The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1861-09-11
The enemy is reported to be strongly fortify'

The enemy is reported to be strongly fortify-
Rolla, Mo-, Sept. 5.
The correspondent Of the St. Louis Democrat
furnishes the following: A gentleman from
Springfield. Friday evening, reports that AcCul,
och, vi h 5000 Texas, Louisiana, and Arkansas
troops we're moving tows de- Arkansas He was
asst heard ON at the Cha ybea.e Springs, near
Mount We no His wou lded we're also being
Il owed from Il e Springfield hospital, AID taken
So' .ewf q on Sunday, goth uk.
Ger erals Price, Parsons, Slack, and Churchill,
mo!ed towards Boil yer with a force OF some
| 0. 900 or $4,000 men. When last heard from
they were marching towards Jefferson City on
the road be ween Boliver ard Warsaw. Only a
part of Gen. McBridess division remained in
Springfield.
Thi y-eight of the Dent county Home Guards
wee ST ,rised early lnday morning at Ben.
rests Mis- by three h, 'dred and Fifty rebels,
and two of them killed aud e'~ht wounded, one
mo tally. The xii I'd and Won ded of the rebels
flied a large wagon, but their n nber could not
be a.ce-' ned. The Gr ards ret'eased.
Eigh.een secess' n prisone ken by the
Guards the day before, We e confined in house
nee by, and the rebels installing them for Cn-
nonists, fred upon them, wodnding several.
The special dispatch to the Post. Washington,
4th, says: "The Richmond press are in exta'
eios over their troops occupying Muusor's Hill
declare that an onward movement will soo1
- made.
Tine excitement throughout North Carolins
and Eastern Virginia, on account of tine capture
of the forts at Hatteras Inlet, is intense. South
ern papers admit the importance of this point
and try to console themselves for its loss by the
hope that mnsquetos and sand flies, or its expo
sed position to the blasts OF winter, will compe
the Yankees TO renquish it.
1t appears from Southern accounts that OF
Monday week, formidable Yankee fleet wer,
in sight of Fort Macon, which commands tn,
entrance TO Beaufort harbOr, and is spoken of a
the most formidable fOrtfcatOn on the coast
North Carolina.
The Cincinnati Commercial 6 Us l. IS under
stood in Frankfort, that Gov. Magofin refuses t.
play into the hands of rabid secessionists; that h
has had quarrel with Breckenridge, and refuse
to demand the breaking up Of the q. s. CAM
in Garrard county, and declared he will sub
init to the will Of The majority of the peop'
of Kentucky, as may be expressed through tn
Legislature.
A letter from Key West to the Baltimore
Amerieon, dated Aug. 25th, aboard the frigat
Santee, SAYS the steamer Powh captured
prize of the Sumter, having a large letter bal
cortsining letters to jeff Davis, one giving init
nation of the Sump:er's whereabouts. Tb,
POwhattsn has gone 70 look for her.
During the past week there have been numer
Gus reports with regard to the death of jeff Da
Wis. Among them are the following:
The Herclfs Washington correspondent q
Sept. 4, reiterates the story of jeff Davis death
The report was brought to the CORRESPONDENT b.
a negro from Manassas
The Posts special correspondent Save that
person just from Richmond states that the arch
traitor, JEFF. Davis, died at Richmond last week
The 7ribnne's correspondence says: "ln con
nection with the rumor of jeff Davis death, i
is mentioned that ne long bad chronic diseas
OF Tie optic nerve maturing a cancerOus result,
His physician apprsed him that death woul
speedily follow the extension of the disease T.
the brain"
The mortality among the rebel forces at Pen
sacola, Manassas. and othe- points, has been yer
great. the rebels are poorly provided wit
medical and hospital stores, and suffer severel
Cor the want OF proper clothing.
A picket of the Michigan Fourth was MORTAL
wounded on the 4th inst. Gen. Mcclellan ha
forbidden tie shooting of any more of the Cor
fede-ate pickets. This murderous warfare ha
been cared on extensively on both sides.
The department at Washington has forwarde
5000 stand Of arms 20 Gov. Yates, of Illinois.
Virginia refugee reports that the Confede,
ates are constructing batteries at Cockpit Point
opposite Budds Ferry, forty niles below Alex
andria, and have orders not to fire on vessels ii
the battery is completed.
Accounts from Fortress Monroe, Sept. 3, stat
that the Confederate slaves at Old Point no,
number 800 including women and children.
A flag of truce came into the Fort on tn
same date from Norfolk, with the crew of tn
bark Rowera and Glen and schooner Mary AEc
and brig Joseph, all captured by the privat
Dixie, with the exception of the Joseph, which wa
captured by the priva:eer Savannah. The cap
tain ard mates of the Glen are retained as pris
oners at Richmond. The Captain of the Mar
Alice is almost direct from Charleston. He re
ports that ,he force there does no: exceed 4 .0O'
men, ard that they apprebend En- attack from
the recent naval expedition.
1t IS also reported that Col Corcoran was late
ly put in irons for refusing 10 answer his mann
at roll call
Cairo, ILL.,, Sept. 4.
1he gun boats Taylor and Lexington had al
engagement off Hickman, Ky, with the rebe
ported by about fifteen hundred rebels, also free
upon our boats. Some of the shots took effect
The Taylor and Lexington fired about twent,
returned to Cairo this evening. On their wal
they were fred on with small arms at Columbus
and Chalk Bluffs, Ky.
Col. Hicks, of the Fourteenth Illinois regimen
who was sent 10 exchange prisoners, returned
last night from Charleston. The rebels had bu
three Federal prisoners.
1t is reported that the rebels are falling bacl
from SikcstOn to New Madrid.
Gen GRAFT took command at this post to-day
Hannibal, No., Sept 4.
Corporal Dix, of the Third Iowa regiment
while out on a scout with FIVE men nea- Kinks
vile, last week. VIZ surrounded in rm hou
while at dinner, by twenty five secess;onists, Wit
demanded the surrender Of his party. This wa.
re. used and the secessiOnists made an art ok up
on them. The fight was severe, but the Fedora
troops maintained their positiG in the house