We have received copies of New York and Baltimore papers of Tuesday, the 1st instant, and of that evening. There is very little news in them.--Grant's failure is coming to light. In New York, on Monday, gold ran up to 229½, and at the first board, on Tuesday, went up again to 238. In Baltimore, on Tuesday, it went up to 239.
Around Richmond — a Brilliant account of Mahone's picket haul.
All is reported quiet around Richmond and Petersburg. A correspondent, writing from below Richmond about the late fight, says that,--On the north of the James, the lowest estimate I have heard of our losses, in killed, wounded and missing, is one thousand men. Others place the figures at one thousand five hundred as the outside. It will probably be between these. No official report of losses has yet been made public.
The Herald says that, ‘"somehow, the report has gotten abroad that Grant lost four thousand men."’ A dispatch from the army on the south side gives a flaming description of Mahone's picket haul there on Sunday night. The idea that his loss was heavy, when he did not lose a man, is particularly good:
At the point of connection between the Second and Fifth corps' pickets, they made an entrance, and, passing from one post to another, penetrated the line for some distance, taking the pickets prisoners. They then sent forward a heavy force to charge the line of breastworks, in the hope of piercing our centre; but one of the pickets had effected his escape to the main line, and given warning in time for the men to be put on their guard behind the works; and when the rebels advanced, they received such a fierce fire as to drive them back in confusion and with heavy loss. Repeated attempts resulted in like manner, and although the firing was kept up nearly all night, the enemy gained no advantage. Our loss is put down at three hundred and eighty-seven men captured on the picket line. The casualties in killed and wounded are not known, but are very few.
The loss of the enemy must have been heavy, as they advanced in range of our batteries and infantry lines. It was somewhat dark, however, and of course firing was not so effective as it would have been had our troops had a good view of the enemy. At this hour (6 A. M.) all is quiet.
From General Price.
The New York Herald has the following paragraph in its situation article, but takes good care not to publish any of the telegrams to which it refers:‘ General Pleasanton's official dispatches confirm previous reports of the capture of the rebel Generals Marmaduke and Cabell. Our St. Louis dispatches show that the accounts heretofore received of the overwhelming defeat and hurried and disorganized retreat from Missouri of the remnant of Price's army have not been exaggerated. Included in the large number of his men captured by the Union troops are about one hundred commissioned officers.
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The Latest from Sherman.
A telegram from Nashville, dated the 31st, says:‘ Direct communication with Atlanta by rail is open and secure, although there are swarms of guerrillas between the Etowah river and Big Shanty.
’ The New York Herald says:
‘ Not only is there no foundation for the absurd report, recently set afloat, that General Sherman had abandoned Atlanta, but the place is not considered in any danger whatever. General Sherman has assured the Government that he will hold it in spite of all attempts to dislodge him. The rebels are active along the Tennessee river. A portion of Forrest's command, with three pieces of artillery, is reported to have sunk a steamer and a barge, loaded with army clothing, on that river on last Saturday. A small force of them were attacked by Union cavalry on the same day and driven across the river. Forrest is said to have several thousand men at Jackson, Tennessee.
’ We have no advices yet of the rebels having carried out their design of attacking Paducah, Kentucky. Various bodies of them, though, are prowling through different portions of the State.
The Yankee press on Grant's "reconnaissance in force."
The Yankee papers, editorially, handle Grant's reconnaissance very gingerly. The New York Times thinks it "was emetically a grand movement, having regard solely to the strength of the advancing columns." After following up the march of the different corps until Grant's line was formed, it says:‘ The army thus disposed formed an are of about fifteen miles in length; and it was natural that, as soon as Lee discovered what the movement meant, he should direct the best part of his strength to find the point where the point of connection between the different corps was weakest, or where there was no connection formed at all. In this, we take it Lee achieved a partial or momentary success. The weak point lay between the Second and the Fifth corps. Upon that Lee threw one division of Hill's corps, and Hancock's right flank was partially turned. --There was no panic, no disaster, no rout, but, after a stout and gallant fight, our extreme left was drawn in. The line generally was contracted, and although there was heavy skirmishing during the day at other points, where we inflicted severe loss upon the rebels, the crisis of the day was passed when the line between the Second and the Fifth corps was pierced, and the reconnaissance then and there came partially to an end.
’ The co-operative movement by General Butler north of the James, from the clear and full account of it which we publish elsewhere, will be seen to have been admirably timed, and to have served the purpose it was sent to execute. Wherever Lee found the support which enabled him to strike so heavily on our left, he did not find it from the rebel works on the north of Richmond. At every point along Butler's front, extending out as far as the Charles City road, the rebels were kept to their guns, and the Army of the James will receive the credit of having done its full duty.
The Tribune gets out its editorial with a single eye to the election. It thinks that, as the movement finally turned out, "it was something between a reconnaissance and an assault, resulting in a positive success and a considerable gain in position, but not crowned by a decisive defeat of the enemy." It thinks, too, that Grant was in a position to gain the Southside road by one more advance, and adds:
‘ To accomplish this advance, nothing like a general engagement has taken place. The enemy seem to have been indisposed to resist until they were threatened at a vital point, and until a disarrangement of General Meade's line gave them an opportunity to fall upon the flank of one division of the Second corps, which had got further in advance than the Fifth, which should have connected with it. But the affair which ensued was slight in itself, and not important except as determining the character of the whole operation. This exposed division at first suffered some loss, then went forward again and squared accounts with the enemy. So far as actual encounter went, the matter rested there; but it was deemed best to withdraw the Second corps to a position which exposed its connection with the remainder of the line. That position is three miles in advance of what was before held, and so much ground, therefore, goes to the credit of this attempt. If General Grant had chosen to persist, it is plain he might have brought on an action of magnitude at a point favorable enough to him, but he preferred to rest content with what he had won. The losses on either side seem to have been about the same, while all the advantage otherwise remained with us.
’ [The Tribune will find some difficulty in finding that "three miles" on the map.]
Governor Bramlette, of Kentucky, and the Approaching Presidential "election."
Governor Bramlette, of Kentucky, has periodical fits of sauciness towards his master at Washington, which must amuse the Yankees a good deal, especially as nothing ever comes out of them. His last proclamation is a good specimen. It refers to the military control which the New England masters of Kentucky intend to exercise over the voting in that State at what is called, by way of a joke, the "coming Presidential election." It is dated "Executive Mansion, Frankfort, October 17," and here is an extract:The military authorities have nothing to do with elections, and have no authority or right, as officers or soldiers, to interfere therewith. At elections, all are citizens — none are soldiers. Citizenship is the highest status of the man. The soldier is but a citizen employed in the military service — not in the civil. The duty of the soldier is to support — not to overthrow or control — the civil authority. He is to establish the civil authority where it has been overborne by revolt — not to overrule or usurp civil authority.
If, therefore, any military officer shall show-himself so regardless of duty as to assume to direct or control the officers of election, you should treat such orders with indignant contempt, and scorn obedience which implies perjury and cowardice in you.
If military force is brought to menace the officers of election or voters, your duty is clearly marked out by law. The law is as binding upon the soldier as upon any other citizen. He has no more right to violate it, and is as amenable to its penalties. As no officer of any rank, from the President down, has any right or authority to interfere with elections, no order to do so can legalize the act. If there be sufficient power in the citizens present at any place where such interference may be attempted to arrest the offenders, and hold them over to answer to the violated laws, it will be the duty of the sheriff to make the arrest in such case. He has authority to require the aid of every citizen, and it should be readily and promptly given in defence of a common right — of a blood-bought franchise. If the force employed to interfere with the election be too great, at any place of voting, to be arrested, the officers of election in such case should adjourn, and not proceed with the election. If you are unable to hold a free election, your duty is to hold none at all, but adjourn and report the offenders to the grand jury of your county for indictment and punishment.--This is the lawful mode of meeting unlawful attempts to disturb the freedom of elections.
Miscellaneous.
Hon. John L. Dawson and A. H. Coffroth (Democrats) turn out to be elected to Congress from Pennsylvania. The Abolitionists claimed to have carried these districts.General T. E. G. Ransom, commanding the Seventeenth corps of Sherman's army, died at Rome, Georgia, on the 30th.
General Dix, commanding the Department of the East, has issued an order granting furloughs to soldiers in his department, unfit for field service, to go home to vote on the Presidential election.
It is stated, with much positiveness, by the Washington letter-writers, that immediately after the Presidential election, Mr. Stanton is to go upon the bench of the Supreme Court; and Mr. Blair, late postmaster-general, is to have charge of the War Department portfolio.
The anticipated "rebel" raid on Buffalo from Canada has not yet been carried out. It is thought that the leaders in it were awed by the military and other preparations for their reception. A number of suspicious persons have been observed in the city; and it is asserted that rockets have been sent up and guns fired on the American shore as signals to the rebels across the lake in Canada.
Captain Buchanan, a quartermaster, was killed by the Confederates, near Charlestown, Virginia, last week, and for it, Miss Mollie McDonough, living near the spot, was arrested and carried to the Old Capitol prison at Washington.
Speaking of the presence of Governor Seymour's committee in Washington to investigate the arrests of the New York State Agents, the correspondent of the New York Tribune says they saw the President and Secretary of War, and that "the plain English of their appeal, sifted down, is, after all, that the Government must deal very gingerly with these criminals; if it don't, the public peace will be terribly disturbed, and the Copperheads in New York will do desperate things. We shall see how much it will bear down upon such demands."
The New York insurance companies propose to raise their rates, and the signatures of nineteen- twentieths of the companies have been obtained to an agreement to that effect.
"Mollie Hayes," a noted female rebel spy, of Forrest's command, who was captured six months ago, has been sent to the Alton (Illinois) prison.
A hotel is up at raffle in St. Joseph, Missouri. It is valued at one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, and the tickets are one dollar each.
General Sheridan, in the course of his recent campaign in the Valley, has had five of his staff officers killed or wounded.
One lady and twelve gentlemen were graduated at Oberlin College at the late commencement.
A movement is proposed at Nantucket to enter upon the cod and mackerel fishery as a means of retrieving the prosperity of the town.
Miss Dickinson lectured in the Boston Fraternity Course last week. Topic: "Chicago the Last Ditch."
Sheridan's losses in the battle of Strasburg are now officially put down at 7,086.
Secretary Stanton is quite ill from chills and fever, supposed to have been contracted in the miasmas on the banks of the James.
