Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-01-26
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Military Movements at Corinth, Port
Hudson and Baton Rouge..Brasg's

Military Movements at Corinth, Port
Hudson and Baton Rouge..Brasg's
= Army. So
CHICAGO, January pa Corinth, (Miss.)
letter of the 18th says: The Federals are
evacuating that place, and that the rebels
will have possession in few days.
A Port Hudson letter Of the 18th, says
the rebels are concentrating in the rear Of
this stronghold and Baton Rouge, and arc
becoming quite enterprising. They push
their picEets close to our lines. st. George
Cooke, commanding at Baton Rouge, and
General Ullman have sent out large detach-
ments to cut off two thousand rebels, who
are making stand about fifteen miles to the
east.
A dispatch from Chattanooga, OF the I'D,
says the rebel army occupies its old position
mt Dalton. 1t is believed it does not number
over thirty thousand Tennessee and Ken
lucky troops, who are encamped IN the
centre under guard 1t is positively known
they are killing their best mules for subsist-
ence.
Threatening Situation in East Ten.
nessee.
A Cincinnati special says that Captain
King had arrived yesterday from Knoxville.
LonSstreet has been reinforced by twenty
thousand men and had concentrated his
forces preparatory to movement on Knox
vile. His column was within twenty-three
miles Of that place with front of ten miles.
There has been heavy skirmishing; Gran
gers forces being compelled to fall back be-
fore the superior forces of the enemy. Our
loss was slight while the damage done the
rebel column was heavy. Our army has
been compelled to fall back and occupy the
entertainments surrounding Knoxville, but
it has the ability to hold the position, which
has been doubly strengthened since Burn
side left.
1t is reported that John Morgan, at the
head of 5000 men, will take part in Long
streets operations and be on the alert for an
advance to the rear of Knoxville to cut otf
supplies, and, if possible, draw our forces
back from East Tennessee. Foster was
seriously i'll until the arrival of Schoheld.--
Granger is the principal officer In command.
Arkansas NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
for Senator in Kentucky.
WASHINGTON, January A.-The Presi-
dent informed the Arkansas delegation that
Steele would be Military Governor as well as
Commander until the organization Of the
State Government.
Rosecrans has been assigned to the COM
mand of the Department Of Missouri.
In the Kentucky Legislature Guthrie re-
ceiyed fiftv-one votes for United States Sena-
tor: Bell, forty Gresham, thirty-two Buck
ner, five Sixty-fye were required for
choice.
Startling Rumors from Charleston.
Lee to be made Dictator--InsubOr-
dination and Starvation.
New York, January 24.-The Times con-
tains letter from Frenchman, formerly in
the rebel army, dated Richmond, January
18th, in which he says: "All our principal
men think war between France and the
United States near at hand. The plan OF
making Lee Dictator will be adopted as the
only means to counterfeit the strength Of the
North. Lee will accept. He and jeff are on
bad terms. Davis is unpopular in conse-
quence of keeping Bragg so long IN COM
mand. He had even thought since Bragg's
dismissal Of giving him command Of the
Army of Virginia, and sending Lee to Dali
ton. Early's expedition was miserable
failure. More than a thousand veterans are
returning hors du combat, having their hands
and feet frozen"
News from Charleston, the writer says, is
discouraging. Beauregard has expressed the
much longer, as Gilmorc's guns were in posi-
ton to reduce it to ashes in n few hours
One South Carolina regiment doing duty
there, intended to desert en- maSSe. Twenty
of the ringleaders were shot on the 4th, and
the rest divided up among the other regi-
ments. The Thirteenth Virginia, ordered to
Alabama, refused to go, and used to fill up
other regiments as the only plan to avoid
mutiny. Bread riots occur almost daily in
the South. The writer concludes that the
days Of the Southern Confederacy are num-
bered.
Foreign News.
European dates to the 9Th have been re-
ceived.
In the French Legislature, the Committee
on Credits unanimously advised that an end
be put to the Mexican expedition so soon as
the honor of France may permit.
A great sympathy is expressed for Poland
by France.
The King of Denmark will upold the honor
of his country by force. The minor States
are warned from Vienna against precipitat-
ing war.