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From Trans-Mississippi. Mobile, Oct. 8. --The Tribune has late news from the Trans-Mississippi Department, through Maj. Tom Ochiltree, who is just from the West. Gen. Price was falling back from Arkadelphia, with a largely superior force of the enemy in his front. Gen. Taylor's army was concentrated near Alexandria, with the exception of three brigades under Gen. Tom Green. On the 16th ult. Gen. Green attacked and defeated a superior Yankee army, near the mouth of Red River. His force was composed of two brigades of cavalry and one of infantry. With these he engaged two divisions of the enemy, and obtained a complete victory. He has now again command of the river against all the efforts of the Yankees to drive him from it. The last reports from below represent that Gen. Banks, with 25,000 men, was crossing the river at Brashear city, en route for Berwick's Bay. Gen. Taylor was watching his movements closely, and it was supposed would give him battle a
edo 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 the band."
egiments suffered in about the same proportion. The rebels lost nine left killed on the field and 100 prisoners, while our forces occupied the site of battle in undisturbed possession. Miscellaneous. Gen. Butler has been assigned to the command of the Department of Virginia and North Carolina. Iowa has given a majority of 25,000 for the Republican ticket. Of eighty two counties only fourteen give Democratic majorities. From Arkansas we learn that Gen. Marmaduke was at Arkadelphia with the cavalry of General Holmes's command. Dobbs, a notorious guerilla, had been captured. Col. Chas. R. Ellett, commanding the Mississippi marine brigade, died suddenly at Bunker Hill, Ill., on the 29th ult. D. K. Abel, editor of the St. Joseph's (Mo.) Tribune, has been arrested for publishing articles "defamatory" of the Abolition militia of that State. Major Mosby, the famous guerilla, dined in the Marshall House, at Alexandria, on September 30th, and then had the im
ut returns are in from all but three towns. The footings are: Buckingham 38,446; Seymour 32,904. Buckingham's majority 5,64 The Senate stands eighteen Union to three Democrats, and the House 158 Union to 12 Democrats, thus giving the Union party two-thirds of the Legislature, which secures the amendment to the Constitution allowing soldiers to vote. The War in Arkansas and the Southwest. Dispatches from Fort Smith, Ark, state that Gen. Steele has driven the rebels from Arkadelphia, and was advancing on Price's main army, in the direction of Camden. The following official telegram, dated, Pine Bluff, Ark, the 31st, is published, signed by Powell Clayton, Col Commanding: The expedition to Mount Eiba and Longview has just returned. We destroyed the pontoon bridge at Longview, burned a train of thirty-five wagons loaded with camp and garrison equipments, ammunition, Quartermaster stores, &c. Captured three hundred and twenty prisoners. Engaged in battle at Mount
le Rock, Arkansas, "under rather exciting circumstances." The following are the facts of his precipitous and unexpected return: Gen Steele left Little Rock with some 12,000 infantry and 3,000 cavalry, the latter under General Carr. Arkadelphia was occupied without difficulty, and a force moved forward to Camden. Between Arkadelphia and Camden a subsistence train of 180 wagons was cut off and captured by the enemy, together with the escort of 480 men, who suddenly found themselves iArkadelphia and Camden a subsistence train of 180 wagons was cut off and captured by the enemy, together with the escort of 480 men, who suddenly found themselves in the hands of a superior force, and made little resistance. At Camden Steele soon found the rebels, about 8,000 strong, (cavalry,) in his rear; and 240 wagons, dispatched from Camden towards Pine Bluff for stores, with an escort of 1,600 men, were captured by the enemy. The steamer Alamo, with twenty tons of ammunition for Steele and his army, was sunk forty miles below Little Rock by coming in collision with another steamer. The pilot who had charge of the boat was put under arrest on
From Trans-Mississippi. Meridian, May 20. --Little Rock papers of the 3d inst. announce the return of Steele and his army to that place, followed by Price. Thayer joined Steele at Arkadelphia. The enemy are fortifying Little Rock and Pine Bluff. Dardinale is in our possession. Clinton, La,May 18, via Mobile, May 20. The Memphis Bulletin, of the 13th inst., announces that Banks has been superseded by Major Gen. Canby.
allen 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.
by the inhabitants, one million three hundred and seventy thousand dollars, and sold confiscated property belonging to Northern people valued at over a million and a half of dollars. Albert Pike is the rebel chief justice of Arkansas, and holds court at Washington, and is doing a large business in condemning to death all the inhabitants who have taken the oath of allegiance to the United States. The guerrillas are still very troublesome along White river, firing on passing steamers. At Arkadelphia there is said to be a rebel garrison of twenty-five hundred. A private letter from St. Louis, dated October 1, says: I arrived in this city on Thursday night from St. Clair, and no train has come in from there since. The men stopped work on Thursday morning, and I fear by this time many of them are in the rebel service, as Price conscripts every man able to bear arms, and shoots every one that tries to escape. It was not believed that the rebels would go to St. Clair, althoug
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