The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1865-02-16
LATER FROM THE NORTH.

We have received, through the polite
ness Of the officers Of the Exchange Blu.
rcau, Northern papers Of Monday, the
18th instant Gold was quoted at
204 12.
LATER FROM sAvANNAH-TIIE STARTING
OF sIIERMAN'S ARMY.
A letter from Savannah, dated January
goth, gives the'tollowing about Sherman's
movements: 49, .-
In spite Of bottomlcss roads, the left
wing, the Fourteenth and Twentieth
CORPS, of Sherman's army, moved out of
the city last week. and is now on their
march. The advance has already reached
Sisters's ferry, which is some sixtHmiles
above this city. Owing to the late heavy
rains, the roads thus far have been al
most impossible, and the march neces>
sarily slow, but the worst is now over.
The next definite news you get from
the n will, no doubt, be through rebel
sources.
The right wing, composed of the Fif>
tcenth and Seventeenth corps, as you are
aware, struck the Charleston and Savan-
nah railroad near Pocotaligo, several
days ago.
General Sherman's headquarters are
still at Beaufort, from which point he
will Join the army as soon as it has fairly
got out into the wilderness. Thus far
the army has met no opposition worth
naming, and the probability is there will
be none till we reach the Roanoke'river.
IIardcc left this city with twelve thou
sand men, five thousand Of whom were
Georgia militia, and have since been dis
banded. His entire force at Charleston
now cannot be over fifteen thousand, in
Guiding division of Early's corps, which
was sent down from the Shenandoah Val
ley. With this force he will not be very
likely to throw any serious obstructio IS in
Shcrman's way. If Charleston, being a
strongly fortified city, were the object Of
the present expedition, this army of Har-
dec's would be worth considering, but, as
it is, the rebel tactician will only be an
elephant on the hands of the Confcdc:
racy. Would that half of Lees army
were cooped up in Charleston.
RUMORED PUTTING TO SEA OF CONFEDE-
RATE IRON-CLADS FROM EUROPEAN
FORTs-TlIE OPINION IN NEW YORK.
Ben. Woods paper (thc New York
Ne,rS) has letter from London, saying
that the two iron clad vessels built
year or two ago in France for the Con-
ledcratcs, but stopped through the vigi-
lance Of Mr.. Dayton, have got to sea
since his death, and are cruising under
the rebel flag, under the names of Stone
wall and Rapidan. He also declares that
there is secret treaty between the EN-
peror of France and the Richmond au~
thorities. lie intimatcs that the desti-
nation of the rebel iron-clads, which he
pronounccs invulnerable, is New York
city, though they may first go to Boston
and destroy that city; or they may 80
to Washington, or Mobile, or Beaufort,
or up James river, and attack Grants
base.
A New York letter, commenting on
this intelligence, says:
The sensation story published in the
Daily Meas Of this morning, in the shape
of London letter, about the departure
of two iron-ciads from Bordeaux, in the
interests of jeff Davis, creates some re-
mark, though the statements of that
journal, ever acting in the rebel interest,
arc not entitled to much consideration.
&c III o. Dc
that the London writer has COMPOUNDED
the two steamers, Union and Ajax, which
recently ran out of the Clyde, with the
Sphynx and Cleops, at Bordeaux. How
that IS the next steamer from Europe will
doubtless apprise us. The supplementary
assertion, in the same letter, that the
Emperor Napoleon has made a secret
treaty with the rebels, STIMULATING to
recognize them about the first of March,
may reasonably be set down as moon
shine.
There is strong suspicion that this
canu,W was concocted to influence Wall
street. If so, it has failed of it's object,
so far as. gold, the real barometer of
public fccling,;is concerned. The price
has fallen several per cent, and is now
at lower figure than it has been in
fortnight.
Apropos Of our relations with France,
may say that LIE Courier des Etats
Unis OF this morning announces, as if
by authority, that NJ. de Saulx is to be
sent to Washington as Minister Plcnipo-
tertiary in place Of !, de Chateau Re-
nard, who had previously been selected
for the position. The latter gentleman,
it is limited, had certain objections to 60
ing to Washington, which the Emperor
could not overcome. What could they
be?