Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1861-12-05

the hands Of Il venerable clieftain; but every
cable editor" took pull at them, till they up
set the coach. Amid shouts of ''On to Rich
mond," the North, with its teeming population,
found itself outnumbered at every point OF con-
nict, and the battle of Bull Run proved that
the Administration had known neither its own
strength nor the enemy's.
WAR MOVEMENTS.
correspondent of the New York Times,
writing from Washington, expresses the opinion
that the season for any important movement
south of the Potomac has passed. He says that
whilst it is doubtless true that the whole army
will not go into winter quarters, it is equally
true there will be no general advance. A dem
onstraton may be made on the Confederate bat
tcres which now blockade the lower Potomac,
but the greater portion of the force collected
around the capital will be transferred, from time
to time. to the Southern seaboard, leaving only
a sufficient number of troops to garrison the
Notifications in and around Washington. :
Further news from Pensacola reaches us
through the Richmond Dispatch Of Thursday
last, and the Norfolk Day Boot of Friday. The
tween Fort Pickcns and the Confederate Bate
terics, is confirmed. From the Pensacola o.
server Of the 22d, we learn that the fire was
opened by Pickens upon the little Confederate
steamer Time, which appears to have been the
signal for the opening of the batteries upon
Pickens. The United States war steamer Mag
ara, attempted soon after to cross the bar. but
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teres. How long the firing continued, what
led to its cessation, or what damage was inf1ict-
ed-of all these points of interest we are left in
entire ignorance. A telegram from Gen. Bragg,
dated on the evening Of the 22d, reports that all
was then quiet, and that the Federal war steam
ers kept at safe distance. 1t is evident, there
fore, that the fight had terminated for that day
by mutual consent. The Pensacola Observer,
of the 23d, states that the Confederates had suf-
fered but little loss, and that no serious damage
had been done to the navy yard by the shells
from Fort Pickens 1t also announces that the
firing recommended at eleven o'clock that morn
ing, but the result of the second days engage
ment is wholly unknown. By passengers ar
irving from Norfolk we have various rumors
with regard to subsequent operations, but they
are altogether unreliable.
The Richmond Dispatch has telegram from
Savannah of Nov. 81, stating that Commodore
Tatnall had brisk engagement with the Fede-
raj feet in Cockspur Sound, in which some fifty
shots were exchanged. The design of Common
dore Tatnall was to draw the opposing fleet
within range of Fort Pulaski, but he did not
succeed in doing So Federal pickets now en-
! circle Tybee Island, and other troops have ia
| ken possession of Warsaw and are preparing to
attack Fort Pulaski.
Advices from Missouri are contradictory and
perplexing in the extreme. A few days ago
- lhehce ne was expected to march to
! springfield, for the purpose of forming juno
ton with Rains and McCulloch Later intell-
gence is to the effect that McCulloch's forces
were falling back into Arkansas whilst Price
was moving northward.
General Price has issued proclamation from
Neosho, calling opon the people of Missouri to
rally to his standard to the number of So 900
men. He summons ''the herdslnan from his
folds, the farmer from his field, the mechanic
from his shop" and urges them to bring with
them, wherever they can, supplies of clothing
and tents, provisions, cooking utensi, and all
the arms they can muster, promising in the
name of the State to indemnify every citizen
for whatever losses he may sustain by his adj
herring to what the proclamation terms ''the
cause of his country" If they consent 10 serve
but for a few weeks, General Price promises to
to improve ''the golden opportunity" by driv-
ing the Federal troops beyond the limits of the
State.
Further news from Missouri reaches us by
way of Memphis. General Jeff Thompson
had captured, at Prices Landing the steamer
Platte City with a number of prisoners one of
whom was found to be in possession of COM
plete plan of the Notifications of Columbus.
A correspondent of the Louisville Journal,
writing from Elizabethtown, Hardin county,
states on the authority of Union man who
had returned from Bowling Green, that Gen.
Buckner's forces at that point amounted to 3d.
900 men. Bowling Green was well fortified,
and arms were arriving daily from Memphis.
Polk was expected to reach there at an early
day, with heavy reinforcements. Measles and
and typhoid fever were reported as prevailing
to considerable extent in the Confederate
camps.
Public attention is beginning to be attracted
Itowards the various naval and military expedi-
Itions, which have been for some time in process
Of organization and are now said to be nearly
ready for active service. Independently of the
Port Royal expedition which has already reach
led its point of destination, there are three other
expeditions, more less formidable, which are
intended to operate against the Southern States
of the sea-board, and the Mississippi valley
Ill,
'the stone feet consisting of some fifty old
whaling vessels, which have been loaded with
stone, and are to be sunk in the narrow chan
nels leading to some of the Southern ports. A
portion of this fleet has already set sail, and the
remainder are soon to follow, together with a
supporting force of gunboats and transports