The Shasta courier., 1862-09-27
The Telegraphic News.


TO which we barely had time to allude in our
last issue. The victory gained would have
been more acceptable if it had been more
perfect. But it seems that the marauders
Thursday, the 1fth inst, and took up their
line of march in quick time to the South
Our forces North of the Potomac punished
them very severely in the fight at South Gap.
We have seen it stated that the rebel losses
reach as high as twenty FIVE thousand in
killed and wounded. About fifteen thousand
prisoners were captured. Taking it altogeth-
er it was a most satisfactory result, and will
learn the rebels another lesson of the spirit Of
the national troops.
1t was reported that Gen. Meagher had
been killed. This is contradicted he was
only wounded Gen. Mansfield was killed.
Gen. Hooker was wounded, and it is feared
that his wound may prove fatal by resulting
in lockjaw.
On the 10Th Rosecranz :: .:collided" with
the evacuator Price. in North Mississippi
OF course Price run. What effect the drub-
bing had ON his general health is not stated,
but it IS fair to presume that its conse-
auences were about as usual Rosecranz
pursues him.
Gen. Hooker, heretofore Brigadier of
volunteers, has been made Brigadier in the
regular army.
.":he gunboat Essex has returned from a
cruise up the Mississippi river. She bonn
barded and captured Natchez, burnt the
town of Bayou Sara, and captured battery
of thirty four guns at Hudson Point, This
feat is memorable, as being fight at the
distance of eighty yards. The Essex was not
injured.
1t is said that the rebel commander, Joe
Johnston, is dead.
The fighting was still going on south of the
Potomac on the 22d. There is but little
probability that the retreating rebel army
will ever reach Richmond.
The following proclamation has been is
sued by the President, under date of the
22d:
|. Abraham Lincoln, President of the
United States. Commander in Chief of the
army and navy, proclaim and declare that
hereafter, as heretofore, the war will he pro
; secuted for the object of practically restoring
the constitutional relation between the Uni
ted States and the people of the States there
of, in which such relation is, may be, dis
tHrhed. 1t is my purpose, ut the next meeting
of Congress, to again recommend the adoption
of practical measure, rendering pecuhiary
fn tafa tba
may be in rebellion against the United
States, and which States may then have vol
unfairly adopted, or may voluntarily adopt,
the immediate or gradual abolition OF i'slavery.
On the first of January, 1868, alFpersons held
slaves within any State gr nart OF a State,
the people whereof shall then be in rebellion
against the United States, shall be thence
forth forever after free. On that day the
Executive will designate by proclamation the
States or parts of States III which the people
shall be in rebellion. The fact that any State
or part of State shall that day be in
good faith represented in Congress by mem
i,ers chosen by majority of the electors,
shall, in the absence of strcng counteracting
testimony, be deemed sufficient evidence tia
such States have rot been in rebellion The
President quotes the new article of war, ;sp-
proved March 30th and also the ninth and
tenth sections of the Act to suppress instir-
rcction and punish treason and rebellion. ap-
July II, 1862, lthe Coniiscation Act)
" and enlQiEs ppon all persons in the military
and naval service the enforcement of said
Nets and sections. The Executive will. in
. due time, recommend that all loyal citizens
shall, upon the restoration of their constitu
tonal relations, be compensated for all losses
by acts of the United States, including the
loss of slaves.
1t will be seen that he makes a return to
their loyalty q contingency on which their
right to hold slaves will turn
The loss of nerseorps, at the battle of
Antietam, amounts to 5,25S.
The rebels left in such a hurry that they
abandoned about 1900 of their wounded, and
left their dead unburied
Gov. Robinson, of Kentucky, has issued a
proclamation, calling all the citizens to arms
An exchange of ten thousand privates and
three hundred officers was effected at Harri
sons Landing. Va, on the 22d.
The New York Tribune thinks that the
late proclamation (above set Quit of the
President, is..thc beginning of the end of the
rebellion. The Herald says that it is the
most important document issued since the
adoption of the Constitution, and says that
the question of emancipation by it, is left
with the rebels themselves The Times saws
that the wisdom of the step is unquestionable.
An Alabama brigade, under rebel named
Corning, was so cut up at Antietam that
it is unable to muster over fifty men.
General Hooker is recovering
Garabaldi will probably be pardoned
CHICAGO was considerably stirred up on the
I'd inst. by the arrival of the brig Sleipnir,
Capt. Waag. direct fran Bergen, Norway,
with emigrants and goods. She left Bergen
on the 23d of May, with $50 passengers ar
rived at Quebec ON the 9th of July, where she
remained until the 10th arrived at Mnntre