Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1863-11-13
News Of the War.

Marmaduke attacked the place with 5000
men and was repulsed with considerable
( los. The garrison Of Pine Bluff consisted oil
/ 700 cavalry under Col. Clayton, and lost Il
killed and Is wounded.
Accounts from Little Rock, Ark. report
/ that Prices forces have retreated beyOn the
Red River, his cavalry only occupying Ar
kadelphia.
Longs rebel division is around Canton,
Mrs. lie has about 5000 infanty. Three
/ thousand are guarding Mobile and the South
ern railroads. Gen. Lees cavalry force is
about 10, 600 strong and comprise four dlvis-
/ ions under jackson, Crosby, Ross and Rod =
+ DIV Crosbvs force Is between Benton and
Moor's Bluff. on the Big Black. Chalmers
I i between Grenada and Oxford, and ROddy
{ il about Corinth. At last accounts Lee was
4 above Corinth with Elk thousand men. Pill
/ low 5 headquarters are at Columbia Miss
: IN attack on Memphis in great force was
only prevented by our recent demonstrations
on Canton, Miss.
Numbers OF rebels are said to be heartily
sick Of the war and would gladly give up
their negroes to stop it.
Another attack was made on the evening
Of the 81, by the rebels on the Colliersyille.
Memphis Il Charleston railroad. After =
hrIci fight the enemy were repulsed. The
rebel Brig. Gen. Geany and Is OF his staff
were among the prisoners taken.
Information from the Army of the Poto-
mac states the rebels still bold the river line
from Sulphur Springs to Falmouth. Our
cavalry are in the front. Nearly all our
sick and wounded have been sent away.
Gen. Bragg forage train sent up the
Lookout valley in front of his position was
captured. The train was sent to camp. The
train guard were also captured.
One OF the most reliable detectives in the
/ government service at Alexandria states that
large numbers of persons belonging to the
rebel army are now infesting the counties Of
Stafford and Prince William. These men
are mostly residents Of the counties and are
around at home during the day and at night
: 60 out and commit depredations On the pro-
perty Of union citizens.
Mrs. Ex-President Tyler WIS at Bermuda
Oct. 3lst, having run the blockade. The fol-
lowing blockade runners, steamships, were in
port bound to Nassau, alias Wilmington n.
c.: Dee, Flora, Advance. Lady Davis, Rob
ert f. Lee, Boston, Ella and Anna. | .S.Steam-
er Rhode Island was at ST. Thomas Oct.
23d, on cruise.
The wooden mills in Manchester. Va. turn
out fourteen hundred and fifty yards Of army
cloth per week. which is sold TO tine rebel
government for $50 yard.
The IrOn-clad ram which Is being construct
at ninstOn. on the Neuee river, some 10 mile,
above Newburn. Is reported nearly ready
Tor a raid.
\ letter from Chattanooga says We are
virtually in possession now Of the only al
mines on which the rebels have depended 10
supply their important toundrIes and shoIs
at home aud Atlanta.
At Tracy City. Tenn, in the Cumberland
Mountains, a short distance from the Nash
vii, and Chattanooga railroad, IN tue RacOon
Mountains, Ga. ) or / miles from Shell
Mound Station, ON the same railroad, and
again in the Cumberland Mountains On the
North side Of the tennessee, and not far above
Chattanooga, are tie only mines worked by
tie rebels ior coal previous to our occuIa-
tiln If East tennessee.
la the mountains near the station Is also
am immen-c cave known as "NIck-a-Jack
Cave" containing very large supplies Of
nitre, which have been extensively used by
the rebels, they Obtaining most OF their salt
Vetre in this region.
Gen Bragg II said TO have remarked that
the loss of these coal and nitre works WAS
greater blow To the rebel army than the loss
Vi battle.
Mr. Bohanan, who was captured IN the
vicinity Of Uccoquan last Christmas, and late
Is returned home, GAYS that Castle Thunder
is the only prison in Richmond where prls-
ouers are allowed To purchase anything.
Shortly after the battle OF Chattanooga,
about 200 wounded prisoners arrived at
4 Richmond from the field. They were almost
! ali in a + mishing and starving condition.
/ They were three days on the road between
/ the two points, and all they had to eat wac
/ four hard crackers each.
! They were taken to the Libby Prison,
where they remained two days without hav-
/ in,s their wounds dressed. and during all
| Wish they had not a mOuthiul to eat. tSome
/ offered a. high $50 for loaf Of bread
! but the officers would not let 1t be carried 10
them.
The rebel papers give the following details
/ Of the last BON bardment OF Fort Sumter:
! CHARLESTON, Oct 3l.-The enemys fire
/ upon Fort Sumter last night was furious and
/ incessant from the land batteries. This morn
/ ing about o'clock a portion OF the walls
4 fell IN, burying beneath the ruins some men
believed to be Of the 10Th Georgia and 10Th
/ South Carolina regiments.-Ihirteen art
missing. The fire OF the land batteries wac
directed chiefly at the southwest angle o
the fort. The flagstaff was carried away
twice but speedily replaced. The flag wat
cut to pieces and the battle-hag of the 18th
| Georgia was used instead. The casualties OF
SATURDAY we're .wo killed, and three wound
| ed.
Over 1900 shots were fred in two hours.
The firing is still heavy. This Afternoon
the shots averaged four per minute Ih'
firing has been from two monitors tW'
heavy and two light guns, at Fort Gregg
and from ten-inch murtars at the mIddl
battery.
\ Richmond paper of the Attn says
Ii was understood yesterday that o,Uu'
Yankees had landed at Newport News. I'M
is doubtless the first steHin the grand schem
which Is 10 astunish Nankeedom, contOun'
the rebels, take Richmond, and crush the re
belliOn.
The Lynehburgh Republican learning tina
some 1900 Yankee prisoners are to be sen
from Richmond to that city, strongly pro
tests. Ii SAYS: I'VE don't want tnen
here-We have got as many people nov
among us az can possibly be supplied VIII
food. and to have 1900 voracious Yankee
added To the number would made genera
starvation not only possible hut mos
probable consequence for all OF US. W
hope the government will reconsider its dt
termination, and not thrust upon us wors
than that which the loeusts inflicted upol
Egypt
We have possession Of Tuscumbia, Alabo
ma. There has probably been a severe high
in that quarter between Gen Sherman
force and the heavy rebel force sent there
dispute his passage.
\ special dispatch from Chattanooga say'
All a. onirt In the recent fight Wit