eral times charged the rebels. The firing was 
sharp and very destructive to our men. The 
rebels were diiven from the field at sundown, and 
retreated on the Greenville road. Burnside is 
pursuing, and everything looks encouraging, 
We lost 60 killed and wounded--the latter have 
been sent to Knoxville. 
Kentucky.— The Louisville Journal has a 
special from Knoxville, which is considered 
entirely reliable, that Gen. Burnside holds the 
country south from Knoxville to Calhoun and 
Hiawasse River, and the Western and Atlantio 
Railroad, and only 25 mileB distant from King¬ 
ston, the junction of the Western and Atlantic 
and Rome Railroads, and east of Knoxville as main 
far as Greenville on the East Tennessee and from the left to the right of our front, pursuing 
Virginia Railroad, He also possesses all the an obscure route near the Blue Ridge, intending 
passes into North Carolina. IIis right is in to make an attack on our rear right bo as to cut 
communication with Gen. Rosecrans, and his off our railroad communication, 
position is all that could be desired. His army Measures are being taken to give him a warm 
is in the best of health and spirits. reception in that quarter. But should it be a 
Major Wileman, of the 18th Kentucky regiment, ruse to attack our front we shall be prepared, as 
wounded at the battle of Cbickamatiga, lately the ground has beeu cleared of everything calcu- 
returned borne, was taken from his houge in lated to embarrass a general and vigorous battle. 
Pendleton county, on the 6th, by a gang of guer- The advance of Gen. Hill's corps commenced 
rillas, stripped of his clothing, tied to a tree and moviDg from Madison Court House on the 8th. 
shot, Five of the murderers have been caught It is positively stated that the rebel cavalry were 
Mississippi.—A dispatch to the St Louis on tbe Springrille and Culpepper pike on the 
Democrat from Vicksburg of a recent date, says f° ren00n °f lbe !ttb - 
Joe Johnson is at Canton, Miss., with 15,000 men. 11 geemE to ,>e 1116 £ eneral impression at Wash- 
Ilis supposed deeign is to prevent re-enforce*- that Lee’s whole army is on the move, but 
ments going to RoBecrane. Gen. Stephen D. Lee mucb uncertainty exists as to its object Some 
had 1,000 rebel cavalry near Vicksburg. surmise that Lee is about to send a heavy re- 
Cairo dates of the 12th say arrivals from Mow enforcement to Bragg, and retreat to Richmond 
represent that the rebels had burned the bridge wjlb lhe ba,ance of bis arm y> while others are 
(vest of Corinth, and that fighting occurred on the suspicious that the movement is a blinder for 
fth near Salem, between 4.000 rebels and r , non Gen. Meade’s benefit 
River, when they were met by a large body of 
Stuart’s cavalry. Fighting ensued, continuing 
one hour, when our troops fell back on tbe 
infantry reserves. After another severd contest 
the infantry were compelled to give way, and a 
considerable number were captured. A detach¬ 
ment of our cavalry then dashed on the enemy, 
re-capturing all but fifteen or twenty of our men. 
Our entire force was then pursued back toward 
Culpepper, skirmishing on the way and contest¬ 
ing every loot of ground. 
Our signal station on Thoroughfare Mountain 
was nearly cut off, but the enlire party escaped. 
It appears to be generally believed that the 
body of Gen. A. P. Hill’s corps has passed 
strength. The enemy was felt and proved him¬ 
self much too strong for the force sent against 
him. A serious engagement ensued, resulting in 
a loss to our army of several hundred killed, 
wounded and prisoners. This took place on 
Tuesday, tbe 2brh ult. Since then tbe rebels 
forces have assumed the offensive, and are press¬ 
ing Dana’s men with such vigor that the gunboats 
have been called in to aid in repulsing the enemy. 
Reinforcements are Badly needed here and until 
they are received tbe people of the North need 
not expect to hear of any thing being done in 
this department beyond the mere holding of the 
same. 
The Chicago Journal of the 7th has informa¬ 
tion from passengers just from New Orleans to 
tbe effect that Franklin's corps had repulsed an 
attack from the rebels at Brashear City, and that 
Ord’s 13th army corps shortly afterward came 
®l)£ Ncms (Honbmser 
The King of Holland edits a magazine. 
A pair of boots costs $175 in Richmond. 
In Shanghai 500 die daily of the cholera. 
They pay $200 for a Sioux scalp in Minnesota. 
Some of the Green Mountains 
Flijto out the old banner, let fold after fold, 
Enshrine a new glory at each l* unfurled; 
bet it speak to our hearts still aa sweet as of old. 
The herald of Freedom all over tbe world. 
Let it float out In triumph, let it wave over head, 
The noble old ensign, it* stripes and it* stars; 
It gave ns our freedom, o’ershadows our dead, 
Gave might to our hrroes, made eacred their scars. 
Let it wave in the sunbeam, unfurl in the storm, 
Our guardian at morning, our beaoon at night, 
When peace shines lo splendor athwart her bright form, 
Or war’s bloody hand holds the standard of might. 
Unfurl the old banner, Its traitors crush down, 
Let it still be the banner that covers the brave, 
Tbe star spangled banner, with glory we own, 
Tis too noble a banner for tyrant and slave. 
are whitened with 
snow. 
— Ladies’ gaiter shoes are selling in Richmond for $75 
a pair. 
— Kossuth lives near Turin, poor and wan, and his wife 
in consumption. 
— Yellow fever prevails at Pensacola. 
New Orleans is good. 
— Dempster is concertizing in New York, 
fresh and sweet as ever. 
— The Russian Admiral has accepted the invitation to 
visit Boston with his fleet. 
— The customs dues in New York for September were 
over seven million dollars. 
About 15,000 East Tennesseeans have been organized 
and armed for home defence. 
— Mrs. Forrest has just recovered a verdict against her 
former liege lord of $45,209 68. 
— Ceo. Peabody has presented Yale College with a ge¬ 
ological cabinet worth $125,000. 
— The Michigan State Fair realized over $10,000, a 
much larger sum than ever before. 
— A man was burned to death last week in New York 
by carrying matches in his pocket 
Wisconsin raises thirty, eats ten, and spares twenty 
million bushels of wheat this year. 
A peace resolution has been unanimously rejected 
in the Richmond House of Delegates. 
— Twenty two divorce ca«es were decreed by the Su¬ 
preme Court of Rhode Island recently. 
— Mr. George Sumner, whose illness has already been 
announced, died In Boston Tuesday week. 
— The sugar and corn crops of Cuba promise to yield 
but little this year. Cause—want of rain. 
— The income paid the Government from the Pennsyl¬ 
vania oil wells reaches $5,000,000 per year. 
— The celebrated horse, “ Ike Cook, 
The health of 
His voice is 
AFFAIRS IN WASHINGTON. 
ROCHESTER, N., Y., OCTOBER 17, 1863. 
to this regulation. A correspondent remarks 
that the non-excbaDge of surgeons, usually re¬ 
garded as non-combatants, arises from the deten¬ 
tion of one named Dr. Ruckers by the rebels, 
who profess to have charges against him. Our 
Government thereupon held the rebel surgeons 
as hostages. The rebels then kept our sur¬ 
geons as fast as captured, and their surgeons 
aie now constantly held by our Government 
There are now about twenty-five of our surgeons 
in rebel hands, and we have a still larger num¬ 
ber of theirs in our hands. 
The PrOYOBt Marshal General has recently 
seized the merchandise and persons of sutlers 
for infractions of the regulations concerning 
trade In the lines, and for attempting to bribe the 
subordinate provost agents. The latter offence 
Department of the South. 
A recent Newbern letter to the Herald 
says: — A few days since Col. Schaffer, of the 
85th N. Y., with a small detachment of the 101st 
and K)2d Pa., and his own regiment, visited tbe 
enemy’s salt works at Nag’s Head. Currituck, 
nod destroyed them. The salt water is procured 
from springs and evaporated in large iron pans. 
The rebels were making about 150bushels a day. 
which they sent across Currituck Sound in canoes 
to Currituck Court House, where it sold for $30 
per bushel. One man could make ten bushels 
per day. 
By late advices from Charleston, we have 
information, on good authority, that the head¬ 
quarters of Gen. Gillmore have been removed 
from Morris Island to Folly Island. The con¬ 
tinued firing on Morris Island had rendered tbe 
removal of the Federal headquarters necessary. 
The removal of the main body of troops and the 
material was a measure of convenience, while 
there were sanitary reasons which rendered it 
necessary. The troops are now entirely out of 
range of any batteries the rebels have or can 
erect on James Island. 
Recent tiring from Gillmore's batteries, of 
which we have received news from rebel sources, 
was directed almost exclusively against the efforts 
that were making, and which the rebels do not 
disclose, to erect new batteries and get a range at 
Fort Sumter. It appears that our reconnoitering 
boats, which passed near the walls in the night, 
discovered that the garrison'were conducting ex¬ 
tensive operations, and the indications were that 
the rebels were working in large numbers in 
and three famous batteries from Lee’s army, 
namely, Cult’s, Blodgett's and Walton’s. 
In addition, Bragg has his original army, con¬ 
sisting of D. H. Hill’s and Polk’s corps, besides 
four divisions from Mississippi and Alabama; 
one division from Charleston, one division of 
Georgia State troops, under Gen. Magraw; one 
division from East Tennessee, seven divisions 
from Lee’s army, 35.000 Georgia State militia, 
under Gen. Wayne, 5,000 cavalry under General 
Pillow, 15,000 cavalry under Gen. Wheeler, and 
350 pieces of artillery. His whole force is esti¬ 
mated at 175,000. 
Bragg had attempted to shell Rosecrans on tbe 
5th, at a distance of about three mites, but without 
much effect. The Herald of the 8th contains the 
following items:—We are again in uninterrupted 
communication with the front. Lookout Moun¬ 
tain, from which Bragg endeavored to bombard 
Rosecrans. is 1,800 feet higher than Chattanooga. 
Three miles distant by wagon road, and less 
than two miles in a direct line, is Missionary 
Ridge, where rebel dispatches are dated, which 
is about 1,000 feet high. Lookout Mountain and 
Missionary Ridge nearly encircle Chattanooga, 
which lies in a valley formed by the mountain¬ 
ous ranges around it. 
Bragg has an open railroad communication 
with Rome, 40 miles, and Atlanta, 136 miles dis¬ 
tant, whence be can bring up the heaviest siege 
guns cast at both of these points. The Etowah 
shell works. 60 miles from Chattanooga, are 
also in connection by railroad. Bragg’s bom¬ 
bardment of Chattanooga was a complete failure 
so far as any dnmage was done to the defenses or 
A few women and children 
died in Chicago 
Sunday week after an illness of a few hours. 
A rebel powder milt at Arkadelphia, containing 100,- 
000 kegs of powder, exploded on the 16th ult. r_nr 
— The effects of the rebel commodore Tafnall, at 
Watertown, N. Y., bate been sold by auction. 
— The Governor of Maarachusotts baa appointed Thurs¬ 
day, November 26th as a day of Thanksgiving. 
— Seven hundred and serenty four thousand bushels of 
wheat were received at Milwaukee in one week. 
— A lady was recently sent South from Baltimore for 
writing a disloyal letter to her eon in the rebel army. 
— l.akc Superior mines have furnished 160,000 tnns of 
copper ore Mils year, and have plenty more on hand. 
— The Provost-Marshal of Cairo had the streets of that 
town cleaned by a set of captured gamblers a few days 
since. 
— A fire at Cape Vincent, N. Y., on Saturday week, de¬ 
stroyed a large grain warehouse and 35,000 bushels of 
grain. 
^ — From data in various forms it is estimated that about 
$400,000,000 have been brought to this country by immi¬ 
grants. 
— Within a few weeks past, a man in Poughkeepsie 
lias been married, drafted and burned out! Unfortunate 
fellow. , 
— The rebel papers admit their loss in killed and 
wounded during the recent battle in Georgia amounts to 
12 , 000 . 
It is said that hardly one note per week is now pro¬ 
tested in all the city banks of New York, collectively 
speaking. 
— Advices from Little Rock to the 28th ult. 
NEWS PARAGRAPHS. 
A mob at Jackson, N. II., on the 8th burned 
the hotel where the Deputy Provost Marshal was 
staying, while serving notices on drafted men. 
He just escaped with his life. 
Notice has been received at the Adjutant Gen¬ 
eral's office in Trenton from the Provost Marshal 
General that a draft will be commenced in New 
Jersey on the 27th inst Its credits will be given 
by sub-districts up to the 24th inst. 
The ship Anna T. Schmidt, which was de¬ 
stroyed by the pirate Alabama, was insured in 
Boston offices for about $219,000. The ship Ex¬ 
press, also destroyed by the Alabama, was in¬ 
sured in Boston for $40,600. 
Grant's order of Sept. 22, making Memphis 
and New Orleans marts for the sale of cotton by 
loyal owners thereof, and banishing all cotton 
speculators from the Mississippi Valley south 
of Helena, Ark., has been published at Mem¬ 
phis, 
The pirates Alabama, Georgia and Conrad, 
have been visiting ports at Cape of Good Hope, 
and have captured the ships Lila, Prince of Wales 
and Zante, and burned them. The U. S. steamer 
Vanderbilt left St. Helena on the 20th of August. I 
removal of the broken wall and debris protect¬ 
ing the workmen and concealing their operations 
from view. The rapid and heavy firing of our 
guns is expected not only to stop' this work but 
to render the rebel occupation precarious if not 
impossible. 
Gen. Gillmore’s operations on Morris Island 
are actively prosecuted. Batteries on Cumming’s 
Point now shield our troops perfectly, while thp 
our troopR. a xew women ana children were 
frightened, and four dwelling houses were de¬ 
stroyed. 
A Cinninnati special to the N. Y. World says: 
Correspondents report Rosecrans’ army in a per¬ 
fectly safe position. More re-enforcements, new 
troops, are constantly arriving from the West 
and elsewhere. A great battle must soon be 
fought, and confidence is felt in the final issue. 
In the late cavalry raid under Wheeler, the 
rebels captured, near Chattanooga, a large num¬ 
ber of wagons, horses and mules. The wagons 
wore loaded with ammunition, rations, clothing 
and medical stores. Fifty teams belonging to 
sutlers were also overhauled. The marauders 
killed several hundred horses and mules, and 
destroyed such of the property as they 
say over 
2,000 Arkansas Union men have joined our army at differ¬ 
ent points. 
— Letters received from St. Petersburgh state that 11 
iron-plated gunboats, with turrets, will be completed in 
the spring. 
— The steamer City of Albany, recently purchased by 
government, was destroyed by fire at Baltimore Monday 
evening week. 
— The Confederate General Walker, who was lately 
wounded in a duel iu Arkansas with Gen. Marmaduke, 
has since died. 
— The coal diggers in the vicinity of Wheeling. Va., 
are on a strike for seven dollars per day. They have been 
receiving four. 
— Any number of newspapers can be sent by mail un- 
der a two cent stamp, provided they do not exceed four 
ounces in weight. 
— The Poughkeepsie Press says that a society of Mor¬ 
mons actually exist in that city, and it increases strongly 
Indian Territory.— A special from St, Paul 
Of the Stb, says intelligence brought by half 
breeds to Pembina, state that Capt. Fisk's over¬ 
land expedition to Idahoe had been massacred 
by the Sioux at Big Bend on the Missouri. 
aeeiroyea suen oi me properly as they were 
unable to take with them. 
The forces under Gen. Mitchell overtook the 
rebel cavalry on the 6th, below Shelbyville, and 
a battle immediately ensued, resulting in a com¬ 
plete rout of the enemy, who did not stop for 
their wounded. Over 100 of the rebels were left 
dead on the field, a large number wounded, and 
200 prisoners captured. A considerable amount 
of plunder was re-taken. 
Gen. Crooll. commanding a brigade of cavalry, 
twelve miles below Franklin, on the 8th, came 
up with a portion of Wheeler’s men. Sharp 
will soon take command of the fleet in Charles¬ 
ton harbor, and they express the utmost confi¬ 
dence that the result of the operations then 
undertaken will be a success. 
The Boston Herald has a letter from the fleet 
at Charleston, dated Oct, 3d, which says: — Last 
| rebel conscription in Virginia. White’s cavalry 
in small squads were scouting Fairfax county, 
picking up all the citizens that could he found, 
and stealing horses. One gang passed along in 
close proximity to the defenses and threatened 
an attack upon the Government farms, but the 
strength of the guard prevented them from mak¬ 
ing tbe attempt The activity of our cavalry 
promises to drive the guerrillas entirely out 
of that section. 
The following dispatch has been received at 
headquarters: 
Fortress Mo.vkoe, Oct 9. 
To Major-General Halleck :—I have the honor 
to report that the expedition sent out on Monday, 
under Gen. Winder, to break up or capture the 
guerrillas and boat crews organized by theenemy 
in Matthews county, has returned, having ac¬ 
complished its object Four rebel naval officers. 
35 men and 25 head of cattle belonging to the 
Confederacy, together wiih mules "and array 
hUrcatl a l___ t . J*i .* 
cannon captured. The rebels were in full 
retreat and the Federal? in close pursuit Our 
loss not ascertained, but supposed to be small. 
Nashville reports of the Sth say that tbe enemy 
has divided his mounted forces engaged in the 
recent raid into several detachments, and these 
again into minor ones, and that such de¬ 
tached bands now infest the woods in those 
neighborhoods, thereby rendering common road 
travel dangerous to other than strong military 
commands. 
A Tennessee (Federal) regiment of 587 men, 
was captured recently at McMinniville. 
Shelbyville had been sacked by the rebels. 
Secessionists, as well as loyal people, were 
robbed. Several buildings were burned. 
The N. Y. Tribune has advices from Knoxville, 
to the 11th. General Burnside advanced toward 
Greenville on the Sth and 9th, and overtook a 
rebel force of 6,000 at Low Springs. They occu¬ 
pied a strong position. Our cavalry held the 
advance until 3 P. M., when the 1st division sev- 
of Jeff, Davis. The arch-rebel thinks the British 
Government is determined to decb’ne overtures 
for friendly relations. Confederate interests are, 
therefore, no longer to be laid at the feet of Earl’ 
Russel upon the bended knees of a diplomatist. 
The sentence of death, by court martial, 
was to have been executed on a private of the 
122d New York regiment in the Army of the 
Potomac at noon on the 9tb. but was suspended 
by an order from the Provost Marshal. The cul¬ 
prit agrees to make up the time he was absent by 
J 1 , • * . .. . " 
n ar oeiweeu xiouand and Japan appears imminent. 
All the Dutch consuls have been ordered to leave the 
country immediately. 
— Shoemakers are exempt from military service in the 
Confederate army, even under the present wholesale con¬ 
scription in Secessia, 
— There are now living in the United States but thir¬ 
teen of those brave old men who participated in the 
American Revolution. 
— One thousand conscripts have been sent from the 
camp at Portland to Maine regiments in the field, and 
others are soon to follow, 
— The great volcano of Hawaii was remarkably active 
during the month of August, and was visited by large 
numbers from Honolulu. 
— The farmers in the vicinity of Amherst, Mass., are 
complaining of their potatoes rotting, They say they 
will not have half a crop. 
— The receipts from internal revenue for September 
were $6,136,205 larger than during any month since the 
law has been in operation. 
11.000 strong, with four guns, attacked Colonel 
Richardson, near New Albany, yesterday, with 
artillery, and were repulsed. 
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