The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1861-10-15
NEWS By TELEGRAPH.
F THE Z. ". LINE.
Exclusively for the Journal.
FROM WASHINGTON,
HERALD's DISPATCH.


by Mexico at all hazards and protect her
against encroaehments by foreign powers.
Our government has addressed communica-
tions to England, France and Spain to know
what their intentions are, to which nc re-
Spouse has yet been received.
Copies of letters from various Indian.
chiefs to government agents have been re-
ceived, all of which breathe loyal senti-
msnts and determination to stand by the
! government Efforts are being made to
hold a conference on the Usage river with
all the chiefs ia regard to their policy. The
rebel agents are very busy among them,
but it is stated all the Indians who arelin
arms against us have been coerced.
Capt. E. D. Bryant, of the Sd Michigan
volunteers, who was arranged and tried by
| a General Court Martial on charge of
violating the AID article of war, IN leaVinghis
camp without the consent of his command
ing officer and remaining out all night, was
found not guilty.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
The following Ohio troops have been sent
to central Kentucky during the last ten
days; now at camp Dick Robinson: 18th,
Col. Steedman; 7th Col. Cornell; 3lst,
Col Walker, at Nicholasville; 38th, Col.
Bradley; 3lst, Col Norton, at Cynthiana
35th, Col. Va sDevier, at Olympian Springs;
I'd regimes j Harris, 18th Col. Dickey,
and 49th, Co. Gibson, are with General
Anderson. One battery of artillery, Col.
Barnett, lst regiment Ohio volunteers, left
Cincinnati, October 9th, for camp Dick
Robinson, and a second battery left on the
10th
The 37th Ohio regiment, Col. Siber left
on the 9th for Western Virginia. On Fri
day, the 44th regiment, Col. Smith, had
orders to leave their camp at Springfield,
Ohio, for Western Virginia.
The Herald states that VIM. Byrd, late
Clerk in the Auditors Office, and a man
named Martin, lately factotum of Jake
Thompson, have been arrested and impris-
oned in Richmond as spies. Both are trait
ors.
TRIBUNE's DISPATCH.
The mother of Jackson, who murdered
Col. Ellsworth, was arrested for keeping a
rendezvous for rebel spies near Prospect
Hill.
The Government is about erecting per-
manent barracks in Washington for 5000
troops.
The troops in W Western Virginia are to he
paid off soon. Officers are hereafter to be
paid at the same time as soldiers. It is re-
ported that General Mitchell will be put in
command Of an expedition to drive the reb-
els out of the Cumberland Gap, hence to
carry the war into Tennessee. Zollicoffer
has Withdrawn all his troops to and beyond
Cumberland Gap.
TIMES DISPATCH. 7
The rebels in considerable force showed
themselves on Saturday before Gen. Han
cocks quarters with a large Parrot gun,
hanked on each side by brass howitzers, but
retired without firing. This morning they
appeared in some force on Prospect Hill,
near Great Falls, but after a short stay re-
tired.
WASHINGTON, Oct i4-The Var De-
partment has ordered Gen. Sherman, COM
handing the Department of the Cumber-
land, to reinstate all the officers of the Gath
Illinois Regiment, who were illegally dis
charged by Gen. Fremont, through the in
strumentality of Col. Hecker.
The committee of aggrieved officers will
leave Washington tomorrow to report
! themselves for duty.
The commissioners to the Worlds Fair
organized to-day By electing Secretary
| Seward, Chairman
-.... special TO THE POST.
+ w AsHTNGToN, Oct. l4.-Mr. Henry Ke n
an, citizen of Fairfax county, Virginia,
has Just arrived here from Richmond. He
! had been imprisoned for several weeks in
| Richmond, tor the crime of giving shelter
to destitute federal soldiers, who were TAX
en- prisoners by the enemy's forces and ap-
! piled to him for assistance. His hum anity
was not to be tolerated among the rebels,
and be was made to pay severe penalty.
He reports that the rebe,s at Richmond
had indalged in extravagant rejoicings III
the attack uponS Wilson's ZOuaves of New
York, on Santa Rosa Island, and claim
that their troops won a great victory on
that occasion.
The governing authorities of the rebel
camp have had great trouble. Their Off
GERS had given offense in various ways and
Ex-Secretary Floyd aud Ex-Governor
Wise were fairly in disgrace.
Roger A. Pryor is running for the rebel
Congress, forsaking the army on the ground
that there will be suspension of hostili-
| ties during the winter.
meeting of railroad officers took place
to-day at the general post Office, at which
views were freely interchsnged with P. NJ.
I General Blair. 1t is proposed to send
night mail from this city to New York,
leaving at o'clock, and arriving in New
York at o'clock the next morning.
The Richmond Enquirer of the Il th inst.
just received here, has an account of the
confscation of estates and property in Vir-
ginia, which have occurred under the terms
of the recent legislation act of the rebel
Congress since the Both of September. The
aggregate value of the property thus con-
fscated owned by Northern citizens or loyal
Virginians, is estimated at 100000, 900.
Among the sufferers are the following per
sons who are named in the Enquirer's list
August Belmont, n. Y. VINO loses 500 hhds
tobacco, valued at $2s, 900; Rood, Slavery &
Farrant, of Norfolk, C. Murfery Co., of
New York, and Chckering 81 Sons, of
Boston The last named house lost large
stock of pianos in the hands of their agents
in Richmond; also, an estate owned by VIM.
G. Rives, jr., of Boston, consisting of 5000
acres of fine land, fully stocked with negroes,
live stock and implements; and another
estate owned by Francis Rives, of New
York, also, containing 5000 acres and
stocked with negroes. Another large estate
of 800 acres belonging to MIR. Sigourney, Of
New York, with its negroes and live stock,
, have been confiscated.
The rebel authorities have appointed
agents to take charge of these estates, and
to pay the revenues arising therefrom into
the rebel Treasury.