Latest from the North.
Baltimore papers of Saturday, the 10th inst., have been received.
The following is the latest intelligence:
A dispatch from
Gen. Rosecrans's headquarters, dated 6th inst., says that no one was injured by the rebel batteries on the previous day, and the men continued their work as usual.
A telegram dated
Nashville, 8th inst., says rumors prevail that the rebel cavalry have captured and entirely destroyed
Shelbyville, Tenn., taking the forces there prisoners.
The latest
Chattanooga advices say all is quiet, and there is no appearance of an attack.
The
Nashville correspondent of the Philadelphia
Inquirer says that
Burnside, with two corps, holds a position the value of which is hardly known yet. When the enemy is thrown back upon the Virginia and East Tennessee Railroad, he will be ready to finish
Gen. Rosecrans's work.
Gen. McPherson is advancing from the
West by one route, while
Gen. Sherman, with the 13th army corps, is moving up by a shorter and better one.
Two corps, under
Howard and
Slocum, are moving right up the --country, under direction of
Gen. Joseph Hooker.
A movement has been made which will insure our possession of the railroad to
Richmond east of
Knoxville, so as to prevent any possible flank attack of the rebels upon
Gen. Burnside, or a recapture of
Cumberland Gap.
New York, Oct. 8 --A special dispatch to the
World, from
Cincinnati, says that correspondents with the army report that
Gen. Rosecrans's army is in a perfectly safe condition.
More reinforcements are near, and troops are constantly arriving from the
West and elsewhere.
The rebel cavalry cannot seriously interfere with
Gen. Rosecrans's supplies.
A great battle must soon be fought, and confidence is expressed in the final issue.
Nashville, 6">Oct.
6 --The
Press denies the burning of the bridge over
Stewart's creek by the rebels.
It says that
Wheeler crossed the river at
Washington last Thursday morning, thirteen miles above
Chattanooga, and passed down the
Sequatchie valley.
The rebels captured fifty wagons of one of our trains at the foot of the mountains, near
Anderson's Cross-roads, burning a number of them, and killing about 300 horses and mules.
The train was ladened with ammunition, clothing, and notions.
Forty wagons carrying medical and sanitary stores and about fifty sutlers' teams were also lost.--
Gen. Mitchell, with a force of Union cavalry, as soon as he learned of the crossing of the rebels, pursued them, and on Friday and Saturday killed and wounded 70 and took 200 prisoners and recaptured 250 mules.
On reaching Walnut Range the rebels shot 200 mules to prevent their falling into our hands.
Louisville, October 8th.--As previously stated, four or five thousand rebel cavalry, under
Wheeler, with artillery, attacked
McMinnville Saturday afternoon, capturing the town and garrison, consisting of the Fourth Tennessee infantry.
Our forces were with out artillery and the town without defences or fortifications.
The rebels burned a train of cars and destroyed the railroad and telegraph.
They are believed to be advancing on
Manchester.
Several prominent Union men are supposed to have been captured.
Part of the same force destroyed a train of two hundred wagons on Friday between
Bridgeport and
Chattanooga, and captured an ammunition train of twelve wagons.
Portions of rebel cavalry are scattered along the road near the south of
Murfreesboro', designing to destroy the railroad and telegraph communication, capturing stockades, &c. Our troops are closely pursuing them.
The rebels have fortified the mountain side opposite
Bridgeport, and on Saturday threw a few shell at the workmen engaged in repairing railroad bridges across the river.
Our pickets occupy the island in front of
Bridgeport, and constantly exchanged shots with the rebel pickets.
Small bands of rebels are hovering about the railroad from
Nashville to the front, but such measures have been taken that they will not succeed in effecting any important damage to our communications.
The severe beating given them on Saturday, at
Murfreesboro', by
Col. McCook, will probably end all attempts of the kind for the present.
All points on the line of communication are now guarded by a force sufficient to repel any attack.
There is every reason to believe that the present position of
Rosecrans is impregnable.
Sensational peace reports.
The Washington
Republican, of the afternoon of the 8th, has a sensational dispatch from the
Herald. It says:
‘
A dispatch from New York this afternoon announces that the
Herald to-day contains an editorial statement as follows:
"We are in possession of very important intelligence from
Washington, through a careful correspondent, who has
never deceived us in his information, that peace propositions from the rebels have been brought before the
Cabinet."
’
We have the highest authority for asserting that if any such proposition has been recently brought before the
Cabinet, that it was done when the
President was absent, and without his knowledge.
Another special
Washington dispatch to the New York
Herald says:
‘
"Not withstanding the denial of
Washington newspapers, whose managers assume to know everything, but really know nothing, it is a fact that for two months past the question of a settlement of the impending difficulties between the
Northern and Southern States without further bloodshed, has been under consideration both in
Washington and
Richmond.
"The action thus far hardly authorizes the statement that peace propositions are being considered.
The negotiations have not yet reached any definite propositions.
For the present your correspondent is under an obligation of secrecy upon the subject, which may in a few days be removed, when it will be shown that the
Government has either accepted or rejected a plan proposed to try to bring the war to a speedy and bloodless conclusion, without dishonor to the
North or humiliation to the
South."
’
A dispatch dated
Louisville, October 7th, says:
‘
The guerillas at
Woodburn, Warren county, recently committed many depredations, burning a number of houses and robbing citizens, &c. Reports are current here that a raid into
Glasgow, Ky., was made at daybreak this morning.
Eighty five guerillas, it is said, surprised our forces there, amounting to upwards of three hundred, and captured nearly all of them.
The officer commanding them is said to have killed three rebels with a revolving rifle, and on approaching our stockade found it occupied by rebels, but six of our men being in it when they were overpowered by the enemy.
’
Miscellaneous.
George Sumner, brother of
Senator Sumner, of
Massachusetts, died in
Boston on Tuesday.
Vice-President Hamlin is raising a cavalry regiment for his son to command.
A line of steamships between
San Francisco and
Japan is forming.
The Boston coal dealers have put up the price of coal to $11 a ton.
On Wednesday 777 bales of cotton, captured on board the steamer
Kate Dale, were told in
Philadelphia at prices ranging from 30 ⅓ to 92 ½ cents per lb.
Eighteen of the colored waiters of the
Delavan House, in
Albany, were drafted, Sixteen of them took the skedaddler' railroad for
Canada.
The total exports of ice for the year from
Boston amount to 58,791 tons, against 57,542 during the same period in 1863.
A terrible gale set in at
Buffalo, N. Y., last Saturday night. The schooner
Ruby, from
Toledo, was sunk, with 5,300 bushels of wheat.
It is reported that the absence of
General Rosecrans from the battle-field of
Chickamauga is attributable to the fact that he was, either previously to or during the fight, seized with a fit of epilepsy.
The draft in
New Jersey is to be commenced on the 25th inst.
Nothing important from the army of the Potomac.
The gold market in New York Wednesday opened at a lower figure than it closed the day before, reports having been current that the
Government would break down the market prices.
On Thursday the highest rate was 145 ⅞. The
Tribune says that gold was sold freely upon the street in the morning at 146a 146 ½ upon the fresh rumors of peace propositions from the rebel States.
The quotation at the First Board Friday was 147; at the Second Board 146 ¾.
Virginia sixes 59,
N. C.'s 62.