New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-08-17
NEWS or THE DAY.
THE WAR.

ybe transport Thomas A. Scott brings New
- do.os 20 the sth inst She brings home The 25th
Connecticut Volunteers. This regiment has done mu'h
hard work II went out with 735 men, and returns win
soo I4svere killed or disabled by wounds and ~ were
Iof in hospitals Mai y Rush Fumey Of the EeveAue
D.partmcnt. formerly Of the stat OF Cen fremont
has reoived orders 70 organic brigade 81 cooIod
volunteers for three years service he estimates 'ne
.imc recured for the fulflment Of this ant! al tlr
DAYS Under his management one OF the SXt!-day ree
rcuts was recruited ia sixty hours. The COMMISSIONER
oiaers Of the brigade will be white menu the noncom
ussi.acd NAV be coored. The negroes may DC ei'h'f
bond or free BY personal appeals 10 the negroes uen
Ifurlev raised five hundred men IN ioui DAYS AHe
4qtb Massachusetts under orders ior boston 0! SV
The .,th lAs sailed for st. Louis. Tie I'm Name ana
oith Connecticut have been dispatched to snip Island
The fas.-day PROCLAMATION OF President Lincoln was
very generally Observed by the loyal eitizcns oil New
Orleans Services we're held in the principal chnfchcs
and many places Of business we're Closed
gentleman. who has made his escape from
his former residence near Tennessee and reached New
Albany. Indiana states that he Lad many opportunities
to learn the plans Of the Rebels and that be IS CON
WINGED from positive information, Tat they intend IN
yading Kentucky large force as soon rs the corn
shall have become dry enough to grind into meal ana
for feeding purposes The plan for this invasion he Is
satisfied is fully matuIed and Louisville is the main
point aimed at
Mai. Gen. Daniel L. Sickles was serenaded
or Saturday niht at Baltimore he having so for re-
covered AS 70 be able listen TO the music la &c
crowd assembled and in response to calls Cen SioheS
appeared and made few remarks. lie stated that the
only way 10 bring about peace was to prosecute tAe
var with yigor and send forward requirements and
support tie Government
The story about a quarrel between JEFF. Davis
and Cen Lee is reported almost daily in various FORMS
A man from Lexington Va, says it is currently re-
ported among the Rebels and believed. that Lee had
tendsred his resignation TO Davis but that it not
accepted. lie did not learn the but it was
common report that Lee and JEFF Davis were at dag
gers points about something.
II is reported that very recently fight &C.
surrel at or near Snickersyie between several regi
Inents Of Mississippi and Texan troops in Lees army
and Stuarts cavalry. The Mssissippians and Texans
weIv very much dissatisfied and started 10 leave FOR
home when they were attacked by Stuafts cavalry
and compelled to return TO duty.
The Chicago tribune has a dispatch from Peo-
ria dated Friday. saying: Last night Provost
Marshal Westlake of the Ninth District with de-
tachment Of cavalry made descent on nest of some
2O0Copperhead descrters in Isabel Township fulton
Co. capturing ten or dozen, and IS report says
killing several
dispatch TO St. Louis from Pineyille, Mo-,
dated Saturday. reports fight between Col Gather
wood Of the Sixth Missouri Artillery, and Col Coffee,
with his Rebel forces in which tie latter were dis
persed thirty killed. all his ammunition wagons, stores
and a number Of prisoners taken.
The Miantonomah, the first iron-clad builten-
trely BY the Government was launched az the Brook
lyn Navy or Saturday Her dimensions are be-
tween perpendcuars go feet extreme length 2J9 feet
inches; width Of BEAM 50 feet 10 inches depth Of
hold IA feet inches; 1900 tuns
All is quiet in the Army Of the Potomac, nor
is there any known change in the position Of Lees
forces There rumor that the Rebels contemplate an
important flank movement but the story is not believed
at Meade's headquarters.
man who represents himself as Govern
ment teamster. arrived in Co'ing:on. KY on Monday
and reports that on Thursday, Aug. G. detachment Of
SCOTS Rebel cavalry attacked and captured train Of
$50 Government wagons near Loudon, Kentucky
Brig. Gen. Thomas Welch, commanding the
First Division of the h NTH Army Corps died at Gin
cinuati on Friday night