Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1865-01-21
BY TELEG RAP H
FRoM Yesterdays 3 O'clock EDlrIox. ]
OUR SPECIAL REPORT.
PEACE ! PEACE
Blair to Return to Rich
mond.
Discussions in Richmond.
Orr, of s. c., for Peace.
The Confederacy Much
Shaken.
Sherman Captures IL Guns
Sherman Captur
GOLD, 200.
rsp.e.aI 70 the EzaasvIIIs Journal. ]

iSpsc.al 70 the Evansville journal.
NEW YoRE, Jan l9. - In the gold
market to-day, the Bulls are fearing for
the military success By Thomas and
Terry, and are startled by peace rumors.
Gold closed AZ POS. Money unchanged.
Exchange not in demand The price Of
printing paper in this market is twenty
cents, Of the quality used on the leading
dailies. Six weeks ago it was twenty
six cents; but the agitation by the pub
fishers for the repeal Of the duty,
created panic, and it fell six cents a
pound. The leading New York dailies,
which had Joined in a memorial to Con-
gress for a repeal, have Withdrawn their
petition. Itisreported that ths leading
dailies have secured contracts at nine
teen cents a pound on a large lot Of
half-slraw paper offered to the Boston
TFa5eiier for eighteen cents, cash, and
for which the latter declined to pay
more than seventeen cents There is a
considerable quantity in the market
held at twenty cents. The tendency OF
the market is downward
The Worid attaches much importance
to the news from Richmond papers pub
lished to-day, aud thinks ia connection
with those Riehmond stories, that Mr.
Blairs retseence since bis return is very
| significant While the impression has
been given that nothing has resulted
from the mission, it is possible that
other and more favorable negotiations
may folloy Mr.. Blair's interview with
JEFF Davis
The military commission TO Try Capt.
Bell, one of the Lake Erie pirates, ad.
journed from Monday to Friday on the
request Of Capt Bell, that counsel might
| be assigned him The question was re-
ferred to the War Department, and an
/ answer is expected tomorrow
The American Consul at Havana in.
forms Collector Draper that the rebels
are stalking out the harbor Of St Marks,
on the west coast OF Florida, with view
TO make it available for blockade run
ners.
The Express says a movement is non
going on against Mobile. Prominent
person express the opinion that the city
is now in our hands,
The Worlds Washington special say
| Butler is before the Committee on the
Conduct o. the War, and says that the
Fort Fisher failure was the occasion and
not the cause of hts removal He con
sidered that be was cleared Of tha
affair, and claimed that he had righ
TO 60 through and explain his Who'll
course since he was appointed to tn
command Of the department Of Virgini
and North Carolina
The 1ri6uHe's account Of the eaptur,
Of Fort Fisher describes the works. ]
says Mound Battery was considered
part of the fort Itself, though really al
issolated battery, some distance east an,
beyond the sea, consisting Of hig
sand mound upon which the rebels plaza
ed heavy easemated guns for plungin
shot on our boats
A small four Fashioned fort Of n
very considerable strength is situated q
the southeast extremity Of the peninsul
and distant q mile aud half from th
latter and mile from Mound Battery
commanding Cape Fear River, who's
base widens almost to a bay, and is mar
ned with some splendid guns.
Probably 800 stand Of arms could b
gathered up inside of these works W
also captured some ninety head Of mule
and horses, also a sEiall steamer loade
with $50 bags Of corn and qaantit
OF. ammunition The interior of th
fort was the most complete picture Of d
struction and desolation il is possible {
conceive Of Dead and dying lay thick
strown along the parapet, upon q
plain behind as well as in front. III
bomb. proofs were crowded with wounde
estimated by our surgeons at 500. Tt
parapets and traverses were plought
aud corrugated by shot and she'll, al
also the plain in the rear Of the work
aad the barracks inside OF the bastlo
we're shivered in twain. Large ColuI
biads along the parapets we're di
mounted and thrown in confusion am
D. the wreck OF broken carriages. Ever
- thing evinced the most mereiless 81
most internal ruin ot death-dealil
- missiles the world has ever seen.
\. The FIRST Union flag planted in {
fort was that OF the llTth New York.
y After General Terry had return
from the capitulation of Fort Buchan
the soldiers clustered around him a
kept up Succession OF EOaS3ng Che'
n n for their chief. ?. Boys" said the G'
- eral, removing his hat, /" think it i
= who should propose thateheers be Civ
. 10 youa
N The Herald's correspondent says:
AsI write, the sky west and south
covered with dense masses of bis
smoke Il is evident that the enc
are abandoning all the works in t
vicinity. Some think that they '
make no effort TO hold Fort Casw
At high tide this morning the Zig
draught gunboats and douhle-end
crossed the bar and entered the ri'
They are now steaming up towards v
mington, aud as yet have met with
resistance. The Ironsides was hit ab
forty times; the Santiago de Cuba {
times the Monitor Canonieus f
times, and had sixty holes in her smC
stack; aud others were hit in pro-
ton, but no single one was disabled.
Among the artillery captured was
Armstrong gun, said TO be the first ia
- from the rebels.