Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1862-11-26
LATE NEWS FROM THE SOUTH.

bf Why ol fortress monroe, the Aesociaseo
Press has received the following extracts:
DRrEnCroF sAvASSAH.
TIE city authorities OF Savannah. tseorgia.
nIc making urrangs msnts 10 move the non-
CCml atants frum that city, preparatory 20 the
gn-iCipa'sd attack Of the enemy The follow.
ing rsoluticn vss unanimously adopted by
tie Georgia SFte Senatt:
''R,scirtG.s - I hai the Ciiy OF Savannah should
never he surrt ndsred: that il shoald be de-
iencfd sheet by street untii.sn taken, the
Nlctcrs srolis shall be a heap OF ruins"
TNPFLLED Prom THE N H. co~rEREScx.
PEI ERsBU Rt, Nov. 2l.-Thr Virginia Con-
tr'nee to-day expelled Charles A. Davis, Q
Chaplain IN lhe Federal navy.
FEsAgE IL PRISoN.
The Richnoi EnqUltr says: ssTen daye
aEoa very ac,omplls h. lady, ne4rly connected
VIII. lsoTle ia hi Emcnd OF great wealth and
inf N, nee. WAS imprisoned in Castle Thunder,
under charge Of giving Information 70 the
lshk'es hy way Of Ports mouth, where she
dWeils, and from which place she has N Ide
SALT IN GEORGIA.
The Augusta Sentinel says:-"It hiss been
d;SCuNfIrd in Georgia thai by diEging wells
forty miles from the main shorr, (where the
toe runs AID out OF reach uf the Yankees
nater is ckIain-6, Of which two hundred and
bli, raliors will make one bushel OF sak,
hcr a. II iriaS seven hundred gallons OF tide
Nr'' io make the same quantity"
NEws FROM TEXAS
Tie Richmond Dill atch ssys:-saWe have
the EcUstcn Il lee raph of the 29tb ulf. 1tstates
u AsatteClda. lnClan0la and Powderhoru
have sli br, ak, n by the Erd-rais. Our people
NeIe concentrating at la yacoe for a aght. The
Icdri all had but 10 land at any time since the
war heEan 10 take possession OF those places.
'aien. Macrudsr has been appointed 20 the
command OF the Department OF Texas, in TIE
place OF Gtn. Heb TT"
TFrcn the Richmond Enquirer Nov 2ol.
he enemy, on yesterday, took possession OF
the Hills commanding Fredericksburg, on the
north side Of the Rappahannock, and covered
the town with their batteries. The women and
Children have been having for the past few
oayf, and h' re now the place Il almost fully
pIrparat"d TO invite the doom its heroic citizsrs
would prefer for IL 10 surrender. Our forces
still hold possession, and the enemy, Tor the
tie river. Thus far the contendiug forces ou}y
threa" n each other. But for the raia of yestef-
day We might have had another story TO relate
be movement OF our troops fnthcatrd beyond
a doubt that the fight would then begin We
shall doubtless hear to-day some int resting
news.
The prisoners captured by Col. BaIrs sroops
at Fred. ricksburg say that IL is Gen. Summers
corps that occupies the hills opposite Frede-
ricksburg. Their camp fires extend twelve
WILL THERE BE ANOTHER BATTLE, AND rp so
WHERE AND wHKN WILL 1T BET
FROM the Petersburg (Fa-D Express, Nov. al
IL SEEMS TO be now pretty well asccrtained
that burnside has Withdrawn the bulk of his
forces from the Potomac 10 the Rappahannock
We presume that a corresponding movement
has been made by Gen. Lee. The theatre OF
Fredericksburg route 10 Rich nond. either
feignedly or really, selected ny me enemy IL
is hard 10 say what the latter intend 20 %
Gen Lee has been trying 70 get a fiyht out Of
tEtm 1or weeks, but IN vain. Thinking that
Lincoln Was in earnest wben ne declared his
determination to push his Army Of the
Potomac on 10 Richmond by way OF Wsrr.p-
ton he threw himself in front for the purpose
OF preventing the execution OF his purpo-e
hcCleilsn would not advance and he wa.
superseded by Burnside. who instead OF aa-
vaneing has changed his base" by Shipping
his forces around TO the Rappahannock, with
the Obvious df sign TO re-occupy Frederick
burg. Whether he W in succeed in 90 s3oinv. n
very few days will determine. IL he make
tbs aih mpt tn get TO Richmond, there will
necessarily be another battle and a bloodisr one
than any that has been fought yet. wh-re or
when II viii be is past coniecture We
hope, however, that hen il dors TAKE t,iaee, AZ
will he sufficiently far In the interior 20 pre-
vent retreat OF the enemy TO the river tits
noi " orth while 10 be- fighting a sancuiaary
battle and losing the fruits OF victory Ia a
fight 10 the gunhoafs.
~ The drafted men in the camp at Harris
huTg, Pa, IL is said, desert BY hundreds The
Lancaster Express says, Of the eleven hundred
men who left that county for the camp only
atout four hundred remain. At Camp Hare,
fiust urF, the same complaint is made Near
ly all the substitutes have skedaddled-
r. In Ne. -