General news items.
We present below a brief summary of news from various quarters of Lincolndom:
Military and Naval intelligence.
The New York
Times, of the 2d, says:
‘
A
Sergeant's guard of marines left the Brooklyn Marine Barracks yesterday, for the
United States steamer
Mohawk on blockading duty at
Key West.
The guards of the
Wyandotte,
Crusader, and
Sumter, who have recently returned from a two years cruise on the coast of
Cuba, have not been grated the usual furlough, and in consequence ten of them — or about one-third of the whole number — have deserted.
The steamer
Connecticut, which was sent after the rebel steamer
Nashville at a few hours' notice, and before she was quite ready for sea, is undergoing a thorough overhauling.
In addition to new port-holes, which are being made, other alterations are in progress.
Her deck house, &c., will be removed, and accommodations for a larger crew are being fitted Cup.
The purchased ferry boat
John P. Jackson has not arrived at the
Navy-Yard, but will probably be altered at a private ship yard, and afterwards sent to the
Navy-Yard to receive her armament and be put into commission.
Nearly all the purchased vessels have been altered at private yards.
Eighteen or twenty of the
Cape Hatteras prisoners, who were too sick to be removed, still remain in hospital on
Governor's Island.
The quarters occupied by the pinschers are being whitewashed and cleaned out — not before this cleaning process was imperatively necessary.
’
The destination of the Tankers fleet a Secret to every Body
One of the
Federal newspaper correspon
dents telegraphed to
Washington to know if he was allowed to publish the destination of the great naval expedition, stating that he was in possession of the information.
The reply was that no one on earth was in possession of that information, not even the
President himself, it not being determined to attack any particular point but to watch along on the
Southern coast and strike wherever an opening presented itself.
They were filled with apprehensions as to the fate of the expedition since the gale, and old
Bennett is getting very sore on the subject, as the expedition was his darling project.
The New York
Times,
Capture of a Confederate Schooner fitting out as Privateer.
A correspondent, writing from on board the U. S. steamer
Louisiana,
Fortress Monroe Oct. 24, says:
‘
Our steamer has been here three weeks, during which time we had quite a brush with the rebels, the upshot being the burning of a schooner they were fitting out for a privateer.
The loss on their side, from their own acknowledgement, was eight killed and wounded. Our only mishap was the severe wounding of
Acting Master Edward Hooker by a rifle bullet passing through the shoulder blade.
He is doing well, and expects to be quite recovered in a month from this.
’
The
South Carolina lady who has been in
Washington several weeks, endeavoring to sell the
Government the code of signals adopted by the rebels, has not succeeded.--The Government does not seem disposed to invest $100,000 for the aforesaid signals, nor does the lady find ready access to our camps Uncharitable suspicions are afloat that the lady has not entirely lost all sympathy with the political fortunes of her native State.
No Larges regiments of volunteers.
Applications have been made by the colonels of some of the volunteer regiments for permission to recruit their regiments up to the standard of the new regiments of regulars, authorized by the recent act of Congress, namely, 25,000 men. The applications have been refused.
Carelessness.
The carelessness of some of our volunteers was illustrated recently by three scouts of the 5th Michigan, walking into one of the
New Jersey camps at night and getting within arm's length of the guard, before they were challenged.
Prince Napoleon returns to France and Intercedes for the Southern Confederacy.
Prince Napoleon has returned to
Paris, and has interceded with the
Emperor to acknowledge the independence of the Southern Confederacy, assuring him that such a thing as re-organization was utterly impossible.
U. S.
The Project of Calling out the whole fighting population of the North.
A dispatch from
Baltimore, dated November 1st, says:
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The arguments of the editorial article in the
Herald, of October 30, in favor of calling on the whole fighting population of the
North to put down the rebellion, will acquire new force from a view of the number of Confederate troops now in the field; and with this view the following statement is presented.--It has been prepared with great care, from the most authentic sources, and may be relied on as correct in every particular.
In the enumeration of troops no account is taken of those that were stationed at
Lynchburg,
Gordonsville,
Charlottesville,
Petersburg,
Culpeper,
Burkesville, and several other places in
Virginia as late as September 20, and which then amounted to 30,000.
If they are still there, they swell the aggregate by so much.
In regard to the troops at
Columbus and
Hickman, under
Gen. Polk and
Gen. Pillow, although they are stated below at 15,000, yet it is believed that they really amount to 20,000.
The whole number of troops in
Kentucky is stated in this enumeration at only 88,000.
But it has been for some weeks past the evident determination of the Confederate Government to wrest
Kentucky from the
Union by force; they have probably thrown into that State 25,000 more troops than I have any account of, swelling the number there to probably 95,000.
It is certain that with less than 100,000 their designs on
Kentucky will fail.
’
Kanawha Valley.
[from the Cincinnati Gazette,] Oct. 30th
The steamer
Dunlelty arrived from Camp Enyart last evening, and brings the intelligence that on Friday last our pickets were fired upon on the
Fayetteville road, South of
Gauley Bridge, killing two members of the First Kentucky Regiment, but their names had not been ascertained when the boat left.
Heavy cannonading was heard at Camp Enyart.
on Sunday night, in the direction of
Gauley Bridge, and it is supposed that an engagement was going on.
The Victor No. 2 was fired into, but without any effect to those aboard.
Since writing the above the
Allen Collier arrived at our wharf, with
Col. Guthrie, of the First Kentucky regiment, on leave of absence.
From him we learn that the firing on pickets at
Fayetteville was done on Thursday, and that seven rebels were killed in return, and the bodies of our two men were recovered under a flag of truce.
The firing into the
Victor No. 2 was done on Saturday last, and immediately after
Colonel Guthrie came down from
Gauley with three companies of infantry and three pieces of artillery, and on Sunday shelled the hills whence the firing came, from the opposite side of the river, dispersing the rebels.
It is understood that a rebel camp of about eight hundred cavalry is situated about nine miles up
Paint and
Cabin creeks; and it is from that place that the rebels came who have been firing upon the steamers.
Captain Simmons afterwards shelled a house on the south side of the
Kanawha river, whence shots were fired, destroying it completely; but whether it contained any inmates was not ascertained.
Important from Missouri--news from General Price's rebel Camp — the programme of his campaign.
The following is from the correspondence of the St. Louis
Democrat:
Charleston County, Mo., Oct. 30, 1861.--
Judge McNeunt, a prominent citizen of this county, reached home yesterday from the headquarters of
General Price.
He left the rebel camp at
Neosho, Newton county, on Wednesday, the 22d, where
General Price and
Ben. McCulloch had united their forces, making an army of about thirty thousand men.
Gen. Price had received a large supply of clothing, medicine, &c., and some arms.
His rifled cannon had not reached him, but were expected to do so on Sunday night, under the charge of
General George B. Clark, who had sent messengers forward to indicate his approach.
The Legislature was in session at
Neosho, but lacked four of a quorum.
This deficiency was expected soon to be made up by the arrival of several of the members, when it was believed they would confirm Claib.
Jackson's
declaration of independence.
Gen. Price gives out that he will stand at
Neosho and give
Gen. Fremont battle, whom he expects easily to defeat, and then march on
St. Louis, and make his winter quarters in
central Missouri.
