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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.
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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
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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.
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Gen. Scbofield telegraphed to Leavenworth that I
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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?
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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,
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?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 ? "
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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
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