Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-01-11
Latest Dispatches!
.,,e,.I pIsrArcn TO THE GOLD nu1 DAILY Ne
Dates TO YESTERDAY.
Less of n Gun-bOnt-FightinE ne,

Mobile.
CAIRO, Jan. l0.-Advices from New
Orleans report that the gun-boat Rather
drifted ashore, in the late storm, between
Vicksburg and Natchez, and was fred by
gang of guerillas and burned to the wa
ter's edge.
A letter from Mobile to a citizen of New
Orleans says fighting was going on in that
vicinity on the Slst of December.
Full Particulars of GriersOn's Expe-
ditiOn.
ST. LOUIS, Jan. l0.-The Vicksburg
Herald of january 9Th has full account
of Grierson's second raid into Mississippi.
The expedition left Memphis December
2lst, three thousand strong. At Egypt,
on the Mobile and Ohio railroad, con-
siderable force of the enemy was encoun-
tered and sharp fight ensued, in which
quite number of the enemy were killed
and wounded and five hundred prisoners
taken. The rebel General Slocomb, COM
handing, was among the killed.
From Egypt the command struck west
ward, crossing the Mississippi Central
Railroad below Grenada, destroying thirty
miles Of the road. Several locomotives
and fifty cars were destroyed at Grenada,
and extensive cloth and shoe factories at
Barkston. Among the prisoners captured
are one Colonel, twenty-five line officers,
and number of our men, who. to escape
the horrible treatment of our prisoners at
Andersonville, had joined the rebel army.
A Cotton Schooner Cut Ont from,
Galveston.
Ensign Blums, of the steamer Virginia,
cut out from Galveston the schooner
Dollie, from Nassau, with l20 bales OF
cotton. The schooner, when captured,
was within five hundred yards of rebel
guard ship, close in shore, and protected
by shore batteries. She also passed d.
rectly under the guns of two forts on her
way out.
Later from Havana and san Do
mlEO.
New YORK, Jan. l0.-The Liberty,
with Havana dates to January 4th, has
arrived. But little news from any quar-
ter had reached Havana.
Accounts from San Domingo represent
the Spaniards to be making very poor
progress. The general opinion is that
Spain ought to abandon her attempts to
conquer the island.
The glorious news from the United
States, received in Havana lately. con-
tinues to make converts to the Union
cause.
Tremendous Battle with the Indians
in ColOrado-The Most Serious In
dian Incursion yet Recorded.
JuLEsBuRG, Colorado, Jan. 9.-On
Saturday morning party of Indians at
tackled the Overland Mail Express Coach,
three miles east of here, and robbed the
mails and express. They also attacked
the mule train, killing one man and
wounding another. The troops, at the
Military Post her, numbering fifty to
eighty men, Immediately started to the
relief of the white settlers in the vicinity,
driving the Indians to the bluffs mile
back, where the Indians were reinforced
to fifteen hundred, and in turn drove the
troops back to the post. The Indians
then entered the stage station in large
numbers.
After destroying all the furniture and
breaking all the windows in the buildings,
they set them on fire. They also destroyed
a large amount of telegraph material. A
well directed volley of musketry from the
troops at the post soon drove them from
the station. In the running fight on the
retreat of our troops thirty-fve Indians
were killed, including the principal chief.
Nineteen soldiers and citizens were killed.
A general massacre and destruction of the
whites was prevented by the perseverance
and bravery of our troops, and an eff
cient artillery fire. The Indians retired
in southerly direction. This is by far
the most determined incursion yet made
by Indians.