Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1862-12-26
News of the War.
NO MOVEMENT AT FREDERICKSBURG
A X r BEL AID.
RUMoRED cHANGESMTHE cABlyEr

a dispatch Saturday evening (20th) from
the Headquarters Of the Army Of the P5t,-
mae says that about daylight on FRIDAY
morning about one hundred OF Hampt9n's
rebel cavalry entered Occyquas and captured
Lieutenant and 80 prIyaGes Of the 10Th y
Y. Cavalry, who were guarding the tele-
graph lines. Eleven suffers and suffers
wagons were also secured by the rebels.
A body of rebel cavalry made raid on the
railroad near Jackson, Tennessee, on Friday
morning Of last week. Their number was
variOusly estimated at from two to eight
thousand. After firing into a train, they
took up the track Tor a considerable distance
and burned long tre,sel work. The te!s-
| graphic operator at Trenton, Tenn report
ed an attack on that place Friday evening.
/ There was excitement at Columbus 6y IN
anticipation Of rebel attack
| The steamer Mississippi sailed from New
York Monday afternoon with the +3ri AMI
53rd Massachusetts, and the 18th, New
York to Join Gen. Banks expedition. An0-
Their vessel, the L. L. Sturgis, will leave
shortly with remnants OF ccrtIin regiments,
stragglers and -iAtsi officers in all eight OF
nine hundred men.
1t Is seen from the Richmond newspaper
account of the battle of Fredericksburgh.
that while Gen. Lee, in his official report
places their losses 1t 500 killed and w0un-
ded, the same paper containing 1t says that
mp 70 Monday OF last week , 900 confederate
wounded had arrived in Richmond, and men,
tons many more at fredericksburg depot.
dTenched with rain and uuprovided Tor. Up
t. the 20th, Do abolition prisoners had az
rived at the Libby prison (Richm0n1) from
hafr p 'sr.~
5. ). Merchant, 1876 Pa; Lieut.. Jno. 6
Powers, a Virgjnii; + Lamb, L. :. teis-
graph corps; VIM. Foster, of y. Y, and
number Of suffers and clerks. At evening
AGO m1,e prisoners arrived. incluIing II
Commissioned officers. The men were 10 Gue
spirit, and INDUCED in joking remarks say
M they had arrived here before "BIr1y,"
"akin, Richmond by themselves
The Richmond DiSpG'ct states ril- GIg.
Ls;cher has determined 70 hold the uni0a
prisoners taken recently by Gen. Floyd, In
solitary confinement, until Col Thomas. ali
as the French lacy, s re.lased y P-lsidens
Lincoln.
The same pepper says, on ThursLg last
the North Carolina Senate, with two dissent
ing voices, passed "a resolution c1ajsma.ng
the arrest Of Rsy. J. r. Grlves, now N
CisJle Thunder on "a charge Of lisllyllry,
and calling for his rs.urn % tla- S-lss, that
his case may be Investigated By North Caro-
lima.
4 dispatch from Glldsb1rough, Dee. To-
says the artillery due. ut Whitehall, sixteen
miles west Of this point On the Nsuss, hes
beea going on all day The abohtiJnists seem
q have changed their base % the south side
Of the Neuse. Their cavalry made a raid On
Mount Olive depot. on the Wilmington rail-
rold nine miles from this point, tearing Up
the road. burning bridges and dsp1ts, act
cutting telegraph wires,
The Washington Sar Of Dec. 20. IAN
nlunces that Secretaries Chase ami Stanton
have resigned.
Washington specials are flIeI with spscC-
.ati1ns as 70 the reconstruction Of the Cabi-
net. They ara too vague and unreliable %
bear reporting.
The y. Y. inns dispatch says, Eve have
high authority for the statement that the
President himself wrote . dispatch to Gs-.
Burnside, % use his own judgment i1 crJss-
.ng % MAKE thu attack, and The dispatch
was supqrsssei,hy Gen. ul,.ack" Fifteen
hundred wJJ1isI lyr.vei 10 Wasl.ls-lc on
Friday evening from Falmouth. alI more
we've expected sunday. Thus far, .15l-
! ,O1J have come up.
The Times army lettss replr-s change
10 the position Of the l-i- wing Of the army.
zen. Fr4nkiin's headquarters are removed
lIcS from near the river u a grove The
.rllps ara Ia iIs condition AMI fully -.s-
pared % 10 hl,;,a.