Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1863-10-12
BFagg's BOmbardmenta a Failure
NEWS FROM GEN. BLUNT.
NEW YORK ITEMS.
NEW YoRK. Oetob,

Il ~" AbAAJ OCtOUCL H.
The specials this morning are almost
entirely devoid of anything new.
The Tribune's dispatch has the follow
Ing
The President has completed his reply
to the Missouri Kansas delegation, and
the manuscript is in hand. The copy
right will probably be handed to the Chair
man, Mr.. Drake, tomorrow. The Kansas
| delegation presented q dis inct address,
asking, first, that the State be made into
a separate Department; or, secondly,
that General Schofeld be removed and a
General who better understands the re
quirements of the Department be substi
tuted.
To the first proposition Mr.. Lincoln is
reported to have replied that he could see
no objections to making Kansas into q
separate Department; provided there
we're no obstacles from military point Of
view.
Several consultations have takan place
upon this and other points between the
President and the Secretary Of War
Nothing is positively known ss to the
conclusions arrived at by the President;
but these most interested incline to the
belief that Kansas will be made G sepa-
rate Department, and that General Scho-
field will not be removed but that orders
will be issued directing Governor Gamble
and his military coadjutor to carry out
some, If not ali, the reforms asked fer by
the Committee in the conferences with the
Committee. The President assured them
that the election of Judges in Missouri. in
November, should be protected. The del
egstes are therefore sanguire of success
at the polls.
Secretary Chasestsrted this evening for
Ohio.
The Worlds New Orleans oorrespon-
dence has the following important news ::
General Logan hcyers around Baton
Rouge, and clouds Of mounted partisan
rangers hover along the river on the right
bank from Donsldsonville to the mouth of
Red river, and on the left bank from Bs-
ton Rouge, and often below that point to
Rstchez and beyond. General Herron's d.
vision at Morgsnsis or Morgan's Bend. on
the right bank about twenty-five miles
above Port Hudson, had been engaged for
several days skirmishing with a BODY, as
they supposed. of guerrillas.
The rebels are becoming more daring
and annoying.
General Dana, now in command of Her
ron's division, sent out nun Der Of regi-
ments 20 feel the enemy and ascertain his
strength. The enemy was felt and proved
himself much too strong for the force sent
against him. A severe engagement en-
sued, resulting in loss to the Union sr-
my Of several hundred killed and wounded
and Of some fifteen huodred prisoners.
This took place on Tuesday, the 29th ult.
Since then the rebel forces have assumed
the offensive, and ere pressing Dsna's
men with such Yigor that the gunboats
have been called into aid in repulsing the
enemy.
All the sugar houses and all the other
structures standing In the way have been
leyeled to the ground, but it is reported
that still the gunboats can be Of little SER
vice owing TO the numerous bluffs in that
vicinity. The rebels are still there and
will do greater mischief if General Dana
is not reinforced.
This body Of Confederates is said to be
under the command Of Prince Polignac,
now Brigadier General in the Provisional
army Of the Confederate States.
The truth is, reinforcements are badly
needed here, and until they are received
the people Of the North need not expect
to hear Of anything being done in this de-
partment beyond the mere holding of the
same.
Gen. Wadsworth left this afternoon for
New Orleans, where he is to have an i'm
portant commsnd. he will 60 by the in
land and Mississippi route.
The non-exchsnge Of surgeons, usually
regarded as non-combstsnts, arises from
the detention Of one named DR.. Rucker by
the rebels, who professed to have charges
against him. Our Government thereupou
detained rebel surgeons as hostages. The
rebels then kept other surgeons as far as
captured, and rebel surgeons were conse-
quently held. There are now about 25 Of
our surgeons in rebel hands, and we have
q still larger number Of theirs in our
hands.
The Herald has the following:
NASHVILLE, Oct. S-We are again in
uninterrupted communication with the
front.