The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1861-12-09
Great Fight between 5000 Tennesseeans
under BroWnoW and Rebel Force.
IHE REBEZS B4DLYR EATEX.
Especial to Chicago journal. |


I Columbus, where she had gone to ex
change Camp Jackson prisoners. AT II,
last night she went to within one mile OF
the town and was met t y the Rebel steam.
Or . Yazoo,' with Polk, McGowan and
others on board. Colonel Buford had a
long conference with General Polk con
eerning the prisoners. The result is not
known yet.
| Colonel Dougherty is reported to be
doing well but is not able to endure re-
moyal yet. He will be sent up as soon
as sufficiently recovered. His wife il with
him.
Memphis papers of Dec. I'd, came up on
the Z latan.' A spes ial gives an account
OF great battle at Morristown, in Eas,
Tennessee, between the Federal forces
under Brownlow, and the Rebels, fought
Dec. lst, in which the Federals were VIC
torious, and the rebel dispatch calls il
!" the first Union victory of the war"
Brownlow had 5000 men. The Rebel
force is not given. The route of the Reb
els was total.
Hollins' Steam Ram I" Manassas" il
not at Columbus, nor has ii been. On
Saturday last it was on the stocks Mt New
Orleans, for repairs. Hence the Tribunes
story Of her participation in fight on
Sunday, at Fort Holt, is all moonshine.-
The rebels at Columbus expected her,
however.
| This week Gen Trevessant has long
communication in the Memphis Appeal,
showing the insufhciency Of the rebel de-
fences AT aud above Memphis. He saws
Columbus once lost, the Federals would
have no trouble in marching directly To
Memphis, and that Memphis is entire
\ " defeuceless and indefensible. lie calls
upon every male citizen in the State to
euroll, and threatens all who do not with
death
The rebels are sending their cotton to
Northern Alabama for safety. There will
be good haul OF splendid fire when our
boats ret there.
Coffee Is quoted at one dollar per pound
at Memphis none To BE- had Bacon
sixty cents, aud ether provisions in pro-
portion.
I The news. on the whole. is gloomy enough
on the part Of the rebels.
Lieut.. Col Chapel Of Thompson's ar
my, here a. prisoner, will be sent TO Col
nmbus to-day. by order Of General Hal
leek. lie Is NOT permitted to 20 to ST
Louis. q.
EF The Memphis Avalanche If the
ID has the following important dispatch
+ e. and Intelligence
Charleston, Nov. 80.
The planters on the seaboard are hour
1 " applying the torch TO the crops of cot
ton and rice Some have authorized the
military authorities t. destroy the crops
to prevent the ravages of the enemy on
their plantations. On the mouth OF the
/ Edlsto river, and neighborhood, as well
A. elsewhere along the coast Of South Ca
rolina, there is one sheet Of flame and
4 smoke.
I Greenville, Tenn, Nov. 80.
Henry Fry aud Jacob NJ Henslie, Uni
onlsts, were hung this evening by order
| OF the military authorities.
4 Richmond, Nov So
/ Congress passed yesterday, and the
President approved to day, an act enabl-
ing the people of Missouri to elect men,
bers to the House of Representatives OF
the Confederate States.
An article from the New Orleans Bul-
| letin reads that "two Confederate steam
ers, the Henry Lewis and Watson, have
been captured by the Union feet, and the
former had on board | $3.50 barrels Of mo-
lasses and one hundred hogsheads OF
sugar. Another steamer, the California,
had been chased and obliged 10 throw
overheard part of her cargo and forty
head Of cattle"
ScANDALous REPORTS CONCERNING
COLONEL seoTT.-Very seandalous re-
ports are rife concerning Colonel Scott,
nephew and secretary of the old General.