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the gttftiit!* r a * SfoRKmLE. 8. O. WgyiTEDAY ITSKiy G , JA2IUABY11, 1165. ^ TERMhTi'OR 1883.' ~ QNM DOLLAR per nmm, payable in produce at old prices* Including Com, Wheat, Floor, Bacon, Rye, Butter and Poultry. | ttft DOLLARSJn Confederate money to nonpnxhicers v orpawjsstbcxotMLtbcBtatrict. . - ? i. . MtX DOLLARS for 6 months. ^ " 1 ELITES OF ADVERTISING: t Opi l|l(lii often Unes, Three Dollars for each Insertion, or 30 cents per line. No advertisement charjed less than Obituaries, Tributes of Respect and Complimentary NeWies charped at adriiiitlsing rates. 1 ^ ^pF THE RESERVES. T Mt*9T9' Editors . ?Your correspondent having left the camp at Florence, on Hie let instant on a short leave of afi&nce, will acconut for the non-reception last week of his accustomed - tetter/ The health of the camp was much improved, the measles and mumps having generally run through, and those Who wapa aMa to travel heincr ffenerallv "Tv ? oo furloughed home, where many remain, sad I am sorry to hear are not improving tfery fast. Their absence renders the duties of camp very onerous, requiriiijg_^uhrd duty to be performed every alternate day hy those who are present, and tiros furloughs can only be granted 'extreme cases. It is hardly contraband to state that there are still 8*000 prisoners in the stockade, about IQO seatWred about promiscuously outaide, with a battalion of foreigners, who have >een organized under competent ofilcar8vwho6e position we by up means etrrfcftr- thofcewho fcSve been galvanize&heretofore are pretty generally back in their old quarters, if they have not walked-?ff with the clothing that should hade been furnished our own soldiers. The Tact is, t Irbuld hate been far better it fijst to have" paroled the privates, and saved the vast expense it has cost the Qovernment in feeding and guardingrfliett.' j'-i>t . I . - It-Was eipefcted when your correspatient left, that the prisoners would ber amoved yrithin the next ten or fifteen days, to a new stockade near Killiah's Mill Pond, or some other point, but5!! an exchange which is spoken of his any foundation in fact, the removal may not be carried out. One thing is certain, though we may have guard sufficient to coifvey the prisoners to" a point for exchange, there is not to remove them to a safer, locality. Bat as Sherman is how advancing towards Girfcbaanville, the probability of an exchange of the Florence prisoners would Kent doubtful. The small pox has made its appearance among afcem, some four or five cases having proved fatal; no feat* were entertained of the contagion spreading withoutr?the cases, when I they occu?, are removed to a hospital in - * v e i.L Itfce wooos, at some distance xrom uie entire camp, where they receive every attention necessary from their own stewA flag-staff, of Yankee construction, has been erected, and the Confederate flag, also of their own manufacture and procurement, floats proudly over the prison. Thus, Yankee ^like, they sustain the ruling passion of avarice and deceit. They have outside a barber, tin and jewelry shops,* and carry on their trader with their'usual cunning and unconcern ; Yankee bakers cook bread for the Sutlers, and Yankee shoemakers are making officers -boots and their ladies' 'slippers; a hundred or two are let out every, morning who cut and carry wood enough during the day to supply the thousands inside, and a general appearance of business and comfort ie ' - -- i imaae 10 appear, ae il uyus caioi/ awvug them. All this kindness, too, at a time when their fellows are threatening oui very hearthstones, and planning, perhaps, to come to their relief?a relief we should think not very desirable bj the non-combatant portion of them? Bnt retaliation has Always been a gr.ea bugaboo to us. We have accounted, above, probabb for the non-appearrnce home to Christ mas of many who would like to "crow< the ingle" at that Jime?the father am the son were" alike denied; the old baci elors grumbled away, like bears wit] sore heads, but we suppose its all on to the girls where they are, for there i no music in them; if you whistle a tun they cannot tell "home, swe< home," from "Patrick's day in the moi ? T T orin ' r? I limy;. uuii x iurgtx uiu u?v camp. B. ? Ill* Official from Gen. Hood. Richmond, Jan. 5.?Offioial dispatc from Gen. Hood, dated Corinth 3d inst say that onr army has reorossed Tennesw river without material loss, since the bntt in fcrbbt of Nashville. [Corinth is in the northwest corner i MisaiaBippi, near the Tennessee river. It probable previous dispatches, giving an a count of the battle in front' of Nashvil have miscarried ] ?tor. Price Not Diad.?The Mon gottery Appeal polishes an extract from Private letter recceived from a highly int< Hgent source, from which it appears tb die old war horse, Gen. Price, "still lives, or atleaefc that he was alive on the 2d all the day after he was reported to have di< - of apdplezy, at Dooley's Ferry, in"Aria sai. ^ For the Torkvillc Empitrer. ~~ HIGH PRICES. Messr*. Editor*: "Whatever may have produced the present low rates of specie value in Confederate money, it is certainly true, that professional men, mechanics, artists, and others who are not producers of the prime necessities of life support are the greatest sufferers, because of the present high prices of the productions of the farms, and manufactories of our country, viz: Wheat-' flour, corn, meats, milk; butter, lard, salt, soap,1 .clothing, leather, iron.? More or less of all these must be had by every person, in order to have common living; to say nothing about sugar, coffee, molasses, calico, &c., which j many producers among us are enabled to purchase in some measure by the in- j come of sales made at these high prices. That is to say: Wheat-flour, 23 prices, corn, 20, pork 30, beef 20, milch-cows 40, butter 60, lard 40, salt 100, soap 20, cloth 45, leather 70, iron i 40. These prices when added together, |pake the sum of 503. Now divide this sum 503, by 12,? the number of items charged, and the quotient is 41 11-12, or near 42 times more than'peace prices, or 42 Confederate dollars for one dollar of Bank issue of 1860. It is plain therefore, that professional men, mechanics, artists, and other mere consumers of the aforesaid articles, are living on expense 42. times greater than in time of j>eace. Now in order that pro-' fessional men, mechanics,^artists, and other consumers of the before mentioned articles, do enjoy the *pae living as do the producers of the^aine, they must of neoessitv in self defence demand these articles in barter for their services at peace prices, or 42 Confederate dollars in payment, instead of one I dollar of Bank issue in circulation in the year 1860. Otherwise, this class must become poorer and poorer as their consumption progresses; or they must" beg, starve and go unclothed and unshod, whilst their professions, hnd incomes" do go to enrich the producers, and enable them to pay the higher taxes imposed hy Government. ^ , OBSERVER, x varassjWKflB* ? The Northern papefts say Sherman's programme for his grand campaign "Northward" seems Co be no secret. He will start from Port Royal and move straight on Branchville. He then proposes to follow the main lines of railroad towards Virginia, stealing and murdering as much as he can by the way. j ? "Tom Thumb" and .his family hare, j at last, gone to Paris. The General.became j disgusted on account of the public exhibi- j tion of a new fat boy?a little chap only ten vears old. and already nearly five feet high, and weighing about two hundred and sixty ppunds. >' . ? Adispatbh has Wen received by W. Y. Leitch, Esq., Assistant Treasurer, Trom the Seoretary of the Treasury, that an Aot has been passed, extending the time for exchanging Treasury notes of old issue. ? Miss Brand, who is called the "MissNightingale of New Orleans," has just made her appearance in England. Sho is reported to have speat three years in attendance ' upon the sick and wounded Confederate prisoners in that city, and to have been expelled by,Gen Gan by. ' , ? Private advices fronUhe extreme West,indicate a resumption of -the Indian diffieol1 ties. Tbo hostile Sioux are said'to be gathering in large numbers at several points, and threaten to- exterminate the whites. ? The armies, of Europe have a total ot - 4,694,000 men, costing annually $325,000,' 000. Rtma has the largest army, numbering 1,200,000 men. That of France numbers 750,000 men. % ? Col. Tucker's Regiment of the First ' Foreign Legion, left Columbia yesterday morQ?bg for a moreractive field of duty. In ^ their march through the city tb ; presented a very oreditahle appearance. ? In AnguBta, Ga., on Taesday, about ^ 3000 negroes were sold by the anotion horn ^ see at prices raging from $3,000 to $3,500 ^ ?The Coolie slave trade is still going on Vessels under the freneh flag are continually taking Coolies from Macao and Canton tc b. ? , Cuba. 6 ? The Lieutenant General of the Unitec IS States army was walking on the dock a City Point, a day or two ago, apparent! absorbed in thought, and with the inevi table oigar in his mouth, when a negr ? -J Via arm ftftvino. "No 8U10 gUIUU IVUViUEU utu J D7 king on the,dock, sir/' "Are these yon . ^ i j+" orders," asked the General, lookiDg op.1 k "Yes, sir," replied the negro deoidedlj "Very good orders," said Grant, throwin |e bis cigar into tiro water. [iVetr York Tribune. of ? Artemus Ward notifies the gentlema 18 who left phosphorus in his bed, at the Si ?e 'Nicholas Hotel, that if he will leave hi Dame with Genera] Dix he will hear som< thing to his advantage. ? The Jackson MUsissippian Extra saj ,j that Sherman's guide, described by" a Nortt at em correspondent is no less a porsonsg than one J. G. "Winter, who is well know in Alabama, Georgia an^'Misrjssippi ua th "n former owner and founder of tbc Eock I< land paper-mills at Cotumbce, Georgia. ? The Baltimore Sun lays William J. Freesbtfrger Was arrested recently, ohirged with oarsing President; Lincoln. ? In the Confederate Honse of Representatives, on the 28th, Mr. Ajar, of South Carolina, introduced a resolution that the President be requested to inform the House how it has been that our so'diers in the field have been so long without pay, and expressing it as the sense of Congress that troops in the field ought to be paid in preference to other offioers and employees of thtr Government. mJmm ' 4 *" ' Mr. Witnerspoon, ot sontn Ajaronna, 01fered a resolution, whioh -was adopted, looking to the arborisation, by Congress, of ibe Postmaster-General to patohase United States postage stamps for the use of citizens who have relatione who are prisoners at tbe North; and also advocating the giving of the franking privilege to Confederate prisoner*. ? Gen. Cooper's order in regard to the impressment of 20,000 slaves, ih accordance with the act of Congress, approved February 17, 1864, has appeared. .Impressed Slaves, according US the law, are to reoeiye tbe same rations and olotbiog, in kind and quality, as slaves regality hired from their owners, and, in the evtmt'of their loss, are to be paid for in tbe manner provided by the impressment laws. If an owner has bat one male slave, he cannot be impressed against bis will. The last section of tbe act provides: "That free negroes shall be first impressed, and, if there^honld be a deficiency, it sbpll be supplied by the impressment of slaves," etc. In making impressments, not more than one of every five male Slaves shall be taken from any one owner; and slaves in tbe service, or who may have died or been lost while in tbe service, an to be placed to the oredit of all others having slaves liable to duty tinder the law i i - ;n -tiir iti-i- 4 . From Biohmond, A heavy cannonade was heard during several hours yesterday, the,sound coming from the river. Report says it was [ an artillery duel on Pickett's lines j but we think it more probable our ovra fi; ring from the Howl'ett batteries, rendered more distinct than usual by the overhanging clouds.. Later in the day these clouds dis| charged a great quantify of show, which jothw wrap all the lines of Richmond and Petersburg^ We are glad to learn that the late j trouble , about short rations is .now oyer, i It was due to mismanagement on an important piece of railroad, which all the | speculators in the South skeined to have taken bold. The dare will hereafter go through without trans-shipment or change of trains, and the supply will be abundant. . ... PROM HOotf. . . We believe it to be true that the enemy had received a heavy check near the Tennessee river, and that two entire brigades were taken from him; also that Forrest has captured an immense wagon train, with many more prisoners. It is again said that Forrest has been made a Lientenant-General, but we doubt it. Who ever heard of a Lieutenant-General who was not a West Pointer* i Richmond Examiner, 4f A. SOUTfiWESfE&N VIRGINIA.. The reports of the re-occapation of Bristol "by the enemy, says the Lynchburg Republican of the "1st infctffnt, is incorrect, as we learn from a gentleman from there last night. Burbridge and Stoneman returned to Kentucky through .found trap. 'They aoanaonea their artillery (four pieces) just before reaching the Gap, being unable to earry it further. Gillem and Brown went back into East Tennessee, and are reported now to be about Greenville with their main force. - . , col. mosby. = ? W'e are highly gratified to learn* says the Republican, from an authentic source, that Col. Mosby is rapidly recovering from his wound, and in a shorl time will be in the saddle again. Gen. Wheeler's Command.?Mucl complaint has existed in the country concerning the atrocities of roving bandf , of plunderers, calling themselves, or be ing called by the people ^Wheeler's men, in order to test the truth of the stigm; upon his command, Gen. Wheeler hai recently sent out detachments far an< wide to scour the country, and appre i hend the m'aruders. Satisfactory proo Ah+ftmn/1 Ap 4-Vin TVrnwl<*Y,| JLi&B UCUU V U uaiULU vuuv v* vuv jp* v ? ?v? in Sherman's rear, few, if any, belonge< to Gen. Wheeler's forces, though so Je nominated. The theives caught hay j turned out to be deserters from variou > infantry .organizations, and one, a re leased Miileageville Convict. Hundred of horses and mulds have been returns * to citizens by Gen. Wheeler. . t ' Constitutionalist, 1th. y ~ Northern Items. We find the following Washingto: 0 despatches in the papers received: It is understood that the Presiden t will, at an early day, call the attentio " of Congress again to the important sut jectofan amendment to the Constiti ' tion abolishing slavery. It is probabl S that ia the event of speedy action nc being taken, the President will iiidi'cat that he will call an extra session < a Congress to pass this important nje< sure at as early a period as it can l t- done constitutionally, i? A letter from General Sherman 3 5- in town, which treats incidental of ou Administration, of the war, and th prospects of the rebellion, and whic closes, with a sentence that clangs o l* manly tare with the ring of a viking' e sv.'orl leaping from its scabbard: "M n laeu. is that every young unci anuait eged n;uu ough; ze be proud of tl ch -.Vico tc fight for the integrity of hi 3" country. I would like to see all trad and commerce absolutely cease tot 4 ???? ? _.J this conflict is over; and all who can fight, ought to he killed or banished; and those who won't support thoife who do fight should be denationalized." The [peace rumors of test weekimve disappeared.. The commissioners about to start far Richmond, are how very shadowy personages indeed. Mars is again 4n the ascendant. The pulpit.-on TmdrSday?the 'day appointed by: tHePresident and by the Governor of the State, for .general thanksgivings?rebounded with martial exhortations.? The community is ashamed of its momentary. relapse towards humane views. The noble army of contractors breathe fcgain. . :*|. ' " 11 .i ' ^ IlfQUiBT mo Owwux Favq?otbm. -?Mr. Ayer, of South Carolina, submitted the following resolution.: "Retolued, That the President be respectfully requested, if not incoippatible with the public interest, to inform ibis Ho'usC whether or not {fie Secretary 6f War, or any other officer of die Executive Government, has ever granted, permits, passports or safe conduct to one or more youths of the Confederate States,, whd 'were about to attain the, age that would render them liable to cohscription or military service, to go beyond the limits of tins Confederacy ; hnd if any youth or youths of the age_ designated have been or are about to" be suffered to depart from the Confede-^ racy,To inform the House of the reasons' for their being permitted to go abroad.". ^Optcd. : . Th? Central Road.?The Central kailroad has' bCen repaired from Macon to Gordoil, and the hinds are how at frork <Jn the Milledgeville and Gbrtton road, which B exbiw^ed bo be compfeted fo the Yicifiity ofMiR^dgeville in ww^SL 6r ted days. . A t^pdraty bridge, mfitde of flats, has beeti thrown ScVoss the Oconee at killedgevillb add th'atplacehas become the masii r<mtC oftraVfei, in communis-" ting with the Sbhth aird East. . i The Macon & Western, rbk:AtlStit4 4-.. i ufi' c; ... ^dait^n ii.LO j._ 9alLii itauroaa, nas oeen completed to ?ionetjbo'ro. * *? ?' - Seeking a Fuss. ? The Yarifcoe Government seemB determined to get up a little trouble with the British*? Following upon the release of the St. Alban's raiders, bythe Canadian Court, we have Been the adoption by the lower branch of Cengress of a resolution requesting Lincoln to notify Great, Britain of the termination of the Canadian reciprocity treaty, and a resolution re^l-ted from the ..Senate Finance Comttee, appropriating six millions of dollars for the purchaee of revenue cutters for the lakes* All this is (Significant. r - ">"*'* "" ; . :r ?r?..) nfun - - >?.? , " From Charleston. : Charleston, Jan. 6.?The .enemy, in unknown force, crossed New river, on the road to Grahamville this morning. Oar forces burnt the bridge oorCNM New river.-? Wheeler is watching the movements of the fcnemy, whwbijxe not yet developed. i J Charleston, Jan.., 7-?Nothing impor. tantfrom Grahamville to-day. Affaire about the. same. A sitfe wheel steamer withEnk^flag under^tbe Yankee flag, was seen ; with tho fleet this morning?supposed to be a blockade runner captorea. Rxpobtpd Death op General Hood.?The Cohmbas Times, of December 27, says; <'The ram or of the death of Go ti. Hood was quiite currtrot yesterday. It was said to be based on a dispatch from General fi. D. Lee to General Beauregard, conveying the ead intelligence, and requesting the Imxaediate return of the latter to the army of Tennessee. We fear that the report is tftte. ?ft :? The Exchange of Prisoners. A correspondent of the New York Timet Writes to that paper a long oomplaint about the oonduot of the United States Government in leaving its men in the Confederate ; prisons. He says: tn "my opifiioti, $ie Secretary has taken and obstinately held a position of coldblOOdl ed policy, (that is, he thinks it polioy^in > this matter, more cruel than anything done . by the sebessiohhfo. Ostensibly and offi oially saying be ^91 not exchange at all on. less the secession leaders will give as, or avenge terms, all the blacks they capture 1 lU UiiilMi j wnium ' hiu\ r said (and this is the basis of his coarse and 3 policy) that it is not for the benefit of th< . Government of the United States that th< ' power of the secession ists'sh ottld be replete c x by sotae 50,000 men in good condition nov 9 in our hands, besides getting relieved of th( l" support of nearly the same number of hu . man wrecks and ruins, of no ad vantage t< f ns now in theirs. a * Major-General Butler,'in my opinion, haj 1 also incorporated in the question of ex _ change a needless amount Of personal piqm e and unbecoming obstinacy. He, too, h? s taken his stand on the exchange of ail blacl !_ soldiers, has persisted in it without regait s to consequences, and has made the whole o d the large and complicated-question of gene ral exchange turn upon that one item alone while it is bat a drop in the bucket. Thei he makes it too muoh a personal contest an< , matter of vanity who shall conquer, and ai Q occasion to revenge the bad temper and in suits of the South toward himself. In my Opinion, the anguish and death o n these ten or fifteen thousand Amerioai >. young men, with ail the added and inoal i- cnlable Borrow, long drawn out, amid fami <e lies at home, rests mainly upon the head >t of members of oar Uwn Government; ani :e if they persist, the death of the reWainde )f of the Union prisoners, and Often wore ^ than death, Will be added, le The Timet, in an editorial on the sam subject, nses the following language: is It is worse than useless to disguise or lg ir nore the fact that the condition of Ufcici e prisoners in rebel hands is-erciting the pre i Jaaf taolinrr in nnhHrt milld. H j 1UUUUWJI ivunxg tuv , a that the aotion of the Government upo: g tho subject 13 not regarded with satisfaction y This feeling iv perfect!) natural and nc cireasonable. So far ad the public ha u been informed of the action of the Govern s ment, that totion doea not seem adeqdat e to the awful emergenciesof the eile. - A? il j while the whblarobjectirwirroanded wit i difficulties, it isfHt that nothing bat absolve necesaitj-^no question of etiquette, no fear Of embarraSsiog concessions, no qttffltion SF pdfey and expediency merely, should load the Government to permit forty thousand Of our soldiers to perish by starvation' and expoirare at the hands of their Sonfhern captors. * "W&tft is ih dtore for Soutlx Carolina.' The Philadelphia Inquirer uaa an editorial which well portriys the Yankee feeling tcriitds South Carolina, arid What fate she tody 6kJ>eot Bhotild Sherman's army get a footing on her soil- It sayv. : That shout which went np from Sherman's Western boys when .their faoes lookid Chailestonwfted, on their march, rings louder than ever in his ears. It was an ominous battleorv. "Lead as into South Carolina !_ Take us to Charleston I" Ransom knows, and Jeff. Davis knows what will be the fate of that accursed hot bed of treason whenever the Union forces are ordered to cross its threshold. . South Carolina, thus far, has-experienced little of the evils entailed upon her sister States by her own diabolical acts. She will yet feel them, we trust to the largest measure. It is bat justioe, and Heaven will sorely mete, it out, and foree her to drink.to the dregs the bitter cop which she placed to the lips of the nation. . When that day shall. come, the #orld will approve her punishment, and to the sentenoe of righteous retribution will day, Amen! ' The awimut of Sherman's command may be former inferred from what has been related to ns upon undoubted authority, as Contained in a letter reoeived in this city, from a lady who formerly lived hue, bat tow resides in twenty miles of Savannah.: Some Yankee troops having despoiled her of everything she had in the world, asked if |h? was a refugee, to whieh she replied^ (hat she was not < "It is very well for yon that yon are not," the marauders rejoined, i "If you were a refngee, we woald burn your house over your head." Our people have had warnings enough. The desolation of Atlanta) and the degradation pf Savannah, of whieh We lean (his morning, are now before their eyes. Either late would be horrible, bntfche former preferable. A worse than either threathens as.. Let us then be Wise in. time, and resolve, tinder Hod, to incur neither. Bally around the army, and the boastful Sherman .and his host will meet their doom, where it is most fit they : Should. There would be a. moral and political as well as dramatic propriety in his overthrow here. j.-rr?7T.? ? * ' Them Qflnnml Hood's Armv. Selma, Deo. 30.?The Reporter of (his afternoon says a well known gentleman of Huntsville, who left that place on the 21at inat, arrived at Meridian 09 Tuesday afterpppn, bringing the following very gratifying intelligence from Hood's armyjind North Alabama: ^ ../> ... .> Gen. Hood on the eve of jrithdrawipg: from near Nashville was attacked vigorously by the enemy, who njassed a heavy force and threw it upon his centre; composed of Cheatham'a and Bates' divisions when these Veteran troops gave. way. Hood then moved do Columbia, where he was at latest dates. J j On Tnesdayr the 20th, there was another fight, in -which the enemy were badly whipped, losing ope entire brigade captured.? About the same date Forrest, captured an , efitire brigade bf cavalry and 600 wagons. The population of Middle Tennessee and ?forth Alabama were thoroughly aroused and eveiy man and boy oapable of bearing arms was hurrying to join our army. Ten companies were foirmed at Huntsville In a week. That place had been taken possea. lion of by ted Yankee Regiments from Point Peak, but Roddy had been ordered to retake and Bold if at all hazards. Ten gunboats came up the Tennessee river and attempted to cross the Muscle' Sooals at Decatnr. Roddy had attaoked them, destroying one and probably another; the remainder had been injured. Forrest had been made a Lieutenant General. ?Wll " A Terrible Calamity. On Saturday (yesterday) morning, about 2i o'clock, afire broke out in the Paymaa' tePendepartment, occupied as such by Capt. : Spurrier, 0-S. A, in 4he building immei diately south of the C. &. S. C. railroad, passenger shed, and before assistance could . he-admitted to extinguish the flames, (the i guard refusing admittance to volunteers, as i we have been credibly informed,) tbe build>. ing was so far enveloped in tbe fiery eleI ment that it became impossible to sUbdne i the flames. > The next building and adjoining, one of 1 the largest in the Southern Confederacy, r occupied as a government warehouse, arffl ) headquarters for Major Echols, Quarter master,;and Major Lowe; Poet Commissary, > was soon developed in flames and destroyed. Tho fife then communicated with the s large warehouse just being completed, to ~ the oottth of tbe depot shed, thence to tbe 3 shed, a large and beautiful structure, thence i it orbssed to the north, destroying tbe old c building formerly used as depot and ticket I ~ra? n h S P miirrmd. all of which * UliAUC 111 duo x/. w w -?.. / f were totally destroyed. - The fire thfeo ranged eastward, consuming , the western wing of the N. C. railroad de? pot, owned by the Charlotte & Sooth Caro3 lina nidlroad company. a By extraordinary exertions and a proffer - of compensation, the progress of the fire was stayed add the spaoious depot of the Charf lotto & Sooth Carolina Tailroad company a was saved. The North Carolina railroad depot was i- also"saved through the exertions of some of * the ibfdieroiiid private citizens, among the 3 fitter of Whom, Who contributed largely by T labor add exposure, to save the Charlotte B rOid depot, We mention Mr. John Bigler, ' Maj. A. W. Barton, Mr. HoWie and others, e whose names are omitted simply because we were forced to leave withoot memorizing their names. Q The loss by this conflagration cannot be >- j correctly estimated. The government, raild j road companies and assooiatitfhs, to say u j nothing of the loss private individuals will i. j sustain, cannot fall much if aDy short of >t j 520,000,000, and this great calamity is the ? : result of accident, and while the guard was i- On dtfty. e We' regard it unnecessary to specify the a -- - !? Ant if iu to a nmrf U | lOOHtfl BUBUUUpu y iu iOVV) *w irv?? WW w? much, oar railroad companies have lost heavily; and the Tredegar "Iron Works company, of Richmond, have aUo suffered heavilyT^**1 **** ^ Irwis reported 'bfaSSVoflES memfien' of dftmpany fi from Union District, S. C., that two of their men, G. tfeKinney and P. Gregory, were missing, end it was feared they were horned in one of the baildings, bat this is by oa menus certain. Luckily, but two tftrfc tnrW North Carolina road,ftndowingtotbe g?feSC: risk, skill and Unflagging energy' of engineers Prim and Burdell, oh the 0. A B.C. roadf two long trains of cars Wef? actht% coupled *bile their engines were SQrToatided by fire on air tides,'tod taken through to a plaoe of safety while the flatnei were scorching the engineers on either *fde. * We have omitted td mention the names of many who deeerve great oredit ^ their efforts to save property,' and the dangers to which they exposed their persons, but it is impossible to always do justice'in etieh cases to die many who deserve hanotkbte mention. *** ^ . , ; ?aimit * * Highly Interesting from the North. * Richmond, Jan. 2.Northefn papCriibf the 31st have been received. Stoneman has arrived at Nashville, and gives a highly varnished account of his raid into Southwestern Virginia. Among the captures claimed are 2,00V hemes add 1,000 males. Bebel editors Were captured and their presses sent to Browntow as a Christmas present. The salt works and lead Works were rondereduieless. Btofieman'elostWts < estimated by himself at2,000 killed, WCUhded and missing. ' d* ifl Porter's fleet did hbt rhturh to Hifnpton Roads. A Wash'ngton" telegram of the 30th says (here is no probability that the nSV&l forces of Porter will disOontintfetbed>dmbitttmS&t of Fort Fisher, unless bo dirfctted by Gt>Vernnaent. Butler returnedI to'hieHeidqtiSrters on the James, Wednesday,-28th. Advices frOm Savannah'of the tJGth stale that efforts are being made to Intercept the retreat of the rebel army before it could reaoh Broad River. Business in Savannah has been resumed. Gen. Geary is Military Governor and enforces order. lient. Col. &W ^/Malford, Commissioner of Exchange,"'vKfl yisit Richmond the coming week, authorized to negotiate a new ieartel for the exchahgB of all prisoners. A sy nope is of the correspondence between' the Brazilian Minister and Sehtetikiry.Scwird is published, relative to the eeiaure of the Florida. The Brazilian Minister characterizes the seizure as an abt of the'idoat transeendan t wrobg, and an offense to the honor and sovereignty of -the empire. . Seward replied :. "You have justly '$*?" gicu iua piwccuiugo ttv 4JBU1a. JQQ Will Bospend Capt. Collins anddirect T?un to appear before a court martial. The coiumlaV Bahia will be dismissed." Seward also says that ascriblngtbe charactor of belligerents to U^ajgenfaL of thia county, bythe Government of Barf ipa* act of intervention questionable in toe law bf. nations,_and wrongful and.,unfrien$yio the Government'of the United Statefr. Tbc crew of the Florida will be set at-Tin Beck refuge wherever they_mayflud it,rf^tb the hazard" of p^p^re when beyond./he jurisdiction of this Government. Richmond, January" 2,^The .ftew^ork Times) of the 8(Jth, publishes the offioial report of Admiral Porter/ It IflUa ab?rt three oolumns in that pa^r. The jZVWa acknowledges the tnagDitude of tbe^tlure bf the expedition whiqh >^^'tnia^i. to Fortress Monroe.. Tft 'says hardly dayihing Worked well from the initiation oftbW movement to its unfortunate close. The explosion, of two, hundred and fifteen tons of powder under the pralje.ef the fort was a grand speotaole, hot perfectly useless in fiwt, and the rebel garriaon waw not at all paralysed. The bombardnwat of the Port by -the fleet waa moet iu^oeidg anil skillful, but Porter and Bailer differgruatiy as to its efleota. Then eomes an acooost of the extraordinary bursting of sir lOQpqjmder Parrot gun# on six different vesfels* 4Mb companied by painful casualties and loss, of confidence. More important than afl/thare eeems to have been the J40k of proper cooperation between the laud and naval forces. Admiral Lee telegraphed firom Florence* Alabama, 00 the 27th^ to the Navfr Department, that Hood waOrppsingthe Tensessee river above Musole Shoals. The railroad to Florence ?W in our possession, M that Hood could not get sullies by that route.- . -? mmrnr a\t i\tn a rtmvn mrrn |\l V/XJLVyJCi. Lilt AT X-UA-XEUU XY FIHST JANUARY, 18fl$r wa design selling bam Ac. fbr the CASH only. Cunomers needing afiy articles ir oar line of business wW therefore please come preparer for cash rales. .. . ' " ALLISON * BRAOTGN. January 11 2 . Jir TO REFUGEES.?ROOMS TC Item In the Dull dings of the King's Mountain Military School, Yorkrillc, Si C. For terms Ac:, apply to " B. P. BOYD, YorkVille?as<C,^ Charleston and Columbia papers publish 3 times a week for - weeks. . . u. January 11 .41 ? 2w . . ' * . J?j'jtg'. itamj- 1 i 1 lT* ESBO)LU5Ci giF|CE, YOEKVILLE, 8, C., January 9, . I ALL persons in York Oratri<$ji? able toCOnscrlptidh, and who have not reported foi examination since tlje 1st of April last, are ordered to r? port on the 23d of this month. II. All Officers and Soldiers on sick furioegt stay ? port at the same time for extension of farlough If their an unable to travel to a Hospital Board. ^ III. Those pbyslcaDy unablg to leave home, Will-an! the BWORN certificate of the attending Physician, testify lng to that fact and also giving a OKI end accoMtdftafc menrof the case.' They will also semi the original furlough. Unless these conditions are compHM^rMf, tin JaDbarjf 11. k " " y-SIW.yEKTROIXISG OFFICE, TOkKVfLi,E;B. C., January 10,1865. " TN pnrstiWfeo orOYders jecefced at A this Office, the orgaU**dhii>l3he two'tSropenles 0 penned wtth. those detailed in the Nitre sad MinlPg B.0ir?u?.wW ganlzed 1 nto one company. The election for Officers wu take place at this omce on TUESDAY-. 9kh itMllt? Polls will be open from 10 A. M. to 2 P. M. ft is desire! that there should be a Bill attendance on the day indicated a J. fl,IL Tfl^aON,? Lieutenant and Enrolling Officer. Jan 11 2 ho QOUTH CAROLINA?YORK MS O TRirrr?Wli.-reu, MAEGAHEt C. OTMPIUII bra applied to ma for Lyttea of Admlnistnuloa, un al awl singular the goods ana ctmneur, rignts amrerama o H. b. HEMPHILL, i.te of tte'bjstrtet^anmMr u ,! ceased. ' . . These nre therefore to ottt andadfamtfih sUattUtaMa he ldnd> ed and creditors ofthe traid deceased, to be and Hp pear before most our nert Ordinary's Court fox the said Du triet. to be boldsn at York Court House on ttoHPA day < January lust., to shew cause, if any, wby the said Ad mlntsjratldnanonld npt be panted. > ^ D " (riven under mr hand and Seal,'this Tth day of Januar l in) the year of our Lord .ooa tfcewaiii etglUmbdredan alny-flre; and in At ejWrty-DinUi year, or the Indt ? ?'pendonee ot*o*6i?BloEa^? .. , JOHN A. HEOWN, O. Y. H, 1 January U I *1*0 EXECUTORS;-j A D M I N I S- Bi A TRATOHB AND GUAEDIAXS.?THE moetb of ^HmS Jaaaary bdnr the A?*i55?y taw, for ftlint muros jMBM of Executors, AdraiotaTrttnn and Guardians; ?M the taw HI rc*Mttme'totaW^Sce every day dtufcr-Ute ?ald $S&g month^w January, (Sundayi excepted) to tccehg eald fe I do hereby notify, alt Exeeuton, AdaaiulKraloni and ZgjBgB Gttardlana, who have not wrtrjtwif ftaal ret??b.?W*^M gHU thofr'tatma^tetonu ft* 1865,-wtihifl HSa *tnrt pfetedWd jgHHI bylaw, thoaeAUSnf or neflecttaa avefe remraa,Wtil,be HRB dealt With U OT law dkoe&^rtUiout respect to pdWa*. WWlW JOHN A. BROWN, Ordlna^York Dtatrf*. OHH| <4<juTH flj yie xoodi and chart eta, rtattta pad. credits of qJSa' ^1351 BETH GOOD, lata of tie Dktrfet aforesaid, deceased, - HOqI 1 Tteraeare. ttartfo?$o dWth >MdWMh%mtftainr^ Wfl lar, the htadred and creditor* of the said deceased, to be tBmBt j,' i. MB 'pSSlllpIS , m ?W!?e art cherr-roT* taaitr??dtd?u'i*rrWrgflrDdltifae?p JnSH the kindred and creditor! of the uid deceased, ui be um f MH ?H?mc *!ZZ? n Tt ?V ^i^nko^" ^?e*?d^r HH GlVen under in/bandtnd?eal, thjf 94th 4fy o(Dfl?WK ^hO tn the jear of our Lord one tbooMBt-Mcm hundred.?! aW . jafeaa rjBFwm*****. me *_?? 'o^wo^o-Y,... I -J' - PAY tTFi ^ M A LL Persons indebted to '.^r: M ; ? since the firstof 3ANUAUX, ^HH BOOK ACCOUNT or MEMORAN- . DUM, will fel^se makepfcjineht by.fee Jh| , 5?-.S7r_ ?4. vCa* '.,'(%/(' TSW. ? "*1ST OF FEBRUARY NEXT, J lest |hev iiave "fiPPQr- *59fl waii *?.-. sfit# -^ir ^ ISi p/M*. .4i8<H MQgft^W>fc,iT-TEK 1-^wi * MB GORNjffiDp^fiffi HgW^ <* 88 Will -bringit m i^infidiatejyir ?a 1 neeH^, 1 " iTirtfl ffl'i KtrHWifttl 3^* *-.-? ? isehobumcBot ? the CASH iot BASTE# fti fin-Mvferv . J| iTmawr 1 f*s --' r ?./ :;-^|4 fi0jm*W& . MM! fcJanqyy.4,i8g^ q, ?g : Roberts Female Semiaam^ . M ; % . ! 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