don will resign, and be followed by Messrs.
Benjamin and Mallory, etc.

The following dispatch was received by the President yesterday:

"TUPELO, MISS., January 17th, 1865.--Roddy's brigade (cav.) is useless
as at present located by the War Department. I desire authority to
dispose of it to the best advantage, according to circumstances.--G. T.
BEAUREGARD, _General_."

The President sends it to the Secretary of War with this indorsement:
"On each occasion, when this officer has been sent with his command to
distant service, serious calamity to Alabama has followed. It is
desirable to know what disposition Gen. Beauregard proposes to make of
this force.--J. D."

We have nothing further from Wilmington. Bad enough.

Sherman is said to be marching on Charleston. Bad enough, too!

Our papers have glowing accounts of the good treatment the citizens of
Savannah received from the enemy.

Mr. Foote has arrived in the city--and it is said he will take his seat
in Congress to-day.

Gen. Whiting and Col. Lamb were taken at Fort Fisher--both wounded, it
is said--and 1000 of the garrison.

Mr. Peck paid back to the clerks to-day the unexpended balance of their
contributions for supplies, etc. The money is not worth half its value
some months ago. But Mr. P. secured ten barrels of flour for himself and
as many more for the Assistant Secretary, Mr. Kean, etc. etc.

One o'clock P.M. The day has grown dark and cold, indicating snow, and
a dismal gloom rests upon the faces of the increasing party of croakers.
We have famine, owing to the incapacity of the government, and the
rapacity of speculators. Wood, however, is coming in, but it is only for
_military_ officers, etc. No one can live on wood. Gold is $70 for $1,
and meal about $100 per bushel.

The House of Representatives (in secret session) has passed the Senate
joint resolution creating the office of commander-in-chief (for Gen.
Lee), and recommending that Gen. Johnston be reinstated, etc. It passed
by a vote of 62 to 14.

What will result from this? Is it not a condemnation of the President
and the administration that displaced Gen. J., etc.? Who will resign?
_Nous verrons!_

JANUARY 20TH.--Clear and cold. No news--that is bad news. Nothing has
transpired officially of the events and details near Wilmington, but
there is a rumor, exaggerated perhaps, of the fall of Wilmington itself.
No doubt Sherman is marching on Charleston, and if there be no battle
soon, it i