Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1863-11-27
War News.

Il ELS FLANKED.-The occupation of Mad
r ison Court House by the army OF tn 20
- tomac is confirmed. The army is sti
moving southwark. The advance of gu
right by the way of Madison Court Hous
looks very much like flank movement
Our cavalry is reported to have alread.
got into the rear Of a portion of Lee
forces, and battle is imminent Pom
toons went down, Friday night, and
the enemy has really retreated from tn
Rapidan they will be used at once. 4
Washington telegram says that no doub
has been felt among intelligent men fol
weeks as to the result of an engagement
between Meade and Lee; and the feaI
has existed that Lee would escape from
our troops, and it is not dissipated yet.
Culpepper county, for the most part
is low ground, and the soil of such a ma
ture that single heavy shower of rain
turns its usually dry plains into quag-
mires, over which it is next to impossible
TO move artillery or columns Of infantry
or cavalry.
Several skirmishes occurred during the
advance; a severe one at the crossing Of
Robertson river. The rebels were driv-
en- from their positions, and across the
Rapidan. The impression is that Lees
main force has left the line of the Rapi-
dan and is falling back upon Richmond
on the two railroad lines, via Gordons
vile to ,Lynchbdrg and via Fredericks-
burg to Hanover Junction. The rebel
pickets on the Rapidan have been doub-
led. This indicates truth in the statement
that their main army has fallen back,
Lee, however, maintains a show of
strength along the whole Rapidan line.
MORE PRISONERS FROM RICHMOND.
The steamer New York has arrived at
Fortress Monroe from City Point with
653 Union prisoners from Richmond,
among them Mr.. Thomas, telegraph OPP
orator. The Richmond Enquirer of
November 10Th says: " The Libby con-
tains eighty-four Yankee surgeons. These
will be sent forward as soon as ours,
about an equal number, are received.
Two thousand one hundred Yankee
prisoners in Richmond have been sent to
Danvlle. Lynchburg has sent an invi
tation for several thousand, and they will
be sent up this week. William Bate
nan, I'd Tennessee artillery, was brought
o Castle Thunder yesterday to await ex-
scution for the crime of desertion from
he confederate army previous to his
joining the Yankee army. Twenty-Five
Yankee deserters made their escape
49, . IL ''h',rdnr lost Saturday, Two
Of them were recaptured while making
their way to the peninsula"
ARKANSAS AND THE INDIAN TERRI
from Fort Smith, Ark,
are to the 18th. Gen. Blunt arrived
there safely on the 18th, conveying an
immense train from Fort Scott. The
train consisted of several hundred wag
ons, loaded with quartermaster and ordi-
nance stores. 1t was accompanied by a
suffers train Of 100 wagons. Detach-
ments of Brooks and Shelby's rebel
lowered on our TANKS, but
the vigilance of Gen. Blunt prevented
surprise upon any part of the train.
Gen. McNiel, commanding at Fit. Smith,
has issued an order directing that hereaf-
ter, in every instance, the cutting of the
wire shall be considered the
deed Of bushwhackers, and for every
such act some bushwhacking prisoner
shall have Withdrawn from him that mer-
cy which induced the holding of him as a
prisoner, and shall be hung to the post
where the wire is cut; and as many
bushwhackers shall be so hung as there
are places where the wire is cut. The
nearest house 70 the place where the wire
is cut, if the property of disloyal man
and within ten miles, shall be burned.
Gen. Mcneil declares that these men
who alone are engaged in the work of
cutting the wires have no claim to be
treated as soldiers, and are entitled toI
none of the rights accorded by the laws
of war to honorable beligerents.
Kirby Smith, rebel commander in the
trans Mississippi region, has called upon
the people above and below the conscrip-
ton age to organize as home guards, and
promises them victory and peace if they
will endure awhile longer.
Northwestern Arkansas is swarming
with guerrilla bands, both rebel and I'm
ion. Of the latter, many are loyal Cher
okees, known as Pin Indians. The
" Mountain Feds" as the Union Arkan-
slams are known, are active in pursuit of
the busbwbackers, If arms could be