to correct their mistake by saying, that as grace can only show itself by works, so the draft will surely come if we do not volunteer and, so prevent it. I hope that point is settle now.
It appears that the draft in New York city will now take place, Seward notwithstanding.
Says the Herald:
"A draft has been ordered to take place on Monday, September 19, in Ohio and other States whose quota has not been filled up. It is also ordered to be proceeded with, this morning in the Twelfth and Thirteenth districts of this State in accordance with the President's proclamation of July 18."
The Herald says that it is reported at St. Louis that about fifteen thousand rebels are concentrating at the mouth of the Red river apparently for some hostile purpose yet undisclosed.
William McDonald, a man of great wealth, and the owner of the celebrated trotting nag, Flora Temple, died at his residence, near Baltimore, on the night of the 6th, in the thirty-fifth year of his age.
losely that he has no time to betake himself to his hole and back down for a fight.
The old hero's heart is in his work.
He is fighting again on his own broad lands and his own flowery prairies.
It is the father fighting for the homes of his children, and his sons are following their sire, for Shelby, Marmaduke and Clarke are there, while Cooper and "Bill Anderson" are swelling the train.
The enemy attribute the commencement of their misfortunes to the scandalous defeat of Banks on Red river last spring.
Since that time we have crossed the Red, the Arkansas, the White, and now the Missouri river; so that, instead of having the Red and Wachita rivers as a line of defence, the enemy have now their old work to do over again — to drive us from Northern Missouri.
Price has taken Jeff. Thompson's old racing ground, leading from Clarendon, in Arkansas, to Batesville and Pilot Knob, in Missouri.
He attacked Pilot Knob and Shepherd mountain in a way quite unexpected by them, cut
fteen hundred or two thousand asked for by General Dix for service along the Canadian line.
Whether General Butler will be returned to that command, or sent to Buffalo with one brigade from the James river troops now in our harbor, remains yet to be seen.
From the Southwest--the French and Confederates in Mexico.
The New York Herald gives the following summary of news received by the Catawba from New Orleans on the 3d instant:
The rebels are building forts on both sides of Red river, above the Alexandria falls.
The registered enemies, recently sent out of the Union lines, have been conscripted by the rebels.
The rebels at Brownsville have put a custom-house in operation, and have prohibited the importation of all kinds of goods except corn, flour and vegetables.
They have recently received an accession to their artillery of two pieces, and are expecting four more.
There are about fifteen hundred bales of rebel Government cotton there awaiting shipment to foreign p
alms-houses at the North.
There were seven women, five children and two young men--one an idiot.
Miscellaneous.
The Yankee papers are feeding the public with rumors of Union meetings held in counties in Georgia, favoring reconstruction, which they claim are prompted by Governor Brown.
The Denver City News reports that Colonel Kit Carson, with a few of the companies of the First New Mexican cavalry, lately ran against a band of one thousand Indiana--Kiowas and Camanches — on Red river, south of the road from Fort Union to the States, and was badly repulsed.
He had to fight his way back.
The St. Albans raiders' case, in Montreal, has again been continued thirty days, for evidence from Richmond.
A dispatch from Toronto says the case of Burly was before the court to-day.
The original document, signed by Jeff. Davis, was produced.
It authorizes the raid.
Objection was made to receiving it. The court adjourned to Thursday to consider the objection.
Forrest is
ll he do?
Will he fight or retreat?
A telegram from Fort Fisher, North Carolina, the 13th, says:
A courier from General Sherman to Admiral Porter arrived at Smithville yesterday, having ridden across the country at great peril, announcing the capture, by Sherman's forces, of the town of Branchville, after three days hard fighting.
From the Trans-Mississippi.
A letter from the Trans-Mississippi says:
Price's headquarters are at Bonham, Texas, four miles south of Red river, in a fine foraging region.
Magruder is at Camden, Arkansas, with a part of his command, but the main body (chiefly cavalry) is on a stealing expedition in Texas.
The horses of both commands are in an exhausted condition.
Magruder has twenty thousand men on his muster-rolls, two-thirds of whom are effective.
Kirby Smith's headquarters are still at Shreveport, Louisiana.
His entire strength is estimated at thirty-eight thousand, only about twenty thousand of which are availabl
$400.--Persons purchasing arms from the troops will be shot.
Deserters can rely upon the same fate.
General Boss publishes in the Houston Telegraph the names of eighty of his pickets who have recently deserted, and proclaims them "cowards" and "rascals," and desires them apprehended before reaching Arkansas, supposing them to have gone into the Indian territory on their way home.
The rebel army had left Arkansas.
On the 22d of December they were at Bog Bayon and Alexandria, on Red river, and at Minturn and Shreveport, Louisiana.--The number bearing arms was about thirty thousand.
Shelby was on a raid in Arkansas.
They are now well clothed, receiving everything they want from Mexico.
Miscellaneous.
The New Orleans Times says there is a rumor from Matamoras, by way of Brazos, that the Mexican Government has forbidden clearances for Mexican ports, and the Yankee Consul has been sent out of Matamoras.
General Burbridge has been directed to report to General Th
ill have an army of about sixteen thousand veterans and six thousand militia--twenty-two thousand in all. It is not necessary to add that we can outnumber him in men and material, and it is possible — it is really probable — that a general engagement of a sanguinary nature may take place in Central or Southern Alabama.
Time will settle this speculation.
If everything works well, Kirby Smith's army will be attended to before next summer.
This will require two expeditions--one up the Red river and one up the Rio Grande.
All of the munitions of war, in fact everything but food for this army, is carried up the Rio Grande by European vessels, while Texas and Eastern Louisiana furnish the bread and meat.
Kirby Smith has not got a very large army, and can easily be cleaned out when a sufficient force of Federal troops are ready to get to work about the matter right.
A correspondent, writing from Eastport, Tennessee, to the Pittsburg Chronicle, says:
General Thomas left h
A Memphis man has sent to the Governor of Mississippi the draft of a plan for shortening the Mississippi river.
The proposition is to lessen the distance between Cairo and New Orleans three hundred miles, by damming the the Red river near its junction with the Mississippi, so as to throw the waters which seek an outlet through Red river into the Atchafalaya and Berwick is Bay. To avoid damaging the commerce of New Orleans, an iron lock is to be placed in the dam, so as to let boats into and out of the Mississippi through Red river.
Another part on the plan contemplates opening all the outlets, both natural and artificial, from near the mouth of Red river, on the west bank of the Mississippi river, to Pine Bluff, Arkansas, and straightening small streams, thus opening a system of drainage through a country embracing the best portions of Arkansas.
New Orleans military Items.
--Lieutenant-Colonel J. Schuyler Crosby, of General Sheridan's staff, has been ordered on a tour of inspection of the posts on Red river and to Marshall, Texas.
Lieutenant-Colonel E. B.Parsons, Assistant-Inspector on General Sheridan's staff, has been granted a leave of absence for thirty days, at the expiration of which he will proceed to his home and report to the Adjutant-General of the United States for muster out of the service.-- True Delta.
