Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1861-12-20
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| RICHMOND Va, Dec 16 ls6l.--A battle Has beei
fought at Allegheny mountains, fifteen miles from
Mohtery. Five thousand Of the enemy, under
Gen. Reynolds made night march on ThuSda!
and attacked our force composed Of the 18th Geor
gia, on Friday morning.
The enemy was repulsed after great slaughter
with loss of about five hundred killed and wound
ed. Eighty FIVE dead were left on the field 0ui
loss waS One hundred killed wounded and missing
Capt Anderson, Of Tennessee, commanding th'
Virginia battery was killed.
SrAUNToN, Va, Dec, IA dispatch from Col
Johnston states that the enemy attacked him yes
terday. five thousand Strong aud suffered great
loss after an engagement Of seven hours. John
stons force was l,2OO. W. W. LoRINe.
Maxey Gregg Colonel of the 7th South Carolina
Regiment has been appointed Brigadier- General
and assigned to duty
RICHMOND, Dec. Ia There is official intelligence
that the Federals 5000 strong, attacked Colonel
Edward Johuston's command in Valley Mountain
on the l3th but they wetS fepulsed with great
loss, after an engagement of seven hours. The
battle commenced at seven in the morning. John
ston's force numbered 1900, but have since been
Reinforced by two regiments.
Johnston is Virginian and graduate Of West
Point but commands the 9Th Georgia regiment.
Brigadier-General McCulloch has arrived here.
| LIVERPOOL, England Nov. 27.-Nost intese ex-
ctement here to-day under the intelligence of the
taking of the Southern Commissioners, Mason and
Slidel from the British mail steamer Trent An
Indignation meeting was promptly held, and reso-
lutons were carried by acclamation, denouncing
the insult and calling upon the Government to
maintain the dignity of the flag. Some prominent
merchants spoke against precipitate action, and
said the matter had better be left to the Govern
ment The feeling of Indignation is general. Con-
soils declined in London per cent.
The following is the resolution adopted by the
meeting;
Resolged, That this meeting having heard with
indignation that an American Federal ship of war
has forciby taken from British mail steamer GER
tain passengers peaceaby under the shelter of our
flag from one neutral port to another, we do ear
nestly call on the Government TO assert the digni-
ty of the British flag.
| Augusta, Dec. At is reported here that the
Georgia Legislature appropriated 100000 for the
relief of the sufferers by the Charleston fire.
RIcHMooD, Dec l5.-In the Virginia Begis1ature
measures are progressing 10 make appropriations
for the relief of the Charleston sufferers by the
cent fire. -.......
Indications are again strong of a very early en-
gagement at Manassas and other points on the Po-
tomac, and possibly on the Peninsula.
! NEW ORLEANS, Dec. l4.---1He ITu6 DeHu mas
| Just received intelligence from an unquestiohabe
source that over eight thousand Federal troops have
made landing on Ship Island, This advance de-
tachmeHt is under the command of Gen. Butler
information has also been received that large
additional force is hourly expected at that point.
The programme is announced 10 be to land the
troops on the Mississippi coast, and march to Mobile
while the naval force will endeavor to effect pass
age past Fort Morgan, into Mobile Bay. In the
nf in this n Simult aO
attack by land and sea, is expected to be made.
BowrING GREEs Dec: LITTLE Cincinnati Com
mercial of the ith says Garret Davis has been
ele cted to the Senate vice Breckenridge.
A court OF Inquiry has pronounced Gen. Sher-
man of Kentucky insane.
Buells advance to Green river is to be the sig
nal for general Federal advance.
The following named gentlemen were elected to
the provisional Congress of the Confederate States;
lst District, II. C. Burnett; I'd, John Thomas Sd,
George IT. Ewing 4th, d. P. White; 5th, T. L.
Burnett; 9th, John NJ. Elliott; 7th, S. H. Ford;
9Th Thomas B. Monroe; 9th, Thos. johnson; 10th
George B. Hodge
i Scouts from Green river report the Federais as
repairing the Railroad Bridge. Batteries are
planted on the North side to protect the workmen.
There are no Federas South of the river.
/ WASHINGTON, Dec l0.-The correspondent of
the Philadelphia Inquirer says that numbers Of cit
liens of Georgetown and Alexandria openly favor
the Confederates
4 resolution favori1g the abolition of slavery in
the District of Columbia was brought up in council
at Washington on the 10th. THERE'S no doubt but
that Congress will move in this matter at an early
day.
WASHINGTON, Dec. lot is believed that the
Confederate force before the Federal lines number
at least 10000.
The correspondent of the New York Post on the
9th saws that Thadeus Stevens stated in the Re-
publican caucus that after Cameron's report had
been accepted by Lincoln. Gen. Mcclellan went to
President and said he would resign if that portion
of Camerons report respecting the emancipation or
enrolling of slaves was sent to Congress, and the
report was modified The statement created COM
motion among the radical Republicans, who think
Mcclellan interfering where he has no business.
| Affairs at the metropolis are evidently getting
tangled The Post says that Mcclellan should be
arrested
Stewards letter to Minister Dayton, ia France,
is out Seward is anxious 10 abolish privateerng.
Thouvenal is chary. Seward rejects the proposition
of neutrality.
Wilkes official statement of Mason and SlidelIs
arrest charges the British sgent With completely in
their escape to Europe.
Pendleton, Of Ohio, moved that Congress alone
has the power to suspend the writ of habeas corpus
and stoke at length. The resolution was tabled
four to one
/ sherman, OF OhlO, IN the Sennte advocated an
inquiry into the Bull Run and Bull Bluff affair."
He thought the cause and whole conduct Of the
war ought to be investigated
Mason Slidel Mcfarland and Eustis have pub
ished, in The New York Herald, protest against
their seizure.
Il New YoRK; Dec. lO.-Cotton frm sales 1900
bales; middlng uplands 81 to at.
\ RICHMOND, Dec l3-New York papers of the
10th, and Baltimore of the 18th, have been re-
ceived at Centreville.
The news of the Mason and Sldell affair has not
yet reached England.
The steamer Nashville is still at Southampton,
Icreating some discussion. The London Times says
the Nashville must be treated as a ship az war, on
the same footing with those of the United States.
The abolition tendency of the Federal Govern
ment is harrassing the North.
A large number Of the IIatteras prisoners, inclu'
ding eleven officers have been released from Fort
Warren. Gen. Banks has gone into winter quar-
tGrs at Frederick. Gen. Scott and family have ar
rived in England