List of New Advertisements, 
A deserter reported that two brigades of 
Louisiana and Texas troops arc inavchhing from 
Western Louisiana to the Mississippi to operate 
in the vicinity, with the view of temporarily 
blockading the river, and to get arms and am¬ 
munition from the east trans-Mississippi De¬ 
partment. It is said the enemy have already 
succeeded in crossing several thousand stand of 
arms and a large amount of ammunition. 
The steamer Lillie Martin, captured by guer¬ 
rillas, has been taken up the Arkansas River. 
A gunboat will probably be sent up after lier. 
Arkansas.— The inauguration of the officers 
chosen by the State Convention of Arkansas, 
took place on the 22d ult., in the Senate cham¬ 
ber at Little Rock. It was a most solemn and 
imposing affair. After a prayer by the Rev. 
James Butler, the Governor, addressed the as¬ 
semblies in a touching and impressive manner. 
The ceremonies concluded with the administra- 
tration of the oath of office to Gov. Murphy 
and Lieut.-Cov. Bliss and the Secretary of State. 
The scene was most effecting, and many present 
were moved to tears, as the solemn wonts that 
hound the new officers to loyalty to their coun¬ 
try and fealty to the Union, were uttered and 
responded to. 
Missouri.—I n compliance with the orders of 
the War Department, Maj.-Gen. Schofield made 
over to Maj.-Gen. Kosecrans, Jan. 30, his com¬ 
mand of the Department of Missouri. 
Kansas.— Major Kenny, of the staff of Gen. 
Curtis, reports that a skirmish took place be¬ 
tween Opt. Coleman's command and one hun¬ 
dred guerrillas, iu Jackson county. The latter 
are supposed to he a portion of tjuimtroll’s old 
Richmond papers of the 8th state the Confed¬ 
erate capital is threatened by our forces. The. 
following item is from the source referred to: 
•> Richmond is threatened by the enemy. Our 
pickets were driven in on Saturday night at. 
Bottom’s Bridge, twelve miles from Richmond. 
The enemy crossed the York River railroad near 
Dispatch Station. A large force massed at 
Barkdeumisville, moved forward to the AliSe¬ 
ville yesterday afternoon, and was then advanc¬ 
ing. Their force consists of three brigades of 
infantry, four regiments of cavalry, and twelve 
pieees of artillery. The enemy’s demonstration 
is probably intended as a reeonnoissanee pre¬ 
liminary to an important collision. Certainly, 
the enemy has so many in numbers as to pre¬ 
clude the idea of a mere raid.” 
On the 31st ult. an expedition went up James 
River and Fagan Creek to Smith field, to join an 
expedition up the Chuckipach, under Gen. 
Graham, to destroy provisions, supplies, a signal 
station and smuggling depot. The expedition | 
landed at Smithville, consisting of ninety men 
and one howitzer, under Capt, Lee, marched to 
Chuekatuek. When five miles beyond Smith¬ 
ville, they encountered a force of rebels 200 
strong, with two pieees of artillery, and routed 
them, hut receiving false information of a heavy 
force between them and Chuekatuek, returned 
to Smithville, and sent lbr the armed transport 
Smith Briggs, which, owing to a fog, did not 
arrive till half-past twelve. On Monday, the 
enemy, 500 strong, with four pieces of artillery, 
attacked Capt. Lee at daylight in Smithville, 
entrenched. They held out against several 
furious attacks and charges from the enemy, 
until the Smith Briggs arrived. The enemy 
were repulsed in each attack, with heavy loss. 
They sent three flags of truce demanding a sur¬ 
render, all of which Capt. Lee refused. On the 
arrival of the Smith Briggs they retreated on 
board, when the enemy opened a heavy fire of 
artillery upon them. The chief engineer was 
wounded, and the second engineer is missing. 
This prevented the boat from working off, and 
finally a hall struck her boiler and she was dis¬ 
abled. Capt. Leo and a portion of his men 
escaped by swimming across the river. The 
others were captured, among them Capt. A. F. 
Rowe, who was wounded. Our loss in killed 
and wounded was SO. The enemy’s loss in 
killed and wounded was 150 heavier, owing to 
their superior numbers and making the attack. 
Soon after the capture of the Smith Briggs, she 
was blown up with a tremendous explosion. 
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ROCHESTER, X. Y., FEBRUARY 13, 1864, 
The Army in Virgin!?. 
On the 6th inst. a reeonnoissanee in force 
was made by several separate portions of the 
army. Gen. Kilpatricg crossed at Culpepper 
Ford and scoured thu country from Jacob’s 
Ford to near Fredericksburg, finding nothing 
hut cavalry pickets of Hampton’s division, 
nearly all of whom they captured. A detach¬ 
ment of the 2d X. Y. cavalry went up to 
Jacob’s Ford. Gen. Warren crossed the 3d 
division, Davis', of the 2d corps, at Morton's 
Ford, with little or no opposition. In the eve¬ 
ning the 2d division of the same corps crossed 
and attempted to join the 3d in a piece of woods 
at the left of the ford. The rebels then opened 
upon them with musketry from the right of the 
ford, whore they had been concealed in another 
piece of woods. The night was dark and foggy, 
and the firing of each party was directed by the 
flash of the guns of their opponents. During 
the night, after firing had ceased, our men were 
ordered to return across the river, which they 
did without molestation. The loss in killed, 
wounded and missing, 
®I)C News donbcnscr. 
— Gen. Bragg is about to take a command in Missis¬ 
sippi. 
— A State Geological survey of Kansas is contem¬ 
plated. 
— There were 1,952 deaths in Newark, New Jersey, 
last year. 
— Jas. B, Clay, a son of Henry Clay, died in Montreal 
last week. 
— A Colored regiment from Missouri has gone to 
New Orleans. 
— Gen. Geary has been placed in command at Bridge¬ 
port, Alabama. 
— Sixty-eight cities and towns in Massachusetts have 
filled their quotas. 
— Col. Elias Wnmpole, U. 8. Consul at Lagmyyra, 
Yenzuela, is dead. 
_To fold the House documents will cost Unele Sam 
$40,000 for one year. 
— There arc 6,000 new troops in camp at various pla¬ 
ces in Massachusetts. 
— The corner stone of an American Episcopal Church 
has been laid in Paris. 
--There are one hundred and six divisions of Sons 
of Temperance in Maine. 
— John nitz, senior Consul-General of Switzerland, 
died in Washington last week. 
— The rebel journals say that Johnston’s army is in¬ 
creasing at tire rate of 800 a day. 
_The flour and grain irudoof Indianapolis, Indiana, 
is said to amount to $ 1 , 500 , 000 . 
— All the Minnesota regiments, except one, whose 
terms expire i:t Utc spring, have re-enlisted. 
— The public schools in Madison (Tnd.) have been 
closed in consequence of the high price of fuel. 
— It was so warm at Fortress Monroe the latter part 
of last week that salt water bathing was all the rage. 
— There are eleven hundred different religions in the 
No excuse for a man's not having any, surely. 
is reported at between 
100 and 200, but this is not official, and cannot 
be relied on. 
Parties arriving from the front on the 8th, 
state that when our troops pushed across at 
Germania Ford, they found the rebel rifle-pits 
in that immediate vicinity occupied by 225 
pickets, who threw down their arms and sur¬ 
rendered, stating that there was no rebel force 
within ten miles. Immediately thereafter out- 
forces pushed ahead in the direction of Orange 
Court House, but had hardly progressed two 
miles before they were opened upon with twelve 
guns, with an attacking force working and sup¬ 
porting these guns. We drove them from their 
position with considerable loss iu killed, wounded 
and missing, our loss in the affair being thirty- 
five. The mass of our infantry then recrossed 
the Rapid an, leaving a force to hold the rifle- 
pit* first taken until the operations of our cav¬ 
alry that had moved by another road to the 
right, had terminated. Heavy firing is said to 
have been heard yesterday, and it was believed 
about Culpepper that our cavalry was then 
engaged with the enemy it had been seeking. 
By a special to the Baltimore American, from 
Western Virginia, we learn that a guard of one 
company of infantry, posted at Peterson Creek 
Bridge, eight miles cast Ol‘ Cumberland, was 
attacked on the 3d by 500 rebel cavalry under 
Col. Rosser. and after it spirited fight, in which 
two of our men were killed and ten wounded, 
the greater part of the company was captured. 
This accomplished, the rebels set fire to the 
bridge, and leaving it to its own destruction, 
started off with their prisoners. An employee 
of the railroad succeeded in staying the fire, 
and saved the bridge w ith only partial damage. 
Gen. Averill, with bis command, who had 
been sent out from Martinsburg by Gen. Kelly, 
overtook the rebels near Greenfield, and a severe 
engagement ensued. The rebels were driven 
through Springfield, and thence to and south of 
Burlington, Many of the rebels were killed 
and wounded, and our captures are large, in¬ 
cluding the recovery of our own men and many 
horses. 
On the 4th, :t portion of Gen. Sullivan’s forces, 
in attempting to rout the enemy, encountered a 
large force of rebels in Mechanicsburg, near 
Romney, and in the neighborhood of the Gap ft 
fight took place. We eventually succeeded in 
compelling the enemy to hike another road to 
the right and skedaddle. In the engagement 
we took a number of prisoners. In returning, 
the enemy hastened to make a junction with the 
main rebel forces near Moorefield. It is be¬ 
lieved that Geu. Sullivan's and CoL Mulligan’s 
commands have formed a junction, and are now 
pursuing the enemy vigorously. If the enemy 
escapes our forces, he certainly will not be able 
to take away any large portion of his plunder. 
Gov. Boorman received the following from 
Gen. Kelly on the 5th: 
“ I have just received a dispatch from Col. 
Mulligan. Alter six hours hard fighting, he 
has driven Early from Moorefield, and his cav¬ 
alry were pursuing anil wore sharply engaged 
with Rosser on the south fork at the date of the 
dispatch.” 
On Friday of last week three brigades of a 
cavalry corps, about. 1,600 strong, 400 of whom 
were mounted, with no artillery, under com¬ 
mand of Col. Luve, of the 11th Kentucky Regi¬ 
ment, skirmished with the rebels under Gen. 
Jones, on the Virginia road, thirteen miles from 
Cumberland Gap. The skirmishing lasted three, 
hours. We held our position until dark, al¬ 
though we were attacked by superior force, 
when we withdrew to our camps, three miles 
in the rear. 
At sunrise on Saturday morning, Col. Love’s 
pickets were attacked by the rebels, when Col. 
Love moved to the front to meet the enemy. 
The rebels were seen advancing tn line, with 
400 infantry and cavalry and three pieces of 
artillery. Col. Love then fell back three miles, 
skirmishing all the way, when the enemy ceased 
following, and Col. Love encamped three miles 
from the Gap. The next morning Col. Love 
sent all his available forces two miles in front, 
and had a lively skirmish with the rebels, charg¬ 
ing them and driving them hack with heavy 
loss, since which, up to the afternoon of the 5th 
inst., the rebels have not approached in any 
force to our front. Our loss in these skirmishes 
was eight killed, eight wounded, and three 
missing. Capt, T. Xewport, of the 8th Ten¬ 
nessee, is among the killed. The enemy’s loss 
was ten lolled and fifteen to twenty-five 
wounded. 
Department of the South. 
On the 26th ult. Gen. Palmer sent an expe¬ 
dition to capture a force of rebel cavalry in 
Jones and Onslow counties, X. C. They suc¬ 
ceeded in routing the enemy, captured twenty- 
three men, with their horses and equipage, de¬ 
stroyed from 180,000 to 200,000 pounds of salt, 
10,000 pounds tobacco, 32 barrels beef; also, cap¬ 
tured several horses and mules. 
On the 27th ult. Capt. Cady, of the 24th X. Y. 
Battery, proceeded with his command to Tyscll 
county, X. C., where they captured five men, 
who have been guilty of a series of robberies, 
two Confederate officers and a thousand sheep, 
Gen. WIstar recently sent a force out from 
Williamsburg to the 12-mile ordinary, and broke 
up a camp of rebel scouts, capt ured eight horses, 
eight rifles, a quantity of provisions, two pris¬ 
oners, and the horse of a rebel commander, and 
returned with only one man wounded. 
On the morning of the 1 st inst., before the 
break of day, the rebels, consisting of Pickett’s 
from Kinston, X. C., and Hope’s brigade from 
Leo’s army, made an as‘.vilt on the outposts at 
Bachelor': Crock, eight miles from Xewbern,- 
whicb, after a desperate struggle, they carried, 
capturing seventy men and odicers. 
One company of the2dN. C. white volunteers 
of C. H. Foster’s command, with a section of 
AngelPs bat tery, and detachments of other com¬ 
panies, in all about 400 men, are reported to be 
in possession of the Blockhouse, nine miles from 
Newborn, surrounded by the enemy and hold¬ 
ing their ground against vastly superior num¬ 
bers. They will, it is stated, hold out lbr sev¬ 
eral days. A force of our cavalry started out 
this morning for their relief, but were repulsed 
in sight of Fort Totten and driven back. The 
rebels are in sight of the citv, and can be seen 
from Fort Totten by the naked eye maneuver¬ 
ing their troops. Our forces are resting on their 
arms day and night, waiting for the assault on 
world. 
— Some pathologists claim thnt diphtheria has been 
occasioned by the introduction and use of kerosene 
oil. 
— At St. Joseph and Leavenworth City, Missouri, 
duriug the recent cold snap, wood sold at $16 to $20 a 
cord. 
— The New Orleans Picayune acknowledges the re¬ 
ceipt of a potato weighing twenty-six pounds from Mat- 
amorns. 
— A fourth island connected with those known as 
the “ Three Sisters,” above Niagara Falla, has been dis¬ 
covered. 
— The new counterfeit $30 Treasury note may be 
detected by its general bad execution, it is engraved 
on wood. 
— In Wilmington, North Carolina, two weeks ago, 
$300 in gold were purchased for $3,000 in Confederate 
currency. 
— The Attorney-General of Pennsylvania reports that 
bankers and private broker's of that State owe $ 70,000 
for taxes. 
— The Maine Legislature is considering the propriety 
of removing the seat of Government from Augusta to 
Portland. 
— Four iron gunboats are being constructed at St. 
Louis, the Winnebago, Milwaukee, Chickasaw and 
Choctaw. 
— The Jeff. Davis Government has issued only eighty- 
nine patents in the last year. Inventions down South 
are scarce. 
— The lighting of New York city with gas costs an 
nually nearly half a million dollars. 16,000 burners arc 
employed. 
— The ‘‘contingent expenses” of the nouse of Rep¬ 
resentatives for the present fiscal year will amount to 
$110,90119. 
— The distance to Virginia City, in the mining region 
of Idaho Territory, is 1,000 miles from Atchison, 850 
from St. Paul. 
— Before the war there were about seventy-five pa¬ 
pers published on the soil of Mississippi; now there 
are only nine. 
— Southern Illinois cotton is coming into market. 
One hundred and twenty bales were recently sold at SO 
cents a pound. 
— Ohio brings in a bill of $228,886 37 against the 
Government for damages incurred by .Morgan’s raid 
into that State. 
— One hundred and twenty-five tuns of game arrived 
in Chicago on the 11th ult., mostly from points west of 
the Mississippi. 
_The Albany Journal publishes a letter from a sol¬ 
dier iu the Libby Prison which was brought homo In a 
plug of tobacco. 
— The whole number of National Banks now organ¬ 
ized, and with stocks on deposit with the United States 
Treasurer, is 205. 
— One hundred and forty guns, weighing in the ag¬ 
gregate 27,565 pounds, have been landed on Morris 
Island since July. 
— The subject of removing the Slate Capitol from 
Frankfort to Louisville is being agitated by the Ken¬ 
tucky Legislature. 
_Eight hundred and fifty thousand dollars is paid 
per year by the Government for carrying the Oveidand 
mail to California. 
— Moses Kneel and and Harvey Birchard, two of tho 
pioneers of Wisconsin, and the oldest settlers there, 
died on the 22d ult. 
— Very serious losses have been sustained by tho 
holders of the Confederate cotton loan both in Frank¬ 
fort and Amsterdam. 
— A Paris surgeon has made a new tongue to replace 
one lost by cancer. The man who uses it, talks, tastes, 
and swallows perfectly. 
— An American missionary in Turkey writes that 
there will be at least 2,000,000 bales of cotton grown in 
Asia Minor this season. 
Movements in the West and South-West. 
Tennessee. —A Knoxville letter of Jan. 
31, says:— Long-treefs forces which have been 
heavily re-enforced from Virginia and Xorth 
Carolina, are concentrated at Sevierville. Our 
communication with Gen. Parke at Cumberland 
Gap is cut off', but Gen. Parke announces by 
courier that he can Hold the Gap for months. 
At the battle at Tazew ell on Sunday, General 
Wilcox was painfully, though not cry seriously 
wounded. Our forces were repulsed and fell 
back to a good position, since which they have 
not been molested. 
Our loss in the cavalry affair at Fair Gar¬ 
dens was 100. CoL Leslie, of the 4th Indiana, 
was mortally wounded. We took 127 prisoners 
and three guns. Skirmishing is constantly 
going on along our entire lines. 
Longstreet is hourly expecting re-enforce¬ 
ment* from Johnston. 
Gen. Foster is in direct communication with 
Gens. Grant and Thomas. No doubt is ex¬ 
pressed of his ability to carry’ out Gen. Grant’s 
orders. 
The following was received at the headquar¬ 
ters of the army on the 3d: 
NAKHvrt.i.r, Feb- 2. 
Gc-n. Dodge report*, on the 24tb ult., our 
forces under CoL Phillips drove ltocldy to the 
south side of the Tennessee, capturing all his 
trains, consisting of 20 mule teams. 200 head of 
cattle, 600 head of sheep, and about 100 horses 
and mules, and destroyed a factory and mill 
w hich had largely supplied him. 
J. H. Rawlings, Brig.-Gen. 
Private Information from Chattanooga is to 
the effect that several days ago, though there 
was a force at Dalton, the main body of the 
rebel army was at Rome, Ga., under Johnston. 
The latter fact is accounted for on the ground 
cither that the enemy were forced to go to 
Rome for convenience to their supplies, or to 
prevent desertion, between 8,060 and 9,000 men 
having come into our lines since the battle of 
Missionary Ridge. 
There is no such alarm at Chattanooga about 
the safety of our troops in the neighborhood of 
Knoxville as seems to prevail elsewhere, and 
many of the public accounts to that effect are 
characterized as exaggerations. The courier 
line between Chattanooga and Knoxville was 
uninterrupted. 
The steamer Wm. Wallace, with the 21st 
Missouri regiment on board, w’hile passing 
Island No. 71 on the night of the 9th ult., was 
fired upon by guerrillas on the Mississippi shore. 
Nearly 100 shots were fired in teu minutes. 
Thofl. ltyau, Sergeant of Co. D, was killed, and 
two privates wounded, Who have since died, 
and four others were severely wounded. 
The steamer Arago, lying in Old River, was 
fired into on the 27th ult. Three hundred shots 
struck her, but no one was hurt. 
The World’s Memphis letter fully confirms 
previous reports as to Gen. Sherman’s move¬ 
ment toward Jackson, Mkalian tun! Montgomery 
or Mobile. The cavalry force attached thereto 
under Gen. W. L. Smith and Grierson is large. 
Negro troops from Port Hudson, under Gen. 
Ullraan, are to join the expedition. The cor¬ 
respondent. say s there arc bouts on the Tom* 
bigbse River which may be made available, and 
believes -Mobile to be the real object of the 
movement. 
Mississippi. —Natchez advices of the 28th 
ult., say that there are 600 rebels six miles from 
that place, threatening an attack. 
NEWS PARAGRAPHS. 
A dispatch from AVash iugton gives currency 
to a report that the Secretary of War proposes 
to issue an order to raise cavalry and infantry 
regiments to 2,400 each by consolidation. 
Tn i'.kk is a family at Medway, Mass., consist¬ 
ing of 11 members, into which death has never 
entered. The father is 98 years old, the mother 
89, one child 65, another 43, and their united 
ages are 676 years. 
The rebel Gov. Smith, of Yirgina, has made 
a call for 6,000 male slaves, to work on batteries, 
to be drawn from fifty counties. The call for 
this force has been made by Jeff. Davis under a 
resolution of the rebel Congress. 
Beauregard is working like a beaver, with 
two thousand slaves, upon tho new defcncss In 
the rear of Charleston, anticipating that the com¬ 
ing summer will not pass without a heavy attack 
being made upon the city in that direction. 
A Washington correspondent writes ol' the 
employment of women as clerks:—A large num¬ 
ber of clerks in the different departments here 
arc women. They make the very best kind of 
clerks,—being always prompt and faithful in 
their attendance to their duties. 
A dispa tch to the Cincinnati Commercial 
states that 8,000 deserters have been received 
within the lines of the Army of the Cumber¬ 
land since Gen. Thomas took command, and the 
writer of a letter from Knoxville to the same 
paper says that he has already administered the 
oath to 1,239. 
Harry Webster, the principal Chief of the 
Onondaga tribe of Indians for many years, died 
at Onondaga Castle, on Friday week, aged 75 
years. Webster served in the war of 1812, and 
took part in the battle of Chippewa. He was 
a strong advocate of temperance among his 
people; respected by the whites who were 
acquainted with him for his truthfulness and ster¬ 
ling integrity; and loved and venerated by bis 
own people for his kindness of heart and wisdom 
in the councils of the nation. 
The Washington republican, in a leader 
headed “Suggestions Concerning the Further 
Prosecution of the War,” advocates a vigorous 
effort to overthrow the rebel Army hi Virginia 
as of prime importance, and advocates a Cam¬ 
paign up the James River, believing that the 
ocupalion of the south bank of the James River 
would place at our mercy the Petersburg railroad, 
and even the railroad from Richmond to Dan 
ville, and cause the evacuation of Richmond. 
Department of the Gulf. 
Gen. Banks issued from headquarters, 
New Orleaus, the following order concerning 
abandoned plantations: 
All plantations not in process of cultivation 
Feb. 1st, unless excepted from operation of this 
order for special reasons, will be considered 
abandoned, and the estates to be rented by Gov¬ 
ernment, to such persons as will undertake their 
proper cultivation. 
There is nothing of importance transpiring in 
Louisiana. 
