Later from the North.
We have received New York papers of Friday, Oct. 10th. We give below their dispatched relative to the battle between Bragg and Buell, at Ferryville, Ky., on the 8th. Washington dispatches deny that any changes are "immediately to occurred in the Cabinet. The Sioux war, by the same authority, is declared to be practically ended. --fifteen hundred of the hostile Indians are prisoners, and many others coming in. The leading chiefs who are proved to have participated in the late massacres will be summarily executed. Reconnaissances have been made by Sigel's cavalry to Rappahannock Station, without finding any Confederates.Great battle is Kentucky.
The New York Herald, of the 10th, has dispatches announcing a general engagement between Bragg and Buell at Perryville, Ky., which is preceded by a long heading, in which the word ‘"victory"’ does not occur once. This is almost equal in that paper to a frank confession of defeat. The battle commenced on Wednesday morning by an attack by the Confederates on McCook's corps at Perryville, about 41 miles due South from Frankfort and situated between Danville and Bardstown.--The following are the dispatches: Cincinnati, Oct. 9, 1862. --Intelligence has been received here to-night of an attack on General McCook's corps at Perryville, Ky., yesterday, by Bragg. who threw his entire force upon him. Our loss was nearly two thousand in killed and wounded. Gen. Jackson was killed and General Terrell badly wounded. The enemy's loss is not ascertained, but is probably heavy. There is a prospect of a general engagement being brought on by General Buell to day. Gen. Dumont attacked Morgan at Frankfort yesterday, killing part of his force, scattering them in every direction, and capturing many. The new troops behaved admirably. Louisville, Oct. 9.--The battle of Ferryville commenced early in the morning by an artillery duel, which continued all day. General McCook's corps was engaged alone. At 2 o'clock the rebels made an effort to turn our left flank, and desperate fighting ensued at close quarters. The rebels were twice driven back with heavy loss. The battle continued till dark, when both parties rested. Gen. Terrell was mortally wounded, also, Col. Webster, of the Ninety-eighth Ohio. Gen. Jackson was killed. The report of the death of Gen. Rossen is not confirmed. The Union loss is estimated at two thousand killed and wounded. The rebel loss is greater, if anything. Gen. Crittenden and Gen. Gilbert have reinforced Gen. McCook, and the battle was resumed this morning. Perryville, Ky., Oct. 9.--Bragg's army attacked two divisions of Gen. McCook's corps darmce near this place yesterday. The fighting was desperate. General James S. Jackson, ex-Congressman of Kentucky, commanding a division, was killed; Gen. Terred of Virginia, commanding a brigade, formerly of Terrell's battery, was very seriously wounded. On two occasions the fighting was hand to hand. The rebels were greatly superior to the Unionists in numbers. McCook was then heavily reinforced, and the battle was resumed to day. The fighting was mainly done by Rosse and division, formerly Mitchell's. Col. George Webster, of the 98th Ohio, acting Brigadier of the 34th brigade, was severely wounded Firing ceased about seven o'clock on the evening at the 8th. A doubtful rumor says that at the close of the engagement the rebels had possession of a part of the field. General Sheridan, of Illinois, is reported killed, but it is doubtful. Our loss is stated at two thousand killed and wounded. The rebel loss was unascertained. The enemy is north of Perryville. A general attack is expected immediately by our troops. From the above dispatch is would appear that our troops attacked the right wing of the enemy under McCook, and that he was reinforced by Gen. Crittenden, commanding the left wing, and by Gen. Gilbert, commanding the centre. The Federal army consists of twelve divisions. Gen. Jackson, who is reported killed, was commander of the 9th division. Gen. Thomas is the commander in the field. A letter from Louisville, written on the 6th, shows what great expectations the Yankees rest on Buell's army: This morning we started bright and early to overtake our columns, which were in close pursuit of Bragg. When I came out upon the turnpike I found that Thomas's and Gilbert's corps had joined, and much as I had before seen of the mighty armies of the republic, I confess I was astonished, as for three hours I remained and watched the apparently interminable columns of men and endless trains of wagons moving by. At first, the column formed by Gen. Mitchell's division, which came into the pike by the Shepardsville road, moved along the turnpike, wagons and all, parallel with the other column formed by the great body of the two corps. This army is in pursuit of Bragg ! Wednesday morning it commenced moving from Louisville. To night its advance is half a dozen miles beyond Bardstown In two weeks there will not be a rebel regiment in Kentucky. With armies less numerous than those Gen. Buell now commands, Napoleon, in the course of a single campaign overthrew empires. With the armies Gen. Buell now commands, he should, before Christmas, extinguish the rebellion between the Alleghenies and the Mississippi, and carry the national flag triumphantly to the Gulf. Let us press onward.Rapid Movements of the Federal army.
A letter from Louisville, October 6th, says: ‘ The news from the front to day, while it is of an extremely interesting nature, yet has a smack of disappointment in it. At all points the rebels fly as our forces advance, without giving us a chance to fight them; and so rapidly is Buell pushing his columns forward that the retirement of the rebels partakes very much of the nature of a complete rout. The news is of the same character both from the left, right and centre. Buell's movements seem to prevent the rebels effecting a concentration of their forces, and they are rapidly becoming demoralized from their frequent and hasty retreats. Our right occupied Bardstown yesterday, (Sunday,) and so rapidly were they moving that last evening three divisions of Crittenden's corps were in Lebanon, twenty-seven miles distant. This is the fastest army travelling on record, and is conclusive evidence that when the occasion demands it Buell can make as rapid strides as any commander we have. Gen. Hardee had commanded the rebel forces at Bardstown and in that vicinity, and his force is estimated by citizens of Bardstown at not less than thirty thousand men, some accounts putting the number as high as thirty-five thousand. ’Gen. Bragg's Address to the people of the Northwest.
Gen. Bragg has issued from his headquarters at Bardstown, Ky., one of the strongest addresses which has been issued by any military man during this war. It is addressed to ‘"The people of the Northwest."’ He assures them that the Confederate Government is waging this war with no design of conquest, but ‘"to secure peace and the abandonment by the United States of its pretensions to govern a people who never have been their subjects, and who prefer self-government to a union with them."’ "He further assures them that the Confederate Government and people, deprecating civil strife from the beginning, and anxious for a peaceful adjustment of all differences growing out of a political separation, which they deemed essential to their happiness and well being, at the moment of its inauguration sent commissioners to Washington to treat for these objects, but that their commissioners were not received or even allowed to communicate the object of their mission, and that on a subsequent occasion a communication from the President of the Confederate States to President Lincoln remained without answer, although a reply was promised by General Scott, into whose hands the communication was delivered. That among the pretexts urged for the continuance of the war, is the assertion that the Confederate Government desires to deprive the U. States of the free navigation of the Western rivers, although the truth is that the Confederate Congress by public set prior to the commencement of the war enacted that ‘"the peaceful navigation of the Mississippi river is hereby declared free to the citizens of any of the States upon its borders or upon the borders or its tributaries"’--a declaration to which our government has always been and is still ready to adhere. From these declarations, people of the North west, it is made manifest that by the invasion of our territories by land and from sea, we have been unwillingly forced into a war for self- defence, and to vindicate a great principle once dear to all Americans, to with; that no people can be rightly governed except by their own consent. We desire peace now. We desire to see a stop put to a useless and cruel effusion of blood, and that waste of national wealth rapidly leading to and sure to end in national bankruptcy. We are, therefore, now, as ever, ready to treat with the United States, or any one or more of them, upon terms of mutual justice and liberality. And at this juncture, when our arms have been successful on many hard fought fields, when our people have exhibited a constancy, a fortitude and a courage worthy of the boon of self-government — we restrict ourselves to the same moderates demand that we made at the darkest period of our reverse — the demand that the people of the United States cause to war upon as, and permit us in peace to pursue our path to happiness, while they in peace pursue theirs. We are, however, debarred from the renewal of former proposals for peace, because the relentless spirit that actuates the Government at Washington leaves us no reason to expect that they would be received with the respect naturally due by nations in their intercourse, whether in peace or war. It is under these circumstances that we are driven to protect our own country by transferring the seat of war to that of an enemy who pursues us with an implacable and apparently aimless hostility. If the war must continue, its theatre must be changed, and with it the policy that has heretofore kept us on the defensive on our own soil. So far it is only our fields that have been said waste, our people killed, our homes made desolate, and our frontiers ravaged by rapine and murder. The sacred right of self-defence demands that henceforth some of the consequences of the war shall fall upon those who persist in their refusal to make peace. With the people of the Northwest rests the power to put an end to the invasion of their homes; for, if unable to prevail upon the Government of the United States to conclude a general peace, their own State governments, in the exercise of their sovereignty, can secure immunity from the desolating effects of warfare on their soil, by a separate treaty of peace which our Government will be ready to conclude on the most just and liberal basis. The responsibility then rests with you, the people of the Northwest, of continuing an unjust and aggressive warfare upon the people of the Confederate States. And in the name of reason and humanity, I call upon you to pause and reflect what cause of quarrel so bloody have you against these States, and what are you to gain by it?--Nature has set her seal upon these States, and marked them out to be your friends and alifes. She has bound them to you by at the ties of geographical contiguity and conformation, and the great mutual interests of commerce and productions. When the passions of this unnatural war shall have subsided, and reason resumes her away, a community of interest will force commercial and social coalition between the great grain and stock growing States of the Northwest and the cotton, tobacco and sugar regions of the South. The Mississippi river is a grand artery of their mutual national lives which men cannot sever, and which never ought to have been suffered to be disturbed by the antagonisms, the cupidity and the bigotry of New England and the East. It is from the East that have come the germs of this bloody and most unnatural strife. It is from the meddlesome, grasping, and fanatical disposition of the same people who have imposed upon you and us alike those tariffs, internal improvement, and fishing bounty laws whereby we have been taxed for their aggrandizement. It is from the East that will come the tax-gatherer to collect from you the mighty debt which is being amassed mountain high for the purpose of ruining your best customers and natural friends. When this war ends, the same antagonism of interest, policy, and feeling which have been pressed upon us from the East and forced us from a political union, when we had ceased to find safety for our interests or respect for our rights, will bear down upon you and separate you from a people whose traditional policy it is to live by their wits upon the labor of their neighbors. Meantime, you are being used by them to fight the battle of emancipation — a battle which, if successful, destroys your prosperity, and with it your best markets to buy and sell. Our mutual dependence is the work of the Creator. With our peculiar productions, convertible into gold, we should, in a state of peace, draw from you largely the products of your labor. In us of the South, you will find rich and willing customers, in the East you must confront rivals in productions and trade, and the tax gatherer in all the forms of partial legislation. You are blindly following abolitionism to this end, while they are nicely calculating the gain or obtaining your trade on terms that would impoverish your country.--You say you are fighting for the free navigation of the Mississippi. It is yours freshly, and has always been, without striking a blow. You say you are fighting to maintain the Union. That Union is a thing of the past. A Union of consent was the only Union ever worth a drop of blood. When force came to be substituted for consent, the casket was broken and the constitutional jewel of your patriotic adoration was forever gone. I come, then, to you with the olive branch of peace and offer it to your acceptance in the name of memories of the past and the ties of the present and future. With you remain the responsibility and the option of continuing a cruel and wasting war, which can only end after still greater sacrifices in such treaty of peace as we now offer; or of preserving the blessings of peace by the simple abandonment of the design of subjugating is people over whom no right of dominion has been conferred on you by God or man. Braxton Bragg, Gen'l C. S. Army.