New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-01-23
NEWS OF THE DAY.
THE WAR.


The latest news regarding Gen. Sherman
movements in South Carolina is from the Richmond
,a,ers Charleston dispatches state that on tie A0h
.rd nth inst his advance within two miles OF the
Corbshee River 20 the east side Of which the Rebels
had retrested His forces were adtc be concentrating
O. .bo vicinity of McPhersonyille. Charleston Is cup
os.d to be his Destination The Fifteenth ana Seven
sch Corps are reported 10 be advancing In usEl
,rohi,s order while Gen. Sherman was 10 follow on
S railroad with tie rest OF his army, bis artillery
sr,irs Co. Tas Charleston Mercury says that iaI &c
onmbsr OF regrfcrcemenis have arrived in that city
and The Richmond Erq,1rr announces that there ha'
lately been some imrortaE, dispositions made Of Reoe
troops IN that direction.
Richmond papers say that about six thous-
and bales Of Rebel Government cotton were destroyed
by fire at and in tie vicinity Of Augusta Ca. OIL iasi
Sundsy and Monday nights. The DIariH Na) Regis.
fsr savs that the railroad between that place ana
Greensboro, n. c., forty-fve miles in extent
which was recently badly damaged by the iresheis,
tns beer repaired. Mr.. FoOte had arrived In Rich
nnona from Fredericksburg and it was said that he
would again take his in the Rebel House OF Repre-
sentat,yes 1t was reported in Richmond that General
Rood had been superseded b. Dick Taylor, who Is
brother .inaw of JEFF Davis.
Six hundred of the eight hundred Rebels cap
tured by the Union forces Fort Gaines Mobile Bay
pere recently exchanged in Mobile harbor " tie
other two hundred some have died aud the others have
Taken tho oath Of egance AT the time OF their de-
livery by the Union authorities the steamer. Wayery
Sas living at Mobile laden with thousand bales Of
cotton which were TO come North 10 be sold for the
benoet OF Rebel soldiers in Northern prisons
The report that the Rebels had evacuated
Fort Casweu situated near the mouth Of Cape Fear
liver Oh its western baak. is confirmed. They Die"
s. M at one o'clock on last Tuesday morning. They
also about the same time blew Up the pirate steamers
Tallahassee and Chioamnuga. number OF Rebel tor
pedoe, have been taken up from the bed OF .he Caps
Fear River.
There was more than The usual firing in front
ofPetersburg on lest Thursday night and during FIJI
day morning On Thursday night there appeared to be
great rejoicing among the Rebels the cause for which
Is unexplained. The ringing OF bells and shouting OF
men we're heard for houis.
The alleged Lake Erie pirate Burnley is now at
Toronto awaiting order Ofthe Governor General OF
Canada fo- bis ex.raditon. Toronto paper says thai
Che British Government has ordered thirty gunroats TO
the Northern Likes and that they viii probably aTiye
b. the tine navigation opens.
The Senate of the Rebel Congress has adopted
aresolutou creating the Office Of Goneral.in Chief Of
go.r armies with the design of having that position
occupied by Gen. Lee. The Rebel Senate he's also
Recommended flat Gen. Joe Johnston be reiHs,oed in
tomnand.
About seven hundred Union soldiers were
made prisoners by the Rebel Gen. Wickham on his raiC
nj 3ev .rly Vest Virginia the nth inst About TIVE
hundred Of these nfterward escaped. VERY Ett
property was captured by tire Rebels.
Admiral Porter in bis detailed report Of thu
ettack on Fort Fisher gives tie total number OF
officers killed and wounded 81 and Of Others killed
wounded ard missing including the explosion Of til
magazine, 3o9.