The Shasta courier., 1863-10-24
New York 2oth-The Posts Washington

letter SAYS Military circles SPEAK VI az eaii!
rcpeal of the three hundred dollar clause of the
Enrolment Act This win be urged in Decem-
Der, and it is not improbable that IN the next
draft exemption by money will be impossible
Some advocate new law fixing the exemption
at six hundred dollars; others suggest fifteen
hundred dollars, and a provision that the draft
ed men who go to the army shall receive the
money so raised in their districts.
A special dispatch to the Post says: General |
Meade's army is in hot pursuit of the rebels, |
who have already retreated beyond the Rapi- |
dan. This correspondent thinks Grant will take |
the place of Rosecrans.
Chicago, -Midnight.-A Washington |
dispatch just received says there is probably no
truth in the report that Meade is in hot pursuit
of the rebels, or that they have retreated be-
yond the Rapidan.
Chicago, Yssterday's St. Louis Demo-
crat states, npon the authority Of q member of
Grants staff, that the General is on his way to
Tennessee, probably to take command OF the
consolidated Departments of the Cumberland,
Ohio and Tennessee, embracing all the terrific
ry from the Virginia and Carolina State lines to
the Mississippi. We cannot, of course,-As1
what truth there is in this statement, nothing
having been received from Washington in re-
gard to the change A telegram from there to-
day SAYS inquiries of those best informed as to
whether there is any truth in the rumored re-
moval of Rosecrans have failed to elicit either
an affirmative negarive response. 1t is GER
tain, however, that General Grant and staff
passed through Cairo a day OF two since en-
route for Nashville.
Knoxville, Tenn, l6th.-The rebels are now
out of Tennessee General Shackelford is at
Bristol, on the Virginia line, in command of our
advance. There is no material change at
London Southeast of Knoxville).
Washington, 2Oth.-The Government has
official advices from General Burnside in regard
to his r-arches and victories in East Tennessee
and Southwestern Virginia. They are satisfac-
tory in showing that in almost every case the
rebels have been whipped and routed. Burn
side declaras there is not q more loyal people
living than those found in East Tennessee.
St. Louis, Goth Gen. Schofeld has issued
an order placing Gen. Mcneil In command of
the District of the Frontier. rice Gen. Blunt,
who is ordered to report at Leavenw Gen.
Ewings district is extended so as to embrace
the entire State of Kansas.
Louisville, 20th.-Major General Grant has
assumed commond of the Armies of the Ohio
and the Cumberland. He left for Nashville this
morning to assume the direction of affars at
Chattanooga Gen. Thomas takes command of
| Rosecrans' army-Rosecrans being ordered TO
Cincinnati, and to report by letter to the Adiu-
tant General at Washington
Nashville, 20th.-Quarterma General
Meiggs and General Grant and staff arrived
this afternoon. 1t is reported that Grant
assumes command of Department of Cum
berland, Tennessee and Ohio, to be called
the Military Division of the Mississippi.
General Hooker is at Stevenson, Alabama.
Stanton Secretary of Var, has arrived On
special train. 4 railroad accident occurred
near Murfreesboro Yesterday, killing and
wounding several persons. The telegraph
is broken between Chattanooga and this
place. The river is falling. There is about
five feet water on the shoals.
New York, 2lst-oold unsettled, open
ing at 463 and closing at 444 Steamer
Fult n, from Stoney Inlet, Oct 18th, reports
all quiet at Charleston,
St. Louis, 2lst.---Gen. -Schofeld has issued
an order for regulation of November cleo
ton in this State. Judges of election will
be held strictly responsible that none but
qualified voters shall be allowed to vote.
Any action on their part excluding qualified
voters from the polls VIII be punished as
military offense. Any person having borne
arms against the Government, or giving aid
to the Confederacy during the present rebel
lion. who shall presume to act as Judge or
Clerk at said election, and any County Judge
who knowingly appoints such person as
Judge of election, will be deemed guilty of
violation of military orders and punished
accordingly. In those parts Of the State
where there is danger Of interference by
guerrillas or combinations of persons intend
ing to oyerawe or intimiiate legal voters,
military commanders are directed to prevent
such interference, but where such protection
is unnecessary the troops will absent them
selves from the polls entirely.
EXPENSIVE LuxuRlEs-Melons raised in the
Boise valley, Idaho Territory, have sold, the