BY OVERLAND TELEGRAPH.*[Special dispatches to duly vedette.]km idnSherman’s Advance on Hobile—OtherInteresting News.Washington, Feb. 23.Richmond papers of the 20 th have the following official dispatches of tiic 18th, to the War Dapartment, announcing* Sbqi man’s arrival at Quit-the Ohio and Mobile load,But ho won’t bemanionwithout opposition.allowed to take Mobile without a desperate battle. Ilfs advance was, without comparison, the boldest movementof the war. He has from twenty-five to thirty thousand men. lie tears upJjintoln desirable, it was practicallyimpossible against the union of influences which would oppose him, thatshould lie bo re-elected his manifest tendency towards compiorniscs and teinpoiaiy expedients policy would become stronger during a second teim and the cause of human liberty, dignity and iionofof the nation would suffer piopoitioually that patronageGovernmentthroughnecessities ofrailroads andbridgesa^ he m'ovcsalong’.lie evidently meditates noshm backward.-iv- • Vmmr T-Vh 10 luuiuig Ulti JfiAL iuui yuura wuii ibl ALUUlljl,, J. I.U. i,/. ., . .ti * j. i -.I- +u„ f,t combined m any other available canFanagut lias not renewed the at- f .-f-i fL- ,, „ ttt i- . didate. that discussion of the nresithe war had been so rapidly inci eased and to such an enormous extent and so loosely placed as to rondeii the application of the one term system absolutely essential to the safety of Be. publican institutions, that wc find united in Salmon H. Chase more of the qualities needed in a Piesidcnt duiing the next four j^ears than istack on Grant’s Pass, in the sound, the weather bad for action.Itis fleet lies didflt0’being toopresidential question as already commencedKo landing yet ic- b-v f01,ds of Mr* Lincoln, developedported in tho direction of Pascaroola. popularity and strength in Mr. ChaseMaior-Gon. Scammon and staff a.- nnoxpoctcd by Ins warmest admires,for these other reasons friends of Mr,Iod-ed i,K Libby-Prisbn. Pifty-cight'Cllasc detcimined on measures whichescaped Yankee officers l.avo been re-1 slw Prescnt his daims fail'y bcfol'e1 ' jl'—------l—- a m—-l. . t f\ —rived at Bichmond, and have beenJturned to Libby Prison._ -f y k ^ , *the country.A Cential OrganizationTim Entire oi: the l'Ml'lm tho has bc“ c“octcd whidl alrcaay ba8Meii- ccmilccd°u in all the States, the ob-jeet of which is to enable his friendseverywhere to most effectually pio-foiloyvhig : Mobilcf the 15th:—lt;lan was evacuated yesterday— rgovernment propci ty was saved. ■**• Foiest was at Oxfoid on tlie 9th ;ho was confronting a column of infan-mote his elevation to the PresidencyT+Tiger Cat.—A letter from St. xYu-tiy six thousand stiong, fiom Memphis gusttnc, Fla.via Hernando, and twelve regiments since ai ^ ^ 'L'* ■ ■ of cavalry via CoUiersvillc,*saysfor/ nightshcrman’swciemaicliingforces, -5,000 strong^in close oider, with Lee’s cavalry hairassing the 13auks and picking up sttagglers.Pa sc ago i11.1, Feb. 15 th.The enemy’s fleet, including flagship, lias one eastward through the bound in the direction of Grant’s Pass.Four moregunboats have “ just appeared, steeling the same couise.■N- HflkMobile, Feb. IGtb.Gov. Watts thismorning issued aProclamation to the citizens of Mobile, stating the city was about to be attacked and exhorting non-combatants to leave.K.Interesting General News.Foetkess Monroe, Feb. 23d.Dispatches announce the ai rival of six more escaped prisoners, making fifty who aie safe. -- Richmond papeis say forty-eight have been lccaptuicd, leaviugipleven still out.Chicago, 23d.The only^slave States represented in the National Committee Meeting in Washington yesterday, weie Delaware and Maiylaud ; vacancy from California filled by Cornelius’Cole.lt;83Louisville. 23dThe border State Emancipation Concut on was very large]}’’attended fiomvMissoinq(':Aikansas, Tennessee and Kentucky; between two and three hundred delegates werepicsent. Nothing done-yesterday except appointment of Committees, resolutions and peima-nent organization. Uuring afternoonsession, V’clrcular letter signed, S. C,Pomeroy, Chairman, National Executive Committee,-was distributed. amonglaigc sized tiger-cat walked into a teuton one of oiu picket posts and comfoitnbly ensconced himself between two of the men who were lying down. The men thought it was a dog at first, but soon discovcicd the lealchaiaeter of the animal, and “vamoosed the ranch ” in double quick time. A dose of Minnie pills was administered to his highness, which had a very quieting influence. 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