The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1863-11-13
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year eiectlOn.
Bosworth, Union, IS reported to be
elected Judge Of the Supreme Court,
over McConn, Copperhead, in the CITY.
Brooklvn, one Of the Copperhead
strongholds. elects Colonel Wood. the
Union candidate for Mayor, by 1900
Buffalo city ond county give nearly
5000 Union gain
In Massachusetts the tuion State
ticket ia elected bt about 40, GOO ma.
ioritv. The Senate is unanimously
Union, and the Coppcrheads elect on
ly II Representatives.
The Union candidates In Wisconsin
have majority Of about $4,000 on
the home vote--which will be increas-
ed by the soldiers vote.
The adviccs from Illinois show large
Union gains. The election was To-
cal one, no State candidate running.
The returns from Kansas are mea.
gre, but the Union ticket is certainly
electcd--it is believed by about 5000
majority.
Up to 10 o'clock Tuesday, there had
been no general battle in Virginia.
Lee had steadily fallen back as our
forces advanced, and showed no dis.
position to fight in open field. OF
course he will not fight in open field,
'if he thinks there is any probability
of his being attacked on ground of
his own choosing; but because he has
not fought this far, it is not to be ns-
sumed that he is unable to meet Gen.
Meade, and will retreat to Richmond.
The reports that the enemy are talk
ing about evacuating Richmond; that
Lee has gone South; that the army OF
Northern Virginia has been depleted
by the withdrawal of reinforcements
for Bragg, all need continuation
When the rebels conclude to abandon
their Capital, they will conclude that
they might as well, if they to not ac-
tually give up the rebellion Gen.
Meade does not appear TO have ad.
vanccd materially during the twenty
four hours ending yesterday morning.
Dispatches from Chattanooga re-
port all quiet along the lines yester-
day Refugees arrived in camp re-
port the movement of supplies South
from Bragg's army, and the inform
ants supposed the enemy were prepar-
ing I" fall back to Rome or Atlanta.
1t is also rUnorcd that Longstreet
was organizing tor an extensive raid
upon our lines. All this may or may
not be.
Major Houstain of the 1921 New
York regiment, and Lieut.. Won Wei
trien, of Scott's cavalry, who were
captured in North Carolina a year
ago, have just escaped from the Lib.
by Prison and arrived in Washington.
They were four days in reaching Will
liamsburg, running many narrow
chances of capture. and taking no food
during the time. They say the Union
prisoners in the Libby Prison have
been gradually reduced to a state of
starvation, being furnished with a.
small piece Of bread-one loaf to six
teen men-meat in the same proper
ton, and little wishy-washy soup,
once day The scenes which occur
among the prisoners are heart-rending
in the extreme. The cries for food
are piteous, and the rawlings of the
men rendered insane, in many instan-
,es by the pangs Of hunger, sound
through the building night and day.
Men are dying daily, and the horrors
If the Jersey prison ship have been
evived in the treatment of our poor
ncarcerated soldiers. One man in
he room with Maj Houstain was so
by want Of food, that, when
piece of bread was thrown to him
W his brutal jailor, he had not the
trcngth TO cat it, and died with the
crap in his hand, clutching in death
he very staff of life Even the slen-
Ter meal rations had now been cut of.
Adviccs from Tennessee say, that
iajor Stearns is making successful
nd solid progress in enlisting negro
roops there, He has established re.
stations at Nashville, Muir.
reesboro, Gallatin, Wartrace, Clarlis-
lille, Shelbyviile, Columbia, and Ste
'enson, Alabama. Loyal shareholders
'eceive certificates, entitlin.; them to
not to exceed $500,
or each slave thus taken into military
service, OH filing with the authorities
valid deed of manumission. Dis
oyal Shareholders receive nothing.
The New York Excelsior Brigade,
six regiments, but re-
luccd by the casualties of the SER
ice to $500 men, only 800 of whom
ire prerent on duty, offer through
heir commander, to re- enlist in a body
or the war, on the simple conditions
hat they be allowed to return to New
fork City for sixty days to recruit
heir thinned ranks, and that, when
'eorganized, it be as a brigade of
mounted infantry. The officers of all
he regiments guarantee that their
commands will oil re-enlist, and that
~ the 9th of January, the brigade
will return to the army 5000 strong,
The Memphis Bulletin of the Sth,
'eceived per steamer Oriola, says the
state OF affairs in Arkansas is SEEM
ngly highly encouraging for the Un-
on cause. In fact, the majority of
Of the voters of that State were al.