The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-01-30

New York Papers ON Blair's Visit 10
Richmond.
New YORK Jan 90

. Rlchmond.
New York, Jan. %.
The morning papers are filled wit
peace gossip 10 connection with MI
Blsir's visit to Redmond.
! The Times snd World say that Blair
negotiations have proved failure.
| The Tribune says the result is unknov
to outsiders.
| The Herald's army of the James CORE
spondent says:
The attempted rebel naval raid on IT,
James river ended in complete failuue
aud their feet returned back towatt
Richmond after suffering the loss Of tb,
ram Drury, bl,wn up BY Union she'll
The rebels landed some troops on Friar',
Island 10 the James, for the purpose O
co-operating with their feet, but the ).
we're driven IF BY Union force.
A cavalry reconnaissance on The
Charles City road, on Wednesday last
developed the fact that the rebels, who
made an ADVANCE there simultaneous with
The movement t,{ihe gunboa.s on Tuesda,
morning. had alsA. fallen back.
The Herald's Cspe Fear river CORR
spondent gives details of the .imporran,
success there of cur army aud navy. Be
sides all the guns and ammunition cap.
tured In tie forts, immense supplies OF
rebel provisions we're also secured, and
much other property Of great value.
The rebel troops in front of Gen. Terry
made slight demonstration on Monday
last, but it amounted to nothing
Deserters report that Two rebel divis-
ions from Lees army at Richmond, re-
Gently prssed through Wilmington, on
their way TO South Carolina.
Gen. Terry's army is in 6ue condition,
and is being rapidly prepared for further
operations.
Admiral Porter's gunboats were grad
uslly working their way up toward Will
mington.
Dcserters continually report the rebels
as evacuating Richmond. Whether they
De correct or rot, it is generally under.
stoo. that much OF the rebel machinery
for the manufacture OF war materials, and
considerable Of the Government archives.
have been removed from there,
Gen. Sherman bad issued an order in
reference 10 the negroes within the lines
of his army. The young and able bodied
men are to be encouraged to enlist in the
military service, and The S,uth Carolina
sea islands aud 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. Rlias Saxton has been appointed
to supetinleud their location on these
lands
The rebel obs'ructions have been re
moved from the main channel to Savan-
nah harbor, and it is now open to nayi-
CATION.
A Charleston correspondent Of the
Richmond Dispatch says that il Sherm sn
succeeds in getting possession of Branch
VILE the fall of Charleston will soon fol.
low.
Late rebel papers continue to show the
confusion, doubt aud dependency rega I'd
lng the success Of their Confederacy, now
prevalent among the chief rebels them
selves, as we'll as the mass of the people.
The Richmond Examiner, of the 2ih,
says;
A long series of blunders, convincing
some sooner, others later, have now pre-
duced very general, indeed we mi kht
say, universal belief among all intelig gent
Observers, that our Government as il is
now conducted, is not equal to the pueat
occasion. That feeling of confidence and
security matured, has been hopeles ssly
broken. that great hopefplness of success
/, gone from US. unless in some way We
reform the ADMINISTRATION of our Govern.
ment.
The Richmond Examiner says:
The expedition Of our ironclads down
the RIVER had been designed to break the
enemy's pontoon bridge, and thus destroy
his communication, and to take adyan.
tage Of the ascertained fact that he had
Withdrawn most Of his naval force from
the river, probably to Wilmington, leav.
ing but one ironclad and some wooden
vessels 10 the channel above Variance
There was also reason to suppose that the
recent freshet had washed out portion
of his line Of Chstructioos, and that Open
ed The way to the attack on his pontoous.
We may say here that the movement is
understood to have originated and have
been planned by Gen. Lee in view Of
these circumstances referred to.