Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1861-11-20
LATEST NEWS
BY the Mails.


From w WashingtOn.
Especial to Chicago Journal.
WAsBlNGToS Nov. l3.
The NotiOnal L,ttlli Jenctr Of this morning Con-
tlans elaborate artic e, iul jls,fying the cap
ture Of Mason and SIidel. IL cites authorities to
sho- that IN er acknowledged laws Of nations,
Com Wike, was aut horised to board the English
steamer nj dem .ni the delivery of the persons
charged with r.belion against the Government
/. Is believed here that the article foreshadows
the ground to be taken by the State department.
Especial Dispatch to the Chic.g Times,
WAsmI>GroN, Nov l6.
The arrest Of Mason and Siideil has received. 1t
is understood, the approval of the President and
Cabinet, and they have determined I" maintain
the position as question of international rght.
Rumor has been rife in secession circles that
Lord Lyons ha dema rded his passports. but thus
far the British Legation have Indicated no views
upon the question.
Ii has been certained hat the ret ell regiments
on the eastern shore of irsnia have retIeated to
the lower enc Of the bay, where their capture is
certain by the Union troops, as the rebels have ,o
means OF crossing the bay.
Several battailions lad left Manassas for the
Gulf States.
The election of Davis and Stephens was very
dull affair
steamers from the Lower Potomac state that
the reb.ls are erecting more formidable batteries,
with the evident intent of preventing a fank
movement en- Manassas by General Hooker's di-
vi-ion.
Business at the Depa, tments is SO great that or
ders have been issued to day Tor the admission OF
no visitors
The War Department will soon issue a circular
to the Governors of the loyal states, requesting
The withdrawal of their agents f. the purchase q
arms at home and abroa government hay.t
received advices that a suficiency of arms viii be
received through it, own agency to mees ''io de
ma IDS.
TIE President has appointed Capt. Foote, Flag
@ tfieer ,f the feet in the Western Military ,,.-
pArtment. lie thus ranks with Ma jor Gene -nls.
This obviates the possibility OF conflict between
t.e comma nders OF the land and naval forces.
Allen Francis, Of Springfield, Ill., is appointed
Consul to Victoria, Vancuuve.'s s Island.
During the review Of McDowelPs and Wads-
worth's brgades, stampede occurr d among the
pickets Of the l4h Brooklyn Regiment, about a
mile and a halt left of Falls Church, ing the
approach Of large boty OF rebel cavalry. One
nan WIS wounded and several missing. Two
reg,u ents went 10 the SUPP ort Of the pckets
when the rebels fell back.
The Reported Battle at PlketOn, KY.
a Tremendous Come me-DOwn-.(:cnesa al
Nelson's Victory Modified.
Details of the battle at Piketon, Ky, show tina.
Gen. Nelson's victory was slightly exaggerated by
the early reports The number Of tue enemy
killed reduced from four hund cd to twenty
hve at the last account. Tue NUMBER Of prisoners
tiken Is not two thousant and fiteen, rs was
exactly stated in the dispatches t. Washington,
but il will be when Gen Nelson takes them aud
as here are more than two thousa nd and fifteen
rebels at Large, to be taken, the reporr was onlys
little prema,ure. The rebel ten. Williams
MT hot through the head. In fact, he was not
shot through any part, having had a call to leave
the ground early i'll the affair. This mod hes Gen.
Nelson great victory slmewhat. The killed and
ca p, ured rebels were sin buckram" But il ap
pears that the rebels incontinently fed into Vr
ginia md our forces took possession Of PIketon,
thus breaking the back Of secession in Eastern
Kentucky. This much seems reliable. No doubt
the public mind will be relieved to find that
much has been accomplished at so little cost Of
bluod.