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The Daily Dispatch: December 24, 1862., [Electronic resource], Latest from the North. (search)
President has signed the order relieving General Wool from the command at Baltimore. General Schenck has been appointed his successor. The Yankee loss at the battle of Prairie Grove, Arkansas is stated to have been 995--that of the rebels 2,760. Gen. Hindman is reported on the south side of the Arkansas river, and Marmaduke on the North. An important expedition was on foot by the Abolition army in Arkansas. A considerable force of cavalry is reported to be in the vicinity of Jackson, Tenn., supposed to be under the command of Morgan. Serious naval disaster — an iron clad destroyed in the Yazoo river by a torpedo — the boat sunk. Cairo, Dec. 18. --On Friday last the gunboats Cairo, Marmora, and Signal, ascending the Yazoo river, reached a point a mile below Hayne's Bluff, when a torpedo exploded under the Cairo shattering her bow. She sank in fifteen minutes in forty feet of water, and cannot be raised. No lives were lost. The Cairo was one of the first s