Show zo washington 7 pm 25 A dispatch received this evening by the president from baerman bherman dated savannah 22 ad announces his occupation of the city and capture of guns plenty lento lenty of ammunition and about 25 t ales bales of cotton no other part particulars laars are given iven arm aru an onni Ofil official cial clai dispatch from foster to gram grant dated 22 ad 7 pm states that savannah was occupied by sherman on the morning of the and thal that that on the preceding pm and night hardee escaped with the main boby body of his infantry and light artillery blowing up the ironclads iron and navy yard he enumerates as captured prisoners guns 1 13 locomotives in good order carsa earsa cars ears a large lot of am ammunition and materials of war 3 steamers and bales of cotton the dispatch of sherman is as follows savannah 22 0 to his excellency president lincoln I 1 beg to paesens you as a christmas gift the city of Sav savannah annab with heavy guns riles eales plenty I 1 nty of ammunition and about bales baies of cotton signed SHERMAN gen foster says I 1 opened communication ni with the city of savannah with my steamers today to day taking up the torpedoes which we could see bees and passing g safely over others A arrangements arane are ara made to clear the channel channe of all obstructions new york 25 the worlds s special ecial says coffle official al in information from ashville states that hoods losses from the to the of this month were killed filled 2650 wounded prisoners e exclusive of wounded with the wounded the prisoners amount to about 13 for ty nine guns were captured from cae vae t ie infantry and eight from th a valry fort A izi monroe aroe 29 26 the th e steamer california 58 hours from j fort pulaski with confirmatory intel of tho the capture of savannah i i arrived last night on the sherman having nearly completed lis kis his in 1 vestment of the city captured fort lee and several minor outworks out works in the im T mediate vicinity of the principal entrenchments trench ments surrounding the city and planted his batteries in such close proximity to the rebel lines as to command every position it loi i held by their forces under hardee sent a summons by a flag of truce to the effect that if the tho place was not in a certain time surrendered 1 i its bombardment would at once com me mence menee lace Jace to this summons this summons the wily rebel general replied that as his communications were yel yet yet open and his men fully supplied with subsistence and stores of of every kind he was eria cila enabled bled bied to hold a long along sedge and was determined to hold the city to the very last moment and defend the citizens and the property which had been forces placed laced under his protection until his forces were compelled to surrender every preparation had been made by sherman to assault the rebel position the next day but when the morning of the downed it was found that the enemy had evacuated their works several regiments of infantry a advanced who toek possession n of them and shortly afterwards sher man entered the city at the head of his body guard and received from the hands hanaa of a deputation of the citizens the sur bur render of the place it appears that hardee on the night of the seeing the impossibility of holding the cit city eity and fearing that the tho only m means eans of escape left op open oa across the savannah was likely to be cut ot off at any moment determined t to 0 avail himself of this route for his retreat ref ret reat his troops were immediately seeto set to work to partially destroy the navy yard and government stores and at twilight under protection of his hig ironclads iron sue suc u ceedee cee dedin in crossing the river over the causeway to the north side intending to pash forward to charleston thirty five thousand bales of cotton were stored in the city which the rebels in their haste neglected tie fie 0 lecter to destroy two ironclad rams were sunk and all government property an and d stores which they could not carry off they burned or threw into the river four small steamers one a gunboat were captured which with the cotton and a large amount of rebel munitions of war form a part of the spoils of shermans Sher mans army washington 27 alexander gaw chancellor of the russian legation died died here today to day I 1 Bait balt baltimore imore 27 A letter from fort 21 monroe onroe on the says a heavy storm has prevailed along the coast for the last few days causing considerable damage to shipping the commercials special says sherman has announced to the Secre seere secretary lary iary of war that he intended to move up the savannah river immediately and capture agusta the news new s today to day is that he has already moved sherman says ar afier after er this he will wiil swing round on the rear of charleston destroying all its railroads on the way wilmington N X C 25 the fleet of over 50 v assels es sels seis including two monitors and several armed vessels many heavily armed frigates and sloops of war made a furious attack on fort fisher about 10 yesterday and kept up an average of five shots per minute until night our loss was 23 wounded the attack was renewed at 10 this am and has been very furious and continuous there is no report of the casualties today col lamb commander of the fort replied to the fire slowly and deliberately wilmington 26 the infantry attacked fort fisher late last night and were repulsed with considerable loss there was heavy rain and through the night prisoners report the corps of the yankee army present under butler portland me 28 alluding to the florida disaster the london times says assuming i n it t to 0 have been by design we are to not t q disposed 1 s p 0 s to waste much indignation on the subject as the method of procuring and equipping quipping the florida was such a viola vlola tion of of neutrality as to deprive the sufferers of sympathy brazil is really the outraged party A blockade ru runner case lias has been on trial in the court of exchequer in which the judge pointed out that all parties in the matter were foreigners and denounced such violations of rights of asylum A large open air meeting of the operatives of manchester man chester adopted resolutions strongly opposing the recognition odthe of the slave holding confederacy P parliament meets on the of february the breach between the papal government and the prussian minister at rome is widening washington washinton ton 28 the affair at fort lyon colorado 1 in which col chivington dest destroyed destroyer a large indian village and all its inhabitants Is to be made the ther subject of congressional investigation letters received from high officials in colorado say that the indians were killed after surrendering and that a large proportion of them were women and children wilmington 07 6 p m to his excellency the president of the confederacy the enemy have re 0 embarked under cover of their tle tie fleet O this movement I 1 have not developed I 1 have visited fort fisher and find the damage to be slight except the buildings in g s which are not pec necessary essary for defense fen s e only two guns were disabled the marks remaining indicate that the bombardment I 1 was very heavy eavy I 1 I 1 signed BRAGG braag t fortress monroe 27 I 1 haye just arrived here herd on the santiago de do cuba from frohoff fro wilmington ton tou tho attack ou on fort fisher commenced at lioon noon on the and continue all day it was resumed on sunday and Fist ke kept t up with great vi gorall vigor nil all day Fort corf fisher eris Is much damaged all thee M barracks and houses were burned and the garrison driven out the bomb proofs scarcely venturing to reply A small portion of our troops landed on sunday afternoon and skirmished with great g gallantry and pushed bushed up to tb the e fort port actually entered eTtlie ter the works and killed a rebel bearer of dispatches who was entering wa wallen walien lien of the N Y captured a rebel flag from the bastion our troops also captured a whole awhile battalion of the enemy who were outside the works but our forces were withdrawn from t the lle ile shore when the santiago de cuba left the bombardment was continuing on sunday the sailors from the san santiago iago lago captured pino hill battery with 65 men and brought the whole party off jo tu the ship A torpedo boat was success successfully fully fally exploded on Sund sunday ayat at 2 a in with what result is not known the weather has been most violent at newbern and roanoke island new york 28 the tribune has the following from columbia tenn the the advance of A hoods army reached florence on the during the whole of the next day his infantry was crossing the river from duck river hood retreated rapidly to the tennessee river his bis army not making a stand our cavalry crossed duck river and have had an occasional 0 c cas ional brush with forresta For rests foree force who covered the enemas retreat no fi fighting ht of any auy consequence has occurred since the affair at spring hill tenn which is now free of of rebels new york 29 the tribunes washington special says there were five thousand colored troops landed near fort fisher they took up a strong position and held it against a vigorous attack they then attacked and carried at the point of the ba bayonet an earth work in front of fort fisher the tiie rebels reinforced returned and retook re took the fort driving out our black troops with heavy loss what remained of them were then re embark ed and the men of war wa again ragain opened fire on the fort the heralds washington special reiterates the statement that mosby was mortally wounded by one of our scouts and has since died cincinnati 29 A dispatch to the commercial from louisa ky says the raid of stoneman and burbridge was a perfect success and breckenridge vaughan and duke were whipped their artillery captured their forces scattered Salt sait saltville ville vilie burned and the works destroyed the railroad from bristol to twenty miles beyond was destroyed with all the rolling stock bristol bri toi tol and are in ruins and the property destroyed is estimated at af twenty millions new york 29 according to rebel reports our gun boats on the roanoke are having poor success the rebels laim baim clairn to have repulsed them three times near fort bratset Brat net the last time on friday last steamers from havanna on the s say ay reports had been received ai at havanna via porto rico eico that the san domingo rebels had submitted submitted to the spanish government nashville 29 union prisoners who escaped from florence and alid arrived on the at columbia state that hoods amy antny arrived at the tennessee river on the next day his infantry crossed on the pontoon which he had removed above the shoals out of reach of our gunboats gun boats one of the prisoners states that hood entered tennessee with cannon he counted 25 on his retreat pittsburg ky 28 I 1 have the honor to report that my n mounted force strong in conjunction with gen gillems brigade tho whole under the co command of gen stoneman marched from beans station on the tle the of december at daylight the they in ym e t dukes brigade at kin rin kingsport King ring sport I 1 sent two reci refi regiments ments to support gen gillem who ranked flanked the enemy routing the them killing wounding and capturing loo rebels taking their wagon train and pursuing them to brindl which place was waa attached I 1 and capt captured pred with prisoners two trains 0 of cars dive five engines and immense eabe ease quantities of stores I 1 3 learne learned 4 that vaughan was waa a zoell c coner ofil er 20 20 miles belair belo helo I 1 mar marched ched to attack him iut out he slipped away in I 1 n a dense fog and mado made for the salt works I 1 discovered his flight in time to head him off at abingdon which place I 1 captured on the nig night lit of the taking one gun gup a large amount of stores and an engine with rolling stock willem continued the pursuit of vaughan coming up with him troa from a strong sirag position on and capturing 50 pl prisoners isomers I 1 sent browns brigate brigade to support gillem who again came on the enemy at mount airy and drove him in confusion capturing some prisoners 7 pieces of cannon an and a large wagon train col browns brigade later in the day charged the home guard capturing 5 pieces of cannon and 8 cais cals caissons chaissons sons major harrison of the kentucky who had been detached by order of gen stoneman with men struck the virginia railroad on the near glade springs capturing 2 trains of cars when we got in vaughans front continued along the line of this railroad destroying all A the tiie bridges and depots as far as wytheville Wyth eville a large amount of rolling stock and the great iron works near marion col brown destroyed the bridges for 10 miles above wytheville Wyth eville when the expedition started on its return the men and horses homes being nearly kehrly worn out we came on breckenridge who was rol iol following lowing an eng engagement ement of 36 hours ensued at the close of which breckenridge retreated towards salt bait ville vine but col buckley with his brigade forced him in confusion to words horth north carolina col buckley effectually destroyed the lead mines near on the of the tho and after some bessis tan tane e our united forces captured the salt works with pieces of cannon the expedition has been entirely sue successful and will be more felt by the rebels than the loss of richmond the salt works and lead mines are in ruins and cannot be repaired during the war my forces are now at this place safe signed burbridge washington 29 porters full report of his operations against wilmington is received by the navy department the attack was opened on the with all ane iron eads dads and navy vessels of the fleet the smaller vessels being held heid in reserve previous to making the attack a torpedo on a large scale supposed to coni tain powder enough enough to er explode blode the magazine of the fort was carefully under command of commo bared ore rhind and exploded under the walls of the fort the boat selected was the louisiana after being prepared at norfolk she was towed to beaufort and filled with powder the louisiana was disguised as a blockade run ner on the rhind was ordered to make ready to explode hib his torpedo under F fort ort fisher sher at 1030 1080 p in the louisiana started in tow of the wilderness wilderness As soon as the embra of the fort were in sight the wilderness cast her offard she proceeded under steam to within yards of the beach and from fisher where she ivas dyas was anchored A blockade runner went in directly ahead of her enabling rhind to make all his preparations without suspicion after everything was ready the fuses were lighted and the party escaped to the wilderness which steamed up and ran out to sea the explosion occurred at in lir the morning of the and was not at all like what was expected the vessels in the fleet were shaken but little and it cannot be ascertained that the explosion caused any damage to fisher fishl er at daylight day light the fleet moved in abdat 1130 an attack commenced it it was opened in fine style by the new ironsides followed by the ca no nicus and Mapa seventeen guns were counted on the northwest north west fac e but only nive five were used which soon silenced the Minn minnesota esoLa and the other large vess Tess sels seis next took position and delivered their fire rapidly As soon althey coat dul dua dal ca cu pase pasc ilg 11 J L r C T nl aued from page 1 5 opened the fire was so severe as to drive tle the enemy to their bomb proofs they replied from only one ond or two guns the smaller gunboats gun boats then took position according to order ad and joined in the fight light mr in inan an hour bourand ho and fifteen minutes after the fight begun the guns were completely silenced two magazines were |