Shreveport semi-weekly news., 1861-11-18


police, and the dealers and bankers
arrested. There is considerable com
motion among the sportsmen.
There is nothing Of interest pub
licly known here from the camps or
Southern coast.
A Aspecial dispatch from Springfield,
on the 31st to the ST. Louis Republi-
can, says u good deal ut excitement
has prevailed for some days respect
ing the report Of Fremont's removal
at Washington. Advices from head
quarters mention nothing of the kind.
His removal would cause no little
excitement in camp. \ number of
officers declare they woul! resign in
that event. or insist on creating him
Dictator of the Southwest, i,-Lepend
ent ef the admins tration.
Memphis, November IA lmgr
Drlh@rrn gun burst at Co!1nnb.,S to-
day, killing Capt. kcitcr, Lieutenant
Snowden, aid to t.,n. Polk, Corporal
Hattingcr, and sin priva':S. several
others were wounded. Grner. Polk
was stunned ana his clothes torn of.
The Appeal $ correspondent says over
800 of the enemy .;rrr killed in the
late battle. and 200 taken prisoners,
half of whom are wounded. The
prisoners are ut Columbus.
/ Nearly 100 hundred Of our wom.d-
ed arrived here this morning. Lieut..
Bob. Alexander and Ma or Butler, of
! Marks I1th Louisiana regiment, are
dead. Charles Gibson, formerly of
Nicksburg, was killed.
Two Texans, captured off Calves
ton Island Two months ago, and tai ken
to New York. arrived here to-day
from Cairo They (thr Cairoites) ;.c-
inowledgc they were badly whipped.
1t was believed that Gen. Grant VIZ
killed. The gunboat Lexington is
sunk.
The St. Louis Republican say
Senator Bright has joined the S"uth
and will be made a Brigadier-Gens: "a!
Matthew V. Maury. OF n. Orl.ans
was arrested at Cleveland on the 1,h
Fremont had arrived at St. Lou
; Hunter publishes an order ASSUMING
: command OF the army at Springfield
] on tlit ELL. At 'tL'i!'tiS ii = iN''I.
dissatisfied.
Nashville, Nav. ll.--Five railroad
bridges were burned in East Ienn, :
t see on Friday night by the lnioI
men. Two on the Georgia State
road, at Chickalnanga creek, in Ham
I ilton county, heretofore reported, an,
Z and one on the East Tennessee an,
n Georgia, at Uinassec river, in Brad
: lev county Five minutes after th'
guard had passed through, the whole
bridge was in flames, showing o
e combustible matter Two We're burn
: cd on the East Tennessee and Eir
= "inia road, at Lick creek, in G;ne,
county, and Holston river, in Sullivan
county. The guard at Lick creel
"a were ,marmed, and ovcrpowered,. tied
and carried away, and kept unit
sometime daring the day on Saturday
Three men have since been arrested
> The guard identified one. Holstol
1t river was not guarded, Sullivan couil
y tv being strongly southern.
!. The bridge over Holston river a
Straw berry Plains, III Jefferson coun
ty, was fired but put out by the peo
pie. The guard had one hand cut OF
and his skull fractured From ;ndi
cations one Of the. incendiaries- wa
~ killed. Gentlemen from East Ten
. nessee report great excitement III con
Il sequence. 1t was evidently q. pre-
, concocted plan. The loss is heavy
T. and will cause much inconyenienc
- and delay. Matters in East Tennes
:, see are regarded as in critical cor
= dition. and much anxiety is felt her
h' for Zollicoffer
=, Augusta, Nov. l2-The Charles
lu lu ton Courier of this morning learn
re from a friend just arrived, that Bluff