The Washington Chronicle of Sunday, received yesterday afternoon, contains the following official bulletin:
Dispatches have been received to-day from General Foster, who had a personal interview on the morning of Wednesday, the 14th instant, with General Sherman, at For which had been taken by assault on the preceding day. Savannah was closely designed, and its capture, with the rebel forces there, was confidently expected. It was to be summoned in two days, and if not surrendered. Sherman would open his batteries upon it. General Foster reports that Sherman's army "is in splendid condition, having lived on its march on the turkeys, chickens, sweet potatoes, and other good things of the richest part of Georgia." The march was feebly resisted.
Nothing has been heard from General Thomas today. Unofficial dispatches state that the provost- marshal at Nashville reports five thousand prisoners and forty-nine pieces of artillery as being already secured.
It is ascertained that, in transmitting General Thomas's report last night, a telegraphic mistake was made at Louisville or Nashville in the estimated number of our casualties.
The dispatch, written by General Thomas, stated that his whole loss would not exceed three thousand, and very few were killed.
A dispatch from Lexington, this evening, states that, on the 13th instant, at Kingsport, Tennessee, General Burbridge had a fight with Basil Duke's brigade, formerly John Morgan's, and routed it, with a loss to the enemy of one hundred and fifty killed, wounded and prisoners, and their train.--Dick Morgan, brother of John, was captured.
The St. Albans raiders--General Dix's order revoked.
General Dix has issued the following:
Headquarters Department of the East, New York City, December 17, 1864.
General Orders, No. 100.
The President of the United States having disapproved of that portion of Department General Order, No. 97, current series, which instructs all military commanders on the frontier, in certain cases therein specified, to cross the boundary line between the United States and Canada, and directs pursuit into neutral territory, the said instruction is hereby revoked.
In case, therefore, of any future marauding expeditions into our territory from Canada, military commanders of the frontier will report to these headquarters for orders before crossing the boundary line in pursuit of the guilty parties.
A Montreal telegram, dated the 17th, says:
‘ Porterfield, the agent of the Confederate Government, and now custodian of the money taken by the St. Albans raiders, is to be examined, and it is probable the money taken by the raiders will be given up to the proper authorities.
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