New-York daily tribune., 1863-11-21
NEWS OF THE DAY.
THE WAX.

Gen. Burnside, in private dispatch dated
xpoxvlo. Nov. 70. seys. 1--WE are all right Yet the
ine Is still interrupted between Knoxville and Cumoer-
land Gan. Nothing was heard from the latter place
last night nor Up to II O'Clock today" PaTson Blown
low telegrsphs from Barbour H.n NOV Is, .lat there
is fighting all about Rockville"
A letter from the blockading squadron on
Mobile reports that Rebel ram recently came ou' oi
,he harbor ard attacked the feet, This ram is an iroi
clad vessel built by the contributions OF the iades o'
Mobile. and presented by them TO that city. IT, TO-
getbe- with two steamers and floating battery, cons
tu,es tie naval defense Of Mobile. Tie ram. aier
r,ej,inr three shots fom ile Colorado ard two fso;n
the Genesee, vessels on the Mobile blockade. iInnec
aey put back under the protection Of the guns OF fof
Morgan.
U.F. Mann's s-nch breech-loading rife gun
vss Hred az the proving grounds near Trenton n on
Thursday. in presence Of Cept J. II. Upshur OF the
Navy. ard Major T. I. S. Laidley Of the War Depart
,neu Tie charge used was l6 pounds Of powder, and
the rrciectile ~ pound elongated shot The gun
weighs 90 900 pounds. and was Manufactured in tie
Trenton Locomotive Works. No breechlcading gun
Of this eaber has ever been made before The expert
meat was most Successful
We learn from Chattanooga that desertions
ron The Rebel Army are more numerous than ~
apy time since The expulsion Of Br0Fg from Middle len
nessee Tie demora2aiion OF the Rebels increases daily
On Tie other hand. Gen. Grants troops are In spen
did spits. Reenlis;uenis in tie veteran coips are
more numerous thsn expected, and il is said on
good authority that less than four hs Of the eare
force will reenter TIE army for the neS term.
A great War meeting was held in Hartford,
Conn, on Thursday night, Speeches were made hy the
Hon jas. DIXON Col Henry c. Dcring the Rev. II. e.
Trumbun and others. A Committee Of fay was ap-
pointed 10 aid in recruiting. Tie prospects good
that Connecticut VII furnish her fa quota by the 9Th
Of January.
William T. Snithson, convicted by the gen
r-al court martial Of holding correspondence with tie
enemy in violation Of the fifty seventh article OF
and OF giving intelligence TO the enemy. IA violation O..
the sano article has been sentenced be confined in
the penisentary for the term GIVE years.
BY an arrival from New O. leans we have three
days later intelligence from NcwOrleans. There has
been material change in the situation. Tho war
news is not specially Interesting.
The reports Of heavy fighting in Western
Louisiana untrue. There lad been slight sAirmsh
ing but nothing decisive had transp.red Our forces
are still in the vicinity Of yeruionyile. AMI every
thing was quiet.
The Rebels soy they have almost nothing
wherewiih to feed ,hc Union prisoners nj Rictmond
YET the Common Coulcil Of that city lss just yo,ed
$4,000 to buy house for Gen Lee
The War meeting at the Academy Of Music
n Brooklyn last evening attended bya great crosd
"a -. izens. The Rev. DR.. Vilton, Cen. Pratt and
,,,,e-. ,c. . addTesses.
The ,ath N..-~ York regiment has been inu'-
fe,ed into ,ervlce f., ~, MONTH AT Buffalo II viii 90
duty in that city and along Lake r,.''
Our Government now holds 81 ,00c febei
prisoners. There 5000 negroes araed and IN tbe
service OF the Government.
Rebel papers say that their great ram Ms
souri. built a. Shreveport. La is total failure. She
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