Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1863-09-15
RUmOFed Recognition OF the
Southern COnredeFaCy.
Circular from Secretary Seward

NV YORK, September IA.
A special to the Tribune from Cineinns-
ii confirms the ovation the troops received
at Knoxville on its occupation by the Fed
erals. The town was decorated with flags
which had been hidden for years.
Burnside made an address to a large
meeting the day after its occupation. On
the day after Fosters arrival a procession
of women, whose husbands are in the
Union service came in from the country.
which was nearly a mile long.
Valuable machine shops and foundries
were found in Knoxville. Also, two mil
lions Of pounds of salt, large quantity OF
wheat and many thousand bags.
The prisoners captured at Cumberland
Gap were the I'd North Carolina, Ist Vir-
ginia, lst Georgia, and several companies
Of artillery. They surrendered uncondi
tiOnally.
The Georgia regiment, 800 strong, was
captured once before by Burnside at Roam
Oke Island a..
On the night of the 7th two companies
of our troops stole through the rebel pick
cts and burned mill that had supplied
the rebels with meal. The mill was in
sight of the rebel camp.
Burnside was to return TO Knoxville on
the 10th, where he viii remain till the de-
oision of the War Department in regard
to his resignation is made. @ Sd
A few small bodies Of rebels are still
near the Virginia lines. b.
The saltpeter works which the rebels
worked are now within our lines.
Communication is nearly had with
Rosecrans. t
All Of Burnside's troops marched over
25O miles, and a portion 800 miles. They
averaged twenty miles day, over difficult
roads. In the whole campaign but one
casualty occurred. OF sickness there is
so little that the Surgeon in charge of the
hospital at KnOxv lie asked 20 be relieved.
A special to the World SAYS adyices
from the front tonight are important.
To-day our forces occupied Culpepper,
and it is believed nothing but rebel car
airy pickets are this side of the Rapidan
Retreat seems to be general. There is no
movement toward any of the lower gaps
in Virginia, so the rebels cannot be inau-
gurating another invasion scheme. The
movement is regarded as strange as it is
unexpected. -
The TTibune's dispatches says:
The mooted questions as to the strength
of Lees army and his military intentions
are on the eve Of solution.
Colonel Sanborn, of the 4th Minnesota
qOlunteers, was yesterday made Brigadier
General.
The report that the flag that MAJOR An
deTson had with him at Sumter, was taken
by the rebels on the 7th is not true Pc
ter Hardy, the hero who had so much TO do
with it at the time the rebels bombarded
Sumter, says the flag is in his keeping
here.
A Morris Island letter to the Tribune
states that the rebels have recently taken
TO firing large slabs of iron, two feet in
length and four or FIVE inches in width,
bound together with strong wire. They
are intended expressly for the Monitors
and are thrown with a view of getting
them under the turrets to prevent their e
Volving.
A Glasgow, Ky, dispatch to the Tribune
says that party of guerrillas, of very
irregular character, commanded by Ham
ilton, Numbering about 300, appeared at
the cross roads of the BurksVille and
TompkinsVille pike, where a camp meeting
was in session. They dashed among the
people, producing great panic, scattering
the congregation. Ladies were robbed Of
| jeWelry, men of their watches and purses,
and many very valuable horses were sto-
| len. Col. Harvey, commanding here, i'm
mediately sent forward party Of cavalry
to intercept the thieves but they could not
be found. They came within five miles of
this place.
A dispatch dated the 10th, from head
quarters army of the Potomac, states that
it is believed one corps of Lees army, or
about one-third Of il, under Longstreet, is
now moving to Richmond there to be trans
ferred, two divisions to the Southwest and
one to Charleston. Hoods division Of
LOngstreet's corps left camp near Freder-
icksburg, on Tuesday morning last at 8
o'clock, bound for Richmond, thence, SO my
information runs, % Charleston
A Washington dispatch to the Times
states that beside the marching of Long
streets corps, which we have already an
nounoed, our correspondent with the army
of the Potomac sends us word that he be-
lieves the corps of Ewell and Hill, recent
ly camped between Gordonsville and Cul-
pepper c. r., have also fallen back and
are now at Gordonsville, if not further yet
on their way to Richmond. This evidence
of the weakening Of Lees army by de-
taohing reinforcements for Beauregard
and Bragg is conclusive. r-- .-.
A lady, who arrived yesterday from
Richmond, says for ten days previous to
her departure several regiments daily
passed through that city.
1t is understood here that General Gill
more has tenderly inquired of the Govern
ment if he would be justified in b-mbard-
ing Charleston to its utter destruction.
The answer returned, it is said, was such
as to give the country assurance Of heap
of ashes where Charleston stands if that
city does not surrender. A full supply Of
incendiary shells, to be used against
Charleston were sent to General Gilmore
by the Arago and by this time are, proba-
bly,, being used against the doomed city.