The Sun (New York) Newspaper, October 21, 1864, Page 1

TH ' ‘ . a THIRTY.FIRST VAR. ) NUMBER 10,075. f The Latest By Tclegraph to the N. Y_. San. _—o GLORIOUS NEWS ! Sheridan Wins Again, A SPLENDID ENGAGEMENT. Longstreet Coripletely Reuted. 43 CANNON TAKEN, Large Supplies---Many Prisoners. REBEL MAJOR-GENERAL CAPTURED. SHERMAN HEARD FROM. Hood Badly Deteated LARGE NUMBER OF PRISONERS TAKEN THE WAR IN MISSOURI. Rebels Murdering the | Germans. WOMEN FORCED TO REMAIN IN BURNING HOUSE:3. THE RAID IN. VERMONT. Capture of Nine of the Thieves, RECOVERY OF 61 50,000, &e., &e,, tre. GENERAL SHERID/\N, A Glorious Victory !. War Department, October 20, 1564 —11.45 A. M. To Mojoy-Gereral Diz: A great batt le was fought end « aplendid victory won by Sheridan over Longstreet yesterday, at Cedar Creek. Forty-three pieces of artillery were <aptured and any prisoners among whom was the rebel Gen- era’ Rameour Om our ade Generale Wright aad! Ricketts wore wounded, and General Bidwell killed Fowrs M Stanton, Secretary of War, #2OOND DIAPATOR Wae Depirtment, Washington, Ort. 10.45 4. M Major-General Dir: Another great bat- ie was fought resterday at Cedar Creek, threaten- tre at first a great disaster, but finally resuiting "wn a victory for the Union forcem under General Bheridan more splendid than any hewatofore ach iev- oe The Department was advised vweaterday of the commencement of the battle by the following teewrame : Harper's Ferry, Va, Ort. 19 3:4) P.ML-Hon, Edictn M. Stanton, Secretary of War: The enemy ethackedt this tiorning ‘ Lhe attack was made on ebth Corps, and was at first suc ups, pridoners and wagons. our army with great impetuosity , mt day the left of the F jy they line wae te » aud heavy fiynting contin- 1 through the Sheridan wae reported at eot@ thins aud went out to the loulars rese:ved are not ofheial, and 4 though uo serious disaster could cred witbont direct bews trom Sberidan Resy ning, ectfulls, dubs D. Stevenson Drigader-General, Matters remained ip the doubtful state repro- erated be the f ms unt.! this morn- tug ai owlug telegram <a as rece. ved, the great vice tory won by Bheric Na pert Ferrt, Va, $30 A M, Oct, 20,—The pews from unta heac quarters at midnight ie fo the eft t the enemy surprised our forces | sesterday m t in some eonfusion this mide og artillery and pr ners, Sheridan arriv leld, reor- grnized our forces, drove the enemy beyon 1 Stras- burg 1, itis reported, forty-three pieces of rttlers, ‘od wag and ambulances, and & rae two thousand prisoners. The rout of the s J. leve D, Sravesson, Brigadier General Uy A fewy of bis vctory was received froin Mejor General nates later the following official report Bheridan i Coda 19,10 FP. M—To Lieut. Gen, Grant, City Voint:—1 have the honor to report that my aay at Codar Creek was attacked this morning before daylight, and my left was turned nfusion. In fact, most of the line was driven in confusion, @iib the loss of 26 pieces of artillery, I bastened from Winchester, where ] was on my reiurp trem Washington, and found tue armies be- Creek, Oct and driven tn ¢ News tween Middletown and Newtown, having been driven beck about four miles. There I tok the efer in hand, snd quickly united the corpa, and formed a compact line of battle just in time to repuler an attack of the ene- my, which wae handsomely done at about 1 PM. At 3 P.M. after rome changes of the cavalry from the left to right flank, T attacked with great vigor, driving and routing the enemy, capturing, socurdiug to the last report, 4) pieces of artillery and ¥ery many prisoners, 1 do not know yet the number of my caaualties or the losues of the ouemy. Wacons, traing ambulances and caissona in large aumbers are nour possesion They also burned sore of their trains. Geoera! Ramenur isa prisoner fn our bands, se verely, and perbape mortally wounded T have to regret the loes of Genoral Ridwel), kill- ed, and Cienerals Wright, Grover and Rickotty wounded, Wright ia slightly wounded. Affairs at times looked badiy, but by the gallant- ry of our brave officers and men, disaster bas been converted into a aplendid victory, Darknasa again intervened to abut off creater re. wulta, LT now occupy Strasburg, Ap noon as obtained I will send you further par- ticulars, (Signed,) P HH Smenmmas, Major-General, The battle was fought on the sane day, 19th of the month, that witnessed Sheridan's victory in Beptember. Whatthe numbers were opposed to General Sheridan is not yet reported to the De- partment, but the boldness, vigor and muccess of the attack strongly indicate that @ Leavy reinforce- ment had been sent from Richmond, with the ex- pectation of fulfilling Longatrest’s boast to amash up Sheridan. Valley, and had assumed command of the rebel Longstreet waa known to be in the army, and confident hopes of an overwhelming «in- aster to the Union army were boaatfully expressed for several days back by the rebel adherents in Washington and Baltimore, Fowis M. Brastos, Secretary of War, LATEST Baltimore, Oct 20,-We have no additional par- ticulars from the Valley, but all that we bear is to the effert that Sheridan's victory over Longatrest was most complete, The number of guna captured ere understood to include the re capture of those Which we lost in the mormng. The rebels are said to have continued their re- treat rapidly up the Valley, being with their loas of trains and artillery in no condition to make a successtul steud egninet Sheridan's victorious troops, Events l’receding the Battle. Cedar Creek, the scene of the above battle is wituate near Strasburg, about five miles] north of Fisher's Hill, where General Sheridan won his second brilliant victory over General Farly, on the 2d of Keptember last, [t in alao about twenty miles south of the acene of his first victory near Winchester. The rebela had been largely re-en- forced under General Longstreet, and pressed Gen. Sheridan's rear very closely as he retired down the Valley in pursuance of orders from Gen, Grant General Sheridan, however, continued to inflict severe blows upon the rebel advance, and sent the enemy “whirling up the Valley,"’ ashe expressed it. On Monday last it was Known that the enemy had fortified Fisher's Hill, or Fisher's tiap, as it fe sometimes called. Thisis @ point in the outer ridge ofthe Great North Mountaineone of the many paralie! mountain ranger that etretch nearly due North and South of Northern and Central Virginia, These mountain chains are peculieriy favorable for defensive warfare, and it was to them that Jeff Deviehad reference when he declared some time since that if driven out of Richmond,[and if all the reat of the Canfederacy were lost, he could still wage a defenidve war in Virginia for twenty years, Anal force can hold most of the gaps in these ranges agains largely superior numbers, and they did Gen, Early good service in enabling him to elude Sheridan's pursuit. Through the delay oc- casioned by the necessity of both flanking and fighting the enemy's sinall bands out of these or breaks in the mountains on either side tha: 0 the Valley of the Bheuaudosh, Early finally suc- ceeded in escaping throush Brown's and Rock Fish Gapa in the Bue Ridge, in the directa of Gor- dousvilie and Charlottesville. General Sheridan did not follow the enemy through the Gepa, but devoted himeelf to carrying out Genera! Grant's orders to devastate the Valley and render It inca- pable of again supporting en iavading turce, Ho prosecuted this work with great eneryy, snd sent out cavalry and infantry detachments in a!) cree tiona, The Valley was socn marked by desolation, The houses of the inbabftanta were forthe most part spared; butthe barns and produce were destroyed, and lve stock of all kinds was carried or driven of, Thundreds of barns could be seen on tire at one time, aud Genera! Sheridan reported that a total of three thousand barns Gilled with grain and produce were burned. Five thousand cattle were aleo driven off, Having desoluted the Valley so that an invading force, having an attack on Washington in view, would be compelled to carry supplies as it advanced, Genera! Sheridan retired to Strasburg, which was fortitied, and the railroad from Manassas Gap and Alexandria was again placed in running order and in conuection with It, These operations were not porformed without in- | terruption. The enemy mado several attacks, and atone time got in our rear. But each attempt of this kind was successfully repulsed by Sheridan. TRE GREAT VICTORY On Sunday last General Sheridan visited Wash- ington, and the rebels, inforined doubtless of his absence by spies and informers, improved the opportuulty to make asudden assault on our line at Cedar Creek at daylight on Wednesday morn- ing. General Bheridan's forces consist of the Sixth, Eighth and Nineteenth Army Corps, supported by large cavalry forces, But it does not appear that all these forces were concentrated on Cedar Creek at the time of the battle. to have borne the brunt of the engagement, and wes probably forced back to ita gupporte, Thi The Sixth Corps seems | NEW YORK: FRIDAY, OCTOBER | Corps lost heavily, General Wright, the com- mander, ami (jen, Rickott's a divimon commander, were woundat, General Bidwell, a brigadier, j commander of the Bixth cory wos killed He entered the service as colonel of the ith New York Volunteers, Buffalo regiment, and participated in nearly all the great battles in Virginia, winning » high reputation for ability and courage. General Sheridan has won a large number of guns from the enemy aince be assume! command | io the Shenandoah Valley, Ho won two at Mart- inaburgh, five af the bathe of Opequan, aixtean at | Fisher's Mill, and eleven tn the subsequent pur- mil, forty-three on Wednesday, This makes a total of TS guus wrested from the enemy nothing of occasional pieces abandoned by them and picked up in pursuit. These would probably ewell the ag regate of artillery captured by Gen Bheridan toa bundred, None of our Generate can | abow « better record than thig or a brighter ralaxy of victories echieved tn eo abort a period of time, to may GENER SHERMAN, Hood Defeated.-Large Number of Prison. ers Taken, Chattanooga, Ort, 19.—Captain March, of the Fourth United States Regulars, has just arrived from Villanow, which point he left yesterday. He reporta that Col, Minty's brigade of cavalry had met the enemy in force, and after a severe Oxht our troops charged and route! the rebela, capture ing Gen. Young and alarge number of prisoners On the 18th instant, the same cavalry charged Rod ney's command, at Rome, with the anbre, killed fod captured @ number, taking all bie artillery, and scattering the remainder of the enemy in ail directions On the 17th our advance came upon Hood's rear-zuard, and whipped it, and drowe tt out of Snake Gap. Yesterday Gen, Sherman started fm pruranis ith. Ward via BY fthe rebels, who were retreating #o yntown Valley, From Kentucky. Low aville, Ky, Oct, @.-On Treatay merning s band of guerrillas attacked and destroead «tran of ten freighta on the Nashville and North-weatern Rallroad, an route from Naahville to dohnaonviile The engineer waa killed, Gen Stoneman has been exchange |, and arrived at Atlanta, From the Missiesippt. Oct, 20, Tho atoamer Maurice Rerch from Memphia, passed this point to~lay. Rusineas which bad been entirely suspended at Memphis wae remimed again, and the militia haa heen cis charged, asthe danger was believed to have paa- sed. Is was the ypinion at headquartera that the rebels had no intention of attacking Memphis, that thelr presence beyond was merely designed to cover the march of troops into Kentucky, There waa norebel force within fire miles of the city. When last heard of Chalmer's was south of Her- nando retreating towards the awamps of Zalla- hotehio, and Forrest was en route for Meredian with his prisoners. From Missouri. Rebels Murdering the ¢ St Louis, Mo, Oet, 20.—Dispatches from Gen, Rosecrans say that Gen, Price's main force is stil east of the Blackwater mver, This is regarded as favorable to the disposition of our troopa, and in- creases the chances of Gen. Rosecrans getting a fight ont of the enemy. The Rervatican has a apecial dispatch from Jefferson City, which aaye that the guerri|ias under Todd entered the Gerinan | pettloment of Lafayette county on funday night, killed twenty-eight Germans, fired their houses, compelled the women to remain in them until the roofs were about to fall, when they were sllowed to encape Gen, Curtie is concentrating « large force in Kan- ean City, with which he will move against Gan Price, Gen. dim Lane has command of fifteen hundred Kansas militia, Cairo, Late Southern News. Exchanae of Prisoners Resumed.- 10,000 Federals to be Relensed, Kite. Fortresa Monroe, Ort.19 —Tho fag of truce steamer New York, in chargeof Lient. Co). WB Mulford, arrived from Aiken's Landing this after- noon, w! 30 prisoners of war, paroled The Richmond Examrven of Oct. 18th contains the followi The Augus (in) Saxtener. mayer: Ttis well known that bD Heoodisin the rear of Shemnan's army: that nocer bas passed over the Sate road for ten days; and that 8) eeman's supplies are com- ple ent off by that route, The Montgomery AvreaL «ays @ report bas reached Newinan, | urcers that oF rees bave succeeded tn dest ng the rallrowt tor 17 miles about Big Sbenty, gud still held the roml on Fri- day Oet, 16, 1864,..To J. A Seddon, Seeretary of War. Ou the Mth inat Colonel Moseby struck the Baltimore and Onie Railroad at Lufheld, de- wee & United States mail trap, consisting of a ) vive and ten cars; tweuty prisoners and fif- teen Lorses were ov red, Among the prisoners were two paymaaers, With #165000 in Government funda. Lee w of truce steamer to Varina, this (Signed, ioneral, The Examines aye: TT William Allison wl) between 400 and 600 prisoners to go North. aon | Colonel Burnham, who hoa t in our bands,"* | “The prisoners at Caatle Thunder have beon de. prived of the rich vianis fr¢ utside | recent order, and are now Limited absolutely to the prigou rations," EXONANGE OF PRISONERS RESUMED, The Examinen saya: * We hove good authority for seying the cartel has been & a certain extent resumed, Arranvements have been made w ex. change immediately ten thousand Yankee prison- | ers et Savannah, Ga, iy led and Captain Hutch will | affair.'* The Examiner of the 15th says 275 Yaukee de. serters who came inte our under the allures ments of “Special Order No " were started | yesterday for ® point within their own lines, | through which they can pass aud tread Yankee | soil avain, Upwards of over 500 deserters have | been Gays of in conformity with the stipula. | tons of this order, and altogether it has bod a most salutary effect in promoting and ijocreasing Jeser- tions from the ranks of the enemy. Mobile, Oct, 12.—Three Yaukee gunt | four transports were up the river yeste: ‘as Easiport. They landed 2,000 men, and three | pieces of artillery, Lieut, Co', Kelly of Forrest's old command surprised the enemy, capturing three | guns, 25 prisoners, and 30 horses, Two hundred | of the Yankees were drowned while atiempting to re-emberk on their boats, The tirat shot from vug ats and day os far pirtica by a | leave in @ few days to superiutend the whole ) ————————— 21, 1864. battorice senetrateal the boiler of one of our tenne- ports, and many men were sealled and burned to death. The boats have gone down the river, Our victory Was complete. (Signet) NB Fonrrst, Maj. Gen The Confeterste Congress will assamnble at Rich- mond on Monday, Sept. Teh, 1564 The Fxawinen saya, “The report of the capture of Tome, Ga. with 2000 prisoners, &e., is not cor- rect, aud without foundation, Tho Vermont Raid. Some of the Katders Captared 850,000 Kecovered. Burlington, Vt, Oct. 0.—Fight of the raidera who entered 8+ Albang and robbed the banks and muriered the cithzens, have been caught and filly thousand dollars recovered. They were caught at Stanbridge and Farnham, Canada Kast. The remainder bave been seen on the road, and will probably alao be arrested, APoowD NiePaA TOR, &t Aldana, Pt, Oct. 0) —1ater advices from the partion who are pureaing tho raidera under Capt. Newton, Capt. Conger and Lieut. Stramhan, con- firm the news ofthe capture of nine of the free- hooters, and 259,900 of the stolen bank bills, Con- siderable excitement «ti prevails here. Captain Nickerson, of the Veteran Reserve Corps, ts garris- oning the border with 115 convaleacents from the hoepitala at Rratrleboro, Judge Aldia of the 8u- preme Court baa just returned from Montreal, where he bas had a aatiafactory interview with the Canatian authorities, and in now preparing the necessary papers to bring tho captured raiders be. fore our Courta unrer the extradition treaty, Mayor Ansting hea dispatched Major]. L. Barstow Bt Johns CF, in onier if possible to escure the arrest of & party of raiders who are approaching that place from St. Anstead, The banks of this place wuiffared neveroly, but the St. Albans’ Bank announces that they will redeem their billa, We learn that in a akirmish, Inst evening, at Freelis. burgh, four more of the raiders were captured, Willlam Hunt, one of the bailiffe of that munic. palits, fell mortally wounded while gallantly endeavoring to captore the raidera, The Provincial anthorities of the frontier towns did everyubing in their power to aceorpNish the arrest of the rascala. § x of the horses taken by the scoundrels have been recaptured, TRAP DIAPATOR, St Albana, Oct % 4 Po OM. Capt Conger's party bave just returned, and report that ‘they caught the leader of the raiders at Stanbridga, and recovered $100,000, in addition to the $50,000 re. ceived this morning. The Canadian authe rities are still afterkthe villain, and there ia a good pros- pect of the capture of the whole gang Tha Gov. ernor-General of Canada hes telegraphed that he will respond to a requisition from the United States Government for the mmrrender of the robbers al. ready arrested and mich may be heroafter arrested, The @! Albana Bank lost @15,000, the Franklin County Bank $95,006, and the Firss Ne- tional Bank @54,000, rourra pisratou, Montpelier, Vt, Oct. 2%) Immediately after tha depredations in St, Albans by the raiders, Gover- nor Pin th teleyraphed to the Governor Genoral of Canale relative thereta, and messengers were nent to various points to confer with officers of the adian Government. The communicationa of the Governor General to Gov, Smith are papers worthy of that hig'o official signifying es they do, an in- terest on bos part equal te that of onr own people Can- to have the murderers brought to a speedy retribu. tion. FIFTH DISPATOR, Burlington, Vt., Oct. 20.-The ®t Albans Rank and the First National Dank of Bt Albans wil! both redeem their bills as usual, The recent robhery has not affected their solvency SEXTH DIEPATO Re Rurlington, Vi, Get 20. Major Austin haa or dered the citizens ef the frontier towns to organize themselves into heme guards, Arma bave been distributed to them and they will shortly be pre pared for any amerrency (St. Albane ts a flouriehing town in Fronklin Qo, about three miles exnat of Lake Champlain, and 23 from Rouse's Pornt, [tis the residence of Gowernor Binith, and containe about 8,000 inhabitanta. The Canada line is about 10 miles weat of St, Albane} The Contraband Trading Arrests Commenceruent of the Trials, Waehinoton, Oct, %).-Vhe trialof 150 persona ated In Washington and Baltimore, on the cha ge of furnishing goods to the rebala, com- mencet to-lay, n, of which General Doubleday 6 first case taken up was that ¢ » & business firmof thiacity. 4 principal witness was Par- don Worsley, a resident of Massachusetts when the war broke ont, who tested that be wae offictally to discover bluckwle-runners, and also before ® comer ia President, Jonson de Broil btain other rebels. A peddied goods amony the purchased from the firm, contraband trading, but not of the object of it, nor that he was a detective he he who were informed of his aut ® means to this end, », some of which Horses In the (nite to Death, Beaton, Oct. 2 The stables at the Riverside Troitins Pork, in Brig were destroyed by fire threo jest night, with twen'y borw™s, including some of the best trotting stock in the country, The following are some of the famous horses lost: Young Saltan and May Kimball, both owned by FM: of Hart i Ne ord and mate, Lacy Lichfield, Toe well known horse Prine aud # splendid bay horse othe Inst eix horses belonged to Mr. Beckwith of Harti rd Bix k Hawk and Telegraph, owned by Mr. Reu- ‘anan and Pst, owned by Mr, Osborne, of Now York Gray Eagle, owned by Mr, C. H. Blanchard, of Bost Albany Maid, owned by Mr, Whitcomt, A tnugnificens bay gelding, owned by Mr, Stephen Hayes, A fine colt, belonging to Mr, Fullurm, The velding Rapid, which trotted on the track yesterday in the five-mile race. The loss of young and valuable stock is also great. The fire sp so rapidly that very few of the horres in the stables could be saved, Six of the thirteen guns intended for Cedar Point batters, at the entrance of Sandusk7 harbor, have arrived at Bandusky, They are ad $2-pounders tilled, and wil be mounted shorily, information in ihe Valley from Moseby | ph td ONE CENT IN GOLD. TWO ORNTS IN CURRENCY. = | From Queb The Confederation Conference. Quebee, Oct. W.— The Confederation Conference have decided in reference to members of the Lagie lastve Council to the wew Confoleracy, that they he selected from the members of the Logislative Souncil of the several provinces insrad of elect. ei by the people, Provision is to be made for the adminsion of representatives from the Red River country, The Conference are now engaged in the discussion of the appértionmens of the rep- res tation af the Lower House, Philadelphia, Oct, 20. Official returns from Clarion County give a Democratic majarity ef 970. Demoeratic loa 10, Adama County, official, Democratio majority 411. Democratic gain 168 York County, official, Democratic majority & 904, Democratic gain 21 Martine Disnater. Moston, Oct, 20.—The steamer Oriental, from New Orleape for Roston with cotton, &c, gos ashore to~<lay on Hedge Fence, Vineyard Sound. he lies ony on a aandy botiom, and wil! probably come off to-morrow, 2) Nows Items. (By Telegraph to the Now York Sun) ‘Thr story that the soldiers’ vote ts te be throws out in Maryland, is falea, eo asys @ Washington dianatch A varagand powerful fleet of tran clad frigates and gunboate ts being concentrated at Hampton Roads, The deatination of the fleet ts « profound secret. Gen Donranog, the distinguished Mexican com meander, arrived in Washington yestorday, and, tn company with Senor Romero, the Mexican Minie tor, dined with the Kecretary of State, Aut the Banks of Philadelphia, except four, held a meeting of their stockholders yesterday, and re solved to accept the act by which thay can become National Ranks. Tar President hae recognize! Josaph Nicholes Adelrich Renziger as Consul of the Swias Confele ration et Cinemnnati, for Ohio, Indians and Kean- tucky; also Henri FE. Endrea as Vice Conan! of the fame government at Chicage, for Wisconsin, Lown, Minnesota and Northern Ilinois, General Intelligence. 1 Dy Mast to the New York Sun.) Tw Amherat, Maes., they rr a wild man ofthe woods, who amuses bimeelf by setting fire to al the barns be can get at. Sronetany Frssexpes and party, among whore was Collector Simeon Draper, of New York, have returned from their viait to City Point. A wrunen of the Fenian Brotherbood in Chicagn, having claimed the British ion to screen himself from the draft, was oxpelled from the Brotherhood. ALL the coopers in Troy have quit work rather than submit to the proposed rednetion of thetr wages, ‘The demand tor four berrels and nail kegv is waid to be quite active. A New Youn soldier writes: “Thore are very fow Copperheada in the army, T never saw but one sud he wasncoward The fact is a soiaier cannot be a Copperhead, [tia only another name for trei- tor, and itis notin the nature of a soldier tobe eitber."* A Manuracruxer in Pitteficld, Mass, who wants to build a house thi reason, buthad not time attend to it, wave the © iperintendence of the job te his wife, who has without troubling him except for the money, built atwenty thousand dollar mane sion, which is now nearly ready for occupancy. Reventy-maut of the rebel artisans employed om the Dutch Gap Canal, a day or two since thelr petition to General Butler to be permitted ws take the oath of allegiance. The requeat being de nied, they sent ® paper to Commissioner Onl, sta@tiy asking the interference of their Goyern- ment to save their lives. Mason-Gremnar Canny offictally announces the the regimental flags captured from the Union troops fn his department, during the last year, have bean retaken while on their way to Richmond. Those which belong to regiments in the service will be re. stored, and the bwlance will besent to Washing ton. Mrs. Batnwrn, of Ohio, hee just reecived an ap- pointruent as General Supply Agent of the army of the Cumberland, and will have a atore at Atlanta, from which will be supplied all tho sutlera of that army, which really supply all in the t. Bhe is tohave the privilege gcecorded of sending, from Nashville to Atlanta yoodato the amount four tons adday Mrs, Baldwin te the sister of Gen . Edward MoQook, and, it is aald, has twenty-five millions of dollars to back her in this stupendous euterprise, On Wodnesday morning about one o'clock, @ varty of forty of Mosby's men approached the ent of Mr, Keed, one bundred y from Fall's Church Hospital, and seven miles from Washing- ton, aud surrounding Mr, Reed and two out of five of bis pegroes, who were aiding bim in guarding wrope'ty, shot one of the negroes dead. The gang then carried Mr, Reed and the other negro ten inles into the woods, where they shot aud killed Mr. Reed and severely wounded the Tro. They then decamped. The survivor managed to return, after the murderers left, guided @ purty of soldiers to the spot where his master was killed, aud secured the body, Tue Legystature of Louisiana held a joint cone yeution on the 10th instant, ead made choice of United Sustes Bensors as foduws: Charles Biuithy of Bt, Mary's, to succeed Judah P. Benjamin, op- position, for the term euding in March noxt; and Rufus K. Cutler, of New Orleans, to fill the unex- pret term of Jolin Slidell, Dernocrat, Both Messrs. Siidell and Beujarnin were leading members of the Denocratic party in 2560-1, The Mass Convention of Louisiana “Democrats apd Conservatives," to decide upomtbe action to be taken at the coming Presidential cloction, bal been called w be Leld om the luck, It will be remembered that # delegation was sentin August lust to the Ch 1 Convebe tion, which was refused admission by that bouy, Tor Richmond papers have published « lotter from Henry W. Alten, rebel Governor of Louimana, addiessed to the Contederate Becretary of War, in which he sirongly advocates the immediale con- seription and arming of every able-bodied Begro to serve in the rebel armies, In bis argument upon this point he ways; Pre aeyro knows that be CARDS 6808 pe COLBL’T p .ou If be hues to the enemy, pporbant He must play an | art 1p thewaer, He caused the Oiht, aud !o will bave his portion of the burthen t bear, Websve learued trom dear bought experience that negroes can be tauyht to figbt, and that al] who leave us are made to tight axwinst us, [ would tree all able W bear arms, end pus therm inw the fold at ouce."* Tas railroad to Manassas Gep te being rapid). cleared of underbrush and wood to the manos a # mile on each jo the track, along the entire route, The object i# to destroy all cover far guer- rilias. For this purpose, e force of stalwarts Penn- sylvania soldiers, who had enlisted from the sim- ber districts, are employed with good effect, sod will soon clear the entire line. E’ bing afford ¢ least shelter is od. is process is rapidly clearing the country of reilrosd guorri!las. Yeoterdey, © quertermaster’s detachment brovzht (Continved on last pege.)