The Shasta courier., 1862-11-29
Teieerapiicr

tory charaeter. People care these days but
very little for details. Results alone are col,
sidered of any interest. Our dates extend
from the ed to the 26th, inclusive. The
items given below are taken from the Union.
| Appeal, and Bulletin :
| A. fight is reported to hRTe occurred in
Cooper county. Missouri between forty State
militia and eighty guerrillas. The latter
were rauted with Il loss of two killed, seven
wcsnded and nine made prisoners. Twenty
two horses ard a number of guns were cap
tured.
An officer from the southwestern army
says the country below the State line is
nearly starved out. and that the rebels can
not exist there in force.
/ An officer of General Grnnts staff, direct
from Lagrange, Tenn. arrived at ST. Louis
on the DIST He doubts the truth of the re-
port from the Memphis Bulletin of the 18th,
that Bragg had arrived at Holly Springs:
and says he does not think the rebels that ii e
in that vicinity number over 70. 900.
A letter from Abbyville TO the Mobile News
says Holly Springs was evsruated by consent
of all the rebel Generals Hhey didn't con-
slider it tenable point They are preparing
winter quarters at Abbyvi.le, AMI think il
highly improbable that the Federals will at
tack them there. This correspondent affrms
that onethird of the army are without blan-
kets. He also says the army is half naked.
llamilt,ns cavalry returned last night
from three days reconnaissance ten miles
south o: Ripley, Mississippi. They occupied
that town for twenty four hours, and also the
town of Orizaba. eight miles southwest
| During the expedition one Lieutenant Colo
| =. hain
] ing to Fauikners Partisan Rangers were
captured. Faulkner himself, with one hu,l-
dred and fifty men, were sorely pressed His
rear guard was attacked but he managed to
effect his escape. We also captured seventy
horses and mules, and rebel pai at Ori
z,ba. Our luss was nothing.
Tie gunb, at Massachusetts, from Port
Royal on the 10th, had arrived. The yell
low fever lad entirely disappeared.
The Navy Department has information
that the steamer Octarora captured, off the
Bahamas the schooner Ellis Read, with a
cargo of turpentine, rosin and cotton.
Advices from our Mexican Minister by the
last arrival are favorable Congress met on
October Goth. Representatives from all the
States were present, and law was passed
| giving the Government extraordinary powers
to resist the invasion, making Juarez almost
Dictator for SIX months r the war-powers
such as were conferred at the last session on
| DoblaGo.
a manifesto has been issued, denouncing
the French invasion. Orders have been is
sued to iortify all the defensible towns All
the reactionary chiefs, except one, had sent
III their adhesion to Juarez, and the States
are promptly sending in their cor rtingents.-
General Comonfort alone brought five thou
sand men from one fir ntier State
The French have not moved vet, although
they have thirty thousand men. 1t is ex-
pected that they will not move until The end
Of December, when transportation will arrive.
On the part of the Mexicans it is believed
they will be able to rally double the num-
bers of the French army. The general i'm
preston conveyed by letters from many
sources is, that a determination exists to
fight to the last, with great hopes of tinal
| success.
The Richmond Dispatch seems to have Civ
en- up all hopes OF recognition, and says it
must be recollected that we have often been
deceived in speculations upon this subject,
and that there is no better reason now for ex-
pecting recognition than there was a wear
ago.
The President, in course of an interview
with unconditional Union men from Ken
lucky yesterday discussed the question of
emancipation at length. He said he would
rather die than take back one word of TIE
proclamation of freedom, and dwelt upon the
advantages to the border States OF his scheme
for the gradual aboishment of slavery. which
he urged them to bring fairly before the peo-
| pie. They assured them it should be DONE
lie also expressed IA determination to enforce
vigorous measures to rid that State of rebel
sympathizers-
Secretary Chase's report will undoubtedly
contain an urgent recommendation, support
Ell by elaborate argument, to Congress to
take measures for the substitution of Govern
mont for bank currency, by taxing the lat
ter and making provision for circulation
| through the banks of the former.
New Orleans advices of November Il tn
state that train on the Algiers railroad was
destroyed ON the I,h, a quarter of mile from
Latuurche station, by the explosion OF ammu
milton in one of the ears. According to the
Delta, seven persons were killed and seven
| teen wounded.
Advices from Bayou Lafaurche say that the
estates IN that region were almost entirely
deserted. The crops are considered ruined.
A letter to the Delta states that Lieuten.
ant Buchanan had an engagement with the
rebels on Bayou Terrc Boui'le on the 5th
The rebels bad constructed batteries ON both
SIDES of the bayou, but they were dislodged.
Oar loss was three killed.
\ Feruandina. Florida. letter Of the 10Th
| gives an account Of the bombardment of ST.
Mary's. Georgia. which says: Our troops
landed and were fired on by the rebels, who
mustered strongly; wherenpon the gunboat'
| Mohawk iii cd shells into the town for twen-
" minutes. Then "a female, bearing flag
Of truce, approached the gunboat, and Lieu
tenant wer.t ashore and met her. On his re-
| turn the boat hauled off, intending to return
to Fernandina, when the rebels fired volley
Of muske'ry. The gunbnat then returned
abreast of the town and fired shells for an
hour and half, reducing half the place to
ashes.
report has been received from Fort
ress Monroe of reconnaissance sent bv GEN
eral Dix up the Peninsula as fur rs the Chick
ahominy, capturing some rebels and obtain
| ing valuable information
TnANKs-To Capt. West. C. V, fora pho.
tograph of Company c. SHASTA Guards
|