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We have received copies of New York papers of the 25th instant, and give a summary of their contents:


Sherman in Georgia — his order preparing for the march — Slocum's order to his wing of the army — the country to be Devastated if the roads are Blockaded.

All the news of Sherman's movements in Georgia published in the Yankee papers is taken from the Richmond press. They assert that "Macon has fallen" because in our papers they see a telegram that Sherman is within eighteen miles of it. The following is the order Sherman issued to his troops before his march was commenced:

Headquarters military division of the Mississippi, in the field, Kingston, Ga.,
November 9, 1864.

  1. I. For the purpose of military operations, this army is divided into two wings, viz: The right wing, Major-General O. O. Howard commanding, the Fifteenth and Seventeenth corps; the left wing, Major-General H. W. Slocum commanding, the Fourteenth and Twentieth corps.
  2. II. The habitual order of march will be, whenever practicable, by four roads, as nearly parallel as possible, and converging at points hereafter to be indicated in orders. The cavalry, Brigadier-General Kilpatrick commanding, will receive special orders from the commander-in-chief.
  3. III. There will be no general trains of supplies, but each corps will have its ammunition and provision train distributed habitually as follows: Behind each regiment should follow one wagon and one ambulance; behind each brigade should follow a due proportion of ammunition wagons, provision wagons and ambulances. In case of danger, each army corps should change this order of march by having his advance and rear brigade unencumbered by wheels. The separate columns will start habitually at 7 A. M., and make about fifteen miles per day, unless otherwise fixed in orders.
  4. IV. The army will forage liberally on the country during the march. To this end, each brigade commander will organize a good and sufficient foraging party, under the command of one or more discreet officers, who will gather, near the route traveled, corn or forage of any kind, meat of any kind, vegetables, corn meal, or whatever is needed by the command; aiming at all times to keep in the wagon trains at least ten days provisions for the command and three days forage. Soldiers must not enter the any trespass; during the half or a camp they may be permitted to-gather turnips, potatoes and other vegetable, and drive in stock in front of their camps. To regular foraging parties must be entrusted the gathering of provisions and forage at any distance from the road traveled.
  5. V. To army corps commanders is entrusted the power to destroy mills, houses, cotton gins, etc., and for them this general principle is laid down: In districts and neighborhoods where the army is unmolested, no destruction of such property should be permitted; but should guerrillas or bushwhackers molest our march, or should the inhabitants burn bridges, obstruct roads, or otherwise manifest local hostility, then army corps commanders should order and enforce a devastation more or less relentless, according to the measure of such hostility.
  6. VI. As for horses, mules, wagons, etc., belonging to the inhabitants, the cavalry and artillery may appropriate freely and without limit; discriminating, however, between the rich, who are usually hostile, and the poor or industrious, usually neutral or friendly. Foraging parties may also take mules or horses to replace the jaded animals of their trains, or to serve as pack mules for the regiments or brigades. In all foraging, of whatever kind, the parties engaged will refrain from abusive or threatening language, and may the officer in command thinks proper, give written certificates of the facts, but no receipts; and they will endeavor to leave with each family a reasonable portion for their maintenance.
  7. VII. Negroes who are able-bodied, and can be of service to the several columns, may be taken along; but each army commander will bear in mind that the question of supplies is a very important one, and that his first duty is to see to those who bear arms.
  8. VIII. The organization at once of a good pioneer battalion for each corps, composed, if possible, of negroes, should be attended to. This battalion should follow the advance guard, should repair roads and double them, if possible, so that the columns will not be delayed after reaching bad places. Also, army commanders should study the habit of giving the artillery and wagons the road, and marching their troops on one side; and also instruct their troops to assist wagons at steep hills or bad crossings of streams.
  9. IX. Captain O. M. Poe, chief engineer, will assign to each wing of the army a pontoon train, fully equipped and organized, and the commanders thereof will see to its being properly protected at all times.

L. M. Dayton, Aide-de-camp.

The following is the circular of General Slocum, commanding the left wing of the army:

Headquarters, Twentieth corps, Atlanta, Georgia,November 7, 1864.

When the troops leave camp on the march about to commence they will carry in haversack two days rations salt meat, two days hard bread, ten days coffee and salt and five days sugar. Each infantry soldier will carry sixty rounds of ammunition on his person. Every effort should be made by officers and men to save rations and ammunition; not a round of ammunition should be lost or unnecessarily expended. It is expected that the command will be supplied with subsistence and forage mainly from the country. All foraging will be supplied with subsistence, and forage mainly from the country.--All foraging will be done by parties detailed for the purpose by brigade commanders, under such rules as may be prescribed by brigade and division commanders. Pillaging, marauding and every act of cruelty or abuse of citizens will be severely punished. Each brigade commander will have a strong rear guard on every march, and will order the arrest of all stragglers. The danger of straggling on this march should be impressed upon the mind of every officer and man of the command. Not only the reputation of the corps, but the personal safety of every man will be dependent, in a great measure, upon the rigid enforcement of discipline and the care taken of the rations and ammunition.

By command of Major-General Slocum.

H. W. Perkins, Assistant Adjutant-General.

The Washington Republican of Wednesday has the following:

We are permitted to announce that the Richmond papers of yesterday morning (Tuesday, November 22,) contain dispatches from Macon that on Sunday last General Sherman was within eighteen miles of that place, marching upon the city.

It is believed in high military quarters that before this time Macon has fallen. Information considered reliable has been received that the city was only garrisoned by Georgia militia, composed chiefly of old men and boys, and that no attempt would be made to defend it, fearing its destruction would follow. No reports from Richmond papers of to-day having been received, the inference is confirmatory of the above probability.

A letter from New York, dated the 23d, says:

‘ Some of the city journals, in their articles on Sherman to-day, either have a decided touch of the "blues," or are doing their best — unconsciously it may be — to play into the hands of the Wall street gold gamblers. All at once they have discovered that Lee has sent a formidable army to dispute his progress, while a conspicuousness is given to idle rumors of positive disaster that had better be left to such disloyal correspondents as the Baltimore "Druid" of the World. The writers of these megrim articles will feel better, may be, after their thanksgiving dinner to-morrow.

’ The following is a specimen telegram of those published by the Yankees in the absence of any news whatever. It is dated at Philadelphia, the 24th instant:

It is rumored here that information has been received at Washington that General Sherman has been notified by Governor Brown that Georgia, Alabama and another State had determined to return to the Union, and that Sherman had halted in his movement; also, that Stephens desired to meet a commissioner from the United States in Canada.

The Evening Bulletin, in an extra, announces that Sherman has captured Macon, with many prisoners.


The War in Kentucky and Tennessee--Hood marching on Pulaski.

A dispatch from St. Louis, dated the 23d instant, says:

‘ A Paducah dispatch of yesterday says military affairs in this district are active. Every rebel move on this side of the Mississippi is now known. The whole country has been thoroughly scouted, and parties bring in prisoners daily. The concentration of troops and the coming of General A. J. Smith means something, but what it is not proper to state. A few days, however, will doubtless develop the plan of the contemplated campaign. Both the Cumberland and Tennessee rivers are in fine boating order, and will prove valuable auxiliaries to military operations in Tennessee and Kentucky.

’ The gunboats Peorla and Pawpaw returned here on Sunday from a reconnaissance up the Tennessee river.

The bodies of Ensign Hare, of the gunboat Undine, and Captain Allen, of the transport Venus, killed when their vessels were captured by Forrest's gunboats, were found, .

The river is lined with rebel pickets from Pine bluff to Johnsonville. The rebel General Lyon, in command of that district, has orders to watch the river closely and blockade it. Transports will begin running again soon.

Forrest has a pontoon across the river at Chickasaw.

Deserters and scouts report Hood's army at thirty-five thousand strong; with thirty-seven pieces of artillery. He intended to operate in Middle and Eastern Tennessee and Kentucky. He was marching on Pulaski, Giles county, Tennessee, and expected ultimately to seize Cumberland gap. His men were greatly in need of clothing, supplies of which they hope to obtain by plundering the towns through which they pass.

A dispatch from Louisville, the 23d instant, says:

‘ After Gillem's recent defeat, Breckinridge advanced to Strawberry Plains and Blair's cross- roads, threatening Knoxville and Cumberland gap. On the 21st, Breckinridge advanced to Powell's bridge, six miles from Cumberland gap, and there was heavy skirmishing all day. Burbridge has moved out from Lexington with a strong force to protect the Kentucky border from anticipated invasion by Breckinridge's forces.


From RichmondEarly at the capital.

A dispatch from Washington, dated the 23d instant, says:

‘ There is information from City Point, dated yesterday morning, that but a short time will elapse before the Dutch Gap canal will be opened.

’ All hopes of the evacuation of Petersburg by the enemy, until forced into it by General Grant, have been given up. The rebels, if attacked, could abandon the city without danger of serious molestation on their retreat; and as this point is the key to Richmond, there is not the slightest probability that any movements on the part of General Sherman will induce Lee to so weaken his force as to render necessary a greater contraction of his lines. All information received from Richmond indicates that the rebels entertain no idea of abandoning their position, but, on the contrary, are exerting themselves in an unprecedented manner to increase their depots of supplies and ordnance.

A letter from Butler's headquarters says:

‘ The most important news at this point is the intelligence, brought in by deserters who enter our lines, that Early, with a large force, has arrived at Richmond, and now lies between the city and General Butler's lines. Some regard this fact as indicating a concentration of troops preparatory to an attack on our position by the enemy. Others, with more reason, consider it a purely precautionary measure on the part of the enemy, dictated by his apprehension of a grand combined attack by the "armies operating against Richmond" in probable conjunction with a fleet in the James river.

’ The Washington Republican of Wednesday says:

General Grant has been exceeding busy during the day in consultation with the President, Secretary of War, General Halleck, and Assistant Secretary Fox, and at 3 o'clock left with his staff, on his special dispatch boat, down the river, en routs to the front. He expressed himself highly pleased with his flying visit to the North, and goes back to the field much refreshed in mind and body. He was this city, and other guests.


The Confederates again in Missouri.

A telegram from St. Louis says:

‘ Advices from Fayetteville, Arkansas, say Colonel Brooks, with two thousand five hundred rebels, attacked that place October 28th, but was repulsed with considerable loss. From that time to November 3d the town was pretty closely invested, when General Fagan, with about six thousand of Price's retreating forces, came up and bombarded the place five hours with two pieces of artillery, but were held at bay until the next day, when Generals Curtis and Blunt arrived, and the rebels skedaddled. They lost nearly one thousand killed and wounded. Our loss was one killed.


General Early's army in the Valley — his position.

A letter from Martinsburg, dated the 22d, says that General Early's army now occupies a line from Brock's gap, on the left, to the Shenandoah, on the right. The line is, in a measure, an imaginary one, as there are wide gaps between the respective camps of his several divisions. He has cavalry on both flanks. On his right flank his cavalry is well advanced down the Luray Valley to an entrenched position near Milford. On his left flank, another force of cavalry occupies a position in the Lost River Valley, nearly down to Wardensville. On his main front, in the Shenandoah Valley, the Confederate pickets are near Edenburg, on the pike, and to the left and right of it. The letter adds:

From the position Early now occupies he can watch all Union movements in West Virginia; front of him, in the Shenandoah and Luray Valleys; and to the right of him, against the railroad lines communicating with Charlottesville, Lynchburg, etc.

Early may possibly attempt raids into West Virginia and the Union lines there during the next forty or fifty days, but I think only with cavalry.--He, evidently; would rather have a strong Yankee force upon his left than his right.

Early's army has lost its morale. It now requires the strictest orders and severest discipline to keep both officers and men in their proper places. Still, as a generality, I cannot say the men are discouraged. If they are so in feeling, they very well conceal it.

Early has got a fresh supply of artillery, and I was yesterday told he expected one or two, if not three, new batteries.


Miscellaneous.

Accounts from Bermuda, via Halifax, state that the Chickamauga had completed her repairs and sailed on the 15th instant on a cruise. The value of her captures was set down at half a million dollars.

Late New Orleans papers say that General Canby was sufficiently recovered to resume charge of the business of his military division.

The provincial government at Quebec has issued orders forbidding the transportation from Canada, either by land or water, of arms or ammunition, in consequence of information having been received that Southern rebels and their co-operators in that colony are manufacturing and collecting at available points, shot, shell, cannon and other munitions, for the armies of the Confederacy.

Captain Winslow, of the Kearsarge, the sinker of the rebel privateer Alabama, had a reception and banquet given to him by the citizens of Roxbury, Massachusetts, on Tuesday evening. They also presented to him an elegant silver tea service.

How Lincoln put in the bogus votes is pretty well shown in the following: "It is an interesting fact that the recent Presidential vote is largely in excess of the popular vote of 1860, notwithstanding the numbers absent in, and lost by, the war."

The majority in New York State for Reuben E. Fenton, who is elected Governor over Horatio Seymour, is nearly two thousand greater than that for Lincoln.

Secretary Fessenden is about to commence the issue of three-cent currency notes, for the purpose of facilitating change.

The Kearsarge is on exhibition at Boston. Twenty-five cents a head; proceeds go to "Poor Jack."

The Western papers say that John C. Fremont is to be Minister to France and Salmon P. Chase Minister to England.

The Louisville Journal says slavery is dead in Kentucky.

Bradford was the only town in Vermont which gave McClellan a majority.

A monster Christian commission meeting is to be held in Indianapolis on the 29th.

The mansion in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, occupied by Daniel Webster during the first years of his practice, is now an oyster saloon.

The Fifty-fourth Massachusetts volunteers (negro) would not take a cent less than was given to white troops. They stood firm, and conquered, and the other day were paid off in full at white man's prices.

The peace men of Delaware refuse to participate in the services of Thanksgiving Day because Governor Cannon, in his proclamation, instanced among the causes for thankfulness the "freeing of the slaves of Maryland and the prospects of a speedy declaration of universal freedom."

Mrs. Joshua R. Giddings died at Jefferson, Ashtabula county, Ohio, on the 15th instant.

A St. Louis paper says: ‘"There are not less than 200,000 persons in Missouri this day who are little better than paupers, not knowing where to get food to maintain them through the winter."’

Professor Benjamin Silliman, Sr., of Howard University, a noted Abolition agitator, died on the 23d instant.

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