which reason, as well as the impossibility of getr 
► ting supplies, it was deemed best to fail back. 
Our wagon trains were saved. 
The New Orleans correspondent of the Hlb, 
. to the Jhrald, states:—Yesterday the United 
States Marsha] and bis deputies seized all the 
cotton now in New Orleans. The seizure was 
made on the order of Mr. Rufus Wafles, the 
United States District Attorney. Rumor says 
that the seizure was made on information de* 
rived from secret parties that most of the cotton 
now in store and in transitu for the North and 
WeRt was purchased from disloyal parties, and 
that before it can be released it must be ascer¬ 
tained that those from whom they purchased are 
loyal to the United States Government. 
The Herald baa a letter from off Brazos, 5tb, 
giving further particulars of the movements 
connected with Gen. Banks' expedition. A suc¬ 
cessful reconnoissance of the whole Texas coast 
has been made by the gunboat Tennessee, also 
at the mouth of the Rio Grande. The passes, 
bars, and most valuable information as to the 
depth of the water were obtained, as well as 
viewB of the rebel work and force of Sabine 
Pass, Galveston, Brazos River and other points. 
During the cruise a small blockade runner, with 
arms, ammunition, Ac., from Havana, was cap¬ 
tured, and another destroyed. 
The Tribune has a letter dated BrazoB, Santi¬ 
ago, Texas, Nov. Stb. After alluding to the 
landing, Ac., it says: 
Our fleet anchored Sunduy evening at Brazos, 
which soon became known at. Brownsville. Early 
on Monday the citizens gathered in the streets, 
and discussed the policy of opposing their mani¬ 
fest destiny. From the individual dissemination 
of ideas the assemblage adjourned to the general 
diffusion of bullets and bowie-knife cuts. The 
Union refugees in Matamoius immediately has¬ 
tened to the rescue, and the result, as might be 
expected, was one of those free fights of the 
Texas style. The rebel sympathizers threw the 
guns of Fort Brown into the Rio Grande, burned 
the greater portion of the dwellings of Browns¬ 
ville, but left the Union men in victorious pos¬ 
session. 
With all possible speed the cotton remaining 
on the Texan side was shipped across the river. 
When the cotton, owned by the Confederate 
Government, had been ferried over, a general 
destruction of all that remained took place. 
The 91th Illinois raised their flag in Browns¬ 
ville at 10 o’clock Thursday morning, General 
Banks arriving soon after. 
At last accounts seven regiments had reached 
Brownsville. 
An officer in Gen. Banks’ staff, writing to a 
friend in New York says:—A large quantify of 
cotton was captured near Brownsville, and an 
expedition had been sent up the river to get all 
The Union men at Brownsville. 
these and were soon attacked by the enemy, 
who made several gallant charges, and finally 
succeeded in outflanking our men and driving 
them to the cover of the batteries, which now 
were negotiated with the Associated Banks of 
the three cities on the 8th September last. These 
notes are to be a legal tender for their face. 
If paid out by the banks, they will in a great 
degree operate as an equivalent increase of cur¬ 
rency. 
Plates have already been prepared for the 
issue of one year notes at the same rate of inter¬ 
est, payable at maturity, with the principal, 
which notes are also legal tender, but no decis¬ 
ion has as yet been arrived at as to their issue. 
The aggregate amount of United States legal 
tender notes which the Secretary has been 
authorized by the various acts of Congress to 
issue absolutely, is *400,000,000. All of this 
amount has been issued. He has, besides, con¬ 
ditional authority to issue $50,000,000 more for 
the redemption of temporary loans, should it 
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them to the cover of the batteries, which 
opened a terrific and destructive fire, before 
which the rebels gave way and eventually fell 
back to the river. 
At 3 P. M., the rebels showing a desire to 
renew the attack, and having brought three bat¬ 
teries to their assistance, Gen. Burnside fell back 
to a more desirable position, and again gave 
them battle. The contest continued, cloeing at 
nightfall with our troops in possession of their 
own ground. The object of the fight having 
been attained, and the detention of the rebels 
enabled our trains to get all in advance, our 
troops fell back during the night, and early 
Tuesday morning reached Knoxville. 
On the 16th the rebel advance guard attacked 
our outposts upon the Loudon and Clinton 
roads, aDd heavy skirmishing continned all day. 
The attack was resumed on the 17th, when the 
fog, which had set in during the night, had 
lifted. The rebels, finding it impossible to drive 
our men with infantry, brought several gUDs 
into position and put in a fiankiDg fire. In the 
afternoon they brought forward a heavy force of 
infantry once more, and after a brief skirmish, 
changed our position. A hand-to-hand conflict 
ensued, saberB and revolvers being used on 
both sides. Our men fought with the greatest 
Neri)0 tEonbmser 
General Rosecrang wag forty-four years old on the 6th 
inst 
— Seventy-two R. R. trains a day leave the Rochester 
depot 
Fifteen whale-ships are now being fitted ont at New 
Bedford. 
Wisconsin the Union majority will not vary much 
from 20,000. 
— The London milliners are subscribing for the suffer¬ 
ers at Warsaw. 
There are 36,236 soldiers in the British army unable 
to read or write. 
— The number of dogs in Ohio is given in the official 
return* at 172,911. 
— The Salt Works at Ossawatamie, Kansas, are running 
with the greatest success. 
— The boys and girls were skating on a mill-pond in 
Lancaster, N. H., last week. 
— Dr Winshfp daily raises 2,600 pounds and intends to 
increase his burdens to 3,000. 
— Nevada Territory proposes to become the State of 
Nevada if Congress Is willing. 
— Bum is used in the West Indies instead of turpen¬ 
tine in the preparation of paint, 
— Cattle Thunder, Richmond, now contains seven 
Northern newspaper corresDondnnf* 
Otm flag on the land, onr flag on the ocean, 
An angel of peace wherever it goes; 
Nobly sustained by Columbia’s devotion, 
The angel of Death it shall be to our foea. 
True to it« native aky, 
Still *ball our Eagle tty, 
Casting his sentinel glaDces afar:— 
Tho' bearing the olive branch 
Still in his talons staunch, 
Grasping the holts of the thunders of war. 
that the rebel authorities have faithfully ex¬ 
ecuted their promise to give our prisoners in 
their hands the food and everything that our 
government has forwarded to Richmond to that 
end. The rebel authorities allege that Gen. 
Dow has violated the obligations under which he 
was selected to distribute the supplies in ques¬ 
tion. Gen. Winder has therefore taken that 
duty from him. Gen. Winder complains that 
Gen. Dow, instead of confining himself to Belle 
Island prison to distribute the goods plaoed 
under bis care, busied himself with investigating 
the condition of the rebel commissariat there, 
with starting false reports concerning it, and 
with becoming the surreptitious bearer of a let- 
ROCHESTER, N., Y., NOVEMBER 28,1863. 
died at Louisville, Ky , Tbur«d#y week. 
— Mr. John G. Sawyer, formerly Secretary of 
Maine, died at Augusta a few day* since. 
All a man has to do in Alabama to get “cons< 
ia to sell salt for more than $15 per bushel. 
— During a recent snow storm at Denver, the i 
Stood 9* lower than at any time last Winter. 
The curtains in the President's mansion &r 
cut up and carried off' by curiosity hunters. 
— Rebel slave owners in Tennessee are runnli 
slave* Into Kentucky and selling them there. 
— About, four hundred patents are registered 
Patent Office, solely for lamps to burn coal oil. 
— There are 100,314 taxable persons in Philac 
and 81,467 voters, as shown by a recent return. 
as it was uttered by our prisoners in loud terms 
of complaint Gen. Winder has substituted a 
board of Union officers, consisting of Col. A. 
Von Schrader, Inspector General of our 14th 
army corps: Col- L, n. Cersnola. of the -1th N. 
Y. cavalry, and Lieut-Col. J. F. Boyd, Quarter¬ 
master to our 20th army corps, to make the dis¬ 
tributions in question, and states that so large is 
the quantity of such things being received, that 
he must appoint other such boards to aid that 
named above. 
Our Hospital Department at Fortress Monroe, 
Acting Surgeon-General Barnes, has come for¬ 
ward to add medicines to the stores thus fur¬ 
nished our Buffering heroes in Richmond by the 
Government. 
The rebel authorities will not permit our 
agents to accompany the goods within their lines, 
substituting rebel commissaries in their stead 
where the flag of truce boats meet 
The Government has received information, 
through our consul at Monterey, tbut a few days 
before the capture of Brownsville by Gen. Banks, 
a lurge cargo of Enfield rifles, enough to arm alj 
the militia in the State, was landed there. 
Among the treaties ro coma before the Senate 
for ratification, is one made last summer by the 
to-day. Headquarters here. Not advised of 
any movement about Knoxville for several dayB 
past. 
A dispatch received from Parson Brownlow, 
dated Barbourville, 19th, savs: —Fighting all 
about Knoxville. 
A Washington special of the 21st says:—Little 
apprehension is felt for the safety of Burnside. 
The junction of Sherman with Thomas has en¬ 
abled Grant to re enforce Burnside. 
A Knoxville letter to the N. Y. Ihmld men¬ 
tions a fight between the rebels and North Caro¬ 
linians on French Road River In which the latter 
whipped the former. During the fight some of 
the rebel regiments skedaddled to the Union 
ranks, and poured their fire into their former 
comrades. 
On the 17th the enemy brought a battery down 
to the river side, and shelled the camp of the 
125th Illinois, guarding the ford six miles above 
here, killing Rev. Mr. Saunders, Chapluln of the 
regiment. They were forced to retire after an 
hour’s practice by the 2d Union battery. 
The situation is unchanged, and all is quiet at 
Chattanooga. 
Arkansas. —Our scouting parties have cap¬ 
tured a rebel Major, two Captains, quite a num- 
they could find. ...„.„„ UD<lUT ,, 
who hailed will) delight the capture of the place 
by our forces, were forming themselves into de¬ 
fensive organizations and rendering valuable 
service as scouts. The cotton that will be 
thrown into the market by our occupation of 
Texas will amount to 250.000 bales. The 
amount stored on the Rio Grande levees is 
immense. 
forty millions of matches are used in England every 
day. 
— Five girls dressed in male attire arrived at Louisville, 
Ky., the other day in a party of three hundred rebel pris¬ 
oners. 
— The Constitutional Convention of Nevada has decided 
that juries may convict in criminal cases by a three-fourths 
vote. 
— Count Phillippe Antonie D’Ornano, another of the 
old Napoleonic soldiers, has just died at the age of eighty 
years. 
— Collectors of Internal Revenue must make all their 
deposits in U. S. currency according to Commissioner 
Lewis. 
— Coal was $11,20 per ton of 2,240 pounds at Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa., on Saturday week, a figure never known there 
before. 
— The value of real estate owned by the city of New 
Haven is $1,407,000, of which $1,008,000 is in public 
squares. 
— Twenty-two paymasters, with $7,000,000, are at 
Chattanooga engaged paying the troops to the first of No¬ 
vember. 
— The pirates in the jail at Portland have lately been 
paid their monthly wages in gold by the Southern Con¬ 
federacy. 
— The Raleigh Standard, which was destroyed by a 
mob of Georgia soldiers in September last, has been re¬ 
established. 
— Snow fell to the depth of from six to ten inches 
throughout Northern Iowa,< Wisconsin and Minnesota, on 
the 13th inst. 
— Edinburgh, Scotland, has been investigating and find* 
that at least one-fifth of the meat brought there is from 
diseased animals. 
in Philadelphia for a mammoth 
Commissioner of Indian aflairs with the chiefs of 
the Creeks, by which those who have joined the 
rebels are permitted to return to their alle¬ 
giance, but are to be ever disqualified from hold¬ 
ing offices of honor, emolument or trust among 
the Indians, and the treaty engages to abolish 
slavery, as the Cherokee nation has done al¬ 
ready, and to colonize freedmen on land be¬ 
longing to the Creeks. 
NEWS PARAGRAPHS 
a ride on horseback, on a lady’s saddle, not to 
hurt his foot, which is yet very tender. He can 
walk without crutches, with the aid of a simple 
stick, and, delighting in boating, he plies the oar 
with the vigor of youth. One or two months’ 
rest will enable him to once more take the field. 
Tue English have got another war on their 
hands in New Zealand. The natives of the 
Northern island have begun hostilities, which 
threaten to be more extensive and formidable 
than any before encountered. 
Two or three shoe dealers from Nashville, 
Tenn., are now in Boston, trying to adjust their 
indebtedness. One of them has settled outright 
at ninety-one cents on the dollar, and the others 
are paying fifty to sixty per cent, on their ac¬ 
counts. 
Mr. John Signor, an old resident of Homer, 
N. Y., died on the 19th ult, at the advanced age 
of 101 years, 5 months and 12 days. Mr. Sig¬ 
nor’s father died in Dutchess county at the age 
of 104 years, and his mother at that of 106 years. 
The father was a Colonel in the Re volutionary 
AFFAIRS IN WASHINGTON. 
The attention of the President and more 
prominent members of the Cabinet, and of other 
gentlemen, has been largely given of late to the 
consideration of the important questions con¬ 
nected with the recall to the Union of the truant 
Southern States, several of which may soon be 
knocking at. the door. The precise course to be 
adopted is not yet determined. Several theories 
claim the President's ear, but he is busily en¬ 
gaged in maturing a practical plan by wliicb to 
receive reunion upon the only practicable basis, 
the basis of freedom and equality, both the law’ 
for all. Recent utterances of the President, and 
instructions to recently commissioned represent¬ 
atives of the Government in districts of the 
South now in our possession, leave no doubt 
that the policy of the Admistration to permit 
none of the vagrant Stares to come back with a 
slave constitution, is fixed. The present discus¬ 
sion relates to the ways and means of effecting 
this result. 
Gentlemen who have arrived from Fortress 
Monroe, state that they heard there that the cor¬ 
respondence of the respective agents for the ex¬ 
change of prisoners has degenerated into per¬ 
sonalities and loss of mutual confidence. Their 
usefulness is thereby impaired, and the opinion 
is strongly expressed, that if there could be an 
exchange of agents an exchange of nearly all if 11111(1 currency, which is two cents better than 
not all the prisoners might be effected, the dis- tlml tlie re bels. 
puted points being left to future adjustment In the recent announcement of the quotas to 
The payments for all brar.cbes of the public the several States under President Lincoln’s 
service for the fiscal year ending with the last of Proclamation of Oct 17th, calling out an addi- 
June, were $903,000,000, of which amount $600,- tional 300,000 men, the deficiencies of the States 
000,000 were for the army, and $66,000,000 for under former calls and under the recent draft, 
the navy. A sufficiency of money has been are taken account of only in reference to a subse- 
placed in the hands of all the paymasters to pay quent draft, in case another is rendered necessary 
our armies up to Ihe first of the present month. by the failure to furnish the full quota of volun- 
By the act of March 3d, 1863, the Secretary of teers. It is presumed there will be no draft in 
of the Treasury is authorized to issue $400,000,- those States which raised their quota of 300,000, 
000 in treasury notes, running not longer than but in States where through failure to raise their 
three years, and bearing interest at a rate not quota of 300,000, the draft has to be resorted to 
higher than six per cent., which he can make a all deficiencies existing at the time will be taken 
legal tender for the full value. Under this into account. Drafted men and substitutes are 
authority, $50,000,000 of the two years’ notes, at entitled only to the $100 bounty provided by 
the five per centum payable every six months, law, and not to the increased bounty of $300. 
preached within three miles of Bealton, with the 
intention of making a raid on the railroad. 
Being dressed in Federal uniforms, detachments 
of the 1st Pa. and 6th Ohio cavalry, who w T ere in 
the immediate neighborhood at the time, mistook 
them lor fneuds, but soon discovered their error, 
when the rebels fired into them, wounding three. 
The rebels were instantly pursued and driven 
into Snicker’s Gap, and six of the gang captured. 
The following dispatch was received on the 
19th at the headquarters of the army: 
CCMBSItLA-W. Nov. 18 . 1863 . 
m n • r* /v .. _..... ' 
— A plan is talked of 
heating apparatus—the heat to be distributed to dwellings 
as gas is distributed. 
— It is reported that Gen. McDowell is about to go into 
Also, that Gen. Butterfield is to 
To Brig.-Gen, Outturn. Chief of Staff: — Gen. 
Avercll has arrived at New Creek, at or near 
Covington. He encountered and defeated a 
portion of Imboden’s command on the way to 
re-enforce Echols. He captured twentv-five 
prisoners m the skirmish. 
I am happy to inform you that there is not at 
this time an organized force of rebels within the 
bounds of the new State. 
1 also send you a copy 0 f the telegram just 
received from Gen. Sullivan. J 
B. F. Kei.lt, Brig.-Gen. 
IiARPKa'a Fkrht, Va„ Nor. 18. 
To 0en. Kelly;—My cavalry, under command 
ol Col. Boyd, of the 21st Pa. cavalry, have 
returned, having been up the valley to near 
Newmarket, lighting Gilmore and While’s com¬ 
mands at Mount Jackson, bringing io 27 prison¬ 
ers, two commissioned officers, 90 head of cattle 
besides 20 tents and all the horses and equip¬ 
ments of the prisoners. Have destroyed a num¬ 
ber of tents and a quantity of salt. The men 
helped themselves to a wagon load of bacon 
Onr loss was two men killed, three wounded 
and two missing. J. C. Sullivan, Brig.-Gen. 
active service again, 
have a new command. 
— The locust ties of an old wharf in Baltimore, built in 
1774, have j net been dug up. The Umber is hard and firm 
as when first laid down. 
— Richmond papers contain advertisements of reading 
rooms where New York and Philadelphia papers are reg¬ 
ularly received and filed. 
— There are 60 vacancies in the West Point Military 
Academy, and a New York paper suggests that it be filled 
with Brigadier Generals. 
— The sum of $5,000 has been appropriated by the au¬ 
thorities of Louisville, Ky., for the purpose of purchasing 
fuel for the poor of the city. 
— Three rats attacked an English boy 15 years old, and 
uuless the boy had been re enforced by a man the rats 
would have been victorious. 
— Geu. H. W. Beeson, who formerly represented Fay¬ 
ette County, Pa., in Congress, died in that county on the 
30th ult., at an advanced age. 
— A passenger who arrived at Halifax a few days ago, 
from Wilmington, paid $4,500 in Confederate currency to 
raise 5500 in gold for passage money. 
— Cigar smoking is now strictly forbiden in Constanti¬ 
nople, either in or out of doors, owing to the supposition 
that the practice haa caused many fires. 
— Army cloth that 18 months ago cost a dollar and thir¬ 
ty or forty cents a yard, can now be bought for ninety cts. 
The supply is greater than the demand. 
— A locomotive has just been built for the Philadelphia 
and Reading R. R. Co., which is said to be the largest in 
the United States. It has 12 driving wheels. 
— The staging upon the dome of the Capital at Wash¬ 
ington is nearly completed, and the statue of Liberty will 
be raised to its place before the meeting of Congress. 
alter. When there is no necessity for their 
further enforced service they will be‘'discharged, 
A dispatch from Knoxville, dated the 17th, says 
that Geu. Longstreet, after crossing the Ten¬ 
nessee on Saturday morning, the 14th inst., was 
attacked in the afternoon by Gen. Burnside, 
who drove the advance guard back to within a 
mile of the river's edge by nightfall. Longstreet 
crossed the remainder of his troops during the 
night, and on Sunday morning advanced in 
force. Gen. Burnside, finding it impossible to 
cope with him with the small force at his dispo¬ 
sal, fell back tu Lenoir — the rear guard skir¬ 
mishing with the enemy heavily through the day. 
Three desperate charges were made on our 
positions during Sunday night, but they were 
handsomely repulsed. 
On Monday morning Gen. Burnside evacuated 
Lenoir, but owing to the energy with which the 
rebel pursuit was kept up, he determined to give 
them a decided check, and accordingly came 
into line of battle at Campbell's Station, when a 
fight ensued, lasting from late in the morning 
until dark. 
Our first position commanding the road from 
both sides, the infantry deployed in front of 
Department of the Gulf. 
A New Orleans letter of the 11th, to the 
Express, says that our loss in the Carron Crow 
affair was not less than 500 killed and wounded, 
and 1,000 prisoners. Our troops were caught 
napping, and were greatly outnumbered, but 
fought bravely. Two 12-pound Parrott guns 
were captured by the rebels, whose force num¬ 
bered 5,000; ours not over 1,800—bung the 
rear guard of our army. General Price was 
reported at Alexandria with 15,000 men, for 
