The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1864-11-05
Eastern n ews.

Only about 250o rebels ara left between S,
Inc river and Camden. Gen. Heron il
Little Rock on an inspecting tour throug
Canby's department. There is great activit
IN military matters, indicating .agmove to II
terrupt Price. N4S saA
New York, Oct. 25.--The COMMERCIAL
special says that Grant will insist that civilian
now at the front, engaged in distributin
tickets to the soldiers at the comiag election
alleither have to leave the army aItogethe
or make some arrangement by which thef
mission can be performed without impeding
M slitary operations. Their political discus
SONS excite soldiers in some cases, and Leaf
hem to neglect their datfes.
st. louis, Oct. 25.-The Democrats w ar
Teasburg special says. Gen. Hall has ar:ived
from. independence with snail escort. Hi
thinks oar cavalry not only damaging Il
Price 3 moving throug Kansas, bat SPHINX line
the road with the blood of his best men,
Dug loss in Sundays hight was 25O killed add
wounded The rebel loss was much greater
We took betAeen 400 and 500 pris oners.-
Deserters from Price are coming to this poss
an considerable numbers. -
The dead bodies of Mai. Wilson, Sd No.
cavalry, and six Of his men, captured BY the
gebels at Pilot Knob, and given up to guer-
rilla band for execution, for the alleged kill
ing Of some rebels in Arkansas last summer,
were found ia Franklin comfy yesterday.
Wilson'S body had several bullet holes in it.
A rebel major and six priyates, now in Allon
prisen as hostages for Wilson and his men,
will doubtless be shot in retaliation.
Thore is nothing later from Price. Head
quarters here have no confirmation of the
capture of cannon at Independence and the
routing of the rebel army 81 Efa
New York, PA large number of French
officers are stopping in this city, on their way
home from Mexico. Tea thousand troops are
being Withdrawn from Mexico.
The Worlds special says, Col. Alexander
arriyedto-night from Sheridans headquarters.
He confirms fully the statemetts of the vcto-
ry and the results of Thursdays fight. Ear.
" made no demonstration since FRIDAY. At
last accounts he was considerable below Har-
sisonburg in adisorganized state.
KANSAS CRY, October 22.-The fgbtye..
terda, between Little Blue and independence
wss gallant affair. We fought Prices
army for five hours: McLanes Colorado reg
iment attacked and secured the guns of
rebel battery. Col. Blunt CALAMITY sustained
the charge with q batteryof the Fifteenth
Kansas and the old Colorado regiment. He
Is saidto have lost 60 men killed and wound |
I'd. Major Smith, in command of regiment
was killed. Our entire loss is reported at
400. Pagan, Shelby, Marmaduke Clark and |
several other Brigadiers are with Price. Our
pickets had q slight skirmish this morning. |
Jameson was attacked at Big Blue ford By |
heavy column. At 2 O'Clock, p NJ, the enemy |
arrived at the ford and Jameson fell back to
Westport, near the State line. Reinforce.
'nents We're sent to him, The two comman. I
ders fought the enemy till after dark, driving
him four miles over the open prairie. A gem
eral battle has been fought and a great victo-
" won. Price army has been routed and is
still retreating south. Our cavalry are ia
pursuit tonight, aud with Pieasaaton's force
lumber $1,000 mounted men. The enemy
nay reach Fort Scott, but are too closely |
to do much damage. The battle be-
gan early this mornings This morning the
inc was formed five miles south of Kansas
lily, on the Westport road. The skirmshng
continued for several hours, when the whole
orce advanced and heavy firing ensued. The I
nemy fell back very rapidly and formed an
'ther line one mile and half from the first
position. Here an artillery duel took place.
The infantry slowly advancing and the enemy
alling back The fighting was kept up for {
en miles. AT this point General PIeasanton
anne up and made a charge which resulted
n the total route of the enemy. When our
left, the pursuit was vigorously (
ept up'by the whole cavalry.
Washington, Oct zl.--President Lincoln !
as issued proclamation setting apart the
Ast Thursday of November as day of :
hanksgiving and praise to Almighty God.
Quebec, Oct 2t.--1t is reported that the !.
onferencs had agreed upon the Constitution
the Lower House on the basis of repre- |
entation according to the population the
Otal number of members to be 1884, The
difference is new discussing the powers of
be General Government The outline of the !.
ew Federal Constitution will probably be as |.
blows The qoy-General of the Confedera- :
on will be appointed by the Grown, and be /,
dvised by a Cabinet under the British Par
amentary form of Government The mem !
ers of the Upper House ate to be elected :
Or FIVE years, the ratio of representation to- 8
e adjusted every ten years. A Lieut.. Gov I
rnor of each Province is TO be appUiated by a
,e Gov.-General of the Confederation, under S
ae advice of the Federal Cabinet. The r
constitutions of local Legislatures are TO be
eternlned by the existing Pariaments with n
ut regard to uniformity The Financial s