Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1861-10-30
Whole Number, 472.


chased on the part oil Capt, Jno. ID. Adams
OF L.llle Rock, u beautiful gelding 10 bs
presented 10 Gen, A, y, Johnston by Capt.
Jno. b, Adams. Gen, r. e, Ilindman pass
ell through lLis city en- route for Bowling
Green last Saturday,
MEMPHIS, Oct, 2l, 0 A. M.-We have no
further particulars Of the battle near Bowl.
ing Green, hut arc expecting some every
moment, The battle is fully confirmed,
however both from Nashville and Bowling
Green.
NoRToLE, Va, Oct, i0.-The Steamer
Roanoke, Capt, Hobbs, arrived here last
evening nom Roanoke Island. The Roa.
noke left the Island Monday. Tho captain
reports that the Confederate steamers Cur
lew, Fanny, Raleigh, Winslow and Ed
warls left Sunday under command of
commodore Lynch for Haiicras. Very
heavy firing was heard the Monday follow
jur 10 lb, direction Of Ifsiteras, which be-
ggg U IHyliEbJ and continued urill 2
o'clock. lut uo ruplris OF tho expedition
hnA rcsrhgi The Island when ne Enauoko
!en fl rGp.nin further Ia,es ,bri IL
was rrphr+i Thar Two fc'ler.l steamers
were o.pisuP Ia pamlico soupl prcviouy
t1 tla departure lf tho CrVciilios, but tina.
,lgy ver5 chased out by our susnos.
NoLUVult, $. G., Oct. TO- -lhe cOnyer-
ton ot sac Protestant Episcopal Cbnrch oi
the CoufederNcy met here to-day. Bishops
of all the Confederate States were present,
except Bishop Polk, Of Louis ana.
AUGUSTA, GA, Oct. 1.-THE Charleston
Courier of to-day says the ship Thomas
Watson which got ashore on Tuesday was
burned by the blockuders. She was Mo-
bile vessel loaded with salt, two liihograph-
ic prcases and n lithograpbic stono.
MEMPHIS, Oct. 2l.--lhc Confederate Gov
eminent wants 81 100000 to pay off volun-
tecrs-being unable 10 get their treasury
notes ready in time. The banks in Charca-
ton have taken S500,000 of this loan. Tlo
banks OF Augusta will takc from S2000(O
to 100000. One bank having taken $50
000 another S30,00O or $4,000 The rsto
of interest charged is five per cent.
Sale of the new Confederate postage
stamps will commence on Wednesday a.
the Richmond postoi'ice, so says the Exam
iner. They are quite handsomely gotten
up--are of a green color and are ornam.n
ed with the likeness of President Davis.
The Hon. John C. Breckenridge, Hon
VIM. Preston, Hon. Humphrey Marsha
and y Keene Richards, Esq, have gone TO
Richmond. Tbs following is from the
! Louisville Courier of Saturday:
Macon, GA, Oct. 1.-THE convention o.
Wednesday, at evening session, passed tlo
following resolutions. To sequesirats tie
property of such alien enemies as bayo
sons in Confederate army for the benefit Of
such sons. Approving the plan of tho
marine battering ram invented by J. X
| Bats, and recommending it to the Confodc-
rate States; also that u subscription b.
opened III convention to put it in operation.
Resolutions declaring the importance of
opening railway communication with tho
coal aud iron mines of North Carolina. a
resolution declaring that for return of car.
goes our produce should be furnished 10
vessels bringing goods hero from foreign
ports; but that no accumulation of produce
be allowed in our sea ports And a-fcso-
luton requiring the post Office department
to establish postal relations with the Euro
rcan governments as soon as possible. The
convention, after adopting some other IN
| important resolutions, adjourned at half-
past ten clock, to meet in Montgomery Oh
the first Monday in May, 1862.
WASHINGTON, Oct. ia seizure of con
| sealed nluskcts was made this afternoon ia
Baltimore. Al passes to cross the Potomac
are now denied by Mcclellan, except to
correspondent of the press. The steamer
Baltimore arrived from Fortress Monroe.
An attack Of the confederates on Newport
News is daily expected. The steamer pas
sei new battery forty eight miles below
Washington-a strong force was at work
on it--rivcr quite narrow there. The
Champion arrived at New York from
Aspinwall on the 18th, bringing Sl,00O,000
in specie. Several slave stampedcs repor-
ted in Worcester county, Maryland.
BALTIMORE, Oct l2-Refugees from Nor.
folk, who arrived today on the Louisiana,
previous to leaving they had been closely
searched to prevent them bringing any
newspapers-but one passenger sccreted a
Norfolk Day Book, which had dispatch
from New Orleans Of an attack on Wilson's
Zouayos on Santa Rosa Island. The rebels,
1000 strong, had spiked all the guns which
were in position and destroyed all the tents
but the hospital and captured ammunition,
rations and stores. Maj. Hodges of tho
U. s. Second Artillery, recently at Fortress
Monroe was taken prisoner.