The Sun (New York) Newspaper, October 7, 1864, Page 1

THIRTY-FINST VRAR. ) NUMBER 10,063. ¢ The Latest New ‘By Telegraph to the XN. Y. Sam. GEN. SHERMAN DEPARTMENT. i Rebel Operations in the Rear, DESTRUCTION OF RA'LROAD PROPERTY Severo Battle at Altoona. DECISIVE FEDERAL VICTORY. Rebel Loss I leavy. ANOTHER FIGHT NEAR NASHVILLE. Drove of Our Cattle Starapeded, THE WAR IN MISSOURI, General Ewing at St. Louis. HIS TOTAL LOSS UNLY 300 MEN. MORE RKRIDAE BERNING, Detaiis of Rebel Outrages, Philadelphia-Riehmond News. THE CONFEDERACY MOVING SOUTH. A“ Last Ditch” to be Looked Up, DRAFT RESISTANCE IN PENN, The Oticers Viced Upon. 4& SOLDIER Sil0T DEAD. &e,, iy te, THE General Brnith commands the forces at that point including the enroiled militia under Gen. Pike, The !stest accotmte from Price place him «ix tiles west of Union on Tuesday on the take Jeffereon City, instal Tom Reynolds ee Gov- ernor, and hold the Btate for the Confederacy. Generel Mower has been heard from, but any information as to his whereabouts is forbidden. SROOND DIRPATOR. St. Lowia, Oct, 6.—The rebela burned the Osage Bridge on the Paeific railroad, eight miles thie ade away without firings shot, The rebele are using the two trains captured at Millen's Landing, to transport thelr artillery. A force of rebels (atrength unknown) were reported croming the Osage River at Rock, eight or ten miles from Jefferson City, on Tuesday. The railroad is being rapidly repaired, (Bo Mail.) The Stewe of Pilot kh and subseqaent Operations, The rebel attack on Pilot Knob war conducted With great persistence and by overpower.ng num- bers, The forces directly engaged against it are estimated at not logs than @ thousand, with heary co-operating forces to the number of five thousand atother paints cutting off supplice and holding itecits positions, the loss of which @nally com- pellet General Ewing to evacuate by dermonstrat- ug the hopelessness of continued resistance. Our troc pe behaved with a bravery that bas not been p@railcled in Missourt since the battle of Wilson's vreck, When the main assault took place our mea Were principally iu the rifle pits running North ot the Fort. The enemy descended the mountains and attacked the works on throe eides advanclow op the double quick. Genera! Fwing promptly withdrew bis men to the inside of the Fort, and covered the movernent by training several places of ertillery om the advancing enemy. Genera! Cabell cominanded the asaailing party on the east. Gen- eral Marmaduke waa to lead the aseault on the south, but failed to come to tine. The other com tmanders are not known, A rebel battery ou Shep- herd'’s Hi!) throw shelle {nto and about the GENE 1, SHEER MAN. pretty freely, but without any other reault at fi than the kitting of one of our artillery horses out- Rebel Depredutions in the Rear.—Severe | site the fory and checking the adrane of Fi, hting. their own = men, Au event transpired at Sushville, Oct. 6 —Ov toc 4th hast. « large force | this juncture that threatened —— serious consequences to our forces en our appear«! on the Chattan ors Railroad, near Ack-« estroved several pieces of the track and burned fg Shanty. A rebe worth Station, aud e near Dalton, on the 3d, moving in ection, bad 260 way On tas ns iy ¢ men wee withdrawa from the ontside works they came in by the riffle-pita upon which General Ewing ord the drawbrdge to be raised, But Unfortunately the ropes bioke, and the ge fell back to its place, Tue rebels npted to tale vantage of thi, and pushed forward on a run City roel. His force consists of 15,000 fighting | “fps men, cavalry and mounted infantry, and about | come out. He eme 6,000 camp followers, The camp talk was to the | * offect that a! his movements indicate a design to | pierced with tweuty bullets, | | \ | Pe iY Sane Pol : Au RIDAY, OCTOBER @rawn up before the aoldiers, who cried and begged | instantly. for their lives, but every man was shot. Ali fell but one, who wae shot through the shoulder dashed through the nerrifiag ran through the Ine of citizens, cha: and fired at by the fienda, Jeferson | crawled under the cara, ead from thence under whe building. butiding wan fired, and he wae soon forced from the smoke and ames, and with a club knocked down two of An- derson's men before they killod him. He fell The pissengers were then robbed of their watches, jewelry and money One young man wason his way to St. Joseph with bis mosher, He alipped a hundred dollars i. green- backs into his lag, and on aemaud handed over the balance, A guerrills asked him if he had se- creted any money, and he denied that he hac, He was wld that he would be searched, and if any funds were found on him that be would be Billed. He then acknowledge! that he had se- cretad one hundred doilars in hie boot, which was of Jefferson City, resterday morning. Thie is the | drawn oi! by she guerrilla, the money obtained and largest bridge on the road, The milftia guard ran | the young man shut dead. A gold wath was fourm in the boot of e Germma, aud he was instant- ly kitied, From New Oricans. By the arrival of the steamer Merrimac we havo news from Louisiana to the 30th of Bap'ermber, An order bas been issued by General Canby, directing planters in Louisions to leave one-fourth of their cane crop for seed. All producte rained in the De- partinent of the Gulf are subject to the Len of the laborer, and ean be held til! hie claims are acquit- ted. Cotton is declining. Sales were made yes- terday at @1 67'4 for middling. Quotations are nomnloal under the depressing news from New York. The new General Arserodly was to meet on Monday, October Bd. The rebels have been completely cleaned out of the district around Mor- @evzia The Glasgow arrived from Motnle Bay on the 28th. Her officers state that all is quies there. Army of the Potomac, Washington, Oct. 6.—Nothing especially inte- resting wae received from the Army of the Poto- mnc to~day, It appears, however, that the ad- vanced position gained last week is strengthened ; but there is little danger of the rebels atteropting to lislodge our army, General Lee being considered too weak to make euch e movement, A Knowing Rebel OfficerHighly Ieport- ant Developments If True. Philadelphia, Oct, 6.—The Ixquinrn has the following special despatch from ita correspondent at Washington: Wushington, Oct, '.—I bave hed @ conversation to day with @ very intelligent rebel sergeant-major, who hes been serving in Colonel Colaton's brigade of Genera! Feth's divistoo. He left the rebel lines on inesday last, and saya that, although Gener- a! Lee and his captains Lave made everything bend to thew imperative will to send evorything to the EP IEH Zs fies J} when a few flour barrels were rolled upon the | comminsariat, yet great difficulty is experienced in A severe fight occurred at Altoona yesterday, be bridye, tehiud whieh our men astoutiv re | giving the troops enough food, even of the well- tween the garris a and a body of rebelinfantry. | waited the advancing enemy. General Ewing | known corn meal ration, The supplies at Rich- The Federal ions waa considerable, Gen, Corse | then ordered @ battery of Leavy artillery | mond have given ont, and resort is had to the coun- Tourlette were woanced. The rebel joss | t@ Mileuce the battery on Shepberl’a Mili, |} try south and southwest, The cropa have an . - = “in orler to prevent the rebels trom yerting the | been weized cverywhere as fast as gathers, ia stated by the prisoners captured to have been | renzo of he fort and ebolling us out. Thinorder | and burried to the army depots, The heavy It wase cted that the Lattle would be | War ek ilully executed,and the enemy's guna wore | people of Richmond and Petersburg, such ae sile Our heavy guns pon the ess and oir | as were able, bave left thor aud gone resumes ¢ infantry fire were then used with such good effect | South. Those remaining are surrounded with sick A division of the rebe! fores was seen moving Up | ghat tlie rebels were thrown int) contusion, aud | and wounded eoldiers ana suffer terribly for the » b River, probstiy with the intention of | they bioke inky fleeing back the mountain, | he commonest necessaries. Like w grent tau ° enneasee R yen | OF KrEpe ter aud nfo balls on ng them | Ice bas not forgotion his line of retreat. crossing to thie cide, The Tennessee River is @oven | iawn Ly goures, Afow who reached the cover of fortified Dunville at all poluts very recently, feet deep on the shoals, and still rising the ssjening woods kept up = demulter av | has prepared temporary defences on the route axCOND DISPATCH, fire ont dark, w operations ou txt thither, He bas taken a number of bis beoavy guns 2 geet .. i G i re suspended Thos « mero bandf.. of | froma Richmond and Lynchburg to Dany.lle, and Nashville, Tenn. Oct. 6.—The rebel Captain 2 at bay and drove back a force ten tow | has mobilwed bis army for ue sence of Blackwell, on the oveh ult, aurpiised and coptured | ther numbers Our loss was nine killed and s sty | desperate contlone seen he anopaien Se miarcs, num hint 0, ) wounded, Tue revel loss was about a t the vicinity is present px ne ie some guards, numbering thirty-two, at mabye mt Pp to the fo] owing evenny the rebels bas been meade military dictator, but bas Tenn . and ned the railroad depot, and « bot of tetapt to bury r dead, which were ! signed a compact with the rebel authorities to pur- arms and mun ns of war. Ten of the Federal | scores around th rtin ail directions sur, ae priscners were shot b. Uiackwe.! near Fayetteville, | The balance were le Forrest, 6ix of tho latter escaped, and had reached Shelbyville. One hundred and fifty rebels, under Duval McNairy, attacked Lieutenant Blizzard, of the Fifth Tennes see cavalry, in charge of & large drove of cattle from Johusonvive The Feceral guacds numbered | fixty; bal’ whom were killed, wounded, or | eaptiied, the balance escaped, and arrived here | aafels of the cattle, and large 6 straying Wrongh try ered There was a stampede mnbers are the coun- TAIRD DISPATCH Attack on Alatoonn Repolsed, 6 At 6 o'clock yesterday morning the enemy attacked A atoona, with artil- The position was ocen Rebel Chitirrooga, Oct lery and infantry ied by a | portion of Gen. Smith's Corpa a) fight continued st intervals during the latter part of ¢t day, and every move of the! eneme waa bandsomely repulsed, with fove ons to the relels, In the evening they hastily retreate? toward Daltes and Dallas, leaving | their et, aod 400 t 69% wounded in our pos- session. Uur loss was about 300 killed, wounded, oud missing. General Corse ts reported wound. el. Firing bes been heavy in the direction of Kenesaw durtne the das | This is the Srst fair day affor a rain of ten ctys' durat All the atresms are overflowing and | have washed away tte bridget at Ringyold, Re- | farce aud Chotiabrocie, The @wo tires used will be pull & f fifteen wuerrilaa, under Lieut Her- the gd Tr secreted theiu- avee, having ! selves near toe coal bank at Re.ly's Ferry, when | the steamer Ressca landed for ¢ Sred on her | and set her on tre, crow seutt'ed ber and | saved her hull aud We machinery with which she wes loaded, From Miissour1, Arrival of Gen Ewing at St. Lonis— Escape of bis Command, ete, St. Louis Get, 6 —Gemneral Ewing and several oft reached here last night, Knob to De Bote, with 1 Te Soto he took the Hus retroat from Plot Knob was | sol bis command having marched from P anescoricf 49 mon. F ears to this place nom ‘ested, uut!l about twenty miles from Har | risen Btaton, where the rebels attacked him tn | force, and were driven back by artillery with lose. Two other attacks wore made, both of which were | repulsed On arriving at Harrison Station on Weineday night, be erected some slight breast. | works, planted cannen, and fought the enemy | coustantiy uotil Ssturdsy afternoon, when Colonel Beveride, with 600 of the Seventeenth Iinois Guval- ry, arrived from Kolls, and the rebels retreased, Farly on Sunday morning the command etarted for @ I'm which point they reached the same evening, with ahont 700 men and alof his artillery, The tetal ommand fram the beginning of the mege of Pilot Knob is about 300, momly , eraonere loss of the — | drafred | 25th Missouri infaatry. | I 1p too houorable a man Subsequently the enemy resorted{to regular siege operations the resultef which would necessarly rendor the Fort untenable. General wing, there- fore, determined to save his comman), and fall buck after destroying all the public proper y, Hin march was severely harassed, but be conducted the retreat in such a masterly manner, that he euc- ceeded in baffing the atempia of the enemy, and brought bis men in with a con.psratively insignifi- eant loss. During the attack on Pilot Knob, the rebel Gene tals Sneiby and Fagin, each commanding @ divis- lon, woved rounl ta Farmington, to attack a fot. eral brigade uncer Colone! Mills at Mineral Pons, Colonel Mills, Lowever, saved bie command by a tmely reveat upon General 4... @mith’s force at De Soto. It is stated thet the original number of mon under Price amounted to twenty-five thour- and, nud that five thousand = recruita fron Missouri had since joined hie ranks. The rebela claim that the greater part of the men joined their ranks Price's forves are said to be well equipped, A large pro- tion consist of mounted intantry, who move bh reat celerity. The horses and miles rode trom Arkansas eppear bal!-starved and in bad con- dition, but the men seem in excellent condition Lhe horses are exchauyed as fast ax posmble for fresh ones belongin, to Unionate, The most gee- yous ontraves are reporte of the guerniles, The iron companies lost heav!y A quarter of a mil- Kon of dollars will not repay the loss tuficted im the Iron Valley, Forges aud large factories were deuwoyed, The enemy, of course, live upon the country, The disposition of our forces, however, sre of a character (hat proralees ® speody teriaina- tion of these retel pranks Additional Details of the Centralia Slaaghe ter, From an eye witness, wa: late issue of the St, Joseph, Mo. Hewarp, we learn the horrible details of the Cenirale aluugbter A. soon as the tralu stepped, Anderson walked to fattorm aud ordered the passenvers to warch 4 One informant suid Anderson appeared to be nan about five feet ten wocbes bigh, rather wlim, lacks beard, long tiack batr, iueliued to cur!, aud aituyether a promising looking man of about %2 yearsofage He wae dreseemiin a Federal soldier's coat, black pants aud cavalry has He ordered the citizens—rmen, women and children io march in one direction, where they were jorined in lines two deer, and those dressed in soldier's clothes weru rourched in an opposite direction, Iv getting of the prapords two of the soldiers hung beck, and talked against olering erdera, They were shot by Anderson, and tuu.bled off Le- tween the cars, This had the effect of causing a Flaca pede of passengers, who rushed of the cars in great confusion. There were soldiers aboard the train, belonging so the 24d, 24th and the old Some were wounded and sick, returning home on furlough, and some were discharged. A}| the éoldiers were formed into ling and Anderson walked up to them and thus ad- dressed them: “Your federals have just killed six of my sn!- dicrs scalped them, and left them on the prairie. permit apy man to be solped, but I will ghow you that I can ki!l_men with a6 much skill and ity ag anybody. From this tune forward I ask no quarter aud give none. Kvery federal soldier on-Wbom 1 put my finger shall dieltke @ dog. —If I to youg clutches I expoct death. You are thea’ tto bell, Tuis is the way ever, ujhor aball bo serv- ed who falls into my Some of the soldiers rem gW@e.and declared that they were just from Skene. » aripy and had nothing whatever to do with the killing or acalping of any of his men. Anderson replied t “T treat you aitasone, You are federala, and federals acalped Ty men,end carry thenr scalps at the saddle-bows."* 4 line of bushwheckers with revolvers were then A TIT TE IDEA BIOL LO ODE EE EET LAE OTE EINE ELODIE ES it TI EO ES ras possible, @ certain potitico-militery ugresied by them. Mr. Davie and cabines ave left Richmond, and will probebly settle in Colum bia, Bouth Carolina, or Raleigh, North Caro- lina. Itis known that the government archives, arma, ammunition, &c, have been cent to Dau- ville, which is Lee's bene of supplies. All the newspapers except the Wuie ere moving south from Richmond. The rebels have more respect for Grant's military ability than Qe disunionists ofthe North have. This rebel ssya that Goneral Grant's plana of operations will certainly succeed in the end—perhaps very soon. Tis has been the convic- tion of the solid thinkers of the South ever since Grant landed bisarmy on the south bank of the James River. It is southwest of that river thatthd greai battle of modern times must soon be fought, end, in all probability, the decisive one of the war Grant's plan is asid tobe as follown: Sheridan wil! take Charlottesville and move toward Richmond from the west. A large force if said to have taken Abingdon, an important town in seuth- weatern Virginia, the depot of the products of the vast salt mines of that region, This force Is ex- pected to move upen Lrwmrerg, Gencra Lee with an inadequage army, 18 endeavorng to seep back all of these colum but berein is Grant's advantage, as, if Lee weakens bis line by taking away a single division, Grant will at once move on bin and use bir up = This reve! tli us tha’ * is thought Grant will tske both Richmond end Petors- burg without ax wsasuls in force, He wil! sovn entirely outflank General Gap end force Lin w w- treat, policy Instructions ty Kebel Newspapers. The following telerram was found in the tele- graph office at Harrisonburg, Ve, after our troops eutered the place: By Telegraph, Richmond, July, 11, 1364,-To the Fditor of the Rockingham Rey'ster:—It i¢ ub- served that one of the columns of your paper of the Sth Sust., is headed, ‘News from Earfy's Army." Silence as to the number of our troops at al! points and by whom comumnded, bas become of the frat importance, It is also desirable thet the enemy should be mystified as to the whereabouts of Gen eral Leo birnsclf, Nor should it Be stated that Gen- eral Ewell bat been acparated from bis corps or where he |s, Please bear in mind these stggeations Signed 8, Coorre Adjutant end Inspector General, Resistance to the Draft. A Federal Ofticer and bis (ivuard Fired Upon ip Pennsylvania —A Soldier Killed, Easton, Pu., Oct, 6.—Private Leander E. Deane, of Capt, Stroud's Cavalry, of Philadelphia, was shot through the head with s ball, and in several Parts of the body with buckshot eud instantly killed, near the house of Jecob Miller, in Price township, Monroe Co., Pennsylvania, yesterday. A squad of men, be being one of them, had gone outese gaard to the person who was to serve no- ticesupon the drafted men of thas townshiy, and while riding along the road they were fred upon from the bushes, with the result above nemed. Millor and a man named Seese wore arrested by the comrades of the deceased, and brought to Btrouls- burg last evening, and were taken to Philadaphia to-day. Dease was » highly respoctable young man, and « resident of Philedelphis. Seldier Shot by a Copperhead. Chicago, Oct,8,—This evening Dr. Faris, # ne *o- rious Virginia traiter, residing bere, sbot, withe ut provecation, George W. McKibbina, » return 4 eoldier of the Twenty-ffth Lilinaie billing hig He | (, 1864. Renry McKibtins, brother of the de- ceased, wae sleo wounded. The outraged com. rades of the deceaned pursued Faris to the house Of Dr Laman, anothertnotorious rebel. They sur- rounded the house and demanded the surrender of Parts, Liman murrendered the murderer, when the exasperated soldiers put twenty bullets through | him, The outraged community refuse to let the traitor be buried from either of the churches, From Mexico. Additional Facts end Ramors. New York, Oct 6.An arrival to-day from Hav- ana announces the arrival a¢ thet port of the Apan- ish stoarner Rarcelona, with advices from Vere Cruz to the 19th of September. The Vera Cruz papers contain accounts of the abandonment by the French of various towns and cities, and their occupation by the Republican troops, Among those towns are Zecualtipe and Zi- tacuaro, The French on the other hand still occupy Victoria City, Monterey, and Balullo. President Juarez was on hia way to Chihuahua, The Acapul- co expedition has suffered mnch from guerrillas, and from a scarcity of provisions, The Eiuperor waa expected to return to his capi-+ fal on the 12th. He has been unwell from an affoo- tion of the throat, but at Inat accounts wee well enough to enable the Empresa to sttend the por. formance of * Lucia’ ab the opera. There was quite an accident at Medellin on the evening of the lath. The bridge of the railroad at that place gave way while strain wae passing over. The locomotive, two freight, and @ passenger car were thrown Snto the river, but there were no lives lost, This accident will prevent for » time the use of the road, Officers on the French war veasels at New Or- leana started e report on the 28th, that Matamoros ‘was in possession of the French on the 21. Pater news proves this story false. Cortiuse is atill there, end defiant ee ever. Impertant from San eo Rasered Seabmiasion of the Kcbhela Alvices have been received bere from Ban Do- mings, to the 24th ultimo, A statement bad been published in the Mianio ps La Manisa, of Havana, that, after e mecting between General Mungrie and the Minister of Balaeic, at Guarica, the robela egreed to lay down their arma and submit to the Queen, ‘‘withoat conditions of any kind what- ever,"* because they are tired of war und have et last been undecoived, Thatall the priwonera they hold are to be gaihered at Santiago de ‘los Ce.valle- pos and delivered in Monte Christo, Nows Items, [Dp Telegraph to the New York un.) Trevton yesterday, and nominated am electoral ticket, Tur new ironclad double-turrett.d wear steamer Monadnoc, and the gunboats Massssott, Brooklyn and Saco, will leave Charlestown (M iss.) Yard to-day for Fortress Monroe, A rnize fight occurred, yesterday, ab Edgegitill, Montgomery County, Penn. between Harris and Martin, both of New York. The former’was backed by Philadelphians, and was badly beaten, after a Aght of 45 minutes. The fight was witnessed by 1,500 people. Tue National Horse Fair cloned at Providence, B 1, to-day, with a trotting match fer 1,000 pre- minm, between Mrinca, of Hartford, and Lady Emma, of New York. Prince won tn threeatraight | heats. Time, 2.516 ; 2.82; and 2.89%. The Fm- | preas did not stars. Philadelphia, and is suffering severely. His left leg has Leen amputated below the knee sawed pearly a A mas in Hartford being ‘short,’ killed hie dog and took bim to the Selectmen to obtain the dollar offered for all dead dogs, The Selectmen demand- ed two dollars from bim for not having registered the animal. In disgust, the man walked off, and threw the carcass in the river, and was fined next day for doing e0, to the statute in such made and On Wednesday ni the Terre Haute, Aiton and Bs. through, spperently expectation that the tsidire would brek trough, "Toe wala couiaar cases provided, few miles west of Bhel He, oH ph oF eoldiers would break through, Tbe train Navy Ir has been stated that Captein Lardncr was re- lieved of hia command in the Weat InPlee, This wan for the reason that the veasels which composed the Squadron have ceased to he a separate ficet. Cruisers, however, will continue to be employed in those waters, and to act as convoys to Calitoruia ateamers Tar City Mall building in Lynn, Moss., waa des- troyed by fire yesterday morning An unknown man, confined in the basement for ingoxication, wan burned to death. The city records were naved. Tar Governor General of Nova Scotia called on the President, yesterday, im company with the etiitant Becretary of State, and was the object of marked official attentions ‘Tur present indications are, says a Washington dispatch, that Admiral Farragut will continue in command of the Western Gulf Blockading Bquad- ron, instead of being transferred to the North At- Jantie squadron, as recently widely announce), The Intter, a in known, embraces the vessels on the Nerth Carolina coast, Admiral Porter has been ordered to its command, and will without dolay enter upon bis duties, His successor In command of the Mississipp! equadron has not yet beeu desig- bated, General Intelligence. (By Mail to the New York Sun} Awit remarks that the defence of Atlante was eu act of Hardee-Mood (Aardihood ) Ir is wtated thas the ye of wo Amoricaa private soldier excecds that of # captain in the French army. Cuaguas Dicxers, the novelist, has bought the *<ireat Bed of Were," that Shakespeare and Byron talk about, He paid 9000 for it, aud it will hold 40 grown people. A ovriaen of Maryland was tried op the 6th, on a charge of conducting a rebel force into that Btate. He wae found guilty, and sentenced to @ term of ioprisonment in New York. A woman Jo Michigan lately took hold of what she suppored to be a stcve-holder on the floor of kitchen, the other day, and found itto be a large retsie-snake. She escaped being bitten, but how is @ wystery. Bria, Grn. Jonn B. McInvosn, who was wound- ed in one of Bheridan's batties, ia now at the resi- dence of bis brother-in-law, Kov. Mr. Appleton, in ujs Railroad, » t, the timbers of » bridge on | Tar New Jersey Deinocratic Convention met at | PRICK ONE CEN’ TWO CENTS IN IN GOLD, RRENCY. flere Goldiers passed over safely, but the next, @ P train, broke ihromueh, willing the engineer bedly scalding the fre:nan, A Gaaman Ieckemith bas a plan for teasing strong boxes without keys. Ingde the box is place: 8 clock-work, the band of which the owner places to the hour and minute when he wants aceras to the box. The elock-work beyina to move na soon as the lid is shut, and opens the lock from the ir ride at the moment which the hand of the clock indicates. Time, dependant upon the owner, inthe Key to the lock—e koy which can ucither be stolun from him nor {miteted. Ges, Wiss, from Shajdan's headquarters, a@ Harrisonburg, represents that the destruction and capture of rebel property by our cavalry, in their lato (reas raid in the vicinity of Biaunton, were on ® Colommal seale, and most complete in their exceu- tion. More than 100 mille were destroyed, the Central Ratlrowi waa badly ont up, ands of 2400 cattle aud eheep wan brougit back to Harri- aces: werrilias have pat arendones Te: Bounty, to operate, 7 wt if eri - dans face p it is supposed, in GUBKIILLA depredations are hacoming numerous Oo the Misaiae)p. River in «pite of the vigilance of the munbout fleet. Thus far thee are more annoy- ing hear pataen ua The steanor Adam Jacobs received thirty shots near Tipionville on Thursday, but without damage to areal oF property. e ferne night the steamer Kenton was fired into be- few arendon, on her way from White River. ‘wo hundred shots were fired at her, and abe bad & Darrow escaws, The gunboat No. 80" waa ete tacked near Deval's by » hundred guereilina with muskets, who liy in amburh on both aides of he River The gunboat opened ure with shot and shell and soon kent the guern scampering inte the wood No one on the gunboat wae burt bela were seoa to fall on the River Bince bull terriers have become the ineviteble pursuivants of the “liens? of Paris, the noble 8} of rat-killing haa Lecome the fashion, and ie bas started a new trade am ng the costermon pend and chifionicra It appears that rate on the Oak -out for food take refuge on the slightest alarm in the cast-aetal conduits which cross the trottoira In Paria and join the leaden pipes which convey taln-water from the roofs of the houses to the street, Aa soon as the rat-cateher, by the aid of his dark lautern, porce.ves # rat taki sbalter im one of these metal waterecou © introduces an iron shovel inio the lou. tudinal slitinthe conduit, thus closing one end, while bis ompanton places Qu iron cage atibe 4 1; by pok with an fron rod through the «lit, the luck less rat fs obliged to take refer in the cage. There ia one special adept in this new Pirisian art, who, in the leet eighteen montha Lae caught 2500 rats, whose days were ended by the tool of the bull terriers Peaane to Messiours les Membres du Jockey lub, A Romarkablo Casc The Complication ef the Slave Question, Cincinnati papers of Oct. sb contain the follows ing: The moet remarkable cose of thet we ever heard of, and one which we presume bas no peraliel any- whero in the annals of crise, was ventilated a day or two ago in our Police Court Lis singularity aud complexity, together with the circumstances that cauned the release of the thief after he had mitted to bin quilt, prompt us to detail the case at some length, About tvo months ago anegro named Louis Stratton, in compauy with a friend alan col- ored, entered the banking-house of Gilmore Dun- ape Co, with a bag covtuining $4,000 in gold, which they wished to deposit subject to the order of Btratton, He, however, was unable to write his naing, and it was agroed that the mouey ahould be delivered to his friend on his order, his edu- cation, by the way, not haviug Leen so sadly neg- Tested an that of the owner of the gold, A few @ ago one William Allen appeared at the ayor's office ant crured a warvant to be iamued fer the arrest of Stratton, cl « him with the larceny of $8,000 in wold, the overty of John G. Barrett. Thin brought the we before Judge Ware ren, aud in the testimony adduced before the Police Court, the following facta were made apparent t— John G Barrett whe ven bat been stolen, isa resident of Louisville, and was the owner of « slave named Louis Stretton, whys, some months ago robbed his wiasier of his gold ava of ols servant, at the name time, came to thiscity. A search continued for some months, led to discover the money, pers atent eflorts of Bar- rett fiually vod him Lere, Upon being made aware of the charve upon which he had been arrested, through the advice uf his attorney, Stration pleaied qulity © taking the money, but eet up the lefeuse that he had been guilty of no crime. A rlave, who im Rentuckr steals his master's property ix not deemed guilty of larceny. He bad committed no offense againss the laws of Olio, and was charged with nove, The re- peal of the Fugitive Slave Law prevented hie re turn to his master under ite provisions, and a re quimtion from Gov, Bramletts eould not reach him for the reason above stated. This examination took placeon Saturday, but because of the peculiar ty of the case, it was con- tinued until yesterday for decision, at which time it was called up and disu 1, Stratton is richer through bis running away by the sum of about #6, 00 in greenbacks, at the present rates of gold, and his freedom, which combined, if properly used, may eventually render him wo excelent cit'zen, andin part be a payne f unrequit- ed toil he haa been compelled to undergo. uneart A Conscript and His Colorcd Substitate. Au Dinois correspondent om Egypt gives the following account of scenes on the cars in that sec- tion: The on!y fevture that interested me was the fact that on the train that reached Springfeld were many of the menu lately draited from Woodford They were all largely ‘a the substitute Each mothet'd son of them had snugly #Y in capacious pockets, the conventional of the Provost Marshal, ordering him to *pobive® report at the draft rendezvous at Springfield, and each had his pockets lined with greenbacks, more or lesa abundantly, with which to purchase a eul- wtitule, When be reached Spriugfield, Some had tukeu time by the forelock, and secured unto themselves strapping ‘niygers* Te would bave made » wile laugh to see bow wuddeniy thes patriots bad becuwe im. ued with love of the dusk Dildren fam. 1 noticed one mau partienlarly, wh body-guard to a likely young African, Whene Bawbo moved, bis dear conseript tmeud inoved alto, Did Sambe go out upon the platform to stretch bia less, the © T pb str 1 Lit legs too. Did Bambo sleep, the congeript slept, Lid Sambo intimate that be would like a whisky cocktail, the conscript rushed to a saloon and br titto him, Did Sambo want to smoke, the conser’pt tendered him a fragrant Havaus. He was continually tor- mented leet his prize suould escape, lest some other man with more greenbucks than he ->ould secure the services of the black man Stoo knew his importance, and loraed it + bis friend likes Kentucky planter over his rs." At last the Hegro, Just as the train reve! rugficld, became disguated, and sad, heah, massa, you've dun gone carried this ing too far, Lae hearne tell that sub'stutes is woth $000 in Springfield, You've agreed to pay me ¢2ht) but ‘won't do, masma, can't go for gon." I wish T could transfer to papor the blank look of astonishment and despair thas came over the visage of the conseript as he heard these words. The dusky “wubstitute’ had sounded the knell to al! bis hopes of escaping the draft. jue Mteaune as The Overdi n e—renre that She bi The steamabip Roanoke, Captain Drew, from Havane for this port has been due here mace the 4th inst., having left Havana on the 20th Bept, We learn from » reliable person on beard the steamship Hevana, which arr.ved at this port yesterday (ontanued on last pege.