The Shasta courier., 1862-10-11
Teiegraphic News.

T.
i An important dispatch was recei Ed on
Wednesday from the East giving INTEL gence
down to the 9th inst. 1t is of a very sass
factory character.
The Richmond Wing of the 1st of Qetobet
speaks of Lincoln's proclamation as n edain-
ing servile insurrection in the Confe( crate
States, and says, "It is by the dash the
pen to destroy four millions of our PROPERTY,
and is q bid for slaves to rise in insurrdction.
with an assurance of aid from the whole mil
itary and naval power of the United St& &tes !"
1t speaks of the cruelty of the AdminY stra-
ton, and says Butler is q saint conn pared
with his master. Our military OPERA flons,
says the Wing, are henceforth to ass me
verv grave character. and we find that ! new
programme is necessary to destroy all terms
between US and the United States. lhe
next campaign will be tremendou4 one.
both for magnitude and the character Df It's
operations. Let our authorities prepal the
whole strength of our people for a tire zen.
dous shock. The enemy sre making u
preparations as well as issuing 2=ndi.h PC
lamations. We must respond with al
energy. If we don't, we are lost.
The Whig says, the movements of n ii
jackson were toward Warrenton on
day.
The Cincinnati people are no longe1 un-
der fear that Kirby Smith will g liberAt te"
them like Lee did the Marylanders. /
The retreat of Gen. Morgan, from Gum
berland Gap, is said to have been the juost
arduous and toilsome of the war. For iree
consecutive days his forces marched ur-
teen hours each day, and was all the fime
harrassed by rebel cavalry. He brought off
all the ordnance, except four thirty -Four
Founders.
Gen. Butler has issued an order requiring
all the men and women of New Orleans to
take the oath of allegiance, on pain of inn
prisonment and coniscation of properti.-
On the 22d of September number of guer-
rillas came into the city and surrendered
themselves, being disguised with such a life
of outlawry.
Gen. Carleton, of this State had arrived at
Santa Fe, and taken com mmand in place of
Candy.
1t seems that the rebels are trying
to get out of Kentucky. Still there are
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tilted position on Salt River.
An officer of Garabaldi's army offers the
services of five thousand men, ready armed
and equipped, to the United States.
A British steamer, iron clad, and named
the Sunbeam, was captured while trying to
enter the port of Wilmington N. c. She
was loaded with supplies for the rebel army,
her cargo consulting of brandy and gunpow
der, and is valued at quarter of million
of dollars.
The Springfield (Mo.) correspondent ofthe
Democrat, writing under date of October lst,
says:
Artillery firing was heard yesterday an
this forenoon in the direction of Sarcoxie.
At noon to-day, word was received thar a
fight had taken place. The result is not. as
certained and the number of the enemy is
not known.
A refugee from McBride's commapd re-
ports that nearly every able hodied man in
the northern portion of Arkansas is either a
conscript or a refugee. Their treatment is
represented as crue, and their homes are
robbed by armed bands of pluud srers, who
seize all the property that they can by any
means use for the army, leaving women and
children without the necessaries if life.
: Two brigades of the Kansas G.rmy arrived
at Sarcoxie on the 25th of September.
The rebel Coffee, with 5000 men, was at
Newtonia, fifteen miles south of that place.
Hearing of the approach of the Kansas
troops, he retreated southwark.
r The rebels at Sarcoxie say they have 10.
, 600 men at Cowskin Prairie, and also SO,
600 in Arkansas, near the State line, as soon
as these forces join they intend marching
e direct for St. Louis. All the prisoners ia.
, ken tell of the rich booty promised them when
they take St. Louis. 1t appears that such
promises are the incentives used to keeI
their men together.
1t is believed that the nearest point te
Washington south of the Potomac, at which
5 there are any rebels in arms, is Rappahan
mock Station on the Orange and Alexandria
road, fifty miles from Alexandria.
A Cairo dispatch of the 4th says: A terri
BILE battle is raging in the vicinity of Cor
NTH. 1t commenced yesterday morning
!; and ragged without cessation until three
I O'Clock this afternoon, which is the date o.
J the last report from Bethel Station, twenty
miles this side of Corinth. At that houl
!. cannonading was distinctly heard; We car
get no particulars to night, as rail and tele
graph communication is cut of at Bethel.
= Cairo, Oct. 6th.-Wc can get no distinct
: account of Fridays battle at Corinth. Or
! Saturday merning Price attacked Rosetran'
: right wing, and Van Dorm and Lovkll his
'. left. The assault was made with grkt de-
y termination. At one time our cen.& was
; penetrated, and the rebels reached the Cor
: inth House, near the center of the town
they were then driven out at the point O
the bayonet. Van Dorm led his column ovel
the abettis on the left within fifty yards of thu
ditch, exposed all the time to a scathing frt
of grape and canister, and was driven bach
by charge of the Twenty seventh Ohio ant
Eleventh Missouri. The battle lasted til
L 1:30 A. NJ, when the rebels retreated toward,
) Hatchie. The number ofkilled and wound
% ed on either side is not known. The rebe
! loss is reported to be much larger than oul
. own. There were taken between seven hun
e dred and one thousand prisoners, not inclu
ding wounded. General Hackelman Union
was killed General Ogelsby (Union) dan
gerously wounded; Colonels Smith, Mower
and Gilbert fall Union) were wounded.
;, General Hurlbut on Saturday marched Il
= the south side of the Hatchie river, with
large force, thus cutting off Prices retreat
n Rosecrans moved early on Sunday morning
n to renew the attack. Cannonading wa
heard yesterday in the direction of these for
oas Dr,oa - IN tho f,rEs of <ha ua{chi.