Additional from the North.
We are indebted to the courtesy of the officers of the
Exchange Bureau for files of Northern papers up to the 25th inst. They contain very little about the
battle of Chickamauga.
We find in the Washington
Star and
National Republican, of the 22d inst., very meagre accounts, in which the
Federals estimate their loss at 2,000 prisoners. The latest news the New York papers have is dated at
Cincinnati, the 24th.
The telegram says:
‘
Mr. Shanks, the correspondent of the
Herald, has arrived here from the battle-field of
Chattanooga, where he witnessed the fighting of Saturday and Sunday.
He says that the reports of the battle received from
Washington are in the main incorrect, and that really the Army of the Cumberland has met with a defeat which must put it on a defensive position for some time to come.
Gen. Thomas's corps is really the only one which did any fighting.
On the first day it defeated
Longstreet with horrible slaughter, driving him in great confusion for over a mile from the Chickamauga river.
Longstreet, in a two hours fight, lost one thousand men, and double that number wounded.
McCook's and
Crittenden's corps on the same day were both badly beaten, and the enemy broke the centre, driving
Crittenden in every direction.
The defeat of this part of the line caused
Thomas to abandon his field and fall back to protect his flanks and re-establish his line.
At the same time the enemy, not knowing what he had accidentally accomplished, failed to pursue his advantage, and
Wood and
Negley went in on the centre and re-established that part of the line.
The day was ours, though the enemy held the field.
We had taken three pieces of artillery more than we lost on the first day.
Gen. Thomas had defeated
Longstreet, and on the second day he saved the army of
Gen. Rosecrans from annihilation.
From ten to twelve o'clock on Sunday he fought the enemy, and repulsed him in three charges, when, finding the assault in vain, the enemy pressed forward on the right and centre, and at the first charge broke Crittenden's and McCook's lines and routed their entire command, driving them in a disgraceful panic into
Rossville and
Chattanooga.--
Gen. Thomas, with his corps, still contested the day, and was enabled, by the timely reinforcement of
Granger, to hold his position until nightfall covered his retreat to
Rossville.
Mr. Shanks left
Rossville at 7 P. M. on Sunday, and
Chattanooga on Monday.
Gen. Rosecrans was falling back on
Chattanooga, where he was perfectly safe from all that
Bragg could do. His lines of communication were perfectly secure, and he had plenty of ammunition and provisions in
Chattanooga to stand a month's siege.
The result is virtually a defeat to us, as we have lost tremendously in material, not less than fifty pieces of artillery falling into the hands of the enemy, though
Bragg's army only receipts for twenty.
The rebel loss in killed and wounded will exceed our own. In killed he lost double our number.
Rosecrans is in no danger, but at the time
Mr. Shanks left
Chattanooga the danger to
Gen. Burnside was imminent.
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The Russian ships in Yankee Harbors.
What is looked upon just now with some degree of surprise is the gathering of so many
Russian war vessels at New York.--There are already two frigates there, the Neosky and Peresvict.
The first carries 51 guns and the latter 46.
Both are 55 days from
Cronstadt.
Five more are expected to arrive in a few days, viz: Corvette
Variag, 16 guns; corvette
Vitesse, 16 guns; clipper Almos, 9 guns; clipper Isonmround, 9 guns; and clipper Iahout, 9 guns.
In all, including the
Osliaba, now anchored in the
North river, eight
Russian men-of-war will then be in Yankee waters.
Miscellaneous.
The dry dock at
Portsmouth is being repaired, and the navy yard generally refitted.
Lt. Jemson is the name of the
Confederate paymaster who was captured in
Arkansas, with $1,200,000 in Confederate money.
Gov. Andrews, of
Mass., has been nominated by acclamation for re-election.
Five million five hundred thousand dollars have been received, it is said, by the
Yankee Government, as commutation under the Enrollment act. This sum is to be expended in bounties for enlistments.
Admiral Farragut has arrived in New York and had a "brilliant reception."
Gen. Meade was in
Washington on Wednesday, and had an interview with the
President and
Gen. Halleck, after which he returned again to the front.
By way of
St. Louis we have advices from
Gen. Blunt's army to the 10th.
All was quiet.
Gen. Blunt had issued a proclamation to the people of
Arkansas, stating that the
Federal occupation would be permanent, and advising them to organize a civil government under the authority of the
United States.
The steamer
Arago, from New York for
Charleston, carried eighty cases of shells containing
Greek fire to be used in shelling the city from
Morris Island.
There is to be no draft, in
Ohio,
Illinois, or
Indiana, the
Governors of these States having given assurance to
Lincoln that their quotas will be made up by volunteering.
Sir Henry Holland, physician to Queen Victoria, is now a guest of
Secretary Seward.
He paid a visit to
Lincoln last Friday, in company with the
Secretary.
Mrs. Margaret Beach,
Miss Margaret Beach,
Harriet Beach,
Mildred Beach,
Garrison Beach,
Headley Beach, and
Joseph T. Beach, were arrested at their home, near
Fairfax C. H,
Va., on the 20th inst., for giving aid and information to the rebels, and provided with snug quarters in the
Old Capitol Prison at
Washington.
During the recent fights in
Georgia Rosecrans had his headquarters four miles from the battle-field, and in the rear of his centre.
Capt. Thos. F. Murdoch, a son of
James E. Murdoch,
Esq., the actor, was killed on Saturday in the battle near
Chattanooga.
