie, Sor.iii Car iimt, awl tfie ad
ja'c*".!t rdgk»p t for the o’trpose of attempt
ing to check 'an arjtx Hated northward
nv rt fVo’n SavunuHli of General
Sherman’s army. • : - •
i lie * ii...*t >0 **..* Y. - * ‘*v>r bed.
t must be roughly handlcvl, veil
sh foe 1, a: and exposed to a variety of turns,
to proven, iti L«ccoming hard.
fI.iHG of the r/agp. '
*no subterfuges rc .sorted td by ani
mals in search of food, have b <?n re
garded, by the gener l reader, as the
most inter, sting and instructive portion
ot the worxs ot natuxiiiibts. An inci
dent illustrative of the .cunning of the
wasp, was recently .related to ns bv an
observing gcntleiuaii* A blue vvLp,
known as the eo’.fr ry fifesp, beoao -4 it
lives alone in it3 little fll 7 nest, wrs sfeen
tohurl Us di upon -tatg|tro; /,wbeel 1 . ni>eci
web of a Drip* s, 1J p, Ihreitsot up a loud
bimi ’•Jlkctl! Aof a fly when acci ’ental
l} r entangled i 1 a shtiilar web. The spider,
watching at the drtor of Jiis eilke (dom
icile, stole cautiously forth. llis dvunca
was slow, for he evidently felt Rat he
was approaching no common ei.etny.—
The apparently desperate yet fruitless
efforts of the wasp to free liimsclF, 4n
couraged the spider and lured him for
ward. But when within some three .in
ches of his intended victim, the wysp
suddenly freed himself from his mock:
entanglements, and darting upon the
poor spider, in a moment, as jt, were,
pierced him With his deadly Ft ; ng in a
hundred placed. The wasp then boro
his ill-gotten spoil to his lonely home.—
This home is built of clay, thiinble
sbaped, and originally coamnhijg but
one apartment. In the lower part of
this cul-de-*xc the wasp deposits its eggs*
Immediately over them it draws a tlwn,
glutinous curtain. Upon tl Is curtain it
packs away the proceeds of ns hunting
excursions; such as spiders, flies, and ait
other insects which it regards v. s»ritafclrt
food for its young/ Cons; pie u fy, *>hen
the young escape from the ov , Die) find
above thei« a well stocked l <r,
gradually eat tlieli* way tb.-oogli the
choice depository, finally ap:> ■ irihg to
the delighted v/orld in the gr e blerorni
and stature of perfect wasps.
CoxsmnßAisLo sport wes oc< e iongd at
a mock-auctibn shop ift Broad ’ >y, 1 few
days since, by the'nc.cid'-ntal < 'ivary to
a greenhora purcbjaj?cr of tl ‘fijow’
watch of the concern, (.v hi • wa« a
genuine gold one,) instead of a v vtliVsa
bogus one. The mtdiakej *v . !ircpv
ered till the countryman La l g mt | on
the sidewalk; and wfien out. ot vaypro
prietors ran after him : m .1 inf 11 .and 1 in>
that a ‘•mistake. hid b'Od niac find
that lie “must come fehtk and- ive it
rectified,'’ lie replied that he “uidr. t know
about that,” but would 4c tin t police
. fellow on the corner.” To thj ; tbe Pdter
Funk oi course objected, ufid seizing
tne countryman by the 1 shoulder, gently
at torn; fed to force biiVi bnOk, but it Was
of no u ; e, and a crowd beginning to .col
lect, and the policeman coming! tQ,sea
what was the matter, the V, 1 . wpnt
back to his den, leaving the c n/nirymaa
to tell the crowd and the pollcemanjWhat
the mutter was. On learning the mots of
the e . v*, i.uite a number of the crojwd
went int» the Peter Funk establishment
and signified their wish to bid on watches,
but the managers of the concern at once
“adieumed the sale,” and the autlEuca
ifetirfid*
“I say, old fellow, whnt are yrarpol
ilicgF-Siditi one friend quizzing -uaafter*
“ Democrat;. my father was denmerut,"
he replied. “And what is your r< eg;on V
continueff the other. id; my
lather was Protestant,” was tbe .nswer*
“ And w!\y are you a bachelor ?’ wtii l| lh<j
other. “ Bpcauso my- father \;avi a---oh
confound it! don t bother mo \v;th your
stupid question V’ * ( '
Kossuth has; three uepiie.wa in.i tho
Union army—Col. I*. L. YuHvi-'Wy, y
when Gen. Asboih was lr tb<|.
late severs enga;. *menL at Msv’fioa*
Florid a, took the com/Uttiai and Imiagbl
the addon to a suedez
A Ruttsiag, commanding the IstßhjM.da
caval y, Ind Lieut E. Eul avaidy, la uia
broUej-'s legiment,
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