The Shasta courier., 1862-10-04
Telegraphic News.


We give the leading items of news whicf
have been received siaee our last issue, EN-
bracing dates from the oath Sept to the 30.h
inclusive.
Gen. Morgan has evacuated Cumbe. land
Gap.
Several arrests have been made of FEEDER
al officers, upon charges growing out of the
late disgraceful surrender at Harper's Fer
ry.
The Governors of the loyal States met on
the oath, at Altoona, Pa, in a sort of caucus
on the conduct of the war. This is the first
intimation the people have had that the legi-
mate duties of their respective offices are in
sufficient to employ their time. They en-
dorsed the Presidents emancipation procla-
nation. Governors Andrew and Sprague,
it is said, thought that Mcclellan should be
! taken from the command of the Department
of Virginia. The Governors communicated
the result of their deliberations to Mr. Lin
coin, by whom they were politely received.
That is the Last of it,
The President has issued a proclamation
to the purport that during the existing in
surrection all rebels and insurgents or other
! ersons discouraging enlistments, or resist
ing the militia draft, or offering aid and CON-
fort to the rebels, shall be subject to mar
tial law, and liable to trial and punishment
by military commission. The writ of ha-
beus corpus is suspended in regard to such
persons.
General Buell. arrived in Louisville, KY,
with his command on the 24th
Gen. Morgan has taken Richmond, Kv.-
This places the hrigand Smith in a precari.
Gus situation,
A famine is impending over the Rich
mond people.
The report that the rebels left their sick
and wounded on the battle field of Antietam
is confirmed. Such an act of cold blooded
villainly and barbarity would make the devil
quake, or Nena Sahib faint.
The Petersburg Express states that the
rebels have learned from their recent dem
onstrations that my Maryland" is lost to
the Confederate cause"
The news of Pope's reverses excites great
comment in Europe.
The rebels blame Breckenridge for their
defeat at luaka, saying that he did not move
to join Price at the time orderd. His
troops on Monday were at fernando. Bigha-
Ii and Richards Mills. Grant is moving at
Corinth, and will probably attempt to inter
cept and crush these divisions in detail.
Southern papers speak ofimportant militia.
ry movements in Arkansas.
Three hundred Sioux under Little Crow,
were attacked by Colonel Sibley's command.
Sept. 23d. The battle lasted two hours
The result was the defeat of the Indians.
with the loss Of thirty killed and large
number wounded. Four whites were killed
and thirty or forty wounded.
A special Washington dispatch to the
North American says: \ rumor is in circu-
ation to the effect that the Union fleet has
commenced an attack on Fort Morgan, near
Mob lie.
The army corps of Sigel has boep largely
reinforeeu within the past fortnight. 1t is
! whispered that he is now on the track of the
enemy not far from Warrenton.
Union prisoners paroled at ltarpers' Ferry
are to be sent to General Pope to fight the
Indians.
| Brigadier General Jeff, C. Davis shot Ma
iior General Nelson at the Gait House to-
day. A difficulty had existed between them
for some time, This morning Davis demand
ed an apology sor the language Nelson used
to him a few days since, when Nelson slap
| ped him in the face and denounced him as IA
coward. Davis turned away, borrowed a
pistol from friend and followed Nelson,
who. was then going up stairs. Davis told
him to defend himself and Immediately shot
him, The ball penetrated the heart, and he
died in twenty minutes,
Several Western Governors are urging the
| appointment of Hooker to the command Of
the Union armies, in the Mississippi Val.
ley.
Judge Lane, of Alabama, here. urges the
Importance or taking possession of East Ten
nessee. He says if our lines are extended
along the whole Southern boundary Of Ten
nessee, the rebel army will be utterly una
BILE to support itself. He says the country
south of that line is incapable of producing
the requisite supplies, and considers the
movements northward of rebel armies to be
the main great foraginS expeditions in search
of bread.
The following official report has been re-
| Cchcu Ny NCuCidl At Couth
Mountain our loss was 443 killed, .S6C
wounded and IS missing, at Antietam our
killed numbered 2.6l0; wounded, 9,4l6
missing, LOLA. Major Davis, Assistant In
spector General. who superintendent the bur
ial of the dead, reports that about 5000
rebels were buried upon the field of Antie-
tam by our troops. Previous to this, how
ever, the rebels buried many of their own
dead upon a distant portion of the battle
field, which they occupied after the battle
probably 500 in number. The loss of rebels
at South Mountain cannot be ascertained
with accuracy, but as our troops drove then
from the commencement of the action. and
as much greater number of their dead were
seer on the field than our own, it is not un
reasonable to suppose that their loss was
greater than ours. Estimating their killed
at five hundred in that fight, the total mum
bers of rebels killed in the two battles would
be four thousand. According to the rates
of our own killed and wounded, this would
make their loss in wounded. thirteen thous
and seven hundred. As nearly as can bs
determined, the number of prisoners taker
by our troops in the two battles was at the
lowest estimate 1000. OF these 200 wer,
| wounded. This makes the rebel loss in killed
wounded and prisoners, 25 ,542. 1t will no
not include stragglers, the number of whom
is SAID by eitizens TO lie large. 1t may bt
safely concluded that the rebel army lost a
least thirty thousand of their best troop
from the time our troops first encountered