Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1862-09-27
TELEGRAPHIC.
THIS MORNINGS DIsPATCHBs.I
CAPTURE OF A SCHOONER WHILE
RUNNING The BLOCKADE.
REBELS STILL ON THE UPPER
POTOMAC.
An Important Project for GOlOniz-
ing the Rebel States.
Union Loss at Antietam, 1900
Killed and 5000 Wounded.
5000 DEAD REBELS BURIED
BY Us.
Their Wounded Estimated at
10000.
COLONEL FORD DEFENDED.
General Siokles Assigned to Hook
er's Old Division.
Collision on the Northern Gen.
traI Railroad, Pa.
Union Loss at Antietam, 1900
Killed and 5000 Wounded.
5000 DEAD REBELS BURIED
BY Us.
Their Wounded Estimated at
10000.
COLONEL FORD DEFENDED.
General SiokleS Assigned to Hook
er's Old Division.
Collision on the Northern Gen.
traI Railroad, Pa.
FROM WASHINGTON.

Rear-Admiral Dupont reports to the
Navy Department, under date of the 18th,
that on the 9th inst the United States brig
Braziliero captured the schooner Defiance,
of Nassau, in Sabelo Sound, while attempt
ing TO run the blockade. Her cargo con-
sisted of salt, kerosene oil, sc. She also
had in her care about SO boxes containing
cases Of gin, which were placed in the
spirit-room of the Braziliero.
The crew of the Defiance will be sent
North at the first opportunity. They are
said to be citizens of rebel States and en-
gagged in the business of running the
blockade The captured vessel has been
sent North in charge of prize crew.
Governor Stanley having transacted his
official business will Immediately return
to North Carolina. 1t is understood that
the relations between himself and the Gov
ernment are harmonious.
1t is evident that the rebels have not
left the line of the Upper Potomac, but are
injuriously operating on the Baltimore
and OHIO Railroad between Harper's Ferry
and Cumberland. They recently, it is be-
lieyed, destroyed some of the important
bridges west Of Martinsburg, including
that over Black River.
Letters addressed to persons on board
any vessel in the Navy should be directed
to the care of the Navy Department,
whence they will be forwarded by the first
mail to the squadron to which the vessel
is attached.
Tribune's dispatch;
Hon. Eli Thayer's scheme for COLOMBIA
ton by armed men ofsthe Southern States,
which meets the approval of tho Seeretar-
les, has been discussed several times in
Cabinet meetings, and will probably soon
receive formal official sanction.
The project contemplates an expedition
of 10000 colonists enlisted for six months,
and supplied with transportation, subsist-
ence, arms, and a general by the govern
ment whose business it shall be to hold,
occupy and possess the public lands of
Florida and other lands belonging to reb-
els, and seized under the law Of last ses-
sion of Congress, for non-payment Of the
direct tax.
Thayer promises, if allowed to carry out
his plan entire, to bring Florida into the
Union as free state by the first of Febru-
ary next.
Texas and Virginia are already talked
of as states to be subjected to the same pro-
cess.
This, like the proclamation of this morn
ing, will be another step in the more Wig
orOus policy which the administration in
its proclamation of freedom, advertised
that it should henceforth pursue
SurgeOn-General Hammond returned
from the battlefield Of Antietam, where
he has been stopping at McClellan's head
quarters. He thinks the whole number of
Union killed will come within l 300, and
judging from careful inspection of hospi-
tails, and lists of those brought of, judges
that the wounded will not exceed 6O00.
Major Davis, Assistant Inspector Gene
raj, Informed him that ne himself had
caused to be buried 5000 rebel dead left on
the field, from which and other data, he es-
Inmates their wounded to be at least ten
thousand.
Hammond saw, as a part of the fruits of
victory, thirty seven standards which we
captured from rebel regiments. He re-
ports also among our spoIls 10000 or 3d.
900 small arms, mostly those left by the
enemy on the line of their retreat.
A man signing himselfR. P. Noble, COM
municates to the Evening Star, statement
which he processes to make on direct in
formation, that Col. Ford did not evacuate
Maryland Heights till he had received
fourth and peremptory order from Colonel
Miles to do so, and besides, his long range
ammunition had become exhausted. He
asks suspension of opinion.
Times special, dated Washington 25th,
says:
The rebels left 5000 wounded within our
lines, for whom they begged medical atten-
ton, removing all those who were wound
ed in the upper extremities, and leaving
on the field only those who were wounded
| in the lower limbs The total loss of the
rebels cannot be much less than 5000 kill
ed and $1,000 wounded.