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Official Report of Gen. Thomas.

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Official Report of Gen. Thomas.
WASHINGTON, Wednesday, Jan. %.
The following was received at Headquarters
tonight:
LOUISVILLE, Wednesday, Jan. %.
To MJor-G Ne CHeiidn, Commanding L. s Ai7ny:
The following has just been received from
Gen. Thomas:
"The rout of the enemy was complete. Af
ter succeeding in getting two pieces of artillery
across the river, and upward of fifty wagons.
they were abandoned, with all the ammunition.
in the depot in Mill Spring. They then threw
away their arms, and dispersed through the
mountain byways in the direction of Montcel-
10, but are so completely demoralized that do
not believe they will make stand short Of
tennessee. The property captured on this
side OF the river is of great value, amounting
to eight siX-pounders and two Parrott-guns,
with caissons filed with ammunition about
100 four-horse wagons and upwards Of ! 200
horses and mules, several boxes Of arms which
had never been opened, and from 500 to 900
muskets, mostly with flint locks, but in good
order; subsistence stores enough to serve the
entire command for three days ); also, large
amount Of hospital stores.
AS soon as receive the report of the Brigade
Commanders l will furnish detailed report of
the battle. Our loss was 80 killed and 127
wounded.
Among the wounded were Col. McCook, of
the Ninth Ohio, commanding a brigade, and
his aid, Lieut.. Burt, of the eighteenth United
States Infantry. The loss of the rebels was
Zollicoiler, and ia Others killed and buried,
l6 wounded, and 4j prisoners, not wounded,
five of whom are surgeons, and Lieut. Colonel
Carter, of the Seventeenth Regiment.
(Signed) Gen. THOMAS.
ID. e. BuEIt, Brigadier-Gon. Commanding
Jim lanes Expedition.
Gen. jim Lane has started West, with a
strong military staff, and will proceed to organ
ze his forces in Kansas for a straight march
on the western border from Kansas to the Gulf.
1t is reported that in an interview with Gen.
Mcclellan, the commander-in chief asked him /:
Suppose you find no Union sentiment what
ever where you 90 ?" "Then," replied Lane,
81 will take good care to leave no rebel senti-
ment behind me. If Missouri, Arkansas, and
the Indian country will not come peaceably
under the laws of the government, my plan is
to make of them a wilderness. | would give
the traitors twenty four hours to choose between
]
will kill off the white traitors and give their
lands to the loyal black men :" The friends of
Lane assert that upon hearing this reply, Nc
Clean laughed heartily and said, you must
work out your own plans. Go your way, and
see to it that no rebel sets his foot in Kansas"
| Lanes officers are men of similar spirit.
Among them are Montgomery, the terror of
Southwest Missouri--Jennison, the leader of
the Jayhawkers--ColJ John Champion Vaughan,
South Carolinan, formerly the associate Of
Cassus NJ. Clay in the publication of the
emancipation paper in Lexington, and of late
years Injured TO every form of danger in frontier
liie-Col Mitchll, leader of the LIST Kansas in
the battle of Springfield, which lost more of its
men in proportion than were lost at the famous
charge of Balaklava--Col Merritt, who, as lea
der Of the lst Iowa on the same occasion, dis
played similar gallantry-Lieut Col Fitzpatrick,
who distinguished himself at Great Bethel, a
graduate of West Point-and a large number
of captains and licutcnants whose peculiar in
trepidity has been practically tested.
King a French Shawnee half-breed, of great
influence among the Indians, and Brandt a
young Cherokee of great intelligence, are at
tached to Gen. Lanes suite. The rank and
file will consist largely Of troops who have al
ready been under tirc-the flower of them COM
ing from Kansas itself. Gen. Lane is firm
bel ever that there are no such soldiers in the
world TO question whether he found Kan
sas men from New England to fight as well as
the others, he replied, "a New England man,
with western education, is the d-dest fellow
alive" There is, in fact, no doubt that the
men Of Kansas do engage in this war with a
hatred and ferceness found nowhere else.-
The iron of terrible personal wrong has enter
ed their sous, and they feel that the day Of re-
tribuion hrs come.
As to The method of Gen. Lanes operations,
he proposes to march with 10000, or if he can
procure them 10000 men, straight down into
Texas to the Gulf of Mexico. He expects to
start from Kansas before the middle of Feb
ruary, and to see Galveston before March
closes. lie will not scruple to turn the friend
| ly Indians to account, and will unquestionably
use the fifty or seventy thousand negroes who
are now in half starved condition in North
ern Texas, whittier they have been hurried OIL
| by their owners in Missouri, to prevent their
escape. The success Of Lanes expedition will
make Texas free state. lie Will simply march
through the country receiving and turning tD
the most available account, all who flock TO his
standard, whether white, red or black, and
hurling the mass as a thunderbot against the
rebellion, wherever found. Texas will be
wrested from the Confederate grasp, and with
it will fall all hope of extending the area OF
slavery, which was the grand object of the new
empire.
Suffers vs.. Soldiers.
Senator Wilson spoke yesterday, in his place
in the Senate, of "a man,
tone Cyrus Seymour, who, with the consent
of the Secretary of War, was appointed Brigade
Sutler of the Sickles Brigade, and other suffers
pay him two thousand two hundred dollars per
year, and he does not furnish cent NO snoh
officer Is known TO the law. Another sutler
was appointed inside the brigade. Another man
was APPOINTED sutler TO seven regiments, and