Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1863-01-09
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS,
ASSOCIATED PRESS DIsPAfoHEs.l
FEoM THE ARmY OF THE PoJoxiC.

Interesting from r .Lesehsr'.
Message to the Legislsture-He is Afrai id
FREE kegrces will Tamper wisk tn.
sisNes-Bragg's ga sons for Faliine n = ck
from n hurfres.bers'-Msv.me q Gen.
Ferrest.
HkApocARTsRs AMY OF fHB Porou Ac,
JAN s.-The usual quiet prevails shreu sho at
the camps.
The Fifth army corps, Gen. Meade command
Ing, was reviewed TO-. day by General Burn.
side and stan, who passed ensomiurn- ups,n ,h.
trcope.
Richmond papers Of this morning contain n
Mobile dispatch Of yesterday, saying a speciaI
dispatch from Grenada, on the 9Th inst, states
That an aid TO Gen. Forrest who arrived here
THIS evening, reports the capture Of Trenton,
Union City, and II HumboId, with over 2, ,Uoo pris
onrrs, two cannon, and a large ernount OF COM
missary stores.
The attack on Jackson (Tsnu.) y,ss a fsint TO
cover the rebel operations
The railrond from Jackson To Columhps no G
been DESTROYED.
Istcher's annual message to the Virginia L.
gisiature was rad yesterday. 1t is seven col
umns long. In relation 10 the division Of the
STATE by Congress he says:
western Virginia must necessarily l-e free
territory. l cannot suppose, in any treaty of
peace thatlaay be agreed ulrou Yirriuis will
ever recognize the division OF her teryity-y' or
ever consent 10 a treaty that will strip her OF
any portion Of her domain.
is better tnhi this war continue for in
definite period than that we shall be even par.
ually disme emb+rsd.
He accuses the North OF vandalism without
P6l allel IN the HISTORY OF nations, and recites
long list OF indignities, outrages and wsntou
destruction.
He estimates the balance in the Treasury TO
Oct Ist, S43i, 600 Total paid for the war i
S7,S37,Cto. lie adv ises that all free regros- no.
resident in portions OF the State overrun NV
the enemy, be removed, and put at work on
the fortifcations, as they have il in their Do g.r
10 'amper with slaves, and give valuable in
formation 10 the enemy
One hundred and eighteen men, captured by
the Virginia line at Petersburg, and at Pike
VILE, Ky, are confined ut Richmond, aAd the
Governor h3s announced TO President Lincoln
the terms upon which such exchange can alone
Ee made.
He has placed at hard labor In the peniten.
nery, Capt. Graham and Lieutenant Wasia, as
hestages for Capt. Duskey and Lieut.. yonner
now confined In the District Of Columbia peni-
tentiary.
Thomas Damron, Lieut. ". Danron, and pri-
Yates John w. Howe, Isaac Noble, David V.
An1ier, Samuel Peck, and Vim. S. DIN, as hos
tags for Zaroona.
Much Of the message is occupied with unin-
The following dispatch also appears in the
Richmond papers:
"TCLLAHoMA, Jan. 5-Uaable TO d,slodge
ihe enemy from his intrpnchInents, and hear
ing Of reinforcements to him, I withdrew from
the front night before last. He has not fol-
lowed. My cavalry are close on his front
"BRAxTos BRAaG"
The Dispatch charscteriLes the Murfrres-
horo fight as mysterious affair, and cannot
reconcile Eragg's first with his last dispatc hes
The Examiner says 1t was disappofntment
but not disaster, and finds consolation in the
fact that the Union army was horribly Grip
Piled.