Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-11-19
STAMPEDE IN MISSOURI.

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er, II mid ocean, by LincOln's steam frigAte, SsI
Jscinto, and taken to Fortress Monroe.
RICHMOND, Nov. IS-COugress met to-day, Mr.
CoBB in the Chair. There was quorum present
ak States being represented. The President's mes
sage not being ready it djOurned until tomorrow
The arrest Of Messrs. Mason and SLIDEL il
viewed by the Government and by the public gen
orally as fortunate for our cause.
RIcHxoSD, Nov. Isth.-Dstes from New York to
the 18th have beer received. Matthew F, Asury 81
New Orleans has been sent to Fort Lafayette.
There was fight at Guysndotte. Va, thirtySsiz
miles below GslEpolis on the 10th. Ahundred ard
fifty Confederates attacked hundred and fifty of the
Union troops. Only fifty OF the latter escaped.
Northern papers have an account of the battle At
Pikasville, Ky. There is no intelligence of this
here.
Price has fallen back, IN Missouri, sight miles
from CoOssvillo on the State line, and is moving
South.
The Yankees say that Beaufort is taksn and the
Railroad.
The steamer Winfield Scott is supposed to have
gone down in a storm.
The stea mer North Briton is q total loss, vesse
and cargo in the river St. Lawrence. The wrseL
occurred on the 5th.
Seventy three pris Oners taken at Lexington, No.
have been exchanged.
II a trial At New York, of q young man for being
engaged in the 81 ave trade, MCKEoN counsel for Ct
fence, asked each juryman he was reader of tne
New York Tribune. if he answered in the afirna
i've, he was rejected.
Seward In speech in New York asked who shah
be king? Klapkey Of Hungary has been suggested
"a q military leader.
Gov. Hicks recommends the raising of an army
Of ten thousand men in Maryland.
1t ia believed in Phi ladelphia, that the peninsula
Yorktown and J ames river have been abandoned BY
our troops.
1t is reported there that Gen. sherman is making
forced marches to Charleston
Guyandotte has been laid in ashes by the Lin
eolnites.
The money market in New York is becoming
easier as the success Of the Government seems
more probable to the Gothsnites. Capitalists grow
beldsr at the occupation of Beaufort district which
contains cotton valued three millions of dollars
Cotton is quoted at 24S cents for middling upland
Rio Csfee Is I; Ness Pork l5c
RICHMOND Nov. 1s.-The British Nail Steamer on
which kessrs. Mason and Sliden were passengers,
had left Madeira when sverhauled by the San
Jscinto. Capt. Wilkes demanded the list of pas
sepgers, which was refused and at length given
under protest. Nessrs. Slidell and Mason were
then demanded and given up under protest.
The Washington Star of the 14th corrects and
changes the Federal report of the victory near
Pketon, locating it at PrestOnburg and reports the
prisoners at two thousand ms tead of one thousand
and Gems. Williams and Halves prisoners 1t fur
Their reports that the Confederates killed four hun
ired
The flags captured at Port Royal are now used as
curtains u
The Navy Department has ordered national ga
lutte at each naval station.
Sherman will be reinforced, at Port Royal, by !
fifteen thousand Immediately.
John Cochran, of New York, in a spesch advO- |
Gates arming the negroes.
1t is again reported thst the privateer Sumter
has been captured, and her crew are on board tie
Niagara.
RussELLvuLE, Ky, Nov. 1s-The Sovereignty |
Convention of Kentucky met this morning. Il. |
Burnett was chosen permanent President. Fifty |
one counties we're represented. A provisional Gov |
,rnment for Southern Kentucky viii certlinly be |
formed Tomorrow. George ". johnson, of Scott |
county, will be appointed provisional Governor.
RICHMOND, Nov. I6, Uia Nsto 0rIsans.-The Dis
patch extra contains items from the Baltimore Amer
can of the 18th. The report of asuccessful battle
If the Federals at PiketOn or PikeviIle, Ky, is all
lunbug. Generals HGIleck and Buell. left Washing
on for the West. Dispatches from Washington of |
he 18th confirm the Federal Reconnaissance opposite
1ccoquan, with Is, 900 troops. Some other pickets
we're shot and some taken prisoners.
The train last night from Norfolk brought thirty
hree Southern prisoners recently captured at Wash
nQton. Among the officers are Lieut.. Col. Boone
md Sergeant Thomas of the Second Mississippi reg
ment. Sergeant Bates of the Eighth Alabama and a
wv Virginians.
Among the pr1vates are Banker, Eastwood, La
-ett, Paine and Flick, Of the sth Georgia; Alfred
,oftin and Coffin Smith, of the Sixth Alabama;
Piouot, of the Fifth; Alabama; Hudson and Porter.
4 the 4th Alabama; James, of the I'd South Caro-
ma; Lewis, Burnumier, Pinekney, McFan and
ssrtovv, of the It'll Carolina; Ferreu of the Hamp-
ons Legion; Barrow and johnson, of tn 4th North
JaroliHa; Walker, Of the I'd Mississippi with sew
raj VirgInians.
REcHNoSD, Nov. Il UiG New 0rleGns-It is ascer-
aimed that a Federal vessel, the San Jacinto
,oarded British steamer ct sea and took of Messrs
Gason and Sdell, and their Secretaries Eustis and
dcFarland. They are all now at Fortress Monroe
Northern papers publish sl6ispatch of battle In
'ikeYile in which the FederSs killed 500 and took
900 Confederstes prisoners.
A letter from Gen. Humphrey Marshall, Just re- /
elved at the Department says the Pikevile battle
with 500 Confederstss against 1900 Fed
rails Our troops loss was one killed. four wound
d and seven missing.
The Federal loss was, killed 207 counted, 40 :
wounded and 200 prisoners. This unequal loss re-
ulted from the fact that men were successful-
v smbuscaded and the enemy were entrspped
The news Of the capture Of Mason and SliGell was
to Norfolk from Fortress Monroe By
ZEN. Wool to Gen. Huger Commodore Wilkes .
commanded the San Jacinto, that arrested the com-
,issionerz Nothing interesting from Manassas or