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ILondou ^^io^CBlTUw of 01 itvery. In an editorial of the London '-Times,’’ commenting on the share Messrs. Beecher. Cheever, 'J yng end others, have taken in this war, the following parragraph oc curs : These gentlemen preach not for an in fallible or an established church, for no such church has yet ventured to be as dogmatic and positive on this point as they arc. They preach with the Bible in their hands. In that book there is not one single word that can be perverted to prove slavery unlawful, though there is. much which naturally tends to its mitigation, its elevation, and its final extinction. In the New Testament we have an epistle written by the man who represents the last reveal ed phase and development of the Gospel, come by the hand of a runaway slave, who had sought a refuge with the writer, to his lawful master, to the purport that the master and his slave were to get on hotter and do their duty to one annother more thoroughly for the future. 1 he same writer tells his recent converts that if they are slaves they must make the best of that condition, and not try to escape it, at least by any means contrary to the laws of the country. The only possible doubt about the exact meaning of his advice is whether the slaves are to refuse their liber ty, even if it he offered, or whether they are merely to remain true to their masters, even if chance presents tho opportunity of •scape. The context, which says that a faithful and dutiful Christian slave becomes the toon killed and six wounded. The negro pilot was killed outright. Our loss was only one man killed, a member of Capt. Alston’s Battalion, from Horry District, whose name we have not yot been able to obtain. Our forces behaved with the utmost coolness and bravery, encountering without breastworks or other protection, the enemy’s fire at the short rauge of be tween 200 and 300 yards. The Signal Corps and Walpole’s Stono Scouts were very active and efficient in promoting the success of tho expedition. Du.ing Satnrday night the other Yankee gunboats steamed up the river, and began shelling the Isaac P. Smith, hoping to retake or destroy her. Major Brown’s guns, however, immediately opened upon them a hot and well directed fire, and, warned by the fate of the Smith, they withdrew. The captured steamer is now under the guns of Fort Pember ton. The prisoners were brought to the city on Saturday morning, and were escorted to jail by a detachment ot the Charleston Battalion, Captain Lord commanding.-*— They are a villainous looking crew.— The names of the offiers are as fol lows : F. S. Conover, Acting Lieut. Com manding. •Tohn W. Dicks, (Executive Officer,) Acting Master. Robt. Tarr, Acting Master. 55 hiteman Chase, Ensign. Francis Bunton. Ensign. Henry S. Borden, Ensign. Jacob Tucker, 1st Assistant freeainan of his Heavenly Master, clearly ! ncer. proves that a slave who refuses the offer | Fr.i rastus Burry, 3d Assistant Engi- Engi- of freedom has a high scriptural argument j neer for his choice. If it be 6aid that slavery is at variance with the. spirit of the Gospel. 6o also ate a good many things which are not yet laid under the ban of Abolition or threatened with the “war power.” Sump tuous fare, purple and fine linen, wealth, ecclesiastical titles, unmarried clergy, good clerical incomes, and many other things, are contrary to the spirit of the J. O. Ilill, Assistant Paymaster. ■ Chas. Estaker, Paymaster’s Ciierk. G. II, Marvin, Surgeon. Jns. S. Tucker, the 2d Assistant Engi- j neer, died on his way to the city. A number of trophies found on hoard, such as officers’ swords, fine mathematical I instruments, etc., with a considerable pack of bran new “green hacks,” were Gospel, or a least can be proved so as easily j yesterday brought up to Gen. Ripley’s as slavery, But the Unman Catholics have just as much to say for any one of their peculiar doctrines as the Abolitionists have for their one article of a standing or falling community. Whether the Con federates have done right to throw off the Union is a distinct question, but they can not have a better defence than a procla mation of war to the knife, a solemn invo- , „ ort of the Military Academy for the cation of the “war power” against every j venr endi J nne 30 1864 being under "kve owner who still claims the duty of office, The prize will doubtless, he speedily put in lighting trim, so as to co-operate in the next dash of our iron clads upon the blockading fleet. “West E'ninllmu” in llic Sienate—Tbr Gener alship of lhe nnr. The bill making appropriation for the his slave. From the Charleston Metcary, Feb.: ,n £ consideration, Mr. Wade, (Republican, j of Ohio) said he was opposed to supporting the West Point Academy. He believed j it had been a hot bed of treason. Had The tapturrofihr Cuubonii«nnr p. Smith— there been no West Point Academy there Foil Particular**. In Saturday’s issue we briefly announced gunboat Is the capture of the Yankee P. Smith in the. Stono Rive. We are j that now enabled to present to our readers the full particulaxs of the exploit. Several days ago a secret expedition was organized, under the command of Lieutenaut Colonel Yates, of the 1st South Carolina Regular Artillery, and despatch ed to Jone’s Island, to attack the gunboats which occasionally prowl along the Stono. The force consisted of the following troops: The Siege Traiu, Cos. A. and B, com manded respectively by Capt. B C. Webb and Lieut. L. W, Wilson, Major Charles Alston, Jr., being in command of lhe bat- tallion. Co. F. of the Palmetto Battalion of Light Artillery under < 'apt. F. C- would have been no xcbellion. He believed ; that the army officers from that school were obstructions to the army to-day. Mr. Wilson, of Massechusetts, thought at disloyalty could not be charged i against West Point. About six hundred | mid twenty officers from that academy ware i in the army and had remained loyal.— . About one hundred and seventy-eight from ; the Southern States had resigned and i nineteen from the North. One hundred and thirty-eight officers from the slave- holding States had remained loyal, and fifty-two of these were from the seceded States. Mr. Fessenden asked if a large portion of the officers from civil life were not edu cated at West Point. Mr. Wilson said they were. Mr. Nesmite, of Oregon, thought that Schulz; Co. 1). 1st South Carolina (regular) the Senatorfrom Ohio (Wade) was entirely Artillery, which a Light Battery, Capt. mistaken in his opinion of West Point.— People in this age, do not get military knowledge as they do the measels, or by any inspiration, as in olden times. Then we hear of Moses who was a great quarter master who had fresh manna every morn ing without transportation, and they then blew down walls with rams horns. But such days of inspiration have gone, and we have to resort to education. An insti tution which has educated such men as 55 inthrop, Gre’ule Lyon, and others should noi lie charged with disloyalty. Mr. Wade replied, contending that the West Point institution had only fostered F. II. Harlston ; one Parrot gun. in charge of Lieut. T. E. Gregg; Co. I. 1st South Carolina fregular) Artillery, Capt. J. C. Mitchel; Cos. II. and 1, of 20 S. C. V., commanded respectively by Capt. S. M. Roof and Lieut. 51 Gunter, and acting as Sharpshooteis. During Thursday these troops were posted at Legare’s Point Place, and Grim ball’s, on John’s Island ; Major Alston comma: ding the batteries at Grimball's, Capt. Iiarleston, those at Legare’s Point I’lace, and the Sharp shooters being under charge of Captain Mitchell. In the meantime a detachment of Lucas jealousies and rivalries in the army, and (regular) battalion, under Captain John that it was a monopoly entirely at vari II. Gary, was posted at Mr. r I homas j ance with the Government. It might be Grimball's place on James Island, and a good institution to make engineers, but further up the Stono. J hey had three 24 it furnished no qualifications foracomman- pounder rifled guns, which were put in der o r an army. There were men in the position 250 yards apart, and about 100 army to day who were eating the bread yards from the banks of the river. r l lie of the Government, and who were doing all they could to destroy the Govern guns were manned by detachment of Companies A.B. and C, under Lieutenants 1 ment. W. G. Ogler and E. B. Calhoun and Captain T. ii. Hayne. Farther down the Stono, and on the James Island side. 51 r. Fessenden said that many men it ad gone south from Ohio and from his (Fessen den’s) own State (Maine), acquired prop Major J. 5\ elsinan Brown, with two rilled erty there, and were the very worst men in guns, in charge of a detachment of the 3d Regiment B. C. Artillery (late Lamar’s) and with a detachment of the Georgia . there were thirty-four thousand officers in Battalion as Sharpshooters, took lip a position so as to command the channel. On Friday afternoon, at half past 4 o’ clock the enemy’s gunb‘>at Isaac P. Smith steamed up the liver passing the batteries of Major Brown and Colonel lutes, and came to anchor a little above, nearly opposite the residence of Mr. Thomas Grimbail, and within fair range of the guns Garbv. the South. 5Ir. Wilson, of Massachusetts, said that ; the army, and that there could not be over I eight hundred of them from West Point. The country may have been disappointed | in the officers of the army, and perhaps justly. 51r. Lane, of Kansas, said that these I men had been educated at West Point at the expense of millions of dollars.— Could the Senator from Massachusetts Mr. Trumbull—»How could he couio up if be had not the opportunity? To what do we owe tho thousands and thousands of l^ves sacrificed in the swamps of rcbel- dom except to this passion of enginers for constructing fortifications ? Wc want generals who will rely uu the stiength of our armies and lead these men who have gone into the field to crush out rebellion against the rebels with fixed eyes and strong arms. Let them advance with the power of a hundred thousand bayonets and they will put the enemy to flight and rout this rebellion. You never can de stroy this rebellion by building fortifica tions and planting cannon to see how far you can shoot and whether you cannot hit a man without seeing him. The army is substantially controlled by officers of the regular army, and no Volunteer has had a chance to control a hundred thousand men. To crush tho rebellion tho men of the North must be lot loose aud let them come down upon the rebels with the strong arm, and they will grind them to pow der. Mr. Fessenden hoped that a vote would be taken. He had sometimes almost regretted that all the officers of our army had not been taken from the Senate or House, as they would* have had all this military knowledge by a sort of instinctive perception. The discussion was continued by Messrs. McDougall of California, Davis Ken tucky, Grimes of Iowa, Wade and Wilson ; and the bill finally passed—yeas 19, nays 10. SCurapeeu Xrwi. The London correspondent of the Times writes : The American war is a perpetual crisis. The anxiety has never been greater here than at this moment. We are, as usual waiting for news, and this news, as usual also, is expected to be of the most inipor taut character. If speaking of the Emancipation Proc lamation of Lincoln, tho correspondent of the Times says : In the Abolitionists in England are full of hope, and expect the Proclamation to do what a million of men in arms have hitherto failed of doing, the conservative Southern and Pro-Slavery journals are more hitter than ever The Times in its warmth of the advocacy of tho South, presumes so far upon the Pro-Slavery reaction in England as to defend Slavery upon economical humanitarian and Scrip tural grounds, waking up, as you may suppose, a hornet’s nest of Abolition pa pers. The fact, however, that the Times should dare to take such grounds, is proof of a great change in British opin ion. The London correspondent of the Phila delphia Inquirer writes the following to that paper. There is no doubt that the recent dis astrous affair at Fredericksburg, and the 5Iinistcrial crisis at Washington, have produced a profound impression upon all the classes of the people of England. As I stated in my last letter, the press gener ally has seized upon these two occuricnees with the greatest avidity, and turned them to as good an account as was in its power. With the sapient editors of most of the London journals there is no longer any Federal Government nor a nation known as the United States. The Southern Con federacy is gradually, but speedily, to swallow up everything on the Western Continent. 5Ir. Lincoln is now a Presi dent only in name, the Democratic party in New York being virtually the supreme rulers of the fragmentary conglomeration of Northern States, No language is too gross or indecent with which to express their contempt of 51r. Lincoln and his Cabinet, while the humane gentleman, Jeff. Davis, is elevated into a demigod.— The utter disruption of the whole country is confidently predicted as likely to occur within a few weeks, and Washington itself is to become a common rendezvous for the owls and bats. tma flrets aw Mdub Burnsides resigns and recants—Franklin's Farewell Address—The Army of the Mississippi—Muss in the Yankee Sen- arc—Maffit opens the Ball—Another Yankee Editor Muzzled—Financial and Commercial. Richmond, Feb. 1.—The Tribune of the 29th says: “On Tuesday Burnsides tendered his resignation to Lincoln as a member of the United States army. Lincoln declined receiving it informing Burnsides that he had other fish for him to fry. Burnsides acquiesced, expressing his readiness to ac cept the smallest command in the army.” Franklin closes his farewell address to his corps as follows: “In severing my connection which you have made so dear let no one believe that I willingly part w th you in the face of the enemy.” The Tribune’s Sleinphis advices state that Joe Johnston commands the rebel ar my in the Western department, and is able to concentrate 150,600 men. The latest advices say that McCler- nand’s forces aud the Porter fleet had reached Young’s Point 20 miles beyond Vicksburg. Mr. Saulshury, of Del., denounced Lin coln as an imbecile in the U. S. Senate. He was several times called to order, and finally arrested, but subsequently released. The next day 5Ir. Clark offered a resolu tion expelling Saulsbury. The Tribune says the conduct of the Seccsh Senators was disgraceful. He did not apologize, but retired flourishing a challenge to Clark. Ho threatened to kill Forney for remarks published in the Chronicle. It was the opinion of t"he greatest and most cautious Senator that Saulsbury should be expell ed. Tho Baltimore American of the 20th says: * “The Pirate Florida, Capt. Maffit has captured and destroyed seven Yankee vessels off the West Indies.” The London Times comments favora bly on the speech of the French Emperor, and considers him thoroughly in earnest. The Editor of the Philadelphia Even ing Journal has been arrested as a seces sion sj'mpathiser. Mr. Wall of New Jersey introduced in to the Yankee Senate a resolution inquir ing into the case of Zarvona, who is re ported to have gone away. It was adopt ed Gold closed in New York on the 2Sth at 163, Sterling Exchange 189i, Middling Cotton 80 cents. of Capt. Garbv. The Yankees made j (Wilson) point to one single ray of genius no attempt to land, and after waiting about j exhibited by any single one of those twenty minutes, Captain Garby ordered ! oHieers ! the battery to open, which it did in band- some stjle, sending its shots crashing aud 51 r. Wilson, in reply, said that we had lost twenty-six general officers since the ibly through the timbers of the gunboat, j war commenced. Seventeen of them At the first discharge there was evidently were killed in battle, aud nine of them great consternation on tlie lankee decks, educated at West Point. Among inese and one officer cried out “Great God!—i we ana one omcer cneu «>ui un-ai :— were such names as Lyon, Mansfield, who What is this I” The vessel immediately fell at Antietam ; Mitchell, the astronomer, slipplcd her cable and began a nasty re- j taken Yrom his command at the West— treat, fighting the battery as she retired. God only knows why ! Bayard, recegniz- She threw grapeslmt and shell with con- ■ ed throughout the country as a brilliant siderable accuiacy, hut without injuring officer; lleno, Stevens, Richardson, Sill, any ot our men. One grape shot struck | Hooker, and Rosencranz. Had these the gun of Company C, leaving its trace men shown no capacity, no ray of genius ? longitudinally. The firing of our battery He believed that there never were better at this point was rapid and well executed. ' artillery officers in tho world than those in The gunboat in her flight soon come within our army. range of the batteries of Col. Yates, 5Ir. Lane of Kansas said as the senator against which she then directed her broad- , (Wilson) was supposed to have something sides. But the heavy concentrated fire to do with shaping the policy of the govern from John’s Island soon terminated the struggle. Three shots 6truck the machinery of the steamer, deranging it so that she could no longer proceed. She then drop ped anchor, and her commander uncon ditionally surrendered the boat and crew, consisting of 11 officers, 105 men and three negroes. Colonel Yates thereupon ordered the Yankee Lieutenant Commanding to send his men ashore in the steamer’s boats, | fer to ? for our men had none where with to board her. The surrender was soon consummat- inent, he (Lane) would ask how it is that while by this Senate chamber and by a majority of the Senate the opinion is entertained and expressed that a graduate °f West Point now holding an important position is not fit to hold it, he should still retain that position. It is because this government is controlled by West Poiut ? Mr. IV iIson—Who does the Senator re- 5Ir. Lane—5Ieigs.” He has been denounced here in this Senate. If it be Richmond, Jan. 29,—The New York Herald, of the 26th, says a Yankee gun boat is reported to have been sunk by the Confederate battery off Port Hud son. Gen. Curtis telegraphs Gen. Halleck that three Federal gunboats ascended the White river to Duvalls’ Bluff and Desare, capturing one hundred and fifty prisoners, two columbiads and two hundred small arms. Gen. Wool having ordered all the New York militia to report to him, Gen. Hall, commander of the State forces, has enter ed a vigorous protest. Great excitement exists in consequence of the design of tho Administration to take the military under its control. A correspondent of the Tribune says France had remonstrated with England. There had been skirmishing in front of Corinth, and an attack was looked for. Richmond. Jan. 29th.—Northern dates to the 26th have been received. A special correspondent of the New York Post states that for four days of last week, beginning on Tuesday and ending on Friday, the grand army had attempted to cross at Bank’s ford, just above Freder icksburg, but that such was the condition of the roads that it was compelled to fall hack. The difficulties of the Yankees are thus described : “ In every gully, batteries, caisons, supply wagons, ambu lances and pontoons were mired. Horses and mules up to their bcii;-oo soldiers on me maren sinking to their knees almost every step. It was impossi ble to draw an empty wagon throngli the dreadful mud. The whole army stuck fast. Guns and pontoons were three days in reaching the ford, and had to he dragged by the united labor of men and horses, when it was discovered that the approaches to the river were impracticable. On Friday the greater portion of the army was back in the camp before Fredericks- hurg ” A sub marine cable is to be laid be tween New Orleans and Fortress Mon roe. THE WORST BATTLE. The Tribune says “we are beginning to see that about the worst battle lost to the Union cause thus far is that of the New York State election.” This stntemont ought to open the eyes of our Southern contemporaries who wondered at the New York election. It has done and is doing marvels. I’KOVI C'SI.i RI.ICKTON. I HE BLOCKADERS RETURNED AND AN IRON-CLAD TO HELP THEM. Charleston, Feb. 2.—A despatch from Col. Rhett, commanding Fort Sumter, an nounces that a stfangc steamer, evidently an iron-clad, hove in sight about noon, and is now stationary off'tho harbor. Her outline can be dimly seen from ti e city wharves. There are, besides, twelve blockaders all keeping steam up and on the alert- The captured gunboat Isaac P. Smith is now coming up from »Stono river into the harbor. FURTHER FROM CHARLESTON. The iron clad steamer which appeared off our harbor this morning is ascertained to be the New Ironsides. She is towed by a large steamer. Another formidable pro- peler, without masts, and supposed to be an iron-clad, has also made her appear ance. The British war ship Cadmus also ar rived offhere this afternoon, and her olli- cers and boats crew have come up to the city to communicate with the corvette Petrel, which is nou& at anchor in the bay. The •inKtng or Clio Utulorn* The following is the account of this affair, published in the New Orleans Pic ayune of the 17th iust, but credited, as may be seen, to the Delta: Off Galveston, Texas, 1 Jan. 3, 1862. i Correspondence of the New Orleans Delta. Of the first Galveston disaster you all know, i iie rebels occupy the city with a strong force of five or seven thousand men The city is well fortified all round. On Sunday evening a strange sail ap peared ofi the harbor. The guuboat Hat- teras went in chase about 7 o’clock. A heavy fire was soon after heard and the slaop-of-war Brooklyn and the gunboat Sciota started in pursuit. The firing ceas ed before these vessels reached the spot, some, twenty miles from Galveston. At day light next day Capt Lowry, of the Sciota, picked up a boat containing an officer and five men, belonging to the Hat- teras. .They reported that at 7 o’clock on Sunday evening the Hatteras ranged up alongside of a steamer, which looked like the Alabama; she was hailed by Capt. Blake, and replied : “I am Her Britannic Majesty’s steamer Spitfire.” Capt Blake said: “Heave to—1 will send a boat aboard of you.” A boat was lowered— the one spoken of as having been picked u r- ' Just as this boat shoved off, the strange •steamer opened a furious fire on the Ilat- teras. Both vessels then engaged in a fierce combat—running ahead of the boat: but soon after—say about twenty minutes —the officer in the boat saw the Hatteras stop, evidently crippled; then there was loud cheering on board the rebel steamer, l he Brooklyn and Sciota cruised all night, and next morning found the wreck of tho Hatteras, sunk in nine fathoms water. Some of her boats were picked up, which contained arms and bloody clothes. But the victor had disappeared. The Hatteras was a purchased iron ves sel, sister to the steamer st. Mary Sho was unfit for a man-of-war—having no power .of endurance. Her battery con sisted of three small rilled guns and four short 32 pounders. The tebel had heavy guns—GS pounders, by the sound. Opin ions differ as to who »hc was. Some think she was from 5Iobile and not tho Alabama. The fortifications at Galveston are form idable. BRILLIANT NAVAL VICTORY. Accounts Iron: Ejc Witnesses. BRILLIANT SUCCESSES' allies ae*w»r<l Cram lhe hsr.bul the glasses reveal ed nothing within the raDge of vision. Tbe success of that attack is most gratifying, and comiug so soon after the brilliant exploit per formed by Magruder, at Galveston, it carries un speakable joy to the heRrt of the country. We cannot speak in too high terms of praise of the judgment, skill and intrepidity that marked the undertaking, and its successlul accomplish ment. Had it been possible, the entire fleet would have been sunk or disabled. Commodore Ingraham, Captains Rutledge and Tucker, and the officers under them as will as their brave crew, deservo profound and hearty gratitude. We are indebted to several friends on board the Palmetto State for the following account of her operations We also give the account of our Spe cial Reporter, who was on board one of the ten ders. These accounts contain all tho particulars ot THE TIMES. As we anticipated, skirmishing has com. mcnced upon s portion of our linos. ~ learn that heavy cannonading was heard at Manchester Friday, which w e confi dently believe is the opening of tho Ball in the way of skirmishing, which mav extend in a measure along onr linos, unless the enemy should “shell out,” which is not very improbable as their ammunition and other trains stand a fair chance of being cut off and destroyed, for Rosen- crans is so completely hemmed in by our “irregular” cavalry (as an English officer terms them) that he cannot send out a df-rs. These accounts contain all the particulars o f ora gi n g party over three miles—and tho* the expedition and engagement, and show that it , ° ® U .7 na they has been a brilliant and glorious success on our j be 8H PP°ried by an entire Brigade Infantry. Truly our “Guerilla’s” do keep very side, limited only by the cowardly action of tlie j of Infantry. glorious coward I; blockaders. They fled, small and large, without even making a show of fight, notwithstanding the I irrequ J ar hours, and compel the eilfimv*^ presence of two forty gun frigates, the Susqce- j . ^ - enemy 8 lianna and Canandaigua Their loss, however, : infantry to do the same they have no is known to b« severe. Two of their vessels arc j cavalry——wearing them out by long known to be snuk, while several were fired and marches until they will become so coin- went off in a damaged condition. ! pletely nonplused that we should not be The movements of the Palmetto State. '■ SIIr prised to learn that old “Rosy” will , . . enter another race for a “Flying Dutch At eleven o clock 1- relay night, the gunboat I „,„„«> ^ ■ l,ulcn * Palmetto State. Capt Rutledge, bearing the Flag of Commodore N. Duncan Ingraham, left her moorings and proceeded out the harbor towards Fort Sumter. Abreast of Fort Sumter passet the three steamers acting as tenders, the Gen Cliuch, Etiwan and Chesterfield. At 4 30 A. M , the Palmetto State crossed the bar, and stood out at sea in the direction of the blockading fleet At ZLfcSJS.S.t&iSfSJ 55S .fayf.iyrr fan™. oil on deck, when the following colloquy took place: Watch—What steamer is that? Drop your an chor—back—back—and be careful, or you will run into us. Captain Rutledge—This is the Confederate States steamer Palmetto State. As the answer was given the Palmetto State, with full steam up, ran into the Mercedita, the bow striking her about midships and making an entrance of about three feet. At the same time our bow gun was fired with a seven inch incendi ary shell. We immediately backed ouf, when tho Mercedita hauled down her flag. They were or dered to send a boat to us, and Lt. T. Abbot, com manding, came off with a boat's crew and surren dered his vessel in the name of Com. Siellwagon, of the M-rcedita, carrying 7 guns and 158 men. He stated that bis vessel was iu a sinking condi tion, and begged our officers to relieve them. A shot had pierced her boiler, which had burst and scalded a large number of men. Lieutenant Ab bot. begged Commodore Ingraham to take the men with him on board the Palmetto Slate, as iu their haste to come to us they had neglected to putin the plug, and their small boat was only kept afloat by the surrenuous efforts of the men bailing the boat- Ho also stated that the water iu the man”—change his bace of operations, and take short route to Bowling Green by wav of Springfield. Since writing the above our report of the skirmishing has been confirmed The enemy came out 12 miles on the Shelbyville pike from Murfreesboro’, with brigade of infantry and six pieces of artil lery, aud made a vigorous attack upon our cavalry, driving them back a short distance, with their shells, when our cav alry masked themselves in the timber, near old Fosterville on the turnpike, and with the assistance of Gen. Anderson’s Brigade, which happily arrived in time, repulsed them with a loss on their part of 300 in killed and wounded, and a small loss on our side. We may look for “heavy skirmisLing” daily from this date, and with Gen. Joe Johnston to direct, we may also look fora general engagement within a week or ten days—and feel confident of success. [ Winchester (Tenn.) Bulletin, 1st inst, Oinrinl Declaraiioa •( the Raising af ih« Klackade mi lhe Part af Char lea tea. OFFICIAL PROCLAMATION. Mercedita had, at th-: time of his leaving, already Hbad’qrs Naval AND Land Forces, Charleston, S. C., Jan. 31, 1S63. At about the hour of five o’clock risen as high as the engine floors Commodore Ingraham regretted that ho could not comply with the request, as he had no room this ed, and a detachment of our force, under true “that this government is tottering Capt. Harlestou, took possession of the ; to its grave,” when that grave closes and prize Isaac P. Smith. r " a very valuable cn pture. 1861, and carried a fine armament, con- | M She proved to be the epitaph is to be written, that epitaph She was built iu j will he, “Died of West Point.” armament, con- 1 Mr. Grimes said be had received many sisting of one 60 pounder Parrott gun, and j letters from his constituents to vote against eiglit 8 inch heavy Columbiads. Her \ this bill, but he could not, as he con- hull and machinery were not materially j sidered a military education necessary. injured, and will soon be in serviceable yondition. The enemy’B ios* in the action was fif- Mr. Foster asked who Lad come up outside of West Point who bad shown bijnself to be a great commander? Farther Parliealara ot lhe Fight Wear Suf folk, 500 YANKEES KILLED AND WOUNDED. Richmond, Feh. 2.—Reliable intelligence from Suffolk slates that Corcoran commanded the Yan kees in the recent fight. They admit a loss cf 50(1 killed and wounded. Gen Gibbs was seri ously wounded All the hospitals in Suffolk are filled with wounded. The Philadelphia Evening Journal was sup pressed by ®en Schenck. for publishing along editorial praising President Davis' Message as trotbfql and noble in contrast with Lincoln’s, Arrival of Troops. Last Friday Captain Galt arrived with his fine company of infantry, being the advance of Col. G. W. Lee’s command. The Col. and Staff arrived on Sunday, and are stopping with our townsman, A. G. Wimpey. On Monday he issued his first order ac companied by a proclamation, which was read to a large number of deserters aud others, who listened with profound atten tion. The firmness and conciliatory char acter of the proclamation, and the peculiar impressive manner of the Col. went di rectly to the hearts of all present, and act ed like a charm in hi ingitig them back to a sense of their dutj'. The prompt execution of the law on those who refused to surrender, and Iris leniency to those who voluntarily came in, by granting them furloughs for a few days to revisit their homos once more, had the happy effect of bringing in many others. This judicious course has broken up the organization, and we have no doubt, in a month from this time, hut few will have the temerity to resist the laws. Two cavalry companies arrived from Dalton on Wednesday evening, in a 6tio\v storm, and found quarters in the. churches. Two other companies of infantry also ar rived in the early parkof the week:making in all near 500 men. Bo many troops and horses find it difficult to get accommo dations; but the citizens have thrown open their doors and civen every ayailalijo. tiLu-n of shelter to make lliem comfortable. Tho weather on Wednesday and Thurs day was extremely cold, with a high North wind, from mountains of snow, which tries the soldier to the bottom—yet we have not heard a murmur. It is thought the cavalry will proceed immediately to the adjoining counties and suppress any armed resistance. Borne twenty deserters and leading to- ries were sent off on Tuesday last under a strong escort to Atlanta to be tried. How strange it seems, that men of good sense should place themselves in the humilia ting position of felons—that any one should be so lost to every principle of hon or as to violate the laws of his country to sustain the government of a tyrant. Of these twenty deluded wretches, two of of them were over sixty years old, and worth oue hundred thousand dollars! To see them trudging through the mud and snow chained together liko convicts, was a sail sight, a terrible caution to all who witnessed it. We would remark in this connection, that more orderly or better behaved sol diers, than those composing the command of Col. Lee at this place would be hard to find. They are worthy soldiers of a great and righteous cause, and do honor to their country; and we trust the day is not far distant when their soldiers* life, with its trial and hardships will be over, and that they all may return safely to their quiet and happy homes, to enjoy the blessings of that independence for which t^iey are so nobly laboring.*— Signal. From the Charleston Courier, February 2tl The countenances of the dwellers in our an cient city have not beamed with so bright a light as they did o:i Saturday morning, since the joy ous news was passed from mouth to month that Moj Anderson had struck his flag and Fort Sum ter had yielded to General Beauregard. Even the croakers changed their tone and made their voice Inirmcnious with the universal exhilaration. Friend grasped the liand of friend, aud with hearty shakes exchanged congratulations on the happy event, and enemies forgot for the time their ani mosity, aud smiled blandly upon oue another. The rejoicing was deep loud and hearty. All were in some measure prepared for the glo rious tidings, for it bad been bruited on Friday evening that tbn blockading fleet was to receive a visit oar Ip the next morning trom the iron plated monsters that had been lying so long moored to our wharves.- And though that minor lias often before been put in circulation, and we awoke at the dawn ot the following day and listened in vain for the welcome sound ot booming guns, there was obviously ground for tho pleasant re port. and it was generally received as true. The source whence the report came, and the air and manner of those who made known the informa tion concerning the attack, together with the sin gularly favorable state of the weather, and the propitious time of the tide, caused a large number to look forward with eager and confident expecta tion for the realization of desires they had cher ished f«»r many weeks. Tho recent achievement of our gallant boys in the waters of lhe }Stono, had put our minds in iranie for the full enjoyment of a similar success. No one doubted for a moment but that the invul nerable little boats would do damage to the hos tile fleet. • It was known that the vessels guard ing the approaches to the city were of wood, and could not cope with the mailed rams whose gro- ue ugliness and saucy look we bad so often admired, • But leports aie sometimes true,and the one that so stirred our hearts with tumultuous joy on Fri day evening belonged to that class. We imagine that the sleep of our citizens wtfs light during the beautiful night that waste yield to a day bright with the glories of another na val victory. Who could compose bis mind for • he incoming cf deep refreshing slumber, while listening with open years for the roar of cannon trom the east? The slightest noise sufficed to startle the dreamer from his dose, and the rolling oi carriage wheels over the macadamized street sounded in his nicely attuned ear like the crash ing of guns pouring their heavy broadsides into some unlucky vessel. But the exploits perform ed by the water monsters were an ample reward for the scanty measure of repose wherewith our bodies were refreshed. At about 11 o’clock on Friday night, the Pal metto State in command of Capt. Rutledge, aud wiih the flag officer, Comjuodoro D N. Ingraham on boaid, together with tbe Chicora, commanded by Capt. John It. Tucker, cast off from the wharf, 'and with their prows turned seaward, steamed across the Cooper. The moon wasshiniog bright ly, there was not a cloud on the face of the blue sky, aud the surface of the water was smooth and glassy as a mill pond. Nature seemed to smile upon the enterprise, and water, sky and wiud presented a most delightful manifestation of the divine favor toward our just anti noble cause. The deep silence that broodid over the water wus only broken by the gurg.ing of tho screws, as the iron covered vessels moved slowly over the bav. Having reached I ort Sumter, they came to anchor, and there awaited the going down of the i moon. At three o'clock, the report of two guns echoed through tbe air. ihatwas the signal for their departure, and once more the gunboats are in mo tion. Silently they move through the darkness, upon tho unsuspecting war vessels before the dawn of day. The undeitaking promised rich rewards, and ihe dearer the monsters drew to the hostile• ships, the more impertinent and resolved became the gallant men who were beneath their iron roofs. Ncvi-r did tile little vessels seem to move so slug- gislily, mi;] mosLxlosely did the officers and crew scan tbe horizon,tearing that the light would steal over the sea btloie they would reagh the blocka- ■diug fleet. But. deep darkness is still on the deep, and they are neor the enemy. Commodore Ingraham des cries a black form just ahead, and the sharp bow of the Palmetto State is turned upon the object. Nearer aud nearer, with all steam on moves the iron vessel. A crash is heard, Rnd the ram of the gunboat penetrates the wooden side of oue of Lin coln's blockaders. And while the water was washing into the hole, tiie puns of the Palmetto 8late opened upon the hostile vessel. The officer in command of the Mercidita see ing it .was lolly to contend with such an antago nist immediately struckhis flug and surrendered, hi a short time the Vessel went'down.. All this no small boats or any other means of aftordin; them relief. Lieut. Abbot then pledged his word of honor for the officers and crew of the Mercedi ta not to sefve in any manner against the Confed- which condition he was sent on board his own vessel. They were roused from their slumbers by the shock, the men not having scarcely time to dress themselves. Lieut. Abbot and the men with him were nearly destitute ofclothi to accommodate them aboard of his vessels and DloruiDg 1 the Confederate naval forces on this station attacked the United States blockading fleet off the harbor of the city of Charleston, and sunk dispersed or drove ernto States until regularly exchanged, upon off and out of sight for the time the entire hostile fleet: Therefore, we, the under signed, commanders, respectively, of tho (lonfederate States na^al and land forces in this quarter, do hereby formally de- The Palmetto State, leaving the Mercedita to c l r , r e the blockade by tho United States h;i fate .stonJ out to sea, and enraged several utii- 0 - i is o ^ er vessels of the abolition blockading fleet, occas- .. 1 , .1 , ^ arleston, >~cutii Caro- ionaily exchanging shots. The latter, however, B na > *° be raised by a superior force of the fled at our approach, firing at long distances and Confederate States, from and after the 31st leaving us far astern. One or two shots were ex changed with the L’uited Stales frigate Powhatan The latter, however followed the example of her companions.'and fled. We then stood Northward towards the Chicora, which at time was almost surrounded by tbe enemy’s vessels. At 8 A M., there being no more of the abolition fleet iu sight, we stood back to the entrance of Beach Channel, having signalled the Chicora to return. On pass ing we were sainted by Forts Mnultie Sumter and Ripley, and arrived at the w harf in the city a lit tie before 0 P. M. day of January, A. D., 1863. [Signed] G. T. Beauregard, General Commanding. D. N. Ingraham, Eng. Officer Comd’g Naval Forces. in South Carolina. (Official)—Thos. Jordan, Chief of Staff. The movements of the Chicora. The Chicora. Capt. John R Tucker, started FROM ME5IPHIS. Mobile, Feb. 4.—A special dispatch to tbe Advertiser Sc Register, of the 3d. says that late and reliable information from her wharf st half past eleven Friday night, and crossed the bar at 4 30 A. M. We commenc- , . ed action at5.05. The Palmetto State engaged ,' rom 5femphis represents one division of an Abolition vessel on the right, while we engaged Grant’s Army as liavino-p-one down thn the one on the left. As we passed the blockader on the right, the Palmetto State was laying along side of her. Keeping on our course wc proceed ed to within fifty yards ot the vessel on the left, and gave her a shot from our bow gun, the block ader at the time being under full headway. We rounded to and gave her the lull benefit of our broadside gun and after gun. She immediately rang her bell for fire and made signals of distress to the rest, of the fleet The last seen of her by signal officer Saunders, she was stern - down very low in the water, and disappeared very suddenly This vessel is supposed to have gone down. Not withstanding, the Chicora immediately steamed towards her, nothing could be discovered of the vessel. The Chicora, proceeding further out to sea, stood Northward and Eastward, and met two ves sels apparently coming to the relief of the missing steamer. We engaged them. One of them, after firing a few guns, withdrew. Standing to the Northward, about daybreak we steamed up to a Army of tbe Potomac, which are very significanT, smad stde-wlieel two m isted steamer an l endeav- • ^ !1 Army as having gone down the : ri ver. The gunboats bad passed down the ; river. j The river is rising and is now within four feet of high water mark. There is a growing dissatisfaction among the Yankees. One brigade has ! been sent with in the fortifications at 5Iemphi3 and placed under guard. Artillery has been placed at all sta tions on the Memphis & Charleston rail road. What ibe 1’aakcc Soldiers Say aad Think of the War. The Providence (R. I ) Post print* extracts from several letters written by soldiers now in tbe wheel steamer came gallantly bearing down upon L^ aVe S ** en . \ Uo,lsa " d J of f m T n angled on - * - - ° v i fifteen or sixteen different battle fields—all for the Chicora and commenced tiring at long range Neither would permit our boat to get within a re spectable distance. Two of our shots struck the Quaker City, and she left apparently perfectly satisfied in a crippled condition. Another side- wheel two masted steamer with walking beams now steamed toward the Chicora, coming down on our stern. Captain Tucker perceiving it we rounded to and proceeded to within about five hundred yards, when the beligercnt steamer also rounded to and gave us both broadsides and a shot from her pivot gun. We fired our forward pivot gun with an incendi- i "“7 u “- "‘f “*t ary shell, and struck herjust forward of her wheel ! ^ t0n - ls the “ l ^ er - the "«««• house, setting Iter on tire, disabling and s'opping her port wheel. This vessel was fired both fore and aft, aud volumes of smoke observed to issue from every aperature. As we neared hershehaul- ed down her flag and made a signal of surrender, but still kept under way with her starboard broad wheel, and changing her direction. This nothing. Wives, sisters, mothers, an! children, losing their husbands, brothers, sons, and fatle.s — all for nothing ! For here we have been fight ing for over a year and a half aud we have not gained oue point. Wc have lived, and are now living, on nine or ten crackers, a piece of raw pork, and some miserable copperas water, called coffee, per day. all to fill the pockets of a lot of thieves, who are trying to make all they can out of the people and the Government. The soldiers are all discouraged, and will not fight as they would once on the Peninsula. All we hear from Wash- black, filthy nigger. One nigger is thought more of than twenty white men who have left home and all that is worth living for, to come and lay down their lives, if need be, to save their country, while the leaders are doing their utmost to ruin it. It is not because we can't beat the rebels, that the var is not over by this time; for wo can beat them. was just after daybreak. We succeeded in catch- is f be “ U8e - the «°™-nment i* too busy Captain supposing her boilers struck and the es caping steam pi evented the engineers from going J into the engine room to stop her, ordered us not to fire. Shtvthus made her escape. After this ves sel had got out of our reach. to the perfect safe' distauce of about three miles, site fired her last ri- | fled gun, again hoisted her flag and setting all sail, firing her rifled gun repeatedly at us ns she l f I ne CnrrorautJW'-engaj.eu six more ot irb cue- * ray's vessels nt one time—three side wheel steam ers and three propellers—all at lung range. Dis covering that the Flag boat, Palmetto State, had ceased tiring and was standing in shore, orders they ought to be wheu they are wanted. You must not set me down as a growler. 1 havg good reason for my growling. -Almost every man ift this army thinks as I do. If Job had served in the Army of the Potomac, he would have sinned, and most fearfully too. The following extract is from a letter written near Falmouth, by a member of one of the regi ments raised in 1662. Tbe writer has been known Ma a sac flis'e t ts ,"as kn “Had I known as much of the management of things six months ago as I know now. fifty yoke of oxen con Id not have drawn me ont here. It is time Captain Tucker, of the Chicora, was laying about him vigorously to tbe right and left The shells from his guns set tire to a large ship-of-war cud she lowered her flag. He sunk, it is believed another, and the two monsters threw shot and shell at the other vessels, that seeing the fate that had befallen their comrades, turned their bu.vs to # the sea making their best speed to get beyond the reach of danger. Not one of them showed any disposition to continue the tight but careless ot the ho.,or of that flag they profess to adore, their cowardly hearts, thoroughly possess ed byjear, they fled with all the speed their sails and engrttes enabled them to command But though they fled so precipitately, we have no doubt that many of the seventeen carried away with them some painful remembrsuce of that ter rible surpiise, while it is positively known that several who succeeded iu making good their es cape, were severely injured. When the morning light broke, not one of the fleet was in eight. The f unboata cruiled manj- were given to follow her. On our return, we , a A * 4 d political humbug, and got np to make again came across a three-masted bark rigged ves- offices for lazy office-seekers. I wish the leaders sel, which we engaged, firing our guns as we were ns far the other side of purgatory as they are passed, striking her once or twice. We then this side. It has tnrned out to he an abolition kept on our course to the Bar, having sustained , war, and ninety-nine soldiers out of a hundred no damage in the action, nor a single casualty on say that if the abolitionists are going to carry on board. The last ship above mentioned kept firing tbe war, they will have to get a new army. They ship above mentioned kept firing at us until we got out of range, and we giving them our return compliments One of the block aders was certainly sunk We engaged her at the distance of only oue hundred yards, and they will have to get a new army. They say they came ont here to tight for the Union, and not for a pack of d— ■ d niggers. These niggers are lazy and dirty ; they will lie aud steal; and they are saucy where they dare to be. If a said- water. The Chicora anchored in Beach Channel at B 30 she settled down with h$r stern clear under the ■ >er touches an officer'* nigger, he will get court- martialed and lose a mouth’s pay. A nigger is thought more of by the government than the sol- A. M.. and arrived at her wharf in the city about fliers aro. They get as much, or more to eat, get 6 o’clock, receiving a salute from Ull the forts and batteries as she passed on her return. The num ber of shots fired by the Chicora during tho whole as much pay, and don’t have to fight any. A curse on such things.' I hope something will torn up before to morrow night that will settle this war. engagement was twenty-seven, mostly incendia- ■ 5Ve got whipped at Fredericksburg, and wc shall ry shells. Lieut. Glassell commanded tho for- get whipped every time we fight in Virginia! I ward pivot gun, assisted by Midshipman R. H don’t think the North is right, any more than the Pinckney; L'eut. W. H. Wall, the after pivot; 'South.” Master Mason, the starboard broaJside; Master Payne the larboard broadside. The different divisions were commanged by First Lieutenant G. H. Bier and Lieut. J. C Clay- brook, assisted by Midshipman R. H. Bacot and Signal Officer Sauuders. The Pitots of the Chicora were Messrs. Thos. Payne and Aldrich. a gen- next ANOTHER PORT OPENED. Jackson, Feb. 3.—Late New Orleans papers have been received at Poncbatoula, which announce the raising of the blockade _ at Sabine Pass, and the capture of three i Tennetsee, in which he says he will _ , ’, , n f i „ i further movements. He was serenaded last ngtit at Federal vessels by tbe Confederates. No Tullahoma, and on being called oat complimented particulars J,«v f b««Q owf*. | ** * ” •»"** FROM OUB ARMY IN TENNESSEE. Charleston, Feb. 4.—The following dispatch has jnrt been received: Decherd, Jan. 31.—By mail to Chattanooga. Tha enemy advanced twelve miles from Murfreesboro' yesterday with one brigade and six pieces of artillery. They mode a vigorous attack on our cavalry. shelliDg ns back a short distance. We masked ourselves in a pieee ot timber near Forrestville when Anderson's brigade happily arived and repulsed the enemy with a loss of three nuudred killed ana woundej. Loss on onr aide small. Heavy skirmishing is progressing daily and a eral engagement may be) looked for within the ten days. Gen. Johnson has issued a congratulatory order to