Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1863-11-21
War News.

mac since our last publication, is Of no
great Importance. The newspaper CORES
pondents who, two days ago, werc conf.
dent Of driving the enemy across the Rap
idan and following him quickly to Rich
mond, have already begun to tone down
their letters. 1t is stated by them now,
that Meade will not be able to march be.
yond Culpeper on account of the scarcity
Of supplies. The railroad, which is per-
feet wreck all the way to the Rappahan-
mock, will have to be reconstructed before
these supplies can reach the army, and q
long bridge across that stream rebuilt
The road is completed to Bealeton. Ono
of these writer's states that Meade "has
accomplished his mission" the meaning
Of which our readers can judge. The
guerillas continue as active as ever. The
New York Times says: "To 60 beyond
our picksts is DEATH During the last
month these partisans have captured seven
ty wagons, five hundred horses and
mules, one hundred officers and men, and
much valuable property.
Secretary Stanton has discovered q
huge Canadian mares nest. Lord Lyons
communicates to him statement from the
Governor General Of Canada that certain
refugees who have taken asylum there
contemplate hostile invasion of the Uni.
ted States. Lake Erie steamboats, are to
be seized the prisoners on Johnson's
Island liberated; Buffalo sacked; San
dusky burned Erie, Cleveland and De-
troit besieged. The North is to be over
run. kilograms from the Secretary Of
War, who seems to be in his usual unenvi-
able frame Of mind, have warned the chief
officers Of the threatened towns to beware
of the danger. All the means at the COM
mand of the Government are to be EN-.
ployed to quell the new rebellion. Gun.
boats and revenue cutters are to plough
the waters and camps cover up tho land.
A late dispatch from Charleston Bar
announces that "Sumpter is entirely de-
molished," but that it is still held by a
party concealed in some of the crevioes of
the ruins, who restore the feg whenever
it is shot away.
A Fortress Monroe dispatch says that
General w. Fitzhugh Lee; who has been
confined as a hostage at that place for
some time, was put on board steamer on
Friday en- route to Winter quarters at Fort
Lafayette.
News FROM REBEL SoURCEs.-Des-
patches from Charleston to the Richmond
papers, under date of the 18th, state that
through the night previous Gen. Gilmore's
mortars and rifles fred at the rate of two
shots per minute, and on the morning Of
the 18th his fire was increasing in rapidi-
ty. Two men were killed and one wound
ed in the fort during the nights lombard.
ment.
AFFAIRS IN ARKANsAs.-The news from
the Far West this morning is interesting,
1t seems to be pretty certain that our for.
ces have chased the Rebels to the Texas
line, and we have report that General
Marmaduke has been captured in Mar
shall county, on the border Of the clone
Star" State.
RETALIATIoN.--The Cincinatti Gazette
says: By way of retaliation for the inhu-
man treatment of Union prisoners at Rich
mond, tho Rebels on Johnson's Island
have been restricted to Government ra-
tions. They are no longer allowed to
supply themselves from the Sandusky
market-and at this the Sandusky people
rejoice, the market prices for necessaries
having been advanced by the demand
from the Rebel thousands on the Island. :.
By direction Of the President of the
United States, Major Charles j. Whiting
Second United States Cavalry, is hereby
dishonorably dismissed the service, for
disloyalty and for using contemptuous and
disrespectful words against the President
of the United States.
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Thanksgiving.
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