Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1864-10-31

General Neal, We are Informed has been
ordered TO West Vrsihia onim potiant service
which is most likely 10 check any designs
Breckinridge may have Of moving through
/ from East Tennessee.
| over 1000 refugees have come into Sheri-
dams lines since the ! 9Th OF September. some
of them bringing with them such Of their
property as they can carry
1t is ngsin said that Early has been super
seded in command of the rebels in the Shen.
andoah Valley, by Longstreet, and that rein
torcements bad reached them from Breckn-
ridge in Western Virginin and East Teunes.
see.
The Tribune's dispatch from the Army Of
the James, Of the 25th inst, says OF the dem
onslrstions made by Buffers forces:
Gen. Terry moved the 10th corps out in
advance of our extreme right, and began oo.
cupying the country along the scene of the
fight ON the l4th inst and from that point on
the Darbytown Road northward TO the Charles
City road Considerable Gesultery firing Oc-
Cured during the day, without further effect
than to show the enemys strength.
The 18th corps, meanwhile, accompanied by
Kautz's cavalry, moved out toward the Viii.
liamsburg road and there engaged the enemy
until late in the afternoon, with varying sue
casses
Holman brigade OF coored troops succeed
ed in capturing one of the enemy's redoubts,
and capturing their gunR, while Fair
child's and Hull's brigades were roughly
handled in eHdeayoring to take q
strong position, held by the enemy
directly on the Williamsburg road, in the
ncighborhood of SeveH Pines and darkness
came on too soon 10 permit TO avail ourselves
the advantage gained by the capture of the
redOubt on the enemy's left, and our troops
were ordered to withdraw to the rear, which
they did at daylight, and fair start again
the next morning The result on the other
side OF the James however made general
ercnit to merit the withdrawal Of our for
ces. We follow telegraph reporl--if no
sci Sc ~ it, we cannot help i'll to their or gi-
nal position. Matters then resumed their
usual quiet here. The losses in the Tenth
Corps will amount to some three hundred
men or thereabouts, and o the 18th Corps is
probably double that, about half of them were
caI tnred by the enemy.
Among the earliest rebel newspaper extracts
is proclamation Of jeff Davis making the
10th OF November as national day of
Thanksgiving in his dominions In this doc
ument while claiming that thanks are due
for the many signals victories with which our
army nave Deen CtONntu-lOr itulliul-
nes wthn VIII Oh our land has ben
iessed and for the unimpaired energy
with which the hearts Of the rebels have bee
inspired, at tho same time acknowledges tha
our siHs have merited aud received grovious
chastisvment, for which the soldiers Of the
Union can vouch and that largo districts Of
the codntry have been swept over and held
by the armies Of the United States. That
the colored troops are thorn in JEFF s side,
IS shown by his statement that with iiendish
malignity, the passions of servile race have
been excited by our foes"
The Charleston Mercury reviews at length
the so called peace theories of Stephens and
the rebel Congressman Berce. in the course
of criticism it very frankly admits that the
people of rebeldom live under despotism;
that the rebel Constitution has been violated
by the rebel Congress in the leyying Of di-
rect taxes, aud that the public faith has
been forfeited 10y compelling holders OF rebel
eurrancy 10 aaerie one-third of IT, "Our
ats p M aiaiiIsSt 10 raise I6sr
Nfeads y
The rebel accounts of Grant's last move
ments are summed up in terrible Union
loss in killed and wounded, while rebel loss
is put at 1000 men. ..........
The death of the rebel General Deariug
is anpOunced