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The Daily Dispatch: November 5, 1863., [Electronic resource]

s from town they set fire to the residence of Mr. Branch, an old man, which was entirely consumed, together with everything he had, and his family left homeless in the road. --Their excuse for this diabolical act was that Chalmers had bivouacs on the premises the night previous. Several of the straggling Yankees were picked up by some of our furloughed soldiers after the main body had gone through and sent south. Among the Yankees passing here last Sunday were a number of the notorious Kansas jayhawker, who scruple not at the commission of any crime, however hideous. They came in town in advance of the main force, yelling like so many fiends. Galloping up to a squad of old men and boys assembled on the corner of the square, they with drawn pistols, curses and threats, sought to intimidate and frighten them; but failing to do so, went forward. Friday, October 13.--One of our cavalry arrived last night from the Tallahatchie, from whom I learned that no general engagement occ

valry, with other regiments, met the enemy in the vicinity of that place, where they had a severe engagement. The loss of the 7th Kansas was three killed and nine wounded, and the other regiments 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 publish

t, who furnished money to detectives under the impression that they were spies, and, according to agreement, were to meet Cathcart and the others at Camp Chase, and assist in maturing the plan of attack. Ruth McDonald, of Covington, who acted as mail carrier through the rebel lines, whose house was the headquarters of the rebels; Sam P. Thomas, merchant tailor of Cincinnati, and his wife, and Catherine Parmenter, of Cincinnati. Information has been obtained that the organization exists in Illinois, waiting for the outbreak in Ohio. Other particulars are known to the authorities, but have not yet been made public. From East Tennessee. The papers publish the following two dispatches relative to affairs in East Tennessee: Chattanooga, Oct. 27, (via Nashville, Oct. 28.)--Unreliable intelligence has been received on the movement or a portion of Bragg's army, under Longstreet, up the valley of the Tennessee river, with the intention of operating against General Burnside. I

Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1863, by J. S. Thrasher in the Clerk's office of the District Court of the Confederate States for the Northern District of Georgia.

practicable country, thereby running the risk of ruin to his whole force, or to surrender. But the exceedingly dilatory movements of our army have lost us all the advantage we had, or believed we had, a few weeks ago. They have afforded time to the Yankees to collect troops from the most distant quarters, to restore their communications at their leisure, and to threaten us with a siege, instead of undergoing one themselves. If Gen. Bragg should be driven from his position, we not only lose East Tennessee entirely, but we open the door for the invasion of Georgia, where there is a very large supply of cotton, which formed the main inducement of Rosecrans's invasion of that State. It will thus be seen that the most important interests are involved in the operations around Chattanooga. The existence of the Confederacy is not it is true, exactly involved, but the length of the war undoubtedly is. Could that Yankee army have been destroyed the war would have been virtually at an end.

Gov. Watts, of Alabama. The Governor elect of Alabama, in a speech lately delivered in that State, gives very hopeful views of the future prospects of our struggle. Having lately served as Attorney General in the Cabinet of President Davis, he has enjoyed favorable opportunities of knowing the real condition of affairs, and the men to whom the management of our Government has been committed. --Although, in the classification of parties under the old Government, a political opponent of PrAlabama, in a speech lately delivered in that State, gives very hopeful views of the future prospects of our struggle. Having lately served as Attorney General in the Cabinet of President Davis, he has enjoyed favorable opportunities of knowing the real condition of affairs, and the men to whom the management of our Government has been committed. --Although, in the classification of parties under the old Government, a political opponent of President Davis, he pays a high tribute to the virtues and abilities of the President, appreciating them even more highly than when he entered his Cabinet.--Mr. Watts refers also particularly to the naval branch of the service, and thinks we shall ere long have a fleet which will play an important part in the deliverance of the country. In regard to the subject of reconstruction, on which some had presumed to question his soundness, he said he should be almost ashamed to own himself an Alabamian

. Information has been obtained that the organization exists in Illinois, waiting for the outbreak in Ohio. Other particulars are known to the authorities, but have not yet been made public. From East Tennessee. The papers publish the following two dispatches relative to affairs in East Tennessee: Chattanooga, Oct. 27, (via Nashville, Oct. 28.)--Unreliable intelligence has been received on the movement or a portion of Bragg's army, under Longstreet, up the valley of the Tennessee river, with the intention of operating against General Burnside. It is also believed here that a corps of Lee's army, under Ewell, is moving into East Tennessee, by way of Lynchburg, for the same purpose. Knoxville, Oct. 30, (via Louisville, Nov. 1.)--Our forces which occupied London have retreated to the north side of the river, and now occupy the heights commanding London. The other dispositions of our troops remain unchanged. From the army of the Potomac. Furloughs for 15 d

d captured. Of the number of them wounded nothing could be ascertained. Our loss was four or six killed, and some ten or twelve wounded. The Yankees admit a defeat at the river. On their retreat, passing through Wyatt, they burned every house in the place, and would not permit any of the sufferers to save anything, not even wearing apparel. In the western portion of the county through which they retreated they burned all the residences and barns. They also destroyed the little town of Tallapoosa, six miles west of Holly Springs, as they passed through it. On yesterday, from the cupola of the court-house in Holly Springs, the smoke of as many as fifteen or twenty fires could plainly be seen all along the route of their retreat, and it is believed not a single residence or barn in that part of the country has escaped them. On Wednesday last 25,000 infantry and cavalry, with ten pieces of artillery, passed through this place, taking the road to Wyatt, a mile south of us, and it

nkees killed and wounded could not be ascertained, but it was supposed to be heavy. One Yankee Colonel was known to have been killed, whose name I could not learn. Our loss was seven or eight killed and thirty or forty wounded. The Federal receiving reinforcements from Sherman's forces Chalmers fell back to Byhalia. About three o'clock yesterday (Sunday) Gen. Philips, with 3,000 cavalry and eight pieces of artillery, passed through Holly Springs in a full gallon. They came in on the Salem road and went out on the same road that Chalmers and his troop did the day before. One mile north of this place Philips divided his forces--one column taking the Hudsonville road, and the other the road to North Mount Pleasant. It was at first supposed they were endeavoring to get in Chalmers's rear, but it is now generally believed both columns formed a junction at some point north of here, and are now engaging Chalmers at Byhalia or in that vicinity. Cannonading has been heard in that d

at Niblett's Bluffs, on the Sabine river, which, together with the lake of the same name, forms the boundary between Louisiana and Texas. The evacuated regions necessary to be occupied, for military reasons — for instance, demonstration against the advance of our armies — will be held by a mere handful of mounted men, depending upon the co-operation of guerilla bands in cases of a move upon our part. The point of concentration chosen by the enemy exhibits no insignificant sagacity. Sabine Lake lies immediately upon the Gulf coast, being connected with the Gulf by a narrow channel known as Sabine Pass. The lake is formed by the inflow of the waters of the Sabine and Neches rivers. Upon the Louisiana side of the Sabine is situated Niblet's Bluffs; in almost the same latitude, on the west side of the Neches, lies Beaumont — a small town. Between the two points — by land across the peninsula formed by the two rivers — there lies an immense swamp, impassable at some seasons of