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COLUMBUS. FKlttA f ,’DKC‘KIIBKH I*. IMI muw vummi Iu th Senate on Tuetday, the Military Com mittee reported a substitute lu tbe bill turning over th* Btat* troop* to the Confederate Govern ment, wbleh *u by • vote of thirty to three The House resolution fir ing Saturday, (he 14tb loat., m the day of adjournment was passed. A resolution Was adopted that a Committee of three from each IT-use be appointed to report a bill on extortion and monopoly} *a(d committee to report ae early a* practicable. In the H om, (Monday night Session,/ a tec tioo was incorporated in tbo General Appropri ation Bill appropriating f70(1,000 to pay any portion of’ the public debt that may fell due the current year Al, a * action authorising the Governor to issue bonds or treasury notes to meet any demand on the Treasury, which there may be no money to pay, said hands not to run looger then thirty years, and to be redeemable after two years. Also a clause authorising the Governor to draw his warrant on the Treasury for any amount neces-ary to meet uny *xpridi tures not provided for iu the hill. TtRSIMV’x HkftftiOW. A bill providing that the regulations of the State forces shall eon form in all respects to those of the Confederate Slates, was passed. A bill appropriating $25,000 to uujourage the manufacture of salt in this State, was pissed. (New for Prof. Thomsssey ) The House refused to concur in the Senate's amendment* to ty* bill providing for the transfer of the State forces to the Confederate Govern ment, (the Ben ate subs'i uto provides $5,000,000 for tbe public defense aud is silent In reftrenoe to the transfer,) Ompruaiic kntlilitM Offerril it Ike W,ril Cm |MK. Iu the Wellington Senate, on Wednesday, the 4th ins*., [be following preamble and resolutiot a wore offered by Mr. Saulsbury, of Delaware: Whirls, Jbe people of the States of Virgin!*, North Carotins, South Carolina, Georgia, Flori da, Aiabamu, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Ar kansas and Teniie-'.:oe. are in revolt sgaiust tbe Constitutions! G . <veMi merit of the United States, and have assumed tv secede fruin the I Union to form an in hpxndent Government, un dor the name of the (’mfodore'e Sta'es of Ameri ca; and wberi'ii<* the Cong re** of tbe United (Rates, approving tbe sentiments expressed by the President in hi* aunual mortage “that the Union must be preserved, anJ heuoo all Indis penssbio*means must be employed,” and believing that kind and fraternal feeling between the peo ple of all the States la iodixpenxablo to the inniu tunaiico of a happy and prosperous Union, and being willing to manifest such feeling on their part to tbe end (but may be restored to a distracted oountry, and the Union and Cunxti tutlon he preserved end mnlntninod, and tnvi tiug tbe o-ojerstion of the people of the afore •aid Stains m the acuomplirbtnent of objectx so beneficial to each aud all, do resolve ss follows h*iiivcd, A.c., Tbnt Millard Fiilmors, Frank - liu Pierce*, Roger B, Taney, Edward Ureiet* George M. Bails*, Thornes Kwing, Horace Ifin uey, fUVerdy’ Johnson, John J. Crittenden, | George K. Pu :b nnd Hidl’d W, Thompson b* and they sis Mfoby iipprduted, Commissioner* oa the part of Congress, to confer with a like number oft - ■rumisai mers to be appointed by the Btates ufr*ri s.dd, for ll>* preservation of the Un ion and the maintenance of tbe Constitution, and thaf they rep* rt the result of said Conform <*e to Congrcsi for approval or rejection. Resolved, That upon the appointment of Com miseioMors, a hereby invited, by said Mates, and upon tbe maetfog of tbe Joint Commission for tbe purpose (if conference as aforesaid, active hos tilities shall cease sod be ut<pended, aud shall * not be resumed unless said commission shall be unable to egret, or iu case of an agreement by them, said agreement shall be*rejected either by Congress or the aforesaid Htatr*. Mr. Summer, of Mms'i linsetti* objected to Stir reception of GipYcsolufirii *. Mr. Ua’e, of NtniTuiupshire, said tbe list of Comadaiumvr* iittiued wax v*;y good, but he suggestc•! that that of James Buchanan be ad ded. That would complete the list. The resolution was laid over intormally. The l-’eeling in Cuba. A correspondent of tbe Boston Daily Adverti ser, writing- fmoi Havana under date of Novem ber IS, says : “A* f“ tbe state of tec ling in this region, Cu bitus in general sympathise, as is well known, with the South. The more intelligent on board •kip professed their regret at the unhappy oou test now waging, and also professed sorrow that there should b those who, though they had been provoked, should be willing to devote to destruc tion so tlno a fabrio as the Union. Hut many were of the opinion that though numbers were on the side of the North, yet the South has energy aud determination and a unity of sentiment. - There were those, however, who professed already to see the North prove itself uo match for South ern arms and to look forward to au indsfinltuly prolonged struggle, with uo final result but in a recognition of the Cftitft demey. Tucroar* those here who openly speak of the tables being turned, and of an aggressive South, aud of a just rvtributi -u u‘ the bauds of tbe con quered. Tbe language of some Is excessively bitter. 1 uow speak of our countrymen, and a uiau Inara almost to express Union sentiments as he will provoke anything but n agreeable con versation. 1 l ave heard It several times Openly slated that there are three Confederate ships at Matausiis with tln-ir flags: that ships arrive aud depart tor Southern jiorb, and u Cuban friend ol miuv told me to day that a frieud of his from the South met him this mottling and wished him to ge about witb him sud iu erpret as he wax buy inf arras for the CoufodofaOj. It is said, alto that eouiuiaiidcrs here gone to Furopo to take eouiuai.'i iif u*vy prepurd ur them there, end that the blockade m iv.usuuwy evaded. Th* cause of the t iu ‘ii suffers terribly hero, aud tie* been much affected by the i overset it hat expo rt on eta. (l Hi* U.m thobfht that the Ks'Uth is gradually gelt tag the upper bend, thla iden *\'\ cggfcuMsftn ole it ft If to toreign eountrUs The North must pat .U eli i.or on erg ie*.” U Eilwnm Sun. The i*y vri. teeU.v exercised vesienlay with a report that ttett- Megmder bud telegraphed for ictiif r. > “i*'uu to top Hi'# eu opprohea.l. <1 attoek of tim enemy up *u the |>vuinuU, that an net* u body of tro p he i been lauded i Fortress Meoro* a., i Neap-rt New#, and that the GJreroar "U loitbwuh call into rcquiel lion the rvi.-< • wf the uw i'U in the counties ad jacent to York nud James R -vers. The sukjurt wee dle<?u*#J at tu* street corner*, and the utu al source* of “ltd! 1* * inielitgoiice” wcrebeseig ed with uk-ti’v that, ordinary perseverance. We era n t prepared to eay that the rumor wae altogether without foundation, though from the unusual gulttib*** . ‘* RH ial quarter* last night it might be interred ih it there war not much diepoaiti • to increase the outside com motion. We Lav* had *o many of the** sense tiocal rojrU tr io the i ouiuMtU. many of them started by th ougbUces individuals for no other purpose then to txcita the public mind, that we are constrained to caution the public egeiuat giving tau< h < cD*idoitLn to anything that has not the weight of official confirmation nr approval With regard to the pr amt topic, noOiiug b;t* been ascertained to give it tha im press of froth, and uffl .al iuforiuation laid* ua to tin belie! that it is very much exaggerated.— We have intelligence that 2,000 Federate ware ‘•ken away from PovtrtuMonr* e two days since o a Urge steamer, but their destination is not flared H'th. lJttpatck, 10. Thk Blocradrb*.-—The steam gunboat Flor ida, Uapt. Goldsborougb, and the steam gun bust Alabiima, together with a bark, ware ofl (his port yesterday. During the afternoon a large side wheel steamet—supposed so be the J hn P. King—oame down to the bar, and it is thought brought letters and papers to tbe fleet, ax she was just from some Northern port. She also appeared to have troops on board, no doubt for Fort Royal, as ws believe that a large reinforcement is being seut to that place. There was another large steamer ofl shore steering Southwest. The Husquebannah was nut in sight, and has probably gone to Port Royal for supplies. The strange looking craft wbloh was visible near the bar a lew days since, looking like a float ing battery or dry dock, could not be teen yee day.—Cl. Courier, 11. B-ii'ort U be trtipitd by 5,000 Nerl Iroupi, Naw Yon a, Dec. 2. Port Royal advices received here to-day,state that Tat nail’s attack on the 20th on the Federal vessels at Tybee Island was not worthy tbs name of battle, lie came with three or four vessels near enough to fire a few shots, which did no damage and immediately retired. Tybee Island was not yet occupied by our troops, but last (date not given) a party was sent from our vessels to light a fire on tbe share. The nation al colors are flying from the light house. It wax understood that Beaufort would be occupied on tbe 2Wth by five thousand Federal troops, to prevent the Confederates taking pos session of it. Preparations continue to be made for au exp* dition south, supposed to be against Fernand) ns. Fivs thousand troops are logo under the escort of the steamer Wabash, and tbe Dale, Pawnee, Mohican, .Seminole and six or seven other gunboats. Hat Abe LioroloT leuwp It KeeeireS n Wubiigtoi. The following'xpecial dispatch from Washing ton, we take from the New York Times The universal tnplo of conversation iu Wash ington to day is the President’s message. Opin ions about it differ ss widely as do the partisan preferences of tbe people. The ultra Abolition elements in Congress is sorely disappointed by the utter failure of tbeir efforts to engraft their principles either on the President's message or on any of the Secretaries’ reports. This clef sos politicians declare the message to be tame and ineffective. On the other hand, the moderate men of all parties are highly pleased. They are quite enthusiastic in praise of Mr. Liuuoln Knowing the tremendous pressure that has been brought to bear upon hiui, to swerve him from bis purpose, they declare that he is bow fully tried, and found the man of dimness necessary to bis position. “Haoorto .hom llonw Pm.” Eds. Sun: There baa been no time iu the bid s tory of our country, that oomptttni men are need ed so much iu office aa at present, aud especially iu our tax departments. As such I but render juttne to the present Tex Collector, Mr. J. L Howell, in stating that he has faithfully , homutly and ejjlcitut/y discharged his duties, which has elicited from Hie Comptroller, Mr. Tbweatt, the commendation that, in “hunting up and collet ting from defaulters, not on the digest, he had and lie better than any tAr OolUelor iu the Stmt a.” ! Uo collected tax fr< m defaulters, (persons who gave in n<< tux, and whose names did uot appear on the Kuoeivd?'* hook,) in 186 U, on sMl,ltiH, and iu I MO, on $->07,H00, and 177 polls, saving to tha Htate and Cuunty nearly his salary. He has given to the needy families of soldiers shnt) of his commissions, and expresses no desire to receive au extravagant salary, but is willing to icarX* for a sum • tmall at any cumpotent man eiU. He has been proven—and let us hold fast to that which is good. TAX PAYKH. Columbus, Ga., Dee. 12, ’Ol. to. Drug oa latoiiotiot Lii|Ur*. Gan. Bragg has issued the following order dated near Pensacola, Dec. H. The evils resulting from the sale of intoxica ting liquors in Pensacola have become intolera ble. More than half the labors of Court Martial result from it—demoralisation, disease and death often prove it. Our unit military executions have beam caused by it. We have lost more valu able lives at tbe bauds of the Whiskey Belters than by the balls ot our enemies. Tbe Commanding General han promised him self to return the tueu of this army to the moth ers, wives, and sisters who have rheefully sent them forth to repel the invader. In as good u moral coudition as be received them , to do this ho must dry up the fountain which supplies this stream of pollution, that all hi* vflorts have failed to eontrol. The domestic enemies, who have done us more hnnu by this traffic, than the foreign invader, shall no longer till their pookets by dealing out poison to the gallant men keeping watch iu front whilst they sleep quietly in their beds. The sale, or Introduction of auy kind of in toxicating liquor wlthiu live wiles of th* lines of this army is prohibited, unless under apeolal sanction of the Commanding General for medi cal purposes. By command of MAJOR GKN. Hit AGO. (Igo. G. tanssH, Asst. AdJ. Gen. fbtTmilt with Xexiro... Proposed lickugt f Pris oner. If. The Washington telegraphic correspondenee of the Now York llorald, uuder date of Decem ber 2d, says : In for mat loti has been received here that one clause in the treaty with the Mexican Govern ment provides for a loan of $20,000,000 by our Government, to be furnished in five annual sums us $2,(00,0DD each, iu return for the commercial advantage** aud transit of United Mutes troops through the Mexicuu territory, guaranteed by the treaty. The sum appears to me au iuadc- quid# nue if it ba iuteuded to relieve Mexico from her present difficulties. t-en. McClellan is alao undentood In have made the moat urgent representations to tho President in ia\ or of a regular and systematic ex* change of prisoners, demonstrating that tho in terest* of the country, no lea* ihau those of ibv army, to *uy nothing of the dictate* oi humanity required (hit. lie w II probably succeed in having bia \ tew* approved amt noted on. It is a subject of dtacuaeiuu here to-day, w beth el Ku laud will allow a veaael, with an unreoog nixed tUg, to roaiu the high seas, overhaul a no i ‘ .mi ship belonging to a friendly nation, naira her crew and chain them, burn th* ahip to the water'* edge, and then enter a Britiah port keeping hr piratical flag tiring at her uiast head. and tberalo remain, undo* British protec tion, to t>e repaired, r* tilted, to he allowod to aat aeil again to iwrpetuat* high crime* upon the sea*, against the law* of nations. Know CoU'mri a. W# have ad\ iota frota Cos luinhua (ay* tha Memphis Appeal of the Bth) that Won. Float of Missouri, with th* remainder ot his Cauip Jackson comrade*, had arrived,and wa* expo,-led would at ouoejotn tlen.Bowen.it Camp Beauregard. A rumor was prevailing on the Bth that a large force was moving from Paducah to Gener- j al B *waa who i* encamped with his brigade at Feliciana, Kentucky. There was considerable i sensation *( Columbus, and tha troupa were pr* ! paring io wove in considerable force, it wu generally expected, to r*-inforc* Gen. Bowen. A Kano Advarch.—The Northern papers t **y that McClellan is now advancing at tlie rate of"‘one hundred yard*” a day. We have ofU-a heard of a “snail's gallop” but baveuever ku-.wu tha phrase Illustrated ou so grand a scale. j) MF” A letter whs shewn u* to-day dated * Btrasaburg, V#., Dee. fltii,” from a member of the gallant Ist, Georgia Regiment of Volunteers, so that tbuy arc not en route for Manassas, as ws stated yesterday, but more probably tbetr des tination is WifH-hester. Tbe regiment is spoken of as to good health after a fourteen days marnb CifT. D. B. Tuouosox —We learn from a prlva’s letter received in this city that this gen tleman has resigns l his office in the army and will be horns in a sow days Pwow Tvm k.—A large -foam transport came over tbe bar on Saturday afternoon, and on yes terday about one thousand troops were on Tybee Island. ParMe# of them havirg approached ‘he upper end of the Island, and growing rather nob I in thrir uiovruienfo ft shell was thrown at (bom from Fort Pulaski, whi. h cause j them to scatter precipitately. Th* large vessel hereto fore mentioned *• ashore near tbe light hou/oi, is still in the saint position, and the Y ankcos were -eon exiting something Irmn her yesterday. K'gbleen of the enumy’s vessels were inside the bar ysi-urdey afternoon three id them are warste&mwr*, and most of the bulxnce appear to bo old bulks, such os’ compose the Yankee ibs fleet - Yir. /so/. 9(1, Flog Tvbsr. - We learn by the hl'i that th* entire Lincoln fl>t off TANARUS) bee, except two steam era, had all sail -ot yosterdjy forenoon, appar ently getting ready for turn; but from some came failed to go out. ibo Y'aukees on tbo island can be tem from the Fort mounting pick* t guard etery morning, and yesterday the garrison seemed vastly amused over a dog tight on tbs beach—very ap| r .priatc employment for the brutes. It is thought the two old veesela run *hore some days ego were intended to form a tempo rary wharf for tboii hiumU bouts to land at.— Socaniu’h Jlfmbiit >n, lOfA. Caiamoi nut at I’stMCAit.—Tbe mammoth wharf-bout nt Paducah, belonging to D. G. Fowler dt Cos., which had been scllcd by the Lincoliiif <**, and used ns a depot for commis sary stores, sunk at the I nditig, a few days since, with about 800 tons of sugar, coflVe, flour nod provisions generally. The Lincoln iten charge that it wax scuttled by the “srccdi rs.” They should keep n better watuh in fu ture, and we understand there are a few more left in Pnducuh only waiting for a similar op port unity NtwpU\* Ap. Thu Rioter tWHO don* at Last.—A despatch from Kuuxville to the Louisville Courier says th*notorious Wm. O. Brownlow has ben arres ted and imprisoned toaw.ii? hi* trialJor tr*aoo. Brownlow is ambitious of being in-.do a martyr, and has and <tie everything he well could to pro voke thD result. 11* should be tried and hung if found guilty This is a country where Imjo doiu of ppucch and opinion is guurwn'c and, but when a man abm-ec x I-gal right, afid prostitu tes if by Stirling up rebellion and tu-king war Upon b(s government, It is perfectly ju*t xud oonffetunt that he be punisbud for lliu act. JtKATn or Hiv. If. 11. DcfiAxt. A Urge circle of friends will he pained to learn of the death of this able and p polar Minister of the Methodist KpLcopat Church, .South, lie • iodat Bpartanlkiirg, S. ('., on Tuesday mo rning. Hods Large qiinntitfes of swine are arri ving nnd departing now daily, and they all ap pear to Ih- iii lire! rate condition. The supply scetiiH to bo abuiufant and vve hope the present exhorbitnnt price* will not be much longer maintained. We learn that there are thirty lliom>aud now at Chattanooga awaiting ship ment by the Western and Atlantic Railroad.— At. Com. --e m ■ • ** A correspondent of tbo New Orleans Delta X'ljs that dog hide* make tbe best sort of leather—equal ty calf fcicir We advise the planters to try the experiment on a large scale especially those who intend to lio rease their pro duction of wool. Lincoln hn* appointed a collector for ReauTort which he has made a port ot entry. — There will be x groat many more “entrances” “oloaaßi.ee*” xt that port. Thoro is plenty ot South Carolina ground in the neighborhood for “hospitable graves. ’’ GeneritlTriipiar,commanding Middle and East Florida, reached Tallahassee on Wednesday last direct from Fcrnatidlna, where bo has been on. gaged in inspecting the deftmeia for - >iuk time in course of erection on the Island. He is no companivd by thefollowing Staff officers Major R. 11. Anderson, Adjutant General; Muj John Bern well, Inspector General Ordnance; Captain R. (J Pinckney, Brig. Quartermaster, Captain Joseph Heyward, Ald-de-Camp ; Captain J. I! Heyward, Aid-do OainpjCapttln A. Hume Luca/, Aid-de-Camp. General Trapler will make Tal lah a-see hit headquarters. I,fid in South Western Georgia. Me never looked for m.-talic discoveries it. South-Western Georgia, regarding almost the whole of country, including Florida, as si luvium . hut Mr. Massenberg brougb us yester day fifty trail.s of pure lead extracted from sixty grains ot ore from South-Western Georgia, by Dr. Mattauor, of this city. A large lump of the ore was submitted t) Mr. Maisenborgby this dis coverer, who says there is plvuty of it of equal rich nos/, and it whs at Mr Masson berg's request that Dr. Mattauer tested it, with the icsult wo have mentioned, which shows the ore to be about eighty per cent, pure lead—as rich, wo thiuk, as any in the world. We are unable to say anything more about tbe lovnhty of the mine than what wo have stated, but if what is said about it is true, it is an exceedingly interesting and important dUoovery. particularly at this lime.— Macon 7rt tyrnph. The river trade has not yet opened, and busi ness generally is dull. Few sabs are taking place, except in the retail trade, pork, fresh, is held at to l ‘ out its; small lots have changed hand* at these figures. Flour on ihe decline . talcs light. Butter has ooiuo down from oi and 40Vnt to dtl and with still a downward ten dency. The aniea iwAUgar and niolas c*are light in consequence of an apprehension of a decline in price*. We ranks the fellow dig quotation* : Bacon, none in market* hard 2A Oy stock light Flour $S 50 to V 00. CurtrdOf.. -oc.: Oat*, noon in market; Wheat ft 2b to 1 40, supply liifht ; Corn Meal h i a TOc: Salt N ;'j bush.— ChurtitH ioya (•’?. ItK Caleb t ushie/, it is etateil, has at last nceived hia commission s* a Brigadier General in Uld Alw-'s *my We believe Caleb is the man who in ihe Chariesti.u Conventi >u, voted for JU. Bavia for President because Breckinridge was not sutHciently Southern. Captain S. J. Short, Ist* of the British army has we learu, received the appointment of Ao ting Adjutant General in the Confederate Army with tho rank of Major, and baa Won ordered to report to General Lee. Professor Lowe’* balloon ‘‘Constitution” was shipped from Washington for Beaufort, S. C. on | the afternoon of tbeMßb ult. | Capt. Powell, C. 8. A., formerly of the U. S Army, and reputod to be a skillful artillerist ha* j arrived in Mobile and taken command of Forts Morgan and Gaines, to which be was appointed i some days ago. The Fifteenth New York Kcgimeut have bed an exhibition of pontoon bridge making before Gen. McClellan. Three cr four hundred feet of India rubber bridge were thrown over Hast Branch. A company marched ever in double quick time, and loaded wagons were driven over’ Four iron wagon bodies, fastened together with a rubber and wooden frame, were loaded with fif ty-two soldiers and paddled oaarly across. t OLI MHti, MTI Bl*Al UF.CKMBKK 14, I Mil. Cipt. TbaßpOl |( flofflr We are glad ‘u see Ospt. D. B. Thompson once more in ur mi ‘st. We imagine he is not look ing so we I as wheu he lett. Ws have not learn ed whether hie resignation hat been accepted.— It is a p ‘y that bis r cmt heitvy pecuniary los should h*v-f ieprived theefuy of to gNlloat s soldier Grorgit te^iilalare. The Scnetn on Tuesday sod Hi H u->e on YVedri(t<l> -pp-intrd • .-uu.u.rts* us Con teroiwe to report a bill to pr vide for the public defence We hope that some thing iNtUfaci. i ■ may result from this .irrxnge uent. Ti.e ll .u-u pHS-ed M hill aulborizing the Wes tern and Atlantic Ralilosd lo issue S2UU,UOU in change bills Are a foil su'borising the Pal ac Mills, in this city to iau* charge bills *nd legxlliii g be l- u already made Bkwahi> Ph HHKri%a —At a late serenade to Csmeron and ewxrd, it is slated that only tbe Into r appealed He simply coin pi linen ten the music, ands xted that in ten days tbe coun try w> u r.j trr at gnat news The Cabinet. We übjdu tbe following facts and (sn'-iet ot th Wash'ngtou corrrspondsdit of lbs Yanker press, ar.iiog under dateofibe ftrt'b ultirn • It cannot bo dtsgu sod ‘bat (be Cabinet is very sorely > higrined and dtxxpp inttri a* tbr ibsution ot Gen Bhermxu. It was expect-d that be would at or.no push for He ln*rlor, occupy Beaufort, sh so tbe Cbarleston at and Havsnnat r*ilrod, bum the bridge* aud forrify himself be t.wecn tbe two rivers before the enemy could re cover from tbeir panic and eon* entrete. Isstesd of this be h settled don spatbetically at Hil ton Head. 1 1* regularl yw th which our gen erals topple over a/ ft as the government sag them up, is Di'Uii'itmly to retire, upon. Gcnefil McClellan recently addressed a letter to Gen. Bleu a r containing such expressions disp'e.ttiiro that h lii er w-.s pilled n re sign, wit cb be did on ‘nr 2.Y h iiis'hu'. Fisu<) aud rp< cuhi >n, n as Ih is) psi lion, ere charged a Bins'. Blcnkt* J'ers* n w#H t■f rm and toy the Cabinet srenda tour to three Mgwinvl freoug tbe rlxver end p t linger.u. io i!--if ion. I* to pul d-.eu -etteiU.,l*. G> iicial Cameron aid Becretaii*-* Cte-e and VVellos favor If, xud .Seward. Botes. Blair ono ■Suii.h oppose i Th ( nioat bitter opposition i made i.y Snii'b M.sir and Beward. The Presi dent is understood to favor x, though he ha* no* yet c u e - 111 Ike the Cubical mrinber-. Anolbrr Brush in tbe Sshnil. otVtOIAI. tkCiST. Cspt. Myers, of the 8 gunboat Orsgoti * v ordered hy Gon Lotail t * proceed to Handsltor ougb, for Ibe purpose of bringing over to thr city the powder m II nbiob bad been estaulisheo xt that piaiM. 1 bis object was ecrotnpiisbrd by Uapt. Myom. . In executing it he bad ibe lilth skirm.sh which is related in the following re port : C. S GuaaoAT Obboom, (sou. fl. Ma.ton Gkn. L<*vki l, Commandiog T>eparunen( No. 1, Niw Orleans, La (jtiu>'> -WTitle lying at Harrison's whari Mfssipjfi (Tty, at about 1 P. M. f yesterday, th* C. H. gnnb *at Pamlieo, Capt. D.-tn-r Command lug, ran iu a*d u >.tiled u< hat ibe enemy were appreat hiog, and to prepue.r an attack. Tbe weather ws* so hazy lfo.it a \easel could baruiy be diatinpuuhed at live u<tier ai-iao<-c. home ol my tueu ring ashore, akiug iu water, I wax de l.,e l II ‘teen minutes, thus pjriuilliug the enemy to appr ach within tour uttlva of ib** wbart be fore I could gel uuder way. The Psuiliuo and Oregon then stood out to meet them, aud wbn out about a rniie end a half Iruiu (lie a hart, a three masted propeller aehu.-ie opened on us with her nflevl gun, au i firati ibree •Leila, touch short of our I “}a. Being wi.hiu two miles ot each other, pul the boat ab- u‘ iu order to bring our rifled oaunon to bent, and (he Pamlico aud Oregon fire*! e uuuiter of shot at the schooner, which she rap idly (t< kiiowl< dgn*i, when she suddenly declined tbe • “iobat,and coueluding to haul ofl.ixn away to the sou hwestward under he gm * of a large KtuaiQ brig ul war and in the end put down (he ffouiid to the cast wurd. The brig returned to the fleet ofl Bhi{i Island aud I returned to Mis sissippi City aud oomp.eted tbe business at which I was engaged when iuterrupted by the Linuolnites. I.ieut. J D Ramey, commanding th* rifled gun. handle lit ve<*y coolly, and made some good pra- lice. Praise is due also to the detach ment of (.'apt lioskin's Company (Brookbaven Artillery) Mississippi Volunteers, for their read iness and ardor in the fight. I cannot let this opportunity escape of thank ingCap'. D"tier, C. 8. N , commanding the Pamlico, tor bis thoughtful afientiou in giving me warning and for remaining iu uoiupauy as long a* 1 was at Mississippi City. ] am, General, very respe*(fully, Your obedient servaut, A. L MYKRB, Commanding Oregon. Tub Mortality r Picrbw*.— A dispatch whs received in this city on Saturday last from a ntival officer at IVnsncola, which mny throw some light on the harm done to the enemy in the lute engagement. It rays that a deserter from Fort Pickens reports that sixty three men were killed, nnd a large numler wounded in the ion hy (fen. Hrngg’s fire, and (hat General Brown hunaeif is among the wounded What credit due to the statement we are iiouhleto say.—Nie. llrp , \> U. Thk Static or Kt aura. Tha summing up of the latest foreign advices gives a viw of a moat disturbed state in Kumpenri affairs. Hungary lx threatening an outbreak; ifoland is revolu tionary ; Au tria has trouble enough pending, th* User . t all the Russians ix unhappy, with good reason; Itaiy Is ready for war, aud Gari I aid a may set about it. This the Chfoago Tri buna pronounces a very sufficient reason why foreign powers maintain quiescence as to Ameri can difficulties. A own krou ArursiA via Nnw York—A . orrespondent of the New York World writes as follow* from Hilton Head ■ 1 lean) from an unquestionable authority that a panic has reign*. I in Savannah over since our viot. ry. The w. men and children have left the city aid fled Into the Interior of tho State, and so t ‘ < >vt was the influx of strangers into Augusta that the Mayor has issued a proclamation against further immigration, and hundred* of families Hr* now cjinpiug around that city. ~ - m * A Gam ant VoLrrrarn.— The Atlanta Oon tederacy say* Mr. Eli Hoyle of DeKalb county, first man that Sherman's celebrated lottery at tbc great battle of Manassas Pfkini, is promoted tu a position in the .Seventh Georgia Kegiuient that the ranka as Lieut. ColtyieL Mr. 11. went as private after having failed to get a n company in from Stone mountain of whi< h he was Captain Akhrmt or a Lincoln RicivitissOrrtcix. -Garrett Hall, formerly of Morgan county, Telia , but who has been for a me months with the Lviat Tennessee Lleeoln troops in Ken'ucky, was arrested In that county on Monday last, and brought to this oitv by Confederate troops. We understand that, when arrested, he was acting in the capacity of a recruiting officer for Lincoln’s army in Keatcky. He is represented as a despe rate man, and iu makiugthe arrest be was shot by one of tha Confederate party, but, we learn, not severely wounded. Considerable curiosity wa* manifested by the eitiiens on his arrival— everybody wanting to get a peep at th* “mule/’ He was lodged in the elty Jail—[Knoxville Reg. 4th. Wbj C*l. Hulk SipurwiM C. Priff. A Kicbmond eorrespondeii. l the Charleston Couriar gives tbe I...lowing expiamtio, ot the announcement * ungrateful to tbo countiy that Gen. Price had been superseded in the command In Missouri by an alntost unknowu Virginia offi cer VYaut’ vm ti.e reasons, tbe luot it a subject of deep public regre’: Prtsi lent Davis, ( is ss <l, has appointed Col on* I IL-sih, n win Weornru Virgioi**, and inajot General, end will assigu him the u mmand ol Mi-*snur<. He will ‘bus su,.esele b-> h Prie and McCulloch. /wn sppretteuston rxiits tha l thi* action will cause ill feeiii g < n ibe part id the i-uperse ied officers towards the Government. Tbe Preside Us reasons for xndi. g Gen. llealt to Missouri ere - mpl> thes*—ami it is well that they should be xt olive uod< rstood — an uiifortn nate j-'alousy nr .se sometime ago between Priet an* 1 McCulloch.—The feeling extends to the res pec-ive fores under the.r command To such extent has h ■ (eud gone that McCulloch refused to c -operate wi h Gen. Price at'ertb* battle ot Bpr-ugtiold, and tell bo* k in". Arkansas. Mis souri ha* just been sdui.lied into the Confederacy. If tbe Pres dii’ app.iuel si'lnr Price OT McCuilovh Coniiuundcr in Chief in the State, the act would produce dissatisfaction in the eommand of Hie disxpp innd rival To settle tbe diff <• .‘i*, ih* Presid**n ha* sen’ o to. Heath to ruhk noil* i e new G ncrai is hot well kn-eii beyond some trivial comp4igni> g in W- s tern Virginia. ll* is eu i ried hy the President, however, end I mu not so-h to say that with su b eu iors iu at, I for one am satisfied with his competence to coinin tiid in the g'i*t field to which he i The militsiv eye and axprir.eho-d j idgemsnt of Jctforx n Davis never deoeivrs him _ of Ilvii til Slidell A(i|iroi(d. Mr. Secretary Veils speaks *>ut I k a man, taking be bull boldly by th horns In a syn opsis ol bis naval report, published in (he Rich mond Etamider <d Monday, we find the follow mg Os the re.nure us Messrs. Mas >n and Slidell on board tbe Kngiish *temer l ieu , rhe .-.arretary •ay ibe prompt and dtci/tve > lion of Captain Wilkes uicriied aud received the emphatic spf-r - val of me Dt-p.irtiuvni, aud, if a iou generous for bearance ws esbiidted by him I>< not capturing tbe v* *im i wui. it b.io th* ae rebel rice. • son board it uixy, iu view ot (be special .iirsr, and of i• pa ri.itit* motive*, Ue excise ; t.ut it must by uo means be permitted to o Ksiitu r • prece dent hercet nr t- r >l.v (rearßurnt H any case ot similar ihgoski. uui o. bust obligation* by lor eigo v.-rselsef gJged •* ■ -mmercr of th* carrying trade. Th, 111, Skirnbb Xcw Iteufurl. In our oius *f the V b invt., wm alluded to u eoilissfon w* fcn > t-a cm my and 8- uih Cm rohua Cavalry. I ,ku*m i . i,mv vevurred as follows . On (bed li. at dai m , a detat'httientnf tha moun ted regiun ii , undvr C"UiuauU > I Col. W. h. Mar tin and Afoj-r G W, Cwa,d, er-a vd over Pr; Royal Ferry, uud* r oidvia Uiuu.p.i* the burn ing of Cottou i • uimeiio*d ten day* proiuuxly by Captain S. Hoot, <d ih Ifoauu.rt Volunteer Ar tillery. Col Mai'iu, with lan guides, one ol whom was (‘apt. U. Bar uwell, eud ten no n, pro >-ed**i toward” R -awfort, while Major Oswald brougui ou ibe reutuiudor ot the detachm- nt of titty men. When witbiu three quaric s<d a mile of the t"WO, in pe*-.i i darkness, rfo ir udvnu-'ed party under the Colonel, were fired opou by tU* eue nay's pick eta, at tbe Ueiauoe of about thir.y yards- Ol the Boutu Caroline troop**, Captain Bara weft was Wuuudod By tbe return ot the j fire it is supposed twu *d ibe enemy were killed. The Sou ill Carol in a cavalry reuisim and tw< nty four hours on (he isiaud, and completed tbe work whiobtUey were aem to de. There is soaroely any cotton left ou ;bo Is.and. We have he*id grautying accounts of tie gel lam bvbevicr of a >.uog a*u ul tbe Cofouel ot tbe Regiment, h private iu Captain W. M. li >x tick’s >ompi,y ol cevtslrr, but our intormation is meagre, aud we would he glad to fouru more Will any who were tin ihe *xpumin tavor us with i./ ~.S ,i. Atu't. atm\i mu Wei Xtraci ih** allowing (r*.ru die New Orleans ot ihe Cbariet-li r. Ct-nmr ot Dec. 4th ; It bae b, u a JUizle lo nuai } bow Prue. wilb- OUI govn i,mental resourcer, baa managed to subsist a considerable army in a.country almost and soiated. Ilia system is uot known in the “Kegulationa.” lie never complains ol a waut of transportation, wUvUiar he tx about to move teu miles or a huudred.milea. lie pays tor what be takes in Missouri htate scrip. Ilia uteu go into eorn fleids, shell (be corn, shuck it, take it to mill aud bring it into camp grouud mto ukmi Or should they have no tl ur. they take the wheat from the stack, thrash it tbvuixwlvea, or witb bor es aud oxen, and ax with tbe c ru ask the aid ot the miller .o le.iuoe it to (four rtuob an aruiy can g” where lbey pl<.s*s id an sgri cuiimai country. My iuforiu-tui c u. pH res the dev otiiiu of (be uou to hiUi, and llieir confidence in Kim, as tqiial to tbe regard of the eider Na poleon's armies tor th"Liitle Corporal,” Thu is a high tf> lupliment, c •iniug as it does from a prute*siuual soldier, au eivss of West Point. General MoCu locb has gone iu(w winter quar tors at f ayettevifte, Aikauxas, whether of his owu choice or under orders I rum his superiors, ix not kn< wu. The lad weather m this etty and Stale has be. u remarkably mild—a bieasiug to the poor, many of whom would be hard put to hud fuel tor au mclcmeut season. Me have not yet had over luree or lour days to need tires. Green peas aud new potato* s, grown iu open air, have been iu market s*,iue (;uie. Ihe warmth ol tlie weather is illustrated by the singular tact that ibw greou vaua is uow kuoe high, a-* high ~x it usually is iu May. Ibis excess ol sect.ud growth *u*l i*r.<ve very u jeriuuxp. ihu urop uext sea •oil. Tue pre.sv.ut crop, wbareVei y u o lu..v nmi to the ronviary, m one ol the u* pn.'ih ~i u tbe m **i, evoi ground in the i tale. An acre ot dear cane is yielding inree hogsheads, and with aoorn crop betweeu the roars, two hogsheads are made to (he acre. C HALM KITE. Oat.r a Hi mor The Wdmiugtou Jourua , ul Wedneedav last, turnub** the annexed un der th* htffid of ‘'rumor*;” We heard rumor* Uatuight up the r*>*U about moxemeut* of Northern troops on the Sounds North of Cape Look ut. It ie probably that a porn nos their troop* Law got im.. the village of Fortstteunth, ou Uu ounty i.auks and ou the S. u.h side Oorucoko lu;vt, with the viuw oi Wtuiciiug i .tie, and that the grea ter portiou of ta t Uatteraa have moved farther up the beach, aud will in aillikelihood put op huts. Vt e could nt find any firm found ation for a rumor that a large number of Yankee gun boats were iu th* Sound, and that they had * large force with which to over ruu Hyde coun ty and parts adjacent. There is doubt con •tderable anxiety prevail* in that section of the Stale, along the ahoros of Jhuufico Sound, extending even to Albemarle, from the fear that the Linoetnitea may come with nufflcient force to get possession of Roanoke Island, and con sequently to control the navigation of Craton sound Kkrlan, th a Haao The stockholders of the Raat Tennesste and Virginia Railroad have* adopted a resolution pensioning Keelau, the brave defender of the bridge at Strawberry Plains, as follows: $25 j>er month for one year from the date of bis wounds, and thereafter sls per;month for th* term of his life. If be recovers, and is alia to resume hia post as watchman of th* bridge heiato retain hia situation, at hi* former salary, in addition 1 6 his penaion. Floyd'* Brioadr — A report, aay* the Rich mond Dispatch of th* 6tb, is current that Gen. Floyd’s command has been ordered from W’es- t *rn Virginia toanothar important post of duty. A \otmrtkj lifitlul. A short time -ince it was announced ; hat one of our Augusta companies, then in Wginia, was saißv in want of blanket*. One of our citizens, who was assisting in the collection ot the necessary articles, sent word to a friend that he would forward a lot in a day or two, and anted bis friend to forward h : a contfibu liou at the same time A negro girl who was present when the message came, immediately disappeared, and soon returned with a very tine new blanket, which her master had re cently given her. (and, we are informed, At was a superior article,) saying : ‘‘Here master, is a gift for Mars. William, who is suffering from the cold in Virginia. I hope you will send it with your’s sir.” Her master advised her to retain it—that she might need it herself, but the faithful servant instated upon making her contribution, saying that she could get along well enough with her old ones This i* no fancy ►ketch hut a reali ty--and “Mare. William” is now, douh'lesN, enabled to sleep more comfortably m the cold winder li ght* of Virginia, through the kindly consideration of Heine, for such is the name of the faithful negrevs whose good act we have recorded, a* an evidence of the devotion and even patriotism ofour negroes —Augusta Oo**t. Cud* luifwttr;. The necessity of something to give u* light In place of the oils aud fluids we have been in tbe habit of using, is booming every day more pressing The consumers of kerosene fin and the art-ole Wing re d*.*- and interior in quality, will be glxd t” resort to tallow candles f< r light. A candle manufactory in this city, on s scale com tuei.Hu x'e with the demands ■•( tbe community, is therefore a JsuUraium Mr. J V. Clark, of llatuhurg, h.ir given b.s attention to this business of lair, and Hn* now, as be believes, gotten up au arti ie of <j ; .n He which will fully meet the wan's and wishes of the people. A few days xiae* be gave u-•'me specimen* of hi* make, aud we have given tbt m a fair ai <1 moat satis factory trii! Th< y give a pare steady light, do not -rn >We, and will t urn mu.-h l-.ngrr than tbe “star” cand.e. If all Mr ('lark’s uxDttfks* turs ..re t>* good as h.*se he gnve us, bis surcesr is certain. Mr. C. enc <ursge* ux to hope that he will start a candle tuatiuf ict.ry n this city; aud a* ha intiiuttcs ;bi’ his terms witi be reasonable, we bop- be wil> set ah.H it with tbe lea*’ p .ssible delay. I'h* people. al>b>>ugh not in nieutal darkness, are u m st physically *o, and are get Hog elaiaorous fr ‘‘wore ligb>.” —Aug ata Ch >. PasaaTTCHian Gbxbkal AHaaai.T.— A por tion of Tuesday night’s session wss taken up with remarks nf Dr Jones on Doonviio MissioM. Dr. I'uru* r moved that ihe General Aaeembty req lest Dr Jones to prepare a pxstorial address to the colored people, which tnoii>,n ws* finally adopted. Yesterday morning the C->n>n* Gte on charters made a report recommending that application be made to some ol the State Lcgis'aturvs for acts of incorporation of Hoads ot Trustees empower ing them in hold property belonging to tie Church. ibe LYttituittee on Foreign Missions again pro.eMed their f* port which had been recom mitted to them, with ameudments—a portion wax adopted, locating the Permanent C minittee on Foreign .Missions at Col'iuihi.-t, 8. C. Action on the remainder of the report deferred A resolution wns bdopted fixing (he time for holding ihe next meeting of the Assembly, on the find Thursday in May, lHfl2. Several cities were nominated as locations for holding ihe nxt Mwivn, hur n choice wis ni.**l-. lav Socthbrs Exi'kbsn —Nbw and In VO a raxr Ci arcrii*N. - Wear* glad to leatn, and we r-- sure tbe community generally will be equally pfoasid si the aun< ui-cement, that tbe Southern Hi press Company h*\e cfle- led a very satisfactory Arrange no nt with the Mobile and Great Northern Railroad Company, by which they are able to forward aud receive express mat ter (aily over the road, eoiiuec'ing at Moolgorue ry for all poiutx North and East. They have als - established a branch office at Pensacola, aud are now setidiug large quantities ot express freight, packages, e'c.. in charge of (rusty mec seugers over the same doe, by the Alabama and Florida real, ai b which tbe Mobile and Great Northern r>*od connects at Psimetto. Th* Southern Express Company is admirably officered aud msuaged, aud we cou.ratulate tbe public upon this entension of their facilities nt s great transportation agent. We are particularly pleased that they are u<-w able to include Pen sacola m their list of regular *ts mu,— Mobile Rtgisttr & A<l<itut’. —— i— • Prisoner* Pent Orr.—Forty-eight tories were sent off yesterday morning to Tuscaloosa, AU , tube bald there till the end of the#war.— These are part of the disaffected East Tennes seans who have beeQ arrested in the last few weeks by the military authority. Among these prisoners wax Sain'l Pickens, State Senator, from Greene. Cocke, Sevier and Blount coun ties.- Knotrviile Hrgisttt. Swzarino in a Kattlrsnasr.--,A friend of ours, just from tha State of Missuri, says the Nashville Banner, who was relating some of the incidents of ramp life there among the volun teers, told the following which we consider * orth mentioning: A squad of • Idiers ah> were detailed on some sc ming duty, heu returning to camp ■'ame across a large rattlesnake lying in tbe middle of the read. They immcdiatelv surroun ded it, and were about to kill with their bayo nets. when one of the party proposed that they should drive it into camp and have s* me sport with it. Another of the soldiers who was slightly overcome in c.o * queue* of frequent drinks ‘rent hi- canteen, whi h contained something a -hadestronger than water, sesmed suddeuly in spired with an idea in regard to the db-poxal of the reptile. “I’ll tell you uiy boys, what we ought to do with him.” “Well, what is it?” they all replied, know- ing that said igdfridual ♦* sometimes guilty, when, in hia cups, of original'ideas. “Why,” replied he. “swear him in and let him go.” The Columbus (Ky.) News say* that maay •lave* are escaping in Western Kentucky. They dy to the Lincoln oamps aud are at once har bored and aided by these dear friends of Ken tucky, The Federal Supreme Court assembled at Washington on the 2d instant. Preaent— Chief Justice Taney and associates Clifford. Grier, Wayne and Catron. No business was done, and th* Court adjourned. A \aw WattoCvre Chills.— lt is stated that a soldier of a Mississippi regiment, at Pen sacola, went to hia tent and blankets the ether day to right through au. ague. A bottle of hot water to put to his feet not being convenient some of hia eomradea went out and picked up one oPtbe numerous shells Col. Brown sent over during the bombardment, heated it at tha flrd and put it to bed with the sick man's feet. Un happily, the shell had loat its cap, but bed no t exploded. The beat of tha camp lira accom plished what Lincoln pyrotechny had failed in— to wit an explosion. The tent was blown to pieces and aoma of the men a little hurt and greatly astonished. We are happy to laaru that no ona waa killed by the mishap. Th# Kufaula Spirit of the South aays it is ru mored that some persona in Barbour county have been engaged in shipping ootton from Ku faula to Columbus and thence to Apalachicola, whare it la clandestinely conveyed to the enemy's vessels to be carried North. Thle matter should be looked into. COLCRBni. MtkNft.%T. I)F< KVRKR I. IHfil. F'rom the Cbas. Mercury, 12lb. The Great Fire io Charleston. This morning dawned and eanly upon a night of terror and disuMer. About nine o’c’ock last evening the alarm ran out, calling ‘he cili /.ens to quell the beginning ol a tire, which, in he subsequent extent and rapidity of as ruin ous sweep, will compare with tbe ifioxt terri ble conflagrations which have ever visited the American oOMtineut The wild work ot the flames and the imnjui*e destruction of prop erty which has thus tar taken pfoee, is chiefly attributable lo the sudden and uufortunate chauge in the w. ntber, which occurred almost simultaneously with the breaking out of tbe lire. The mild and spring Ike calmness of the atmosphere during the last fortnight was bro ken by heavy gus'M of wind, which swept the dust and smoke aud >park* hither and thither in blinding cloud*. Great flaming bits of wood were borne in dense showers for a distance of nearly a mile in a soul h west dir* cHon, and the whole city was hr ghtly lit up by (he dreadful and widening glare. Before ten o’clock the tire had begun raging in several different points in the lower part of the city. The building* in the stricken neigh t>orboods were mostly of wood, old, closely built anj surrounded by small out buildings ot an exceedingly inflain<tble character. As ten ement after tenement was first licked by and then enveloped in the last spreading flames, the panic became awful. The fier* e and roar ing march of the flic was a horrible scene; but far more heartrending was the aight of hundreds—-we ought, perhaps, to say thou lands—of poor and bewildered families, driven suddenly from their homes, destitute even of their scauly effects. All tbe available carls, drays, handcarts and wbeeluarrows, were Im- mediately brought into requisition; but these were inadequate to remove even a tithe of the moveables beyond the reach of the devour mg elements. * Towards midnight the fire had assumed pro portions of appalli g magnitude. Thecircum Terence which it embraced was such as toren <ier the most desperate efforts ofotir entire fire brigade of comparative insignificance. The regiments from the Race Course came down at double quick to the burning Wardj, and co operated most earnestly and indelat gably iu the labors of our undaunted firemen. But Hill the northeastern gale tanned the die with its desolating breath, and the people began almost to despair of checking (he progre-s of the dis aster. From the precincts of .Market, Hast Bay and Stai- streets, the court a ration had now reached Meeting and Quern streets. The terror of the families (in menjr cases without their usual protectors, owing to the military exigen cies of the timej was contagious, and much farther up into the city the work of packing up valuables ami getting ready to desert their tiouiesteads became general. To give anything like a. full account of the results, of what will hereafter be known as the Great Fire of ISOI, in the contusion and gene ral consternation that prevail’ while we write, is manifestly impossible. Many portions ol the burned district are quite unapproachable, and it is exceedingly difficult, at this time, to glean any accurate informs on whatever in regard to the enormous lo'*e* which have oc cuired VV'e must content ouroeite* therefore with giv.ngotir sonny note* jo ted down at various hours during the night. Ten o’clock The lire began in Ku**el &• Cos s sash and blind la. lory, at the foot of Has sell street, and the report—ibough a vague one --is, that it appeared in three places at the same time. Crossing to the other side of Has sell street, it has burned Cameron Ac Co’s im mense machine shops, aud, under the impulse acquired at that point and the stiff breeze from the northeast, without a mffleieut supply of water—lor it is dead low tide- it has become 1 totally unmanageable, and roges without the I hope ol being able to arrest it, eice| t a cer i lain strategic points, upon which extraordina- j ry interest depend. Eleven o'clock—The outbuildings in the rear of Institute Hail have been set on fire by ‘ the sparks The arention of the firemen is directed thither and they are straining every ! nerve to sate Meeting street. The framed j buddings on Queen . treei are smoking and will I presently blaze forth Twelve o’clock—Meeting street, from Mar ket to Queen, is one mass of dame. The Cir- j cular Church and Institute Hail are burning. i The Mills House is thought in imminent dan- j ger, while the fire seems stretching its red ( arms around the Charleston Hotel. There I has been a general desertion of both hotels by the guests, under the impression that they can not be saved. Una o clock. The track of the c<n,d ration beg.na o be clearly defined. Leapiug Church street (on which on block, excepting that next to Market, baa been burned.J the tire is steadily pursuing its tunthwesterly course toward* the corner of Archdale and Queen streets. About half an hour ago, a light drilling raid began falling, which may perhaps, lie beneficial iu keep ing damp the tops f wooden bouses exposed to danger fro m the sparks. The people uow un derstand that the tire has unchecked sway, and furniture la being moved as far up as Masyck street. Two o’clock —At tis hour the fire is still ra ging with violence scarcely abated. A splendid effort w*s made by the tire companies to save the house of L. W. Spratt, Ksq , on East Bay street, which was successful aud with it was saved the tine line of building’ on iiasell street, the fate of which depended upon that result. Passing to the souih westward, the site bin *w< pt the entire tract to the rear of the Charleston Hotel, and to the eu lof Hsyne street ranges. There are no buildings north of Market street, and east of the Hayne street stores, slid standing, except, per haps, those of Henry Gerdts and the Misses Pinckney. Crossing Market street, the fire has extended down Hast Bay to Cumberlend street, ani thence across to the Mills H -use, taking in its way, the Circular Church, Institute Hall, the Chaileston Theatre, all the buildings up -n King -treet, from Cltffuid street bp to within e few doors of Broad streot. Crossing King street, the flumes are approaching the rear of the Ca thedral, the Unitarian and the English Luthe ran Churches. Whetler it will cross the area covered by those churches, or pass the Milts House down Meeting street is still uncertain. The Fire Department ia making incredible exer tions. The men are in the lent stages of exhaus tion, springing to each occasion with renewed vigor, and such exhibtiuns of courage aud en durance have been rarely witnessed. Three ojplock.—'The steeple of the Circular Church has just toppled and fallen, with a heavy crash. Gen. Ripley, who is moving to end fro, superintending tbe%iovemente of the troops with* characteristic energy, giro orders, several hours ago, to blow up certain buildings in the track of the flames. The execution of this order, delayed at first, has at length been accomplished. fKver and anon, the past hour the explosions have rent the air. * In the lower part of the city the fir* baa done its work in thorough atjrla. Ita path is now burned out, and nothing now remain# to mark where it ha# passed, save smouldering piles of cinders and gaunt and smoking walls and chim neya. The Charleston Hotel is safe, and llayne street, too. Th* w.nd baa swept the danger off, further to the south. Although the fire rages on three sides of the Mill* House, that fine struc ture has not caught. The Theatre, Lloyd’s Coach Factory opposite, the Express Office, the old Executive building and ail the bous es between that point and Queen • reet have been burned. Tb# fire seems making straight ti, wards tha Jail. Cntnpanies of the Reserves have been ordered out to repress any possible disturbance among th* priaoners confined there Tha wind has abated somewhat. Four o’clock.— A change in the wind has bent the course of the fire towards Broad street. The Lutheran and TTfdtarian churches ure r w. . ; <j ared safe. Tbe Oxth'dru! seemr now in oe i-.1-ing ing dng Th bußd ■ n ..n v e ‘( ■.-i i.l Friend si reel, n#:f ‘he c.*ruer •< Quen, are burn ing fi*.rely. Si. Andrew’s H ill is on fire, and the noble spirt <>f St. Piubar's glitters wiih a splendor of portent, us import The occupants of bouses on Bt>>sd street, beyond King, are uio ving their effects* Quarter past five k. —-As the clock ol Sr. Ml’ hael tolls the quarter, the L'u'hedral stapU bos fallen, with a tremendous . rash. The Cathe dral is burning furiously; likew-x**, St. Hull In fact, the whole of Broad street i* on fire from Mr. Gadsden’s to Mazyck street. The residences of M ssrs. Geo. M Coffin, .inine- L. Pntigru, and other* near by are consume.i. The flames have now orossed limnd street, xud, a* tbe wind has not lolled, it U .mpossible to say where they will *t**p —sb rt .! th* river. There des not appear to be any imminent danger ot the tire .- ga u ui kii g lo x-lway cilber to tbe nghf or the left . f h** furrow which it has cloven through our fir city from East Bay to King sireet Mot the l.md of the conflagra tion is sti l fearful ‘o look upon aud is pushing for ward with giant strides x We go to j re-*, tlreat, i a deed, has been tbe i-.ilamiiy which ha fall* n upon <*ur n*b!e “Id city. But let u*, with unfail ing hope and courage, ir oursdves at once to amend the Icssoh we sxutained, and to relieve, each one according to hi- means, the great sufferings which tbe lire must entail upon i‘.spoor victim*. .. . ♦ ■■ A Ver-on of Ibe Affair from one of Ibe tleieolb In diaoi. Corresi ondence of the ludianopoli* Journal. Camp acailsv, Nov. 25, ISAl—The usual monotonous routine of camp life wx* great!} eo liveoed to-day by an occurrence ol very exciting interest. From what I can learn, tbe facts ot tbe case are as follows: It appears that a certain family beam g the name of Woolfolk, had been in the habit of dis playing a secession flag from (be windows of tbeir house, and particularly were they anxious to show their sympathy for the traitorous South ern government by waviug it on the evutit of the reception of a “fl ig of truce” from the rebels at Columbus. Their doings, and that, too, in the very face of the loyal troops stationed here, were more than the gallant Eleventh were in the hab it of takiug. This afternoon, therefore, a p.my of our officers procured a beautiful flag bearing the “star* and stripes,” and beaded by Adjutant Macauley, waited on the aforesaid tamiiy, re minded th* ui of tbeir late “suspicious” doing-, and positively but firtniy stated tbeir intention of “placiug tb* American flag up n ’heir house..’ Tbe lady requested them to wait nutil her hus band (be being ilku absent) rt’unci, lotbis they consented, not wishing to violate the do met ric tancitty ui any citixou. in tbe uieai.time one of tbe ladies wended her way over to Brig. Gen. Smith'* headquarters and asked him to protect them from toe * xacriiigiou*(?) outrage that was about to be committed upon their premiacH “ lu a sow moment*, and just as the huaband of tbe lady returned, here came Brigadier General Chari** F. r'miih bearing down, and in thunder ing tones demanded “by whose authority this was being done.” Adjutant Macauley re.qxct- I fully informed him “ibat it was being done by n • constituted authority; but it wm* the wish of the Indiana Eleventh that that flag should be raised.” ?i*kh replied: “I care not what the luilimx RJeventh Miots; i'aj commander of this poet by G - ! Disperse to your quar ter<!” The offieT/ then came bock, and ibeir n*<n sticees* known all through the regi ineut. Geo. Mnilh**evudttci was regarded with indignufiuu by the Z uaves, and from a murmur of tndigna'ion there soon arose a mighty hurri cane. The idea ihul our flag Mho old no bo p wr milled to feaie trom any place occupied by as was more than they could tolerate. Boou the excitement became too intense to be easily quell ed. With one (bought and one mad the men all declared that the flag should be raised upon that traitors house, Gen Smith’* ordtrtuthe j ooatrary act with.- tending, “and a y(! to the man, no matter who, that should dare to pul! it down.” j The flag was again brought forth, and headed by j tl ® band, the whole regiment “broke guard,” | marched to the aforesaid rebels premia**, mi I there distinctly informed b m “the star* and j stripes must be immediately planted over bis | house “ The man W -oilblk made ho* ap| email, u and j tried to vmooth matters over by making a set j speech. “He was loyal to the Stale us Kentucky, J and as long as the Mrate wax loyal to the Union, l that long was he also a loyal citizen. A seces cession flag had not been in his bouse siuco the advent of uur treop*. As to my private **■ nti ments I am answerabie to my Uod.” Adjutant Macauley annaered him “that as Kentucky was loyal to the Union, and as he protested to be loyal to that State, and as the flag w* euth-euatieal of the Union, he should have no objection to its fl -ating fr,m the roof of his house “ “\ou have ‘he power aud the means; you cun do it then*” was tbe reply. The root was scaled, and the fl.g was waved from it. Three times tbre**chuer* and several “tigers” were given. Tbe baud played all the national “himex,” and warmly were they greet ed, I assure you. Gen. Wallace, who bad entered tbe crowd un observed, her* mounted a stand. “Boys the flag ia there; your w.rk is done, go home ! wax all he xaid. That was sufficient. As we were “falling in,” Lieut. Price, who is Aid-de camp to Gen. Smith, and who made bim xelf very conepicuoux aud unpleasant in his re marks. made the remark that “it wss a very dis graceful affair, a nhumeful act “ this raising of tbe Union flag. Adjutant-General K otfler bearing of thia state ment walked up and immediately gave him hi* opinion In very decided terms, calling him “a xooandrtl.’’ Lieut. Pr ce retorted wi:b a blow, and was immediately fl , -red by Ku- fler, alias. Heenau. Tbeu eusueU a scene us he wildest extiument, and had it not bveu tor the prompt intervention of General Wallace, Price’* hie would u. t have been worth a farthing He final ly succeeded ui quelling tbe men aud saving Prica No censure is deserve*! by the Adjutant General, for every one justifies him in his action. Tbe Eleveuth then came back to its quarters, lint giving due notice that th* first one who med dled with that flag should be inxuihtiy shot. Much indignation ia foil by all against the con duct of Brigadier General Hoiiih in this affair. Must 1 say it—hia loyalty haalong been doubted He it oertainly tbe wrong’man for such an impor tant post as this. The rebels are in such close proximity to us that our arrangements become known to them very soon. But it will do no good for • “^.rivt>tt , • t„ lire,, so opinion prtjudioinl to nj offijor, and. thnrefor., I forbear fnrtli.r comment, knowing tbe time will come when bidden thing, thall be brought to light. ” hat will the final result of this last freak of the Zouaves no one knows. We feel that we have done right, and are therefore willing to abide th* con sequences. Probably we will all be ordered under arrest for disojjidivnce of or ders, end it may be that only the officers will suffer. With them we shall stay, come what may. (Treat excitement has prevailed all over the different camps this evening. Guards were doubled to prevent the soldiers from wreaking private vengeance on Price, and even upon Gen. Smith himself. In my opinion it would be the safest policy for the whole matter to be dropped by the authorities, with merely a slight repri mand. It will be a ruinous business to prose cute it. lioas.—Large quantities of swine are arriving and departing now daily, and they all appear to ba in first rate condition. The sopply seems to be abundant and we hope the present exorbitant prices will not be much longer maintained. We learn that there are thirty thousand at Chatta- Qooga awaiting shipment by the Western Jk Atlantic Railroad.—Atlanta Commonutalth.