New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-10-14
FHgFIGHTINo on HATcHIB RIVER
TIE REBELS SClTfEhED IN bLL DIRECTIONS
nen Urr See :isl ConespoGde.t

i1s,a Or spe,is Correspondent
Cane. Oct ., la5s.
The smoke Of he late battles has cleared away,
ne dead have been buried, the wounded have been
gathafed into hospitals and Low we are 81 leisure 10
lcek about us and endeyOT TO arrive at the results 1t
Il certain that we have achieved splendid victory.
Il certain that the power OF the enemy IN this Sec
ton is entirely broken. II is certain that from five
b ten thousand Rebels are Elled and almost an
egual number taken prisoners. Ills also certain that
tle Rebellion in Southern Tennessee end Northern
hississipp II broken and eiiectuslly squelohed
On Thursday evening last while at Paducah, your
correspondent had an intmaiion from Corinll by
telegraph that the Rebels had possession OF the No
biz and Ohio Railroad, in the vicinity Of Bethel
IN, that telegraph and railroad Communication with
Cointh was destroyed. left Immediately for CaiIo
ssdlere leaned Oh Friday and Saturday that heavy
erpPement was being fought. We were unable 10
i.Gn the result, but tie isct that Gen. Grant wac
teeTapLpe continually 10 Cairo and elsewhere for
reefCements was calculated TO induce the gloom
iedsrpIehensions o. 20 results. SUNDAY morning
,sU.at best = leave Tor Coriuih. Arrived 81 Co
luiDgs, wee informed by Gen. Dodge, the officer
IN ounnand Of the post, that the night before Gen.
Reecraus had succeeded in putting to rout Gen.
Prt', and gaining substantial victory. A Jackson.
ito s1Duus Of Iaii.0ad communication, ! was per-
Eipd 10 SEQ tie following dispatch from Gen. Rose
car 10 Gen. Grant.
C0RIyIH, Miss, Oct. =
lis morning Price MADE q fierce and determined
e,tek On our right Van Dom and Nillpique on our
ien TIE contest lasted until IL o'clock, and ~as
6sly 10 the enemy. They drove In cur center.
Soc q chem re- ctTaled as far rs the COrlnth
Ense. Hamilton whose left was on the main line
o. b,,r attack maintained his ground IN all but
or point and made an advance, secured The center
NJ Two lrst-Iate regiments. Col. Sullivan gave Ne
ine D. bring batteries into action ana saved the DAY
O. nat side. Van Dorm and Ninmque made "a mos
,.ieruiued attack the extreme right On The
Chcyalla road. IL was their province 10 lead The
suck through the abatts. Two Of their columns
r-.ched the dtch and the other two stopped not -
races from II. All that grape and canister could 90
WIS ,ried but when II reached this point charge
,Sas ord rsa, when j. became race between the
2.th OHIO and lllh Missouri. This was too much
for The staggered cOlumns-mauy fell down and held
o. their hands Tor mercy. They were badly Dea;en
~ ,oll fronts; LEFT their dead and wounded on The
aeil and are now IN toll retreat. Our oss though
se.Ous especially in Ofiicers, Is nothing Ike that Of
;he erouy. Brg-Gen. Hacklenan fell brayey
lsuiiag at the head OF bis brigade yesterday. stot
though the iagulaI yeiu. CoOnels h.rby SIlih,
Sileu. aid Mower are wounded, but not mOrtally.
H'n. Ogss5y dangerously. The number Killed
r.lnot tell. Their killed and wounded are etrewn
along the ROAD for five mil,s out on the Chcyalla
rad, where they have a lospitsl. Weha,e between
- and 900 prisoners. McPhcfsOD Las reached
aere ~.,h BIS forces. We move at daylight in The
morning. ". !. ROSECHAss, haJOr-GeneTal.
Tais is all tie intelligence we received up 70 Sun
Day hight.
Upon the receipt Of the news Of the light on FRI
DAY Gen. Grant had Issued oroers for Gen. hulburt,
q: Bolivar. TO parcb to POcahona. near the forks Of
Il, Hs;chie and Tuscumbis Rivers, and be ready 10
Clsck re eetug's rear IN case Gen. ROse0aus sue
essd.d in compelling Gen. Price to retreat. The
t.ioirs Of thu march, and its results leave for
aaoiA.r past Of this Communication.
Gsp Grant ALEC cent Gen. Mcpherson from Jack
ION, crh 5000 men, to Bethel, whence he marched
'eross tie country, arriving in Cornth Saturday
nieroca, n reason 10 join in the pursuit Sunday
acrni7y. This, them was the position Of GiIain
Wien l reached Jackson. Early Monday morning
train left for Corinth, the road having meantime
been rendered passable and reached that post at
loon. Here had the good fortune 10 find man
who Rad participated honorably in all the engage
nents Of Friday and Saturday, and from him de-
hved the main features and incidents recorded below
at Cornth, was surrounded with tie fearful
evidences Of the holly contested battle. Several Of
he houses in the village were perforated with tho
ne and ,hot 70 persistently fired in that direction
a large shell entered the Tishemingo House and
hltd poor soldier who was being carried out On
creiehsr to the hospital. Another passed entirely
through room IN Gen. Rosecrans's Headquarters,
Tie identical spartmen: in which Gen. Johnston the
hsoel commander at the battle Of Shiloh, died. The
forest to the westward Of the village was still lined
NTH Tho dead bodies of Rebels and wounded men
we're hourly berg brought in and carried to the hos
las' preeede my account Of the battle with a
."s' oeserpaon of the enemy's movements for the
rev GAYS preceding. Gen. Price, it will DO roco-
,'c'ed, WAS whipped the 18th Of September at
4oIa Gen. Rosecrsns followed after for five or ten
~Des hnd returned 10 Cornth. After pursuit was
used Price halted and rested his weary soldiers at
Aossu;h fifteen miles below Iuka, in the direction
aTCpsllo.
A's' 'sasiidHs isye iwtpty.iOur hours, be moved