Smyrna times., 1861-12-26
FROM PORT ROYAL.

we have advlces IRON Fort Royal to the
l7ih inst. The Atlantic brought the first H..
s!alment of Sea Island Cutton-l5O,OOO pounds
end the intelligence that 100000 pounds
nave already been secured by Gen. Sherman.
The expedition which was expected TO leave
for some point further South, under comman
oil zen. Vlele, has been abandoned tor the pres
ent, the military and naval authorities HAVING
come to the conclusion that the force could be
used to more advantage in the vicinity of Port
Royal Some important movement, however.
must be contemplated, which Gen. Sherman
desires to be very quiet about, as be has issued
an 0dlct OF banlshment against the reporters,
all OF whom have received notice to leave i'm
medIately. Nothing of startling interest had
occurred since the date of our pre- vious a. vices
The question of what 10 TO be done with The
negroes, is becomming one OF the first i'm.
POrIance.
The Charleston Mercury Of the 18th inst.
announces the occupation of Beaufort by the
National forces, FIVE thousand strong, and sta,es
they have erected battery near Port RoVal
Ferry. mounting twelve l2- 2-pounder Parro,
guns, aud are throwing up intrenchments on
the island.
T1E LATEST WAR NEWS,
Tne Kentucky Legislature has thanked the
President for modifying Fremonl's proc donation
and Cameron's report, and calls for the dismiss
sal of the Secretary of War. The details of
the battle of Munfordsvie show that the enc.
my lost sxiy-th-ee killed end a large number
wounded. Our loss was thirteen killed and
like number wounded.
The rebels of Gen. Prices army, in Mis-
souri,, made another raid upon the railroads on
Friday night, destroying the track, water tanks,
woed piles and bridges Of The North Missouri
Railroad for a distance of a hundred miles.
commencing at point eight miles south Of
Hud'sn' aRd continuing to destroy the ra lie
and telegraph lines as far as Warrsntowp.
Nappesrs 70 haze been prsconcerted move.
nent, in which the inhabitants Of that district
participated, as no single party could have &C.
camPlished so disastrous a work in the shert
space Of time which it tosk to cemple,s the
extensive damage.
BY the Star Of the South, at New York, we
naVs intelligence from Port Royal and Tybee,
10 the 18th inst. Our fsrcssaI the latter place
were attacked on the day previous. but whether
by sea OF land does Rot appear. Il 10 also en-.
RosSced that Fort Pulaski was shsIIing eur
gGnbOats, aud the 6sisg was heard at Pot,
Royal. on the morning of the 18th, when the
Star of the South left.
letter from on board the steamship Ca
h0W6a. of Charleston Bar, the Istb instau
states that The stone feet, consisting of a,
least twenty vessels. was to be sunk on the day
following. The hulks were towed to psin,
about a mile outside the bar, and sig gunboa,.
were ready to put them in position. Il ia
more than probable, therefore, that the har.
Dor of Charleston has been efFectually blocked
up. and its value as a seaport irrslrieyably des.
Toysd.
The Missouri Republican announces utbori.
tatively that Senator Polk has joined the rebels
at Memphis, and that Johnson, the other Mis-.
souri, Senator, has been with the rebels in
Western Virginia since last Jelly.