From New York papers of the 2d, and Baltimore papers of the evening of that day, we continue our summary of Northern news. The Federal who are now captured by the Confederates are, since the employment of the Harper's Ferry prisoners in fighting the Indians, compelled to take a different parole, excluding them from serving the United States Government in any capacity whatever until exchanged. The Washington papers contain an official report of the destruction of the Confederate bomb proof magazines, seven in number, at Lower Shipping Point, on the Potomac. They had been long since evacuated. A detachment of Confederate cavalry reconnoitered the destroying party, but made no attack. The New York Herald publishes a list of members of the Confederate Congress, and also a lief of the General officers of the Confederate army, giving 137 Generals, of whom 81 are graduates of West Point. This Herald listed among the several States as follows: Virginia South Carolina, 14, Georgia, 14; Kentucky, 11; Tennessee 11; Louisiana, 9; North Carolina 9; Alabama 9; Mississippi 5; Missouri 7; Tennessee, 5; Texas, 4; Maryland, 3; District of Columbia, 2; Florida 4; Unknown, 6.
The expected attack at Norfolk Presentation forces fall in the city
The correspondent of the New York Post writing from Norfolk on the 20th ult., says a combined land and eagle attack upon that place by the Confederates is greatly apprehended. Intercepted letters to Norfolk fixed the date of the attack at October Gen. Victs has made topographical surveys of the surrounding country, and triple pickets have been posted. A war briefing was held on the 25th; to aid Col. Close, of Alexandria, in raising a Union regiment. About 400 persons were present. Another meeting was to be held at Ashland in Norfolk. Affairs in the city are thus described by the correspondent:The upper classes here do not develop any Union feeling. In a social point of view, Norfolk is father an interesting study. Having been (to use the words of the historian) originally settled by "men of lotty bearing and sterling worth," their descendants have conceived the idea that they were a little superior to most people and through every vicissitude of fortification endeavored religiously to nurse this feeling The war has put a the social organization, of which advantage taken by a class whose claims to any social position, have not hitherto been acknowledged.
Their school teachers have returned to New England; their negroes are "living to themselves;" their crops in the fairly; they do their own homework are they want for the command necessities of the they have the proud satisfaction that they are Virginians?.
Several regiments have arrived without few days, and quite disappointed the people of Norfolk, who, for some reason of other, but themselves that Norfolk was about to be evacuated by the Union troops. Pondssons Incommodes are daily steaming southward harnessed to long soldier laden trains of cars.
Notwithstanding the restriction placed outrade a good business is carried on here. There is scarcely an hour in the day but shipping of some kind arrives from the James river, Fortress Monroe, Washington, or the North Carolina canals.
A horrible murder took place here a few days since. Late in the evening the Sergeant of the guard at the Academy grounds, hearing the cry of murder, hurried to the street in time to find a colored boy stabbed and lying on the pavement. At the same moment a man rushed up and reported a soldier lying in front of his house in the same condition. The authorities are on the track of the murderer. The soldier was a private in the Ninety-ninth New York, and has died since. The case certainly is a great mystery, as it now appears to the public. A few days, however, will burlies to clear it up, with the energetic measures that have been taken.
Yesterday afternoon Gen. Vicle, with his full staff mounted, and an escort of cavalry, made a tour of the cutakirts of the city, visiting the guards and most of the pickets, returning late at night.--The day previous the General visited Suffolk for the same purposes. on his return from both reconnaissances he expressed his perfect satisfaction with the state of all the men he saw, and their eager readiness for an attack.
The Navy seem equally prepared, although I have not had so great an opportunity of judging.
Capt. Cordins, of the Navy, was here a few days since; he has just some from the Savannah river, where, it will be remembered, he captured a prize vessel from the enemy, of great value. He states one interesting fact in connection with it — that a greater part of the cargo was clothing for ladies, and all made for the deepest mourning. There is hardly a family in the South who do not wear this outward symbol of grief for some member lost in this war. As you walk through the streets here it is very noticeable.
Northern account of the battle of tuka — desperate Bravery of the Confederates.
A letter in the New York Herald gives an account of the fight a tuka., Miss., on the 22d ult., between portions of Price's and Rosecrans's armies. The correspondent says "the plan to capture Price was admirable, but, unfortunately, was nor carried out." He says:‘ The fight commenced about half past 4 in the afternoon. Buford's brigade, under command of Colonel John B. Sanbors, was the first in the engagement, and suffered more than any other of our forces. The fighting was almost hand to hand.--The rebels charged and fired the 11th Ohio battery four different times and it was as often retaken by our boys. Every horge in the battery was killed, and there were only eight men left unwounded and fit for duty. Every soldier was wounded and one Lieutenant, killed. It supported by the 5th Iowa who their first battle, too; they met the rebles every time they changed and fought them at close quarters. The desperation of the enemy was . Several of them endeavored to teal our friends from the hands of the men by main strength, and either perished in the attempt or were made prisoners. In one spot next morning I counted seventeen rebels lying dead around one of their Colonels. Sixteen feet square would cover the whole space where they died with their commander. Between two caissons of the 11th Ohio battery lay sixteen dead horses, and the battery lost ninety three in the fight.
’ In one place lay a rebel and a Union soldier, the Unionist shot through the breast, and in falling be had plunged his bayonet into the breast of the man who shot him; and they left together, the rebel lurching our boy by the throat. They lay in this position on the field next morning, and it was with difficulty they were separated. Wounded and dead lay in all directing during the whole of the day succeeding the battle it being impossible to remove them soldier. Price felt his dead and wounded on the field, paying no attention whatever to them and of course they felt upon the hands of our surgeons who are as busy as men can well be, and the hospitals present such scenes as I never again wish to look upon. Every few moments some poor fellow dies, and without a murmur, apparently having made up his mind to take whatever comes with the best possible grace. Around the amputation table soldiers are lying, looking on at the operations with supreme indifference, not knowing how soon their own time may come to undergo the same torture.
General Rosscrans had about one thousand five hundred men actually engaged in the fight, and the rebels some two thousand five hundred, as nearly as could be ascertained. The whole force of neither side was engaged, night coming on before the battle could become general. The cannonading lasted only half an hour, and was most destructive, the Eleventh Ohio battery keeping up a perfect stories of iron hail upon the rebels as they charged, time after time down upon them. The principal regiments of the rebles were the Third Texas, Third Louisiana and a Mississippi regiment, the number of which I could not obtain. We took the Colonel (Military) of the Third Texas and a Louisiana Major prisoner. Both were wounded, and they both any that such desperate fight for the time it lasted and the soldier or of troops actually engaged, has not before been men during the war. The rebel General Little was killed on the battlefield, and the loss among their officers were large. The number of killed and wounded on the rebel she will reach seven hundred and some three hundred prisoners taken during their retreat, which retreat resembled the steawede of a fleck of sheep more than an army of flying soldiers. They scattered through the woods in every direction and we could only catch them in small squads. We captured the main part of the baggage train and stores, and finally halted at Jacinto, where Rosscrans now is. Price is supposed to be on the way to Ripley. Our loss will number five hundred in killed and wounded, and a good many die in hospital. The fifth Iowa went into action with four hundred and eight men, and came out with a loss of two hundred and sixteen men. The Eleventh and Twenty-sixth Missouri, Forty-eighth Indiana, Fourth Minnesota, and Sixteenth and Seventeenth Iowa all had more or less men in the fight at different times, and all fought like brave men and soldiers Rosecrans, Sullivan, and Col. Sanborn stood on the field, with grape and canister whistling round their heads in every direction, apparently oblivious to danger and only anxious to watch every phase of the fight.
As darkness gathered over the scene the rebel army retired into I-u-k-a, and at twelve o'clock at night commenced their retreat. At about seven o'clock A. M., their whole force was in rapid fight, pursued closely by Hamilton's division. At about twelve o'clock General Grant and staff arrived from Burnsville, and the Second and Sixth divisions arrived about the same time, and were immediately ordered to return. Gen. Grant remained a short time, and then returned to Burnsville, from whence, next morning, he returned to Corinth. Official notice has been received that Rosecrans is a Major General--a deserved recognition of valuable services and his military skill.
From M'Clellas's army — the rebels very timid about an advance — the army to take a rest.
A letter dated Frederick, Md., Oct, 1st, says a large Federal cavalry force, with artillery, crossed the river and went within four miles of Martinsburg, but they met the Confederates and were driven back:Another column, under Captain Farnsworth; went across the country to where the Harper's Ferry and Martinsburg read in crossed by the Shepherdstown and Winchester turnpike, whence they took the pike to the crossing of the railroad bridge at Opequan creek. They also came upon some of the rebel cavalry and drove them back — It was ascertained conclusively that the enemy have left Martinsburg.
A messenger, arrived to night, brings reliable intelligence from Winchester, which represents that the rebel army is not there in much force. They are in a most demoralized condition, and suffering for every comfort in life. They are said to be constantly on the alert, and excessively timid, apprehending an attack from McClellan every day. The news of the advance of the reconnaissance of Monday threw them into a panic as they thought it the advance guard of our main body.
A dispatch from Washington, of the same date, announces the arrival of Hon. John Cochrane there from the right wing of the army, and who reports the army in "good condition."
He thinks that they need and expect rest after having passed without intermission through the campaigns of the peninsula and of Virginia, under Pope and of Maryland, the last having been brilliantly accomplished in the space of ten days. But rest is not to be confounded with injurious delay. The army should be reinforced by the introduction of recruits into the old regiments, which Gen. Cochrane deems the only true reinforcements. He thinks two weeks of earnest work would effect this and that afterwards the army could move triumphantly through Virginia and on to Richmond. He represents the rebels to have fled panic stricken, and is satisfied that the old rebel army is entirely broken. He believes their new forces to be composed of raw conscripts.
The capture of wounded Confederates at Warrenton.
A dispatch from Washington says:‘ The number of prisoners taken by us at Warrenton was 1,033. They represented almost every State in the Southern Confederacy. The greater number were left by the rebels at the hospital at Warrenton. The condition of the hospital was dreadful, the sick and wounded having been shamefully neglected, so that numbers had died from mortification of their wounds. Major R. W. Paint, Quartermaster of Gen. Longstreet's staff was captured at Gainesville and barreled. The following is a hat of officers taken at Warrenton.
’ Capts. E. R. Murden, 23d S. C; J. S. Taylor, 23d S. C. R. H. Wright, 23rd Va; J. N. Mallory, 18th Tenn., a R. Mortan, 23d S. C., Morria, 14th Tenn; Dickinson, 12th S. C. H. H. Everett, 14th Texas; Lieuts W. Hark reacher, 7th Tenn. M. V. Shockley, 24th Va; A. F. Baton, 1st Tenn; C. A. Carter, 24th Va; A. J. Nowell, 1st. Tenn; M. C. Holmes, 4th Tenn; R. E. Stanten, 14th M. V. Darvin, 12th S. C., J. W. Smith, 15th Ga; J. W.--14th Tenn; Jas May, J W. Bean, 12th Va., Fm. Walen R. A. Baker, 1st S. C; Guice, 4th Ala; J. Burch, Ga., Quartermaster Jos. Martin, 6th S. C.,
Contemplated Exchange of State prisoners.
An order of the United States Government directs all prisoners of State now on parole by authority from the headquarters of the Military District of Columbia to report in person forthwith to the Military Governor the that District. This is with a view to their exchange for Union prisoners at Richmond. The New York Herald has the following characteristic paragraph in connection with this subject:One of the volunteer nurses who were taken prisoner on the Bull Run battle-field, who has recently returned from Richmond, says the civilians detained in prison there who together with about thirty Kentuckians, principally from the of Letcher, Breathe. Floyd, and Johnson, numbering in all about one hundred, are confined together in one room. Their condition is wretched beyond description. They believe themselves fore asked by their Government, and are, wasted, haggard, and almost idiotic, from suffering, having accused all the tortures of the notorious. Libby prison, worse than the Black Hole of Calcutta, for from five to nine months.--Some of them are from sixty to seventy years old. They are without money or friends, and their garments dropping from their bodies in rottener. The spectacle is humiliating to all. Forty or more of these poor fellows sitting or lying stars naked, killing vermilion on their disease-infected clothes.--Many are destitute of clothing, excepting pantaloons, and they are better off than others from being less tortured with insects. After days before the departure of the informant, one of these wretched prisoners jumped from a window, was fired upon by four of the guards, but escaped into the city, where he was killed. He was Virginian, and was believed by his fellow prisoners to have been laboring under aberration of mind for some weeks.--An appeal has been made to the Government in be half of these prisoners and it is understood that steps have already been taken to procure their exchange.
The Cabinet and the emancipation proclamation.
The special Washington correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette, under date of of September 20 gives the following as an accurate statement of the position of the various members of the Cabinet on the President's emancipation policy during the time in which it was the subject of Cabinet discussion:Secretary Chase, from the outset, has been the recognized leader in urging emancipation, and when the matter was at various times under discussion, he was always its leading advocate. Secretary Weltes favored emancipate on, but was not specially energetic in urging, as he rarely is in ing, any point in public policy outside his own department. Secretary Stanton was always outspoken in declaring his readiness to strike at slavery under the war power, wherever and whenever slavery could be reached. Postmaster General Blair was, throughout, the most determined and bitter opponent of the emancipation policy, and when the substance of the proclamation was made known to the Cabinet, the was perhaps more outspoken than any of the members in protecting against its adoption. Not less determined, though perhaps more cautious in his protests, was Secretary Seward. It may be sidely said that he was the great leader in the Cabinet of oppositions to any policy of emancipation that which the President finally adopted Secretary Smith and Attorney-General Buren occupied about the same ground on the subject.
The Prime necessity trade — operations against Smuggled.
The Collector of the port of the Philadelphia has received instructions from the Treasury Department at Washington, Which are designed to prevent the shipment of goods or supplies where they may be intended for disloyal persons. No hereafter be sent from that port either by railroad express, or water, to the Eastern Shorn of Maryland and adjacent sections, all the parties concerned in the same shall first have taked the prescribed oath of allegiance to the Government. The following in an extract from Secretary Chase's order:In granting pernuts or clearances for the Eastern Shore of Maryland, you will exercise the greatest vigilance to prevent the shipment of improper articles, and the shipment of anything in greater quantities, either by the frequency of permission or the amount allowed to be shipped at any one time than are ordinarily required for family consumption, and refuse all clearances where you have reason to believe the propelled shipments are intended for or may reach disloyal parties aiding or abetting the rebellion.
Latest from New Orleans — Northern Accounts of the taking the oath of allegiance.
The New York papers have advices from New Orleans to the 23d ult. Gen. Sherman had command of all the Federal troops at Carrolton, six miles from the city. The gunboats were also lying there. A letter says:‘ The great excitement now in our city — we must always have a great excitement, you know, in these times — is that which is incident to the near expiration of President Lincoln's sixty days for "taking the oath." It came hard, and was postponed by thousands until the last moment; but cunctators are making up for lost time, I can assure you. The Provost Marshal has been obliged to open a large number of subordinate offices, at which those who, at length, have made up their minds that it is better to come into the arrangement, can be accommodated; and, to-day, the last day of grace save one, has witnessed a scene that no pen can adequately describe. The City Hall, and the Custom House, the headquarter of all the military authorities, have been literally besieged throughout the day, and will continue so to be during the whole of to-morrow, by persons, male and female, white and black, high and low, rich and poor, native and foreign, naturalized and unnaturalized, desirous in the language of that intyitable "sixth section" of "returning to their allegiance." As the Delta this afternoon truly says, "the bench and the bar, physicians, gentlemen of property and leisure, and ladies of the highest circles of respectability, have freely subscribed to that important document.
’ General Butler has caused it to be distinctly understood that the law is to be carried into execution to the very last letter. There is a great deal of property in this city that stands in danger of the stringent requisitions of the act, and as it now begins to look, even in the eyes of the most credulous and hopeful, as if the outlying bands of the guerrillas will not be able to retake New Orleans before to-morrow night, the property owners have come to the sagacious conclusion that it is upon the whole the safest plan to succumb to the necessity they cannot really or indeed at all evade.
Nearly two full residents have been raised among the Crooles and the regiments brought them have been recruited, and this is proof that we have friends here, notwithstanding the denial of Union men South. There would be more of them it the Government could make their rights more secure.
The losses in property and the sufferings are enormous. For example the Souths, before the war, had at income of $80,000 a year and this is now reduced to a more living on plain pork and flour.
Federal soldiers to pillage when insulted.
Major-General W. T. Sherman, now at Memphis Tenn., has issued a general order to his troops, remunerating against pillaging. The following extract from it will show how much it is worth:I know, moreover, in some instances, where our soldiers are complained of, they have been insulted by angering remarks about "Yankees." "Northern barbarians," "Lincoln hirelings," &c., Such people must seek redress through the civil authorities, for I will not retreat insults to our country or our cause. When people forget their obligations to a Government that made them respected among the nations of the earth, and speak contemptuously of the flag which in the about emblem of the country, I will not go out of my way to protect them or their property. I will punish the soldiers for trespass and waste, if adjudged by a court-martial, because they disobey but soldiers are men and citizens as well as soldiers and should promptly recent any insult to their country, come from what quarter it may. I mention this phase because it is too common, this country to soldier does not justify pillage, but it takes from the officer the disposition he would otherwise feet to follow up the inquiry and punish the wrongdoers.
Thanksgiving proclamation of the Governor of New York — the rebels command the respect.
Governor Morgan, of New York, has issued a proclamation fixing the 27th of November as a day of thanksgiving and prayer, for the Federal successes "by land and sea." The Governor has learned to respect the "rebels," and gives them this notice in the proclamation.Looking beyond the wicked leaders who have precipitated this terrible calamity of civil war upon as, were that the people in arms against the Government possesses the higher qualification our national character, and though their have been perverted by passion and predicate, yet out many occasion their prowess and devotion to their cause have been such as town our respect. We are permitted to see that the war is developing the manhood of the nation and when peace shall return we have faith that the American Republic will be more powerful, the Government against permanent, the elements of society more it blended, and the people here firmly ever.
Returning provided.
A number of the aspiring chivalry of Frederick, whose of shell was not to defer them from following the army, when it retired from this city before the advancing banner for the Union have since comeback stealthily, and one by one, with various disclaimers of any purpose of treatment. The apparent telegram of the military authors forward these prodigals is very discouraging to the loyal victim of the rebel invasion, but we would counsel such to be patient, for although Federal justice may be tardy, the Grand inquest for the body or Frederick county will soon meet to avenge the violated treason law of the State of Maryland, by indictment against all offenders-- Ball American
Miscellaneous.
The triennial Episcopal Convention of the United States met in St. Johns Church, New York, on the 1st inst. The last meeting of this body was hold in Richmond, and of all the Southern and border slave States represented at the Virginia Convention, three years age, Maryland and Kentucky and Northwestern Mississippi, the latter by the Assistant Bishop, only were present, in New York on Wednesday.The Governor General of Canada and suite arrived in Chicago on the 27th ult, and took rooms at the Trement. The party was chaperoned by Captain Retallack, the escorted the Prince of Wales and suite through the States. The Prince of Wales's car was furnished to the party by the Michigan Central Railroad.
The New York Tribune publishes a letter from "Henry Lynch" on intelligent Irish citizens of Minnesota, to Gen. Hunter advising the arming, with pikes of "such negroes as it may, after the 1st of next January, be considered advisable to enroll in the service of the United States, or to assist with the means of asserting their own freedom."
The rebel steamer Cubs arrived at Havana on the 23d, with cotton, from Mobile valued at $163,493, which will be immediately converted into mulatto is and stores most needed by the South.
The draft in Massachusetts has been again postponed till Oct, 15th. Preparations for the draft in Pennsylvania New York, and several other States, are actively in progress.
It was understood that General Morgan, with his forces from Cumberland Cap, would reach the Ohio on Thursday or Friday. His loss in the retreat has been trifling. He has saved his trains.
The Oregon Legislature has memorialized Congress for arms and munitions for the defence of the State, and an iron clade vessel at the mouth of the Columbia.
The Hon. Ell Thayer has received applications from upwards of a thousand persons desiring to join his colony in Florida.
James Monzon, of Ohio, has been appointed Consul at Rhode Janer, in place of Richard C. Parsons.
The Hon. Jareb W. Mider, formerly United States Senator from New Jersey, is dead.
Over hall a million dollars of prizeanoucy has been paid over by United States Marshal Milward, or Philadelphia, about half of which has been sent to Washington for distribution.
The yellow fever at Key West, has killed one-fifth of the 90th N. Y. regulate.
The village of Randolph Tennessee which was recently destroyed by order of Gen. Sherman contained ninety-seven buildings, all but one of which were reduced to aches.
A party of Confederate cavalry, on the 17th ult, fell upon a detachment, numbering twenty men of Captain Dykes Maryland cavalry, near Green Spring run, on the Baltimore and Ohio, Railroad, and killed and wounded fourteen of the party.
Lt. Colonel Joseph P. Warner of Baltimore died on the 1st inst.
Stanton Draper, of New York, has been appointed Provost Marshal-General of the United States, under the recent order of the War Department clothing such as office.
Orders have been read to every regiment of McClellan's army, announcing as deserters all who are absent without leave. The lists take in the names of a good many officers.
E. C. Arnold a maps of the fortifications about Washington have been seized at all the bookstreet.
The name of the last great battle field should be proclaimed Antietam.--the account on the last syllable. This is the Vernaculer.
