The national Republican., 1861-11-21


virginia-Gen Lee Gone TO south Ca ro-
ns-Ihe Rebel Losses At Belmont-The
Dsstruo tiom Of Brids Is In East Tennrs-
and xnemies OF Bsauregard, Sc.
Louisuale, Nov. l9.-Ths Memphis Appeal, of
the l4th, acknowledges loss vt Belmont of Gas
killed, wounded and missing, and reports the
Federal loss at l,O09. 1t says Col. Logan &C.
ped.
The Richmond Wing, Of the 9th, says that
the Confederate army in Virginis is reorgan.
lied. Tho State is constituted a Department,
COMPRISING the three armies Of the Potomac
the valley and Acqua, uLder the chief com.
mand OF Gen. Johnston. Gen. Beauregard
commands the army of the Potomac; Con,
Thomas Jackson, that of the Valley, and Gen.
Holmes, Acquia. The army Of tho Potomac
comprises four divisions--the nrst Including
!ne Valley, under Gen. Doren; second, q. W.
smith; third, Gen: Longstreet; fourth, Gen.
Kirby Smith. Troops continue passing
through Richmond northwardy. The Fourth
Texas and Twenty-irst Georgia left on the 2sth
for the Potomac.
All the national prisoners in Richmond are
being sent to North Carolina.
The rumor that General Lee had left Sout'-
western Virginia for South Carolina, Is CO. =
frmed.
General Floyd again commands the reb /
forces opposite to General Rosecrans.
General Wise is convalescent.
The Memphis Appeal says the journey from
Richmond TO Memphis occupies four daJ 8, ow.
ing to the destruction Of bridges in East Ten
nessee. Two of these bridges were costly, and
cannot be speedily built.
The railroad managers are using every effort
to keep up communication by ferries and tenn
porary bridges. There Is great excitement
along tho road, especially at Knoxville.
Parson Brownlow had left f'r parts unkn
Five hundred Unionists were reported at Union.
town when the bridge WIS burned.
Colonel Josiah Anderson, a prominent Eas,
Tennessee rebel politician, WAS killed at the
polls on election day.
Several skirmishes between Unionists and
Secessionists are reported from various points
in East Tennessee.
The reported transfer of Gen. Zolliooffer's
forces from Cumberlan Gap to Eastern Ken.
lucky, is unfounded. The latest Nashville and
Memphis papers show that Gen. Zollicoffer is
still at the Gap, with 600 troops. A brigade
Of Tennesseeans, under General Carroll, had
orders to reinforce Zolicofer.
The Bowling Green Courier Of the 18th states
that three regiments and two companies of
cavalry, and q battery of artillery was sent
from Bowling Green in the direction of SCOTS.
vile, KY, supposed for Gen. Zollicofer's re-
lief. This movement originated in tho report
OF an advance on Danville.
Tho explosion Of the large gun at Columbus
killed eight men, including three officers. Gen.
eral Polk WAS laid up several days by its con.
cussion.
The Richmond Enquirer publishes for the
oeedings Of last Springs Virginia Convention.
1t is full OF interesting developments.
The friends and opponents Of Gen. Beaure-
gard were carrying on an angry ne wspaper
controversy at Richmond. Gen. Beauregard
publishes Il card in the Whiy, requesting his
friends not to notice the attacks of his enemies,
disclaiming ambitious aspirations, and an
nouncng his intention to retire to private life
at the end Of the war. The trouble arose from
implied reflections upon the defensive policy Of
the Confederate Government in some of Gen.
Beaureeard's general orders aud reports.
Gov. Harris, OF Tennessee, in II proclamation
on the 18th, urgently appeals for private arms
to arm Ave regiments now in camp, and threat.
ems peremptoriiy to disband them II no arms
are furnished. The Legislature. on the 18th,
passed II law authorizing Gov. Harris to seize
all private arms and call 10 900 men into the
service.
A. G. Brown and James Phelan have been
elected, by the Legislature OF Mississippi, rebel
Senators.
The Fort Smith Times says that the wires
between Fay ettevie and Van Buren, have been
cut several times.
Pettus is almost unanimously reelected gov.
ernor Of Mississippi.