The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-12-05
THE LATEST NEWS.

IAZEWELL, NOV. ~. The following
information has been received by Gen.
Wilcox from Gen. Burnside, dated Knox
vile, Nov. 30:
About IL P. NJ. on the evening of the
26th inst, the enemy made an attempt
in force on our skirmishing line to the
right of the Kingston road, and forded il
back some distance in front of Fort San
ders, the work commanding that road.
We afterwards regaiped a portion of the
distance. Sharp skirmishing continued
all night.
On Sunday morning, at Z A. NJ, they
moved column of three brigades against
Fort Sanders. In spite of our heavy
fire, portion of two brigades succeeded
in gaining the ditch, but were unable to
ascend the parspets. We swept the
ditch with much Slaughter. About three
hundred men and three stands of coIors
were taken. Their loss in killed and
wounded amounted 10 five hundred or
more. Our entire loss was about twenty.
The wounded of the enemy were cry
ing for assistance, when Gen. Burnside
senta flag of truce offering the enemy an
opportunity for caring for the wounded.
Gen. Longstreet accepted the offer and
cessation of hostilities was agreed upon.
The wounded men were exchanged for
those of ours wounded in previous en-
gagements, and their dead sent through
our lines. Col. Russ, commanding The
ASSEMBLING party, was killed. Col NIGEL
voy and Lieut.. Col. Thomas were also
among the dead.
A simultaneous assault was made up !
on the right of our line on the other side
of the river, but in this attack the rebels
were finally driven back. Our loss on
that side was about forty that of the
enemy is said to be mnch greater. Oar
supplies are ample for the present. Th-
enemy has been reinforced by one or
two divisions of BushrOd Johnson's.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 2. The army again
energies from its wilderness campaign of
one week, and finds itself, at the termi-
nation, precisely where it started from. |
1t crossed the Rapid Ann on Thursday ;
it skirmished with the enemy on Friday
the Sd and 9th corps fighting q severe
battle: formed q general line f-battIe
on Saturday laid still on Sunday and
Monday face to-fsce with Lee from the
rebel front on Tuesday night, and
marched back north of the Rapid Ann
on Wednesday night. Thus ends the
campaign. Brief if not glorious have
benn the chances of great results which |
circumstances prevented. f
New YORK, Dec. 3.-The falling back
of Meade's army had marked influence
on stocks to-day, and three was a deeid- |
ed improvement throughout the whole |
railroad share line. This new move of |
the Potomac army puts an entirely diff |
ferent aspect upon the military situation, |
and is interpreted at the Stock Exchange |
as 8 prolongstion of the war. The New /
York roads were not so favorable as the |
Western shares, the greatest rise being in
Erie, which was equal TO ] Il per cent
over the closing rates of last evening. |
The Western roads were very buoyant, /
and the advance was generally equal to
2(G3 per cent. Illinois Central was one |
of the strongest shares on the list. The |
earnings of the Erie road for November /
were over = million dollars, being with |
out precedent in the history of the
road. After the second board, gold ad- /
vanced 60 152.
An arrest was made to-day for passing /
two dollar Treasury notes altered to fifties /
FORTRESS MONROE, Dec. 3. The steam
George Washington left this morning for /
City Point with cargo of provisions
for our prisoners at Richmond and vicin-
ity.
Two boards of Yankee officers have !.
been organized fer the proper distribu-
ton of clothing and provisions sent by
the North for their prisoners in Belle Isle
-one for the Quartermsster's and one
for the COmmissary Department. Col
Sanderson, former hotel-keeper in New
York, was chief of the proceeding and
managed the distribution.
The steamer ConquerOr arrived last
evening from Newbern, N. c., with 80 |
rebel prisoners. They were conveyed to
Fort Norfolk this morning.
CINCINNATI, Dec. f. Eight persons
have been arrested here for passing coun-
terfeit twenty dollar Treasury notes.
Fifteen hundred bales of government
cotton arrived here yesterday to be sold
at auction on the 14th.
Dispatches received from General Eos
ter's chief of staff, dated Cumberland
Gap The 1st, says nothing of the capture
of five thousand prisoners at Knoxville.
Memphis adVices Of the 30sh say the
steamer Black Hawk was fred into by
gueriIlas near the mouth of r river.
Several on board wounded. TIE boat 4
put back to New Orleans.
A Chattanooga despatch Of the I'd says
the movements of the army are contra
band. The hospitals are full of woun-
ded Of both armies. Refugees and de-
erters report Bragg reinforced near Dali
ton by Joe Johnston.
Nothing later from Knoxville.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 8. The Secretary
Of War has given his decision to the
Hon. B. French, the Second Auditor of
the Treasury Of the United States, in
case recently submitted By Messrs Jo-
seph Z. Dewitt & Co, of Philadelphia,
that, as the nine months volunteers of
the several States, who were called out
on the 18th Of July and on the LIST of
October, 1862, were not authorized or
accepted By the War Department, there
fore they are not entitled TO the SIS boun-
ty and the g premium. The amount in.
volved in this question is several millions
of dollars, and as the various pay mas
ters throughout the country have paid
many of the regimepts from Pennsyiva-
Ma, New jersey, Rhode Island, and
other States, they are peculiarly instruc-
ted. The several State military depart
ments are also invo7ed IS we'll as some
$4,000 troops who haze served for nine
months.
The Second Auditor has also decided
that $50 advanced bounty should he paid
By the mastering officer to : recruit