St. Mary's gazette., 1863-10-22
During the past few days. gold has de-
clined some : or G. cents.
There is no news of Interest from Europe.

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There is no news of Interest from Europe.
Jiom tie E0Ihmcrr .S"n ef .Mno'"y.
TIE WAR NEws.-In view of ,he fact
iaat the term Of service # Il portion Of the
volunteer force now in the field. expires
during the next year, the President has
i,sued a proclamation calling for three
hundred Thousand more To serve for three
years or the rar, bat No: longer than
t1rcc years. The volunteers under the
call arc 10 receive the advance paw, pre-
MUM and bounty as hitherto given. If
any State fails 5" fiji! its quota. then u
Draft to raise IT, deficiency will take place.
commencing january 9TH, 1864. All
volunteers received viii lie duly credited
to or deducted from the quotas established
for the drift. Nothing in the proclama-
ton is to Interfere with existing orders or
with the draft where il j. now III progress.
The whole number Of troops called for
by the several procamaii"ns If the Prcsi-
lcnt. including the present one. is one
million seven hundred anu Scventy-fvc
thousand. TIE draft ordered August 4th
1862, it is believed. however, did not
Weld over one hundred thousand men and
The CONSUMPTION now being enforced, it is
reported, will not rraliz: rs mary, al
though each order called for three hun
bred thousand.
The intelligence from tie Army of the
Potomac is coniic'ing. The Federal cav
airy scouts Oh Saturday evening reported
that the CnnIcdcratcs had niassrd a large
force at Manassas, but reconnaissance
made yesterday TO within mile of Bris-
tow Station discovered few Conf, dcratcs
scouts only. |; is also reported that Gen.
lee is now moving towards tie lower
Shrnnauhoah and til" Federal pnsts on the
Baltimore aut. Ohio Railroad, bat nothing
seems to be definitely known of such
movement The Fr,l raj army i. said to
be equally well posted for an advance or
defense. 1t appears th;,t there was 10
fighting on I:i!ay or Saturday beyond
some slight s,;rmi>liing.
Exciting n..ws is received from the
Shenandoah valley. AT an early hour
yesterday morning the Ninth Maryland
regiment Of infantry. Col Simpson. and
Il body of cavalry under Major Cole,
stationed at Charirstuwn, were attacked by
u superior force of Cuntc,lrraies, and at
ter a spirited engagement the infantry
surrendered, the cavalry succeeding III
cutting their way ont and escaping to
llarp"r's Ferry. Being reinforced 10y
infantry and artillery under Gen. Sulli-
van, the cavalry returned and occupied
Charlcstown and then pl>hcd on in pur-
suit of the Cnnf"dcratrs and came up with
then. near Hcrryvillc about the middle Of
the afternoon Her" another engtg me nj
was fought, but it * bot known how it
resulted, further than tina; the Contedc-
rates continued their retreat Scouts re-
port 40 Indications Of movement of Con-
fcderatcs toward the lire of Tie railroad.
Charlcstown is eight niles from IIarpcr's
Ferry, and l,erryvillc aboat twenty.
Adviccs f"m the Texas expedition re-
port that the Nne'ecnA Army Corps
reached Ncrmiliion river. few miles
south of Frrnillionviie. on the 9th 1t
was thought at New Orleans that there
would be 10 delay in crossing. There
was sharp slirmi>hing, and several pri,-
oncrs were taken from the enemy. Their
loss is not known. t"rmillonvilc is
the capital of Lafayette Parish. and about
one hundred and ten miles from New Or
leans. The army is already more than
halfway to the Texas line
y few days since regiment Of Federal
cavalry cncnunterrl the Conicdcratcs on
he Tallahatchic river, Miss. and caused
them to fall back to Oklahoma. Arothc.
force Of Cnnfcdrrates had been driven
across the river.
\ sharp fight is reported on the Big
Black river. below Nick>hurg. in which
the C"nfclcraIc> were at first repul>ed.
but being reinforced. compelled the Fed
cral forces ~ retreat hc,ond the river.
All is quiet at Little Rock, Ark. and
vicinity. \ guerilla camp in Jefferson
county has been broken up, and all the
men captured.