Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-11-13

ordered to report at Washington, and will
reach here to morrow night.
WARSAW, Me-, tuesday, Noyembsrl2
The following is correct list of General |
Hunters staff, as officially announced Sur
geon, Joseph K. Barnes Medical Director,
Major Charles G. Halpipe; Assistant Adjutsnt-
Ger eral, Captain Marcus j. Parrot; Assistant
Adiutant. General, Lieutenant Edward D.
Smith; Assistant Adjatant General, Captain
John W. Shaffer; Qsartermaster, Captain John
W. Turner; Commissary OF Subsistence, Major
Edwsrd Wright; Aid. de- camp, Major B. NJ.
Hough; Aid de. camp, Major Louis d. Hub
bard Aid de camp, Captain Richard ThOmp-
son Aid. de camp, Litutenant Samuel IN.
Stockton; Aid de camp, Lieutenant Anson Q.
Doolittle; Aid de- camp, Lieutenant Arthur M
Kenzie; AID. de- camp, Lieutenant Charles e.
Hoy.
NEW YORK, Tuesday, November IL.
Sometime during Saturday night and yes.
terday morning, the Winsted Bank, at West
Winsted, Conn, was rglaTiously entered aud
robbed Of $5S, 900, with which the thieves
made good their escape.
Chief Justice Taney has postponed the Bal
timoTe treason cases till April. He inumates
that tSe question will be fully considered by
the Supreme Court this winter.
NEwARK, Tuesday, n. j., November l2.
letter from Provost Judge Freeze, Of AL.
exap6ria, appears Ia this afternoon s Adueriser,
in which he saws, IL the Government will allow
i'm 70 follow ont his course, be will undertake
no collect one third Of the sibO 900, 600 due us
from inc sOo'" cithout doing ipiasttos in
single instance.
LOUISVILLE, Tuesday, November u.
Accounts by mail confirm the defeat of Viii.
Jams men by General Nelson's forces ~ Pike
ton the capital Of Pike County, not Pikeville,
as reported by Telegraph.
WASHINGTON, Tuesday, November IL.
Official advices from Europe just received.
show stiep gthsning belief in the restoration of
the UbiOp, and increased confidence in the
ability Of the Administration to restablish is
authority. News from EDgland especially
gratifying.
There is still a prospect Of general ex-
change of prisoners, although no de6nAte ar
rangements yet are made.
TIE A6midistraion will act with prompt
ness in maintaining any success the expedition
may have achieved. Secrecy is still observed
in the Departments relative to present or pros
pective moven ents Of the expedition.
A general order, dated the 9th, designates the
Departments of the West, Cumberland aad
Ohio. First Department, New Mexico, TO be
commanded by Colonel Candy. Second De.
partment, Kansas, to include Kansas Indian
Territory west Of Arkansas and Territories of
Nebraska, Colorado and Dacotah, to be COM
maDded by General Hunter, headquarters at
Fort Leavepworth. Third Department, Mis-
souri, including Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota,
Wisconsin, Illinois, Arkansas, and that por-
tion of Kentucky west of the Cumberland
River, to be commanded by General Halleck.
Fourth Department, Ohio, consisting of the
States Of Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, and that
portion of Kentucky east OF Cumberland and
State Of Tennessee, TO be commanded by Gen
ersl Buell., headquarters Louisville. Fifth De-
psrtment, Western Virginia, commanded by
| General RosecIaDs.
Letters received from Darnestown represent
| all quiet on the Lower Potomac.
CAIRO, t Iesday, November IL.
General Grants official report of Belmont
battle says be had but $500 men. The object
| of the expedition was to prevent the enemy
I from sending reinforcements TO Price, and alsC
from cutting off two columns that he had sen
out from Cairo and Cape Girardeau in pursui
of JEFF. Thompson.
Knowing that Columbus was strongly garri
soned, L asked General Smith, Commanding o
Paducah, to make q demonstration in rha
direction. He did so by ordering small forct
to May field, and another in the direction o.
| Columbus, but not to approach, however
nearer than fifteen miles. l also sent q small
| force on the Kentucky side, with orders not t
approach nearer than twelve miles above Co
lumbus. AT daylight we reached point jus
out Of range of the rebel guns, and debarked
| The troops were marched one mile 10 var
Belmont, then drawn up in line, one battalion
being left as reserve near the transports.
was but n few minutes before we met the en-
emy, and general engagement ensued. The
were driven foot by foot back to their encamp
meDt on the river bank, distant about tW
miles. Here they had strengthened their posi-
tion by telling the timber for several hundre
yards around. Our men charged through this
| dHsu fha ha snkn as
transports, and leaving as in possession O
j every thing not portable.
Belmont being in range of guns on the 0p
pOAite shore could not be held single hour b.
our troops, and having no wagons, could no
move any captured property, consequently
gave orders for its destruction, Before gettin
fairly under way on our return, the enem
made it's appearance again, and attempted
surround rs. Our troops were not in the lea
discouraged, but charged the enemy again an
defeated them. Our loss is about S5 kille
and 156 wounded, many of them sIigAtl
About an equal number missing, nearly all
the latter from Iowa Regiments, which b.
haved with great gallantry, and suffered mo-
severity than any others.
S w. cAIRo, Tuesday, November 10.
The Memphis Appeal of the 11th contain
the following dispatch;
SAVANNAH, Nouember 9th, (Uia New o
! leans, 9th).-Steamer Sampson has arriv
! from Port Royal with wounded from the Q
gagement yesterday. Fifteen vessels were
side; several outside. The Minnesota was I
first to enter, rapidly followed by others. T
} attack on the forts was from three sides.
{ CATER the second round from the feet 4
] three principal guns in the battery were di
. mounted. The engagement lasted i've hour
During its continuance all Of our guns we
dismoun5ed. Dispatches TO Charleston pape
say the batteries were badly worked; that Il
, enemy's firing was excellent. The total Coz
, fedsrate loss is one hundred"