The New York herald., 1865-02-17
THE SITUATION.

Monday las, seventeen miles north Of Branch
vile, and within fifty miles Of Columbia, ths
capital OF the State, while his right was immedi-
ately in front of the city OF Charleston only two
miles distant, and threatening Il On the next day
Tuesday last--it is indicated by the Rich
mond papers that his cavalry had reached the
Northeastern Railroad, and thus severed the last
maining link between Charleston and the rebel capital
His troopers believed to be also in the vicinity
OF Florence. the important point of convcrgence
OF the railroads communicating between South Ca
rolins, Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia, and
near which town recently confined large number
VI captured Union soie The rebel papers admit that
shai the national nag will be floating Charles
ton, Augusta Columbia and Raleigh.
We have rdceved Fort Fisher dispatches giving ad-
disonAl details OF the movement towards Wilmington
N c. on last Saturday. by the national forces announced
In yesterdays HERALD The troops engaged exclu-
sivey those of Gen Teys command but the operations
directed in person by his superior officer General
Schoneld They were most successful and what
at first appeared to be only reconnaissance In force
terminated in a permanent advance, tho Union
lines being moved forward two miles after considerable
severe skirmshng The ground held, and
works Immediately thrown up almost strong
those in front TO which the rebels fell back. The
Union casualties during the day only about ten
killed and fifty wounded.
Our Consul at London has informed the government Of
the sailing from Kngstown Ireland OF the Ajax
which, it is doubted is intended for rebel pirate.
Her armament had gone would go out in sailing vessel
Notwithstanding the that she Is small 1t Is be-
lievcd that she viii be able to do much damage to
American shipping If she gets started in her medtated
career II thought she would go to Nassau before
taking board her guns.
The scaling OF the port OF Wilmington against the
English rebel blockade has been a fear
New Providence Island, Bahamas. Our CORES
pcndent informs that complete stagnation in trade
has suddenly succeeded the great commercial activ
y which lately prevailed there In its harbor onthe
Sd inst there lying Idle thirty steamers and
about hundred sailing vessels recently engaged In the
the warehouses are filed with goods for which
there is market The rebel pirate
Tallahassee, now called the Chameleon, was
nj Nassau In the beginning Of this month"; and the aaten-
States Consul. The United States gunboat Honduras
there the a1st ut her commander asked
permission to anchor in the harbor, but refused
On Tuesday, in the court at Montreal the rebel
muster rolls brought from Richmond by the mes
senser Cameron presented by the counsel Of the
st. Adams raiders These purported to be certified BY
seadon late rebel Secretary Of War; and Benjamin. rebel
Secretary Of State and contained the names regularly
commissioned officers in the rebel army Of the de-
fendants document over the signature OF &C Clay,
instructions to Lieutenant Bennett Young for raids st.
Aibans and other Vermont towns Two marshals from
this city have arrived in Montreal for tho purpose Of
taking charge OF the prisoners In they sursn
dered.
Our les OF late rebel papers present some very curl
ous interesting disclosures regarding financial and
military matters in Jer Davis domnions Their new
currency considered Of less value than the old
there is no money, even OF this worthless char
scter the Treasury settle the outstanding
accounts and taxation declared b heavy the
people can stand The proposal 70 conscrpt the ne
groes by wholesale having received IN adverse
decision in the rebel Congress, the scheme Of calling
on them 70 volunteer IA now being warmly discussed
We have also accounts Of rebel military movements in
North Carolina and preparations made 10 oppose the
march northward Of General Sherman
EUROPEAN NEWS
Tho steamship Europa from Queenstown on the 5th
inst arrived at Halifax yesterday with European inte
gence one day later
The latest received in England from this conn.,
try supposed to indicate early termination Of
war had caused Improvement in cotton and rather
unfayorably affected United States securities The rebel
loan unchanged
Rumble, charged in the Court Of Queens Bench with
violation OF the Foreign Enlistment act by aiding in
che equipment and arming Of the English rebel
Rsppahannock, has boen acquitted
In tho groat Paris trottng match the American horse
Shpherd had beaten the French horse Express by
hundred yards
Consos closed in London on the 4h inst At eighty
nne and eishths 70 eighty nine and half for
money. Tho Liverpool cotton market was buoyAnt,
with advance OF from half penny 70 . penny on
The ancr qualities Breadstuns and provisions were quiet
snd steady.
The despatch from Portland In yesterdays paper stat
tng that tho steamship Bremen for New York. put into
cowes on the 3oth ul, The master being dead srron
Tho fact is that the Bremen sailing ship Brsnsa,
which sailed hence for Anjer In November last n the
vessel that put into cswss with the master dead
coNeREss.
In the Senate yesterday bills authorizing settlement
~ the claims Of the Colonization Society, and extending
NE boundaries Of tho port Of entry Of Philadelphia
sers parsed bill defining the rank Of chiefs of STAN
f the army introduced and referred 70 The Military
Committee. The bill 70 brsak dovn the Camden and
amboy Railroad monopoly and NE Naval Appropriated