The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1861-11-27
Washington, Nov. 90.

Instructions There has not been even an iLf0r
NAL conversation bet~een him aud the proper
department. concerning it. Thoee sho are inti
mstely acquainted With Lord Lyons believe be
has observed his usual discretion in RETAINING
from premature expressions OF his opinion.
The steamer Wyardike ran the blockade last
night, and reached the Navy Yard this morning
She vas not fred at. The steamer Z. B. Hale
also ran the blockade, downward, last night, hav
ing on board large quantity Of ammunition and
ordnance stores generally. Two schooners laden
with wood, ran the blockade successfully on Wed
nesday night. The enemy is apparently at work
on a new battery At Possum Nose, which is far
above the others.
Colonel Philip Saint George Cook, has been
stead OF the volunteers.
| Gen. Brooks, OF Smiths division, yesterday
made Reconnaissance in force, gathering 20 loads
of hay. TIE only evidence OF the enemy's pres
ence was a regiment of infantry, and squadron
Of cavalry, seen between Fairfax Court House
and Centreville, about miles beyond our out
posts. Iniol nation received, states tina; the
enemy have constructed an artillery road from
Flint Hill 10 Germantown. Gen Smith reviewed
his division to-day, and Afterwards formed in line
of battle, exercised in firing and field movements
with infantry, artillery and cavalry, a. though
in actual combat. The movements are said to
be highly creditable to this division.
The names of large number of old vessels
are published to-day. They are loaded with
stones, and are doubtless to be sent to Southern
harbors and sunk, thus rendering the blockade
efectual.
A special to the Commercial, from Washing
ton 22d. says -" The murderer OF Col. Vongor-
ben has been arrested. The evidence against
him is very clear.
Judge Black, Mr.. Buchanan's Attorney
J General, is in town.
St. Louis. Nov. %.
!. Judge Thomas S. Richardson was shot thro'
the window of the court house in Memphis
/ Scotland county, on Monday last, while con-
fined as a prisoner in the hands Of Colonel
Moore of the Home Guards. Moore subsequent.
ly offered a reward of a thousand dollars for
. the apprehension OF the assassin.
Jefferson City, Nov. %.
Passengers by the train from the West re-
port that the rebels burnt Warsaw night before
last, to prevent its being used as winter quar-
tiers for our troops. The intelligence reached
5 Syracuse just before the train arrived. and il
, considered reliable. Aquantty of Government
stores was destroyed.
A train of eighty wagons, with an escort Of
= two hundred men left Sedalia few days ago
? for LeavenwOrth. A messenger reached Seds
Il liza at II O'Clock last night, announcing thai
D they had been attacked near Knob Noster by
r five or six hundred rebels, and the train cap
+, tured.
Refugees continue to arrive here in crowds
c MANY in a most destitute condition.
New York, Nov. %.
The Post says: English letters state thai
he British government refuses to grant clear
: ances from English ports TO vessels with arm
for the United States; therefore, shippers viii
be compelled to send in vessels from Continen
tai ports
Baltimore, Nov. -.
Gen. Dix received dispatches to-day advising
him that the disorganzation Of the rebel forcs'
was general in the Peninsula. Capt. Richards
: Cavalry had been dispatched before the messen
, ger left to take possession of six brass cannon
known to be near the town Of Olney-Gov
j Wise's old residence-and had done 20.
: Col Smith, commander Of the rebel fsrces and
some Of his officers were trying to escape frou
the lower extremity, but fas officer Goldsbort
has put the whole shore upon Surveillance, and il
is believed they will be captured.
Washington, Nov. ~.
Ger. Havelock has been appointed Inspector
of Cavalry, an office which he held in the Brit.
sh army.
A run,Or il current 10 the army that the ORDER
upon which Col. Baker acted at Bulls Bluff we're
forged by some rebel for the purpose Of drawing
him into trap.
The Tmes' correspondent says: at is nov
definitely sscertained in military circles at Wash
ington that Beauregard recently rendered bis
resignation a. General of the rebel army, 10 con
.equence Of the difference with JEFF Davis a. to
the conduct of the war. Violent parties have
sprung up among the rebels on this question,
Beauregsrd representing the offensive war party,
who believes in invading the North and winter.
ing in Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York,
and JEFF. Davis representing the defensive war
party who trust for time and the defense Of their
own soil to give them independence. The Beau
regard party complain that the policy of Davis
las led TO the invasion Of South Carolna and
will fill the cotton Ststes With the horrors of war
and end in their destruction, and it is believed
that Davis has succumbed to the war policy to
prevent South Carolina and Georgia from seced.
ing from the rebel States. Gen. Beaursgard
was induced to withdraw his resignation.
Kentucky has now furnished her fall qsota
of the half million of men called for the national
defense, and proposes to raise ~ many more for
State service until the rebel armies are driven
from her soil.
"Sx thousand stand of rIf1ed muskets arrived
here yesterday and are already being distributed
among our troops by Col Kingsbury. the Or.
dnance officer Of Gen. NcClelan'e staff Several
thousand more, now in New York, will arrive in
a few days"
The HeydlGs correspondence SAYS: "a letter
received from Flag Of6cer Foote to-day, Of the
dotilla which is to operate on the Mississippi,
states that he is making rapid progress and will
soon have it in readiness to proceed on it, way"
A letter to the Herald, from G. F. Train, da-