The Palmetto Herald, 1864-12-22

t on awi iioanoKe v HI icy, ie:unng 10 ClarhiHlU*. The latter road is part of tbe grand chain of southern communiciftion, aqd it' held, can materially interfera with the movement of supplies for lice's army, or the disoateii of troops to aid the armies in departments south of thU point. Wcldofo is situated upon the Roanoke river, a stream which w navigable nearly i its entire distance front Plymouth, which i lias recently been captured by our forces. I It is ahy within littoen miles of Wuiton | on the Chowan river, which is also navij gable tor quite a large class of gunboats, i ^ince General Warren's movement vaj rions theories have been advanced re. speeding his intentions. The Richmond and Eetersburg pipers assert that the i movement is really toward Wcldou ? ! 5 ?uie northern military critics have de! dared that the expedition intended to saving around upon the Southside road, and endeavor to sever that important line j of communication. Others of this class

Commissioner,. now lies. The steamer Victor, from off Charleston, arrived at Annapolis yesterday with a further consignment of exchanged Union soldiers. In lute rebel papers we have the proceedings of the North Carolina and Sooth Carolina Legislatures relative to negotiations for j peace. In the former body resolutions j have been introduced in both houses in ! favor of sending commissioners to \V;isli- j ington. and Jetf. Davis and the Legisla- I tures of the other States are reqhested to J c v-njK.nite. The resolutions offered in j the S )Uth Carotin.* legislature deprecate | any overtures for a cessation of hostilities 1 until a dissolution of the Union is conceded by the national government. Gov- I tTuor i)onham. of South Carolina, is in union with the legislature of his State, ami Is opposed to ah negotiation at present except those ot* cold steel, iron and lend. v I From the New York Herald. Per. 1".] A Cairo despatch stafes that a detach -

days m the vicinity of Murireesboru, where Gen. Rousseau is in command of the Union troops. The fighting commenced on the tid inst, and was continued on each successive day up to the 7th, when finally the rebels, under command of Forrest in person, were so vigorously charged that they fled iu complete rout, aud have not since made their appearance. On this occasion Rousseau's men captured two hundred and seven r?bel prisoners, including eighteen officers, aud fourteen cannon. There was much excitement in Memphis on last Friday, caused by a report that Beauregard, with a strong three, was marching on Fort Pillow. About oue hundred and fifty negro soldiers were recently drawn iuto ambush, on the Ar: kansas side of the Mississippi, opposite Memphis, and nearly all of them, it is said were either killed by the rebels or drowned iu the river. A despatch states 111 It t f U'/tlOlla Ituo ItitAt % < VA/ttl kill! 1 1 ttf o

V?*r bitter wew the tears ?he shod To *ee her boy d.*j>arL The yew Y?*rk Herald, in alluding to j the unostentatious manner in \Vhieh Gen. Grant arrived iu that eilv on Saturday and lelt on Monday, remarks that "a second lieutenant in "a regiment not yet ordered to the field makes more sensation i in tho city with his new unitorm, pit | buttons and loud swagger than did this greatest general in the world, with his simple dress and unpretentious manners. Josn Billing*, whose oracular utterances are being more and more brilliant every day, says: "Tew bring up a child in the way he should go?travel that wtnf yourself."* Solomon couldn't improve on that. . A writer ot a modern book of travels, relating the particulars of Ids being cast away,?thus coueludea: "After having walked eleven hours without liaviug tmeked the print of a human foot, to my peat comfort and delight I saw a man j

OIOCV UCii. vn\uu 3 wi iuu upper portion of the Wcldon road, the enemy has lieen confined to the Bouthside anil Danville roads for direct means of oominuniciition wiili the South. He has also used the \Yeldoa railroad Mow Stony ejvck station to a considerable extent, wagoning supplies Irom that station to a favorable point tipon the Southside road, and thence to Petersburg. In order to (gfliltate traus|H>rtation, he had caused tWfcr instructed a branch leading from Stony ^reek station, over the turnpike in a southwesterly direction, to the Southside road. Tins was nearly completed when General Gregg :ilade his recohnoisuoisanee on the :WtU ult., and has now doubtless been fully destroyed by Gen. Warrufi's advance.* Wdpoii is an important point, and eomnisnds tiie seaboard and Roanoke road leading irom Norfolk, and the Gas -

i tiucii is iue social piiase ox me ?onj scriptioa. Yet one hundred thousaui ! youths ure tuus annually torn from their : "homes; by an imperial decree of 1Sj7, j the number was fixed at this high figure. I Previously it was lett to the discretion or caprice ot" the war minister, who raised it. i Substitution, however, ia allowed in the French army. Up to the year lt<55 pri; vate agencies existed, where substitute* could be procured for a stipulated sum; : siuce then, however, thcBe Hgeneie* have i been abolished, and tlio Government has ! entirely monopolized the business, with, the view of creating a domestic fond, j wherewith to encourage enlistment when, i the original term has expired. The price j of a substitute is fixed annually, and rs, ries considerably; yet is at any time ? lurrrn nnm tar a vitiilh fsf illA

Terms i Single Copy Five Cents. Oae IfauiirVd Copies *3 60 Per Auxinm 10 aav Address $2 00 Payment invariably in Advance. A limited imraber of ADVERTISEDICiTB rereived at Twcuty.flve Cents per Line. JOB PRINTING executed neatly and promptly. THE SWISS MOTHER. KY J. K. CaBrXMT.8. Eh" took his rfle from the wall. The earn- his father bore: She ^nve the l?>y his alpea-tock, _ Hie fathi-rs loo* before; Sbe did not let him see her weep* But kissed, his rosy fac e, , Sh- l> !<te Idin boldly hasten forth And take his father's place. She thought but of her country's wtod**, Yet prwssed hira to her heart. Oh! well tu'ght that pn>udm<aher grieve To see her boy depart. A mouth before her husband Joiued Ii;?> brethren of the *i?-u; A week?his life'esa form tliey l?ore

uieir inline tuicuif iu inn lut; nui-u-uivwisp cbas.", alter the problematic marshal's baton, wliicli every French soldier is told he carries in his knapsack. If anything 'could reconcile him to his loi, or soften the horrors of this forcible abstraction from his family, it would tie tliu idea of promotion which characterizes the French army; but even this fails to cheer or to compensate liiui for the serious check which his prospects iu life receive. A cloud has descended thick and dark upon his hopes, upon the delicate little projects ol love au^l matrimony be had formed, aDd at twenty-one he is compelled to abandon himself to a barren, j if not a vicious course of life he detests, ; abandoning the designs he had probably cherished lrom his youth. . I ! . I . i C ^t_ - -