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The Now orleans Naval Expedition.

NEW ORLEANS, October 1.-THE naval expedition
TO the head Of the Passes Friday night last con-
sisted of the following vessels. The Manassas the
iron clad marine battering ram) with one 64pound-
| er Dahlgren gun; the steamer Calhoun-COmmos
dore HOllins' flag shi5-With one 24-pounder and
two is poander Dahlyrens; the Ivey, with inch
32>pOunder rih9d cannon; the Jackson, with two
8 inch Columbiads, the AGRae, with one Ga pound
e. pivot gun, four 9-inch Co;umbilds and one 81
FOUNDER rlfed cannon; the TGscstors with one 6
inch COiumbiad. and one 30 FOUNDER riAed cannon;
and the cutter Pickens, with one inch COlumbisd,
and four q FOUNDER carrous,Ies.
The biOckadiRg feet consisted of the following
vessels The scre steamer AiehmOnd, IA guns; the
Preble Is guns the side wheel steamer Water Witch
3 guns and the schooner Joseph E. Toone, carrying
in all SO guns.
On Friday nightlast our feet started from Fort
Jackson, down the river, under command of Com.
HOllins, the tram" Manassas leading the way. The
nigh was intensely dark and the Manassas ran into
a vessel which she cut into near the bSw and run
ming upwards for about twenty feet. An aPpslling
shrek was heard aboard the doomed vessel. Signal
rockets were fired and the enemy beat to quarters.
Soon afterwards, perfect hail storm of iron fell
upon and around the Manassas, causing her ma
chinery to become much damaged.
The Tuscarora and Watson then came with FIVE
fire barges, which were cut gdrift on the stream
thereby causing perfect stampede alaoDg the Fed
eral ships. --' as
When morning came our little feet commenced
the pursuit of the retreating blOekaders, when a
heavy eannOnading began. lasting till o'clock
Several shots struck the Richmond.
The shots from the Yankee were badly aimed
not one of them touching cur vessels.
The firing ended, the feet returned TO the cisyI
with the prize schooner Joseph E. Toone, loaded
with coal, Wjich had boen abandoned during thel
fight
A large quantity of lumber, intended for the
eonstruCtonSof FEDERAL forufestiOns at the head oil
the passes, was burned.
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From ehs Msnpals Appeal, oet0ser I5.a.

MURDER OF A WoaAN.-A thrill OF horror ran
through the community yesterday By the Tumor
that woman had been shot dead as she was lying
sick in bed by the sOu Of well known and respected
citizen. On making inquiries at the place where
the horrid deed was perpetrated, house of IL
fame on Washington street, between Main and Sec
ond streets, We ascertained that in ths afternoon
Hettie Rogers, who was twenty-five years oil, and
came to this city eleven months ago from Cleveland
Ohio, was lying sick in bed, being under medical
attendance, ard beside her was the woman who
kept the house. Between three and four o'clock
the woman was rOrsed from sleep by hearing some
body ask Hetrie why she wrote thas letter abeut
him to DR.. Dickinson The speaker was Harmon
To the question he Immediately added a threat TO
shoot her. In greag alarm the girl shrieked Il did
not do it, and sprULg up in bed TO make her escape
Immediately pistC was fred By Selby the ball
entered Hettie's back below the right shoulder
blade passed through the entire chest probably
penetrating the heart, and then came out below tie
left breast, striking but not IBuring the woman Of
the house near the hip. The girl tel dead SeIby
hastened out OF the house, ran nOrthWard up the
alley and escaped. IIe deceased was a very pref
y girl, and was remarkable for the beauty Of her
curling hair Selby Is a mere boy Of nineteen
his beard Is not yet grown. His YiclOus courses
have long been source Of grief to his gray hssded
father. IL is rumOred that he has shown symptoms
Of wildness and fiightness 10 his manner ard con-
versatiOn lately, and that few nights ago he took
poison from the effects of which he was saved BY
vomiting Il is also asserted that he was infatuated
with the deceased and bitterly JEALOUS on account
OF her. We cannot say how true these rumOrs
may be. Selby was alieutenaut in the company
Of Barbour Guards, Col Knox Walkers regiment.
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This bill passed the House yesterday on its third
and last reading. 1t will probably be adopted to
day in the Senate in lieu of the Senate bill, and
will pass its final reading in that body.
The members of the General Assembly
hsvs done themselves great credit by the dis
patch they have evinced, IN fastening the pas
sage of this necessary measure, not, how
ever, without due consideration and proper
maturing Of the system 1t is impossible to Dis
rIct the State to render entirely free from To-
cal objections We think however that this bill will
be found as little obnoxious to any sound criticism
as any that could have been devised by the Legiss
ture after a months elaboration and that the
people will hail its passage auspicious sign of
hard work. harmony and impartial devotion to the
public interest in the remaining days of the SEES
sion
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valued portion Of my old Congressional District but
advancing years and the present state Of my health
render il impossible.
You correctly estimate the deep interest which
feel IN common with the citizens who win there be
assembled in the present condition of our country.
his is indeed, serious; but recent military re-
verses, go far from producing despondency in the
minds OF loyal and powerful people, will only ami
mate them to more mighty exertions in sustaining
which has become inevitable by the assault of
the Confederate States upon Fort Sumter For this
reason were il possibles waving all other tOpcs
should eonfine myself 10 solemn and earnest appeal
TO my countrymen, and especially to those without
families TO volunteer for the war; and join the many
thousands of brave and patriotic volunteers who
are already in the field This is the moment for
action, for prompt energetic and united action. and
not for the discussion of peace propositions. These
we must know would be rejected by the States that
have seeded, unless We sh uid Ofer to recognize
their independence, which is entirely out of the
question.
Better counsels may hereafter prevail, when these
people shall be convinced that the war is conducted
not for their conquest subjugation but solely for
the purpose Of bringing them back to their original
position in the Union, without lmpatrlng IN the
slightest degree any of the constitutional rights
While, therefore, we shall cordially hail their
return. under our common glorious flag, and wei
come them as brothers, yet until that happy day
shall arrive it viii be our duty to support the Pres
ident with all the men and means at the command
of the country, in vigorous AMI successful prose~
cution of the war. Yours very respectfully,
JAMES BUCHANAN.
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whole coast which experience has shORn to be one
Of the mcst effective methods Of crushing ont the
rebellion Still there certain cities and ports
the moral effects Of capturing which would be so
great that it u fair to be presumed hatit will be
undertaken. If there is any one place which the
loyal sense of the land demands should be humbled
and inside TO feel the hand of the Federal Govern
ment, 1t Is Charleston. It's fall would be the fall
of the chief pillar of rebellion. The results would
be commensurated with the cost, great as it might
be, though it need oy no means be so great as the
rebels think or the Government has been the
habit of conceding SupposiBg that the Govern
ment intends to concentrate its emergies in an ex
petition OF the land and against Charleston.
eordiag to the clearly defined expectation and wish
OF every loyal citizen, We may readily suppose that
such policy will be postponed no IonZer than con-
sderatons of the season shsn dictate. But the prob
ability of such an undertaking resrs not alone on
this presumption. There are indications in the
movements, doings, and so on" great and small,
here and there and then tAat point directly to
such purpose. Grouped together these iudiea-
tons to the eye of the careful observer establish
more than probability if they are not even proof
positive, of undertakings at an early day worthy of
our Government
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Arrival from. LincoIndoln.


We met a gentleman yesterday who succeede,
in running the blockade at Cairo on Friday las il
4 skif. he has been at Louisville, Paducah and In
dianapos within the last ten days and gives Us tEl
follow g information:
In one day last week $4,000 troops from Ohio
and Indians passed through Louisville on their way
TO MuldrOughs Hill. The cc.amaa6 CT the Fedora
forces in Kentucky is divided between Anderson
Isick) and Sherman. At Louisville the Fedsrals
had six companies of artillery, and the artillery
force was TO be increased to one hundred guns.
AT Indianapolis camp instruction had been IN
sttuted. 4 large number Of men we're there being
schOoled in the art Of Vsr, and OHr informant saw
81 rlAed casncp at that place,
The number of Federals at different PLACES along
tn Ohio is thus given by our informanti AT Hen
derson 5000; at Paducah, ii 600; az Cairo, 4 800
at Byrd's Point $4,000. On Friday last fifteen 81
Founders arrived &C Cairo The report published
in cur hast that three OF LineOlns boats had landed
at Lucas Bead, is confirmed, but our informant
states that they were after forage.
George Mex. Lukin, q printer, formerly Prssi-
dent Of the Typographical Union Of this city, is at
Cairo, to spot such SOutherners as he D2J chance
to know. Lukin is a chicago man. He recog-
nized our informant, but too late to have him ar
rested.
When our informant was at Padueah there was
a current report in town that Gen Pillow vas
within the lines The guards were doubled and
orders issued to allow man to leave the place.
He could not learn whether they succeeded in
catching him or not.
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Special Dispatch to a Charleston Courier, b
Fan, EaErF,

Escape Of Confederate Prisons-TRs United SAFE,
Army at Washington Pans Of Gen. 1fcClslQR. Gc
FAIRFAX C. H. October I3.-0ne of our soldiers
just escaped from Washington, brings the intelli-
gence that Gen. Mcclellan has an army Of one hun
dred and twenty thousand infantry, ten thousand
cavalry and one hundred batteries. He Is waiting
to drill the two latter arms of the service. gen
era attack is not contemplated until the middle Of
November. His policy is to advance IN three col
umns mile at time, and fOrtiiy as he proceeds.
Several tons Of bales soaked in turpentine have
been provided, with which the troops intend burn
ing the woods after the leaves are fallen. Their
object being First, TO smoke out masked batteries
second to illuminate IN case of q night ATTACH.
Fort Ellsworth and other fortihcanons have been
mined
The commanders Of the United States forces on
this side Of the Potomac are Gems. Frank u and
Kearney.
The force. on the Virginia side is not less than
10000.
Washington is strongly fortified in the rear.
Several Of the Virgins Cavalry have been killed
and wounded By the enemy 5 pickets.
Pinckney of South Carolina, taken prisoner at
Manassas, is dong we'll
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.rhe Movements on the Potomac.

Our special dispatches from Richmond indicate
near engagement between the forces of MCCLELLAN
and the Confederate army. MCCLELLAN is evidently
advancing while cur army is choosing the best po-
sitiOn for battle, by falling back The following
extract from g well informed correspondent of the
Savannah Republican fOreshadOws the whole pro
gramme: ST. I.
tbe Potomac. cannot go into details, and must
conne myself to the general statement informa
on has beea received that Mcclellan is preparing to
give MS battle at early day. 1t is said that he
will come out from Washington and Alexandra with
100 600 men, and a full and complete complement
of artillery. If this be true, tits perfectly legitimate
for the Confderaes to select the ground upon which
they will receive him If you should hear by teleS
graph before this reaches you, that we have fall
en- back. behind Bull Run, you will understand the
object of the maBGuvre. The movement may be
postponed for two three days, owing TO the con-
ditiOn of the roads and water courses Yesterday
and last night there was the heaviest rain storm
ever witnessed, aud tosday the country is flooded
with water and the roads al impossible to wagons
and artillery
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From Fortress Monroe.

From late number of the New York Tribune,
we extract portion of one of its correspondence
from Old Point Comfort as throwing some little
,iCbt on matters in this section:
Several Companies of the Indiauians will embark
in the Spsul5ing for tIatteras lis evening. The
other three companies under the hIeutenant Colo
mel will remain at Camp Hamilton. 'r
Itis understood that further reinfOrcements for
this department will reach here at an early day. 1t
ia got prpbsble that they will be suffered to remain
Idle, but they viii be employed in important work,
which the approaching cool season will render 1t
practicable TO undertake.
1t is understood that Flag Officer GoldsbOrOugh
expec to have not less than forty ships of the At
lantc blockading feet collected in the Roads within
the next two weeks. at present we have Elk frig
ates, including the Cumberland (which is at New
port News) VIZ: the Minnesota (aagship} the Roan
Oke, the Sabine, the Congress, the st. Lawrence
the Camberlandi besides the Dale, and number
of gun boats and supply ships in all not less than
325 guns and 1890 men. The Wsbash il On the
coast, and is expected to arrive. OF course the
largest number of the expected feet will be Gun
boats lately purchased and now fitting out in New
York and Philadelphia. The destination of this
EleEampled squadron Is of course one Of the Sc
Crets almost past finding out and not to be told
when found out That formidable operations are
to be undertaken on the Southern coast, there can
be no doubt. Inasmuch as the late Atlantic block
aiding district has been divided by creating the
Southern Atlantic Squadron, of which Capt Du-
pOnt will be the Flag Officer the conclusion is that
the ships which, according to report, will congre-
gate here will confne their operations this side of
the dividing line, which will be the Boundary of
North and South Carolina.
1t should not be supposed that all or even a ma
J0rlty OF the squadron Will be employed in SPECIAL
service for it is doubtless the purpose of the Gov
eminent to enforce more perfect blockade Of the
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miscellaneous.

The following items are extracted from the New
York papers Of the 10th:
It is reported that Gen. Mansfield hss been order
ed TO Fort Hstteras and Gen. Wool will return i'm
mediately TO Fortress Monroe.
The papers make q great ado over more magma
~ victories on the North Carolina coast. The
Chickamscomco affair is transformed into an at
tempt the part Of the COnnfederates to take Fort
Hatteras. Three Confederate steamers, loaded
with troops, were sunk by the Federal fire and all
on board drowned. OF course 10 one hereabouts
believes this tale.
The report of the evacuation of Lexington by
General Price is confirmed He is said TO be re
treating Southwark.
The Hays Arctic expedition has returned to New
York without accomplishing any substantial results.
SOntaz, the astronomer of the expedition, died du
ring the voyage.
Colonel Joseph p. Taylor, Of Kentucky, brother
of the late President Taylor, has been appointed
Commissary General Of the United States Army. in
place Of General Gibson, deceased. The new Com
missary has also been promoted to the rank of Brig
adler General.
Minister COrTin has finally procured permission
of Mexico to pass Federal troops through her terri
tory for the purpose of attacking the rebels. This
is official
The report of q difficulty between the British
Minister Lord Lyons, and Secretary Seward, was
brought by gentleman just through from Balti-
more. who says that Lord Lyons charged Seward
with tampeFing with his dispatches Lord Lyons
has moved TO Baltimore.
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Gen. D. e. TwIgE..

From the New orleans Cssselt, Oct u
At bis own request, this true patriot and distin-
guished soldier has been releyeil from the active
duties Of his important command. That THE should
be so is alike source of regret to the public and
the General. The people wish his services-the
country needs his services-he is anxious to serve
both, and die for both, if need be, bat, unf0Ftun-
ately, physical ineapaeity prevents His head is
clear, his brain active, and his patriotism as fer
vent as of yore, but. minated above, the dlsa>
billties Of disease preventing that personal and
active attention which be deemed Necessary TO tks
requiI ement3 Of the occasion, he ASKED 70 be rs
heved His motives vii be duly appreciated By his
telloW-cltlzsns, and lis conduct eoiTespondingly
honored. The subjoiued dispatch from the Acting
Secretary Of War needs no explanation:
= RICHMOND, Oct. g. IS5l,--Gen. D. E. Twice.: Your
dispatch received. The Departments learns with
regret that the state Of your health is such as to
cause you 70 request TO be relieved from active
duty. Your -request is granted, but you are ex,
pected to remain in command until the arrival Of
Gen. Mansfield Lowell, who has been appointed TO
succeed you, and who leaves for New Orleans to .
morrow. r-. J. +. BsaJ4HIS.
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NORTHERN NEWS, EUm6Rs AND LIES.

The .aOId Pablo FunctiOnarY" Turned
Up.
The following is a copy of letter from ex Presi-
dent BUCBANAN to Union meeting at Hsyesvile,
Chester county, Pa, from which it will be seen he
goes the entire length and breadth of the Black
Republican party in its war upon the South.
WHEITLAND (near Lancaster,) Pa. Sept. %, 1861.
Dear Sir: l have been hOnored by your kind IN
vitation chairman Of the appropriate committee,
to attend and address Union meeting Of the citi-
zens of Chester and Lancaster counties. to be held
at Hayesville on the LIST of October. This should
gladly accept, proceeding, as it Does from q much
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andrewJ mcLemorc. Esq .

The Richmond correspondent Of the Petersburg
Express gives the following account Of he death OF
ANDREW J. MoLEMoRE Esq, of Memphis, who was
accidentally drowned in Richmond on the 9th inst.
We knew Mr.. McLEMoRE from boyhood, and we
knew him TO possess one of the warmest Of hearts,
2 bright intellect and high toned honor. He was
graduated, with the highest honors, at the
University of Nashville, and soon after loca-
ted in Memphis where he has ever since
resided, with the exception of few years in San
Francisco California. Mr.. MCLEMoRE was on his
way to Manassas, TO join the army, at the time OF
his death. He has three brothers in the army, two
at Columbus and one at Fairfax Court House. He
was a son of Col. Jno. G. MCLEMoRE who, for many
years, resided in this city. The following are the
remarks of the Richmond correspondent:
Another gallant young soldier has gone to the
tomb before he had an opportunity of serving his
country on the battle field. Andrew Jackson Nc
Lem0re, from Memphis Tenn, reached this city
some three or fonr days age, ard stopped at the
SpOtswocd House, intending 10 proceed to Manas as
at an early day, where he has a brother serving
in Captain Benefits company. Night before last,
while endeavOring TO grOpe his way to the Peters
burg depot, be accidentally fell into the canal and
was drowned His body was found yesterday, and
- key bearing the number of his room at the hotel
disclosed his identity. He had letters from his
father to President Davis and other distinguished
public tunCUOnaries, which had never been pre-
scented. An inquest was held by the coroner, &
verdict Of death by accidental drowning rendered,
and his body placed in a metallic burial case and
deposited in the vault at Hollywood TO await the
requisition Of friends
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4NAs
RICHMOND, Aug. 18th, 1861.
slR:I have received your letter Of the 18th inst,
in which you ask to be discharged frem arrest and
prosecution, and make promise that you will "as
citizen of Tennessee submit to her late action and
religlously abstain from any further words or acts
Of condemnation whatever in opposition to her gov
ernment.a
The desire Of this government being to maintain
the independence she has asserted, by the united
feeling and action of all its citizens, it has been ats
policy not TO enter into questions of difference OF
political opinions heretofore existing.
l am therefore pleased to be spared the Necessity
of inquiring whether the accusation sgsinst you be
well founded or not, vexatious OF not and to rest
content with your submission as loyal cltizen OF
your State to her recent action IN adherlng 70 ts
Confederacy and adopting its permanent constitu-
ton by an increased majority. have ordered your
discharge and that of your companions from Gus
tody. am, etc,
To THOs A. r. NELSON Esq,
As have not at anytime ever visited three fourths
of the counties, composing the Congressional
Districts, shall be pardoned for sayingby way of
introduction to their good citizens that within the
past five and twenty years. hare represented Maui
ry Marshall, Bedford. Coffee, Cannon, Dekalb,
Grundy, Warren and Van Buren,, either in the Con-
gress of the United States, or the Legislature of
my native Tennessee. In February last was elect
ed to the State Convention from this Senatorial Dis
trict. 1 am happy to be able tc say that, during
the long period specified, whenever have asked
the suffrage of the people, they were given by tri>
umphant msjorities. 81, M. WArTERsoN.
McMinnvllle, Oct 16, 1861.
GEO. W. LLOYD, of New Rochelle, n York, arrived
here Tuesday from camp Green River, Ky. He
was arrested twice by the LINOoLSlTEs while com
ing from Lexington, but managed to escape. Hav-
ing no documents with him to show that he was
true to the Southern cause he arrested By Col.
Hanson, st camp Green river and detained until he
could get an answer to dispatch from Gen. Hen
RY A. WISE vouching for him. Mr. BENJAMIN, acting
Secretary of War at length answered the dispatch,
giving the proper guaranty.
He speaks very kindly of the officers and men
with whom he was associated at Camp Green River,
and especially of the kindness of Col. ROGER HAN
son. His destination hence is Richmond, Virginia.
We are authoriz ed to announce Hon. II. S. FooTE
as candidate to represent the Congress of the Con
federate States in the 9th District composed of the
counties of Macon, Smith, DeKalb, Wilson and Da-
wilson.
Gov FooTE will insert short political csrd, sd-
/ dressed Tn the voters of this District
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MRs kE1TH.-In answer 10 the nume1 Gus inquiries
which have been msds Of Us concerning the sposal
Of Mrs. Keith, we viii state that after remaining in
Jail several days, she was discharged by an order
from Gen. Winder, st whose instance she WAS
rested the second tine. Upon her discharge she ap-
pesred in the Appeared of her sex, ard We suppose
viii not again soon Undertake to play the Z" bsEld
solger boy" She msdiately left here for Mem
phis, which sac clafaled Is her hOmp.--Lyneh5uTC
Rsll5lieGH October Il -