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eports of the enemy are for fairs above . Our lines are within four miles of that place. Officers state that Rosecrans sent two flags of truce asking permission to bury the dead and relieve the wounded. Gen. Bragg rejected both applications, replying that he had enough of Yankee prisoners to bury the dead, and Yankee surgeons to attend to the wounded. There was no fighting yesterday. The Yankee prisoners have an abundance of counterfeit money. Some of them have been brought in in irons for passing it. The following official dispatch was received at the War Department Thursday night: Near Chattanooga, Sept. 24.--The report from Gen. Hood last night was favorable. Our prisoners will reach 7000, of whom 2,000 are wounded. We have 25 stand of colors and guidons, 36 pieces of artillery, and have already collected over 15,000 small arms over and above those, left on the field by our killed and wounded. More are being found. (Signed) Braxton Bragg.
Chattanooga to-day fail to get through. Though the news is far from encouraging, people here have confidence that Rosecrans will maintain himself till reinforcements reach him, and that he will then turn the tables on Johnston. Washington,Sept. 24.--A dispatch from Gen. Rosecrans, dated at his headquarters last night, says: "I cannot be dislodged from my present position." Nashville Sept. 23--Very little news of an official character is received here, we obtaining all our news from officers directly from the front. It is rumored that we have lost four Generals in killed and wounded, and two as prisoners. Cincinnati,Sept.24.--Mr. Shanks, correspondents of the New York Herald has arrived here from the battle-field. He says that the official reports of the battle from Washington are in the main totally incorrect; that really the Army of the Cumberland has met a defeat which must put it on the defensive for some time to come. Gen. Rosecrans was falling back o
The Daily Dispatch: October 12, 1863., [Electronic resource], The Hitch in the Exchange of prisoners. (search)
, September 11, and September 26 will inform you of all the Vicksburg prisoners, officers and men, whom I have declared exchanged. Your objection to the declaration of the exchange of the general officers paroled at Vicksburg, because there were no equivalents of the same grade, is exploded by the provision of the Cartel which declares that "men and officers of lower grades may be exchanged for officers of a higher grade." I have thus answered all the items of your letter of the 24th Sept. I regret the extreme length of the reply. I have, however, confined myself to the matter of that letter, and to such subjects as were directly connected with its contents. In a future communication I will call to your attention the instances of the violation of the Cartel by the Federal authorities. Not withstanding the expression of their sudden regard for that instrument, I will show they have continued those violations from its date to the present moment. I now inform you, in vi
ma has just arrived from the Brazos with the intelligence that another fight had occurred at Bagdad between the French and Cortinas. A private letter, written the night before the transport sailed, says: "The fight is now progressing. Artillery is being used on both sides. The French marines are good gunners, and are entrenched. The result is purely conjectural." The Gold market. The following telegrams are from the Baltimore American of Saturday afternoon: New York, September 24.--Gold has had a decided downward tendency this morning. From 212 it soon fell to 210, then to 207, and at half-past 12 o'clock was offered at 226, with a still downward tendency. One o'clock.--Gold has further declined to 205 under the influence of the news from Sheridan. One and-a-half o'clock P. M.--Gold has still further declined to 200, and is still coming down. Withdrawal of Fremont. Fremont has written a letter withdrawing from the canvass for the Presidency fo
Richmond and Petersburg Railroad Co.,Richmond, October 5, 1864. Thirty Dollars Reward.--Ran away from the Richmond and Petersburg Railroad Company, on the 24th of September, James Cheatham, a negro man, twenty-eight years of age, of a gingerbread color, five feet seven inches high, stout built, and has been a brakeman on freight trains of this road. E. H. Gill, General Superintendent. oc 6--1w
Richmond and Petersburg railroad Co.,Richmond, October 5, 1864. Thirty dollars Reward.--Ran away from the Richmond and Petersburg Railroad Company, on the 24th of September, James Cheatham, a negro man, twenty-eight years of age, of a gingerbread color, five feet seven inches high, stout built, and has been a brakeman on freight trains of this road. E. H. Gill, General Superintendent. oc 6--1w
Richmond and Petersburg Railroad Co.,Richmond, October 5, 1864. Thirty Dollars Reward.--Ran away from the Richmond and Petersburg Railroad Company, on the 24th of September, James Cheatham, a negro man, twenty-eight years of age, of a gingerbread color, five feet seven inches high, stout built, and has been a brakeman on freight trains of this road. E. H. Gill, General Superintendent. oc 6--1w
Later from Europe. By the steamer China, at New York, October 5th, dates to the 24th September, from Liverpool, have been received. British journals on the War. The English journals have nothing new to advance upon American affairs. The New York correspondent of the London Times, writing on the 9th of September, says that the Republican party, seeing the danger which menaces it from divided councils, is rapidly closing up its ranks — and in contrasting the Republican claims of Lincoln and McClellan, he contends that between them there is little to choose on public grounds. The Times correspondent at Richmond, writing August 13th, says there never was a moment when more confidence, as to the result of the war, was entertained throughout Secessia. The New York correspondent of the Daily News says that "whoever may be elected in November, you have nothing to look for but war. There is no peace party that will weigh in the contest, and unless some great change
Richmond and Petersburg Railroad Co.Richmond, October 5, 1864. Thirty Dollars Reward.--Ranaway from the Richmond and Petersburg Railroad Company, on the 24th of September, James Cheatham, a negro man, twenty-fight years of age, of a gingerbread color, five feet seven inches high, stout built, and has been a brakeman on freight train of this road. E. H. Gill. General Superintendent oc 6--1t*
Richmond and Petersburg Railroad Co.Richmond, October, Thirty dollars Reward.--Ranaway from the Richmond and Petersburg Railroad Company, on the 24th of September, James Cheatham, a negro man, twenty-eight years of age, of a gingerbread color, five feet seven inches high, stout built, and has been a trains of this road. E. H. Gill. General Superintendent oc 6--1w