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" by that torpedo from Charleston. An officer on deck was killed and two seamen wounded. She is to go to New York for repairs. Two or three hundred of the leading merchants and business men of New York city gave the Russian officers a splendid banquet at the Astor House on Monday evening. Gen. Wistar, in his report of the recent expedition to Matthews county, claims to have captured "four rebel naval officers and 25 seamen." Gen. Kirby Smith is reported to have joined Gen. Sterling Price, and both are moving on Arkadelphia. A combined land and naval attack was to have been made on Charleston on the 11th inst. Means had arrived "to remove the rebel obstructions." Over 500 applications had been made to Gen. Barnes to leave Norfolk by the flag of truce on the 15th inst. According to the Cincinnati Gazette, Quantrell made clean work of Gen. Blunt's escort, killing all the prisoners he took, including "all of Blunt's orderlies, the clerks, and the members of
Maynard were addressing the people of East Tennessee. At Knoxville they spoke to 28,000 people, and were received with enthusiasm. The steamer Mist, bound from Helena to Memphis, was boarded by guerillas on the 21st, robbed of $20,000 and then burnt, with her cargo of cotton. Joe Shelby's rebel forces are reported to have been driven from the State of Missouri. Gen. Sigel is addressing the Dutch in various parts of the United States. He was at Rochester, N. Y., last. Gen. Price is reported to be threatening Forts Blunt and Smith, in Arkansas, with 9,000 men. Governor Seymour is making speeches throughout the State of New York in favor of the Democratic ticket. The State of New York, under the new call for volunteers, and including her deficiency in the late draft, is to furnish 108,085 men. The next Legislature of Ohio will stand as follows: Senate, 29 Unionists to 5 Opposition; House, 80 Unionists to 17 Opposition; Union majority on joint ballot,
Gen. Sterling Price's official report of the battle of Helena, Ark., last July, is published. He reports his loss at 1,112, of which 504 were prisoners. In Augusta, Ga., on Friday, butter tumbled from $5 a pound to $2. The people had stopped buying at the first figure. The public provision store at Danville, Va., is working admirably. The capital so far subscribed is $8,255. Two negroes were hung in Houston county last week for killing their master, Rev. J. A. Roquemore.
Army intelligence. --Lieut.-Gen. E. Kirby Smith has been promoted to a full General, and given the command of the Trans Mississippi Department. Gen. Sterling Price, it is stated in the Atlanta Register, has succeeded Gen. Holmes in Arkansas, and the latter is to report in Richmond.
mbarrass the Government in the conduct of the war, and to overthrow the Government, if necessary, for the supremacy of the Order. Its professions and purposes are different in different States. It proclaims a war policy in New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and other Eastern States, while in the West it is for peace. The Democrat's account says: The Order is of Southern origin, being erected on the ruins of the Knights of the Golden Circle. Of the Southern organization General Sterling Price is Supreme Commander. C C Vallandigham, while in Richmond, was made the Supreme Commander of the Northern section or Order. A conspiracy, it is said, was entered into between him and the rebel authorities to divide the East from the West, and to thus aid the Southern rebellion. Vallandigham's time in Canada, it is said, was principally spent in furthering this scheme. He had a conference with some of the leading spirits in the North, and soon after his arrival in Canada arra
order having been thoroughly exposed — its rituals, signs, grips, &c., made known to the public — it became necessary to organize something in its stead. Sterling Price the chief. The result of the effort, it would seem, was the Order of American Knights, of which Major- General Sterling Price, of the rebel army, became tMajor- General Sterling Price, of the rebel army, became the chief, known by the title of Supreme Commander, while a distinguished demagogue and agitator from Ohio sojourned at the city of Richmond, in exile. He, it would seem, was fully enlightened in the mysteries, objects, and purposes, of this sublime Rebel Order, and submitted to all its rights and privileges as a member. Valla to exist in the State of Illinois, and appealed to those present to take no hasty steps, but to await the official call of their Grand Commander. He spoke of General Price in the most eulogistic terms; said he had been in constant communication with him, Marmaduke, and the rebels, in Arkansas. He expected and looked for a raid f
fallen to 218; but there has been no fall in the prices of provisions. The people are not deceived by the temporary decline, and do not want to sell for greenbacks. The steamers A. D. Vance, with four hundred and twenty bales of cotton, and Elsie, with three thousand bales, were captured on the 5th instant just out from Wilmington. The captured privateer Georgia arrived at Beaufort, North Carolina, on the 9th, and would proceed to Boston. The steamer Fawn, running upon the Dismal Canal between Norfolk and North Carolina, was captured Saturday by a party of rebel raiders and burned. The crew and passengers were all taken prisoners. The capture of the rebel guerrilla and raider, Quantrell, is announced to have been recently effected in Indianapolis. He was there in disguise, and was recognized on the street by a refugee. A report is in circulation at Little Rock, Arkansas, that the rebel Major-General Sterling Price died recently at Arkadelphia of dysentery.
eaving his wounded. The revels Burbridge passed through Covington this afternoon, on the way to Lexington. The defeat of General Ewing in Missouri--his retreat to Rolla. The defeat of General Ewing at Arcadia Valley, Missouri, by General Sterling Price, on the 24th instant, is fully acknowledged. On the 25th, Ewing got back to a strong position, General Price pursuing. A letter says: About 3 o'clock P. M. the rebels concentrated and evidently determined to risk an assault. TheiGeneral Price pursuing. A letter says: About 3 o'clock P. M. the rebels concentrated and evidently determined to risk an assault. Their lines were drawn up in three bodies, and the devoted band, now almost read to give up in despair, prepared to receive the shock, but, lo ! at that moment a large body of Union cavalry was seen coming from the direction of Rolla, and in fifteen minutes it had broken the posts and pickets of the enemy in that direction, and was alongside the little garrison. The joy of the latter can best be imagined; and when the lucky circumstance was explained by Colonel Beveridge, of the Seventeenth Illino
From Trans-Mississippi. A Government courier has arrived from the Trans-Mississippi with dispatches of importance. He reports everything quiet in that department. General Price left Missouri with five thousand more men than he entered the State with. He claims to have accomplished all the objects of his mission and to have harassed the enemy sorely. A dispute has arisen in the newspapers at Shreveport between General Price and Governor Reynolds, of Missouri, with regard to theGeneral Price and Governor Reynolds, of Missouri, with regard to the results of the campaign. In a military point of view, everything is quiet in the Trans-Mississippi. The rivers are higher now than they have been for many years; but no apprehension is felt of a land incursion by the Yankees. Blockade-running between Galveston and the West Indies is carried on very successfully; perhaps rivalling, in this respect, the ports of Wilmington and Charleston. Quite a number of steamers ran in and out of Galveston harbor in the course of a fortnight.
A card from General Price. --The Shreveport News contains the annexed card from General Price: In the Texas Republican of the 23d of December, 1864, there appears a communication over the signature of one Thomas C. Reynolds, who pretends to be, and styles himself in it, the Governor of the State of Missouri. The comGeneral Price: In the Texas Republican of the 23d of December, 1864, there appears a communication over the signature of one Thomas C. Reynolds, who pretends to be, and styles himself in it, the Governor of the State of Missouri. The communication purports to defend two gallant and distinguished officers against charges alleged to have been made against them; but which I had never heard made by officer or soldier. In reality, it was intended to be a violent and malignant attack upon myself, as the officer in command of the late expedition to Missouri. So fayself, as the officer in command of the late expedition to Missouri. So far as the communication pays tribute to the gallantry displayed by the officers and soldiers engaged in that expedition, I heartily concur in it. So far as it relates to myself, however, I pronounce it to be a tissue of falsehood. Sterling Price.