The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1864-02-17
TIE LATEST NEWS.
By LAST NIGHTS EaAIL.

HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POT0MAo(
February il
A special to the New York Herald
says: Nothing special to report from tbil
department We have received Rich.
mond dates to the 10sh. The following
is JEFF. Davis proclamation to the rebel
armies:
Soldiers Of tie Army of the Confederate
States:
In the long and bloody war in which
your country is engaged, you have
achieved many glorious victories over
vastly more numerous hosts you have
cheerfully borne the privstiOBs and toll
TO which you were unused; you have
readily submitted to restraint upon your
individual liberty that the citizen
might better perform his duties in the
State as . soldier.
To all these you have lately sdded
another triumph-the nOblest of human
conquests-a victory over yourselves
AS the time drew near when you frat
| entered the service might well have been
expected to claim relief from the ardu
Gus labors and turn 70 the endearments
of home, you have needed only the call
of your suffering country. Again you
come to tender your services for the pub
lie Defence free Offering, which only
such patriotism as yours could make
triumph worthy of the cause TO which
you are devoted.
would in vain attempt to express the
emotions with which l received testimo-
malls of confidence and regard which you
have recently addressed to me to some
of these frat received, separate acknowl
edgments were returned, but it is now
apparent that like generous enthusiasm
perVades the whole army, and that the
only exception to such msgnanimous
tender will be of those who having orig
inslly entered for the war cannot display
anew their zeal in the public service.
1t is therefore deemed appropriate, and
it is hoped will be equally acceptable, to
make general ackno wledgment instead
of successive special responses. Would
that il were possible to render my thanks
to you in person, and in the Rame of our
common country as well IS in my OVID,
while pressing the hand of each war worn
veteran to recognize his title to our love,
gratitude and admiration.
Soldiers, by your will (for you and the
people are but one,) have been placed in
position which 6ebars me from sharing
your dangers, your sufferiDgs, and your
pFivations in the field. With pride and
affection, my heart has accompanied you
on every march, with sOlicitude. It has
sought to minister TO your every want
with exultation, It has marked your
every heroic achievement Not in toll
some march, nor in the weary watch, nor
desperate assault, have you rendered a
service so decisive in results az in the iast
displsy of the highest quality Of devo-
tion and self sacrifice which can sdorn
the character of the warrior patriot. Al
ready the pulse of the whole people beats
in unison with you're; already they COM
pare your spontaneous snd immense offer
of your lives with the hating and reluc
tsnt service of the mereenaries who are
purchased by the enemy st the prices of
higher bOunties than have hitherto been
known in war. Animated by this con
test, they exhibit cheerful confidence
and more resOlute bearing. Even the
murmurs of the weak and timid to shrink
from the trials which make stronger and
frmer natures are shsmed into silence by
the spectacle which they present yod.
The batile-cry will ring loud and clear
through the land of the enemy as we'll as
our own, and will silence the vsiDglori-
GUS boastings of their corrupt paFtisans,
and their pensiOned prices will do JUS
tice 10 the calumny by which they seek
to persuade and delude the people. OF
your willingness to purchase disbonora-
/ bic safety by degrading submission, the
victories of Shiloh, Perryvile, Murfrees-
boro, Ohickahominy, Manassas, Frede-
ricksburg, and Characteristic are re-
ferred 10.
The downfall OF the Union armies is
confidently predicted.
WAsHINToE, Feb 15-Tse Presidents
recent call for 500 900 men is intended
to include the last draft and clear up
arrearages.
NEW York, Feb. 1.-THE following
despatch from Chattanooga, dated the
18th, is interesting:
The cavalry expedition under Generals
GriersOn and Smith, crossed the country
from Corinth. moving south. It is IN
derstood that these columns are intended
to act in conjunction, the one to attack
and the other to cut of Folks retreat,
and disperss the cavalry Of Forrest. re-
ported IS securing Central and North
Mississippi. There is no reason for
doubt, though beyond this enterprise the
combination is merely coBjectural, but
that great flank movement on John
ston's army is intended. The army at
Chattanooga is by this time ia motion
for Tunnel Hill and Dalton. It's move
ments may have been delayed BY cir
cumstsnces unknown 20 us, but it is
under marching orders.
FoRT SMITH, ARK, Feb 14-Col. Phil
lips, commanding the expedition into
TIE Indian Territory, reports TO General
Thsyer that he has driven the enemy en-
tirely out Of that region. and, in several
skirmishes, killed nesrly one hundred
rebels, capturing one Captain and fWen.
ty- five men.
Gen Curtis leaves here tomorrow.
FoRTREss MoERoE, Feb. ID have
received a telegram, under date Of Feb
IA, fram Gen. Wistar, which states that
Col. SFsight, with 10 other Union
officers escspsd from Libby Prison,
Richmond, b. digging ; tunnel. Col
SiEeight with seventeen Others, are safe
B. Z. BUTLEE, Maj Gen.
CAIRO, Feb. Is -General Shermsn's
keae quarters are reported to have been It
Jackson, on the Id. He was since
heard Of At Brandon.
The steamer Lady Franklin, from
Memphis, passed up for Cincinnati to-
day, with nearly 800 bales Of cotton.