The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1861-11-20
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lie or divide ard pro'oig Vut HINES untu iIrtnS'
concert and concentration IT action can be ar
ranged, and Instructions given. kuii and con'
else reports ell be iorwaijed immediately TO 1
Hrisadler- General Curtin, 81. Louis, giving
strength, position, and condition 10 every com
Gnauj 10 the Department. These reports ~il
Dc Consolidated III der his direction aid weekly I
abstracts for waIded 10 tie commander Geuersl i
Major General HUNTER
f. NJ EouGH, Major AID Aid de-Camp."
Heury H. Clements, chief clerk OF the Quar-
rermas,er's Office, under Gen. u kinstfy, VA
arrested TO day, BY order OF Gen. Curtis, and
sen, to Jefferson barracks, 10 await the investi
cation into Mckinslry's administI alton OF affairs
That officer understood that Mckinstry had been
ordered 10 report to Washington, and will reach
here TO morrow night.
Washington, Nov. IL.
Oncial advices from Europe, just received
how a strengthening of the belief in the restot
| alton of the Union, and increased confidence in |
the ability Of the Administration to re establish
us authority.
News from England i. especially gratifying.
There is still pros Ject o! a general excharge
OF prisoners, although 10 definite arrangements
nave as vet been made.
| The Administration viii act with promptness
IN maintaining any success the expedition ma,
have achieved.
Secrecy is still observed in the Departments
relative 10 the present or prospective movements
of the expedition
GenerA orders dated the 9th inst, designate
the Department. OF the West:
Cumberland and Ohio, FIRST Department, and
New Mexico, 20 be commanded by Col Comfy.
Second DepaI tmen,, Kansas, to include Kan
sas, the Indian Territory west Of Arkansas, and
Territories of Nebraska, Colorado, and Dscotah
to be commanded by Gen. Hunter, headquarters
Fort Leaven~or.h.
Third Department, Missouri, including Mis-
souri,, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Ar
kansas, and that portion OF Kentucky west OF
Cumberland river, 10 be commanded by Genera
HalIeck.
Fourth Department, Ohio, consisting of the
states of Ohio Michigan, Indiana, and that por
: ton Of Kentucky east of Cumberland, and Stat,
: of Tennessee, to be commanded by Gen. Buell.
headquarters Louisville.
Fifth Department-Western Virginia, to be
commanded BIZ General Rosecnrans
Cairo, Nov. IL.
Cen Grants official report Of the Belmont
battle Gays, be had but 1900 men, and the 90
. ~. rApvur,rvn prevent the enemy
RON sending reinforcements to Price, and al,
, from cutting of two columns that he had sem
out from Cairo and Cape Girard-au in pursuit OF
jeff Thompson. Knowing that Columbus wa
strongly garrisonei, l asked Gen. Smith, com
handing at Paducah, to make a demonstration
in that direction. He did so by ordering small
force to Mayfrld, and another in the direction.
IF Columbus, not TO approach, however, nearer
than fifteen miles. / also sent a small force o.
the Kentucky eide with orders not to approach
nea rer than twelve miles above Columbus. A.
: da, light reached point just Oh, Of range O.
The rebel guns, and d. barsed troops and wer.
marched one mile toward Belmont and thel
, trswn up IN line, one battalion being left as re
. serve near the transports. it was but a few
minutes before We met the enemy, and genera
engagement ensued They were driven foot BY
{ foot b2ck to their encsmpment On the riveI
bank, distance OF two miles. Here they had
strengthened their position by Telling timber for
-everal hundred yards around. Our men eharg
ed through this, driving the enemy over the
bank into their transports, leaving US in posses
sion OF everything no, portable. Belmont beit 2
N range of the guns on the opposite shore.
could not be held for single hour by our troops
and having no wagons We could not move all,
: captured property, consequently gave Or d-rs
Tor it's destruction. Before getting under way
: our returned enemy made their appearance
again aid attempted to surround US, but oui
troops not in the least discouraged, charged
the enemy and again defeated them. Our los
was about SIS killed and $50 wounded-many OF
them slightly, about an equal number missing,
| nearly all the latter from the Iowa regiment,
which behaved with gallantry and suffered more
severely than the others.
Cairo, Nov. -.
The Memphis appeal of the llth, contains
the following dispatches from Savannah the s,n
via New Orleans: 1.-THE steamer Sampson has
arrived from Port Roya! with wounded from the
engagement Yesterday. Fifteen vessels were in.
aide and several outside. The Minnesota was
6rst to enter rapidly followed by others. The
attack on the forts was made from three sides
After the second round from the feet, the three
principal guns in the battery were dismounted
The engagement lasted FIVE hours. and during its
continuance all our guns we're dsmounted.
Dispatches to Charleston papers say that the
batteries we're badly worked, and that the enc
ny's firing was ,ellent.
The total confederate loss is reported to be
one hundred.
| Washington. Nov H.
The Associated Press reporters account Of
the recent victory and movement of our feet is
substantially the same as the Others but gives
few more particulars.
The steamer Winfield Scott reached the rem
devious on the evening of the Sd inst, with
loss OF masts and bow stove in. She threw over
her three rfed cannon, all her freight, the
muskets and equipments of her 500 men, and
very thing but her rations, 20 keep her from
hing, and but for the labor of the soldiers in
baug, her fires would have been put out, and
nothing then could have saved her. The steam
r Bienvlle went to her relief, when her Chief
Engineer, his assistants and thirteen seamen,
Jumped aboard the Bienville leaving the Scot,
20 her fate. Their action nearly created panic
| among the soldiers, who gave I'D all for lost but