Interesting Foreign news.
The latest foreign papers give us some interesting news.
The supposed fight between a Confederate and Federal vessel off the
British proves to have been nothing but some target practice by British vessels of war.
The
Liverpool Mercury announces the arrival of
George N. Sanders from the
Confederate States by the steamer
Jura.
It adds:
He has important dispatches for the
Confederate Commissioners,
Messrs,
Mason and
Slidell.
Mr. Sanders says
Generals Joseph E. Johnston and
Beauregard had so far recovered as to be able to resume active duty; that the
Confederate at my in
Virginia, east of
Petersburg, under command of
Generals Lee,
Johnston,
Longstreet and
Jackson, numbers about 200,000 men, including more than 400 pieces of well-appointed field artillery under
General Pendleton, and 10,000 splendidly mounted and efficiently armed cavalry under
Generals Stuart and
Fitzhugh Lee; that the Confederate army are in fine condition, arching upon the enemy and anxious to meet and give them battle on any fair field; that no one in or out of the army doubted the result; that
Generals Beauregard,
Bragg,
Price and
Kirby Smith were at the head of 150,000 infantry and artillery and 12,000 cavalry, in supporting distance of each other in
North Alabama,
East Tennessee and
Southeastern Kentucky, marching to the front and rear of
Buell's and
Grant's armies, supposed to number less than 150,000 that the Confederate cavalry, under Gene.
Forest and
Morgan, had cut off the
Federal reinforcements and supplies by river and rail, destroying transports and trains from close proximity to the rear; that it was confidently believed at
Richmond that
Buell's army would be captured or disposed that it could not possibly make a successful south of the
Ohio river; that
General Humphrey Marshall had left
Abingdon, Virginia, with his division, entering
Northeastern Kentucky for the Blue Glass Region, expecting to form a junction with
General Kirby Smith, from
Beauregard and
Bragg's army; that
Major General Holmes, at the head of thirty thousand man from
Texas,
Northwest Louisiana and
Arkansas, had pasted
Fort Smith, and would soon co-operate with twenty thousand State troops and partisan rangers already in possession of the larger portion of the
State of Missouri; that to hold
St. Louis and
Missouri against the rapidly augmenting force it would require a Federal army of not less than one hundred and fifty thousand men; that all accounts from
Missouri,
Arkansas,
Tennessee, and
Maryland, represented the young men of those States ready to rise and co-operate on the advance of the Confederate armies; and that
the Confederates calculated upon adding not less than one hundred and fifty thousand men to their numbers from these States, as they had furnished scarcely a regiment to the
Federal army under the recent call.
Incidents of the capture of Garibaldi
A Turin letter to the
London Daily
News, dated, August 30, gives these particulars of the defeat of
Garibaldi and its effect:
"
Garibaldi, it appears, had occupied the position of
Aspromonte, but as the regiments sent in pursuit approached be abandoned it by a skillful movement, and the pursuers lost all trace of his whereabouts.
Colonel Pallavicini, of whom I will speak more particularly, with a picked battalion of Bersaglieri, whom he had led to victory more than once before, divining at a glance that
Garibaldi could not have gone on to a point which was already occupied by a strong force of the royal troops, turned sharp round, and marched rapidly back.
He was not mistaken.
Garibaldi had re-occupied the position at
Aspromonte six hours before, with about two thousand volunteers.
The royal force consisted of eighteen hundred Bersaglieri.
"
Colonel Pallavicini sent one of his aids to
Garibaldi to enjoin him, in the name of the
King and of the law, to lay down his arms, with an intimation that he had orders to use force to make the law respected.
Garibaldi returned an absolute refusal.
Thereupon
Colonel Pallavicini, although his soldiers were fatigued by the forced march, and had only had a halt of forty minutes, gave the word, and his battalion, divided into three close columns, marched at the double upon the volunteers, who held their ground resolutely.
When the regulars came up the volunteers fired; the Bersaglieri fired a few shots, then charged the position with the bayonet, and a terrible
melee ensued.
Garibaldi evidently sought for death.
His son fought with extreme courage and tenacity, and was wounded in the leg.
Garibaldi received a sword and a bayonet wound.
Three officers of the Bersaglieri were wounded.
Meanwhile a battalion of the Fourth of the line came up, but only in time to prevent the volunteers from dispersing when they saw that
Garibaldi and his son Menotti were already wounded and prisoners.
It only remained for them to lay down their arms.
"
Garibaldi asked to be put on board an English vessel and conveyed to
England or America Such, I can assure you, was his request.
Col. Pallavicini replied that he would apply for orders from the
Government.
These orders, after a council of ministers, were that the
General should be conveyed to Spezzia.
No more than this is known here as certain.
"
M. Thouvenel, on receipt of the news by telegraph, sent back immediately his congratulations 'on the valor and fidelity of the
Royal army, of which the
Imperial Government had never doubted,'
"The
King received the news with a mournful seriousness, which too plainly showed how deeply he was grieved by the sad necessity imposed upon him. After reading the dispatches he went into the country, returning late to preside over a Cabinet Council.
