Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-09-16

ham and jenkins; Lieutenants Quay,
Twenty. fifth New York, Hamblin, (son Of
York, Underhill, Eleventh New York, Wor-
cester Eighty first New York, Dempsey,
Second New York Wilcox Seventh Ohio,
Gordon, Second Dragoons U. s. A., Oaleff,
Eleventh Massachusetts, and Conelly, Sixty
ninth New York"
Captain Ricketts,, of the, United States
Army, was TO have accompanied the party,
but he is not sufficiently recovered from his
wounds to undertake the journey.
Serious fears are entertained for the crops
of the South. The rains of August are re-
ported as the heaviest and the most general
ever known in the South, and have been
very disastrous:
The Savannah Republican claims fair rice
crop but admits that the continuous rains
have damaged it somewhat.
The Baton Rouge Advocate says that The
cotton crops in that vicinity are Literally COW
cred with the army worm, and that the fate
of the crop will be sealed in few days, for
the rain and heavy atmosphere is favorable
to the worm.
Governor Rector, of Arkansas, has called
en- extra session Of the Legislature for the
4th of November.
H. Kelly, claiming to be Baltimorean,
was arrested as a spy at Manassas on the 9Th.
A. 7. Bledsoe, Assistant Secretary of War
of the Confederate States, has resigned.
The Richmond shoe merchants urge the
discharge OF all shoe-makeTs from the army
and their employment at making shoes, they
being made of canvass
The Richmond Wing of the 10th is very
bitter against speculating contractors for
Winter clothing supplies for the army, and
urges the impressment of cotton and woolen
| mills into the public service, to avoid specu-
| lating contracts. 1t states positively that the
| War Department has detailed from the army
all operatives to be employed in the cloth
factories.
JEFF. Thompson has issued proclamation
| in which, as a retaliation measure for Ere.
| mont's proclamation he threatens, for every
| Southern soldier and citizen executed, to
| hang, draw and quarter O minion Of Abra-
| ham Lincoln's soldiers.
The Charleston Courier says, preparations
are making in that city for manufacturing
| locomotives on large scale.
FRANKFoRT, KY, September 14-Governor
Magoffin has issued the following proclama-
ton:
| "In obedience to the suboined resolution
adopted by the General Assembly of the
| Commonwealth of Kentucky, the Govern
ment of the Confederate States, the State of
| Tennessee and all others concerned, are
hereby informed that Kentucky expects the
| Confederate or Secession troops to be with
drawn from her soil unconditionaly.'
LOUISVILLE, September Id "A lot of med
| iciDe and soldier buttons, amounting to
| $4,000, were seized yesterday. They were
being smuggled into the Southern Confed-
| eracy.
FRANKFoRT, KY, September 14.-In the
Senate Mr. Whitaker introduced resolu-
tion authorizing the Military Board to seize
the State arms, wherever found, and to en-
ploy sufficient police force to protect the
railroads.
JEFFERSON Cry, No., September IA
special dispatch to the st. Louis Republican
says; "The steamer Siour City, just arrived
from above, brings the intelligence that the
fight at Boonville yesterday morning termi
mated in victory to the Home Guards,
under Major Eppstein, who held their en-
trenchmeDts.
"The rebels, one thousand strong, were
driven back, and were in the neighborhood
of Boonville when the SiOuT City passed.
The Home Guards lost one killed and four
wounded. The rebels lost twelve killed aud
thirty wounded. Among the rebels killed
were Colonel Brown and Captain Brown
A small detachment of Federal troops on
the Sioux Gty had an engagement with
Green's force, at Glasgow, of half an hours
duration, when battery Of three guns
; opened on the boat, and they retired with.
out loss"
WASHINGTON, September l4.-The Presi.
| NShe q lOLlOI W Ncu6Tdl II T6-
mont on the 18th inst, on the subject of Ere.
mont's recent proclamation. He says: "As
suming you, being on the ground, could
better judge of the necessities of your posi-
ton than could at this distance on seeing
your proclamation of the 3Oth of August, ]
perceived no general objection to it.
"The particular objection being the clause
relative to the confscation of property and
the Liberation of slaves Objectionable for its
non conformity to the act of Congress,
passed on the Sth of last August, l wrote
expressing the wish that that clause should
be modified. Your answer expresses the
preference that should make an open order
for this modification, which cheerfully do
tits therefore ordered that the said clause
be modified held and construed to conform
with and not transcend the provisions con
tanned in the Act of Congress, entitled Ear
Act to confscate property used for insur
? rectionary purposes and that said act bt
published at length with this order.
[Signed1 A. LINCOLN"
A dispatch has been received at the Navy
Department from Commander Raven of the
steamer Pd,onee, at Hatteras Inlet, giving
the particulars of the capture of the prize
schooner Susan Jane, with valuable cargo
, She entered Hatteras Inlet, supposing it wa
still in the possession of the Confederates
} She has been sent to Philadelphia in charg,
of Lieutenant Crosby. This is the third yes
+ sci captured since the taking off the fort