The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1861-10-12
sUaalRT OF LATEST rrIEcRlrmc Irwa
Washington. October 8

W..hington, October 2.
The number Of volunteers catering the
service from all the loyal States is now about
so 600 per week.
Senator Carlisle, who has been here ses-
eral days, went home shi. morning. He gave
cheering account Of Affairs in Western
Virginia. To-day scouting party Of car
airy vent mile beyond Fali's Church, but
sas only small picket guard Of rebels.
An intelligent lady has reached here from
Winchester, ard states that all classes Of
society there speak Of the vital necessity Of
the rebels winning great victory opposite
Washington. Their retreat would cause
most distressing effect.
The defiant attitude Of the rebels here
abouss has been abandoned; they are now
acting purely IN tbs defensive. They are
manifest!y continually alarmed, fearing m
| sssau!s from some quarter where they are
most assailable. They cannot execute their
own programme Of crossing the river, and
fear an astacs on their own TANKS. Their
position forms q crescent, reaching from
Occoquan creek to point above L.esburs,
While the centre extends from Fairfax
Court House to Manassas Junction.
rise in the river above and the presence
OF the Potomac fotiIla be ow Washington
pree!odss their crossing. They are aware
we have command Of means 10 cross ut any
point and turn either Of their tanks. Their
steps back ward is considered here bv expe-
rieDced army officers a. an indication that
they do not intend to offer bate on the
Pc omac.
Col. Baker, Senator from Oregon, de
clines Br,gadier Generai-hip, preferring
TO retain the Senasersbip, but will act rs
Colonel Of volunteer rsgment during the
war.
Special Dispatch to tie Republican.
jefferson City.
News, believed to be Of Nh entirely reiia-
bic character, has been received here since
my last telegram, through Major Baker, of
The Home Guards, who escaped Monday
night from Prices army, having been held
~ - prisoner since the surrender, confirm
els. On that night all OF them Quilted the
city, and ut the same time, MAJ or Sturg'~,
| am Uniformed. With prob bly, 5000 tot c.
O00 men, was reported 10 be crossing the
Missouri, and is said to have thrown num-
Der of shells Mt the rebels rear guard,
woundipg several, but killing no one.
Capt. Tompkins and others who came in
on the train from Georgetown this evening.
say they have no doubt Sturgis is now in
possession of Lexington.
Ii j. stated that Price now has twenty Eve
thousand organized men, independent Of
ten to fifteen thousand, who are engaged
in marau1ng the western counties and steal.
ing whatever thy can carry off.
Price. forces marched at first directly to-
wards Georgetown, intending to attack that
place and afterwards this city. but herring
that Ward, Sigel aud Davis had forty tbou-
sand troops they suddenly charged their
course and proceeded toward Independence.
How far they went, or where they design to
60, no one knows, though many believe they
intend to remain someW here in LAFAYETTE
county, and either adv ,uce in this direction
or n xait our forces in the best position thy
can command. That they intend to give Us
battle seems the impression Of several
parties from the west, rs their confidence 10
their ability to defeat us is unbounded.
Price is said to have only fifteen pieces
Of artillery, and il they attack Georgetown,
no doubt We have strength enough to pre-
vent any fear Of the result.
Some think that McCulloch is and has
been with Price for the past two wehks,
while others still insist upon it he is dead
aud buried.
Maj Baker is yet here, and had lengthy
Interview with Gen. Fremont tonight.
An attempt, it is supposed, was made last
night to burn the Lamine Bridge. but our
picket, fred upon several skulEing rebels,
who fed. ~ e.l
The Secsssionrsts are lowering about
everywhere, intent upon and waiting an op-
porruni,y to do mischief. Rebel spies ap-
pear to be ut all points, and there is not a
Federal camp in the State, probably, where
there il not one or mare. Every plan. p'-
.itian and secret of our commanders is
doubtless communicated ut once to the
snemv.
Three privasss in the FRS. Nebraska Reg.
imens were lately discovered to be notorious
rebels who bad been with our forces for the
pat two mooths. Il lie singular that these
Williams are not shct o. hanged at once and
u wholesome precedent established.
Sixty rebels from Lexington paid another
visit to the L,nasic Asylum at Fulton, Mon
DAY night, and Carried OF seven wagon
made an attempt tn rob the Deaf and Dumb
A-ylum, but the Superintendent had taken
the prscausios to remove everything valu-
able from the Institution. The leaders Of
the band we're we'll known citizens Of Gallo
way county.
MeCulloch'a whereabouts and existence
are as great mysteries rs ever. Every one
talks of. but no one sees him. lie IL 10 bail
a dozen places at once. and yes when per-
cons 60 where he is declared to be. nobody
in the neighborhood has heard OF him.
John B. wymsn, late Colonel OF the iil'-
uois 18Th, has been made Brigader Zen
.rsi. HIS brigade Is made up oil the 18th
and Il y Illinois and All Iowa, and one reg
imeu, Of cavalry, ue know not where from.