The Sun.
London, England, 1865-01-02 00:00:00

(TELEGRAPHIC NEWS ASSOCIATION, LI3IITED.)

(Per the City of Glasgow, via Crookhaven, Sunday
Morning.)
NEW YORK, Dec. 18.
No accurate statement of Hood's losses has been
received, nor any further official details of the
battle. Hood fell back on\the Brentwood-hills, and
it is supposed he would reccoss the Tennessee near
Florence, under protection of his large cavalry foree.
Breckinridge is at Sparta, East Tennessee, and
will probably reinforce Hood.

The Federal loss hi the .11ael
nqn• placed at,' 3:000
gn-- 5000 prisoners

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Price reports his invasion_ r missoli: pletely successful. com-
The order e 4 11--,n. Dix :cii c i.order raids
has been disa ed by the President, and Dix now
requests all commanders, in his department to report
to him before invading neutral territory.
It is rumoured that the Canadian authorities have
ordered the re-arrest of the Vermont raiders, but
that the discharged prisoners have left the Province.
The Canadian Parliament is summoned to meet
on the 19th of January. It is rumoured that Judge
Coursal will be dismissed or suspended.
Considerable excitement prevails in Canada,
growing out of the relations with the United States.
The Toronto Globe regrets.," the termination of the
Reciprocity Treaty, and says Canada must look to
her naval defences. The Leader (Toronto) says
some of the movements of the American Govern-
ment seem to point to a possible rupture with Eng-
land.

The Senate has referred to the Committee on
Foreign Relations the resolution demanding indem-
nity of England for vessels destroyed by Confede-
rate cruisers. The resolution in reference to an
army corps for the northern frontier has been re-
ferred to the same committee.

The House passed the bill to present Liberia with
a gunboat. The House tabled the resolution de-
claring that to Congress, and not to the Executive,
belonged the power of determining the foreign po-
licy of the Government.
The Porter and Butler expedition is certainly
bound for Wilmington.
Richmond papers of the 16th state that the
Federal gunboat Narcissus has been blown up by
a torpedo off Mobile.

Official notification is given that hereafter no
foreign traveller shall enter the United States with-
out a passport, emigrants excepted.
Porter Field, a reputed Confederate agent at
Montreal, is undergoing a legal examination.
The revocation of General Dix's order, which is
said to be at the inspiration of Mr. Seward, is re-
garded by a portion of the press as a licence to the
Confederates to burn and plunder the frontier.
The Savannah News asserts that the Federals have
been repulsed in every attack on the Charleston and
Savannah Railroad.

A Washington despatch repeats the report hitherto
current that active hostilities will continue to be
prosecuted in the South Atlantic States, Grant's
army serving merely as a corps of observation dur-
ing the next six months.

Sherman is to make Savannah, if captured, a base
for operations in South and North Carolina.
The exports of specie last week amounted to
$1,600,000.

• (REUTER'S TELEGRAM.)
QUEENSTOWN, JAN 1.
The Inman steamer Glasgow arrived here at 3
a.m. to-day, with one day's later news than was
brought by the Hansa on Wednesday last.
She also brings 140 passengers and $504,340 in
specie. She landed 10 sacks of mails and 29 pas-
sengers, and proceeded at 3.30 a.m.
President Lincoln had directed General Dix to
countermand his recent order authorising Federal
soldiers to enter Canada in pursuit of maurauders.
The commanding officer must report to General Dix
previous to violating the frontier.
The New York Herald bitterly inveighs against
the withdrawal of General Dix's order, and says it is
an encouragement to the Confederates to plunder
and rob the Federal towns on the frontier.
General Foster had an interview with General
Sherman in Fort M'Allister on the 14th ult.
Hood, after his late defeat at Nashville, massed
his entire force on the roads running south, but was
overtaken by the Federals under General Thomas,
and driven some miles further.

It was thought that Hood would endeavour to

cross the Tennessee river at Florence under the pro-
tection of his cavalry.
Thomas had been created a major-general on ac-
count of his late victory.
A draught has been made by the president for
300,000 men.
The Richmond papers admit that Savannah must
fall. Telegraphic communication is interrupted.
The New York Herald's correspondent at Fort
M'Allister says ,that Slocum's corps holds all the
appitaches on the north side of Savannah, includ-
ing all the railroads leading out of the town-
Howard's corps is connected with his right, and
swings round to the Ogechee river at Fort M'Allis-
ter. When General Sherm'an arrived in front of
Savannah he had driven 1,200 head of cattle
through, though he started with only 200, and had
fed his army on full rations during a march of 300
miles. He also gathered on his way over 700 able-
bodied negroes, and so many horses, mules, and
waggons as to embarrass him. His army during a
considerable portion of their march extended over a
breadth of country 60 miles wide, 40 miles at times
intervening between his right and left wings. His
whole loss from wounds, sickness, the capture of
stragglers, and all other causes, up to the time of
arriving in front of Savannah, was about 1000 men.
The average daily march was 12 miles.
A letter from Admiral Dahlgren states that he is
buoying the Savannah river for an attack on the
city in conjunction with other forces.
No further intelligence from Sherman has reached
Washington.

General Thomas reports on the 18th as follows :
" The enemy has been vigorously pursued to-day,
but studiously avoided any attack by my troops.
have succeeded in taking a few prisoners, but our
captures are slight in comparison with our successes
of the past three days. Pursuit will be continued in
the morning as early as the troops can march. I
have found the railroads• thus far but little dis-
turbed, andtmy troops will be up by railroad in A,
day or two. The telegraph is up with me now.
find, on receiving more correct reports, that Major-
General Edward Johnson's entire division, with all
the brigade commanders, was captured, and the
works carried by assault, besides destroying a
brigade of the enemy's cavalry, and capturing its
commander, Brigadier-General Rucker. Among
the captures to-day is General Quarries, who was
wounded."

A Nashville telegram of the 18th says :
" This forenoon's rains have been so heavy thit
little progress has been made. Our cavalry skir-
mished with the enemy a short distanbe south of
Springfield, finding Forrest in command.
The New York Commercial Advertiser says that
Wilmington is supposed to be the destination of a
great expedition which sailed from Hampton
Roads on the 13th instant, and that the plan of
Admiral Porter will be first to effect the reduction
of Fort Fisher, and then, the obstructions being
removed from Cape Fear River, the fleet will pass
up to Wilmington and assist General Butler in the
capture of that place. If success is achieved, Wil-
mington will, undoubtedly, be made the base fet..
future operations.

A lengthy discussion had taken place in the
Senate on the bill authorising the expenditure of
$20,000 for fortifications and floating batteries olt
the Canadian frontier. The bill has been referred
to the Committee for Foreign Affairs.
On the 22d, Congress was to adjourn for the
holidays.

Laniattie, the chief of the Montreal rolice: has
resigned.

The Canadian authorities intend ino.-Q.cliately4
sending 30 companies of Volunteers vtl lit ew" ga the
frontiers.

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all the citizens were in arms:-
The following are extracts from American papers
relating to the position of affairs :

" New York, Dec. 18.
"2r the first day's battle
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cannon were co rally' the „iii
soldiers on every lit l '-iu as the enemy was
forced back, all the rt:oei ..,..00ps and all their artil-
lery at some points falling into the hands of our
steadily advancing ranks. The woods, fields, and
entrenchments, General Thomas says, were strewn?
with small arms, abandoned by Hood's men in the ' r.
retreat. We have yet no accurate statement of
Hood's losses in killed and wounded in these two
days of fighting. From the commencement of the
present campaign, however, up to Friday evening,
about 50 pieces of artillery and 10,000 prisoners had
been captured from him. General Thomas's lose
did not exceed in killed and wounded 3,000, com-
paratively few of the number being killed.
" Writing at 6 o'clock on Friday evening General
Thomas said, ' I have ordered the puruit to be
continued in the morning at daylight, although the
troops are very much fatigued. The utmost en- ;?-t,
thusiasm prevails.' And he was true to his word,
for the attack on the rebels was yesterday renewed
with great vigour.

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" Our accounts are down to the middle of yester-
day afternoon, when General Thomas's plans were
succeeding admirably, and it was generally believed
that fully one-third of Hood's army would be cap-
tured, and hopes were indulged in of its utter de-
struction before it was able to reach the Tennessee
River at Florence, Alabama, towards which point
it is supposed it is now being moved. It is already
immensely demoralised, what there is left of it.

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