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From Gordonsville. Gordonsville, Oct. 7. --The prisoners captured at Cedar Run and Culpeper Court-House were brought here to-day. They are Englishmen, and say they do not want to be exchanged. They report the 1st, 5th, 11th, and 12th corps of Meade's army as having gone to assist Rosecrans, and that the 3d is guarding the railroad. They also report that all the commissary stores have been sent off, and that the army is falling back. News from above, brought by citizens, confirm the report that the enemy is falling back to Culpeper C. H.
From Charleston. Charleston, Oct. 6. --An attack was made by us on the frigate Ironsides before daybreak this morning, damaging the Ironsides and alarming the enemy's whole fleet. Two of our men engaged in the expedition, including Lieut. Glasset, of the gunboat Chicora, are missing. No other losses on our side. Everything now quiet. [second Dispatch.] Charleston, Oct. 7. --For the last twenty-four hours there has been but little firing. The enemy's Morris Island works seem nearly completed.
From New Orleans. Mobile, Oct. 7. --The Tribune has dates from New Orleans to the 30th ult. The Era publishes the news, via Memphis, of the defeat of Rosecrans, but refuses to believe it, and declares it impossible. It avers it is a "gratuitous piece of Copperhead intelligence, unfounded in truth, clearly traceable to the rebel sympathies of the author of the dispatch. It can't be true; Rosecrans was never defeated in his life, and so good people will wait for further intelligence." Gen. Banks has just issued three long orders. The chief one is in respect to the opening of the Mississippi. That General is touching in his description of the value of the Valley of the Mississippi, and declares that, notwithstanding the ravages of war, it is a splendid field for Yankee ingenuity. "The inhabitable globe does not offer a more noble theatre for intelligent enterprise than the Valley of the Mississippi. Never was a country better worth fighting for — better worth pres
Georgia elections. Savannah, Oct. 7. --There were 1,630 votes polled here to-day, to be counted to morrow. It is believed that Brown, for Governor, is largely ahead, and that Gibson and Norwood have been beaten for Representatives by Russell and Guc. No advices from other counties.