Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1865-01-17
OUR SPECIAL REPORT.
Admiral Porter Vs. Gen.
eral Butler.
Some Rumors and Contra
dictIons.
A Scout in the shenandoah
Valley.
Report of Mrs. Senator
Foote.
Despotism in the South.
Despotism in the South.
Special 70 the Epansvnis sournal.
From West Virginia.

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New YORK, Jan. 1.-THE Herald
haI further particulars Of the rebel at
tack at Beverly Station, West Virginia,
on Wednesday morning.
The attacking force was commanded
by Gen. Wickham, Of Ross's division.
The troops at the post consisted of the
34fh Ohio infantry and 9Th Ohio eayal-
ry, under Col Forney, and were com
pleteiy surprised and outnumbered, the
rebels ruGhing in suddenly about day
break. Colonels Forney and Young
and about 400 Of their men were taken
prisoners, but the two COionels and
about 200 men soon after succeeded in
escaping and regained our lines.
The rebels made short stay and then
retired towards Lewisburg.
Vice President Hamlin has announced
to bis friends that he will not accept
any position in the new Cabinet,
and intends to return to his farm.
The rebels are dealing very severely
with those whose ssmes have been made
known as assisting ia the escape of
Union refugees
The Liverpool daily Post says the
pirate Shenandoah vas fitted oat With
the design Of cruising against whaling
vesselg.
The British Atmy and Many Gazette
says Shermau's niarch through Geor-
gia has demonstrated the hopelessneos
Of the rebel struggle
Gen. Early, ia his letter 10 the rebel
Congress, denies the statement Of bis
drunkenness IN the Valley. and says no
respectable mau ever saw him drunk in
camp, ou y march, or 10 battle
A rebel surgeon publishes in the
Richmond Wig statement OF his
treatment ia Northern prisons. lie
claims that be received harsh Treatment
at Nashville, Camp Chase, aud Fort
DOneson
Richmond papers publish official re-
ports Of the defences Of Fort Fisher and
the surrounding works, The strength Of
the garrison and the damage done by
the bombardment are not stated. The
! Sentinel states that the discord between
Butler and Porter was the canse of the
failure. A rebel prisoner says that
/ eight guns were disabled in Fort Fisher,
and that the severe shelling drove the
men into the easements where they met
repeated assaults and could have made
resistance. Ii has long article on the
question of making Gen, Lee Dictator,
and aays, some Of our contemporaries
have been discussing whether the ap-
pointment Of Gen. Lee with power tC
command all our armies would have a
tendency to dispel the dependency
caused by the present reverses. We
need hardly say how earnestly we have
deprecated the length to which this des
poudency has been carried. IL Is far IL
excess of what circumstances would
justify, and is intensified by eroak'ngs a
street corners aud IN bar-rooms.
at is even to be feared that some
croakiug has been found in e quarte
where courage and security were to b
expected, and the consequence is speci
ally hurtful. Having taken pains TO as
certain the facts, we will now state tha
Geu'l Lee is the highest in command i
the army. Wherever Genl Lee is |
the field he therefore commands, nc
only all troops within his department
/ but all who may happen to serve in cor
necton with his command The limit
of his command is bounded solely
his opinion, and his command in th
field is as large, and extends over 8
great department as be is able to col
: troll. The President has made the e.
!; pertinent now urged, but Gen'l Lee h
!. found it impossible to do Doth duhe
It and the President reluctantly, AZ Lee
h own request, was compelled to chOol
b. between relieving him Of his commaI
in the army defending Richmond,
- FROM the general command over all d
armies" The Sentinel further says, CD
Lee and Davis harmouize, and then co
cludes as follows Would that so en-
nent an example were followed by 9
aud we should soon see spirit and CT
fidence animate the people that soE
put TO shame this eroakiug and desp'
dency that degrades so many Of our pI
lie men. and produces effects injurio
The Dispatch has the following edi
rial. We are now IN doubt and fe
. Our national distresses are felt by
- President of the Confederate States
keenlY as by the most sensitive OF
--~ countrymen, and adds to his affection
VI The Eramiaer says We arc not in
least danger Of being subjugsted, unl
DID the leading men who compose the c
gress and Legislatures arc absolu
resolved TO be. But one thing is TO
l. feared, and that is the decay Of pu
I ~ spirit before the continued spectacle
executive folly aud legislative subs
ienoy.
Tho Same place says there is no p
for the safe storing of cotton in
N South, as the raids of the enemy
reach any point in the Confederaey,
recommends the passage of a law
the burning Of all cotton and tobacc
the South, not needed for the Con
eracy.
The Enquirer has an article on
arming of slaves, in which it bring
General Lees proposition to consl
negroes and to hberste them and
wives of those who are made sold
He further demands that every poss
sacrifice of life and property shal
made TO secure Confederate nations
1t copies an article from the Win
ton Journal that proposes 10 adopt
course necessary. Il would be wi
70 place slavery in such eonditio
to be extingujshed in hundred V
1t favors immediate emancipatio
ID necessary 10 secure peace through
i1sg cognition BY France and England
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