Later from the North.
Rosecrans's official dispatch to the War Department gives an accounted the fight at Murfreesboro', which, he says, ended on Saturday in a total defeat of the rebel army, and their disorderly flight to Tullahoma. The fight was continuous from Tuesday to Saturday. He says that the Medical Director estimates the number of wounded in the hospitals at 5,500, and the killed at 1,000.
The Cumberland and other rivers were rising rapidly.
The Memphis Bulletin says that Vicksburg surrendered to Gen. Sherman after five days fighting. He was reinforced Sunday night by 9,000 men from Grant's army. The whole Union force at Vicksburg is estimated at 40,000.
[No dates are given in the above. We have good reason to believe that it is not true.]
Banks and Farragut were hourly expected.
The Herald has additional particulars of the fight on Thursday between Gens. Sullivan and Forrest.
The fight lasted all day — the rebels fleeing with the loss of 1,400 killed, 350 horses, 1,000 stand of arms, and six guns, Sullivan's loss was 600. (?)
A bill has been introduced in the Yankee Congress, authorising it issued of $300,000 more of Treasury notes, and recommended the additional issue of $300,000,000 six per cents, redeemable in one, tow, and three years, and $500,000,000 at 20 years.
Judge Upshur, of Indians, has been nominated for the vacancy in the Bureau of the Interior.
The Albany correspondent of the Herald says that the New York Police Commissioners will be tried at an early day on the charges preferred.--Governor Seymour has not completed his message. He will maintain about the same position in regard to the management of the war that he did in his speeches during the canvass, but will favor more decisively the prosecution of the war and the restoration of the Union.
Gold in New York on the 5th rose to 135½, and closed at 1344. Exchange advanced to 148½.
From Europe.
The steamship City of Washington has arrived, with Liverpool dates to the 24th.The Liverpool Journal of Commerce says that the Government has issued orders warning the Alabama from British ports, and that if any more British property should be destroyed by her, the Government would destroy the Alabama. The London Times ridicules the idea that the Government would be held responsible for the acts of the Alabama.
The Times publishes a strong secession latter from Commander Maury. He repudiates the idea of a re-union, and says the South is well supplied with arms, and is as determined as ever. He says that the customs receipts at Charleston were greater in July than for the corresponding month of the part ten years.
It is semi-officially denied that M. Drouyn De L'Huys has spoken to foreign ministers of the advisability of mediation.
The New York Herald, editorially, admits that Rosecrans lost 10,000 men, several hundred wagons, and thirty cannon.
The French Legislature assembles on the 12th of January.
A resolution was introduced in the Missouri Legislature on the 5th endorsing the emancipation proclamation, and urging its rapid enforcement.
An official dispatch from General Blunt to General Curtis announces the capture of Van Buren, with a loss to the rebels at Dipping Springs of all their transportation, camp, and garrison equipage, one hundred prisoners, large amounts of ammunition, and four steamboats.
Various journals denounce the tenor of recent diplomatic correspondence laid before Congress.
