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THE GENESEE FARMER. 



IJrniH Stem 



Galveston, Texas, is in possession of Federal troops. 



Thk rebels are said lo be in large force near Memphis, Ten- 

 nessee. 



The rebels are in possession ot the Tennessee shore, opposite 

 Island No. 10. 



Goi.n is selling |in Richmond at $1.60@$1.7S, and silver at 

 $1.25@$1.30 per cent. 



A colorei> man was murdered in this ciiy last Friday night. 

 His body was thrown into the river. 



Our public debt, on the 1st of October, was $620,000,000. This 

 is much less than had been supposed. 



Stuart's dash into Pennsylvania seems to have been only to 

 procure clothes and horses, in which they were perfectly suc- 

 cessful. 



The rebels are arming the negroes. It is said S,000 blacks, 

 officered by wbitn men, have been sent to garrison fortifica- 

 tions, &c. 



Gov. Morton, of Indiana,"has ordered that 40 per cent, of the 

 Quakers of the State be assessed for enrolment, and ihose drafted 

 are to go or pay $200. 



Government has offered to b:iy the rebel privateer Alabama, 

 from any party capturing the vessel, for $500,000, and in the event 

 of its destruction, $8(10,000. 



The British steamer Lloyd ran the blockade at Charleston, and 

 arrived at Liverpool on the 30lh of September, with a cargo of 

 1,755 bales of cotton. 



The population of the Sandwich Islands has dwindled to 

 67,000, from 150,000 in 1S23. Disease is carrying off the inhabi- 

 tants by the thousand. 



Of the twenty-five thousand operatives dependent, directly or 

 indirectly, on the cotton trade in Glasgow, five thousand are 

 wholly unemployed, while nine thousand are working short time. 



The indications now are (October 2S), that our army and navy 

 Will no< long remain inactive, and we are told that the prepara- 

 tions *ejsuch as to insure the speedy suppression of the rebellion. 



Since the commencement of the war we have captured seven 

 gunboats from the rebels, mostly in the West. All of them have 

 been transferred to our Navy, but they still retain their original 

 names. 



Tns One Hundred and Eighth Regiment, which left this city 

 two months ago one thousand strong, can now only muster, it is 

 said, four hundred effective men. They have seen hard fighting 

 for raw recruits. 



The telegraphic communication now in course of construction 

 by Mr. Renter, through Russia, Siberia and Mongolia, to con- 

 nect Pekin with St. Petersburg and London, is expected to be 

 completed in six months. 



The spirit ration in the Navy having been npollshed, the Gov- 

 ernment will sell at auction, at the different naval stations, about 

 three thousand barrels of whisky on Us arrival from different 

 vessels and naval depots. 



A Protestant chapel has been inaugurated at Chalons for the 

 French soldiers in camp there belonging to the reformed faith, 

 who number about five hundred. Thero is accommodation in 

 the chapel for six hundred worshippers. 



The betrothal of the Prince of Wales to the Princess Alexan- 

 dra of Denmark took place on the 0th of September, at the 

 Palace of Laeken. This is said to be an affair of the heart, and 

 in no way connected with political considerations. 



It is said that most of the cotton manufacturers in Great 

 Britain would have been ruined if the war had not stopped the 

 supply of cotton, and so enabled them to sell off their old stock, 

 which was much greater than the ordinary demand. 



The wife of Livingstone, the Missionary Explorer, died April 

 27th. She had joined her husband on the Lambsi river, and was 

 with him three months. She was attacked by fever and had be- 

 come convalescent, but suffered a relapse which proved latal. 



A gun called the " Hersfall Gun," which is made of wrought 

 iron and capable of throwing a 800-pound spherial shot, was 

 tried lately in England with great success. It pierced the target, 

 which was made ol iron-plate and timber, through and through. 



A shoe dealer in Albany was last week victimized by a man 

 who purchased a pair of boots for four dollars, and tendered 

 therefor a two dollar Treasury note, altered to a fifty, and the 

 rogue walked off with forty -six dollars in good money, and the 

 boots. 



Our forces have been entirely successful in North Western 

 Arkansas. A battle took ptaee October 22d. The enemy, seven 

 thousand strong, was encamped on tbe old battle-field of Pea 

 Ridge. They were entirely routed, with the loss of ail their artil- 

 lery. The loss on our side was small. 



In the British House of Lords, Lord Shaftkssurt has ex- 

 pressed his belief that "there is more cotton lying idle in India 

 than would keep going all the mills in Lancashire." He added 

 that, according to his information, the quantity of this precious 

 article ready for market is about six million bales. 



An officer who has visited every plantation on both sides of 

 the Mississippi for two hundred miles, informs us that he lound 

 but one Union family, and he brought them North. He also 

 said that the rebels have corn enough within their lines in the 

 Mississippi Valley to feed their entire population tor a year, if 

 economically used ; but, he added, usually one-halt is wasted. 



The losses of our forces at the Battle of Iuka, where Rose- 

 crans defeated Prick, were 786 killed, wounded and missing. 

 The rebel dead left on the field, wounded left in hospital, and the 

 prisoners, numbered 1,488. Besides considerable quantities of 

 quartermaster's and commissary stores, we captured from the 

 rebels 1,629 stand of small arms and 18,000 rounds of ammuni- 

 ion. 



We have at present nearly four hundred vessels in the Navy, 

 either actually in service or nearly ready for use. Among these 

 are fifty-two iron-cladjs, thirty -eight of which are yet unfinished, 

 but will be completed in the course of the winter. Two Of them 

 are of unusual dimensions — the Dictator and the DiiMerberg — 

 the former being 3,088 tons burthen and the latter 1,000. There 

 are 249 vessels in active service at the present time. 



An officer in Gen. Grant's army informs us that one of the 

 Federal soldiers, the night before the commencement of the 

 tight at Corinth, went to Gen. Prick's camp and offered to show 

 the rebel General where our army was defenceless. He deceived 

 the General, and brought a detachment to the place he had des- 

 ignated. Then returning within our lines, he informed tbe 

 propel officers where the rebels would make the attack the next 

 morning, and when they arrived they were welcomed by two 

 batteries which had been erected in the mean time. 



Since our last issuo several very important events have oc- 

 curred. Our victory at Corinth is acknowledged by the rebels to 

 be one of the most complete and decisive of the war. Thero 

 were but 14,000 of our troops and 45,000 of theirs engaged. In 

 Kentucky and Tennessee we have also been successful. The 

 Battle of Perryville, Ky., was so disastrous to the Southern canso 

 that Gen. Bragg has been obliged to retire through Cumberland 

 Gap. The Richmond Whig of the 20th says that the Kentucky 

 movement in the hands of Bragg has turned out to bo simply a 

 fizzle. It has been from beginning to end a brilliant blunder and 

 a magnificent failure. 



