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Department were brought off. There
has been a prevalent report that the
plates for engraving Treasury notes had
fallen into tlie nanus of the enemy; but
this report is now traced to some negros
who escaped from Columbia, t and, on
reaching Kingsville, told the stqfry to the
telegraphic operator there, who sent it,
thus authenticated, over the wire to
Richmond. Mr. Jamison, the agent of
the Treasnry Department has commu
nicated with the authorities here from
Charlotte, and makes no mentioa of the
loss of the engravers’ plates.
Charlotte is thronged wtth refugees
Trorn Columbia, who report that some of
Wheeler's cavalry plundered the city be
fore the evacuation.
[From the Richmond Dispatch, Feb. 20.]
As stated by us on Saturday, on the
authority of a despatch from Gen. Beau
regard to the President, Sherman march
ed into and took possession of Columbia
last Friday morning, our troops with
drawing from the city just as his forces
crossed the Broad river, several miles
above. We have *just now no means of
ascertaining the amount <sf government
property necessarily left to fall into the
hands of the enemy. We, however,
-know that for more than a week the re
moval from the place of government
•stores and other property has been
pushed forward with all possible des
patch, which gives us reason to hope that
"the most valuable portion had been
gotten away in safety. We had there, it
• seems, a quantity of medical stores, one
half of which were brought off, the rest
destroyed by our authorities, their re
moval being found impracticable. Jt
was reported on Saturday that
the Treasury note lithograph establish
ment had been, left behind. This the
Treasury authorities here state to be in
••correct. They state that the whole es
tablishment—plates, paper and furniture
—wer * brought north thirty-six hours
before the occupation of the place by the
Yankees. The female employees in the
'Treasury Department, as we stated on
8-iturday, got off to Charlotte, North
Carolina, several days before the advent
of Sherman. Some of them, whose
homes are here, have arrived in this city.
Most of them, we understand, saved
their baggage, but lost, their furniture. —
It will be recollected that when Mr.
JVlemminger, then Secretary of the Trea
sury, carried these ladies to South Caro
iitti. for satetv, and to lessen the demand
forTood in Richmond, he permitted each
of them to carry a bed, some chairs and
other furniture. These household arti
cles now swell the list of Sherman’s
trophies.
j&riwnttfi §aihj
UY B. W. MASON AND CO.
SAVANNAH, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 1565.
PROGRESS OP OUR ARMS.
By the arrival of the steamship Illinois
yesterday, at Hilton Head, we are placed
in possession of New hork papers to the
-23d instant. Tney contain most gratify
ing news concerning the progress of our
arms, in all parts of the country. The
-co-operative movements of Admiral
Porter and Gen. Schofield against Wil
mington are progressing with most bril
liant and happy success, and their have
already, so far as heard from, succeeded
in capturing Fort Anderson, which was
by far tne most formidable of the whole
of the much-vaunted defences ot Wil
mington.
Fort Anderson commanded the ob
structions of the river, and, as was de
monstrated by a most daring recou
noissance, these is nothing beyond to
stop the triumphant advance of our
navy. The reconnoissance above spoken
of was made by Lieut. Cushing, an offi
cer whose name is ever heard in con
n3ctiou with deeds of enterprise and
greit daring, and pioved that above the
obstructions there was little or nothing
to resist our fleet. Acting upon his in
formation, the Monitors would of course
at once immediately push on, and ther e
is no doubt that the news given in our
“Extra” of Sunday last of the capture of
Wilmington, though at the time only a
rumor, was really and strictly true.
Thus has fallen another one of the Re
bel strong-holds, and thus another of the
traitor cities falls before the resistless
march of our conquering legions. The
startling events of the last month have so
convinced the Rebels of their hopeless
position that they have resolved upon
the concentration of their forces for one
final struggle, and they are now calling
in their armies from all points to make
one grand, desperate stand somewhere
in North Carolina.
That great battle won by us, the war
for the Union is over,lost by U3,tiie Rebel
cause will have anew lease of life,
though a short one. Bqt who can doubt
the result? The God of Battles that
has sent us within one short month such
victories as Fort Fisher, Charleston,
Fort Anderson, Columbia, and Wilming
ton, will not desert us now, and under such
glorious leaders as Grant and Sherman,
the fight must result in victory for the
Union.
God bless the old Flag, soon, so soon,
once more to wave over our whole laud,
unsevered, unseparated! one country,
one again from Maine to Mexico.
COL. WILLIAM T. BEMETT.
We notice that this excellent officer
has just been promoted for gallant con
duct during the late battles of Honey
Hill, Coosawhatchie Turnpike, and De
vaux’s Neck, where he acted as Chief
of Staff to Brigadier General Hatch, and
rendered most efficient service. Col.
Bennett 18 one of the youngest Colonels
iu the service, and there is certainly n o
ene mere brave, or cool in action, or
who possesses more judgment iu the
management of his men both under fire
and in camp. He is ever most careful
of the comfort of his soldiers, and keeps
them in a most thorough state of drill,
always enforcing the strictest discipline.
Col. Bennett entered the service three
years ago as Captain, and was, for gal
lantry speedily promoted to be Lieut-
Colonel, skipping the grade of Major,
and has now fairly won his new honor,
and as full Colonel of the 33d Regt. U.
S. C. T. will doubtless still continue to
do his country good service.
Aside from bis services in the field,
Col. Bennett has acted in many other
military capacities: as Provost Marshal
General of the District of Hilton Head;
as Assistant Commissioner of Exchange,
etc., in all of which he has given eminent
satisfaction. Few men more than he
have striven hard and few have accom
plished more to demonstrate the fitness
of the colored man to be a good soldier;
and few have brought the colored troops
under their command to a higher state of
discipline, or have done better work with
them against the Rebels-
We congratulate the country on that
appreciation of ability which has enabled
its military councils to recognize and re
ward the true merit of so deserving an
oflicer as Col. Bennett.
May the wings of the Colonel’s eagles
yet be new and bright when they are
called upon to give way to the “single
star” of the Brigadier. God speed the
day.
A soldier’s view of peace negotiatioils
is thus reported by a correspondent—
“ Discussing the probable resuits of the
conference, this blue-coated Solon re
marked —‘You'll never git a peace out
of them devils that’s worth having till
you lick it out of them.’ A multiplied
indorsement of ‘that's so,’ evinced the
entire accord of that line. ”
A BOSTON NOTION.
Police Court — Wegman, P< J. —Wed-
nesday, January 25th.—J. M. Rowe—
drunk". Defendant being a one legged
soldier, wa3 discharged.
We discover the above curious item
in a Boston paper. The man was
guilty, but was not punished because he
had but one leg. We should like to
know about the exact degrees of mutila
tion in proportion to the scale of crime
in Boston. If a one legged man can get
drunk with impunity, what can a one
armed man do ? If a man should chance
to have both legs shot off we suppose he
might pick pockets, and to lose his nose
and an eye or so, and have a few ribs
stove in would entitle him to a regular
license from the Aldermen to commit
burglary and murder.
Truly Boston is a “City of Notions.”
Theatre.— I The rain last evening affected our
Theatrical friends adversely, and the audience
was consequently smaller than it otherwise
would have been. Taking all circumstances
into consideration, the performance was all that
could have been expected. The play of “ The
Rent Day,” was performed, and some of the
characters Were excellently sustained. Among
these we give prominence to “ Toby Heywood, ”
enacted by Mr. Surrey, and “ Martin Heywood,”
by Mr. Howard. The ladies were evidently suf
fering severely from the stage fngbt, almos f un
avoidably attendant upon the novelty of their
situation, and art) not therefore fair subjects of
criticism. The same remark will apply toothers
of the company.
[From the New York Herald.)
Washington’s Birth Day in New
York. —Yesterday, the one hundred and
thirty-third anniversary of the Birthday
of Washington, was generally observed
as a holiday, and with far more than the
customary exuberance of spirit, not only
in this city, but throughout a great por
tion of the country, and rejoicings oyer
the recent great national victories min
gled with the marks of respect for the
natal day of the Father of the republic.
The day was particularly favorable, the
sky being cloudless and the temperature
mild. The city presented a brilliant ap
pearance, thousands of flags and stream
ers waving from the public and private
buildings and from the encircling lines
oi shipping in the bay and tnetwo rivers.
National salutes were fired *n the city
and at the surrounding fortsat twelve
o’clock the bells ot Tnnity commenced
to ring out their music, and chimed a
number of patriotic and other popular
airs : there was a fine military parade,
and in various other ways the rejoicings
of the people were manifested, all termi
nating at night in magnificent displays of
fireworks at several points. In Brooklyn
and other of the suburban cities the day
was similarly observed. ,
CAPTURE OF GENS. COOK AND KELLY.
Wheeling, W. V., Feb, 21, 1865.
A party of Rebel cavalry dashed into
Cumberland before daylight this morn
ing, surprising and capturing the pickets,
and carried off Gens. Cook and Kelly.
It seems to have been a very daring and
well planned affair. Cavalry have been
sent in pursuit.
THE EXCHANGE OF PRISONERS OF WAR —
NO MORE SUPPLIES TO BE BENT TO UNION
SOLDIERS IN CAPTIVITY.
Headquarters Army of the James,)
Feb. 22, 1865. |
To the Agent of the Associated Press:
I will thank you to make the following
announcement through the press.
In consideration of a general exchange
and speedy delivery of all prisoners held
in the South, it is deemed inexpedient to
forward after this date either funds or
supplies to any person now in captivity.
Such parcels or remittances as may have
accumulated since the last shipment, or
may hereafter arrive, will be returned to
the shippers.
John E. Mulford,
Lt. Col. and Ass’t Gen. of Exchange.
A country newspaper says the King
of Denmark has been making a tour of
his dominions, and was “fetid” wherever
he went. The question naturally arises
if this is what Shakespeare meant when
he said there was “something rotten in
the state of Denmark.”
PICKINGS UP-THE ROMAN EAGLE
The Romnns adopted the easle sym
bol at an early period of their history.
At first, according to Dionysius of Halil
carnassus, they crowned with it the
sceptre of their kings ; afterwards, when
they had stoppled down the throne, they
made it the ornament of the sceptre of
their warrior chiefs, and the only ensign
of their legions.
Under the republic, the Roman eagle
was carved in wood : then in silver, with
a thunderbolt of gold in its talons. Caesar
was the first who had the whole cast in
gold, but he deprived it of the thunder
bolt on which it had hitherto rested. To
mark his indefatigable activity, and his
constant yearning after new conquests,
the Romans always represented Caesar's
eagle with outstretched wings, as if seek
ing to enclose the entire world in the
grasp of its shadow.
"Each legion had its golden eagle poised
at the point of a lance. They regarded
it with the most religious veneration ;
they made oath by it as by a divinity •
and these oaths were esteemed pecuiiar
ly sacred. The warrior bird preserved
even there his protecting character ; the
guilty soldier, on the point of being smit
ten by the centurion’s axe—the prisoner
doomed to death, might obtain life and
pardon if they placed themselves under
the safeguard of the eagle, by clasping
closely the lance of the standard-bearer.
On the days of the triumph of sfie
cessful generals, the eagle was adorned
with all the graniture of victory—with
crowns of laurel and garlands of flowers,
When a legion pitched its camp, the
eagie was placed in its centre; and if
it happened that two legions encamped
together, they erected upon the limits of
the two camps a double eagle, with
heads and wings opposed.
If a Roman army were defeated, the
eagle was not suffered to fall into the
hands of the enemy ; when the standard
bearer saw the route begin, he broke his
lance in twain, and buried in the earth
that portion which was crowned by the
inperial symbol. This took place after
the fatal "battle of Lake Thrasymene;
and we owe to such precaution the only
legionary eagle that has been preserved
to our times. It was found in Germany,
on the land of the Count d’Erlach, is of
bronze gilt, three inches high, and
weighs eight pounds. It is supposed to
have belonged to the 12thJLemon, which
being sorely pressed in a battle with the
Alemanni, the eagle-bearer, before he
took to flight, concealed in the earth the
precious symbol which had been en
trusted to his care.
Thu 9, the enemies of Rome might be
victorious, and yet unable to display the
most honorable trophies of their vic
tory. _
Costly Dwellings in New lork.
The New York correspondent of the
Newark Advertiser writes as follows con
cerning some of the newly erected private
residences in Gotham;
The style and magnificence of the new
dwelling houses in the upper part of this
city snrpass belief. Two or three just
put upon the market on Murray Hill are
valued at $60,000 and $70,000 each, and
if rented, $6,000 annually! They are
elegant houses, yet only twenty-five feet
front, though finished with black walnut
from basement to attic. The largest
houses, in price, reach SIOO,OOO to $150,-
000. One of this kind occupied by Mr.
Bennet, of the Herald, on Murray Hill
Fifth Avenue, with spacious stables, cor
ner of 33d street, is said to have com
manded $200,000! Irae new residences
combine every imaginable convenience
and improvement. “Dumb waiters” go
as high as the topmost story, and in ad
dition to food and crockeries they daily
transport all the coal and ashes and dirt
which in most houses are carried up and
down by sturdy-Bridgets, are transport
ed on this most convenient wooden
waiter. the mantel fire places
cost SI,OOO each, and the gas fixtures
and furniture to match would involve an
additional outlay pf at least SII,OOO more
for each house.
“You get drunk every morning,” said
one drunkard to another. “.You are
wrong ; I drink, too, but only when my
business is done.” “Oh,” answered tho
latter, “if I get drunk in the morning,
my business is done for the day. ”