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NORTHERN NEWS* •
TWO Eimu,
Mew "STork Bates to the 16th.
We are indebted to Capt. Silas Spicer
Harbor Master, Mr. A. A. Rice, of Ad
ams Express, and other kind friends, for
complete Northern files to the lGtli, from
which wemake extracts.
/ Washington, Jan. 14, 1653.
A refugee who left Richmond two
weeks ago says; The Report that Lee
lias sent troops to meet Sherman in
South Carolina is confirmed: but the
knowledge of all military movements is
so well kept that it is not known in the
rebel army what, troops nor the num
bers that nave gone, although it is now
three weeks since they started. The up
per classes among the people of Rich
mond profess to be confident of the suc
cess of the rebels; but the poorer classes,
Who have severely felt the effect of the
depreciated currency, are heartily sick
and tired of the war and anxious for anv
mode of relief.
Sr. Louis. Jau. 14, 1865.
Governor Fletcher issued a proclama
tion to-day declaring Missouri a free
State, in accordance with the emancipa
tion ordinance passed by the State Con
vention. Hundreds of business houses
and private residences were brilliantly
’ illuminated to-night. Bands of music
are playing, fire-works are exploding,
and thousands of enthusiastic citizens
throng the streets to witness the grand
spectacle.
[From the N. Y. Herald, Jail. 1(5.]
A Cairo despatch states that General
Thomas and his staff were at Paducah,
Ky., a few days ago. Deserters from
the rebel Forrest 's command are constant -
ly cooling into Cairo and taking the
oath of allegiance to the government.
There appears to be no longer any
doubt about the evacuation by "the na
tional troops of some of the frontier
posts in Arkansas, regarding which tele
grams have been so contradictory for
some days past. Our St. Louis corres
pondent assures us that Fort Smith and
Van Buren have been abandoned, and
Qhat Fort Gibson in the Indian Territory,
uc doubt, soon will be. The garrison at
Fayetteville, Ark., has not yet been
'withdrawn. These places are not given
up from any difficulty about holding
them against the rebels, bufbecause the
objects to be gained by their possession
are not an equivalent for the necessary
SAVANNAH, GA., SUNDAY, JANUARY 22, 1805.
expenditure in men and supplies. That
the rebel General Price is dead seems to
be settled by a rebel official order which
has been received at Little Rock by the
Union commander, General Reynolds.—
This order, which is dated at the head
quarters of the rebel army in Arkansas’,
on the Jth of December, announces
Price's death, and names General Fagin
as his successor. Twelve new black
kosues are to be built on the Southwest
branch of the Pacific Railroad, to pre
vent rebel raids in future from Arkansas
into Missouri.
The Union men of Missouri still con
tinue to hunt down the rebel guerillas in
that State, who are nothing less than
organized murderers and robbers. Re
cently a party of the Home Guards and
the Ninth Missouri cavalry pursued
through several of the interior counties
the noted Jim Jackson, whom, with
seventeen of his men, they succeeded in
overtaking and killing.
By way of Cairo vve have New Or
leans advices to the 7th instant. Gen.
Can by had issued another and more
stringent order against trade with insur
rectionary districts. Persons going from
his lines into those of the enemy for the
purpose of carrying on trade, unless they
have special permits, will, it caught, for
feit the goods found in their possession.
Tiiere are no new military movements
reported.
Nashville, Jan. 15, 1865.
The Tennessee Union State Conven
tion, in its session to-day, nominated
Parson W. G. Brownlow for Governor
by acclamation.
A delegate asked if he would accept,
whereupon he responded in the follow
ing language :
Gentlemen— l settle the controversy
by assuring you that 1 will accept. [Ap
plause.] i cannot be expected to do
anything more, and I certainly ought to
do no less than tender to you, as a con
vent ion, my sincere and unfeigned
thanks tor the honor and distinction you
have conferred upon me. I will not
speak to you at length now, gentlemen,
but what I lack in speaking, if the peo
ple should ratify the nomination ipacle
by you, I will try to make up in deeds
aim acts, and, God being my help, if you
will send up a Legislature to reorganize
the militia, and pass other necessary
business, I will put an end to this infer
nal system of guerilla fighting, in the
Stale in East, Middle and West Tennes
see, if we have to shoot every man con
cerned in such business—(loud and long
continued applause, and which the Par
son retired.)
The Convention are nominating mem
bers of the Legislature to-night.
The Richmond Enquirer of the 13th
inst., contains the following from the
Mobile Advertiser:
The Yankees, about four thousand
strong, are at Franklin Mills, on Dog
river, without, transportation Their ap
plies are received by way of Dog river.—
Owing to the formation of the country
their position is unassailable. Our forces
are iu the m*oper position to thwart any
move they may make. In a skirmish
the other day two or three Yankees were
killed and rive captured.
(From theN. Y. Tribune, Jan. I<>.
Tennessee.— A Convention of the
Unionists of Tennessee, met in Nashville
last Monday, and remained in session
till Friday. Over one hundred delegates
were present, representing nearly every
county, Hon. Horace Maynard, Judges
Shackelford, Miligan and Trewhitt. Par
son Brownlow, Gen. Gillem, and man} r
other men of note, were delegates, and
Gov. Andrew Johnson, (Vice President
elect,) attended, and spoke by invitation.
As results of its deliberations, the Con
vention unanimously decreed — *
1. The abrogation and extinction of
the pretended secession of Tennessee
from the Union irqlGGl. with the prepara-
lory “ military league” made with the
Slaveholders’s Confederacy by Gov. Hare
ris and a majority of his Legislature :
2- The Abolition of Slavery, instantly
and forever, throughout the State, with
out compensation to the slaveholders.
A prohibition of any future pay
ment to or provision for the said slave
holders by any future Legislature.
These propositions are submitted to
to the loyal people of Tennessee, to be
adopted or rejected by them at an elec
tion to be held on the February. If
ratified, an election for Governor and
Legislature is to be held on the 4th of
March.
Os course, there were a good many
Union Colonels and Captains in attend
ance on the Convention, since nearly
every Unionist in the Static either is or
has been in arms agaiqst the rebels.—
Should Jeff. Davis ever reconquer Ten
nessee, we have little doubt that he
would question the validity of the doings
and decisions of this body ; but since he
is net likely to have a chance, we judge
that they will be ratified and will • stand.
Slavery, therefore, may fairly consider
itself dead in Tennessee. And they by
whose votes it thus summarily abolished
were nearly all its sturdy champions onP
four or live years ago.
LATE REBEL NEWS.
interesting Extracts from South
ern Papers to the 2€th.
[From the Richmond Dispatch, Jan. 14.)
Francis P. Blair, Sr., the Yankee
peace commissioner, arrived in Rich
mond late on. Wednesday night, attend
ed by a servant. * Mr. Blair came into
lines at a poiut in front of Fort Harrison
held by the city battalion. He was de
layed several hours on our lines waiting
for a permit to come to the city, which
was not procured till a late hour of the
night. Since lYs arrival he has been
kept, or has kept himself, from flic pub
lic eye, and his movements and where
abouts are shrouded in mystery, lie is
believed to be lodged at the Spottswood
Hotel, and wc think that he is, though
his name does not appear on the register
He has been met accidentally by several
of his old acquaintances, and their meet
ings were characterized by the utmost'
cordiality on both sides. He is said to
have had interviews with the chief exec
utive officers of the Government. What
passed at these interviews we need not
expect to know unti|, Mr. Blair returns
the United States, when everything will
be published iu lull in the New York
Tribune and the other New York papers
Mr. Blair’s ostensible business in Rich
mond (or rather, presumed business
here, for there is nothing ostensible
about him or bis business or movements,
is to ascertain whether anything can be
done to bring about a cessation of hos
tilities—an end to the war. We think
his real business is to place the Lincoln
administration in a good position before
the Northern people, who are just called
upon to till another draft. Lincoln
knows that the propositions he will make
are such that they will be spurned by
our Government; but our rejection of
them will enable him to go before his
people, and, with Blair’s aid, to prove
that the “rebels” will aecept of no terms
of peace, and that nothing is left him
but a “vigorous prosecution of the war.”
Mr. Blaii will return to Grant’s lines on
Saturday, if the freshet subsides suffi
ciently to enable a flag of truce boat to
go down the river.
Executive DkPaktment,
January 13, 1805.
To the House of Representatives, C. S. A.
1 have just received the accompanying
report from the Secretary of War, stating
that Henry S. Foote, -a member of the
House of Representatives Irani the State
of Tennessee, lias been arrested by a
military officer in Northern Virginia,
while endeavoring to pass our lines on
Ins way to the enemy’s country. I sub
mit the matter to you in order that such
disposal of the case may be made as to
you shall seem proper.
J; FFEitsox Davis.
War Department, C. S. A.,
Richmond, Jan. 16, 1865. .
To the President of the Confederate
States:
Sir—l have the honor to submit for
your information and direction the sub
joined copy of a telegram received from
the Provost Marshal at Fredericksburg.
No special instructions had been given
for such arrest.
Very respectfully. Ac.,
James A, Seddon,
Secretary of War.
Fredericksburg, Jan. 12, 1865.
To the Hon. Secretary of War:
I have arrested Hon. Henry S. Foote,
at Occoquan, on his way to Washington
for the purpose of negotiating peace, as
lie avows.. Full particulars through
Major Carrington by mail. I have pa
roled him to awajri instructions. Please
instruct me what disposition to make pf.
him, H. {5. Daggett,
Commanding Post.
On motiomof Mr. Clark, of Missouri,
the matter was referred to a select com
mittee of five.
jFrom the Charleston Mercury, 12th.]
On Friday last, the Yankees in un
known force are reported to have crossed
New river, on the road to Grahamsville.
Their main body, however, is still in fbe
neighborhood of Ilardeeville. As yet
their object is net developed, but
Wheeler is closely .watching their move
ments. ' • ’ ***!**&
[Correspondence of the Mobile Ncwt-. j
* »ic * * *
The proposition, which is somewhat
engaging the attention of the public
at the present time, to arm the negroes
ot the Confederacy and place them in
the ranks of our armies as active com
batants, is, as you are probably aware,
not anew one to the annals oi history.
When General Grebne, one of the most
cautious and prudent ccmman '<rs, was;
in command of Urn Southern army its.
the latter part of the Revolutionary war,
he proposed to the Governor of South
Carolina that instead of the useless ct
forts to call out the white population,
tour regiments of blacks snould be form
ed, two upon the continental and two
upon the State establishment, the blacks
to receive their fr< edom as a compensa
tion for their services, and to be ptft in
every respect, upon the same footing
with the rest of the army. Tim proposi
tion was taken into serious considera
tion by the Governor and his Council
and by them referred to the Legislature.
After"mature deliberation, however, it,
was rejected.
As an incident of past history this is
interesting at the present time; and who
can say that circumstances may not
force us to resort to some such expe
dient! That our slaves faithful, and
obedient as they have generally shown
themselves in the present struggle, could
be made to do good military service ether
than on the actual field of battle without
the, to them, valueless compensation of
freedom flaming before their eyes, no
reasonable person* can question. Should
this war bfe protracted w ith renewed
energy another four years, all the means
at our command will probably have to be
used to resist our invaders, and our slave
population may yet come to be consider
ed a part of these same Qyien .sabe f
Shot. A soldier named James Sand
erson was shot in the leg, by the guard,
last evening, in iron! of ihe Pulaski
House, while he w T as trying to make Us
escape from them. Be had been arrest
ed for LeiDg drunk and making a noise.
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