Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1863-11-17
CANE, al MN summary.

heard from and the majority for Goldsborough,
the Union Emancipation candidate for Compt-
roller is 26,662.
The Union majority in Massachusetts, will
be about AZ 800. In the Legislature, the Sen
ate stands unanimously Union. In the House
the relative strength of the parties ", ~ Jn-
ionists and 10 copperheads.
Ben. Butler has arrived at Fortress Monroe,
and rebel slave property in thai DEPARTMENT
will experience tumble. A few months hence
we shall have an immense army Of blacks in
the field.
We have only few additional returns to what
we have published from Wise9nsin. The I'M
ion majority in this State, 3p the home vote
will be from liz IQQ9 TO 2O 800. The soldiers
vote will ran it up nearly 70 10000.
The late attack upon Hooker's Army in
Lookout Valley, turns out to have been more
destructive, on both sides, than was at nrst
supposed. Over three hundred dead have been
inferred. Of these, BY far the greater portion
were rebels.
IT is reported that Government is about to
except Burnslde's resignation, rendered some
time ago, and that Gen. Foster, of North Car
oina, IS to be sent to take his place, and But
Ter left to assume command OF Fosters de-
partment-
The Secretary of State authorizes the grati-
fying announcement that the French Govern
meni, upon the remonstrance of Minister Day
ton, has promptly and most honoraby arrested
the six iron clad rams which were building at
Nantes and Bordeaux.
A ST. Louis dispatch Of the 9th, says that
The radical State ticket is undoubtedly elected,
If the soldiers votes are not thrown out. The
conservatives have only 1900 on The home
vote, and soldiers and counties still TO hear
from will easily overcome that.
Careful estimates give the who'e rebel force,
in all their armies east OF the Mississippi, at
100 900: west of the Mississippi at zoe, 600
There il great suffering in all parts of the
South now from want Of food, and it is diff
cult to see how they can avoid much suffering
ip their army this winter.
The army Of the Potomac is in excellent
trim. In numbers it is superior TO the enemy
al least 10 900 and perhaps 10000.
There is no reasbn to fear defeat, and there
are many reasons for believing tina. Lee will
be compelled to fall back stll further into the
heart Of Virginia.
II is limited that considerable Union force
has started, or is about to start, up the PEN
| insula toward Richmond. 1t is stated that
the artillery roads constructed under orders o.
/ Mcclellan are in superb condition, and VIII
greatly facilitate the movement against tbs
enemy.
A special dispatch from Cincinnati gives an
/ account Of singular story about two snspl-
cious looking crafts discovered yesterday hoy
ering about Sandusky Bay, supposed to be phi.
yateers fitted up by secession.sLs in Canada,
aided By their sympahisers in United States.
| The supposed object being TO release the rebel
prisoners on Johnson's Island, and commence
! piracy on the lakes and pilage on the land
| A battery Of Parrot guns was ordered forth
with TO the Island.
The mountainous position commanding the
Tennessee, which was so skiIlfully and gallant
w won by Gen. Hooker, has been so much
/, strengthened by works thrown up since the
rebel evacuation that il is now deemed inn
pregnable. tits said by correspondents famil-
lar with the country that his rear and tanks are
nearly unapproachable, owing 10 the peculiar
conformation Of the country. We have thus
secured a safe and sure route for the shipment
Of supplies from Bridgeport TO Chattanooga.
Adyices from Tennessee say that Major
Stearns is making successful and solid progress
in enlisting negro troops there. He has es-
tablished recruiting stations al Nashville, Muir
freesboro, Galatin, Wartrace, Carksville,
Shelbyville, Columbia. and Stevenson, Ala
bama Loyal shareholders receive certificates,
emitting them to $500 for each slave thus taken
into military service, on having filed with the
authorities a valid deed of mannmisson. Dis
loyal shareholders receive nothing.
Gov Solomon has received dispatch from
W. Y SeIleck, stating that 5ih Wisconsin
and 9th Maine are the regiments which took
the large fort, rifle pits, four guns, and the
pontoon bridge in the recent fight on the Rap
pahannock The 9Th Wisconsin lost eleven
killed and City or sixty wounded. Captain
Walker: Go. A, Fart 2rdway, Co. d, and
| White and Lieut.. Hutchinson Of Co. B, are
seriously wounded COL Allen, Lieuts. Miles
and Meyer Of Co. G, are slightly Wounded
The gallant 9Th shows clear record in fighting
and voting.
A Nashville paper Of the 9th says" We con-
verscd, last night, with gentleman Who left
Chattanooga on Tuesday, aud he Informed us
that ample supplies for the use Of the army
had been received before he left, and that no
apprehension is felt as TO future supplies. -
| Bragg still held Lookout Mountain, upon which
he had a 81 pounderswifh hich he fired awhile
upon Ghla,ifahooga, and thea ,,haa Hooker, who
without accomplishing any material dam lge.
Our Informant states that large numbers Of the
inhabitants Of Lower East Tennessee are
leaving that section, because of the extraor-
dihary- ssafGity of the necessaries of life
They are threatened with actual starvation If
they stay there"
1t is stated that Lee is not with bis forces in
front of Meade; but that A. F. Lee and Ewell
are in command Lee is reported to have gone
to Chattanooga, and prisoners taken make the
usual bfasss Of how Meade will besooh whip
ped and gits OUT mysterious hipis as 10 his
being drawn into trap. The iebeis confirm
the reported restitution in their army, and
North Carolina troops captured declare that
they will not again fake up arms. The North
C'Folinians and Louisiana Tigers had a fight
in tire cars on their way to town, upon this
topic, the former boldly saying that they were
heartily sick Of the war, and did not wish TO
be exchanged. The latter called them pol
troons, and the two parties came to blows.
A private letter from an inmate of the Lib
by Prison, dated October 18th. states that The
Union prisoners receive no meat, it being I'M.
possible FOR the rebels, who are starving them
selves, TO supply II. Already another bread
riot, of which the papers make no mention,
has occurred. The real cause of the sea rcity
OF food is the entire worthlessness of the cur
rency. Farmers have grain and cattle 10 sell,
but not to give away for paper rags, or to put
within the iron grasp of the rebel government,
| if the, can help it.
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