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a-yi.vy. yn X, _lL 1 NEWS FROM THE NGRHft, The Fulton, Capt Wottox, arri1W*At this port v>n Thursday morning, bringing dates to the 11th iust. Purser McHaxtx, has our thanks for his courtesy. The news from Rogecrans' department is good. We give below a synopsis of operations from the New York Herald":? LorisYiLLE, Oct Ofh, 1863. General Cbook, commanding n "brigade oT cavalry twelve miles beyond Franklin, yesterday afternoon >ame np with a portion of Whartok's frebel cavalry. Sharp fighting ensued, the resnlt of which was 125 rebels killed and wounded, 300 taken prisoners >aud four pieces of cannon captured. The rebels are in foil retreat, aud our forces are pursuing. No casualties to the Unionists are repo ted Tin1 telegraph to Chattanoogahas been working since yesterday. The railroads, it is reported, "will be in running order to-morrow to Bridgeport. No rebel prisoners are confined in Louisville except Dick McCasn and thirty of his men. Our Nashville corres]>ondent says that "but three "buildings were burned by the rebels at Shelbyville?the Court House and two other houses. The town was plundered throughout, and some fifteen hundred persons are reported captured, "which is very doubtful. Major Lestor, of the Fourth rebel cavalry, captured Capt. Smith, of General Shebidan's staff, "257 wagons, including lo sutlers' wagons, and 487 men, at Waldron's "Ridge. Five hundred and eighty-seven men were captured at McNfmnville. Guerrillas are report< d on the Louisville road. Fears are entertained that Gallatin or vicinity will die attacked. I Reports prevail in this city of an engagement and a Union success at Lebanon, Ky. "Washington Oct. 10, 1863. Government has received despatches dated Chattanooga, Oetolier 9, and from officers on duty at Rosecrass' headquarters, also official dispatches from Nashville, all containing reports most encouraging for the national cause. The forces under General Mitchell overtook the rebel cavalry on the 6th inst., below Shelbvville, and a battle immediately ensued, resulting in a complete rout of the enemy, who did not stop for th.iir wounded. Over one hundred of the rebels were left dead on the field, and also a large number of wounded. e il /I _ 1 General Mitchell sent a iorce airer ine nying rebels, who fled panic-stricken, that being tlieir only means of escaping the great military cordon established by General Rosecraxs. The railroads torn tip by the raiders have been repaired. Telegraph communication is re-established. The sacking of Shelbyville was as cowardly and disgraceful to the rel>el arms as was that of Lawrence. We had neither forces nor stores there. The inhabitants, many of them secessionists, were robl>ed and had their houses burned. They were without protection. Hence the disgrace to the cowards who made such an nnmilitary assault upon them. Brngg's bombardment of Chattanooga was a complete failure, in so far as any damage what J /l/ifonnoo n* +r? ftnr rrdllnnt ever was uuun iu iud uviv I1V.VU v.. W ..u. troops. A few women and children in the city were frightened, as niieht be expected, and a few dwelling houses were burned. The rebels under General Lee, of Johnston's staff, are said to be concentrating near Columbus, Miss., where the rebel government has extensive iron and other manufactories and strong works of d fence. The Times of the 11th, publishes the following from St. Louis: fit. Louis. Saturday, Oct. 10. The Leavenworth Democrat's special gives the particulars of the attack on Gen. Blunt and his escort below Fort Scott. He was attacked by 300 rebels in Federal uniform, near the encampment of Lieut Pond. His escort broke, and out of 100 men, seventy-eight were killed?all shot through the head, evidently after they were captured. Maj. Curtis, son of Gen. Curtis, was thrown from his horse, and was found with a bullet-hole through his head. He was undoubtedly murdered after l>eing taken prisoner. Lieut. Pond's AAv .1.3 r\ rotvirt limn TT ah * camp WftS UlUl''KHl m/UUl UlU nnuiu uim> a vmi men were killed and tliree wounded. Gen. Blunt escaped, and meeting reinforcements below Fort Scott, took command of them : id started in pursuit of Quantrell. Lieut. Foot, of the Third Missouri was killed Cant. Todd, Quantrell's adjutant, came to Pond's camp, and asked for an e^chii^e of pris- J .oners. He said a number of r?^dg weA wounded, among thein Col. Shelby. A letter from Fort Scott, 6th, says a rebel forc$, burned Certhng*, Mo. that morning. / / i * i Gen. Scbofield telegraphed to Leavenworth that I e i iun.. o iwi ?ivJ. mJ r>^f i i ruin l,Ul/U w OjUW ici^cibj uaurr v^uaunruf v\ufey, Gordon, and Hunter were marching on Fort Scott, and that he ordered Cel. Wier to move all the force he oould raise to Fort Scott Monadnock, the foreign correspondent of the New York Times thus writes about Mason, the rebel Minister, who by the way has packed up his portfolio, and started for Paris to join Sudell : " London, Saturday, Sept 26th, 1863. " Mr. Mason has written a letter to Earl Bussell, informing him that the President of the Confederate States has directed him to withdraw from England. He goes to Paris. The ostensible reason for this withdrawal is the persistence of England in refusing recognition to the Confeder- ; ate Government But France has no more gran- ; ted this recognition than England. Mr. St.idtxl is not ordered to leave France. Quite to the contrary. There is a very striking difference. The Emperor has wished to recognize, and has only been prevented by the refusal of England to join him. j Mr. Davis takes the will for the deed. The Em, peror has been more than civil to Mr. Seidell, while Earl Russell has been much less than civil to 16\Mason. Mr. Slidelin France, from all aceo*KTis as well treated as if he were a recognizeeEnvoy. Mr. Mason, except on his first arrival, has not been able to- get a private interview JMh Earl Russell. Shall I tell you the reasowfor this difference ? There are several. One is the proximity of Canada to the Northern ; 1 States, and the similar proximity ot Mexico to tne Southern. England hopes, to' keep the one ; . ! France has taken possession of the other. Eng- i land is determined to avoid a war with America. For this the Government stopped the Alexandra, : and so stretched the law in doing it that the Court of Exchequer decided against it. By a similar i stretch of law, the Government is stopping the i iron-clads in the Mersey. The Government will do everything that can be done to avoid giving offence to America. It earnestly wishes for peace. ! No one can tell the terror of a war with America, that has seized upon the English (Tovernment and people. It has taken the bluster out of the Times, i It amounts to a panic. It is ludicrous, and more : than ever so, since the report of the effects of the American artillery in the siege of Charleston. It cost England i?ld,000,000 to bring Mason' to England, and now thev are only too happy to see him pack up his trunks at No. 24 Upper Seymour Street, and bike the train for Paris. It is the 200-pouuder Parrptts that have done it It is the fact now evident enough, that there is not an i English ship afloat or an English fortress ashore that can resist such artillery?and the fact, also, that the best gun the English have got is a C8 pounder." The Apparent Pause, says the Boston Trans- , rript, is not to be taken as evidence that military operations we suspended or even retarded. The Government wisely keeps silent, and the Press, 1 in genera], yields to the suggestion of the Government, that intelligence of the movements going on should not be made public. Movements, how- ; ever, g.going on, and the hour is undoubtedly one of preparation, and a preparation too that ' must lead-to very decided results. The localities of the conflict are, in a measure, to be changed? ' * ' ' AO IP WVAKOKIV I as a matter 01 nett'ssiy, n uw, ?.-? ^ ( fact, for the better. The Federal victories have i compelled the rebel leaders to resort to desperate measures and concentrate their forces in front of. j what, may prove their last ditch, if theiij new strategy is promptly injjj. If ever there was a ' time, since the war began, for energy and com- < prehensive generalship, that time has now come. This is the task imposed npon the leaders at 1 Washington and in the field, Ml. ( ?A stranger from the country observing an ordinary roHer-rule on a table, took it up, and on ! < inquiring its use was answered, 41 It is a rule for j counting-houses." Too weH bred, as he construed politeness, to ask unnecessary questions, he turned it over and over, and up and down repeat- < edlv, and at last, in a paroxysm of baffled curiosity, inquired " How in the name of wonder do 1 you count houses with this ? " ^ < A mob, at Jackson, X. H., on Thursday nip lit, ( burned the hotel where the Deputy Provost Marshal was stopping while serving notices on draft- 1 ed men. He narrowly escaped with his life. He started for Portsmouth, to obtain necessary pgsjsttmje. NATIONAL THANKSGIVING. A PROCLAMATION' Bfl^fl^pESTDENT OF THE CVTTED STATES OF AMERICA. The Tear that is drawing towards its close has been fiiled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the Source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the everwatchful providence of Almighty God. In the midst of civil war of unequalled magnitude and severity, which has sometimes seemed to invite and provoke the aggressions of foreign States, peace has been preserved with all nations, order pas been maintained, the laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere, except in the theatre of military conflict, while that tneatre has been greatly contracted by the advancing armies and navies of the Union. The needful diversion of wealth and strength from the fields of peaceful industry to the national defence have not arrested the plow, the shuttle, or the ship. The axe has enlarged the borders of our settlements, and the mines, as well of iron and coal as of the precious metal, have yielded even more abundantly than heretofore. Population has steadily increased, notwithstanding the waste that has been made in the camp, the siege, and the battle-field ; and the country, rejoicing in the consciousness of augmented strength and vigor, is permitted to expect a continuance of years with large increase of freedom. No human counsel hath devised, nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy. It has seemed to me fit and proper that they . should be solemnly, reverently, and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and voice, by the whole American people. I do, therefore, invite my fellow-citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea, and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next as a clay of thanksgiving and prayer to our beneficent Father, who dweUeth in the lieavens. And I recommend to them that, while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverance and blessings, they do also with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience commend to their tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners, or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidab'y engaged, and fervently iujjflorc the interposition of the Amigh IV UttU(l IU Uf{U ILLvJ WUllliUO l/l IUU Uiilivuy nu< i iv restore it, as soon as may be consistent with tlie divine purposes, to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquility, ami union. In testiinoMHfthereof I liave hereunto set my hand and caflR the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the City of "Washingon, this third day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and of the Independence of the United States the eighty-eighth. ABRAHAM LINCOLN',. By the President : William H. Seward, Secretary of State: DEATHS. Private Alex. Monroe, Co. K, 115th Ni Y.. Vols., chronic diarrhoea. Private Jos. Kcenan, Co. B, 97th Pa. chronic diarrhoea. Private W. Farrrtr, Co. B, 3d R. I. Art., chronic diarrhoea. Corporal J. Dye, Co. K, C21 Ohio, chronic diarrhoea. TVivnto f, Thomson. 3d U. S. colored troons jhronic diarrhoea. Corporal E. Cipher, Co. F, 3d X. Y. Art., pneumonia and doubles. Private W. Foules, Co. G,54th Mass.bronchitis.. Privato C. Bergen, Co. F, 107th Ohio, chronic diarrhoea. Corporal G. Danzeglock, Co. H, list Xetv York, dysentery. Private ?T. M. Way, 144th X. Y., cliron. diarrhoea. Private J. Dykcnxnu Co. H, 114th X. Y., dysent y. . Corp. J. E. Olrastead, Co. K, 141th Xew York, dysentery. Private M. Lynch, Co. I, 127th X. Y.. chronic diarrhoea. Private L. If err 41, Co. C, 117th X. Y., chronic diarrhoea. Private G. Bronekner, Co. I. 100th Xew Ycrk chronic diarrhoea. Private B. Tucker Co. E, 89th X. Y., chronic diarrhoea. ^0^% Private H. AfertirCo. I, 103(1 X. Y., chroni. diarrhoea. Private M. Greenfield. Co. F, 97th Pa., chroniv (fitrrrhrrt*.