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The Savannah Daily Herald, Fill DAY. MARCH 24, 1805. FROM OUR EVENING EDITION OF YESTERDAY. FAYtTTr VU B, N. C., at or near which place, our last news located Gen. Slierinan s Army, is the county-seat of Cumberland (ounty. It is situated at the juuetion of half a dozen or more county roads, and upon the right bank of Cape Fear River, at a distance, by the river, of eighty odd miles from \'< ilming ton. It is distant from Goldsboro, which was at the last dates the depot ot the rebel army, and where the united Ibrces ot Bragg and Johnson would, it anywhere, attempt to make a stand, about sixty miles by an almost j straight road. The topography of the country in this re-i gion is described as presenting a dead level, the fields being muddy and the roads n retell- j ed beyond description. The soil is a mix ture of sand and clay, and capable of pro- ; ducing the worst kind of mud. An unfa- , vorable feature of the country for our cam paign is the absence of any eminences, ma king it difficult to work our artillery advan tagiously. Tire Pourico of Tire Exchange. — Many strangers visiting our “Ancient City of Ogle thorpe" are not aware that the portico of this building is not .one of its original features, j such is the case. Col. Wm. T. Thompson formerly editor ol the Savannah Daily News, by great exertion, and by advocating this en terprise through the columns of his paper, had the portico erected, as also the beautiful iron railing in front. Col. Thompson, aid to Gov. Brown, fear ing that possibly the Yankees would eat him alive, bid the citizens of Savannah adieu a few days before the advent of Gen. Sherman, j Tue veritable “Major Joseph Jones” was for j once in his life in error by leaving his home. Come back Major, you will not he hurt; all desire to see your genial countenance again. \ U. S. Hospitals in Savannah —Many strangers visiting our city are perplexed to j know the exact locality of the United States | Hospitals. Prior to the 3d of February ult., the Hospitals were designated according to , the different Army Corps of General Slier man. At the present time they are designa ted thus : Ward No. I—Scriven House Building and adjacent buildings, southeast corner of Bull and Congress streets. Ward No. 2—Marshall House Building, south side of Broughton street, between Drayton and Aberooru streets. Ward No. :’>—Pavilion House Building, southeast corner of Bull and South Broad streets. Ward No. 4- Savannah Medic and College Building, northwest comer of Habersham arl Tayjrfr stria is, A iV-ovrtX ~, Cham.ain. —This morning the Rev. B. F. Rogers. Chaplain U. S. A., with a detail of meu, proceeded to Laurel Grove Cemetery, and commenced the work of enclosing with a neat fence the burial spot of tbe 17th Army Corps. Mr. Rogers is known in the army as the “working Chaplain."— May Providence spare him in his day of use fulness. He is truly a “good Shepherd," aud his paths when followed by those in error will surely lead to righteousness. _ Skcond Pbovost Court. —This morning several cases of rent came up before Judge Walton, and were adjusted and disposed of. We are pleased to nqtice that 4hc Criminal Docket of the First and Second Courts are small, showing a decided improvement in the morals ot the people of Savannah. Ice.— Messrs ILiywoa.l, Gaze *fc Cos. ; Bryan street, north ol’ the market, have on hand a lull supply of ice. The Medical Pro fession will he conferring a favor on the suf- ! serer with fevered brain and parched lips, by prescribing the medicament of H. G. & Cos. This enterprising house do not intend that the supply of “frigids ’ shall give out this summer. Another cargo is daily expected. First Provost Court— Lieut. Ebon Par- sons, Jr. Judge, presiding, has taken a recess until Monday next, 10 o’clock a. m. His Honor has of late experienced a heavy pres sure of business. Much of it being disposed of, he has wisely adjourned his Court before his health be impaired,as was that of his pre decessor, Judge Benedict. We wish Judge Parsons a speedy return to health, and to his distinguished vigor for business. A correspondent, on his way to Wilming ton, writes : “An incident, illus'ratmg the peculiarity of our struggle, occurred on our march yester day. Passing a house by the roadside, a corporal of one of the regiments asked per tnia-iou to entei it. alleging as the reason of his request that it was the. residence of bis youth. His request was granted. He en tered the house, aud was soon clasped in the arms of his overjoyed mother. “John," said she, “your brotUer was here yesterday; he stopped as the confederates marched past here.” That mother has a son iu each anny.” Ma jor Chaki.es N. Bookish of Bath, Me., who was an officer in the Mexican war, and eabsequently Collector of Bath during the Pierce administration, died recently of ty phoid fever al Baton Kouge, Louisiana, where he had un interest in a sugar plantation. A patient in a lunatic asylum at Stamford England, fancied that every meal he ate cost him a thousand pounds, and he could scarce ly be prevailed upon to eat anything. Final ly he strangled himself to death. Affairs is MoAlk. —General Shermau has not only destroyed Jeff Davis’ facilities for getting news from those parts of the so called Confederacy which lie beyond the liaiiis of North Carolina, but he has also greatly damaged our opportunities lor ob taining information lr<»ui those distant but i important points on the Gulf of Mexico, where military aud naval movements of magnitude are in progress. It is altogether likely that the city of Mobile is now under the flag of the Union; but so uncertain or roundabout is communication with that quarter that neither Jeff. Davis nor President Lincoln could furnish the news. Up to a recent date the Rebels had tele graphic communication between Mobile and some point in Central or Eastern Georgia, prooably Augusta ; but between there and ( harlotte, in North Carolina, there is a great gap, or series of gaps, over which there is neither railroad line nor telegraphic wire in working order, and across which the trans mission of news is slow and uncertain—so slow that the very latest Mobile advices in our last received Richmond papers are ten days old. Through our own means of com munication either by the sea-board or the Mississippi river, it takes, ordinarily, from bn days to a fortnight, to get news from New Orleans ortho vicinity <>i' Mobile. The rebels have let ub know that as far hack as the 28th ultimo, twenty-two steamers and six Mississippi river transports had made their appearance in the lower bay of Mobile, and also that at the same time a large num ber of troops had arrived at Dauphin Island, lying in front of Mobile, and at Pensacola, “indicating,” says the rebel despatch, “an early attack on Mobile.” There is good rea son to believe that this rebel inference was correct; as it has been published both in the South and the North that an army of no small size was being prepared at New Orleans for this work by General Canby; aud a co operating naval force under Rear-Admiral Thatcher, was also prepared to play its part. If our army and navy were ou the spot at the date indicated by the southern papers, we may be assured that by this time the rebels have either voluntarily or iuvofuntar ily taken another step in llie carrying out of their great and wonderful policy of evacuat ing all tliair cities and seaports, and emigrat ing to the swamps and mountains. The campaign against Mobile and Mont - ginnery is, ot course, of greatly Inferior im portance to t hat in progress in Virginia and North Carolina. But it is by no means insig nificant, as might be judged by the very large military force (consisting of two lull corps) which the Lieutenant General has as signed for its execution. It looks, in short, to the bringing of the whole of the Cotton States of the Guif under the dominion of our flag. It looks to the winding up of the war in the imperial domain lying between the Savannah river and the Mississippi. There is no Rebel force of any magnitude in all that section, unless it be around Mobile; and the capture ot the latter city opens the country, as fat as Selma aud Montgomery, to our gun boats, and brings within our lines the great slave and cotton regions ou the Alabama and ! Totnbigbee rivers, which are tributary to the port of Mobile.—*V. Y. limes. Tire New English Minister to Ameri ca—Hi^Name, and' who he ,s.— The ill health of Lord Lyons having compelled him to return to England, a few words con cerning his successor cau scarcely fail to be of interest. The London Times, in its issue of Febru ary 28, speaking of Sir Frederick Bruce, the successor of Lord Lyons, as Minister to the United States, and after having referred to the laborious nature of the office, concludes as follows : “The successor of Lord Lyons in this mo mentous post will be Sir Frederick Bruce, who at present holds the office of Minister to China, but happens opportunely to be in England. There is no reason to doubt that in making this selection the Government have had ample regard to the qualifications necessary for the office. Sir Frederick Bruce has greatly distin guished himself by liis conduct of our trou blesome negotiations with the court of Pekin; and though he will have very different per sons to deal with iu Washington, yet a man who has been energetic and acute, aud suc cessful in one place will probably be energet ic and acute, and will at least deserve to be successful, in another. Perhaps, in the surging sea which American politics repre sents at the present time, an intimate ac ; quaintance with the recent traditions of our ministry at Washington may be of less im portance than it would have been otherwise. The movements are so rapid, the influences j so uncertain, that the course pursued at one moment may have to be forgotten the next. But though Sir F. Bruce has not been re cently employed in any post connected with his new office, he is not entirely inexperi enced iu American affairs. His first employ ment was when attached to the late Lord Asn- burton’s special mission to Washington iu 1842, when the famous Ashburton treaty was negotiated. Subsequently, for a year, lie was Lieutenant-Governor of Newfoundland, and i front 1847 to 1851 be was employed in various posts in South America. Four years after ■ this he went with his brother. Lord Elgin, to China, aud has since been entirely em ployed in that country. By a fortunate coin cidence be will arrive in America just when Mr. Lincoln will have entered upon bis se cond term of office. It will, perhaps, have an opportune signiflcance that, anew minis ter should thus be accredited to the United i States at the commencement of this new i period iu her anuals. The arrival of anew minister accredited to the Government whoso authority we still acknowledge, will be a | more conspicuous evidence of the fallacy ol these strange anticipations than the return of Lord Lyons. It mav, perhaps, ba made more evident that instead of in any way slight'ng their Government, we are paying it the dis tinct attention of selecting anew minister to represent us. Columbia.— According to a rebel writer, the people of Columbia (C. S.) preferred the presence of Geu. Sherman’s soldiers to that of Wade Hampton's. The former behaved toward them like men, the latter like ruf fians. it turns out, after all the hard writing on the subject, that the destruction of Columbia by fire was the result of accident. Neither j federate nor rebels dys+foyed it, and neither | sought its destruction. * Jasmin, the French barber poet, died re j ceatly, at the age of sixty-six years. Al though his poems were received with great j tayor atffi Some ol them translated by Long- I fellow, he never abandoned his razor for the pen. NEtVS ITEMS. At the Broadwajf saloons visitors now tell the waiter to bring “another acrobat,” when they want a second tumbler. No less that fifty-four of the returned sol diers from the Southern prisons died and were buried from the hospitals at Annapolis in one day last week. Rev. Hardy Mobley, born a slave in Georgia, was on the 27th ult., ordained a missionary. Rev. Henry Ward Beecher preached the sermon. The Rev. Dr. Adams’ Presbyterian church of New York, has contributed $50,000 a year for the army, navy and freedmen since' the beginning of the war. Colonel George P. Foster, commanding the Fourth Regiment Vermont Volunteers, has been breveted a Brigadier-general, and appointed to the command of the Vermont brigade iu General Getty’s division. A New York cotemporary mentions the arrest of a woman on the street “with noth ing on her person but a love-letter and a daguerreotype.” Rather a poetic aud pictu resque costume for the metropolis! Tile first regiment of Hancock’s veteran corps is full and has gone to the Shenandoah Valley. The second and third regiments are nearly full, and are at Camp Stoneman, near Washington. They are receiving recruits rapidly. Cardinal Wiseman, tlie eminent Catholic prelate iu England, is dead. There are in England and Scotland 1,521 bishops and priests, 1,132 churches and stations, 25!) nun neries and monasteries, aud 12 colleges of the Roman Catholic denomination. Congress has passed the amendment to the Army bill, increasing the army rations from thirty to forty per cent. It adds about twenty-five per cent to the pay of line offi cers, and fifteen per cent, to that of other officers on active field duty. The Loudon Times says: “Advices from Frankfort mention that the Bourse in that city has become the emporium for the busi ness in American bonds, and that orders are pouring in from all parts, so that the dealings are almost every week on an increasing scale.” The winter in Europe appears to have been more severe than in this country. In Scot land tlie snows have been almost unprece dented. Deer, and ali kinds of game starved out; great numbers of sheep perished; aud even houses w'ere so covered up with snow that the neighbors had to assist in digging out the inhabitants. The English poor have been great sufferers during tbe winter from the cold and from wrnnt of equipment. The so-called spiritual manifestations of the Davenport brothers were brought to an abrupt conclusion at St. George’s Hall, Liverpool. The audience appointed tw r o gentlemen to dp the rope tying. They proved too much for •the Davenports, and were objected to by them. Great confusion and • excitement fol lowed. The Davenports escaped, but their paraphernalia was smashed to atoms. The hall had to be cleared by the police. Tire Campaign in the Carolinas.— The story of Bragg amounts to this, that he at tacked some part of the Union Ibrces near Kinston, March 8, afld, after an obstinate fight, drove them three miles back, with loss of three gunsaud 1,500 prisoners. The Union forces were manifestly the advance guard ot tlie small army that has been pushing cau tiously forward from New hern to Goldsboro with a view to cut the Weldon railroad at the latter point. Lee, who publishes Bragg's despatch, mentions that Hill and Hoke were both engaged on the rebel side, so that we know the rebels had probably concentrated all their troops in Eastern Carolina to resist this comparatively unimportant movement from Newbern, waile Schofield, in front of whom Hoke was recently posted, is left un opposed. It is further noticeable that the' rebels, ou their own showing, were unable to push their success, our troops holding the ground to which after the first break in their line they retreated. Kinston, near which this action took place, is twenty miles from Goldsboro, thirty from seventy from Fayetteville, and eighty from Wilmington. We have not yet any trustworthy account that any portion of either Sherman’s or Schofield’s forces bad ap proached this place, and it may be the move ment on our side was a little premature.— However that is, there is no reason to sup pose Hie check will have auy influence on the campaign- Jt' Bragg chose to withdraw his forces from SchotjoUl’s path, the latter has an unobstructed march, and his advance is a far more important demonstration, both in numbers aud purpose, than any that can at present be made from Newborn. The correspondence between Gen. Sher moa and Wade Hampton will attract atten tion. Hampton’s letter ia ip the usual “firing-tlie-Southern-heart’ style, but there can be no question that General Sherman is both justified in his course by the laws of war, and that be will do all he threatens lor the protection of his soldiers.— N. Y. Tri bunc. , Curious Statistics of a Scotch City. — The City of Glasgow contains from 300,000 to 400,000 inhabitants, and how many of those does the reader suppose are taken up yearly as drnuk, or drunk and disorderly, or drunk and incapable, and conveyed to the police office? Not less than 27,181, being, as the Blgtesmnn egprcs*es i{, “l iu every 14 1-2 of the population; lin 7of the adults, 1 iu 3 of the men. It might thus appear that about every third man in Glasgow had, during the year, been taken care of by the police, as being either helplessly or riotously drunk; but it is only fair, though very un pleasant, to say that' a considerable portion ot the total amount of the offense was per petrated, not by the gentlemen, but by the ladies. The number of the latter taken care of when in thpir cups was 9,755, leaving as the number of gentle men, each with a glass too much, 17,426 Putting aside children and youths, it ap peared that in Glasgow l fir every 10 wo men, aud 1 in every 5 men are taken drunk to the police-office every year ” An interesting discovery has just been made iu a tumulus at Ekaterinoslaw, iu Russia. It consists of a treasure which for merly belonged to the chief of the Huns. Among the different articles is a heavy gold diadem, in which is set a cameo of amethyst ot ancient Roman workmanship, also a large collar, bracelets and drinking cups, with handles formed by animals, the whole of which are in gold of remarkable workman ship, What a Blind Man Can Do. —John Met calf was born in Knaresborough in 1717, the son of poor working people. At about six years old he caught the small-pox, and be came totally blind. Is there any one of us who could possibly have commenced file with greater drawbacks? He had some ad vantages—a good head, a good heart, and great physical health and power. Let us watch bis career. In six months after the fever had left him lie was able to feel his way from tlie end of tbe street and back without a guide; at nine years old he could go on a message to any part of the town. He went birds-nesting; was an expert climber, and mounted almost any tree with ease. He learned to ride, and delighted above all things in a gallop. He kept a dog and coursed ljares; in fact, he was the wonder of tbe town. He learned to swim, and once saved the lives of three of his companions. He was a great diver; dived oace into a deep hole aud rescued—not a man, but a bale of manufacturer's yarn. He played the fiddle beautifully, aud attended professionally the assemblies at the Queen’s Head and the Green Dragon at Harrogate. One day, when returning to Harrowgate from York,, he over took a gentleman who had lost his way.— He brought the gentleman safe to his inn, the Granby, and was invited to join in a tan kard ot negus. On Metcalf leaving the room, “I thiuk, landlord,” said the gentle man, “that my guide must have drank a great deal of spirits since he came here.” “Why, so, Sir ?” “Well, I judge so from the appearance of his eyes.”— “Why! bless you, Sir, don’t you know" lie is blind ?" “Blind! what do you mean by that?” “I mean, Sir, that he can not see ; he is as bliqjl as a stone !” .“Well, landlord, this is really too much; call him in..” Enter Metcalf. “My friend, are you really blind?” “Yes, Sir,” said he, “I lost my sight when I was six years old.” “Had I known that, I would not have ventured with you on that road from York for a hundred pounds,” “And I, Sir, ’ said Metcalf, “would uot have lost my way for a thousand!”— Metcalf was now six feet two in height, and of great strength and robustness. He saved money, bought a horse, and taught the ani mal to answer his call by neighing. Mar velous stories are told of his exploits, for he was as bold a rider as ever took the field, and to follow the hounds was his greatest de light. He was not only a huntsman, but he engaged in races, and won them. On one occasion he rode his horse in a match in Knaresborough forest. The ground was a circle of a mile, to be ruu three times around. Great odds were laid against him; but plac ing men with dinner bells at the several posts, he directed himself by their sound,aud the blind man came in a winner. After his marriage, Metcalf set up as a livery-stable keeper, but soon gave up that trade aud be came a fishmonger. He bought fish at the coast, and sold it at Leeds and other places. The next we heard of him he had enlisted for a soldier! It was during the rebellion of 1715, One Mr. Thornton came to him about a fortnight after tlie battle of Preston paus and told him he was going to raise a company. He informed Met calf that French were going to join the Scotch rebels, aud that if the country were to fall into their hands, no man’s wife, daughter, or sister, would be sale. Blind Jack was a true-born Briton He not only enlisted him self, but started the colors of a recruiting sergeant, and in a few days raised the com pany and left for the wars, dressed in blue and "buff, and a gold-laced hat. This extra ordinary man actually performed nearly all the duties of a soldier ; followed the army in all its various marchings and counter-march ings—was present in several engagements ; and once was nearly captured hy the enemy, who succeeded in taking prisoners nearly half of liis company- Ilia captain also was missing—supposed to have been in the rebel camp ; and Metcalf undertook to turn spy, in order to open up communication with the lost officer. There is thrilling interest in the narrative ot how he succeeded in penetrating the enemy’s camp ; was taken prisoner on suspicion, but ultimately succeeded in clear ing himself before a court-martial, and in re turning to his regiment. Here he continued until the battle of Culloden put an end to the war. Ou Metcalf s return home, his young wife, who had boen anxiously awaiting her fearless, reckless, blind partner, received him with open arms; and, like an old soldier, tired of war’s alarms, he settled down to steady habits of business. He now became a cloth merchant; and, relinquishing that, set up as a dealer in horses. * This occupation lie left also, and began anew line of business— that of common carrier between York and Knaresborongh. In this speculation he saved money, and kept his now increasing family in respectability and comfort. The Rebel Bill for Arming the Slaves. The act, of the rebel Congress,* providing for arming the slaves, limits the number to one fourth of those m the several States between the ages of eighteen and forty-five years. It seems that, alter much hesitation, it was de cidednot to liberate the soldier—slaves with out the consent of the owners. This, how ever, is the initial measure, and the Congress will soon be called upon to emancipate them as ftn indispensable means of seeming their fidelity. The whole number of black troops to be raised is 300,000 1 But this is to include free negroes. The idea that slavery can survive a measure of this character is toft absurd for a moment’s consideration. We have too much respect for the intelligence of the rebel leaders to suppose for a moment that they believe in it. They have made up their mincts to give up slayery as the hist resort for sav ing the Confederacy ; hut they are too cau tious to propound the measure suddenly. Let the slaves be armed, and Davis will defy the opposition of their masters. They expect by this policy to secure sympathy in Europe, but the main motive is the indispensable ne cessity of having more troops. But ft is too late. The Confederacy will will be squelch ed before the negro army can be organized. Virginia and South Carolina.— Virginia was dragged into this rebellion to serve the purposes of South Carolina, the Palmetto chivalry little imagining that before the end of the game they would he compelled to abandon their own State to the “Yankees” to serve the purposes of Virginia. Sherman’s march through the heart of South Carolina settles that little bill.—A. V. Herald. Col. Baker, the U. S. detective officer, is reported to have captured between 500 and 600 bounty jumpers and brokers by means of a fictitious recruiting office in Brooklyn. They have been sent to Port Lafayette, and will be sent thence to Gen. Grant, with the special request that he will put them in the front rank in the next battle. They com prise some well known desperate characters. THE AIRIELS IN THE HOUSE. Three pair* of dimpled arms, as white as enow Held me in soft embrace; Three little cheeks, like velvet peaches soft, Were placed against my face. Three pairs of tiny eyes, so clear, go deep, Looked np in mine this even; Three pairs of lips kist&ed me a sweet “good-night Three little forms from heaven. ’ Ah ! it is well that “little ones” should love us It lights our faith when dim, To know that ouce our blessed Saviour bade them Bring ‘ little ones" to Wm. And said he nW "Os such is Heaven," and blessed And held them to his breast 5- Is it not sweet to kuow that when they leave Tie then they go to rest r ’ And yet, ye tiny angels of my house, Three hearts encased iu mine ; How't would be shattered if the Lord should say "Those angels are not thine!" J ’ THE PRAYER jOF THE LOVED. BY .f. H. W. * Oh, Father, keep me pure." Pure as the breath of opening morn, Which fans our cheek at earliest dawn, Pure as the fragrance which exhales From sweetest flower, when daylight pales. ' Pure as the incense which ascends From contrite heart, when lowly bends The suppliant knee before God’s throne. Whose childlike prayer He’ll ne’er disown. Pure in her life—her death so sweet— The angelic chorus with songs shall greet Her coming home to Heaven, with joy, Freed from the world and sin’s alloy. John Rock and Tony Knapp. —They tell a good story here among Western people, wherein a negro lawyer and a copperhead Congressman figure. The lawyer is John S. Rock ot Boston, and the Congressman is Anthony L. Knapp of Illinois. It appears that some weeks ago Mr. Knap accosted an other Illinois Congressman—Mr. B. C. Cook, of Ottawa—with “I believe Cook, you are the only man here who knows, of liis own knowledge, that I’m a member of the bar of the Supreme Court of our State ; and I want you to present me, some morning, for admis sion to the bar of the Supreme Court ot the United States.” “Certainly, certainly, Knapp,” replied Cook, who, by the way, is’a good Republican. Happening to meet on the morning of the first of this month, Knapp says, “Well, Cook, can you ’tend to that little matter of mine this morning?” “O, yes, come on.” So they went into tho chamber ot the Supreme Court, and sat in the bar waiting the assembling of the Court. Directly, also, followed them Sumner and John 8. Rock—taking seats qui etly, that needless attention be not drawn to the presence of tiffs negro. Soon came in the honorable the Supreme Court of the United States, who, bowing in stately fash ion to the few spectators, took their usual seats. Mr. Cook and Mr. Knapp rose, and the former was on the point of presenting the latter, when Charles Sumner’s voice was heard—“ May it please the honorable Court. I present John S. Rock of Boston, for ad mission to the bar of this Court.” “Let him be sworn,” simply said Mr. Chase; and all negro as lie was, he.advanced to be sworn. But Cook loves a joke—here was his chance. While this was going on, tho Democratic Congressmen of Copperhead tendencies stood staring in amazement. Just as the negro was stepping to be sworn, Cook caught Knapp by the arm with, “Now,Knapp,it’ll be your turn immediately after this gentleman.” with special emphasis on the last word.”— “No, if I’m d—d if it will,” exclaimed Knapp, as he rushed for the door. Tony Knapp, Congressman from Illinois, hasn’t Set been admitted to the bar of the Supreme ourt of the United States.”— Wash. Cor. Rochester I)em. SHIPPING HiTKLUGENCE. Cleared—Steamer U. S. Grant, Dohbs, Hilton Head. ' ANTED. It A furnished House, or three or foui furnished rooms in a house where there are no boarders and a small family. Any party having tho above will flud it to their advantage to address “WALTON,” Box 5, Savannah Herald Office. inli‘23—4 J^OTICE. A mass meeting of the Savannah Educational Asso ciation will he held at the Second African Baptist Church, Rev. J. Cox, Pastor, Wednesday Evening, March 22. CHARLES BRADWELL, mar2l 2 President. Headquarters, Dkpabtmknt of tiie Sorm, Hilton Head, S. C„ Feb. 23,15A5. General Orders, ) No. 24. f Lieut.'-Col. James P. Hall, Ist N. Y. Vol. Engineers, hanng been, on account of receiving leave of absence, temporarily relieved as Provost. Marshal General of this Department, iir General Orders No. 11, current series, from these Headquarters, and having since been promoted to be Colonel of his Regiment, now serving in the Department of Virginia, will turn over all rec ords and property pertaining to the office of Provost Marshal General, wnich he may have in his possession, to his successor, Lieut.-Col. Stewart L. Woodford, 127th N. Y. Vols., and proceed to the Headquarters of his Regiment. By command of Major-General Q. A. GILLMORE. W. L. M. Burueb, Assistant Aitj't General. CW. DENNIS & CO., s No. 6 Merchants' Row, Hilton Head, S c Wholesale and retail dealers iu BUTT ER. CHEESE, CIOAItS, CAKES, CRACKERS POTATOES, FLOCK, CANNED FRUIT anti MEATS, STATIONARY, HARDWARE, Ac &c. jan 10 ” JQRY GOODS. LATHROP, LUDINGTON & CO. a nos. 32G, 328 and 330 uroadwav, n. y., Have now on hand an Extensive Stock of DRESs GOODS, CLOTHS, WOOLEN GOODS, SHAWLS, PRINTS, SHEETINGS, HOSIERY AND GLOVES, WHITE GOODS, AND /JESTS’ FURNISHING GOODS, YANKEE NOTIONS, &c . , &c. Which they offer by the PIEOK OR PACKAOE, AT TIIE LOWEST MARKET PRICES, mar 4 lnj ,