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KWAVXAK. EbDAY. -T AN. i*. I<«C6.
Capture of Fort Fisher.
J7BO PRISONER TAKHN.
t# cmi Ki:w.
>wet ere fighting for Fh e Hoars
'lbis’ morning wp haw authentic iniel •
Vtgenee of the eaptotv of Fort Fisher,
behr«r Wilmington.
The news reached liere yesterday. la
the form of minors, which very proper
ly were not permitted to t>e published.
To-day the announcement is bused on
reliable intelligence.
The <?apture embraces 1.780 prisoners.
•aocoTtlinsr to ‘il«* best Information we
.fiare, including one General and a
large number of subordinate officers.
About 70 guns were raptured.
The victory was achieved by an expe
* didon from Fortress Monroe, titled out
after the first had failed.
The fighting was very severe. lasting
about live hours
The, storming party consisted of ahou l
i*,ooo men from Gen. TerryV division.—
They iuid some- close fighting, hand-to
• hand.
The losses we*e about r*oo oi Hitch
side.
The news was recurved v. Hilton Head
, yesterday, and a salute ass fired iu hon
or of ike victory. \t spread like wild fire
as soot as It reached here, aud by nine
’ o'ek.ckfhLs morning vae the common
topic of conversation atvd congratulation
•-<-very where.
The above are all the particulars we
tVel at liberty to publish. We have rc
iCeived many other derails, but some ot
Them are not reliable, and the others we
reserve until officially announced. iaHu
diag th?. names of the Generals and the
composition of the forces to. which the
credit of this important achievement bc-
T-OttgS.
Itaftnietioß of aa Iron-f3ad in
(itarksion Harl)^
'.tHK HIOAITOtt PET APS ( O
STAR BV A TORPOMK
/LARGE LOSS OF LIFE.
*
We learn from an officer of the Navy
••Oixt the Monitor Petapseo was sunk in
CJharleoton Harbor ou Sund xy night, by
a torpedo.
She ?im upon it suddenly aad the cx
ptaston occurred almost instantaneously.
Abo®t thirty of the officer* and crew
vivere fcavod. Many are supposed to
■‘ewe browned or been killed oy the t\-
sloskHi.
Tf&vse arc all the authtfniio and daiU we
have at present proper for publication.
Hc&vm Orvnu.i:,— Surgeon John C.
Morgan, 2SHh Mo., lias been appointed
MiC.-aUh Officer o“ Savannah.
BIAKtWE SBWb'. *
Ai'tttxl, Steamer fellnot*, J*oxtr&<a Monroe.*
•Steamer Victor. Fortress , Monroe; Steamer
, Qen. Sedgwick, Lwtrow Monroe: Steamer \eh
laod, Portrcs* Monroe; Steamer W, W. Cost,
r Crow' 1 ]- H-ltoa Hvod ; Steamer FouniaLL HL
usi Ibead.
'W \ ftT K 3>
Five good Printers »!an obtain stutch*
employment by app-fyd/ig tti this office.
11l Pay street.
Stah Ovkha Troom*.—This enterpris
ing troupe, of which Geo. W. WBsonne
Is manager, gave a u<m*i exhibition lost
evening as advertised in yesterday's
Herald* The performances oi' Prof.
Sun Din elicited great applause, and ail
the exerciser- were- well compacted.
A Message that Might Have Bekn.
M. Provost Par.xkri, of the Paris Journal
do Debate, to an article that appeared
on the 23d tilt., on the* subject of Presi
dent Lincoln's Message, says:
"The London dimes calls H a most
uncomfortable message for the American
people, the Times is right. But it is easy
to imagine another ?till !es o comtoriable:
that is. one which would announce to
the people of the United States that they
had ceased to exist as a great nation, and
that a rival Republic, a formidable foreign
agent, was about to rise on Its frontier.
It would be- natural that such a message
should be hailed with joy in London :
but a Frenchman will be cxcnstxl if he
may never haw the unhappiness of n act
ing it.
ScßSOßiacus iv thc Crrv will confer a
tkvor it they will call or ecud. to the office,
111 Bay street, for their papers, for one
or two days, till arrangemcnis for
delivering them Bw.perfected. We c»haU
wnhln that, tinv.* have thdUvies fer rieUwer
ing papers anyvf’tMrnj in the* city.
Ocr Hotsev-—Tills rHd fiivorite
iaurant of Savannah, on B&y t?ir*€ near
the comer ol W hitalver Street, Is now
open by Messrs. House, Weiis & Cos., all
army .boys, who have served their time
faithfully and received an iH'r.c.rable dis
charge. They have a cx»i bill of fare,
excellent cooks, attentive waiters, and
tine accomjr>odadons.
SmscRiBERS who wish to s» od the Sa
vannah Daily Herald North, arc assured
that the’r order? will be prccjaptly at
tended to. Wc nothing for
wrapping the and ‘deliveringthem
at the Post Cfficc, and.we take ail pairs
|to forward by every rual). < hders can l>e
Ibe left fbr any number cC issues, at the
j current rat.ee.
i
I Masonic."' We have in oinr edho»rial
| room a complete file of Thr Matt, .n l
| Fkkk Mason, for 18671 J, \<iih the- Jan
i uary numlvjr for 18i>"n which we shall be
; liappv to allow the examination of by any
j of the fraternity.
t Why may we nob following the e\-
: ample of European Powers in so-cailcd
I neutrality, declare the ports of the United
! States blockaded, and make the vessels
; of Great Britain, France, &e.. seeking to
enter or depart from those.por 1 -, the hw
‘ ful prey of our cruisers ? A cowardly
j care for her commerce has been the eon
i straining- consideration with Great Brit
! ain in her one-sided neutrality, an 1 in
; her mock submission to the repeated iu
! salts anil outrages of the Yankee Gov
jernmem- it may not be impossible for
I vis to reach her through the sensitive me
; diurv. We may deprive iu r precious
I comuierce of the protection that “a juisil
i Lmimous conduct towards the Vs as!dug
j ton Government has hitherto secured,
i We throw out the suggestion for the ci u-
I sideration of tho.-e who direct oitraffairs.,
! The attitude f»f a suppliant has gained as
j nothing Perhaps a W ider conduct might
| avail i-OiUevhiiig, Ray? tee 1 ' *,b - ’lgU—
i Ch<ir?'M<yo Chi r.br. 4 it,'.
\ VIBIT TO THE UtEtalOfC'VV'E OF
COWPER.
Rev. Dr. Radios, an English ctergy
man Traveler, who died about a year
ago, left a diary which has lately been
published, with a memoir, hi London.
His leiters from the vurtou.- p<act-s of
his sojourn are among the l>esT things In
the volume'. A visit ro th' h-oinv~ of
Cowjxr Is thus described :
f :wn quite frii of Cow'per. and can
think and write of nod dog efse, having
|u.«t returned from eapWing scenes
whkh his genius has knvaortaiized. I
arrived heft* about 2 ocJoek, and took
up my quarters M the inn in the market
piaCe'just opposite the hodsc in which
lit- lived for nearly twenty yearn The
house U one of considerable antiquity,
built of ?ed brvgk. and is now most
gloomy and depterab’e In appearance,
Wing Inhabited only in ptvrt, and that
bv people who are ks \<i close prisoners,
ijehig leaiffiui of opening the doors k*st
the bailiffs should enter in—a wry dif
ferent state of things b> that which it
presented wheu dr- author o( “The
Tank ’- whs b* tenant tvncl I .leiy Austin
was his guest Things-l«eing as J have
stated, ftiud it impcfesible to gain ei
mlttanci to the. interior of the said man
sion, so nni-t content myself w ith gazing
on the outer w alls, while taiaginatu n
pictures to herself the rec-nes otw‘e exhib
ited w ithin. And oil! wik' that has
any spark of genius or of piety, can look
upon thin building, ugly and disfigured
and gloomy as It is. withoiit the deepest
emotion, when he rejects that beneath
its roof a poem was conceived and exe
cuted whkrh will be Ibe pride an»i glory
of our country, sc long a>s Hnglarsj has a
nanw and a place arvomr tin* civilized
and tzoltshed najk>ns ot the earth!
“ After diimeFi set out, vx-ok in hand,
for 'VVr'Ston l iderwood, a eery si-&all
village, abotu a rrdie ao-i a half
from Oiney. I did not taka: tivc
carriage road to it, lan went, as
the guiik* recommended, by tin-: fields,
visit big in the eminence, and r.i'her spots
alluded to and described in the poems.
By this circuitous mo<le t reached the
hail, a very old mansic-o. dog the resi
dence of the Thrfxkmoriou rumirt, the
walks, the shrubberies, tix* gardeixs the
of w hich are so amply delineated
in the works of Cowper. The !*st pos-
Bir George Thrvvkmort-on, Mis
recentiy died, and the- pneseuf owner, io
whom the titie doe? not descend, is suf
fering the bcu.se to to decay. In
deed. it is a miserable 08*.i iriace,. very
dteadvantageon«y r shuate-L ami not
worth preserving. As Cowper, Ik>w
cver, liad spent many hoars/and per
haps some of the few happy tares he was
permitted to enjoy wkbLa the wail- of
that now b.riorn and deserted manbion,
1 was determined. It josslPie, to.scctm’
interior, and my wi-h was granted, one
f't' the feniah* servants showing me
throughout the principal apartments.—
But tiwy had nothing aNsut them, only
—and that was enough :o endear them
to me—they hud witnessed the social
hours of Ova per, and the gv ni -is of the
poe t stH-mod to Unger amid their sUeuce
and solitude.
“ Leaving the hou*e, 1 sought the gar
dener. who introduced me to the* garden
and the w tide rn ess. He had been only
eight yeai>» til Weston, and knew ncth
iug of Cowner personally. .1 found him,
however, civil and intelligent." Amongst
other things, he jviinted out to me a
shrub—the lignum \ ioe—which the poet
had planted with hi"* <uvn hand more
than thirty years ago. While saunter
ing through the grounds the idea occur
red to me that yen would be gratified,
as well as I, with some plant from Wes
ton, to enrich, and. as it were, to conse
crate our humble shrubbery at Edgar
Hill. 1 oomrr.unirated my tleslre to the
gardener, which be immediately pro
ceeded to gratify, and, in pursuance of
which, he has packed up for me three
China rose plants, which 1 shall send
you by the coach, and w hich, as soon as
they arrive, you must cause to be put
into the ground. *
Thk Hungarian Freemasons have
eleeb and General Turr grand master ef
fective, and Kossuth honorary grand
master. Ti he grand lodge of Italy has
congratulated the grand lodge o.t Hun
gary on these nominations.,
ITfIF MutIiATTON. OF JOUS HuNVAnG
Tov:e—A veneration fbr t he memories of
j great men led me t/O visit the newly erect
i ed monument of John Banyan la Buohifl
tie ids. to which I was escorted bv three
ragged ujrc L at first, thought
wen* ctistodk.ns cf the sacred spot. Ar
riving at the ' tomb, one of the urchins,
not withstanding rpv remonstrances,-
cteDibered up tc»the : ecumbent statue of
“the most immortai of dreamers,” arnV
pofok-d out a mmiklioii of the fhce w ,
which lie sai l had been done “a goodish
wiiile aero," while his companioofi dig
p<>x i d them-xfves around the tomb in
anything but a reverential imanner. Upon
closer inspection, I found that the lace
of the* statue bad indeed l>een mutilated,
porks of the ix.w and mouth being com
pletchr gonel evidently the result of rutii-
Jeee violence. Several of the spear-heads
surmounting the railing, were aisiv.
wrenched off. This unhallowed dese
cnition of Banyans tomb in a neighbor
hood so ftiii of sac led associations struck
me as l>eing peeuliariy painful.— -Correa
jKft'ri-rrt f/,tufon 'frn
T >K>rRFCTTyr. Covruti k.\ tion. —The
warehouse of Mr.* Charles Hammond,
situated on the l iver banks, containing
from fifteen hundred to two thousand
bales ot cotton, xvas fired about eight
o'eloi k last evening and totally consum
ed. This fire w T as evidentlv the wenrk of
an incenciarv. as the buiidiiig, which is
two hundred and fifty feet long, was al
most instantaneously in James, having
evidently re<n fired in various places.
Fortunately a heavy niin liad just falf
f-n and the buildings in tin? vicinity, on
both rides ot the river, were thoroughly
dampened, else wo might have had to
record a much i»v>re extensive conflagra
tion.
\A<> are authoritatively informed that
the entire 10-ss of cotton sustained by the
Government In the tire on Sunday night
was only thirty-three bales. About one
thousand bales were consumed, the pro
pe-rty of various private iadJ-ridkial^.—
tJVri.
j, r i .-ja» - Jt--.-
A Cat at Ba t.— I The Intelligencer
teLls a hidicrous story of how a cat was
beriged in a cellar. Tljk- incident occup
ied at a house in the cathedral street of
Icigh. Tfo- cat. Hla sakl, luid got. into
a cellar stored with all «orte of provtskma
and presented so bold a front and such
sharp claws that no one dared to attempt
to forve her from her stronghold. At
hist, afier some days, a comiviii&ionaire
who had becui a soldier waa got to storm
the cat’s castk*. Armed with a loaded
pistol he prc'S*ented himself at the cellar
door. • The family of the house watted
above in terrible suspense. At last a
kxid report, /-followed by a cry, was
heart!, anchthe gaiJani warrior was found
Iv lng on the ground of the cellar bleeding:
at the head. The matter was soon explain
ed. The pistol was an (rid one, and it
mcoiled so violently that it struck the
possessor a severe blow. As for th<* cat,
nothing more w as seen of it. and wheth
er it was blown into invisible atoms, or
whether it escaped by some meana the
g(X*d folks oi’ the Lfoge am still uncer
tain.
A Tukkixh Teaoi.st.-A horrible tra
i gedy is report*.d in a Constantii ople iet
| ter to the tfiih. The following are the
j particulars, as thus re])orted: Djemila Sui
! tana, the third daughter of tiic* late Bul-
I tan, now in her ‘22d year, was married
; to Mahiiiotind Jelladin Fastia. The posi
i lion of a subject upon whorq the Bultan
| confers the hand of one of his daughters
j is anything but an enviable one, as the
| Princesses treat the unhappy husband
\ much in the same way as they do their
' slaves, or rath* r worse, for the latter have
: not the misery oi' appearing in a false
j position, [t is well known that the
I husbands of the daughters of the late
! Sultan—Fatima. Raffia, and Dejemila —
■ have led the most, wretched ot lives from
i the arbitrariness and jealousy of their
I wives. The tragedy which occurred on
j tlie 12th inst., arose from this cause. —
I The Sultana Djemila, from causes well
j or ill-founded, became jealous of one of
her slaves, whom she imagined was re
! garded with some favor by her husband,
in her Highness’s rage against the un
| fortunate girl she ordered one of he*’
| eunuchs to cut her head off, which watt
! done at a stroke of his scimetar. Theft
