The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1865-01-10
WAR NEWS.

WAR NEWS.
From Gen. Hood-An official dispatch from
Gen Hood to the War Department. dated Corinth,
Jan 3, says the army bas recfossed the Tennessee
River without material loss since the battle oil
Nashville.
1t has been reported that Gems. Hood aud For.
est were both dead, but there is good authority
for the report It is said that Forrest was killed
| by one OF his men.
The Morements Of 1Sterman.--Advices from
below Augusta confirms the report that Sherman S
forces have crossed the Savannah River 1t is be-
Eevcd they moving towards Grahamville.
From acknowledgement dates of the 9th
inst state that the yankee cavalry under Kilpat-
rick have not crossed the Altamaba but is suppos-
ed to be on the Carolina side of the Savannah
river. yankee raiding party struck the Mobile
and Ohio Railroad near Verona, and tore up three
miles of the track. Private letters say Gen. Price
is not dead.
The cars on the Atlanta and West Point Rail-
road run to Palmetto, and will push through
to Atlanta by the 10th of January.
\ yankee paper printed in Savannah publishes
the proceedings of meeting held by few trail
tors n that city since its occupation by Sherman.
Resolutions adopted accepting the offer of
Lincoln to have peace by laying down aims aud
submitting to the national authority claiming the
imnunities and privileges promised in Lincoln's
proclamation, and requesting Gov. Brown to call a
convention of the people Of the State that they
may vote on the question of continuance Of the
war. 1t is said there were only seventeen per-
sons present, and inasmuch as they met under the
control of yankee authority, their proceedings are
quite contemplate and cowardly.
FROM PErERsBURG-Ev Everything vas quiet on
Friday last on the lines around Petersburg. In
Of hot I,
bound. The soldiers are in their winter quarters
RaF Northern papers state that Commissioners
are about visit Richmond and propose terms of
peace We don't believe it.
p. Sit is stated by late northern news that
the commissioners (selfconstituted) had returned
to Washington, Gen. Grant refusing to let them
pass without permit from Lincoln Montgom,
cry Blair and son the persons who started to
Richmond, but we suppose without any authority
from the Lincoln government.
NORTHERN NEws.-Baltimore papers of the
Sd inst. have been received at Richmond The
yankees acknowledge the complete failure of their
expedition against Wilmington.
The yankee canal, called Clutch Cap" below
Richmond, has been damaged by the earth caving
in, and it will have TO be cleared out before it can
be used The new Governor of New York, Fen
ton, has issued a proclamation declaring that the
war must continue until the last rebel shall be
subjugated
Gold in New York was 23Q to 233, and advanc-
ing.
Adviccs from Europe state that the Pope of
Rome, in response to the Confederate Manifesto,
applauds the patriotic sentiments expressed there
in. He dcplores the continuance of the war, and
says he will not fail to avail himself Of any favor
able opportunity to urge peace.
The yankee government has apology zed to Bra
iii for stealing the Confederate steamer Florida
out of one of her ports.
tom Thumb" and his family have at last,
gone to Paris. The General became disguised on
account Of the public exhibition Of a new fat boy
"a little chap only ten years old, and already
nearly five feet high, and Weighing about two hun
dred and sixty pounds
SAvANNAH.-It is remarkable fact that Sa-
vannah has been captured i'll every war that has
taken place on this continent, from the Revolu-
ton inclusive 1t taken by the British in
177S from Florida, the paths through the sWamps
having been betrayed by negroes or negro. The
next year it beseiged bya combined French
and American force, land and naval Gen. Lin
coin commanded the American army and Count
d Esaing the French feet. An attemptwas made
to storm the works--it failed aud Count Pulaski
was killed. The French and American command
ers quarreled the sege was raised, aud the French
sailed back to the West Indies, while the Ameri-
cans marched back to Charleston, where, some
months later, they all taken prisoners. Sa-
vannah remained in possession of the British till
the close of the war. AT the commencement of
the war Of 1912 it was again taken by the British.
In military point of view, Savannah was of nc
value to us whatever. As a port, it had been
blockaded two years The moral effect is about
all the enemy has gained