Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-01-30
BY Telegraph.
For Later Dispatches see Sd Page.
Miseellaneoue Dispatches,

I A4BC6lIaneOQ6 U1SpaCCl6S.
New YORK, Jan. 2S.-The morning pa
pers are filed with peace gossip in con.
nectiou with Mr.. Blair's visit to Richmond.
The Times and World says his negotia
tious have proved failure. The Tribune
says the result is unknown to outsiders.
Ehe Herald's Army of the James cores
pondent says the attempted rebel naval
raid in James river ended in complete
failure, aud their feet returned back to-
ward Richmond after suffering the loss of
the ram brewer, blown up by Union
| shell. The rebels landed some troops at
Farrar's Island, on the James river, with
the purpose of cooperating with this feet,
but these were driven off by Union force.
A cavalry reconnaissance on the Charles
City road, on Wednesday last, developed
the fact that the rebels who made an. ad-
vance there simultaneously with the move.
ment of their gunboats on Tuesday morn
ing, had also fallen back.
The Herald's Cape Fear river correspon-
dent gives details of the important sue.
cess there of our army and navy. Be.
sides all the guns and ammunition captured
inathe forts, immense supplies Of rebel
provisions were also secured, and much
other property of great value.
The rebel troops in front of Gen. Terry
made slight demonstration on last Mons
day, but it amounted to nothing.
Deserters report that two rebel divisions
from Lees army at Richmond recently
passed though Wilmington on their way
to South Carolina.
Gen. Terry's army is in fine condition
and is being rapidly prepared for further
operations.
Admiral Porter's guuboats were grad
ually working their way up towards Will
mington,
Deserters continually report that the
rebels are evscuatiug Richmond. Whether
this be correct or not it is generally under.
stood that much of the rebel machinery for
the manufacture of war material and con.
siderable of the government archives have
been removed from there.
Gen. Sherman had issued au order in
reference to the negroes within the lines of
his army. The young aud able bodied men
are to he encouraged to enlist in the mill
tary service, and the South Carolina Sea
leland and the abandoned rice and cotton
fields on portions OF the Florida and South
Carolina coasts are to be set apart for the
settlement of the old men, women and
children.
Gen. Rufus Saxton has been appointed
to superintend their location on these
lands. All the rebel distractions have
been removed from the main channel to
| Savannah harbor and it is now open to
navigation,
A Charleston correspondent of the Rich
mond Dispatch, says that if Sherman sue
ceeds in getting possession of Branchville
| the fall of Charleston will soon follow.
4 Late rebel papers continue to show the
confusion, doubt and dependency regard
ing the success of their confsderscy, now
| prevalent among the chief rebels them
/ selves, as we'll as the mass of the people.
The Richmond Examiner of the Gath,
says: a long series of blunders commen-
cling some sooner, others later, have now
produced very general, indeed we might
say universal belief among all iutelli-
gent observers, that our government as it
Is now conducted is not equal to the great
occasion. That feeling of confidence so
carefully nurtered, has been hopelessly
orokenj that great element of success is gone
from US unless in some way We reform the
admtnlstration of our government.
The Richmond Examiner says: The ex-
| pedition of our iron clads down the river
had been designed 10 break the enemy's
| pontoou bridges and thus to destroy his
| communication, and to take advantage of
| the ascertaiued fact that he had Withdrawn
most of his naval force from the river,
probably to Wilmington, leaving but one
iron. clad and some wooden vessels in the
channel above Varina. There was also
reason to suppose that the recent freshet
bad washed out a portion of his line of
obstructio and thus opened the way to
the attack on his pontooDs. We may
say that the expedition is understood to
have originated aud to have been planned
by Gen. Lee, in view OF the circumstances