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ing a large and valuable cargo, was seized at Elizabethport, N. J., this afternoon. The captain and crew escaped.--N. Y. Herald, Sept. 20. The Seventh regiment of New Jersey Volunteers left Trenton, this afternoon, for the seat of war near Washington. The regiment is commanded by Colonel Joseph N. Revere, and numbers seven hundred and fifty men, who have been mustered and equipped during the last thirty days. This afternoon, about four o'clock, a skirmish occurred beyond Bardstown Junction, Ky., between the Boone Guards, Company H, Captain Paul Byerly, and a secession company, supposed to be the Bitterwater Blues. None of the Boone Guards were hurt, and, if any injury was done on the rebel side, the darkness concealed it. The secessionists made only a running fight, and a very poor one too.--Louisville Journal, Sept. 20. An immense Union meeting was held at Bangor, Me., this evening. Over five thousand people attended. The meeting was addressed by some of the most
A train arrived at this city at half-past 7 o'clock last evening from Lebanon Junction, General Gilbert, who is in command of the forces on the Nashville read returning to the city by that conveyance. A train was at Shepherdsville at 12 o'clock last night, under orders to await instructions from the military authorities here. At 12 o'clock last night telegraphic communication along the line of the road untended only so far as Shepherdsville, the operators at Lebanon Junction and Bardstown Junction having deserted their posts. We are not of those who believe that Morgan will make an advance to the Ohio river. His object in entering the State was to cat off railroad communication between this city and Nashville, in order to deprive the army of the Cumberland of its regular supplied. This object, so far as the injury to the road was desired, has been accomplished, and Morgan sends forward will attempt his escape, if the report that Kirby Smith is in his rear with a powerful
The Daily Dispatch: August 25, 1863., [Electronic resource], A Telegraphic report of Morgan's raid — Mystifying the Northern operators. (search)
itation of the operator there to visit him and spend the day. I told him that I was the man who had extended to him the invitation, and that had ordered on the train. He seemed greatly relieved, and even overjoyed, when he found that I was an operator, (for though enemies, operators are always generous to each other.) He acknowledged the sell, and said it was his treat instead of mine, though I had invited him to take mint juleps with me. An operator whom I afterwards captured at Bardstown Junction told me that the operators had the joke all over the lines, Atwater having told it himself. The next telegraph station I arrived at was Osgood, a small village, on the Ohio & Miss. R. R., (running from Cincinnati to St. Louis,) 52 miles west of Cincinnati. As usual, I left the main body of our forces when within about six miles of the place, and went ahead — taking with me 15 men. I found the operator, one Frank Crawford, at his boarding-house. (Provisions in that country are p