enemy's designs upon this valley; he con-1 guns a side, having arrangements (or trans-
eidered its defence a necessity notonly j ferring two of the broadside guns from side
to tlm people here, blit to the Confedera
cy itself. Vicksburg and Port Hudson
were points that must be defended, and
every effort must be strained for this pur
pose. Vicksburg, lie Faid, would stand,
and Port Hudson would stand, if the peo
ple were true to themselves. This done,
the North-west would grow restive and
cease to support a war ruinous to them
and beneficial only to New England con
tractors. From the North West lie look
ed for the first gleams of peace:
The President expressed his gratifica-
‘TTmr Gen. Pemberton, whom he had
had sent here believing him eminently
suited to this command, bad sustained in
a signal manner the high character he had
given him. 11c also spoke of Brigadier
General Lee, to whom he had entrusted
the defences of Vicksburg, in terms of
hearty commendation.
Cheered hy his visit.
Although liis duties required his pres
ence elsewhere, yet when he beard of the
sufferings of bis own State, and her dan
ger of subjugation by a vandal foe his
feelings dragged him to her soil. Lie goes
hack with a lighter heart. He finds none
of that depression which was reported.
At Grenada he found the army sorry that
the enemy had gone hack. At Virxsburg
they were ready and eager for the fray.
Depression existed only among that class
of men who were constitutional grum
blers and fault-finders. He goes hack
cheered, but still anxious for his heart is
here—his attachment to the 8tatc has risi
cn since the war began, and lie caused
dangers though lie believes tlie greatest
have passed.
The Trans-Mississippi Department.
On the oilier side of the river <>ur pros
pects are. brighter than ever before, and
ere long he hoped that he would lie able
to proclaim Missouri free. Kentucky too,
was an object of solicitude to him, and lie
spoke of her gallant people in the kindest
and most commendable terms.
Ou r Cause in the Ascendant.
The President laid particular stress
upon then encouraging fact that w e had
improved in every respect since the war
began. Our armies were superior in num
ber and improved in quality and appoint
ments. Our manufactories had made rap
id progress: —Mississippi alone had dolli
ed and subsisted the whole army upon her
soil. Our people had learned to econo
mise. They wore homespun. lie felt
like taking off his hat to a woman dressed
in homespun. He had an unfaltering be
lief in the justice of our cause, ami a pro
found reference for the decrees ot Heaven
He noticed with evident satisfaction the
superior moiality of our army to that of
the invader. In God and the valor of 0111
troops he trusted.
1 lie above is only an imperfect outline
of the President’s speech. It falls very
short of doing it justice, but in the hurry
of preparing the report for the press, it is
perhaps as correct in the main ideas ad
vanced as could be expected.
At tlie conclusion of his remarks, Gen.
Joseph E. Johnston was vociferously
called for. The scar-worn hero looked a
little nervous while tlie House rang with
loud, swelling and prolonged applause.
He arose and said;
“Fe/toir- Citizens:—My only regret is
that I have so little to merit such a gieet-
ing! I promise you. however, that bere-
aft er I shall he watchful, energetic and
indefatigable in your-defence.”
This speech was greeted with tremen
dous, uproarious and prolonged plaudits.
to side with great rapidity. Captain
Jones further says that the Alabama has a
fine crew, and that they arc well discip
lined • that the ship is in fine order, and
that the deck is arranged for two addition
al pivot guns, which he was informed were
one hundred pounder rifles, and in tlie Al
abama’s held, ready to be mounted should
they be required. He says that “Old
Beeswax” treated, him remarkably well,
as well as if lie had been a visitor. He
was not confined, and had the privilege of
the deck and messed in the ward room.
The list of the officers of the Alabama is
correct as before published in the Herald.
Captain Jones says tlie only ship that
Semmea fears is the Vanderbilt. He
made many inquiries regarding her speed
and armament, but obtained no informa
tion whatever. He laughs at all the other
ships we have, and remarked that “he
cared nothing for the San Jacinto; that he
went to sea by her when in Martinique,
and paid no attention to her. What he
cannot whip he can run away from.”
Lieutenant Low having made inquiries
of Captain Semmes about what lie was to
do with the United States officers and men
on hoard the Ariel, on his return paroled
them that they were not to serve the Uni
ted States government in any capacity,
or at any place, during the present war,
and prohibited them from performing even
garrison duty at the forts of California, to
which tliej’ were bound.
Tlie following are the names of the ofii
cers paroled : L. C. Sartori, Commander,
United States Navy; A. Garland, Major,
United States Marine Corps; D. M. Cohan,
L’niled States Marine Corps; Tecumseh
Steece, Lieut. United States Navy; T. L.
McEiratli, 1st Lieut., United States Ma
rine Corps; T. H. Corrie, 1st Lieut., Uni
ted 'dates Marine Corps; W. B. McKean,
1st Lieut., United States Marine Corps ;
A. W. Ward, 2d Lieut., United States
Marine Corps; C. II. Daniels, 2d Lieut.,
United States Marine Corps. The offi
cers were ordered to give up their side
arms and the men their muskets and
KemnrUnbic Sljm.
The following articles, from the Provi
dence Post, are pregnant indications.
That the North west will find its prosperi
ty in divorcing itself from the New Eng
land States while its security will not be
les than under the old Union, is obvious
on considerations connected with the geo
graphical position as well as the peculiar
interests ot'ihat section. As soon as| the
passions engendered hy this war have been
subdued, the paramount sense of interest
of the great producing States of the West,
will bring them to the side of the South
western States hy an irresistible attrac
tion:
Where Will the West Go ?—Wendell
Phillips, in his recent polilical address
here, admitted that the West was even
now preparing to go with tlie South. One
could hear her talk of it all through the
Western country. The B est did not love
the East. It did not love negroes. It did
not love high tariffs. If disunion became
a fixed fact, the TT’est would follow the
South. New England and New York
would-be left out in the cold.
Our belief is, that New England alone
will he left out in the cold. We said, years
ago, that if separation came, a new Con
federacy would follow, and that it would
not embrace New England. We have not
changed our belief upon this point. Indeed
it is every day strengthened: and we en
tertain no doubt that the West itself
would object to our company if it should j
be offered.
New York will belong to the new Re
public, ifonc is established, Certainly it
will seek to; and we sec no reason why
both South and West should not unite in
desiring her presence. But New England,
with her abolitionism and her political
priests—the hotbed of all the isms, and
the author of our great calamity—the
everlasting beggar of protective tariffs—
will be. objected to, and will he excluded.
The old Union once gone, it can never
belong to another, unless, perchance, it
Col. Stevens, of the Engineers, with two j come storm. We must abide him as he
brigades aud five pieces of artillery, to i is and find in his drollery wliat solace we
make a rcconnoissance, for the purpose ot J can. And yet it is a pity that lie cannot
ascertaining tlie position and numbers o! | be induced to call in proper helpers. Why,
taming
the enemy.
posit
Gen. Evans’s brigade had look for a moment.
then reached Goldsboro,’ by rail, and, i0- j There stands his Secretary of W ar, an
maining on board, only awaited the clear- ! upstart in public life, with neither knowl
ing of the track and watering of tlie en- edge nor experience, yet full of pretension
gincs to move hy rail to.the position al- j and impatience, alike puzzle-headed and
ready occupied by Gen. C’lingman with pragmatical, his movements baffling all
his three regiments, about one mile and j calculation and conjecture, now pitching
railroad bridge. The loyal men into Fort Lafayette, and now
a halt beyond the
capacity of the water tanks bein
inade ; running a muck of Generals in tlie field,
quate for the amount of transportation a blatherskites and a blunder, a mischief -
accumnlated here at that time, the cars maker and a marplot from the beginning,
were delayed until after 12 o’clock for ! There stands the Secretary of the Navy,
want of water ; pending which, the enemy venerable in years, gentle at heart, mild
appeared in force before Gen. Ciingman’s in manners, admirably qualified to do the
accross ! needful for a hoarding school in
n , , O
Murmuring streams, soft shades, and springing
(lowers,
Lutes, Laurels, seas of milk and ships of amhtr:
but as to Ifs capacity to do tho needful in
these dread times on the broad ocean—
go read it in the flaming tracks of the
Sumpter and the Alabama. There stands,
too, the Secretary of the Treasury, up to j
his eyes in irredeemable paper, and yet
without knack enough to furnish even
3 regiments, and lie withdrew
the county bridge to this side
river. The artillery of the ememy was
playing upon the railroad bridge; and
Evans’s brigade had at last to move for
ward by the county road, and cross, if at
all, the bridge a half mile above the rail
road.
About two o’clock in tlie afternoon one
bold and daring incendiary succeeded in
reaching the bridge, and covered hy tlie
wing wall of tlie abutment, lighted a flame green hacks for the scant monthly pay of
nioreto be regretted from the evidence
which it has afforded of the facility
with which under proper conditions
this long coveted object might have
been effected. But the attempt^ and
the failure are of a piece with all the
other brilliant efforts of Washington
generalship. What a pity that so much
dash and heroism on the part of both
officers and men should have been
thrown away on an enterprise which,
like the assault on the enemy’s lines at
Fredericksburg, was destined Irom
first to be fruitless.
Ml,at Governor Seymour intends to do.
THE MfiHT IIV TEXSEIser,
THE YANKEES CLAIM A VICTORY
Nashville, .Tan 2.—The Federal* encounter u.
Rebels on the 3tlth ult, near Stuarts Creek t
ter heavy skirmishing the Rebels were driv
back with a loss of one hundred prisoner, 1 ,
many killed and wounded. The fight continue
until 2 o’clock p. m„ 31st. at which time we7,1
maintained our position The Union loss j s au
tremeiy heavy. 3 e *‘
We have iost in killed, Gen. Sill and Coir
! es, Kosencrauz's Chief of Staff; Gen w.icC
Indiana; Col Kelley, 2d Ohio; Col. gfji 1 *
Sat acting Brigadier General; Col. Fanner l r nli K
the | rocky: Col. Jones, 24th Ohio; Col. Cotton, Cth
Kentucky, Col. Jones, 39th Indiana; Col ri
| penter, and Lt. Col Key. of 15th Wisconsin t#r *
Gen. Kirk of Illinois, Gen. S. Wood of [lU
Gen Van Clive, and Maj. Gen. Rosseau of k'l'
eztes,
of
which soon destroyed the superstructure,
leaving the masonry abutments and-pier
intact. At that time reinforcements,
which I had ordered from Richmond, were
hourly expected.
It was very important for us now to save
| the county bridge, the only means icmain-
I ittg of crossing the river in this vicinity.-—
j Evan’s and Ciingman’s brigade’s were
j ordered to cross, supported by Pettigrew’s
| brigade, and the Mississippi brigade, just
coming in, was ordered to move forward at
1 once.
The enemy were driven hack from their
position on the line of the railroad ; but on
account of the lateness of the hour, the
nature of the ground, and the fact that
I our artillery, cavalry, and a large portion
; of the reinforcements had not yet arrived
it was not advisible to attack their strong
finds for herself and is forced to accept the
same condition of dependence which she’ second position that evenin
is now preaching for the South. No other ~
section will want heron terms of
equipments, which were all taken on board
the Alabama. Lieut. Low net called for I ty.
the manifests, and, finding some money on j
them, took possession of S3,000 in Treas- j ministration lo w driving us. It is every
urv notes, belonging to Messrs. Wells, j nay rendering a lestoration or Unjon
Faro-o&Co., and §1,500 in silver for Ni more and more difficult. Instead of acting
belonging to Peyton Middleton, j upon tlie recent expression of sentiment
During the night the enemy made a
equali- ] u . rr ; c d retreat to their fortifications and
gunboats, moving with such celerity that
And this is the Jinalt to which this Ad- jt wa § useless to attempt pursuit with any
that
unborn.
Esq!late United States Special Inspec-! by the people at the ballot box, it is defy- an
tor of Customs in Panama, and to his i mg tins great source of power, exhibiting fas „ .
the utmost contempt for popular condem- subject to the temporary inconvenience ot ing are mad
nation. Lincoln the President, is represen- trans-shipment accross the county bridges; sentations of
other arm than cavalry, which at
. time, unfortunately, we had none.
1 pHo-.„.i over the railroad from the
Neusc bridge to Wilmington uu the a4th,
d returned last night. The bridge is
ust being repaired. At present we arc
American partner in Nicaragua, E. S.
Lane, Esq. Being assured by the purser
that the Ariel had no letter mail, he did
not overhaul the sacks, and in fact noth
ing in that line was disturbed. Wells,
Fargo & Co’s, sacks, the private sacks of
the Panama Railfoad Company, the South
and Central American and Panama mails, | hirelings at the point of the bayonet, and
ted as saying that ho would sooner
thousand deaths than withdraw his
lition proclamation, and is attaching far
more importance to the result of tho elec
tion in Missouri— a result secured by Ins
die a p u t ; n a few days this will be remedied and
\bo— everything restored to the former condi
tion.
I regret that this grand army of invasion
did not remain in the interior long enough
for us to get at thorn. • As it is, they burn
ed the superstructure of two bridges, which
cost originally less than ten thousand
dollars, and can he replaced at once, and
have utterly failed to attempt to take
_ advantage of the temporary and partial
per authorities at Panama. The ship was, \ folly obtained, in a 8tate w acre he desiies interruption of our railroad line for the
ed for 125,000, and the car- ! to introduce in a practical shape that lire- purpose of striki
and even the State Department sacks for \
the United States Consul at Aspinwall, j
containing his own correspondence and j
that of other consuls, ministers and naval
officers, were safely delivered to the pro-1
iy a terrorism which kept more than tv;
fifths of the voters from tlie polls—than
to all the other elections which had taken
place during the year.
He rejoices over a verdict, thus sliainc-
however, bonded
go and freight for §135,000 more makin
hand of emancipation, and spurns with
liking a decisive blow' at any
total of §200,000, the whole to he paid to contempt the honest condemnation of his
the Confederate authorities within thirty j
days after the establishment of the inde
pendence of tlie Confederate States.
conduct which comes to him with the en
dorsement of fifteen millions of Noithern
| people! He removes the ablest Generals
Lieutenant Low, having destroyed all I in tLe «™iy, with no other than a political
the sails of the Ariel, ordered her to keep 1 motive, and declares Ins determination to
important point before we could thor
oughly re-establish our communication
with it.
I beg leave to call your attention to the
reports of Lieut. Col. Stevens, Confeder
the soldiers, though tlie consequences he
a violation of the public faith pledged
them, the untold suffering of their families
at home and their own demoralization and
a desertion to a degree incalculably dam
aging to the national cause. There, too,
stands tlie man who calls himself General
in Chief, the President’s chosen military
manager and adviser, whose strategy is
seen in liis dispatching the Banks expedi
tion to Texas, when every principle of
common sense required it to bear on Rich
mond; whose business habits are illustrated
in bis forgetting tlie pontoons, though he.
had expressly prohibited them, and whose
judgment is shown hy liis persistent order
to storm Fredericksburg heights, in spite
of the conclusive reasons of General Burn
side against.it.
How can the countery be saved, with
such men in charge of its destiny? Hu
man reason gi opes in vain for an awuser.
But is there any prospect of a change?—
How can it come ? '1 lie President is
blindly and obstinately confident in these
men. Of public opinion lie takes no lieetL
In fact be knows nothing of it as it really
exists ; for it is notorious that he reads as
little of newspapers—which are the only
true index of public opinion—as the child
His notions of the popular fc»l-
up mainly from the repre
the interested coterie about
him, and tlie fugitive statements of the
few visitors who can quiet his jesting
tongue long enough to get his serious ear.
Of course, notions, thus gained are mixed,
crude, and worthless.
What then ! il/ust the nation surely
perish ! Is there no remedy against all
this incapacity 1 We vouch for nothing.—
The case at best is doplorahle. But we
are convinced that if there is any chance
whatever it lies with the Generals iu the
field. There is this one thing observable;
the further off from Washington the more
successful are our military operations.—
It has been so uninterruptedly from the
beginning. This can be due to nothing
else than to the greater freedom enjoyed
by dis'ant Generals from Washington
ton correspondent, that it was understood
there that Gov. Seymour will allow of no
more arbitary arrests in New York State,
says :
The writer is perfectly correct (as I
happen to know) as to the arbitary arrests.
The Governor’s message, which is now
about finished, and which will he sent in
to the Legislature a week from to-morrow
will take unequivocal ground in that re
spect, but more immediately important
that, perhaps, will be the declared deter
mination to permit no draft in thus State un
less the Federal Administration recedes from
its emancipation policy.
I give you this as a matter of news, j
which the public generally will be interest- |
ed to hear. My authority for it is as relia
ble as that of the Govenror himself. Mr
Seymour’s idea is that it is not within the i
Rebel Loss is much heavier.
We Five capture.] 500 prisoners
The latest Yankee nows from Murfreesboro'
says: “We occupy Murfreesbo’ and the r*'!?.
rebels
says
are in full retreat.
The Herald makes no comments on *.he battle
Gold in New York had advanced to Idlest
Hug exchange 148; cotton, Ode. ' er '
Brute Butler and 8talF reached New York „
Friday Morning. _ ' oa
Morgan is reported to have been defeated at
Killing Fork, Kentucky, by General Reynolds 1
Further from Tcnurtwee.
DISPATCHES FROM BRAGG AND EWELL
Latest from Murfreesboro', tee.
Richmond. Jan. 5.—The following official dej.
patch was received this evening:
“Chattanooga, Jan. 5.—Gen. S. Cooper—jy
retired from Murfreesboro’in perfect order. An
the stores were saved and about 4,000 Federal prij.
„ _ _ . . oners, 5,000 stand of small arras and 24 cannon"
strict line of his duty to his constituents, ; brass aud ste&l, have already been received Ii»-p »'
.1 X _ A. 1 i. . Jt Sal * Durn. . a »
nor to the country at large, to permit
white men to be taken from their families
here to free negroes South, and this idea/?
(Signed) B 8. Ewf.ll, A. A. G. 1
The following despatch has been received from
General Bragg:
‘Tull.iliorua. J an. 5.—Unabie to dislodge the
you may rely upon it, will be woiked out i enemy from his entrenchments, and learning of
in the message. He will, at the same Jime. ; reinforcements being sent to him, I withdrew from
reiterate his determination to push on the ! Jj: 3 lr , " t , , *'" llt befl,ro ! ast - 11
„ . . , . 1 . ... My cavalry close on Ins front,
war for the suppression of the rebellion, (.signed) Hi
Braxton Brags.'
ppression
pledging all the resources of New York, in
men and money, if the President will hut j
go for the “Union as it was, and the Consti
tution as it is.”
Another writer remarks that it is said
that Governor Seymor’s message will
make a studied and venomous attack on
New England, and, perhaps, intimate a
willingness for her exnulsion from tlie T , ,, , .,
° ; . - , If, savs the Montgomery Aitrerhser, the report
Lnionasa necessary step to induce H> e that Gen — ■ * ■ ..
Chattanooga, Jan. 5.—Despatches from War-
| trace state that the enemy had not occupied Mur-
1 freesboro’ this morning. Reports were still com-
i ing in that the enemy is returning to Nashville
Parties just from the front report that Morgan
! attacked and routed a force of the enemy at Gal-
! latia Kentucky.
ICemliRtion.
in company with the Alabama, and both
ships steamed towards Jamaica. Atniglit
he again visited the Ariel,
with him one of her steam
Poole, as weli as to those of the three
throw out every officer who dare criticise Brigadier Generals previously named,
his conduct, lie empties Forts Warren Our loss is reported at 71 killed, and
ounded, and about 400 missing.—
of the latter were taken prisoners
ate States Engineers, and to Lieut. Col. I dictation. Let our Eastern Generals no
longer submit to this terrible disadvantage.
If worthy of their position at all, they have
iciiua.* j r b
and took away an( J Lafayette of political prisoners, with- ofiS w
valves, so as to out . a ™° rd of apology or explanation to }£ ost (
a right to manage their prescribed cam
paign in accordance with their own judg
ment. No man, however competent, if
temporarily disable the engine. Captain | their victems, and without the moral conr- a t Kinston bridge, aud have since been ' a way from the action can tell when and
Capture of the Ariel.
Inle, estiva Particulars
Among the incidents of the late capture
of the Ariel by the Alabama are the fol
lowing :
As the passagers of the Ariel were seat
ed at then dinner on Sunday, December
7th, Captain Jones was informed that a
war steamer was bearing down upon them,
and, although lie made light of the fact.
6till lie left the dinner table and ascended
to the deck. be war Vessel was descri
bed about four miles off. sailing under the
Stars and Stripes; but Captain .lone?
soon discovered that the build and rigging !
were English, and, suspecting mischief, j
ordered the A:iel to he put under a full
head of steam, intending, if possible, to |
leave the suspicious craft far behind. But
his efforts were unavailing; for shortly
after a blank cartridge was fired, closely
followed by two shells, one of which, a
common round shell, cut a fearful piece
from out ot'tlie foremast. The other shell,
which fortunately passed over the vessel,
the passengers were informed was a steel-
pointed one hundred pound projectile, so
constructed as to cause a destructive ex
plosion immediately it strikes any object.
Had this shell burst over or against the
Ariel, tlieie is no knowing what loss of
life might have been caused to the unof
fending non-combatants on boaid.
The marines, who were one hundred
aud forty strong under Major Garland,
were oidered on deck to resist any at-
Jones was informed by Captain Semmes
that his passengers would be landed at a
point on St. Domingo, which has only a
tew huts, and is at a great distance from
supplies. To this Captain Jones earnest
ly remonstrated, stating that eight hun
dred and fifty persons, a third of them
women and children, could find nothing to
live on there. He then said he would
land them in Jamaica; for he was deter
mined to burn the ship in revenge for Yan-
d«rbilt having given one of the finest j
steamers in the world to the Government j
to run him down. While tlie Ariel was
deprived of her steam valve, hei*fj ”>'li-
out saiU, sl.o tould Bo nothing but drift
| about, and certainly could not escape.
Therefore the Alabama could go off in |
search of other victims.
I at 9 o’clock, p. m., the vessels arrived off'
I Point illorant, about forty miles from
I Kingston. Near this the Alabama gave
chase, and hoarded a vessel, from which
some information yvas received which in
duced Captain Semmes to again change
his mind, and he permitted the Ariel to
resume her voyage. The reason given
yvas this vessel bad reported yellow fever
raging in Kingston, and he would not sub
ject the passengers to its ravages; but the
passengers were afterwards informed that
no yellow fever had prevailed there for
some time. The conduct of the officers
and crew of the Alabama yvhile in charge
of the Ariel was extremely courteous.
They were in regular communication with
the United States, both hy letters and pa
pers, and were fully cognizant of our days
age to rescind the unconstitutional order
under which they were, and others propa-
bly will be, arrested. He throws himself
body and soul, into the embraces of the
Greelcys and Lovejoys of the party, which
defend him, and defies the honest men
who have supported the government, to
change his policy or avert tlie final calam
ity to which radicalism is tending.
This is our position. The hopes of the
Union is every hour growing fainter, un
til a majority of the people of the North
at last Iona; upon separation w revolution
I as a certainty, Wc haYe_alLusr«J i
i »i lights and State r.ghfs to he trampled
! upon ; we have allowed the country to be
| flooded with a currency which, live years
hence, will not be worth the paper upon
Ou the 9th inst. ! "'kick if is printed—we have submitted to
! taxation, such as Americans before never
j dreamed—rve have offered up hundreds of
j thousands of valuable lives. And what
| have rve gained? V\ hy, so helpless is our
| cause to-day, that the people ot the West,
| as Wendell Phillips truly said, are making
| their arrangements to follorv the. South!
They will follow the South, and so tvill
the Middle States, if the Union is sunder
ed ; and that it will be sundered if tlie
President adheres to his determination to
make this an Abolition war after the first
of January next, is as certain as that the
sun shines in the heavens.
paroled.
how to give battle—infinitely such men
lam, General, very respectfully, your j a8 now presume to direct at Washington.
ob’t serv’t.
G. W. Smith,
Major General Com’d’g
Prom the north.
Inside Fine of the “Situation’’—Fnmercifid
Lashing of the “ Imbeciles" at Washington.
We say, then, to those Generals, insist up-
, on a carte blawlie in respect to field opera-
| tions, and when it is once given, if it is
! infringed resign on the spot. McClellan
| did well ui requiring such a permit; but he
I did not do well in suffering it to bo con-
| stantly overridden. Burnside, in like
manner, did well in exacting the same
Hindman lias exeented tlie ten Yankee
officers who were held as hostages for McNeil, the
Mhjsonri Butcher, is correct, a new chapter in the
histor* of the present war has been opened. The
Confederacy has long borne insult and outrage,-
its men have been murdered in cold blood, and its
women robbed and outraged, until even the very
st ales began to cry out for retaliation. The first
practical order in regard to these atrocities wm
issued in the c se of the Missouri murderer, and
wo trust there is no mistake in the report that
!ii > order has been enforced. McNeil caused ten
ConUderat: prisoners to bo murdered in cold
blood, and for this a demand for his surrender was
made upon the Yankee Government. The demand
fought; and were thus on the flank of the was not complied with and as a matter of course
town to the East. General Breckinridge’s \ 1/ */!!,! a 7/* e .17 er3 wll ° l‘ aJ lieen SB,ecte, f in
South to return.
Mw P -nt»r .
From an article in the Atlanta Confed
eracy, wc copy the following :
This throwing of shells was an indica
tion that they intended a further attack
on us ; accordingly on Friday a strong
force of the enemy crossed over Stone’s
River, (which runs just beyond .Murfrees
boro’) to the right of our forces; to the l ight
right of where the battle of Wednesday
Division was sent to repulse them ; and
his stead, in case he was not surrendered, could
look for no other than ignominious death. The
though greatly inferior iu numbers tlie at- j law ot retaliation is a fearful one, but i:
tack was made with tlie same vigor and
impetuosity as ,on Wednesday, bearing
down all opposition and forcing back the
Y ankees across the river again with fear
ful slaughter. Our victorious men in their
ardor and tho flush of victory did not stop
at the river, but wading the stream, con
tinued the pursuit of the fugitives. Put
they had no sooner reached the opposite
shore, than a great army, against whose
overwhelming numbers they could not con
tend, rose up from their ambush and con
fronted our men with a terrible fire. They
were compelled to wade back across the
river under this fire, in which their loss
war
unscru-
iike the present, against a barbarous aud
1 pulous foe, its enforcement is necessary It is the
| omy law which will compel them to observe the
rules of civilized warfare. They cau be touched with
| no sentiment but that of fear.*
TV e copy in fall the New York eWorld s i , , -, , , . , - ,
-i- • i 1 c rp, i , . , i - , , • solemn pledge before he took command
editorial of Ihursday last to which brief , ,. t . .. A „ v_:.
tempt to boaid the Ariel by the crew
() j | of sailing, and that there are no cruisers to
the pursuing vessel; but when the char
acter of the craft was fully ascertained it
was considered entirely useless to make
any resistance, and the marines were or
dered below. Captain Jones. whose
bravery is well known, insisted that his
flag should not be lowered under any cir
cumstances, but that lie would fight it out.
The marines, however, being disarmed,
he had to give way, very reluctantly, and
the Ariel was surrendered to the Alabama.
At this time tlie Aiiel was g"ing about
eight and a Lalf knots, and Hie Alabama
eleven knots, under only eleven pounds of
steam.
A boat was then sent from the Alaba
ma manned hy twelve well armed men,
and under the charge of a Southern officer '
named Low, who ranked as a Lieutenant
in the rebel navy. As they approached
the Ariel the passengers began to show
evident signs ot uneasiness, as if they fear
©d that a demand would he made upon
their‘money or their lives,’ or pei haps both.
The women were dreadfully fiigliteue i,
and those who had any valuable personal
propeity began to conceal it as rapidly as
possible. Lieutenant Low, when lie board
ed the Ariel, stated that the passengers
would be allowed to proceed unharmed,
and their private property should bo re
spected. 'lliis certainly quieted a few of
them, although there were yet some
skeptics. Captain Jones was next ordered
to go aboard the Alabama, and on his re
turn to the Ariel he stated that the Ala
bama deserved all her previous reputation
far speed. She can steam fourteen knots
with seventeen pounds of steam, and is al
lowed to carry twenty-five pounds of
steam. She has two engines of fifty-two
inch cylinder and sevemeen inch stroke,
and is, iu all respects, a peifect model of
beauty. Her armament is, lie says, a one
hundred-pounded rifle and one sixty-eight-
pounder pivot gun, besides six medium
thirty-two pounder. He can fight seven
intercept her in these waters. For this rea
son the specie to come by the Ariel was
left at Aspinwall, as Captain Jones did
uot think it prudent to bring it.
f Xne York Ilcrahl.
Stonewall Jackson s Personal Habits —
The following is told of Jackson’s habits:
On Sunday night a friend of Old Stone
wall, invited to share his tent, turned in
about If,and wrapped up snugly in the
blankets. At 1 o’clock Jackson entered,
and just as he was, bran new uniform,
hoots, spurs and all, pitched into the pal
let, was snoring in 15 minutes, and in 15
more had robbed liis friend of all the
blankets. After a hard struggle liis friend
managed to get back enough, cover to keep
him from freezing—the.nigbt was very cold
—and slept, as he supposed, five minutes.
Of.icinl ESrpori of ihr is* IVorlli Caro-
linn.
Below will he found the highly interest
ing report of Gen. G. W. Smith, of the
recent battles in the vicinity of Kinston,
N. C. This report furnishes a gratifying
account of the operations in that region,
and gives assurance that little damage was
inflicted by the enemy’s grand army of
invasion :
Il'nu'tts. Goldsboro’, N. C., Dec. 29, ’(52. ;
Gen 8. Cooper, Adj’t and Inspector Gen
eral Richmond, Va. :
Genera!—I have the honor to enclose
copies of the reports of Brig. Gena. Evens,
Robenson, and Clingman, giving an ac
count of the various affairs with the enemy
in this vicinity in their recent bridge
burning and pillaging expedition from
Newbern.
Brig. Gen. Evans, with two thousand
(2,000) men, held them in check at South
west Creek, beyond Kinston, on the 13tli,
and, or the 1 ftli delayed their advance for
sometime, and succeeded in withdrawing
his force, with small loss, to the left hank
allusion has been made in the telegraphic
Heaven help us ! There seems to be
no help in man. The cause is perishing.—
Hope after hope lias vanished, till now
tlie only prospect is the very blackness of
despair.
But how can we adjure Heaven for help?
Was it not said by the wisest of Pagans
that “there is a stupidity which baffles
even the goods ?” and is it not a proverb
among Christians, too that God helps those
only who help themselves?’’ What right
have we to expect that even Infinite Mer
cy will stay the laws of the universe that
we and ours may be snatched from the
track to death ? Is it not impious pre
sumption to imagine that the Eternal
Reason which lias ordained cause and
effect, will abdicate to suit the folly that
now governs us ?
j And yet it is a terrible spectacle. A ship,
j the grandest that ever sailed the tide
1 of time, freighted with interests for the
1 race passing all calculation and beyond
j all glory of the whole world—we say it is
a terrible spectacle to see this peerless
j argosy in the hands of chattering idols ana
; blind, blundering imbeciles, driving
; straight on upon the breakers and quick
sands, while the crew, the stoutest and
most faithful that ever trod deck, are com- j
pellcd to look passively, and in sheer I
liopelesr.ess, await the all-engulpbing |
I fate.
Don’t call this extravagant language.— i
! It is not extravagant. It but feebly ex-'
j presses the dreadful reality. Here we are i
! reeling back from the third campaign upon
Richmond. Fifteeen thousand of the j
grand army sacrificed at one swoop, and :
the rest escaping only by a hair’s breadth, i
and all for what ? For tlie same old
ut lie did not do well in quietely submit
ting when, two days afterwards, its svs
J fern,me violation tiegnn, o„- -°*omandin°-
j Generals cannot act too resolutely or too
j promptly under such high handed breaches
of faith. Let them henceforth be true to
j themselves. The people know that they
have a military right to undivided command
j and that the salvation of the countfv de-
; pends on their exercising it. It would
i not. take more than one resignation, produ-
j ced directly and distinctly by the disre-
| gard of this right and necessity—we sav
' it would not take more than such resigna
tion to raise a tempest that would frighten
even the dunderheads at Washington into
1 some improvement of their wavs.
Important Arrest.
Officers W oring Russell nnd Wm. Wrav arresfivf
at Tliumasville, Ga , on the 29t!i ult,, tlillcry B.
Humphries, who had in his possession
in spurious bills purporting to be on the bank)rf
Savannah. They also arrested in Savannah, oo
tho second of January, J. S. /'arramore.jnppoj-
ed to be an accomplice. Said I’arramore ivas ar
rested about twelve months since for a similar
offence by the Vigilance Committee of Thomas-
viile, and released upon condition that h? would
sin no more, and promised that he would join a
company in the regular army, which he aid. Tho
proper persons-—
was considerable, though they returned
perfect older and the Yankees made no at- j in ,lie P 0S3033:011
tempt to follow them.
It. has been reported all through the 1
country that our army was terribly whip- i
ped on Friday, and the destruction of life
far greater than on Wednesday. Tlie ,
foregoing is the extent of the terrible re- ! the Middle Tennessee campaign
port, which tho “reliable gentleman” had
worked up to the greatest disaster of the
war.
From the Chattanooga Rebel of the 8th.
The Ni(ua(iou.
Wc begin to get a microscopical peep at
Vs the smoke of the late battlo clears
away, and the confusion incident to ail
battle fields subsides, we are enabled to
Thus the attempt to take Murfreesboro’ i arrive at some estimate of the results of
•movement, was defeated on rife last two months and a half of acfivitv
in front of Murfreesboro. The actual sta-
by a Hank
Friday.
But iu the meantime, lie was gathering tistics of the combats of Wednesday and
and marshalirf* liis hosts, and by Saturday | Friday last, may be summed up as fol-
evening it was ascertained that Rosen- lows, in round numbers;
crantz was making preparations for an at
tack upon our little army, with two col
umns, and a third column in motion to in
tercept Bragg’s retreat or attack him in
Prisoners taken,
Pieces of Artillery,
Small arms,
Wagons destroyed,
5,000
Gl
7,500
850
■ he reai, as-the case might be, either of Enemy’s los? in killed and wounded 9,000
i-oster’s ©porntioas ia ’worth Caroli
na Conceded a Failure.
The N. \. Herald, of 2Gth of De
cember says editorially:
Tlie brilliant series of operations
under General Foster, of which we
published such an interesting account
yesterday, would form one of the most
satisfactory chapters in the history of
tho war if the objects in view had been
serious or well considered. Whilst,
however, they will serve as lasting
memorials of the courage and unflinch
ing endurance of our brave soldiers, as
well as of the energy and strategic
skill of their commander, they will
have to be classed amongst tlie many
ill-directed efforts which have distin
guished this campaign on our side.
What, we ask, have been the actual
of the expedition? Three or four
ridges destroyed, a few miles of rail-
which three columns were equal to our
whole army.
It was then that Bragg determined to
fall back, to do which no time was to be
lost. Nearly all the arms and property,
aud all tho prisoners captured were suc
cessfully sent back, and then the army was
withdrawn safely and without any attack
from the enemy only some slight cavalry
skirmishing, though many cf our dead re
mained unburied, and some of our wound
ed were left behind that could not be
brought off.
Our whole force was less than 30,009.
That of the enemy in the fight on Wednes
day was (50,000. We had less than 20,-
000 engage
loss from fi
Our loss—killed,
Wounded,
RECAPITULATION.
Federals killed,
Wounded,
Captured,
Our io3s,
1,000
3.500
3.000
0,000
5.000
14.000
4.500
9.500
Balance,
But for the unsuccessful assault of Fri
day afternoon the disposition of figures ia
our favor would have been much geater-
Besides these statistics an'enormous table
. , . might ho spread out showing the qnanti-
d tuat day in the fight. Our i ties ot provisions and supplies, which have
. rst l ast > i n killed, wounded ! been procured in Middle Tennessee—«-
and missing, will reach 9,000. Tho loss j mounting to millions of rations and month*
islence. The branch of tlie catit-
i * • « • , ,. : wav and telegraph lines torn up and a
Lincoln, Halleck, and Stanton. Those quanttty ot property uselessly constgn-
rebel heights so murderous, might have . ^ ^ ^hc flumes. Every military man
been carried without n blow had the knows that tlie interruption of the re-
pontoon bridges been delivered at the bels lines of communication thus effec-
Ile was aroused by Jackson who sprang I of the Neuse river, at Kinston. He held
up, divested himself of every particle of
raiment, opened the door of his tent and
went forth iu puris naturalibur. Hecallcd
for his old negro man—the same who
knows when a battle is going to come off',
by the fervor of his master’s prayers-—and
made him dash over him two large buck-
ets of water, which had been standing in
the freezing air. This done, be returned
to the tent, rubbed himself dry with a
coarse towel, donned his new nniform, and
went out to attend to the disposition of
liis forces, fully expecting the attack to
begin at day break. It was then just
half-past three ; about 7 o'clock Jackson
woke up his friend, and told him to come to
breakfast, the Y'ankees were clean gone.
■" ■ ' ——
Tullahoma, the point to which Bragg
had fallen back at last accounts, is a sta
tion on the Nashville and Cbattonooga
Railroad, thirty miles sottth of Murfrees
boro’. It is at the junction of a road run
ning to Manchester and McMinville, and
projeotad to Danville and Frankfort, Ky.
them at bay until tlie 10th, when they
I advanced on tho opposite side of the river
1 and made an attack at Whitehall bridge,
about eighteen (18) miles below Golds
boro’, in which they were driven back hy
Gen. Robertson with severe loss.
Small reinforcements arrived from
Petersburg and Wilmington on the 15th,
one regiment of which was placed in posi
tion to cover the railroad bridge over the
Ntuse, near this place, A battalion of
artillery which had made a successful
retreat from the works of the obstructions
below Kinston, after the enemy occupied
the latter point in force, was stationed on
this side of the river, at the railroad bridge,
and about a half mile above at the county
bridge. On the 10th a regiment arrived
from Wilmington, and one from Peters
burg, both of which which were sent to the
right bank of the river, and placed under
Gen. Ciingman’s command, to protect the
bridges.
On tho morning of the 17th, having no
cavalry, and being unable to obtain infor
mation by othar otsans, I directed Lieut.
time promised by the imbeciles at Wash
ington: In the fact of the stupendous
work which the enemy was able to accom
plish by reasofl of that failure, Burnside
would have never made the attack, as he
did, had he not in spite of his most pressin
ted eati be repaired in a few days, or
in a week at the farthest; so all that
has been gained by the sacrifices in
! men and money which the expedition
has cost is the destruction of property
of the enemy, as ascertained by our officers j of sub;
before leaving on Sunday morning, was at I paign, which make MiIrfVeosboroffi'tsdeVot
least 25,000 iu killed, ounded and pris-1 has closed, leaving us cverving to hope
for and to be grateful for, aud nothing to
oners in our hands.
prot ests been peremptorally ordered to to the amount, as it is stated, of a mil-
cross the river and storm those heights, lion of dollars, the loss of which can
then and there by the men at Washington, ill no way seriously damage or cripple
That is the true record. Not all the the internal defences of the enemy,
cunning, nor the impudence of White ; The expedition should never have
House flunkeys can change that record been attempted unless it was intended
one iota. LiWi the fatal blunders that L. , , i , 1
preceded it, it has gone unalterably into !■ , . . , ll junction at Golds-
liistory. boru ’ whl . ch commands the Atlantic
Alas, for our country ! Given over, it seaboard line and constitutes the chan-
wouhl seem, to the most ignoble fate that nel.through which Richmond receives
ever befel a country—wrecked by Imbe- its supplies from Georgia, South Caro
lina and North Carolina. The only re-
ciles! Time was, we have read, when
an incompetent ruler was not permitted
among men. If he could not or would not
gird himself lip to the task required of him,
he had to give way, and of(on very swiftly
stilt of the late effort will be to arouse
the attention of the rgbels to the im
portance ot concentrating such a lorce
too, to the' man whom God^made to com- tljere Wl11 def j* a»y further attempts
mand. This cannot be now The people j P a ou { to cut this important link
have named the one to hold the helm of j in their liue ot communication except
State for four years, come sunshine or I with P.n overwhelming force. It is the
Inauguration of Gar. Srpnsar-Hr Define
bis Position.
Governor Seymour, of Neiv York, was inano’iir- !
ated on tlie 1st inst The following is tbs sub- j
stance of his inaugural address.
“I have solemnly sworn to protect the Consti !
tuiion of the United States, with alt its grants, I
restrictions and guaranties; and I will support it.
I have sworn to support the Constitution of the
State of New York, with all its p iwers and rights ;
and I shall uphold it. I have sworn to discharge
the duties of Governor of the State: and these,
with your aid. I shall faithfully perform, according
to the Constitution and Laws mPant for theguid
ance of our official conduct, for our protection and
w elfare. The first law recorded for ray observance
is that declaring that it shall he the duty of the
Governor to maintain and defend the sovereignty
and jurisdiction of tli« State. The most strict in
junction of the Constitution is that the Governor
shall take care that the laws be faithfully execu
ted: and, so help me God, they shall be. I would
uot dwell ou the present occas-ffon on national
affairs. Our position as a State has been happily
attended to by my predecessor. My views on the
subject were laid before the Legislature." In con
elusion, he said that, while knowing his position
give him but little control over national affarrs he
ventured to trust that before the end of liis term of
service, the country would again be great, glori
ous and united as it once was.
Gov. Seymoirr had ordered the Police commis
sioners to appear before him,-to answer complaints
for arbitrary arrests and imprisonments, in viola
tion of the Constitution.
Mobile, 7th—(Special to tho Adv. and
Reg. Granada, fflh)—-An Aid of General
Forrest," who arrived this evening, reports
the capture of Trenton* Union City and
Humbolt, with over 2000 prisoners, two
cannon and a large amount of commissary
stores. The_ attcck on Jackson was a
feint to cover their operations. The rail
road waa destroyed from Jackson to Col*
ambus.
deplore but the temporary sacrifice of J
j portion of our territory.
! Gen. Bragg made a speech to his armj
j on Monday. He was received with ap
probation, and spoke briefly of the late
conflict. In concluding, he assured the
troops that he would tight Rosencrant*
again, and not far from the scene of tho
just closed action. This sentiment inspi-
rsd great hops among all classes and es
pecially among tho soldiers.
f.argp S'iipuient n« Liverpool of War .Tfa-
tcrir 1 for the Confederate (>orrrnnirnt,
About eight daye ago a fino screw steamer, th«
Nichotai T. Canlain Fienley, quietly slipped out o-
the Huskisson Dock, where she bad been loadinff
with goods packed in casses, and steamed np to
the Sloye, where she lay for somo time envelope*
in the d»nse November fogs. She was ostensibly
bound forSt. Thomas, iu the West Indies At last
the Nicholai (which had more than once changed
her name and engaged in short Baltic voyage* b“
fore, in order to allay suspicion,) crept out of tl«
Mersey during a dense fog, whitb upwards of
hundred tons of war material on board, and is no»
far upon the Atlantic, where at least, she > s n<1 ’
likely to be capmred, being a vessel of first rat
sailing powers. During the time the Nicholai I gJ
in tha Huskisson Dock, hor boilers where * evere . 1 -
tested by hydraulic power, in order to ascer.a
what pressure they could bear, and the resnlt im
perfectly satisfactory, so that in all probability*
will get safely to Charleston, whither *w ’
bound.—The Nicholai I has been chartered by
wellknown Liverpool merchant, whose stoc L j
war materials and resources is said to be 5eron ,-^ r
none ia the Kingdom.—Liverpool Mercury *
29.
mil Done, Missouri.—We are glad lo learn that
Misoouri has recently contributed fifteen soar ^
at regiments to the Confederate army, | B
these regiments participated in the roewt b*-
J Arkansas..—Rishmsnd Whig. %
