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Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-10-15
From Cairo.
Correspondence of the Journal.

CAIRO. Oct Z, 1861
The foraging expedition of four hundred
and twenty-five men, under Col. John A Lo-
gan, reported in my last, returned to this
place on Thursday morning on the steamers
Alex Scott and City of Memphis, bringing
with them ten thousand bushels of corn. thr-
teen prisoners, and several horses, DC, which
they captured on their route from Thompson s
Landing, NO., to Charleston.
A detachment of Col. Logan's command
was sent in the advance to recOunoitre, and,
finding that the enemy-who were reported
1900 strong there-had vacated the town,
the forces entered and took possession of the
place, but deeming il unworthy of occupa-
tion, they left Immediately for Thompson's
Landing and returned as stated well laden
with corn and provisions Colonel Logan
and bis gallant followers are ready for anOth-
er excursion into Missouri.
Ii is now known here that JEFF. Thompson
has abandoned his late camp near Hunters
farm and retreated TO New NJ adrid, about for
ty miles down the river, and has not been
heard from.
There has been quite a lively aspect on the
river and at this place for the last four days
in consequence oil the movements and change
of troops. An attack being anticipated at
Cape Girardeau two more regiments were Or
dered there from Birds Point, and various
changes of regiments have occurred from
Birds Point to Fort Holt and vice versa. The
10th regiment from this point (Col. Morgan)
have changed quarters with the 18Th, Col.
Rhodes, at Mound City.
A body of the finest cavalry ever saw ar
rived here on Thursday, under command Of
Col. Noble. They crossed over to Birds
Point. Iasa 80 ae
A difficulty has arisen in regard to the exc
cution of the soldier Dikaman who murder
ed Evans on Monday last. 1t seems that Col.
Rhodes acted against express orders in per-
hitting the man TO be tried and executed by
his own men and mob. / understand that
Col. Rhodes <of the 1S:h) is to be Court
Martialed. s l-a =.slisiass-l'ss
We have received intelligence here to-
night that the Confederates are marching on
Shawneetown, Ills, and that the inhabitants
have autographed for aid, which you no
doubt have learned by telegraph ere this. In
the absence OF more positive information, we
are left to conjecture what force of the rebels
it may be, ii true, and by whom commanded,
but L have but little faith in the rumor.
Everything is reported quiet at Paducah.
Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-10-15

Gov. HELM ARREsTED.-We learn by the
train in last evening from Elizabethtown that
Gov Helm was arrested yesterday few
miles the other side OF EliZabethtown, by
Howard Anderson, the young man who was
instrumental in arresting W. G. OVerton.
The Governor was taken to Camp Sherman
for safe keeping.-Lou. Dem-
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RIcHxoxD, Oct IS. 1851

h1CEAOSDs OLA- H. AcS--
The enemy's blOckading force below New
Orleans, attacked By Com. HolIins, number
ed one thousand men, with 40 guns The
Confederates had Is guns and three hundred
men. Il il reported that the steel PROV iron
steamer 1.-THE Manassas alias The Turtle,
sunk the PTe5le.
There were on Thursday fifteen Federal
steamers lying eff Annapolis, and ten more
were expected.
The Baltimore Am9icm Of the Sth, says
Gen Wool has resumed command at Fortress
Monroe; Gen. Mansfield has command at Fort
Hatteras; Gen. Mcdowell has been promoted
to Msjor Generalship; Com. Stringhsm has
been superseded by Com. GoIdsborough-
The Washington Star says the Cherokee
Chief, JoHS Ross. has declared for the Union
Passengers report that Lord Lyons, the
British Minister, now resides at Baltimore.
Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-10-15
HEAD QUARTERS, Dept OF FLORIDA,

OEl 1CheHS. OCt Jtu, lSO1.
SIR:-I observe this morning for the first
time yellow flag hoisted over large build
ing directly in front of my batteries. also
understand that officers wives and children
are in the adjoining buildings. l do not
make war on the sick, women or children.
The buildings will necessarily be exposed
to my fire, should there be bombardment,
and they are besides subject under this flag
to be used as protection to any of your
troops that may take shelter behind or be.
fore them.
1 therefore give you this notice-that the
sick, women, and the children, may be re-
moved, so that, if fired on, the responsibility
may rest where it belongs.
| am, very respectfully,
your obedient servant,
(SigneO HARVEY BROWN,
Col. Commanding.
Brig. Gen. BraxtOn Bragg,
Commanding troops near Pensacola.
Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-10-15

THE DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIc.-A new
Military Department of the Pacific, compris-
ing California, Oregon, New Mexico and Arr
IONA, is contemplated. Generals Sumner and
HalIock, now in California, are ordered
home
Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-10-15

SENTENCED FOR TREAsoNABLE LANGUAGE
John P. Conran, a young lawyer of st, Lou
is, has been sentenced by Colonel Mcneil to
three months hard labor upon the fortified
tons at Cairo, Illinois, for reasonable Ian
gudge.
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The Naval Affair below New Orleans.
The Numberon either side Confirmed.
The Prebie sunk by "the Iur-
fieo
Lord Lyon. Keiires TO baltimore.
SPECIAL to the Nashville Daily PatriOt.l

Special TO the Nashville Daily PatriOt-l
RICHMOND, Oct II, 1851
The United States blockading squadron at
New Orleans Is, probably. composed OF the
following vessels: sleeps of War Richmond
Vineennes and Prebie, the steamer Water
Witch and another steamer.
Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-10-15
GENERAL ORDERS-NO. Z.
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT or
THE CUMBERLAND,
TouisviIle XIV Oct & 1861

Brigadier- General Robert Anderson having
relinquished the command of this Department
in General Orders No. 6 of this date, the un-
dersigued assumes command of the Depart
ment. W. 7. SHERMAN, Brig. Gen.
Official: -s.l ~ e ..-s ls
OLIVER D. GREENE, Assistant Adj. Gen1.
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The santa Rosa Affair.

We learn from the Pensacola Observer of
the llth, that the loss of the Confederates in
the attack ON the entrenched Camp of Zou-
ayes on Sauta Rosa Island amounted TO 81
killed; SO wounded; and % taken prisoners.
We have Is Yankee prisoners. 1t is impos-
bible to learn how many they had killed or
wounded. The number is estimated at be-
tween two and three hundred.
Since the fight the following correspond
ence has taken place between Col. Brown
and Cen BRAGG:
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GENERAL ORDERSANO. G.
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GENERAL ORDERS"NO. o.
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF
THE CUMBERLAND,
Louisville, KY, Oct. 8, 1861
The following telegraphic order was receiv-
ed yesterday at these headquarters:
BROADER General Anderson:
To give you rest necessary to the restora-
ton of health, call Brigadier General Sher-
man TO command the Department of the Cum
berIaad. Turn over to him your instructions
and report here in person as soon as you may
without retardiHg your recovery.
(Sigued) WINFIELD SCOTT.
Washington, d. c., Oct. 6, 1861.
In obedience to the above order, hereby
reIinouish the command of this Department
to Brig. Gen Sherman. Regretting deeply
the necessity which renders this step proper,
do il with much less reluctance because my
successor, Brig. Gen. Sherman, is the man /
lad selected for that purpose. God grant that
be may be the means Of delivering this De-
partment from the marauding band. who.
under the guise of relieving and befriending
Kentucky, are doing all the injury they can
to those who will net join them IN their &C
cursed warfare. ROBERT ANDERSON,
Brigadier General q. s. A. Commanding.
Official: j.
OLIVER d. GREENE, Assistant Adj. Gen1.
Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-10-15

We are indebted to friend for a copy of
the Louisville Journal and Democrat of the 9th
inst. brought to this city by Mr. T. B. FHANK-
LIS, refugee from Kentucky, We gather
from them the items of Information below.
The OCCUPATION OF New ORLEASs.--We
have heard vague rumors for several days
that New Orleans had been occupied by the
Federal troops. Intelligence was received 10
this city last evening, by way Of Nashville,
which leads as to believe that the Tumer mas
its foundation in fact. One report, IN Wnlcn
we place confidence, says that the reoerai
forces took possession of the city on the ON
inst, without firing gun. II is SAID inat .ne
feet. after the desertion of Ship Island by the
rebels. passed Mississippi city, BILOXI, ana
Pas Christian, which were eVacuated, ana
made an easy conquest of the city. Ii was
found that the incomplete fortihcations at
RavS Ct I.ouis had been abandoned by the
rebels and the city surrendered on the 9TH
inst In compliance with the formal demand
Of the Commander of the Federal forces
The above statement Is the substance of a
desnsteh said to have been published in the
Nashville papers of the 9th inst-LoaasvitIe
Journal.
The Journal Is rather fast 1t viii be dumb
founded when it hears what is really the news
from New Orleans
Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-10-15

recent rise in that river, and is doubties
ruined. Why were these clothes not given
out, instead of being packed away to ruin2
Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-10-15

ARTILLERY-The New York Tribune learns
that the Government had had and is now
having constructed more than twenty-five
thousand gun-carriages for field batteries.
Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-10-15

To BE ExPEILED.-Resolution will no
doubt be introduced in Congress, early in
December next. for the expulsion Of John c.
Breckenridge, of Kentucky, from the Senate,
and Henry May, of Maryland, ii. G. Burnet,
of Kentucky, and John W. Reed, of Missouri,
from the House of Representatives. So says
the NsuC York Herald
Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-10-15

Previous to these events, the State was in
a condition of tranquility and peace. No
indications existed any where of internal
disorder. But now the people becoming
alarmed at these proofs of a purpose to force
Kentucky into the war, begun to assemble
in great mass meetings and TO demand loudly
the promised neutrality. The Washington
Government, however, and its abettors in
Kentucky, supposing their schemes to be
ripe for execution, now resolved to have
what they called ''active loyalty. About
this time the Legislature met and the drama
then moved rapidly on. The camps were
avowed to be Federal camps. The guns
which had been clandestinely and Illegally
introduced, now called out to maintain sac
tive loyalty" Federal officers begun TO
swarm among US. Every appliance of cor
ruption, every allurement of ambition was
brought into play. Presently a Federal
army was in possession of large portions of
the State and the conspiracy stood fully re-
vealed, while the people, whose only error
had been their generous eredulity, stood
thoroughly betrayed, 1t is known to eiti-
zens of Louisville of sill parties that inst
before that, meeting of the Legislature, a
member of the Washington cabinet, said
to a prominent citizen of Kentucky, that the
position of the State should not be main
tanned, that the Government preferred hos
tility to neutrality, and that Kentucky must
be compelled to support the Federal Gov
eminent in the war. Your wishes, fellow
citizens, had been spurned and You have
been thrown into this vortex by the Gov
eminent at Washington, aided By their Ken.
lucky sympsthizers.
Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-10-15

States where these attacks were unprecedented.
The official record of charges against Ere
mont have not yet reached headquarters,
and the case remains in statu quo.
On Saturday last. by order o. Com. Craven,
Lieut.. Cass, U. S. N, with detachment of
ten men, accompanied by two detective Of
ficers, proceed to st. Mary's river on the ia
cob Bell. aud on Sunday arrested John Thorn
as Trovers. OF st. Mary's county, who was
charged with aiding the transportation of
men aud provisions from the secessionists in
Mary laLd to the rebels in Virginia.
While on the expedition a landing was
made at Great Mills, IL miles from Perry
Point and Is miles from LeonaIdstown, and
the rendezvous of the St Marys county re-
bells. The mails were seized, as we'll as the
mail Just arrived from Baltimore. The post
master stated that there were a number of
letters in the mail from Virginia.
The party arrived here tonight, and. com
ing up the river this morning, said that no
signs of rebels in camp, or battery, were dis
coverable at Matthias Point. At Evans
fires of the rebels were seen or three miles
along the shore.
NEW YoRK, Oct. 1.-THE balloon which
was seen over Washington a few days ago
proved to be La Mountains, which safely
landed in Maryland. 1t appears that after
ascending to certain distance and finding
the current right, he cut the rope and rose to
the height of three miles, obtaining a com
plete view of the rebel encanpments and
movements, which important news be has
communicated to the War Department
JEFFERSON CITY, Oct S.-Col. Matthews
autographed Gov. Gamble this morning from
Herman that be had been compelled to sur.
render his camp with three pieces of cannon
to superior force. Col. Matthews camp
was twenty miles from Herman, and is said
to have contained about 400 Home Guards
The rebels numbered some 1000, and theil
design is to burn the Gasobia bridge in thai
vicinity. Reinforcements have been sem
both TO Herman and the bridge On hearing
of The approach of this force, our troops a
the bridge began erecting palisades tor III
defence. 80 es
( Prices army was at Grand river, in Henri
county, at last accounts, and on Wednesday
last was marching southwark.
Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-10-15

The gunboats Tylor and Lexington recon-
noitered down the river to-day and fell in
with the rebel boat JEFF Davis, and chased
her within two miles of Columbus, when bat
teries on the Kentucky shore opened upon
them. The retels used some twenty guns
some of them rified. The engagement lasted
an hour. No damage done to the boats. The
rebel loss not ascertained.
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cation and bankruptcy cannot be adopted.
Post-Offices and post-roads, in nearly half
the States have been given up, and pref
erence is given to the ports of one State
over those of another. Even the election of
a President has become impossible. The
Constitution is mandatory on all the States
to appoint electors, and requires majority
Of the latter to elect; but more than one
third of the States refuse to appoint and
hence no election can be made by the people.
If the election goes to the House of Repre-
sentstives the Constitution requires that at
least two-thirds of the States shall be repre-
sented in that body. The Constitution can
no longer be amended, for it requires three
than one-third of the States have Withdrawn
from the Confederacy. All the safeguards
provided for by the States IN the instrument
still farther to secure public and personal
liberty have been destroyed. The three de-
partments of the Federal Government which
were carefully separated and their boun-
dries defined, have been merged into one,
and the President, sustained by a great ar
my, wields unlimited power. The exemption
of persons from arrest without judicial
warrant, the right of a citizen to have his
body brought before judge to determine
the legality of his Imprisonment. the secu-
rity provided against searches and seizure
without warrant of law, the sanctity of the
home, the trial by jury-the freedom of
speech and of the press-these and every
other precious right which our fathers sup
posed they had locked up in the Constitution
have been torn from it and buried beneath
the heel Of military power. The States
made the Constitution, placed rigid boun-
Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1861-09-18
EXECUTION OF VIM. H. WEAVER
At Ner Bloomfield, Perry County

We copy the folloying details of the ex-
eeutioR of Weaver from the Perry county
papers:
On Friday, 9th September, in obedience to
the sentence passed upon him, William Ii.
Weaver, who was convicted of the murder of
his wife, By the administration Of strychnia,
in December last, suffered the extreme penalty
of the law by yielding his life as the punish.
ment for the crime he had committed
From his own statement, Weaver was not
quite 81 years old, and was born in Doyles-
town, Bucks county, at which place his faith.
er died. He resided at different places in
this State, and for several years in Cecil
county, Md. In April, 1859, he removed to
this county, from Chester county, Pa, resid-
iding about two and half miles from New
Bloomfield, until the fafl of 1860. when he
came to reside in a house just beyond the
borough limits, and at which place his wife
died, very suddenly, having suffered little or
no indisposition, on the evening of the Oath
December last. As Weaver's family had
been residing in our borough but short time
before her death, very few of our citizens be
came acquainted with them, and little is GER
tainly known of her character.
The prisoner was a man of rather prepos-
sessing appearance. about feet inches in
height, stoutly built and not unpleasant in
his manners. During all the time of his con-
fnement, the Sheriff, and all who were con-
cerned in attending upon him, unite in say.
ing his conduct was good, and that he seem
Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1861-09-18
Inventions. &c.

The Qak tree lives in a state of nature
one thousand five hundred years
Hour glasses were invented at Alexan-
dria one hundred and fifty years before the
birth of Christ.
The sum Of fifteen million dollars is ex-
pended each year in London for intoxica-
ting liquors
Vaccination was first tried upon condem-
ned criminals in the year 1772
The interest of the national debt of Great
Britain is over twenty four million pound
sterling
Looking glasses were first made in Ven
ice in the year 1900.
Iron was first discovered by the burning
sIount Ida, one thousand four hundred
years before Christ.
Muslins were first manufactured in Eng
land during the year $50.
Air is eighteen hundred and sixty times
lighter than water
Military uniforms were first adopted in
France, by King Louis XIV
The plague in Europe, Asia, and Africa,
commencing in the year 588 lasted so
years.
Linen was first discovered and made in
England, in 1858.
Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1861-09-18
Politics of Ohio Colonels.

There are torty-one Colonels at the head
ct Ohio regiments, in camp or field, and OF
these eighteen are ranked as democrats,
eighteen republicans, three Americans, and
two whose politics are unknowp OF the
torty-one, Gov. Dennison has appointed
twenty three, the War Department com
missioned six, aud tie balance were chosen
by their own regiments Gov Dcnqison s
appointments, made upon personal merit
and without thoughts Of party fayoritsm,
are twelve democrats, nine republicans, one
American, and one unknown Yet, in the
face of such facts as these, the Ohio Dem
ocratic Convention denounced by resolu-
ton that unjust discrimination against
democrats which consigned them to fight
IN the ranks under incompetent republican
leaders, That was the spirit and intent Of
thc resolution, and tie same spirit has been
manifested elsewhere than in Ohio, and
with quite as little reason. He consider
1t very bad taste, if not a mercenary pa
trlotlsm, to count noses among either off
ces or men at a time like this, when old
party lines should be obliterated But if
one side makes false charges, as the demo
Gratis of Ohio have done, it is not ours to
rejoin in the same i'll temper We are for
peace in the North and a vigorous war in
the South
Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1861-09-18
The Great Rhinoceros Loose

1t will be recoliected that on the 18th
inst, the steamer Key City, Bound down,
collided with the steamer Luzerne, having
on board Dan Rice's Circus Troupe Of
Trained Animals, etc The cage contain
ing the trained rhinooeros, weighing over
1000 lbs, which was on barge alongside,
was knocked into the river. The door of
the cage was open, the animal being tied
to the front end Gift By chain which was
fastened to a ring in the monsters nose.
In hopes that the cage might in the acci-
dent have been broken so as to allow the
rhlnooeros TO escape, several of Rice's
men were stationed along the bank of the
river, but when morning came no signs of
him could be seen, and after awaiting a few
days the men returned to the company.
On Saturday morning two men living
below here named Charles J, Potter and
Conrad Ereson, saw from the bank of the
river what they supposed to be row boat
bottom side up in the slough. They soon
got skiff and pulled it to the place, and
when within, as they thought, about SIX
rods ofthe supposed boat, it sank and they
then returned.
The pilot of the steamer Golden Era
coming up on Saturday saw near the same
place what he took to be large brown
horse floating in the slough, several rods
away, but as it sank soon, he paid no after
tion to it, but kept on with his boat.
On Saturday afternoon Charles Wright
son, L. Y. Brown and Robert Eggleston,
while roasting green corn On the bank of
the slough, were half scared to death by
hearing heavy tramp, and in few mo-
ments the rhinoceros, as he appeared here
on the occasion of his first visit in July,
minus the blanket and chain in his nose,
rushed upon them with a terrible below,
catching Eggleston on his snout and throw
ing him, as he says, at least Fifty feet over
the back of him, breaking an arm and two
RIBS by the fall The monster plunged in
to the river, and the two ether persons,
badly scared, but not hurt, procured bug
gy, took the seat out, filled the box with
grass and blanket, and brought Eggles-
ton to his home in this city, where he is
now under the care of DR.. Cameron. The
RIBS were evidently broken by the snout of
the animal, as the flesh was badly torn
The slough in which the animal doubt
less is at present is about FIVE miles below
here, very deep, with muddy bottom, and
Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1861-09-18
NATURAL HISTORY,
The Great Crested FlYcatcher.

This bird is not 50 well known as the
king bird, being chiefly confined to the
woods. There, his harsh sgEeah, (for he
has no song,) Is heard above most others.
He also visits the orchard, is equally fond
of bees, but wants the courage and magma
nimity Of the king bird He builds his
nest in a hollow tree deserted by the blue
bird or woodpecker. The materials of which
this is formed, are somewhat scantier. 1t
Is formed of little loose hav, feathers of
the Guinea fowls, hogs brist!es, pieces of
cast snake skins, and dogs hair. Wheth-
er he surrounds his nest with the snake
skin by way of teryoreD,; to prevent other
birds and animals from entering, or wheth
er it be that he finds It's silky softness suit
able for his young, is uncertain the fact,
however, IS notorious. He feeds on whor
tleberries while they last
1t is eight inches and half long; the
upper parts are d1ll greenish olive, the
feathers on the head are pointed, and form
sort Of crest; the throat and breast ash
color; the rest Of the lower parts sulphur
yellow