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The Week.
had succeeded in transporting all his infantry and field artillery across the river from the city to a place called Union Causeway , and had thus escaped the assault which the Federals intended to make , and withdrawn his troops before the Federal works had advanced enough to impede his passage of the river . A later Confederate telegram stated that a body of Federal troops had marched from Savannah towards the Altamaha
River , with the supposed purpose of destroying the Savannah , Albany , and Gulf Railway , but that General Hardee had made a proper disposition to check the column . The Federal fleet under Admiral Porter had commenced operations against the works ivhich defend the approaches to AVilmington . A despatch published by tho Associated Press at New York , on the
afternoon of the 28 th ult ., announced that Admiral Porter's expedition had withdrawn from Wilmington , and had arrived at Fort | BIonroe . This despatch was immediately afterwards contradicted by the Government , which 'declared that it had not received any intelligence of the kind , and that only one vessel had arrived at Fort Blonroe with despatches from
Admiral Porter , which had not yet been received at the Navy Office . It was , however , known that on the 2-lth ult . a powder ship had been blown up within 300 yards of Fort Fisher ; that on that day and on the 25 th the fire of the fleet silenced tlie guns of the fort ; and that on the 25 th a detachment of troops landed , and pushed up skirmishers , some of whom actually
entered the works . General Hood had continued his retreat beyond Pulaski , and was supposed to intend crossing the Tennessee a little below Florence . The Federals closely followed him , and were alleged to have taken many prisoners , and to have compelled him to abandon much of his ammunition ; but his troops must have held well together , as a body of them had sharply checked tlie advance of a pursuing Federal brigade ,
and had taken a gun . It was rumoured that " part [ of General Lee ' s army had been despatched from Richmond and Petersburg to some unknown point of the South . There had been one or two sharp encounters between the Federal and Confederate cavalry near Gordonsville and in the Shenandoah Valley . Five of the St . Alban ' s raiders had been reapprebonded in Canada , and sent for examination to Montreal .
The Federal Government's contradiction of the report that the expedition against AVilmington had been abandoned proves to have been untrue , and the original rumour has been confirmed b } ' the intelligence brought by the Peruvian . General Butler had returned to Fort Blonroe , and thc transports with his troops on board were also arriving there . Admiral Porter ,
with his frigates and " monitors , " had proceeded to Beaufort , and was there awaiting further orders . In his report of the operations , Admiral Porter stated that on the 216 h ult ., after a large powder ship had been blown up under the nails of Fort Fisher , though without doing any damage , his fleet bombarded the fort , and in an hour silenced the Confederate fire . On the
afternoon of the 25 th , some 3 , 000 troops , under the command of General AVeitzel , landed under cover of tlie fire from the fleet , captured two batteries , and advanced within 50 yards of Fort Fisher , some of tho men entering the outworks . General AA eitzel , however , deemed a successful assault impracticable , and re-embarked on the same evening , though about 1 , 000
men remained on shore during the following day , in consequence of the state of the weather . General Butler informed Admiral Porter , on the night of- the 25 th ult ., that an assault was "impracticable , " as Fort Fisher was " substantially uninjured as a defensive work by the navy fire , " and could only be reduced by a regular siege ; and he added that he should return to Fort Blonroe as soon as the transports for his troops were ready . Admiral
Porter vainly assured General Butler that the fire of his ships could "keep the Confederates inside the fort from showing their heads" until a storming column should he within twenty yards of the works , and that "the capture of the fort by assault , if attempted , would have been easier than was supposed . " Savannah advices of the 26 th ult . reported that "an effort was being made to intercept General Hardee's
report before ho could reach thc Board River ; but the Eichmond journals stated that General Hardee had arrived at Charleston . A large body of Federal troops , under General Grainger , had landed at Pascagoula , in Louisiana , and was " pushing rapidly " towards Blobile , where , as it was asserted , the Confederate garrison did not exceed 5 , 000 militiamen . It
had been announced that General Hood ' s infantry had crossed the Tennessee river at a point above the reach of the Federal flotilla , but later despatches from Nashville and Cincinnati alleged that the Federal gunboats had succeeded in preventing his troops from crossing the stream ; and there had even been " a doubtful report that the remnant of his army had been
captured . There had been no important operations in Virginia ; but the Confederates under General Leo were " said to be preparing an offensive movement . " Secretary Seward had informed tho Brazilian Government that President Lincoln ivould disavow the capture of the Florida . Captain Collins ivould be tried by court-martial ; the Federal Consul at Babia ivould be dismissed ; and the crew of the Florida
would be released . But Bir . Seward could not refrain from adding that "the ascription of a belligerant character to the Southern insurgents by Brazil is an act of intervention in derogation of the law of nations , and wrong and injurious to the United States , " though an individual commander has not the right to " redress the wrongs of a country . " President Jefferson Davis
had issued a declaration that B . ( i . Barley—who has been apprehended iu Canada , and who headed the men who endeavoured to take tho steamer Michigan on Lake Erie , and then release the Confederate prisoners on Johnson ' s Island—is a Confederate officer , and acted under the authority of the Confederate Government . The steamer Alexandra , which gave rise to so much
litigation and discussion in England , and which is now known by the name of the Marg , was seized on the 13 th ult . at Nassau , by order of the Government of the Bahamas , for an alleged infringement of the Foreign Enlistment Act . BEITISH Noitrii AMERICA . —The despatch of Bir . Cardwell in relation to the Confederation scheme for the British American
provinces has been published . While giving a warm approval to the scheme as a whole , he takes exception to two points . In the first he thinks that the prerogative of pardon should be confined to the governor-general , and uot extended _ ' to the lieutenantgovernors of each province ; and in the second he hints that if the Upper House o _ Legislators be elected for life and fixed in number there will be no means of removing any deadlock which may at any time arrive between that body and the Elective Chamber .
To Correspondents.
TO CORRESPONDENTS .
E . J . BI . —AVe have drawn attention to the subject in another part of our paper . S . S . is thanked ; the sooner be writes again the better . BETA never saw anything of the kind in the BIAGAZIXE . Z . _ -If you wish to address the Grand Master it must bo through the Grand Secretary . S . AA . —In the absence of the Blaster you have a right to rule the lodge ,
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The Week.
had succeeded in transporting all his infantry and field artillery across the river from the city to a place called Union Causeway , and had thus escaped the assault which the Federals intended to make , and withdrawn his troops before the Federal works had advanced enough to impede his passage of the river . A later Confederate telegram stated that a body of Federal troops had marched from Savannah towards the Altamaha
River , with the supposed purpose of destroying the Savannah , Albany , and Gulf Railway , but that General Hardee had made a proper disposition to check the column . The Federal fleet under Admiral Porter had commenced operations against the works ivhich defend the approaches to AVilmington . A despatch published by tho Associated Press at New York , on the
afternoon of the 28 th ult ., announced that Admiral Porter's expedition had withdrawn from Wilmington , and had arrived at Fort | BIonroe . This despatch was immediately afterwards contradicted by the Government , which 'declared that it had not received any intelligence of the kind , and that only one vessel had arrived at Fort Blonroe with despatches from
Admiral Porter , which had not yet been received at the Navy Office . It was , however , known that on the 2-lth ult . a powder ship had been blown up within 300 yards of Fort Fisher ; that on that day and on the 25 th the fire of the fleet silenced tlie guns of the fort ; and that on the 25 th a detachment of troops landed , and pushed up skirmishers , some of whom actually
entered the works . General Hood had continued his retreat beyond Pulaski , and was supposed to intend crossing the Tennessee a little below Florence . The Federals closely followed him , and were alleged to have taken many prisoners , and to have compelled him to abandon much of his ammunition ; but his troops must have held well together , as a body of them had sharply checked tlie advance of a pursuing Federal brigade ,
and had taken a gun . It was rumoured that " part [ of General Lee ' s army had been despatched from Richmond and Petersburg to some unknown point of the South . There had been one or two sharp encounters between the Federal and Confederate cavalry near Gordonsville and in the Shenandoah Valley . Five of the St . Alban ' s raiders had been reapprebonded in Canada , and sent for examination to Montreal .
The Federal Government's contradiction of the report that the expedition against AVilmington had been abandoned proves to have been untrue , and the original rumour has been confirmed b } ' the intelligence brought by the Peruvian . General Butler had returned to Fort Blonroe , and thc transports with his troops on board were also arriving there . Admiral Porter ,
with his frigates and " monitors , " had proceeded to Beaufort , and was there awaiting further orders . In his report of the operations , Admiral Porter stated that on the 216 h ult ., after a large powder ship had been blown up under the nails of Fort Fisher , though without doing any damage , his fleet bombarded the fort , and in an hour silenced the Confederate fire . On the
afternoon of the 25 th , some 3 , 000 troops , under the command of General AVeitzel , landed under cover of tlie fire from the fleet , captured two batteries , and advanced within 50 yards of Fort Fisher , some of tho men entering the outworks . General AA eitzel , however , deemed a successful assault impracticable , and re-embarked on the same evening , though about 1 , 000
men remained on shore during the following day , in consequence of the state of the weather . General Butler informed Admiral Porter , on the night of- the 25 th ult ., that an assault was "impracticable , " as Fort Fisher was " substantially uninjured as a defensive work by the navy fire , " and could only be reduced by a regular siege ; and he added that he should return to Fort Blonroe as soon as the transports for his troops were ready . Admiral
Porter vainly assured General Butler that the fire of his ships could "keep the Confederates inside the fort from showing their heads" until a storming column should he within twenty yards of the works , and that "the capture of the fort by assault , if attempted , would have been easier than was supposed . " Savannah advices of the 26 th ult . reported that "an effort was being made to intercept General Hardee's
report before ho could reach thc Board River ; but the Eichmond journals stated that General Hardee had arrived at Charleston . A large body of Federal troops , under General Grainger , had landed at Pascagoula , in Louisiana , and was " pushing rapidly " towards Blobile , where , as it was asserted , the Confederate garrison did not exceed 5 , 000 militiamen . It
had been announced that General Hood ' s infantry had crossed the Tennessee river at a point above the reach of the Federal flotilla , but later despatches from Nashville and Cincinnati alleged that the Federal gunboats had succeeded in preventing his troops from crossing the stream ; and there had even been " a doubtful report that the remnant of his army had been
captured . There had been no important operations in Virginia ; but the Confederates under General Leo were " said to be preparing an offensive movement . " Secretary Seward had informed tho Brazilian Government that President Lincoln ivould disavow the capture of the Florida . Captain Collins ivould be tried by court-martial ; the Federal Consul at Babia ivould be dismissed ; and the crew of the Florida
would be released . But Bir . Seward could not refrain from adding that "the ascription of a belligerant character to the Southern insurgents by Brazil is an act of intervention in derogation of the law of nations , and wrong and injurious to the United States , " though an individual commander has not the right to " redress the wrongs of a country . " President Jefferson Davis
had issued a declaration that B . ( i . Barley—who has been apprehended iu Canada , and who headed the men who endeavoured to take tho steamer Michigan on Lake Erie , and then release the Confederate prisoners on Johnson ' s Island—is a Confederate officer , and acted under the authority of the Confederate Government . The steamer Alexandra , which gave rise to so much
litigation and discussion in England , and which is now known by the name of the Marg , was seized on the 13 th ult . at Nassau , by order of the Government of the Bahamas , for an alleged infringement of the Foreign Enlistment Act . BEITISH Noitrii AMERICA . —The despatch of Bir . Cardwell in relation to the Confederation scheme for the British American
provinces has been published . While giving a warm approval to the scheme as a whole , he takes exception to two points . In the first he thinks that the prerogative of pardon should be confined to the governor-general , and uot extended _ ' to the lieutenantgovernors of each province ; and in the second he hints that if the Upper House o _ Legislators be elected for life and fixed in number there will be no means of removing any deadlock which may at any time arrive between that body and the Elective Chamber .
To Correspondents.
TO CORRESPONDENTS .
E . J . BI . —AVe have drawn attention to the subject in another part of our paper . S . S . is thanked ; the sooner be writes again the better . BETA never saw anything of the kind in the BIAGAZIXE . Z . _ -If you wish to address the Grand Master it must bo through the Grand Secretary . S . AA . —In the absence of the Blaster you have a right to rule the lodge ,