The Sun. — 1864-01-21 (London, England)

FROM THE TIMES CORRESPONDENT.] • NEW YORK, JAN. 9, 11 a.m.  The conflicting accounts of the intentions of the Confederates in the Shenandoah Valley' have been set at rest by the commencement of a northward movement in three columns by that force. Petersburg, Virginia, was surrendered yesterday. Generals Fitzhugh Lee and Rosser are moving upon New Creek.  The Federals were driven out of Burlington yesterday, and it is feared Cumberland, in Maryland, will be attacked to-day. The Confederates have captured a Federal train of 36 waggons. The Confederate General Imboden was attacked at Winchester, and his advance checked, yesterday. _ _ _  It is announced that the Federal force captured at Joinsville, Virginia, on the 3d, guarded a district upon which the Federal troops at Cumberland Gap chiefly relied for forage. In addition to the prisoners, the Federals lost 60 men killed and wounded.  Another secret expedition left New Orleans on the 30th. Its destination was believed to be Mobile.  The Richmond Examine-i of the 31st December, in concluding a review of the military and financial situation of the Confederacy, says : " We all know that we have a heavy score to pay off. This may depress us, but our enemies need not be jubilant at that depression, for we are determined to meet our liabilities. Whatever number of men, or whatever amount of money shall be really needed, will be forthcoming. Whatever economy the straitening of our resources may require we shall learn to exercise."  The accounts of recently released Confederate prisoners of their treatment at Point Lookout, published in the Richmond journals, show the practice of the greatest barbarity by the Federals:— " Murder was not only not scrupled at, but op.. portunities sought for its commission by the guard, who were known to have been offered 10 dols. and 15 dols. apiece for every fractious' prisoner they could consistently shoot in the discharge of their duty.' The rations of the prisoners per day consisted of five hard biscuits, with a piece of meat the size of a shrimp." The State of Georgia is reorganising its Militia, under the provisions of a recent Act of its Legislature. All white male citizens between the ages 3f 16 and 60 years are called into the service, and are divided into two classes. Those between 17 and 50 years are considered the Militia proper ; the remainder are held as a Militia reserve. The Provincial Government of Nova Scotia placed the Chesapeake in Admiralty on the 7th, and a hearing of the case will be had to-morrow. In the Senate on Thursday, Mr. Howe, of Wisconsin, offered a resolution which was referred to the Military Committee, requesting the President to call out 1,000,000 men for ninety days, to be led by Gen. Grant against Richmond, the capture of that city, and the liberation of the Federal prisoners there.  Senator Morrill offered a resolution yesterday requesting Mr. Lincoln to notify the British Government of the desire of the Federal Government to terminate the Reciprocity Treaty. It was re ferred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. A resolution by Mr. Baldwin, of Massachusetts, to reject without hesitation or delay any and every proposition for peace that may be made by the Southern authorities, was adopted in the House of Representatives on Thursday. Mr. Rogers, of New Jersey, submitted a proposition to readmit to the Union the seceded States with their original Constitutions whenever the people of those States might make application. It was laid on the table. In the same body the resolution by Mr. Myers, of Pennsylvania, to prosecute the war until the Con• federates were conquered into a love for the Union, and when that was accomplished to hang every leading man in the Confederacy, was referred to the Committee in the Reconstruction of States. Albert H. Palmer, secretary to the Collector of Customs of the port of New York, and also the secretary of the Union Central Committee, have been sent to Fort Lafayette, charged with complicity in the shipment of goods to Nassau for the Confederate market. The public funeral of the late Archbishop Hughes took place on Thursday afternoon. The courts and public offices were closed in respect of the occasion.