Nebraska advertiser., 1862-07-26
&c NeMs.

the reUeTse at Richmond small adVantag-
es shave been gained along almost the en-
tire line between the Union and COnfed-
crate Armies. MurfresborO, Tenn. has
been re.taken BY the C~onfederaies, I'M
der Col. Forest, with three or four Al
ALBANIA and Georgia Regiments. Nor
gan with three thousand men has burned.
one or W villages in Kentucky, and is
threatening Lexington and Frankfort,
which -occasioned intense excitement at
Louisville, Covington, Newport, and over
almost the entire State, and even in Gin
cminnati, Ohio. A small town in Indiana,
ten miles above Evansville, has been cap
tured by a few rebels from Kentucky,
aided BY the secessionists of the. vicinity.
A confederate army is organizing in Ar
kansas with the avOwed purpose Of inva-
ding Missouri. Curtis has been com
PEELED to cat his way out of Arkansas.
thereby sacrificing nearly all that had
been gained by hrs campaign in that
State. Besides all these, Bridge burn
ers and guerrfllas are becoming embold-
~aed, and are constantly committing dep
redations IN Tennessee, Kentucky, Ar
kansas, and in the vicinity of New Or
leans. The rebel mon-clad gunboal-
Arkansas has escaped from the YazoO.
River. and has passed through the feet
Of boats lying above Vicksburg, badly
injured, it is true, but doing more inju.
~ to our boats than she hersea sustain
ed, and is now being repaired under :he
batteries at that city. Near Richmond
''aIl is quiet" but it is admitted there is
danger of James River being blockaded
so as to cut off McClellan's supplies.
The fanlt is, our army has dwindled
away until it is not adequate to The task
II has to perform. Our army never was
as large as represe=sed-there never was
near five hundred thousand soldiers I'M
n"IM VI. =.
der government pay at any time. And
what we did have nine months ago has
been reduced in numbers nearly nerh half
There has not been very many killed in
any one engagement, but all in the ag-
gregate amounts to many thousand
And If we could count up those who
~
have died from disease the wounded;
those mustered out of service on account
Of physical disability and sickness; the
~deserters; the prisoners and those let
free on parole, they would reduce the
army 70 about S225,O00 effective men,
And it is divided and scattered on a
line many thousand miles in extent-ffom
Maryland 10 Colorado from the Chesa-
peak to the mouth Of the Rio Grand I;
and from Cairo to the gulf Of Mexico
For a year past the rebel army has been
increasing, by means Of conscriptions, un-
tll in numbers itfar exceeds ours. Com
sequendy they are enabled to act on the.
offensive. But their strength is nearly
exhausted. When the three hundred
thousand soldiers now being raised. are
Put in the field, we viii again ont-num-
Der them two to one, and they can never
again ill up their army.
In the Shenandoah Valley Gen Pope
is pushing forward after his old fashion,
at lates, dates his advance was within
forty miles Of Richmond
Foreign arrivals bring papers from
England published since they received
intelligence of the fight before Richmond.
They almost universally assert that the
Federals were badly defeated; but with
the exception of a few papers that have
from the commencement of the wal been
camorOus for Intervention, there is no
disposition manifested to interfere with
our affairs.
Gen. Halieckh has been called from the
west to Washington, but for what pur-
pose is as yet unknown. Various news
paper speculations are aaoat: That he
is to be made COMMANDMENT Chief, ,,
or Secretary Of War, OF thar 'she is to
supercede Mcclellan" &C., &c.
The following items we CLEAN fFom
the latest t~elegrams:
The New York Herds Washington
dispatch cla;msthe au,hoFily-of saying
that Halleck does not come to Washing
ing as Commando r-in-chief. Il is be-
lieved that Stanton Rin retire, and that
President Lincoln will appoint Banks
Secretary Of War, and Halleek as MHitas
adviser.
Cynshiana, Ky, was surrenderedto the
rebels Thursday afternoon. Al soldier
Of The 77th Ohio, just returned to Boyd's
from Cynthiana, reports the killed
and wounded on both sides win reach $50
,r,-~ompnfe reached Hpn- (