The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-01-29
LATK NEWS.

OF The Gulf. His heAdqurters will at
FIRST be Al New Orleans, and 50 on at .
higher point en- the Mississippi. This
determination in regard 10 him was ar
rived Al Immediately afier his departure
from Washington for the North. IL was
the Inevitable result Of his conference
with the President and heads Of dspart-
msRt.
A Times special says the House Gem
mittss en- Territories has Instructed their
ehairnsn, Mr., ASHLEY, TO report a bill
for the adAission Of Utah ints the Union
80 . SiAts, with q prohibition of polyga-
ny as enc Of the conditions upon which
the TSritery shall be admitted. II is
unasrssOsd that the delegate from Utah
objects 10 this provision Of the bill, which
will net be reported, however, without
this SOAdiiion.
Nr. Ashley 10 also instructed 10 report
bill FER the erection Of the Territory Of
| 6hsshona.
The proposed Territory will include
within its limits all that part Of the old
Territory Of Oregon inhabited by the
ShsshosA Indians, all the Territory Of
Nsbrasks west Of the a7th parallel from
Washiagbsn, and that portion Of DacOtah
TsrritSry lyiHG sOuth Of 46th degree Of
lAtitsds.
The Herald's special says that Senior
Romero, Mexican minister, has received
Dispatches showing that the condition Of
that RovernAent 10 much better than IL
has bees rrsviSuS or SiAss The Frsn ch in
vasion.
While the French army was waiting
| fer rsinforesmsnts, the koxicans were
fortifying the principal towns, and it is
now believed that PueblA, the City Of
Msxies, and other places Of Importance
have been rendered iAPregAAbls at least
| 10 the French army at present in Mexico.
Domestic disssnsions have been laid
aside, And . great deal Of popular enthu-
SLASH has beeA eVokad, and stronger
| hopes are entertained now than ever be-
fore that The French will be repulsed.
NEW YoRk, Jan. "a
The Pacific brings Havana Advices to
the 10th inst
Another report is Of serious misunder-
standing between Generals Cartego and
Comonfort, and that numerous desertions
| uAu NAhth DihCp lEOLl Nlb htAlCdu khE-
rison at Puebla; also that a conspiracy
had been discovered in the brigade Of
General Ohran, and Ave officers had been
! shot
| Further adVices state the entire French
force in Mexico at 2e 900, but reinforce
ments of $4,000 are expected by the end
of December. The Mexcaas have $4,000
at Puebla, 10000 or 1000 between there
and the Capital, 1900 more at the Cap
ital, 5000 in the State of Queretero, aud
! IA, 700 in Guerrero, most of them badly
armed,
The Notifications al Puebla consist Of
200 guns and the City Of Mexico like
number.
CAIRo, Jan. 23.-It Is = coincidence
worthy OF fmention that the 18th Indiana
surrendered to Gen. Churchill at Rich
mend, KY, in August last for gAllantry
At which place jeff Davis promoted him
to = MajoP- General; and at Arkansas
/ Post the 1oth had the qualification Of
witnessing his surrender with his entire
cOAmand, at which they cheered Justify.
Brigadisr- General Burbridge was the
Arst general officer in the fort, and the
surrender was made 10 him.
Gen. BurbridgS compliments tho gall
lAAtry of the troops, and says hO never
saw men behave better.
The prisoners have all been sent to
Camp Douglas, at Chicago.
WLsHIHsroE, Jan. 23-Gsn. Butler
telegraphsd here an explicit deniAiof the
statSneAt that he attempted TO control
the Congressional Interests Of Mr. Bou-
liTney.
A RAtlemAn connected with = foreign
legation hes just received letter stating
thst the RrOaSh Government had opened
. OsrrOspsnaOAce with the British Cabi-
net sboat tho AlAbAmA's dSprsdations-
DFSuyn de L'Huys is Of opinion shat tho
tASit consent Of England 10 the launch
ing sRd attiHg out for sea Of privateers
10 in direct violation in spirit and letter
II the treaty Sf Paris, and constitutes a
brSGsh Of Law Of nations. lie also stated
that the British Cabinet bad taken the
nAttsE under consideration and was now
tpyiAS " SxtricAts itself from tho mat
YER.
IEDiASAroLIs, Jsp. 25-LiSutenant-
Oolonel Orr, Of the Sixteenth, who WAS
wounded in the recent engagement Al
Arkansas Pest, arrived here this morning,
- Touis fer his resi- dsnce, al Connersville,
IndianA lie reports the 10th, 64th, 60th,
STA, o9th, and SSd Regiments As having
bees in the engagement The 10th, Lit
! Col, Orr in command, Col. Lucas being
sick, had the AdVAnos, AAd charged the
enemy in the riilo-piis, and was the first
regiment in the fort. They pulled down
the white nag and hoisted their regimen.
tai nag in its stead. We took, in all,
seven thousand eight hundred and thirty
prisoners. with all the company and reg
mental ofneSrs Of nine regiments !;
also, Major General Churchill and Act
ing Brigadisr- General Garland, Of Vir-
ginia. We saptured more guns than
| prisoners, a large lot being packed in
boxes inside Of the fort They were a
superior arm Of English manufacture,
similar to our Springfield ri1ed musket
with the Maynard primer.
We recaptured all Of the ammunition
recently lost OF the supply steamer Blue
Wing, with large quantities Of pork and
corn meal, fifteen hundred horses and
mules, and two hundred wagons, many
Of which had been captured from the
United States.
Colonel Frank Emmerson, Of the 9th
Indiana, was severely wounded in the
hip. Lieutenant Colonel Templeton, Of
the Gsth Indiana; Major James S. Jolly,
Of the SD, and Lieutenant Colonel Orr,
Of the, 10th, are also wounded. These
are the only casualties among the field
officers from Indiana regiments,