The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1862-07-26
ITEMS By LAST NIGHTS MAIL.


nothing of interest from any quarter. The
report that Price was coming back to Mis-
souri, is not confirmed.
1t is represented that cotton spinning can
no longer be continued in the manufactur-
ing Eastern States. for want of material.
New Orleans still remains healthy. and it
is thought now that no epidemic will pre-
vail there this season.
We have news from England since they
heard of our reverses before Richmond.
There is no more talk of Intervention than
there was before. Mr.. Bull is still buster
ing. but seems willing to wait a little longer
before buckling on his armor.
In Indiana they are enlisting thirty day
troops. to protect the border against guer-
illas.
In St. Louis. on Monday, gold was sell
ing at S1.18@$1. go. There is a CORE
spending rise in Eastern cities.
The 81 Treasury notes authorized by the
late act of Congress will be put in cireula-
ton in about two weeks.
The Petersburg Express of Monday Gays
that from fifteen to twenty thousand rein
forcements have reached Gen. Mcclellan.
and that the James river 10 almost bridged
with transports.
A dispatch from Albany says that the
Governor of New York has determined to
take the responsibility of offering State
bounty of fifty dollars to each recruit, and
provide sum sufficient for that purpose,
trueting to the next Legislature to indorse
his action. The amount required will be
from two to two and half millions.
There is now large force in Kentucky,
in pursuit of Morgan's guerillas, and if the
latter get out of the State they will have
10 move as fast as their race horses can
travel.
AS far as reported, the total loss in Gen
eral Summers corps. General Couche's d.
vision, the Irish brigade, and General Crit
fms brigade, in the late battles near Rich
mond, was as follows: Killed, 4O7:
wounded, 2,122; missing, 386.
The rebel papers publish Gen. Bragg's
order, on succeeding Beauregard as COM
mander of the army of the West.
Judge Holt, of Kentucky, is dissatisfied
with Mcclellan as leader. He says mere
engineer is not qualified for offensive war
fare.
The division of Gen. Stevens has arrived
.1Tom South Carolina, and reinforced Nc
Clellan.
The st. Louis Democrat thinks it time
that the Missouri troops stopped guarding
posts, and tells them to stick their posts in
the ground and scour the country. Guerilla
warfare must be put down by guerillas.
It is ordered that Maj. Gen. Henry W.
Haleck be assigned to the command of the
whole land forces of the United States, as
General-in- Chief, and that he repair to this
Capital as soon as he can with safety to the
positions and operations within the Depart
ment now under his charge.
kOlSueuJ AbhAhAM h1NCoLH'
A special dispatch to the New York
Times, says information received from sew
eral States, shows that under the last call,
upwards of $4,000 men have been enlisted.
Only two or three full regiments, however,
are ready. The majority being the nucleus
of companies and regiments forming. It is
not believed that sufficient force for pres
ent emergencies will soon be in the field.
Col. William B. Stokes. prominent Un-
ion man in Tennessee, ex-member of Uni
ted States Congress, is raising battalion
of cavalry to operate against the rebel guer
illas in that State.
Jefferson Davis has issued an address to
the rebels in which. of course. he claims a
glorious victory over General Nc Clelan,
and plainly intimates that the next service
he will require of his troops will be to in
wade the northern States.
The final report of oseph Holt and Robt.
Dale Owen, Commissioners on Ordnance
Contracts, states that they have effected
saving on contracts made prior to Secretary
taking his Office. of SIT ,OOO, 900.
A dispatch from Cairo, of the 18th, an
nounces that Gen. Price has re-erossed the
Mississippi below Helena, Arkansas, with
force which it took over day to cross,
haz 4f a.