The national Republican., 1861-12-18
The Victory I'm Western Virginia
Fully Confirmed!
Terrible Distress in Nashville
PARSON BROwNLOw IN PRISON A.
KNOXVILLE!
The Rebels at Columbus Prepar,
tssg for an attack


The Rebels at Columbus IDrepar-
tssg for an .tftackI
Baltimore, Dec. 1.-THE Old Point boat has
arrived here, and brings the following news: u
eFortress Monroe. Dec. l6.-Captain Millward
went to Craney Island to-day with flag of
| truce, and was met BY Lieutenant Smith of
the island. No passengers went down. The
Norfolk and Richmond papers give full partic-
ulars OF the extensive oonfagration in Charles.
| ton, South Carolina.
The nre broke out ut about D. m. of the
llth, in Russell Olds' sash and blind factory,
vt the foot Of Hazel street; crossing Hazel
| street and extending to the machine shop Of
| Cameron and Co. Before midnight the fire had
assumed an appalling magnitude, and Meeting
street, from Market to Queen, WAS one mass Of
flames, as tenement after tenement Was enve.
oped 10 flames. The panic was awful, and
and filled the streets. The buildings in the
lower part Of the city, where tho fire broke
out, were principally of wood, and extremely
iHfammable; which accounts for The remArka
bly, rapid progress Of the fire.
At midnight the Circular Church and Insti
tute Hall were bu ming, and the proximity of
the fame to the Charleston Hotel and the Mills
House, caused them to be evacuated by their
inmates. At O'Clock the fire tended more
s"uthwsrd, towards the corner of Arohdale
It's range orossing Market street. 1t then spread
down down, East Bsy, to Cumberland street, and
struction the Circular Church, Institute Hall
King street to Clifford. nearly to Broad, were
destroyed before O'Clock. Gen. Ripley, who
superintended the movements of the troops,
who had arrived on the ground at about this
time, ordered several buildings in the route of
the oonfagration 70 be blown up; and after
some delay the order was executed, but nOr
before the theatre, Lloyd's coach factory, Cop
posi'e the express office,) the old executive
buildings and the houses from this point to
Queen street had caught fire aud been do
stroyed.
Al about four O'Clock the wind changed the
direction of the flames towards Broad stree.
Soon afterwards, st. Andrews Hall took fire.
and, subsequently, the Cathedral, the spire of
which fell shortly after five O'Clock.
The fire made clean sweep through the city
making It's track from East Bay to King street
The Charleston Courier of the 18th, gives u list
of between 200 and 800 sufferers, and says that
the loss is estimated at from Ave to seven mil,
lion dollars.
Mr.. Russell, at whose factory the Are broke
out, thinks 1t must have been occasioned by An
iaoendisry. or by tue negligence of negroes
employ ed there.
A dispatch from Charleston on the 18th, says
that the Mills House, although threatened, and
several times on FIRE, eventually escaped, and
Ia only slightly damaged.
A message was sent to the Confederate Con
gress on Friday, by President Davis ,,in relation
to the oonhagration In Charleston, recommend
ing An appropriation In aid of the sufferers. A
resolution was accordingly unanimously adopt
cd, appropriating $3.50 900, AS An advance on &C
count OF the claims of South Carolina upon the
Confederate States.
Five churches were destroy ed by the Charles
ton fre-the Cathedral, st. Peters, Episcopal
Cumberland Stroet, the Methodist and Circular
churches. Th01Chareston Mercury says that
Ave hundred and seventy-six buildings were
burned!
Ben McCulloch has arrived at Richmond
The 8, R. spalding had not yet arrived, Cat
Old Point.)
Passengers BY the steamer report the arrival
of the steamer Connecticut ut Old Point with
intelligence that Fort Pulaski has been evaou
ated by the rebels and occupied by the Federal
troops.
The Charleston Courier, of Friday last, pub
fishes report from Beaufort, stating that the
Yankees had advanced their position to near
Port Royal Ferry, under cover of artillery, to
the main land, and had destroyed several Con.
fedora rifle pits.
The Richmond Examiner says that the court
demnity for losses oy the war is to be organ.
lied at once. George p. Scarborough, of Vir.
ginia Thomas G. Reynolds, Of Missouri, aud
Walter Brooke, Of Mississippi, form the said
court.
The Richmond Enquirer of the 18th acknowl
edges the receipt Of the balance of clothing
from Massac husetts for the prisoners of war.
It is consigned to General G. Winder, and will
be distributed by Lieutenant Pierson, of the
Twentieth Massachusetts, regiment, who was
taken prisoner at Leesburg.
The Norfolk Day Book was printed on Il
small half sheet. 1t 10 to be raised in price to
Ave cents on Thursday.
Ia Richmond, on the l4th, 1t was alleged that
Official Information had been received that the
Federals, 5000 strong, attacked Col. Edward
Johnson's command at Va ley Mountain, on the
18th, but we're repulsed with great loss, after
an engagement of several hours.
Cincinnati, Dec. l6.-Gen. Buell. is expected
to take the field In person In few days.
1t is reported that our troops are crossing
Green river.
Buckner is coming up the railroad to offer
battle this side of Bowling Green, in Kentucky.
There WAS grand review and inspection of
II 900 troops at Cairo, Birds Point, Fort Holt,
yesterday.
Four regiments Of infantry and three gun
boats have been sent from Columbus, Ken.
lucky, to New Orleans, where battle was
being fought, and the city threatened with de
molition by our forces. The inhabitants were
fleeing from the city.
lucky is within short distance Of Bowling
Green. They have repaired Green RIVER
bridge, and will move forward, rs soon rs Gen
Buell. 0an brigade and otherwise dispose of
regiments arriving, to Nashville. Ten thou
sand men from Indiana arrived in ten days.
Sixty.two regiments have been paid off in Ken
lucky in the past thirty days.
THE RECENT FIGHT IN WESTERN VIRGINIA.
| Cincinnati, December l6.-A dispatch from
| Philippi says that our force at the battle of
Allegheny Camp numbered one thousand eight
drawn up in line Of battle, in front Of their en-
| trenchments charged uDOn them and drove