Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-10-23

The result of Msjor WrighGs march from
Rolla 10 Linn Creek can be summed up as
follows: ..-....-.
Three successful fights in which sixty-eight
rebels were killed, and about the same num-
Der were wounded. Eighty-seven prisoners
were taken, one hundred aud twenty-three
guns, fifteen horses, several yoke Of oxen,
wagons and many other articles.
Prices army was at Greenfield last Wet-
nesday, still headed south.
Reports from Springfield say that General
Mcbride, Of the rebel forces, has resigned,
and is on bis way to that place to disband his
division and return homN.
Colonel Taylor, in command of the rebel
forces at Springfield, recently issued a
who had belonged TO the Home Guards
would be required to leave the country or go
into the Southern army for the same length
Of time they had served in the Federal
army, and requiring pledge from the Union
men now there for the exemplary conduct of
their friends who are absent from home.
The proclamation also prohibits the carry
ing OF any more slaves South, as such q
course is calculated to lessen the confidence
ef the people in the ability of the Southern
army to sustain itself in Missouri.
New YORK, October 22-The steamship
North Star, from Aspinwall, is coming up.
Private Rowe, of the First Massachusetts,
Regiment, wounded at Bull Run and taken
to Richmond, has arrived here. His account
of prisoners there is interesting, and says the
only Northern paper in Richmond is the
New York Herald, regularly received the
second day after publication.
FoRT MONROE, October 22.-General Sher-
man arrived here to-day on the Atlantic.
There was a slight affair at Newport News,
yesterday, but terminated with slight loss on
either side.
WASHINGTON, October 23.-The success of
! the movement of General Stone and General
| Banks across the Potomac is now established,
as the enemy did not venture to make further
resistance to it yesterday.
All accounts agree that our men conducted
! themselves nobly in the affair of Monday.
EgeG the portion of the column which re
ceived temporary check by the death of
Colonel Baker, behaved gallsntly, although
opposed by force triple their number.
The ground thus gained was retained in
the undisturbed possession Of our troops all
| Gay yesterday.
Scouts and reconnoitering parties obtained
| much palatable information in regard to the
| enemy.
The above facts are derived from reliable
sources.
Asbury Dickens, late Secretary of the
| Senate for many years, died here this morn
| ing, at the age Of ninety eight years.
It is understood that the blankets ordered
in Europe in August by the Quartermaster's
Department are arriving; 20, 800 have already
reached New York. They cost the United
States forty cents per pound and weigh FIVE
| pounds.
NEW YORK, October GA nolk prosequ;
has been entered in the case of Alf Faris,
one of the crew of the pirate Savannah, and
has been accepted as a witness. A jury is
being empaneled
New York, October 23.-Owing to the re-
| port that the Potomac is at present closed,
| the United States transports now loading at
this port for Washington will proceed to Lo-
Gust Point, where their cargoes will be for
warded by railway to Washington.
| Large quantities of ammunition and stores
are now being shipped to st. Louis by rail-
| road.