Show - £ A r 1 K- 1L - Headquarters Arm of the Potomac 7 This has been rather a calm day along the lines in front of Petersburg very little picket firing was indulged in On the right of the line the artillery of both sides was verjj quiet Considerable activity prevailed In the lines north but the rain storm which of the Janies river set in early thimoming seemed to pat a atop to whatever changes if any wereintended Firing has been kept up upon Dhtch Gap all day M usual bat not with such persistency as yester! THE BAIiLY TELE Gt API f ii llff' MOUSW IVKDJfKSDAY J i TKKMSj Yib iicoa tu life: 9 Six Mftntlw I : 5 0O 7hrre Month ilriverctl intUccity jVr Moatb N 2 00j : : IVr Hugle number -- day- Uj sin i’mav a tntTicAL cbxDmos! IX KHL’ATmCK REPORTED WOUXDED! RrtECKEXKlPGE SHAKE THEIR KIRI V ' T 'FISTS AT SHERIDAN! if -- -- tfC aI - ’ -- Xew York I The Richmond Whig of tlm Gthr wiys we Save rt'Htfon to believe from all we liavcheariUhftt Sher- la ami with mciniiitil amiy-lomarching limn of iiac to the coast aoiith or south-ea- st ' Krui WeiHao have 'reason to anticipate a bat-tlf- it MUIeii 7 north-o- nome-po- int r of Sayui: north-wes- t- j uah ere the close pf the present week Tlie Enquirer of the Ctli says we learn that afr received last flight stating r pflicial tolcgramjwa that Wheeler lias inflicted nscverc blow upon the The locality of tltis Itelit is not pivenj for sufficient reasons It occurred last Sunday nkor- -' iiing Uii$ corps or thefncmji'and KilpatrfcfkV strong position they cavalry attacked p'heelertnii mine op boldly to t!ic attack and made several - " iiiy - " which were repulsed by Wliecltr’s though largely outnumbered miin? tained Iheir groiuVil ami raked down the foe flip and it wafe ‘dispatcli stau-- tlib enemy lost heavily ‘ l reported Kilpatrick waa wounded ' ' New York 8 chargi'sall-n- - rv - - yi f who iiitfii 3 - j v J )' It was 3 lVrstCiiincrIIanseft-oniSoutliampton2- reported ut Southampton on the 22ndSemiue’k njas wrecked oil Madeija ship Tlie Arnfy ami jXavy Gazette ayfit woribci-CdUiing iif iUritisliiollicers to engage in blockade miming ami to trat the Queen’s proclamation - of neutrality with contempt i Sea-Kin- g " -ulurly we inuy reasonably believe that JJiueolrt has sown his wild oaistaiul has goiui through Ifii course of defying ajnd insulting England Wo libpd he will not repeat ttie experiment Italy — it w propostfd to trauHfer tho capital to Naples The vetoed bill Tor the transfer of thQ t capitiil to FUireucxi passed by 317 to fd j Prince Xagato agreed JapanT-T- he Sil open inoiiski Straits- - and not rebuild the demolished forts also to pay the allied expeditipn their cx :J peusssRivas has resigned the presidency Duke ftpain— of the Council 'T ui Marquis of Veluma hassuc- ('Ceded The Epocai stiyk Spanish duty js to defend tr - 1 the J’upacy iu coming' to au understanding with France- - New York 9 doc-Arinew- as y propositions to emancipate the slaves and abridge the freedom of the press' declaring that States are not’subjeet to the lliehuioud Government and advising the other States not to submit to its usurpations The Richmond Dispatch of the Ctli says Sherman seems to become more timid or more exhausted For five days nputo last Friday he made five miles"' He Jias lost so much time that he lias Confederates a chance to gather such Strength that he miist-onecessity strike for Savannah or Beauforti lie was expected at Savannah mi ther2(ithaiUl 'all tliat night the whipping i nr die point threw up signal rockets for liis gui dunce I giv-uii-t- he f i - -- The Richmond papers say Grant is massing on the right of the army of the Janies An attack by him there and by! the left of tlio army of the luac is expected j The Richmond papers of the 7th say Sherman’s campaign is drawing to a' close lie is approach- - 'i either pointy Wo tTTink Sherman isf lone witS and !will now attempt to break jtraibgy "our foropjcaml Jthns attempt to reach tlie seathrough coast Things will culminate this week We think Siier--ma- u ma 5 ft erUiual cunilitioiv i -- - y'- 'I - "V'asliington 9 The Richmond papers print a letter of the 5th which suys it isFredericksburg reported that tinop trijojwliave just passed down the l’otomac t Graat—ioou lire from Sheridan and J 2(W00 ure u'cw reciuiif New York 9 Royal ifcrald of the 5th ayS' 3 TheFprt frpm Savannah arrived at Fort Pulaskl on jilti they report Sherman advancing on Ssiyanuafi in 3 columns one by way of Millen one lbyWijy df Uconce aid Oai:uulira rivers and the n oiiier across bavannih river at Sisters 70 ‘ He flahked Macon buf did Ferry irt'Tcsjabpw 'not stop it He had whipped Wagner and Colb’a to qS’-upmilula at- UCoube bridge driving them in every ‘ ‘ I- - - de-serf- rrs V - diri&tiotf i j ' Louisville 9 -- The Journal's Nashville special of the Gth says here is no change in the general situation In the kirmUhjng in front of the 4th corps Hie enemy was driven back to his old line few casualties resulted 7 Trisoncrs report Cheatham's cavalry hold the rebel right Lee the Centre and Stewart tlie left They say Lee has four batteries of four guns each ’ m position -- J - r t 'I - r contain no news from Richmond papers of Georgia or Tennessee They seem to have anticipated a battle in front of Richmond for the past two or three days and have evidently been preparing to resist any advance on oar part December §tb All quiet this morning ' St Johns 9 destrnctivelHre occurred at Indiantown a subA urb of St Julius 00 dwellings were burned and at least 300 people rendered houseless Waterbury Connecticut 9 The Waterbary Clock Co’s establishment was destroyed' by fire this niorning loss (20000 to $23000 It u only insured for $15000 Philadelphia 9 The Press has a special from City Point atatinn that the 2d and- 5th corps recrossed on Tuesdby afternoon and night near the Jerusalem Plank road and on Wednesday morning marched towards Ktony Creek station t The troops aTe very enthusiastic tbp main army having been fully reinforced and the recent advance of tho corps does not weaken it Vicksburg 4 Gen Dana by la successful expedition from Vicksburg destroyed the Mississippi Central railroad for 30 miles above Big Black crossing including the Long bridge At that place the enemy was found in force! but the work was thoroughly done and the troops re turned to Vicksburg' Loss 5 killed- 41 wounded and missing (Twenty-fiv- e hundred bales of otton valued at $300000 and other publio property was destroyed New York 10 The Herald’s Shenandoah correspondent says Early and Breckenridge have been ordered to make demonstrations on the lines of Sheridan’s "finny Sherman’s movements still engross a large The rebel newspapers say portion or attention lie remained with his principal force in the vicinity of Millen several days' for the purpose of gathering 2d he resumed Ids mate! supplies that onthe town on the 3d he was some from the north of jthe distance south of it oh tlie 0th his advance was reported skirmishing with the outposts of the rebel forces and tm the 9th he would reach fhe coast The Augusta Constitutionalist believes that since leaving Atlanta Sherman has not for a momeut hesitated as to the point to be attacked or the road to it It says on leaving Millen he would arrange his army so that he would move on Savannah without fear of an attack on either flanWl Wheeler confesses in liis engagements with Kilpatrick he has not taken many prisoners because the Yankees refused to surrender The Charleston Mercury learns that Foster has fortified the position which he took np after the battle on Iloney Hill where it is supposed he will remain until Sherman reaches within striking distance of the coast It states that Foster has been for some days and nights sending up balloons sky rockets etc supposed to be signals to Sherman’s approaching hosts - - - - The recent proceedings in the South Carolina' Legislature look very much as though that State' in coiiMstcncy with her ingrained secession about to secede from the Empire of! "Jeff Davisi Resolutions have been introduced in! that body denouncing as unconstitutional Davis’ i New York 10 The rebel senate on the 6th defeated a resolution introduced in pursuance of Jeff Davis’ recommendation that various officers exempted by State laws should be forced into the rebel army Another resolution fiercely condemning a proposition to make soldiers of slaves and give Them their freedom as a reward for service has been introduced in the South Carolina legislature A bill has passed the House of Representatives of that body for the conscription of all th men between 16 and 60 The Richmond papers continue to assail Gov Brown of Georgia They say that the reason he refused to allow the seizure for service in theTebel army of various persons in his State was that jhe desired to reserve a sufficient force to fightj Jeff Davis The Richmond papers of the 7th are filled with speculations of an immediate attack on ‘Richmond and explanations of why they expect it They are entirely confident-thaGrant has been reinforced oy the 6th corps and has other fresh troops ' Hie Worlds special says Rosecrans is to be transferred to soine more important: i t ! - com-iman-di j is-th- ’ ’ lSG-Li- n self-denyin- m GO D BE Sr -- 5 win V A FEW DAYSj ' RETAIL GOODS! 7 1 J THIS JUORiYIiXG 1 r: at WHOLESALE PRICES BY GIYINQ A DISCOUNT t ' ! i 0 TEN ' PER CENT ANOTHER IIIULG TRAI( His! STOCK off the regular Market Rates consists of XCELLENT 1 ‘I - Aflii ! i i ASSORTMENT i or LOADED WITH GEJJEEAL MERCHANDISE ’ of the Best Qualities and is especially rlch in PLAIN & FMCY DRESS GOODS v- Comprising: SILK and CLOTII CLOAKS atid - f : MANTILLAS BALMORAL SKIRTS COTTON nd SILK-VELV- DOMESTIC DllY GOODS f ' ET RIBBONS ' f( - Ito a Itwo ete etc DRES S TRIMMING 9 Boots Shoes Hats and Caps A MAGXIFICEXT AIXEOF will also be found in almost endlesf variety Particular attention is called to his i which are unsurpassed m tills or indeed any other market and the- FINEST will cost but " 9450 per lb while fi good Genuine YOUNG IIYSON - Fancy Dress can besought for j Goods I $360 per lb j ” t pas 1 hea The Goods are on Sale at nOOfBR A ELDBEDGE’S Old Stand Two' Doors North of Theatre Street and- at the j Southwest side of Godbe’s NewBuilding - MOST BEAUTIFUL SELECTION ft Rcmemberfor a Ffw Days Only :? ?T9 51854 Dec ric “i This arrrangement does not apply to the Drag Store a6 1 r- of-th- -- - EAGLE EMPORIUM!! Ilia OF i I - i : i - n Haying received the whole of my EAST- i ’J ERN PURCHASES I have on hand the LARGEST AND MOST VARIED SORTMENT OF IFI AS-- ! 1 i i WOOL SHAWLS ever offered in Tins Mareet and Wh feel pre- pared to fill AND RETAIL BILLS OF ANY ' AMOUNT WHOLESALE to ike satisfaction of tho Purchaser ’ ' ' AMONG SPECIALITIES I f Mr Geo Pmmcefort -- j ’ THE OUR ASSORTMENT FOR TOE SEASON I i invite Inspection of a! j I FINE STOCK sJ-- - j : eaxnisixHOODS r I ' latomany of ojut -- nu-ft®ri- disad-9Qlvale- nt Crwaii lAfw HOSIERY FLANNELS BOOTEES tc etei j A MATCH FOR A KING his great personation of Don Caesar tAU'CEFORT ! To conclude with r -- a new laughable Farce never before 1 Barney O’Toole (an the Emerald Isle seeking his fortune Mr For full particulars see Bills The Box Office will open tor the sale of Tickets Toes ' day at 10 a m Doors open at 4 past 6 o'clock Performance to commence at 7 1-- j fiENTLEMEH’S r-- ' OILS - tr - - !! A n' i i a 4 Dry Goods- etc etc - i I 5 O T I O NS h- PUBLIC AND THE ' TRADE-- S - I ? LEATHER ETC j t f CROGKSRY ’UM To which we solicit the attention of the 1 GROCERIES PAINTS i t ' - heretofore existing between TIEB Copartnership under the name of LAVUfBERO A AUERBACH has this day been dissolved by mutual consent ri F AUERBACH VJk BBO wiU pay all tha liabilities of £jid- - a Thousand the firm of Lavanberg and Auerbach and all tboee indebted to them in this city as well as in Austin Nevada i e Use will please settle their accoante within thirty days ” CLOTHING IN EVERY VARIETY" NOTICES j Et UT e BARON BABNEY'THE itinerate Tinker from d i A 'acted here entitled w IS NOW : ! 1 oa 'i GEN LEE'S DIFFICULTIES - NUBIAS bONCESAR i a- SHAWLS i one-arme- wu-mde- IUgT AKItIVEl) st 1- tat - The ‘Richmond papers give further particulars of Wheeler’s fight with Kilpatrick by jwhich it appears that Wheeler was obliged to fall back owing to Kilpatrick’s superior numbers Tlie rebel General Anderson was LAKE CITY GREAT wounded at Gris wolds ville and Is censnred o for rashly urging his troops against breastII B Clavsojt Manager work Every house but Mr Griswold’s: was Job g Caixi Stage Manager ! destroyed in Gris woldsville REKEWED ATTRACTION I S Headquarters Army Potomac 8 and the Yesterday at daylight the 5th corps The Management beg to announce that in compliance $d division of the 2d corps and two brigades expressed wish of their Patrons of Gregg’s cavalry started south They were with a very generally Talented Versatile Artist have engaged the they heard from yesterday They had crossed the fxttaway river on the Jerusalem road without meeting opposition of any consequence who will have the honor of appearing on 'They crossed on pontoons which they took Up- after crossing WEDNESDAY E VENING DC 14 1884 Deserters who came into onr lines this morwhen will he presented by particular request ning state that Mahon’s rebel division was I FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY! sent off yesterday to meet our advance force direcbut as no firing'bas been heard in that the beautiful Comic Drama in 3 Acts not believed that any engagement tion ifls DE BAZAN has taken place i my previous letters Thave pointed yonr readers the true disadvantage! of Ijee’s position compared with Grant's As a general illustration it may be said thafee is on the arc Grant on the chord of a circle but as this expression does not exactly define the position of the two armies whose lines (extending each of them over 9 Durbridc'comnijiti do not pursue any uniform a length of thirty-miles- ) station m 6th hu force arrf well fe 1 will endeavor at the risk coarse inclination or The movement r lZe£5n1 PPUed many times Hank compelled the latter tor?ti weCenri“ge’ of repeating what 1 have described Your readclearer to make before -— meaning bw my fovco beyond Bull U4( entire an as is such attitude a in that understand ers will ptunng detachment small caval ry j Grant and the Lee of ‘ " armies the army occupied by ’‘Tlie Journal say and acts on the aggres- which takes the initiative Breckenridge will turn a Lee is like a heiv immense sive has aft and advantage quarter before long unexpected skillful who is fighting a d prize fighter 9- lag bully with two arms — stronger taller more The 1W special'saya it U The most 'be active andandkeener sighted than lumself offer Way and Mean Committee wil reii?M®s themopportunities tempting prompting selves to him manufactured article' every day i He cannot afford to ' hazard even twenty lives in peTi“oT 7£2lvt5Stato tentative operation The fact of his great pa-- inferiority to his enemy and that he is down and forced to keep always a large SnOUof his army before Petersburg are 1 irts Uiat to the loss of an arm by a no new moveinnntAhave “tSr Gruntj on the other hand has in JRSSSSfehi 4ion yf Tho rightly survey the ground such ri cot uted Of four1 rflsimaqt Cf whiS andfour “ake il astonishing that in About of the four moe®--a ? in' n wen i field he lad Sad the 12th of June when ? ver and the present time he should have made so little uad of In direction of Mnrfrces-Pno- e of place One of our bat-- tone on Stcaduiiui'i front Pcned t1us morpmg elicited uo reply! act People i i i to-da- y EASTERN TELEGRAPHIC NEWS Good News for the! - to-da- y I’cf Annum centre lie the James river wtth its dozen Yankee gunboats and monitors covering the Federal base of operations Iand making it unapproachable to doubtle with a view to getting Gen Lee It still more ont of these monitors that Gen Botier I cutting achnal through Dutch Gap into which he hopes to tempt the James river It is not thought here"! may say Gen Butler’s that any advantage wiU 'result toparparenthese comrades from this canal even if contrary to Fed era! experience at Vicksburg it proves a success Ry means of the pontoon bridges which connect Burmuda Hundred with Deep Bottom Grant can throw any number of nieti by night or ddj to the north or south of the James It is almost impossible for Lee to know if Grant's demonstrations whether they threaten Richmond on the extreme Federal right or the South Side railroad on the extreme Federal left are feints or realities On the other hand from the configuration of the ground it is almost impossible for Lee to cut Grant’ll lines in any vital place The post tempting place to assail those lines would be somewhere not far from the spot where Grant's mine was sprang But the shape of the ground and the position of the forces is such that the lines can only bQ attacked at two or three confined roots and here natnrally Grant has defended himselr by triple fortifications and keens always strong bodies of greatest of- all advantaiqen in position But the following:- From the 4th of May up to ges tho present hoar Lee’ army has been continuously in the trenche either actually under firte or at anV rate not knowing at what particular momenta might not be attacked by a savage and multitudinous foe The Confederates liavp been fighting or on the nick without intermission for more than five months On the other hand the Federal General who knew from the beginning that Lee was through the paucity of his numbers restricted to acting on the' defensive hail it in his power at any moment to give four fifths of his ariny an entire rest There was nothing to prevent Grant's saying on the 1st of August “I shall want great efforts from you on the 2Qth of this month rest and recruit yourselves until that day” On the contrary for one hundred and sixty days lice’s troops have known no rest either by night j or&V? We all remember bow tlie work in the! trenches told Upon our officers and privates in the Crimea it cannot be wondered at that a far more uninterrupted pressure for more than five months should have told fearfully upon tlie poor Confederate to one of the fiercestsommers evr known exposed iii Virginia scantily fed upon meat— mostly salt mcat-2-an- d bread without vegetables'" with only occasional cofltc with no other stimulant and threatened ceaselessly by overwhelming numbers who have at their command all that a lavish profusion of expenditure and the scientific experience of the whole civfiized world can contribute I cannot be blind to the fact as I meet officers and privates from General Lee’s army that they are half w orn out and that though the spirit is the 1 am in same as ever they urgently need rest hopes during tlie coming winter thajUbis rest will not be denied to them as Lee’s 'army becomes stronger but be that as it may I am' convinced that when the true history of the Confederate cam Virginia is written it will record a paign in in heroism and in tthe patistruggle unsurpassed g ence and endurance of the' troops since the time when blood was first spilt upon the earth and man first lifted his hand in anger'T against ' his brother w 5 There is one plan by which at the price of the bricks and mortar of Petersburg General Lee niight curtail the existing prolongations of his lines might assume a much stronger defensive position and considerably increase the difficulties of his That this plan jvill be adopted if ocopponent casion requires is byno means improbable but so long as General Lee fecla himself strong enough to hold and protect Petersburg as well os Richmond he will continue to ding td both If he gave up the town of Petersburg e and fell back upon the western and higher bank Appomattox holding the heights of Pocahontas which girdle Petersburg on the west aqd north hi strength for defense would be much greater: but he would have in some measure to give the little city up to its assailants much in the same fashion as Fredericksburg was given up to tlie Federal while the Confederates held Market Rights If the Confederates maintahr'their present attitude! before Richmond and continue to hold their enemy at bay until as here anticipated a great disaster has overtaken Sherman in the West h do not scruple to say that in my opinion Richmond will laugh its assailant to scorn If on the other hand Sherman is able to extricate hiigself from his present ' critical position there will be reason for apprehension about Richmond the coming winter the like of which has never existed before The darkest hour of the night is proverbially ‘and it that which immediately precedes the dawn ' is not in my judgment unreasonable to expect that this hour of gloom through which' the' Confederates are' now passing— the darkest and profoun-dewhich I have ever witnessed — is the herald of a day about to rise— Cor London Times ? Yhv CUTLERYi ! ’ other Articles for Daily and Comfort WALKER S LAVEJJBERG F AUERBACH - j & BRO Rov281854 Dee S'ISSL 128-- t' I i i It ' - - r-' V- -e ' fr 'I-- : -- -i-- " i - i ' - t r - - i '5 |