The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1863-10-05
LATEST NEWS FROM THE SOUTH.
Affairs at RichmOnd-.The Re-
inf0rcements sent to Bragg.
Position of the Troops aDOut
Richmond --- Further from
Chattanooga.
The subjoined late Southern news is made
up from different sources:

The subioined late Southern news is made
up from different sources:
r-5 AFFAIRS AT RICHMOND.
! The Washington Star learns the following
from number of Federal sailors released
from prisen at Richmond on Monday:
Some of the men of the Satellite say that
after their capture they saw two men among
the crew of the Merrimac which captured
them, who a few Nights previous to the
capture, were taken on board their boat as
prisoners, but were released the following
morning, and they think these men were
spies.
They were marched on foot to Richmond,
and on entering the city the women derided
them, calling them 'Rappahannock pirates,
and sneeringly said they were the rascally
men who had raised the prices of calicoes,
shoes, etc. They were taken d"st to Libby
prison, then to Castle Thunder, and latterly
to Belle Island The officers were kept in
Libby, where, it is said, that Capt Robin
son, of the Satellite, and his brother, are
still kept in irons.
One of the guards at Belle Island, be
longing to the City Battalion, (25th Vir
ginia,) came off with the sailors, having
procured disguise as a seaman. His name
| is Charles lntchins, and he halls from
Brooklyn, New York, butwas at Richmond
when the rebellion commenced, and was
pressed into the service,
We learn the following concerning affairs
in Dixie:
The only troops in the city of Richmond
now are the City Battalion, numbering
sbout fourteen hundred men, under the
command of Col Rosseau, and they are do
ing guard duty at the various prisons and
patrolling the city. A. P. Hills division,
numbering about 5000 men, are about six
miles south of the city. Lee is said to be
at Orange Court House, but his strength
is considerably reduced by sending troops
to Bragg.yL yLongstreet passed through Rich
mond on his way to Bragg about week
previous to the battles near Chattanooga,
with about 28, 900 men, who were passing
through the city for three days time.
The sailors at Jones's Bluff and from the
gunboats have gone to Charleston, leaving
about forty men, under Lieut.. Hogue, (who
was wounded in the attack on the Reliance)
on the new Merrimac. They number
about 500, and are accompanied by Captain
Pegram and Liests. Lyle and Murdock, OF
the Merrimac. The Merrimac has four
guns on board, one of which is A poun-
der, and lies at Jones's Bluff, a short dis
tance below the city. Another iron clad of
the same size of the Merrimac, called the
lady davis, has been launced, and has her
iron plating on, and will soon be ready
There is still another iron-clad on the
stocks, but she will not be ready for launch
ing for some time. At Jones's Bluff there
are FIVE small boats, carrying three guns,
each of small calibre
The poorer classes are represented to be
sick and tired of the war, and there is
strong Union feeling among them. The
prices of every article of food are exorbi
tant, and many families are suffering
Meats are selling at 81 per pound, butter
So, and eggs 81 per dozen.
Walter Lenox, ex-Mayor of Washington,
figures in the Richmond Examiner as
witness. 1t appears that gambler named
John R. James, who, twill be remembered,
was for time confined in the Old Capitol
prison, and was sent outh, made despe-
rate assault upon a man named James
McGee, at drinking saloon called "The
Alabama" Lenox was present, and conse'
ouenty was witness. James claimed to
| he a good Confederate, and said he had
served Is months in the rebel army.
POSITION OF GEN. RosECRANs-
The Richmond Wing of the 29th says:
''The policy of concentration, advocated
as long ago as last May, has at length been
adopted, and its results are before US in the
crouching attitude of Rosecrans' army,
which seems, however, not to have been de-
stroyed, as announcedin recent sanguine
bulletin.
It is impossible to say what Rosecrans'
exact situation may be. Northern accounts
do not tally, of course. with our own.
Our own dispatches Ito 26th) state
that Gen. Longstreet commands the river
and railroad below Chattanooga piece Of
excellent news, if true; for Rosecrans must
then rely upon wagons alone for supplies,
and, to say nothing of the enormous amount
(of transportation which such an army as he
has would require, tue road over the Cum
berland is easily obstructed, difficult under
the best circumstances, and wholly made
quate for his purposes.
Our dispatches add that "it is not suppo'
sed that an attack will be made. as we com
mand the situation, and need not sacrifice
the lives Of our troops
The inference is that Rosecrans will hold
his own as long as he can get all possible
reinforcements, and attempt to extricate
himself by assuming the offensive, and
falling in that, make the best Of his way
back to Nashville.
THE BATTLE NEAR CHATTANOOGA.
The Atlanta Intelligencer has Confeder-
ate account of this battle. 0fthe casualties
il says:
aBrigadier General B. H. Helm, who was
! killed, was leading his men on to victory,
when he fell mortally wounded in the abdo.
men by mimic ball. He was taken back to
the hospital, six miles above Ringgold,
J where he expired during the night lie was
grandson Of Ben. Hardin, the celebrated