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% |3a!metfa ^trali. % BY S- W. MASOV AXI> CO. PORT ROYAL, THURSDAY, DEC. 15. lSdl. ?2 ur T7? O \I A TV Gen, Sherman's army tlias completed its grand march through the State of Georgia, and has reached the coast, and opened its communications with Gen: Foster's forces. For several days therebad been TTtrnors of Sherman's prescuce in the vicinity of 43A?>A*>nAh Knt nAt until Tiioo lur mAPn Olinauau, Mu? uw utuu A uv in* did the fact become ccrtaiu. Qeu. Foster communicated with him by signals on that morning In the Ogeechee river, and soon after Qen. Sherman, accompanied by a staff officer, came on board the Nemaha, and had a lengthy interview with the former. His march from Atlanta to Savannah, which his army now iuvests, was very feebiy con tested by the rebels. Only one fight of twkrtmftnf- /\oonrrml orwl tbut rocnlfA/l OUJT UlV/UIVUi VVV.UUVAI, l?itV4 iil?? AVOUiWV* in the flogging of Wheeler. The army extended in its march over an area of territory sixty miles wide, sweeping all be* fore 4t. They lived on the country, find-' ihg an abundance of turkeys, chickens, ducks, cattle, sheep, and everything that! was good. The soldiers lived sumptut ously, and are in the best of spirits and eager for a flgbt. CAPTCRE OF FORT M'ALUSTER. _ On Wednesday morning, finding that ^ Pert McAllister, in the Ozeechee river. was obstructing his new lines of communication, Gen. Sherman ordered it to be . Iron 1'thmrpg fnrried It by assault at about half-past four ia the morning, with a slight loss. Two ,? hundred and fifty men were captured, ? twenty-one pieces of artillery, and a large quantity of munitions of war. Communication is now open, and supplies can be dl?wa |n Gen. Sherman's rear, for the ?j|tlme being, until Savannah is captured, which ia likely to occur at any moment All the railroads out of Savannah are * cut, ahd the city is entirely and securely i invested. Wehopeinour next to give : > most glorious news. We are certainly to witness'stirring events. Torek Scocts, Capt. Wni. Dancan and Myron J. Amick, of Co. K, 15th 111. Cavalry, and Gea VV. Quimby, of a Wisconsin regiment, got through fiom Gen. Howard's column, down the Ogecchee river, and reached the gunboat Flag, in Ossabawyon Sunday afternoon last, bringing dispatches from Gen. Sherman. Their trip was fail of adventures, which some day it may be proper for U9 to publish. They left Gen. Howard on the evening of the 9th. . ^ . Arrival of Fourteen Escaped Officers from Columbia.-*The following officers. who recently escaped from Columbia, S. C., hive arrived here, after a long and hazardous iouraev. Some ol them are well known here, and all are welcome visitors: ' Major O. S. Sanford, 7th Conn. Vols; Capt. S 8. Elder, 1st U. 3. Art ; Capt. J. B- "Dennis, 7th Conn. Vols.; Capt. James Belger, 1st H- I. Batteiy; Capt. C. EL Nichols, Gtii Conn. Vols.; Capt. John 9. Randolph, 1^3d Ohio Vols.; Capt M. W. WaiL, Gttth N. Y. Vols., Capt. (i. D. Hart 5th Peon. Cavalry; Lieut Chas. M. Granrer, 88th N. V. Vols.; Lieut. Geo. >V. Hefcdrick, Bat_ fury K, 5th Michigan Art.; Lieut. 4Y nk Or Caulking lO^th 111. Vols ; Lieut. Johti. v.aarx l&ti* s 4rt : Lieut. Giimore. 7i>dijC Y. Vols.; Lieut. Watson. - Conok-ss?The second session ?f the '* Si'th Congress Aopeae}| on Mond|jr, tLc Irwf. * * # ' . * V ^9 "" #? iGfiXtHlTiWDPSBiTiONSi' ; * I FIG SITING 0\ Ta^xIWTa. A Successful Movement. fDEPLETE I.BT OF CASlALriSS klCE \OYEtfiiSit 30. V. L " _ ? Our report of last week eovered tJUe operations at Deveaux' Neck.lo thecvggfiiag of the Till. On the fcth t^i re wa&So! fighting,-but on the 9th J^imnoi^ant ^nrmrmcntr*wss sUcums! dl , working party of the "?.>th Mass. was di1 reeled to cut a swath through the woods j for odrartilleiy to play upon the railroad, j To cover their operations a general advance wa- ordered towards the railroad. Gen. Potter took his troops through the woods in tine style, and Col. Siilinun advanced with a part of his brigade. The j enemy were driven back to the railroad, j where they took refuge behind the road, J which is here quite high, forming a good | protection. They were eqgaged there, j until tt a preconcerted signal our. men i fell back. The rebels, supposing they had lepulsed us, charged alter us, but the lines were quickly re-formed, and after u brisk engagement of about two hours, the whole rebel force was driven back to the bridge in disorder. ? c Our artillery was placed iu front of the opening made by the axe-raen, and our skirmish line was maintained within half ? mtlA-nf the railroad. Since we left the front a report comes ! down tliat a shot has been put into a locomotive, that the cars have stopped running, and that we have two 30-pounder Paraotts ip position. . cfpmanriing tho railroad perfectly, and also piling us easy j range upon the bridge. We last week published a full list of the' casualties at ! Honey Hill, and a partial one of those in subsequent engagements. To-day we give on our first page a complete list of all the casualties f rom Nov. 00 to Dec. 10, with the exception of the following: Col. Silliiuan, leg shot off: Lieut. E. R. Hill, aide to Col. Sillisian, killed. Lieut. Wm. 11 Dean, Gen. Foster s staff, severe bullet wound in leg; Capt. Edwd S. Jewett, Gen. Potters-stall slight wound in knee; Private John Robinson, " * aoal IT C /t rp V.:(). A, -Olll V- O. V. l., setae HUUUU m left wrist 'accidental.) The operations of Gen. Foster's army have been attended with nio3t gratiiyiug results, throughout. With a small force we have kept trotn four to tea rebel regi- 1 meats all the time at our front, with great i advantage to Gen. SUermufh columns; j we have never been whipped, tad in every I j engagement and skirmish, 'except at j ; Honey Hill, we have been victorious. | j By rapid uud sl|ij^ movements we have j got the position Whow hold, command- ; I ing the Savannah llailroad, aqd have rei tained it against several assaults of the j enemy. NORTHERN NEWS. Xew York Datos to Dec. lO. j I "We are indebted to Purser Thomas McManua, of the Pulton, tor files of New : York papers to Dec. 3, utul by later arrivals we have received New York He?i aids of ibe 9th aud 10th, from which we i make extracts: [From the New York Herald. Dec. S.] The armies under Gens. Thomas and Hood still remain confronting each other in the vicinity of Nashville. No battle I | has yet been tought tl^erc; but on Mon! dayjmd Tuesday there was $kirmishing,. | I aatron the afternoon of the Ipuer da/:! liea^Jr cannonading. The jwork o?j 1 strengthening positions progress's on i both sides, tne rebels being4tm-y it the j date ot latent actOuiTTS in jt.nov.ing up j ! n?5W entn'o^hn^" <nt hi ' ..i ! *: >t ' I v? t In ea able to place any batteries in : position on them. On Monday General | Hood sent a Hag of truce to Gen. Thomas, J a.-king for an exchange of prisoners taken | from' their respective armies. The latterr plied that he had now no power to ! grant this, as the men he had captured I had been sent northward, and were beyond his control. Hood's head juartTS were on Tuesday six miles south oi Nashville.' Gens. Rousseau and Milroy holl i Murfreesboro, which is amply garvisoued ; and defended for any reM attack. A I body of the enemy assaulted a blockhouse near that place on Monday, but were : driven otf with the loss of six pieces of .artillery and a number ot prisoners. The ! tu u fciUJniun tr<v>ns wiio were villc, on the Tennessee river, have arrived safely at Glarksville, Tenu. | In the armies of the Potomac and the James the picket tiring, which is still k(T?t up, anil the occasional exchanges between the opjwsing batteries, are all that disturb the ijuiet Oa Monday there was some artillery tiring bv the Ninth corps guns and the rebels opposite and between the Monitors and the ilofclett House battery, but without causing any casualtiesou the Union side. The Tenth and Eighteenth corps have been consolidated, and are known as the Twentyfourth corps, of which Gen. Ord has assumed command. The corps of colored troops, under Geu. WeitzeL, is uumericsli.? Ju^innotail tliu 1 Tpnt>r?l I 1 > UCOl^UtiVV/U 1UV ? '? V1..J U4?u. Meade preseuted medal^of- honor to a number of non-commissioned officers and privates of the Second cor^ on Tuesday. No intercourse whatever with the enemy or exchange of newspapers is now allow I ed in either army, under severe penalties. We have received intelligence of some 1 additional work of the privateer Olus'.ee during her visit otf Sandy Hook in the beginning of last month. It appears that, in addition to the vessels announced at the time, the Olustee captured, on the 3d of November, si xty miles from Sandy Hook, the ship Arcole, Captain Boaham, wnTeti left NeW Oilcans Mr this poiToil the 21 at of October. This intelligence-is conveyed in a letter from Captain Bouhuin. now in rebel confinement in Fior euce, South Carolina. He gives no particulars regarding his vessel, whether slie was burned or what became of her. This L?e was probably prevented doing by the rebel officers of the prison. Detroit, "alic!i., Dec. 7, 1S64.?InforI mation of a most positive character has been received that a raid upon this city is being organized by the rebel refugees in Canada. In consequence of tl^^eceipt of this information the civil and military authorities are making every preparation to receive the raiders. Col. Hill, the Militarv Commander, in a note to Mayor Parker, pufiftished tftis morning, recommends that immediate measures be taken to organize aud arm the militia for local protection. A large number of special policemen have been already enrolled, and other active aud vigorous measures are being taken for the protection of the city. [Fvom tbe New York Herald, Dec. 10.) j A despatch From City Point, J.'.mwi river, states that the Second and Fi tb cot-p*1 Army of the Potomac, wire masted In rh? vicinity of tbe Jerusalem p'ank road on last Tuesday nUht, and on the nest mnmlnj commenced tb?ir mv?h towards Stony Creek, station. on the Weddon JRaII* rmd. The detachment of these corps from the main army In iVont of Peterdxirg d xw not rnate! nalty weaken It, as It has lately bet#n rcinfijroed. ! The enemy's continual firing on die work n^ j parties in "the 1 hitch Gap caaal Interfering con1 siderabJy with Its completion, portions of three regiments of colored Infantry and a section of M*. tin* fifth regular artillery. under the direction of General B. 0. Ludlow, wore eroded over from | the sonth side of .James river to the north si !e un.ier the protection of the L'niou cuncon in that 1 vicinity, drove back the rebe's, an I effected a locLrmont nt the tipper terminus of the canal, where they intrenched thcraselve3, thns securing [ the laborers 5n that Impertant military work 1 from further molestation. The enemv's batteries ! Mibseaoeutiy opened 011 General Ludlow's post* I tlon, hut did not do any harm. A number of J new* assignments of general officers have been i madcjln me amy of the James. An order has been^Ksujd directing the discontinuance of the practice on the part of commissioned officers of | borrowing money from privates, una? the penalty of dismissal from the service. S?me brev et 1 promotions of jcuer.il officers 1? the Army of the | I'owauc have recently been made. The Itichmotaf p.' >p!e are disappointed by Grant not havr lug ra-ide a grand attack on tt e rebel liner on the Gtn iilsi. That'xfcts the day they hid fixed npon for it. The H'ehrncti I pa- 'ers say that the Sixth and Eighth ccrps,.from the Shenandoah valley, hive recnjily r.mfor%Kl the armies be&r? t'aa ir'Wl cental. K $' X' A' i Extracts from Ilebcl Papers. ! [Frora the Ancpi-ta Chronicle Sc Sentinel Xov. 80j j ! It is rumored tlmt Wheeler fought all day Monday, near Waynesboro, with the Federals, with success, capturing over ; two thousand prisoners. Everything indicates that there will be stirring limes. ; below* in a lew days. The prospect now is that a heavy battle will take place, j From a gentleman who left Wyuesboro ; Tuesday morning, we learn t.iai ine ! country around t.mt place is strewn with i dead Yankees and horses. lie also staled that the railroad bridge over Brier creek was not burned; neither was the y railroad cut thi3 side o? Milieu. M-pubHcau Dec. 1.] In our is-ue the taet that a considerable force of the * # enemy had Winded from transports in 1 Broad river and were advancing on the M railroad in the direction of Grahamsvilie. During the night we had transported an ^ effective force to tliat point, whuh, unitj ing with that already on thes^round, J marched forward yesterday, under the ^ j command of iLijor General Gustavus W. ! Smith, of the Georgia state troops, to %ieet tbe enemy. The enemy, numbering, as near as could be judged, five thousand men. with sixteen pieces of artillery, attacked Gi n. Smith at a place called iloney i I ill. threa miles east of the village of Grahainsvi!!<\ at eleven o'clock A. M. Our strength coffsisted of fourteen hundred muskets and seven .pieces of. artillery. We had * some few embrasures for open batteries and slight intrenebments on the right and lett; but our line was necessarily ex tended, owing to ti^e superiority of the enemy in numbers, and much of it was both light and unprotected. Tiiis, how- < ever, only emlioldeuedour men to greater deeds,anil they toogiit the battle throughout with an energy aud resolution worthy of veterans. Ttje tight lasted until dark, and the enemy made several descharges against our line; but it TtBOtHlmf, repiilsen_eYPfy aTlaek,' TT" finally driving hack tlie enemy's right and center, but their left stood uumoved at the close of the action. For four or five hours these men maintained the fight 1 without relief. Late in the day General Robertsoa arrived with the Thirty-second Georgia, a battery of artillery, and a ;* company of cavalry in time to render most effective aid.' Night came 0:1 to close the engagement, which was conducted with vigor on both sides. Thus ? far it may be set down as a drawn battle, thougli, in view of the great disparity of numbers the honors ot the d:y are certainly due to the confederates. : V>o have been unable t > learn (he details of General 8mith> forces, though it is believed the Georgia mifitia constituted the greater portion of them. Our loss was between eighty and a 4 hundred killed and wounded, the enemy's loss is officially reported to be much greater, Last night seven or eight transports loaded with reinforcements, were rejiort ed going up Broad river, which gives assurauce that the fight will be renewed today. LFYdm th? Augusta Constitutionalist, Doc. 2] General Wheeler writes that he has whipped Kilpatrick throughout, doubling ' him up upoo the main body. He has j not taken a greatimany prisoners, be- * j Cause the Yankees, feeling that they de- r served death, have refused to surrender. ! A very considerable number have per: inpnently leased pi intadons in the coun- > | tics of Burke and Jefferson. The main j body of Sherman's army had not bodged j at last accounts. The enemy is repre[ sented as being quite amazed and embarrassed at his reception in the State of ; Georgia. I From the Charleston Mercury, Dec. 3.] We have a rumor that the enemy is i fortifying his present position, close uui der the cover of his gunboitfs. It this ' be true, it is doubtless bis Intention to * j attempt no renewal of his demonstration i oonlnst. rinr lines until he shall have learned definitely that Sherman is within I striking distance ot the coast. We have ! a few additional particulars oi General Smith'." repulse $f the eneuiv on Wednesday. , The infantry that pnrticipited in i the a'tack consisted of lour regiments of white and four regiments of negro troops*. ; The slaughter ot the assailants was far }. i . I I.