Stories About Peace

Washington, Jan. 16. Ex-Gov. Jacobs, of Kentuoky, who retarned with MrBlair, roports a strong peaca feeling among the ctiz3nsof Riohmond, nud even among officers of high grade. He predicts thera will be a eeseation of hostilities within two months and a proposul for peace from tho rabel govermnout. Thia is iu contradictioa of ths bdications shown in thü íacts reported by an oflicer frota North Carolina, who saya the rebels have already three regiments of froed slaves in thf field. Tbe l'imes1 Washington special aya it is roported at headquurt.ers oí' tho Army of the Potoraac, that Gon. Le. has sent nis family out of Eichmond. aad that noihiug bm peaoe is talked of in that city. New York, Jan. 16. Peaco rumora continue to excito attention. The T ibune says that Gen. Siugleton went to Washington direct from Clay and Thompson in Canada, and his inisíion has for its purpose simply to ascortftin upon whnt terma Jeff. Davis would make peace. He expeets to bring back independenoo of the Confedérate States as the prinoipal poiat iu the oouforonoe of peace. The Times has two editorials on peace rumora, in which it thinks thcre can be no peaco except that gained frota a completo defest of the rebels. Brig Gen, Fuller, of the 17th rmy corps, arrived here to-day frora Louis ville. He leaves on the Arago to-morrow for Sayannah. jL3L" The Augusta Ckronicle snys Mobile is atroDgly foitifiaJ, eixty million doÜHrs having beea expended tí) í makt it irrpregnuble.