Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1862-01-29
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Order of Mejor-Gen. Hunter.
Return Of the Birds Point Expedition
JEFF THOMPSON NOT CAPTURED,
LATER FROM MISSOURI.
Gen Price Still at Springfield.
Mobile, Ala, TO be Attacked Soon
WRECK OF THE PROPELLER NEW
YORK NOT A SERIOUS LOSS.
JEFF THOMPSON NOT CAPTURED,
LATER FROM MISSOURI
Gen Price Still at Springfield,
Mobile, Ala, to be Attacked Soon
WRECK OF THE PROPELLER NEW
YORK NOT A SERIOUS LOSS.

LFAvENwORTH, January 25.-The follow
ing general order Issued by Major General
Hunter, has caused q sensation in civil and |
military circles:
In the expedition about to be started South |
from this department called in the news |
papers General Lanes Expedition, it is the !
intention of the Major General commanding |
the department to command in person, un-
less otherwise expressly ordered by the Gov
erpment.
Transportation not having been supplied, |
we must 90 without it. All tents, trunks, |
chests, chairs, camp tables, camp clothes,
&c, must be at once stored or abandoned.
The General commanding takes in his va
lise but one change of clothing, and no
officer or so dier will carry more. The sur
plus room in the knapsack must be reserved
for ammunition and provisions. Every
officer and soldier will carry his own cloth
ing and bedding
The General commanding has applied to
the Government for six Brigadier Generals,
that his command may be properly organized,
and until their arrival il is necessary that be
should appoint acting Brigadier Generals
from the senior Colonies. To enable him to
do this in accordance with the order on the
subject, each Colonel will immediately report
the date on which he was mustered into the
service of the United States.
[Signedl D. HUNTER,
Major, General Commanding
CHICAGO, January 29.-Arrangements
have been made for horse fair at Chicago,
commencing on the "a of September, con.
tinuipg two weeks and open to the world
for competition. Twenty five thousand
dollars in premiums will be given. The
officers are: President, F. @. Sherman, Chi
cago; Vice President, George Wilkes, New
York; Secretary, W. P. Isham, Chicago.
CAIRO, ILL January 2S The expedition
which left Birds Point last Saturday in pur.
| suit of JEFF. Thompson returned this even
ing unsuccessful. They captured nothing of
! importance
RoILA, Mo-, January 27.-A gentleman
who left his home in Green County, few
miles from Springfield, on Wednesday, ar
rived here yesterday, He says there are no
intrenchments being built at Springfield,
sud but little uneasiness is manifested by
| Price or his officers.
There is general Cry for reinforcements,
and the rebels say they are on their way, but
their accounts do not agree as to the num-
ber. He met large number OF Federal
troops at Lebanon, and our pickets were out
several miles beyond that place.
skirmish had taken place near Lebanon,
on the entrance of our troops, and a rebel
captain was killed and several men taken
prisoners.
westward but the roads are almost impassa
bic, owing to the depth of the mud
CAPE RACE, January 2S.-A screw steam
ship passed this point this morning, supposed
TO he the United Kingdom from Glasgow foI
New York.
The weather has been very rough here fol
the last two deys.
SANrY Hook, January 2S.-Tbis morning
a squad of Ashley's rebel cavalry made theil
7 ot Rnli lad hv q
section of artillery, which opened on Colonel
Geary's Regiment Our Parrot gun aud
Eufeds soon silenced their battery and drove
the rebels back behind the hill.
Jackson's main body is concentrating al
Charleston.
Informauts state that great CONSERVATION
exists among the rebels IN consequences o
the circulation of reports among them tha
our whole division is about to cross over
and that Jackson has posted to Charleston
to resist our progress.
1t is thought here that jackson will NOV
down nearer to Harper's Ferry tonight.
WASHINGTON, January rs The Tribune
special says a telegram, signed by Repre-
sentatives Mexican, Fenton, Wheeler Clark
| Spaulding, Frank, Vanvslkenburg, Pome
! roy and Baker, of New York, was sent u
Albany to day, urging the Legislature 4
pass resolutions instructing Senators Harri
and King to vote for the expulsion of th
traitor Bright. More of the New York dele
cation would have signed the paper ha
= they been in season.
New YORK, January pa letter, date
; aboard frigate Niagara, off Ship Island o
the lltb, gives a Tumor that Mobile may b
soon attacked.
i A letter from Hatteras Inlet says the 10;
It of the cargo of the Oily Of Nsw York woI
= seriously interfere with the efficiency of th
If Burnside expedition; there being good SUI
ply of material aboard other vessels.
:, General Fosters brigade would soon NOV
. towards Roanoke Island, off Newberne, {
q circumstances should decide.
) Times Correspondence
o. The House Committee on Commerce,
their meeting to-day, authorized Gener
Ward TO report ON the Canadian Reciproci
lie Treaty.
in The report will suggest a number of il
portant changes, making it more equal al
favorable to the United States.
Or Certain prisoners Just released from Ric
mond and arrived here to- day, say that
r the clothing forwarded to them by Gener
Q, Wool from Fortress Monroe some mOntl
'r since, by way of Norfolk, care OF Geners
y Huger, not one garment ever reached Ric
le mond.
A 1t is supposed they were appropriated
v the Contederstes.