Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-12-18
FROM KENTUCKY.
ENGAGEMENT ON GREEN RIVER.
The Federal Troops Victorious.
COLONEL TERRY, OF 7HE TEXAS RANGERS, KILLED.
PRIvATEHR CAPTURED.
FORTRESS MONROE, Monday, December 49,

A passenger by the steamer from Fortress
| Monroe reports the arrival of the steamer Con-
necticW at Old Point, with the intelligence that
| Fort Pulaski has been evacuated by the rebels,
and is occupied by the Federal troops.
lTribune's special1
The Senate Military Committee will report
| to morrow or pext day against the bill abolish
| ing the distinction between regulars and vol.
| unteers.
BUFFALO, Tuesday, December II.
The warehouses formerly occupied by the
Michigan Central Railrosd, and the pro psller
| D,nkirk, lying at the dock, were destroyed by
FIRE this morning. Five hundred barrels Of
-four in the warehouses were burned. Loss on
the propeller $4,000. Other losses not ascer-
tanned.
GRAND HAVEN, Mich. Tuesday, December II.
A fishing boat was run down off tho harbor
| three men, Peter DeHaus, Marion Yer HuIg
and Patrick Walker, drowned.
NEW YORK, Tuesday, December II.
The Constitution, which arrived here yester-
| day, left at Ship Island large body of troops,
her splendid Iihed long-rsngs guns, and six
| fine life boats On the day the Constitution
sailed from Ship leland a naval engagement
took place within sight, and quite near the
| Island, between the United States gun boat
Nei0 London and the steamer De Soto aud two
rebel armed vessels, the Pamhos and California,
| which were attempting TO run the gauntlet
from New Orleans to Mobile. Nobody was
hurt on either side. r..-
A private letter from Beaufort says the stone
| feet sailed from Savannah for Charleston, 10
company with of war. Ships were to
| be sunk in Charleston HarbOr on Saturday last.
Tybse Island is occupied by 1000 men, who
are to throw up batteries for use against Fort
Pulaski, if necessary.
The sloop of war Sdvannak and three or four
gun. boats were off Tyhee.
| u II II al. nm Fl
Port Royal for Fernandins, with the BienviHe
aud another gun boat The forti6cations there
consisted of a battery of I've guns, IN AIMED by
200 or 800 men. It is thought it will fall into
our hands after brief struggle.
The gun boat Connecticut, from Galveston
en- tie 29th ult., South west Pass on the 1st
inst, Ship Island I'd, Mobile Bar and Fort
Pickens Sd, Key West 10th, Tybse 18th, and
| Fortress Monroe 10th, has arrived.
All the crews of the blockading squadron
we're we'll. -H
The sloop of war Richmond was atKey West,
repairing damages.
The Connecticut brings the crews of the cap
1 tuIed pirate Royal Yacht and captured steamers
Anna ard Henry Le'ois.
The Connecticut also brings as prisoner ma
rine who attempted to desert from Ship Island;
also 13 of Billy Wilson's zouaves, aud number
of regulars from Fort Pickens. Nothing new
bad taken place at Fort Pickens.
detachment of troops from Port Royal had
landed at Ty bee.
The Connecticut brings no report sf the occu
patton of Fort Pulaski by the Federal troops.
The report from Fortress Monroe is therefore
untrue.
A meeting of bank officers resolved not tc
suspend specie payment according to the
wishes of the Government.
| FCorrespondence of the St Louis Democrat
TIPToN, Mo-, Monday, December I6.
] Vau}ardou nVda hara Cos oIl
the forces at this point to hold themselves IN
readiness 10 march at a moments notice. Al
the same time General Pope, commanding the
Department of Central Missouri, at the head
of nearly all the troops in winter quarters al
0tterville, marched westward to ward Warrens-
burg, for the purpose, it is generally believed
here, Of cutting off Price, whom our scouts
report making forced marches to reach Gen
erals Rains and Stein, now in the intrench
J msnts at Lexington. Every body is ON thu
/. qui Uire for startling and good news, as uni
: vsrsal confidence is felt in the ability ant
bravery of Geperal Pope and his army.
/ LEAvENwoRTH, Tuesday, December II.
= AdTices from Mound City, of tho 14th inst
! mention foray by party of 200 rebels neal
POtosi, Linn County, in which 20 houses wer,
pillaged and one man killed, Montgomery hat
l gone in pursuit of the marauders. -
: 1t was believed at Mound City that none o
Prices army had crossed the Usage. r.-.
KANSAS CITY, Tuesday, December II.
The Santa Fe mail, with dates to the I'd inst.
= arrived here on Sunday morning.
9 twenty-five hundred militia, called for b,
3 Governor Connolly from the second division
y M8jor- General HOVey, have been organized an
one compaGy mustered into service. .t.J
. This mail brings intelligence of a horribl
/ massacre ut Fort Stanton. On the approach o
: the Texans to that pest last summer all th
! citizens in the vicinity fed to the settlements
{ leaving their homes, crops and every thing els
! behind. .f ... ~ .-,....
: After the Texans had abandoned the pIac
i the Apache Indians took possession, and ha,
command Of all the country around, "a,
. A party Of twenty men determined to re
; visit the neighbOrhOod, and obtain what the
q could Of their remaining crops, when the Who'll
company fell into the hands Of the saVages an
Z were brutally murdered. .....
7 an is quiet at this place. Colonel Weir, Q
q the Fourth Kansas Regiment, is Ia command
q Colonel Jennings West Kansas Cavalry, vic
q part of the Seventh Kansas and TWelftl
o Iowa, also, q section of Totten's famoua bat
' terry, encamped- within-a few miles Of thi
+ place last night, and will move toward Wei
: -N ~ WAsHiSaroS, Tuesday, December II.
@ The steamer Reliance came up from the Pc
It tomac hotilla yesterday, and states that tw
i new rebel batteries are erected above thos
N heretofore reported. One Of them Is neari
d opposite the station OF the hoEllla az India
81 Head, and the other nearly opposite the uiout
) OF MattaWaman Creek. At both batteries heaV
J. guns are mounted, evidently, as they thre
Ie shot over upon the Maryland ahprs.
u ! The difhculty between Conway and Fouk
growing out Of the debate IN the house yeste
n day, remains unadjusted. It Is reported tn
ID there is some doubt as to the party upon who
8, rests thersspOnsibility of sending -ehalleng
W Secretary Bewaid this morning sayelit as
n opinion that no,fOTsign war would take pIae
q, The FemaEklWas made In conversation with
ID distinguished EnRlibhmsh. i. col
Of LoUIsYnLEs Tuesday. December IL
N, -Four companies of Colonel Willich's Germ
ID IndiRna Regiment were attacked this etternol
to on the sOnth side Of Green River, OppOsi
4. Mumfordsville, by Colonel TefFy's Regime
* of Texan Rangers, two regiments inisntry 81
ID Elk pisces Of artillery. Oolensl Willloh, bell
4 reinforced, drove the rebels back, with the 10