The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1863-12-09
LATE WAR NEWS.


oil General Hooker,s repuIss AT Rinooola
represent his loss q. FIVE hundred. The
Federal army is now intrencbiag on the
eastern slope of Mission Ridge their pick
els being posted two miles in advance along
The western bank of the Chickamauqa
The Federal retreat from Ringgold, seven
miles 10 the Chickamauga, was Iquite pre-
clpilate, and closely followed up by the
enemy, who now picket the eastern bank
OF the stream. General Bragg's headquar
,ers are at Ringgold, and his army is massed
in that neighborhood General Grant has
not yet sent any report OF the result of his
battle to Washington, bnt the number of
prisoners captured is said TO be six thou
sand four hundred and fifty, and the number
OF guns forly-six. The Federal loss in
killed and wounded is stated al forty-five
hundred. Everything is quiet at Chana-
nooga.
From Knoxville we receive nothing de-
finate. General Longstreet does not appear
yet to have raised the siege for if he had
we certainly should have intelligence of il
from General Burnside. There is no com.
munication between Cumberland Gap and
Knoxville yet. General Foster is idle on
the Clinch river, twenty miles from the gap
where he has but a handful of cavalry
He makes no attempt to advance any
farther. A Federal force of three thousand
is said TO have left Chattanooga to aid Burn.
side, though the ropte taken is not very evi-
nj q fodo
be in strong force at Loudon, twenty three
miles west OF Knoxville, and at Kingston,
ten miles northwest of Loudon Caunona-
ding has been heard in that direction so
that IT would seem the expedition had
marched over the Cumberland Mountains.
and was in conflict with the enemy; no pro-
gress appears TO have been made by the
expedition teyond Loudon, the Confeder-
ates having there strong line of defence,
formed by the Tennessee river. We can
find no reliable intelligence of Longs:reet's
retreat The numerous rumors TO that
effect are evidently manufactured at Cincin-
natl.
General Meade's army is a; Brandy Sta
tion, with an outpost of cavalry at Culpeper.
On Friday afternoon light division of the
enemy crossed the Rapidan al point above
Raccoon Ford. General Meade will moi be
able TO drive them across, his line not being
advanced sufficiently to do il, asd the Con-
iederate LETT being already posted on the
north bank of the Rapidan. This crossing
OF the epemy indicates nothing beyond an
adjustment of their position, however.
There is no certainty yet as 10 Meade's
successor, though i appears 10 be decided
thai he shall be removed
There is intelligence from north Carolina
that on November 25th, an expedition raade
from Newbern, in search OF guerrias, re
suited in the capture of seventy-iour men
who were brought into The town. Thirteen
large steamers successfully ran the block
ade al Wilmington in one nigh,-the I9lh
of November.
From Charleston there is news by
Southern medium as late as Thursday last
The bombardment continued Iangnidly and
with no effect. a few shells had been
thrown into The city. "A night calcium
lights on The Ironsdes, (Which is surround
ed by rafis,) and in battery Gregg, are en-
rioyed 10 illuminate the harbor and dis
cover The enemy's working parties The
siege has been in progress one hundred
aud fifty days
Southern accounts from Texas state that
General Banks force at Brownsville ia FIVE
thousand strong, and that he had made no
capture OF cotton,
A Confederate raid has been made from
Arkansas into the heart of the Cherokee
nation. The Federal General Blunt, whose
business if is TO prolsci the Indian Territory
has lately been moving in such an incom,
preheusible manner that even the enemy
cannot find him.