The New York Herald Newspaper, November 13, 1862, Page 1

7 ' ET WHOLE NO. 9557. IMPORTANT (ROM NORTH CAROLINA. y Lr ie ek ADVANCE OF THE UNION FORCES. Conabined Naval and Military Expedition. CAPTURE OF THE TOWN OF HAMILTON. Gallant Conduct of New York Cavalry. REBEL ACCOUNTS OF THE AFFAIR, dey he, ae eee Our Special Army Correspondence, ‘Wasmmeton, N. C., Nov. 3, 1862. Advance of Our Army—General J. G. Foster Commands ‘in Person—Hamilion to be Tuken—Further Movements Contemplated, de. Yesterday morning Major General J. G. Foster left thi® place, with the following specified force, on an extensive movement against Hamilton. " Of course Hamilton has not been attacked, yet is deem- ed by military authority not indiscreet on my part to disclose the object of the expedition, and for the reagon that before this reaches the Hxratp, and is published, the force of General Foster will either have done its work or have moved so fur inland as to fully apprise the enemy Of its design:— Co!, Emery’s (Acting Brigadier General) brigade, Col. Stevenson, do, Gol. Leo, do. * Belgor’s Rhode Island battery. Four batteries of the Third New York ommand of Major Kennedy. A portion of tho Marine artillery, under command of artillery, under *. Lieutenant Colonel Manchester. Two battalions of cavalry, under command of Majors Fitzsimmons and Gassard, In the onward movement of our army the Marine artil- Jery was in the advance, This place looks exceedingly lively, especially on the water, for this latter is alive wit transports and gun- ‘boats. Lieutenant Colonel Lyman, of the Twenty-seventh Massachusetts, commands at this point. The North Caro” Moa regiment garrisons the foft and does guard duty. ‘When our army got six miles from this place yesterday, im the course of its forward movement, it encountered the Pickets of the enemy. Six or seven of them were cap tured and two ef our horses were killed in a brief ekir” mish. At last accounts é@r army had halted for the night, to advance again at daylight. A number of navy and marine artillery gunboats are to Operate, by way of the Roanoke river, with this overland expedition, Movements other than Hamilton are contemplated. Col, Ku:tze commands at Newborn. Capt. Pendleton, of General Foster's staff, was soriously ‘M not dangerously injured, yesterday morning, by the vunping away ot his horse. Our Hamilton Correspondence. Om Boao Usirep States Steamer Huycunacn, ton, Noy. 4—-5 P. M. } Advance of the Union Proops from Williamson—The Rebel, Retreating to Tarbor»—Co-operation of the Navy—The En- gagement on the 2d a Union Victory—Ihe Charge Upon Hamilton—A Dash—he Seceth Skedaddling, &c., de. We have just arrived at this place, taking it witha grand cavalry charge and cemhined gunboat movement. Our land forces ieft Williamston yesterday aftcrnoon, on- amped fpr the night six miles below Hamilton, and moved forward at daylight this morning. The enemy is fm strong force, and has precipitately retreated to Tar- boro. We will seek the earliest opportunity to afford him afight. ‘The people of the country are greatly alarmed at our epproae's, They fiee from home and their property, as ‘we learn aud see on the course of our march. The cuuboais havo successfully co-operated with us; that is, the Hunchbaek, Captain Calhoun; Hetael, Captain ——; Seymour, Captain Wells; Valley City, Captain Furnias, and the Perry, Captain Fluseer. 7 ‘The guuboats had a few minutes engagement with the ‘pemy as they came up the Roanoke river. General Foster’s command had a severe engagement on Sunday night with three thousand rebel infantry at a breastwork, supported by six piéces of artillery. We killed and wounded sixty of the enemy. Our loss was ten. The forces immediately engaged were the Twenty- fourth Messachusetts, Yorty-fourth Massachusetts, Marine artillery, Belger’s battery, and the Third New York - cavalry. ‘The Marine artillery made a gallant and bold dash across @ creek and lost four of their men. One of the Twenty- fourth was killed. ‘When we charged into Hamilton—Major Gerrard’s bat- talion of the Third New York cavalry being in the ad- ‘wance—we found the roads leading from the town covered ‘with wagons containing the househeld goods and trampe- ey of those hastily leaving the place. Accidentally , Colonel Potter , Captain Wilson, a corporal, @ private, and your correspondent charged into and out ef the town, a distance of four miles, and kilied one rebel, ‘wounded twe others, took two prisoners, and captured ten horses. So much for a little party. ‘The epomy left this place, abandoning his earthworks, precipitately. ‘We move from this place in two hours, to proceed to and take Tarboro, on Tar river. Gunboats will co-operate ‘with vs. ‘The North State and some other gunboat had an engage. ment, day before yesterday, on the Tar river. ‘Vur marches bave been made with great rapidity. Expect shortly better and more important news than I ave referred to here. REBEL ACCOUNTS. Tho Captere of Hamilton. [From the Richmond Dispatch , Nov. 10.) ‘There is no longer any doubt that the enemy’s forces in Eastern North Carolina are moving on Weldon, witha ‘view of tapping the railroad at that point. We published @ome days ego an aecount of a fight which took place be- tween three companies of the Twenty-sixth North Caro, Nina regiment and the advance guard of the enemy, on Sunday last. In this engagement the enemy was re, pulsed, our loss being ten killed and twenty-nine wounded. Later intelligence furnishes us with some fuller particu- Jars of tho advance, frem whieh it appears taat the enemy landed large forces at Washingim on Sunday; and ad. wanced towards’ Hamilton and took possession of that town. It is reported that they destroyed nearly the entire place: ‘Their force at Hamilton is represented to be about ten thonsana infantry, with forty pieces of artillery anda @onsiderable force of cavalry. Theyare aleo reported ty Aave landed @ large force at Palmyra, Halifax county, g@ome twenty-five or thirty miles from Weldon. General ‘Pettigrew commands the Confederate force at Weldon: ‘The Yankees are said to be commanded by General Foster. ‘There wae s teport in circulation on Saturday tha! an engagement occurred in the vicinity of Tarbore’, Edgecombe county, ob Thuraday last, between some six regiments of North Carolina State troops, under the command of Gov. ‘Vanee and Gen. Martin, an@ abeut ten thousand of tho enemy. The Raleigh Jowrnal of Saturday says that this report was incorrect, and that nothing of the kind had taken place since the hoe! ted apron A evening. ‘The impression prevail the enemy is concentrating his forces im the neighborhood of Williamston, Martin ‘oounty, with the intention of attacking some point on the line of the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad. A despatch from Goldsboro’, dated ten o'clock Friday night, etates that there had been ne fighting, and that tho enemy had retreated In the direction of Weldon. We do niet ceaclty understand how they could have retreated towards Weldon, since that is the soimt wwards which they were sup- to be advancing. A letter ip the Petersburg £xpress, from Tarboro’, dated the Sth, says tho Yaskeo army is marching upon that town ith 12000 troope, Tle Information is derived ivew 6 Yankee coverter, They are revrerented to ba within fifteen miles of the town and within four miles of the Confederate troops. Advance of Our Troops in Eastern North Carolina. {From the Richmond Whig, Nov. 10.] ‘The news from the Roanoke region of North Carolina has, within the past few days, occasioned some anxiety im the public mind, The Raleigh Register entertains no doubt thats movement is about to be made against the railroads running from Petersburg to Wilmingten, and that Weldon is the point to be attacked. It is presumed that, in view of tho probability above mentioned, the proper precautionary measures have been taken for the defence of this important line of communication. The Raleigh Standard gives the following statement of “the recent ekirmigh near Hamilten:— It appears that three companies of the Twenty-sixth North Carolina regiment had beep sent down below Bam- ilton or Williamston, as other forces had been sent to Other points, to enable our people to remove their negroes and other movable property from beyond the enemy’s lines, Many were availing themselves of this arrange- ‘ment, and tere removing large numbers of blacks. The Yankees, hearing of this, determined to prevent it, if possible, and hence removed a force in the direction of Hamilton or. Williamston, Colonel Burgwyn, with bis small force, determined to arrest their progress, and hence attacked them, keeping in check a very superior force of the enemy until rein- forced, when he determined to falt back to a better position. The rumors about the landing of the enemy in Bertie and on Tar river, and ef his intended advance upon Tarboro’, were believed to be premature. We hope that the ru- mored destruction of property at Hamilton by the enemy ‘ig also magnified or unfounded. Still later advices are received through a passenger who reached Raleigh from Tarboro on Friday last. He reports that our troops met the enemy seven miles be- low that town on Thursday, and drove him back to the shelter of his guuboats; and that the inhabitants of Tar_ boro and the adjacent country, apprehensive of another advance, are moving off as fast as they can. report says that our troops in Thursday’s engagement were commanded by General Martin and Governor Vance, and that. they succeeded in repulsing the enemy, but with heavy loss on both sides. A letter from Tarboro, Another dated Wednesday, P. M., stated that the enemy, 12,000 strong, was within fifteen miles of that place. Confirmation of the News of the Move. ment. [From the Richmnoa Dispatch, Nov. 11.) There is no longer any doubt that the Yankees are con- centrating their forces im the neighborhood of Williams- town, with the intention of attacking some point on the ‘Wilmington and Weldon Railroad. A letter from Tarboro, of the 5th instant, says the Yankees are marching on that ton with twelve thousand troops. ‘They are represent- ed tobe within fifteen miles of the town and withii one mile of the Confederate troops. . ———— Arrival of Yankee Prisoners. (From the Richmond Dispatch, Nov. 10.) Eleven privates belonging to the Firat Vermont cavalry, captured by the First North Carolina troop in Warren county, October 26, were brought to Richmond on datur- aay. NEWS FROM BURNSIDE’S ARMY. 11a, Nov. 12, 1862. A special despatch to the Washington Star, of this evening, says:— ‘The atmy, which is pow massed in the vicinity of War- renton, has been at a standstill singe the receipt of the order. transferring the command side. On the day precediog tho night of its re. coipt, hisdiicers his beliof that within three or four days at the farthest he woula fight the greatest battle of the war, and gain a victory for the Union that would probably to General Burn- General McClellan announced to mapy of end the rebellion, No one blames General Burnside for the sudden balt in the army’s then rapid advance. At present our ad- vance is only upon the north bank of the Rappahannock, though Union scouting cavalry parties now and then ven- ture into Culpepper , from one to five miles from the river- It ig not believed at headquarters that General Joe Johnston, now in command of the rebels at Oulpepper, will venture to accept @ serious battle this side of the Rapidan. To-day the cars will travel the railroad all the way up to Warrenton, the repairs necessary jo that end having ‘Deen completed. No Rebel Pickets Near Harper's Ferry— The Potomac Rising. ‘Wasmxoron, Nov. 12, 1862. A despatch from Harper's Ferry to-night reports that the rebel pickets were not seen ip that vicinity to-day, It is raining and the Potomae is rising, but is still ford- able. Raid of Rebel Cavalry near (Leesburg. ‘Waanmmaton, Noy. 12, 1862. Some excitement was occasioned here to-day, by ru* mors that General Sigel’s or General Sickles’ copmmand, sustained @ disastrous defeat. Tbe only foundation for the rumor was the firing heard last night in Alenandria, which was occasioned by the attack of White's rebel cav- alry, numbering about one hundred and twenty-five, upon a small party of Union soldiers at Mount Gilead, about twelve miles from Leesbarg. Thirty-five men, one com- missioned officer, and a small amount of stores, also some email arms, left there by General Birney, were captured. ‘This band of rebels have been lately scouring that part of the country. “ ‘The Washington Star has the following:— Lamapvao, Nov. 11, 1863. Last night, about 11 c’cleck, White's rebel cavalry, numbering about 125, made @ dash into the town of Mount Gilead, twelve miles from bere, and, as resported by two men whe escaped and arrived here this morning, captured eome thirty-five men and one officer, some pro- perty, and between 800 and 400 stand of arms, left be- hind by General Birney. White's band are scouring the country, capturing sutlers and stragglers, and doing much other damage. Guerillas Captured. Lovisvimn, Nov. 12, 1862. A detachment of Colonel J. W. Foster's command left arms. The guerillas im that section are said to be panic stricken. Our forces are etill in pursuit. The Southern telegraph line bas béen pepaired, but there is no news from Nashville. The Prize Cases. UNITED STATES CIRCUIT COURT. Before Hon. Judge Nelson. Nov. 12.—Jn the Matter of the Prise Vessel Hiawatha. An order was made by Judge Betts a few weeks since for a commissioner to make a report as to the value of the cargo which had disappeared from this vessel. ‘This morning the counsel on behalf of the United States ‘and the captors said that, since the report of the commis- certain parts of the and return reeeipts to the is agreement had ese and the juence was that the attorney had tachment against Mr. Potts, or for an order for eer teee Sateen CR ae said he prefer wi unt! could hear bar, Owen on the subject, wir you tamed Commissioners, and he would not The Mixed Court of Justices. THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES AND __ BNGLAND, + Nov. 12.—The Mixed Court of Justices, provided for in the recent treaty between this country and Foglend, met to-day at tho United States District Attorney’s office, and duly organized. The treaty provides for the appointment of aJudge and Arbitrator by cach government. The Hon. Truman Smith Ras been appointed Judge, and Ce- phag Brainard, Esq., Arbitrator on tho part of the Unit States, and the Hon. E. M. Archibold, her Britannic wd 8 Consulat New York, Judge, 4 Arbitrator, on the part o! ingen ne deans having taken the oath of office before bia Honor the Mayor of New York, organized their court, District Attorney Hmith and Bepnty Marshal Thompson being present duty aualified, and the Court then sdionrvog, ms #8 a tite ceatlis Se NEW YORK, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1862. THE ADVANCE IN NORTH CAROLINA. Scene of Major Gencral Foster’s Recent Victories and Movements—-Capture of Hamilton, &o. ia JACKSON } edad THE EUROPA OFF CAPE RACE. Two Days Later from Europe. Sr. Jouns, N. F,, Nov. 11, Via Sackvizux, Nov. 12, 1862. Asteamer (no doubt the Europa, from Liverpool Ist, ‘via Queenstown 2d inst.) passed Cape Race this (Tuesday) evening, at six o'clock, distant five miles. The news boat ‘| pulled out four miles, the steamer answering the signals; but the latter did not come near enough to the boat for the obtaining of the press despatches. There was a high sea rupning, and it was with extreme difficulty and peril that the boat and crew returned from its dangerous mis- sion, Had the steamer’s course been a mile nearer the despatch could have been procured. INTERESTING FROM TENNESSEE. Bridges Blown Up by the Rebels—Evacu- ation of Murfreesboro by the Enemy— Congressional Elections—Resumption of the Mails to Nashville. Nasnviie, Tenn., Nov. 12, 1862. General Rosecrans has written a congratulatory letter to General Negley on the latter's successful defence of Naslivilie on November 6. The rebels last night blew up the stonework of the bridge over Mill ereek, on the Murfreesboro Railroad, six miles,from Nashville. The bridge had just been repairea by the rebels, whe also destroyed the bridge over the Harpeth, near Franklin. Most of the rebel supplies are forwarded to Qbattanpo. ga and Atlanta from Murfreesboro, which is reported evacuated by the rebels. The rebel Gen. Breckinridge is sick. Union refugees are preparing to return to Murfrees: | boro. Preparations are being made to elect representatives to the present Congress from districts in Tennesseoon the oceupancy of the federal troops. Governor Johnson will probably soon issue a proclamation to that effect. ‘The first mail since September 20 arrived to-day. Provisions are coming in abundantly. ‘The reports in Northern papers of the rebels shelling and burning part of Nashville are utterly unfounded, Naagviiiz, Nov. 12, 1862. General Breckinridge sent a flag of truce from Mur- freesboro late last night, asking an exchange of nineteen prisoners. ‘The main rebel force is falling back to the South, under Polk and Buckner. «< Genera: Brogg has resumed command, Gpneral Joe Johngton’s health being too much impaired for Seld service. ‘The railroad bridge across the Harpeth, at Franklin, Tenn., wes destroyed by the rebels a day or two ago. General Rosecrans has ordered tho impressing of rebels’ negroes for fatigue duty; also the organization of negro pioneer corps on his Corinth plas. Capt, James St. C. Morton, of the United States En- gineer Corps, has been appointed Chief Bagineer of the department. Colonel Garesche, Chief of Sta, will enter upen duty to-morrow. Heavy supply trains are arriving from Mitchelisville. ‘The weather is stormy. News from the Pacific. SMALL SHIPMENT OP GOLD, CAUBED BY FBARS QF REBEL PRIVATBERS-=ANOTRER DONATION SANITARY FUND, BTC. Saw Fraxcieco, Nov. 11, 1862. Sailed steamer Orizaba for Panama, cartyitg $130,000 for New York and $400,000 for England. i ‘Very féw recent sales have been made from the bands of importers. Jobbers’ business is diminishing. The fall trade is evidently drawing to a close, The latest sales of legal tender notes are at 62 per cent. Parties bave chartered a vessel to carry breadstufls to Liverpool. ‘Thirty thousand dollars have been shipped by to-day’s steamer for the National Sanitary fund. ‘The twonty thousand dollars appropriatioy towards ft ting out a cavalry company from this city to go ine Mas sachusetts regiment was indefinitely postponed jn the Board of Supervisors last evening. Congressman Phelps loaves to-day by overland staye for Washington. ‘San Francisco, Nov. 12, 1863. Business is generally dul). ‘The recent diseovery of silver mines in Mariposa county ‘causes much local excitement. Over six hundred claims are located on a line thirty-five miles long, some of which are partly opened, from which choice specimens of rock yield five hundred dollars a ton, giving interested parties much eonfidence in the value of the discovery. ‘There is such a rage for discovering new mines that companies are organizing and selling stock before deve- lopmonts take place. The mining companics erganized wise Pree a? 6 bce al gitimate “Sorat h before equalled; min! Operations are stimulated thereby, and year prowioes 10 be obs of ‘ususual activity in mining te. Fire on @ Raillroad. Darnorr, Nov. 12, 1862. ‘Tho baggage car on tho night express train, coming Weat, containing the male, express money and bagange, Longwood oO was entit my » the grees Western rend Jast night ‘The M Ozaka. Mmnwavare, Nov. 12, 1962. ‘The Ozaka county mob, net content with destroying the draft box and rolls, attacked the private residences of several pMminent persone, stealing and demolishing cvery- thing they could lay hands on, and ‘maltreating “ail w refused to side with them, ‘The Provost Marehal, with 600 infan Sunbeam and Comet, lwet evening fame Mey of the rioters, 100 the ateamerg to-day arrested IMPORTANT FROM THE SOUTHWEST. Advance of the Union Army Into Missis- sippi-The Rebels Falling Back Withe out Fighting—Organization of the Epis- eopal Church South, d&c., &ec. Carcaco, Noy. 12,1662. A despatch from Trenton, Tenn., of the 10th, says the grand army passed beyond La Grange yesterday evening. Our pickets wero six miles from Holly Springs. One hun- dred and thirty of the rebel cavalry were taken prisoners during the day, with a Union loss of two killed and two wountled. 3 From a highly creditable source we learn that the ene- my have fallen baek. A letter from Holly Springs to the Mobile Tribune, says there were not a thousand blankets in Price’s entire ar- my. Their blankets and knapsacks thrown away on the retreat from I- A despatch from General Ransom, at Fort Denolson, yeatorday says:—My command arrived here to-day. We have marchéd 150 miles and had a fight with the rebel Woodward on the 6th, an@ gave him grief, We killed sixteen, wounded forty, captured twenty men, 100 horses and mules, a quantity of arms, avd drove him tothe other side of the Cumberland. Bishop Eliott, of Georgia, announces that the union of the diocese of Texas, Mississippi, Alabame, Georgia, the Carolinas, and Virginia, is completed, under the name o the Protestant Epietopal Church of the Confederate States of America. The firat general ceuncil meets at Augusta Nevember 12. Carro, Nov. 12, 1862. mphis says that the rebels are ‘The latoat news from stil at, Holly Springs, but all their war material, stores | and provisions have been removed across the Pallahatch'e river. It was thought the rebels might make a show of resistance at Holly Springs, but would fall back south of the river if seriously attacked. The expedition which left Helena a few days since for Cotton Plant, numbering one thousaud two bundred found five thousand rebels at that place, g force too large to be attacked by the Unionists with dny hope of suc. cess. On their return thoy had three skirmishes, killing twelve, wounding a large number and capturing twenty” four. Gur loss was thirty wounded and one bundred horses killed. The people in the country through which our forces passed, are represented as actually suffering for the necessaries of life. * A late Southern paper says an accident occurred on the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad on the 8d inst., by which seventeen persons were killed and thirty injured. ‘The Vicksburg Whsg says an extensive secret abolition society has beep discovered ia Northern Texas. The ob- jects arc to resist the conscription and co-operate.with the Union army. News from Fortress Memroe. BXOMANGE OF PRISONBRS—NEW REBEL DEFENCES ON JAMES RIVER. Fortamss Moxros, Nov. 11, 1862. Peter Sinith was brought to Fortress Monroe thie morn- ing, from Yorktown, @pder guard. Ho was arresied near the mouth of the Rappahannock, and is implicated im the ‘burning of the Allegbanian. Col. Ladiow, of Gen, Dix’s staff, returned this afternoon from Aiken’s Landing, and has very sucessfully com- pleted the arfangements for the exchange of all prisoners of war. ‘The following officers and men are exchanged:— Pirtt—All officers and men, both of the United States sdnans eae karte OE, q " ibe United Bates ofeers and men and farclod 10 ber, 100d, at Harper's Ferry. And all deliveries of prisoners up to Novem! Wd to United authorities in the peninsuls ite it waters are included in tbi . paroled at Banta Island, October 4, 1861. ThirdeAil officers and men captured and paroled at Chambersburg, October 4. 1862. fourth—The Blevetth Ohio, eaptured at Clarksville, Tenn. and men eaptured at South Mills, N. C. ‘Sizth—104 non-commissioned officers gud privates be- to the Second United States cavalry, United infantry, Sixth United States ca . United Ee ae, hang a ag , ‘Sixth » Twelfth, fi Seftes ntentry Fourth aad. Fitth United artiliery, sent from Annapolis, Md., to Columbus, N. Y., Ostober 4, 1962, ‘Seventh--All officers and men captured at or near Rich- com. mond and Lex! forces under the By., by the mand of eirby E. Staith, and men Gap on the 24 and 11th of October, 1 Lit oe +1,085 In addition to these offieers are exchanged about twon- ty-four thousand privates, leaving a balance due to the United States of about six thousand privates. ‘The place for exchanging prisoners, in pursuance of the eeventh article of the carte!, is changed from Aiken's Landing to City Point, ‘We are indebted to Colone! Ludlow for the above, It a ramored that Fort Darling bas been additionally strengthened by @ heavy base wall of solid masonry, and bas received a shroud of iron mail over her most exposed portions. ‘A now carthwork has recently been thrown up on James river by the rebels, near the Point of Shoals, in- tended for five guns of heavy calibre. Discharged Political Prisoners. Bavmwone, Nov. 12, 1862. The following prironers of State, who have been con- fined io the Old Capitol Prison at Washington during the past three months, from Hiipois and lowa, passed through” Baltimore this evening, baving been honorably chargad:—Judge Andrew D. Dull, of Benton, Ill. ; Judgo John P. Malkey, of Cairo, 11h; liv, Marcus L. Rose, of Tamaroa, TU, David Reward, of Fairfield, lowa, and D. A. Maboney, of Pubaque, town. ; Dutch General Sigel crossed | Fredericksburg. Mr. R. | or four bundred, crossed | and three privates. THE NEW YORK HERALD. PRICE TWO CENTS. INTERESTING FROM THE SOUTH. THE NEWS FROM NORTH VIRGINIA, indications of an Important Battle. | Destruction of the English Bark Sophia Off Wilmington, &e., &., &e, News from Northern Virginia. A RAID OF THE FEDERALS AT FREDERICKSBURG, (From the Richmond Dispaten, Nov. 10.) Wo bave very little later {ntetigence of operations in Northern Virginia. So far as we are informed, indications | seem to justify the conclusion that an advance of the eno- my is contemplated, It ig said that the corps of the the Rappahanvock river on Friday night last. Considerable skirmishing haa occur- | red within the last twWo or three days in the vicinity of Warrenton. ‘We have intelligence of a Yankee raid upon the town of H. Mullen, who left the town after Our Own troops had retired, and while the’epemy were still in possession, hus furnished us with the follow- ing account of the raid:— About nine o'clock yesterday morning the ene- my’s cavalry, supposed to number somo three the river at Falmouth and dashed town, through Commerce, Main MJand Princess Anne streets. Our forces in the town consisted of four companies of cavalry, under Lieutenant Colone! Criteher, and two companies of the Chesapeake cavairy, of Colonel Ball’s command, Colonel Criteber, with his force, was quartered at the hospital building, near the railroad depot. The enemy seemed to be fwiy aware of his position, and at ouce charged his camp, capturing about twenty-five or thirty of his men. ‘Yhe remainder of his force matle their escape, and after- wards formed on the outskirts of the town, where a fight ensued, the Yankees attacking them. Meantime the two companies of the Chesapeake cavalry, under Lieutenant Welford Corbin, made a dash upon the guard who had Colonel C.’s men in charge, and succeeded in releasing nearly all of them, besides capturing a Yankee captain In these two skirmishes Mr. M. into the thinks we had two men killed and one or two wounded The Yankees had six or seven killed and as many wounded. The Yankees captured state that their force in the neighborhood consisted of an Vhio and an Indiana regiment of cavalry, iu all numbering about ove thousand four hundred men. It will be perceived by the despatch of the Associated Press, received at nine o'clock laat night, the town has been evacuated by the encmy, and t! the state- mout of numbers does not by avy means correspond with those given by our informant. [From the Richmond Enquirer, Nov. 10.] Significant movements are progressing along the entire line of our army under General Lee. Stirring, perhaps starling eveuts, seem to be rapidly approaching, promis- ing, in reality, “a short, sharp and decisive” winter campaign. It was reported on yesterday (hat General Jackson was upon the verge of battle in the Shenandoah, with a reatly superior force of the enemy. No confirmation of he reported fight at Front Royal bas reached us. In course of a few days a considorable change will doubtless take place in the present nominally inactive state of affairs. General Lering Bad tp Enlisting Dim- culties in South’ ern Virginia. General Loring has made the following report to the Secretary of War relative tg the obstacles it is alleged he threw ia the way of recruiting for the Virginia State line under General Floyd:— Heapquarrers DaraRTMRNT Caar.eston, Va, , Se] How. Gro, W. Ranpo.ra, Secretary Wasrers Vinama, t. 92, 1862, War, Richmond, Rip Sm—I observe in the lato message of the Governor of the State certain charges that, eXceoding my authority as a Confederate offiggr, I haa improperly and mischievously interfered with non conscripts in Southwest Virginia, and demoralized the militia. Deprecating a eontroversy with the Governor, aud dis- claithing accountability to him for my official acts, I deem it prope? to lay my action on the subject before you. In accordance with your telegram of August 15, stating * persone iu the employment of the government are not rogarded as liable to militia duty,” and directing mo ( retain them and remit the questiopsof liability to be detormined in a copference between tie Secretary of War bt the eta )”’ Lissued the following General Order Ayguet 17:— “In accordance awit instructions om the Secretary of War, rons ip em] it the government are ropetded ax not Hable tomiitia duty, bs ‘will be retained in ter present Occ pition *ni employment until it is otherwige ordered and deermined,” in accordanoe with your telegram of August 18, stating “the militia may volunteer before enrolling; if they volunteer fer @hree years or the war they entil to bounty,” and your letter of August 21, stating ‘until mustered into the State service the mil can voluntecr, and will receive bounty, if the; ist for threo yearsor tho war’) — med another General Order, which {ollows:--"*The jeugra ‘Commanding anuounoes, upon the authority of the Secretary of War, to thd militia in this department, between thirty-dve and forty-five years of age, and not yet enrolled, that they may volunteer in the service of the Confederate States for three years or the war, and by 80 doing will receive a boymty of $50.’ Theso orders contain my action on the subject referred to, and in them there is Certainly nothing fo warrant the statement of the Governor that 1 “issued orders to stop the enrolment in Monroe, Giles, and, perhaps, other counties.” ‘These orders offered to the citizens suddenly called into the public service the choice hetween the easier and briefer duties of the militia and the more permanent and immediate duty in the regularly constituted volunteer y than in co greg vl hte The to desire, less that a public 1 Bd ia fogs in un ceamen po it shall be = way, an out people whom calls Titarma when he denios Uist tho id privil of be- volunteers, and seeks to stain Bima tercibly in a corps, though of the utmost figntty, yet whose service is temporary, local and obliged by the laws. bave the honor to be, very ‘4 iy , your obedient rant, 7. W. iG. ‘The statet oe ae MS ed force is in yhland al wiles from anton, proves tobe correct. These are the cemmand Generel Cox, 986 haye operating in the Running the Blockade. From the Pima Whig, Ne, 6) om Charleston, dated ber 80, in the Columbie Sou'/h Carolinian , announces blished ine arrival q were owned b; tes in Fngland fa Table fo the Gee hand frigate sty vith pack ‘arlicles as were thought needed by 0" (It will be seen by our marine intglligence that the Hoe- rald sailed from Bermuda on the 26th of October, with a clearance for St. Andrews, N. B.—Editor Hzma.p.)} m, Van Dorn on Battle at Corinth. fohowing act {rom an order recently issued by ‘an Dorn is taken from the Grenade @PEcIaL 0: NO. 84, ) ARTERY, or Weer Texyesses, Srawos, Oct. 17, 1662. jintments of Generals Cabell, Phifer and to the command of Drigades, not having been " ers are necessarily relieved. The 3. The quarmed offic tl ding thanks these gentlemen for their oki iy a! ‘and conspicuous gallantry on the battle of Corinth, and expresses his sorrow at being pelled to relieve them of their this when of battle had barely unveiled that bloody, but, to them, gl .. Not thei pom we 80 nobly fought the battle of Corin' fault of fallure—that misfortune is his. By order of Gereral Dorn the “failare’’? in his late battle at Corinth. He says from no fault either of his officers or his t , but was his own misfortune. The Destraction of a: Sophia) of Voiteats ‘From the Richmond way ov. 10.) ‘On the inet. the blockaders ‘Wilmington, fired upon and destroyed o bark, loaded with salt other valuable articles. Sho was from Seer and endeavoring to run the blockade. The and made their escape, but saved nothing whatever. Silas be bie te steele way toons Dat wero unal ~ . + ‘and sent to Fort Msher. ibe next Diockaders with 5 tine E i : Hy The Latest Rebel Telegrams. VHB YANKEE RAID INTO FREDERICKSBURG. Freomrickest rc, Nov. 9, 1 Seventy-five Yankees come here 5 that Stiart made a daring raid into Maryland Thursday, capturing one hundred and fifty prisoners; that the demo- crate have swept the North; that England and France bave recognized the confederacy, and that Lord I yons is 80 instructed. ‘The raid was most bold and daring. MESSAGES OFTHE GOVERNOR OF GEORGIA. MILLEDGEVILLE, Nov. §, 1562. Governor Brown's annnal message wes read to the Le gisiatureon Thursday, He refers principally to topics of Feate interest, ‘ny Agpecial mestage he tak s zrovnd awaiost the Com. cme law, and submits the subject to the Legislature for ion. He algo recommends action on the subjects of martial , habeas eorpus and impressment of private pro- RAILROAD ACCIDENT. Avaveta, Nov. 7, 1862. ot collision occorred on the Columbia brauch of the siete irolina Railroad yesterday, near Orangeburg. ent. Maroney, of the Palmetto Guards, was killed . P. Phillips and ye pile « trem New orints and family arrived at Mobile on the 4th ra. Phillips is the lady who was imprisoned by Batler Senuening while the funeral of De ioy.8 federal officer, her house. Sh - leet te ns © Buffered much before her re- ‘ XORTHPRN » ; Houty spr : Nov. 7, 1862. ‘The excitement consequent upon the reported advance of the abolitionists has subsided. Tuey « Ot e saver toa ey did not come this INTERESTING FROM SOUTH CAROLINA. The Yellow Fever Raging at Charleston— Powerful Rams Building for the Rebel Service—The Blockade Run by an Iron-Plated Steamer—Ineffeciual Attempt of the Union Gunbeat Flambeau to Stop Her, &e., &e., &. Boston, Nov. 12, 1862. The correspondent of the Boston Journal writes from on board the United States steamer South Carolina, off Charleston, under date of October 18, as follows: — ‘The British frigate Racer, by permission of Flag Officer Green, entered Charleston harbor, and took away, as @ passenger, the British Consul. The Consul says that the rebels have just Inunched o powerful ram, and that two more aro all ready for plating with iron, which they expect every day to arrive England in an iron-plated steamer. He also reports the rebel steamer Nashville lying at the mouth of six miles from Charleston, watcbing for a chance to run out. He reports that there were over two hundred cages of yellow fever at Charleston when he left. The samo correspondent, under date of October 19, writes as follows: About ten o’clock Inst night heavy firing was heard to the northward, which continued for balf an hour, From the sound of the guns this firing was judyed to be about eight miles off, This morning a boat arrived from the flagship, in- forming us that a vessel had run the blockade during the night, and the firing heard was from the Flambeau, which got underweigh before tho steamer ran the line of the blockade, and attempted to stop her; but she took not the slightest notice of the Flambeau, which fired twenty-two shots «gainst her sides but they rattled off like so much hail, Sho must have been iron-plated, and very thick at that, or the Flam- beau’s rifle shote would have gone through her; but she did not seem to mind them, and kept on up the channe} and ran in. It is thought that sho isthe vesrel the rebeis expected with the iron plates for the rama, and if £0, we must expect some hot work before long, unless wo have something besides wooden ships to contend with them, NEWS FROM KENTUCKY. Attack on the Rebels, Under Colonel Wood- ward, Near Garrettsburg—The Rebels Routed and Driven from the State Official Despatch from Gen. Grant, he, &., ke, ono inleb, ‘Wasmnarox, Nov, 12, 1862. ‘The following was received at the headquarters of the — a ‘Lacrayer, Tenn. , Nov. 11, 1862. Major Goneral H. W. Haniacn, General-in-Chief:— > The following despatch bas just been received from General Davis, at Columbus:— The expedition commanded by Brigadier General Ran- som has proved a great success. It came up with Colonel Woodward’s rebel force, eight hundred strong, near Garrettsburg, and after a short engagement killed sixteen of his men, among them one captain and a lieutenant, wounding forty, in~ cluding one captain and two lieutenants, and taking twenty-five prisoners, all their horses and fifty mules, a large pumber of arms and equipments, half the camps of Woodward's men, including his own, routing the whole concern and driving them out of the State of Kentucky. Our loss was three killed and seven wounded, U, 8. GRANT, Major General. IMPORTANT ARRESTS. Captare of the fen of George N. Sanders with Despatches for Europe—Salling of an English Vessel in Waiting for Him, &e., &e. &e. Barrons, Nov. 12, 1862. ‘The United States gunboat Hercules, Captain Dungan, arrived here this morning from @ cruise along the border of Virginia. On the morning of the 24 inst., just before daylight, Lieutenant Baker, with an armed boat’s crew, discovered a party on shore signalizing to some rebel soldiers sta. tioned up® small inlet. Finding they were discovered, they took to their beats, and tried to escape. ‘After half an Gour’s chase a boat was captured, which was found to contain three men, with signal lanterns, flags, arms, &e. One of the party proved tobe Major Reid Sanders, s regular officer of the rebelarmy, and son Of George N. Sanders. ‘The other two were English sailors. At the time of their capture they were expecting a veenel to convey Major Sanders to Eurepe, with rebel despatches, and wero signalizing for that purpose. The two English sailors landed from a vessel from Halifax, N. 8., about ten days previous, which brought over a prominent rebel, with despatches for the rebo 1. ‘The vessel which was to convey the rebel despatches toEurope was lying about four miles outside; but upon discovering the capture of Major Sanders and the two English sailors it immediately proceeded out to sea, * — WEWS FROM MISSOURI. Hllness of General Schofield—Assesement om the Rebels of Clay and Clinton é&e., deo. ranay sania Sr. Lovis, Nov. 12, 1862. Advices from headquarters state that General Schofield Lies prostrated with typhoid fever at Springfold. Mean whilethe Army of the Frontier is under the command of the senior officer of the division. Ceneral Vaughan, commanding in Clay and Clinton counties, Missour!, has ordered an assessment of $10,000 ‘on the disloyal citizens of the former and $5,000 on the latter for the subsistence of the militia. Important from the West Indies. THE BRITISH ADMIRAL AT HALIFAX TO TAKE A FLEET ‘TO BERMUDA—OPERATIONS OF ADMIRAL WILKES’ ITED STATBS SQUADRON, ETC. UNITED (OT the Bermuda Royal Gasette, Oct 28.) Mine, with 8 large fet, will feave Haifax for real "9 steam “Immortalite, Afty-one Her Splain’ Hancock, arrived on Friday last from ‘The Ariadne was still at Halifax with the admiral. reports ening of the 12th fg ead the reefs at the about ix niles from land, sees observ eamer, painted ‘ay, mak’ we Saas; beens 3 pean taunelly “nnd ‘algo saw of hich’, the Sonoma, was ed from the id Gea Veenty ‘minutes, after which the gunboat and in a weg taco he asic fon y er visiting re 5 5 United States afer .5 only Fefereuce wo find to him is. in posed he did onx Ttematp of the 18th, which paper alludes: tho Neve rrom these lands of the 11th, published in the - Halitax papers, complaining of his conduct while ia these: waters.