The Tri-Weekly Journal, 1865-01-10

j. C'/tiOAtcfesayB.the commandant cf tlie petit received , orders Inst night to contfnne tlia suspension of jfeeJ j ovt-r the South Carolina Railroad for another wwkT? i. Many a one went away firm the depot disappointed, j this-nioruing. A fter going to the depot on' Bt<ch ai | rainy, disagreeable, morning, it was really, too j^ad to' , have to. turn round and go home again.. It iss^jd the embargo will bo removed next Friday. I.-oBt week it was said it would be removed yesterday. ; The Yankee papaia -qre having a great .contrive;sy.. amongst tliera as to.who is to blame lor the recei^rdLs-' graceful failure of the Butler Porter expedition.* The j The Herald, Times and Philadelphia Inquirer attempt to make old Butler Uie-scapegoat; but, the 1fibune takes up for Butlf.r manfully, and throws the jblame of the failure upoD the nary. It-matters little ^to us" how this question is settled, but -fro hope the qnarreb . may be loDg and heated. Onr people know that, under Prqyidence",'"<Ke"successful repulse oP'tbe fctdd' armada was^due'to the drill of our. "generals; a^f;'tlie splendid wiini^e o^ottr fesopp," " { -? ? ? '/ * ' ' Gex. Sherman's Qi^ee and- Scouts.?Gen. Serb- X K . , - ' 3J man's guide, says a Yankee newspaper is an j)lq/nan, a native Georgian;-and a .wealthy slaveholder. 'MTien j .the war broke out lie denounced thn Southern lftriefsi--, j m-i'l In toii.;i!>|'igna? aPliid L.Tnifin nnnlimonla n-nBCOO j pelled to lrnve his home near Macon, between two I days. His neighbors- missed him, and, suspecting i rightly that he had'gone to Join the Yankees, they I followed him eToselv that l.c was obliged to hitfeln the

.glad ^boqts, ringing loimer. anu jouucr iu uie night Jiir, "greet our ear. They come-from ;flie hearts of our own gallant sons,. led by a South Carolinian, who has, with his sword, engraven - " his name upon the. tablets of fatn?; they^com'e'' from.the veterans of a hundred field, now; for ^ . -.the first time, in a terribio war of - nearly,' four ^--^^'ear?. cn tha .V soil oftheTrown beloved State. 'The record they have won in other States presages what they will do in the defence of their mother.? We bid them; and wc know witlfus the entire . v State will bid tbem, welcome liome.?"Coinin'Jr'. bia Guardian. ' > v. Rebel Raid Frustrated.?Wabhin6toi:, December, 21.-^Tbe Navy J)epartm.4ntr has rc'f, ' ceived a communicated in from Commander. Parker, commanding the Potomac flotilla, in which ne says that learning from the Provgst Marshal of Baltimore that the enemy were massing boats on Coon river for the purpe^oj^ V"r making a raid on the bey, I sent tbe^<^^ir?

a farmer, wnen at tbe market, a dinner and a bottle of wine, if he would bring biin a grain -of wheat on the followiug market day, and double the guantity each week until that day twelve month. This was acceded to for the moment: but the follomng statement will perhaps, satisfy those who have never entered into similar calculations of the impossibility of fulfilling such an agreement :?-Amount of the number of grains, 4,503,500,627,370,495; nuumber of bushels, 12.509,998,864; number of quarters, 1,563,749,870,; numbers of loads, 612,749,974. ;. . - "I say, Jim, I want to gib you a sort oh cunnundrum." "^Tah ! wahl Sam, fotch 'em on." "What am datyou can do only once as [ong as you lib !. "Why, nicger, dat am to kill myself wid ealin' pcssunHht, ob courso." "G'away, cbile!?it am disr you jist -cotch a pig, and cut he tail off, smack, sraoove'np " i / ' * i

de Lion and Mercury tlntner on vk. Btant, undei.coramatid of Acting "*orrris. Tbey found thirty-op^lar,^ boats and two cows, all of wbidK?ere captured. Tba ^ Home Guards iniforce. made a show of lesiatftnce, bu^^crc jgtfickly driven off. his mendacious Madame has . tfflTfsuaUj^fcoayTn killing off our promt promt, - , promt, . ? Dent men, within the last few weeks. She has killed President Davis, because- be bad a slight attack of neuralgia in the face; $be had Eorrcst assassinated, Gen. Price killed from apoplexy, aod now we,, suppasc because'they - won't stay dead, she makes Gen. S. D. Lee kill *' Gen. Hood by a telegraphic dispatch to Gen. Beauregard, which is-just as false as all-the others. Won't somebody' be kirfd enough to find out where she lives, aad either Jcfll lier "or cat her tongue out" T* TT T*r- 4. V.. ?_. 4K..4

0 ?r x 4 . ' - w rapidly, fifty pieces of artillery and several ord.nance wagons were lo9t by us on "that day ? Onr-IosS in-killed and wounded heretofore has ' been small, and that in prisoners not ascertained Major "General Ed. Johnson and brigadier Gengrals- S..L, B. Smith and II. K.' Jackson, are among the 6apttired. ? LA TBg&JJUR OPE A N EE WS. Richmond, January 6.?European advices of the 25th-say that the Popo of *Romo, in response to the Confederate nmuifesto, .applauds the patriotic sentiments expressed therein, and. deplores the further continuance of the bloody struggle. He will not fail, ho says, to avail himself of a favorable opportunity to- urgepeace. ' Cotton firmer in Liverpool, at an advance of 1 -2d. S . 11 * MoLTri??fCATION OF A GBAIN OB VHEAT. ?A gentleman of Henley-on-Thames offered

tkom xiuujj.? ucuoyujv ly yy uuc umi. the enemy had received a heavy chec!T~'hear the Tetmessee.river, and that two entire brigades fere takon from him; aiso that Forrest hat captured an immense wagon train, with many -more prisoners. ; It is again said that Forrest has bean made a Lieutenant -General; but we-doubt it. Who ever heard of a Lieutenant .General who waenot a West Pointer.? Rich. Examiner, ' 1 CojJ. JXoflBT.?Wo are highly gratified to fearo,. says the Republican, from and authentic - ' " source, that CoL Mosby is rapidly recovering L- ' < from his wound^qand in a short time m F the saddle Qgufti;?Rick. GeV'V'%^ WL'^u Ie the moon l^a^^Jfidthritt.-? Hy When it declines from tj^^ffcss.of- its prop? ^H^L^^JJcrityandgets reduced to the last quartefr.