New York Times, The (Newspaper) - October 16, 1861, New York, New York TOL 3141 NEW-YORK WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 16 1861 THE GREAT REBELLION Important News from Washington Sharp Skirmishing Along the Lines The Rebels Driven Back at All Mysterious Movements of the Rebels at Night Batteries Erected at the Mouth of Quantico Creek Tlie and the Reported Naval Engagement at New-Orleans REBEL ACCOUNTS OF TOE AFFAIR Defeat of the Rebels at hai Missouri Release of Prisoners by Order of the Government SPECIAL DISPATCH WASHINGTON Tuesday Oct 15 IHt OWNERS OF CONFISCATED VESSELS By an order made to-day the Secretary of the Treasury has much facilitated the matter of the interests of loyal persons who are joint owners with rebels of vessels that have been seized by the Government officers fore the evidence of loyalty und of ownership has been taken under orders of Court which sarily the owners to great delay and enormous costs By the Secretary's order the evidence will hereafter be made to the Collectors of the several ports and a synopsis sent by them directly to the Secretary Upon this evidence thus taken and submitted the Secretary will de- termine upon the justice and policy of releasing the seizure MR BARNEY AND THE Mr BARNEY the Collector of your Port loft for home this afternoon Some changes in his dinates will probably follow his return Not a few of his present retinue arc supporters of the Peace Party in the State of New-York Indeed if I am not much mistaken the mainstays of the Party are employes THE POST OF DANDER AT I was up to this afternoon or rather to the headquarters of Gen HANCOCK who occupies the post of danger and of honor being on the extreme right of the main body the other side of the Potomac Tlic rebel pickets were about two miles or two miles and a half from his post Yesterday skirmished nearly all day our folks at night being about fifteen head of cattle better off than they were in the morning having captured them from the enemy This morning the rebels put ten head more in the same field evidently to de- coy our boys in They got more than a match however for our boys not only got the cattle but back the rebels who were laying in ambush to catch them Gen HANCOCK campaigned it through Mexico and was too old a soldier to be caught sending a boy to do a man's work The skirmish was hot but our men were in greater force than the rebels calculated We did not have wounded A AT MRS HOUSE Another party from Gen HANCOCK'S Brigade also wont out this morning to the house of Mrs CHILDS three miles off where the rebels have been in the habit of concealing themselves and firing upon the Our party drove them away from the house which they burned gether with eight stacks of grain and hay from which the rebels had beon feeding their horses COULD NOT WAKE THEM DP Gen PORTER to-day fired a number of shells Into the woods where the rebels were supposed to be opposite his quarters but he could elicit no response Probably there was nary a rebel there THX REBELS SUPPOSED TO DE I1 ALL BACK All yesterday afternoon and last night our pickets on the right heard the rumbling of heavy wagons on the road from Great Palls to Vienna Whether the rebels were going from or towards Vienna is only to be conjectured but it is probable falling back on the main body at Vienna 3 A OM THE Yesterday afternoon a detachment of the and New-York Regiments un- der McQuADE made a two and a half miles from church on the line Of the turnpike They vainly vored out a party of rebels who wore concealed in the woods There was sharp firing on both sides but certainly without injury to any of cur ADVANCE OT TUB The rebels Boon after advanced their nearer to our lines Protection been promised to the estate by the administrator who U hi the rebel army Mr BARRETT ihc of Mrs GUILDS has a fine residence in that vicinity and it ia apprehended the enemy will also destroy it as he is known to be a Union man He is from the of York HILJ Yesterday afternoon our forces nt Miner's Hill in the battle of Buena Vista has been appointed an Assistant of Volunteers and assigned to the staff of RICHARD W JOHNSON in Kentucky A OP Tho Court of Inquiry in the case of Col DIXON S MILLS Second United States Infantry ia to re- assemble to-morrow at Camp Williams in ginia As many of the witnesses have left for home and their address is unknown it will be of great service to the Government and a valuable officer if those who have been summoned will in- stantly attend NO TOR THE BODTH To save trouble to all concerned it is officially that the Government has ceased to grant passes to go South through the United States lines T AARON J WESTERVELT son of Ex-Mayor TER VELT has been appointed Consul to Bangkok in the Kingdom of Siain AFFAIRS ON THE UPPER POTOMAC Md Sunday Oct 13 Everything was quiet along the river line Nothing transpired of general Interest In camp Capt Ihc Provost Marshal has seized and confiscated a vast amount of liquors and arrested many sellers IMPORTANT FROM NEW-ORLEANS discovered a number of Secessionists in a field probably a mile and a half distant anil threw three shells at them when they disappeared Two shells were thrown in tho same tion this morning which answered from a hill to tho left of The rebel shells exploded within three-fourths of a mile of Gen headquarters REBEL PICKETS IN SIGHT Prom the observatory at Upton's Hill the rebel pickets are plainly seen to the left of Falls Church REBEL BATTERIES ON THE The Yankee arrived evening from the tilla She reports that at 11 o'clock to-day as the Pocahontas was passing the mouth of tico Creek her officers discovered evidences of the existence ol batteries planted there which had been reported yesterday by the Pusey as the result of her To mine the matter tho Pocahontas opened fire upon the spot and it was followed by the rebels on both of the creek commencing to cut away the small growth which interfered the range of their guns This was soon accomplished and the rebels opened a brisk fire from nine-inch shell guns which however did no damage The Pocahontas at once steamed away and the which had in the meantime conic up opened fire She retired nnd in moving towards Creek six miles distant was upon by other batteries The cers of the arc satisfied that tho rebels have between the mouths of the Quantico and the least ten heavy guns of large calibre nnd one heavy rilled cannon As the got beyond the range of tlie guns at tico the rebels opened upon an oyster with what result was not known a man was seen to mount an embrasure and com- mence to swing a secession flag Between sixty nnd seventy shot and shell in nil were fired by ihc rebels during the hour thai occupied with these events A VIRTUAL EXCHANGE OF The following has been from ters of the army as a special order of Ihc United States soldiers de- as prisoners in Richmond having been released on taking an oath not to bear arms against the States in rebellion an equal number of the prisoners of war taken from those Stales now confined in Washington and New-York harbor will be released on taking the prescribed oath of glance lo the United States or an oath no to engage in arms the United Slates Of those confined in this City the thirty seven here named will be released as above Townsend Hobbs W R G Alford D D Fi S S David Porter G A Thomas Thomas Anderson A C Ferril J A J U Payne W A F Ward W A- Wilson C Long H D II Walker Wm T Thompson W Johnson W Burrows J N McFalf George Banker J Calvin J O'Brien S lUeek W A G II J A J Smith J V Grayson U IV J Nf George J T Elliott George Col commanding at Fort Columbus will in concert with select from the prisoners of war under their charge to make up the number indicated The prisoners to be released will be sent by first opportunity lo Fort Monroe and thence under a flag of truco through the United Slates linos The Government has thus quietly recognized the kindness of the rebels in releasing the wounded prisoners who were sent from Richmond a few days since by ordering the release of a like number of prisoners of war held by us I the rebels see fit to continue to Ihus virtually ox change prisoners it is probable our Government will acquiesce although it will do nothing in the way of an exchange by tlie ordinary customs of belligerents REPORTED ENGAGEMENT AT NEW-ORLEANS The account of the destruction of our at the mouth of the Mississippi is hardly credited here though such a result is possible THE EXCELSIOR BRIGADE REVIEWED A grand review of Gcu SICKLES Brigade took place this afternoon near Good Hope Md before Gen HOOKER who now commands a division con- t sisting of his own and the Excelsior Brigades The whole five regiments passed in marching re- view They exhibited n rare proficiency in drill and by their appearance neatness of dress and excellent marching elicited the un- qualified praise of Gen HOOKED A number of citizens were present to witness the spectacle The Excelsior Brigade have con- three admirable forts south of the ern Branch which fully command the approaches to the city from the south and will be a able barrier to any force which should attempt to move upon the city from below They have been designated by Gen McCLELLAN as Ports Slant on Carroll and Groble TJIE DUTT DOXE DY TOE BRIGADE In tho meantime the rebel counties of Charles and been under the surveillance of Gen SICKLES squadron of cavalry which with infantry supports arc con- stantly moving the peninsula and by menus of the arrest of active rebels and the constantly exercised tion with the rebels across the river has become rare Pickets aro along the shore to give notice of any attempt to crocs tho river from tho Virginia side To-morrow a splendid stand of colors is to be presented to the Second Fire Zouaves of SICKLES Brigade It is the gift of the Fire Department of New-York and the will he made hy Mr WILSON the dent cf the Board of Fire Commissioners REGARDING CANADIAN CORRESPOND ENCE Irregularities have arisen in respect to Canadian correspondence These directions must be ob- served addressed to Canada must be mailed and to a United Stales exchange Letters cannot bo sent direct to In Cana da Portland Me Burlington Rutland Island Pond and Derby Line Vt Boston Mass New-York bany Buffalo Troy Point Og Rochester Harbor and Suspension Bridge N Y Cleveland Ohio Detroit Marli and Algonac Mich arc exchanging offices on a single Idler to or from Canada Is ten Prepayment is optional bul the whole postage must be prepaid or none part ments are not recognized Prepayment must be made by States postage stamps not in money would do well tc preserve this statement A Foil ANDERSON A of Philadelphia Cily Council arrived for the purpose of presenting a swoid to Gen who however has not yet arrived here Tho deputation the out- posts of the army this afternoon under the cort of Capt KVANS of the Provost Marshal's A CLAY APPOINTED Capt CLAY of HENRY or near Washington but aro now being Br ami souol he lalo lul who was lulled J rabidly moved lo lv beIn readmets for cm- PRICE TWO CENTS REPORTED ATTACK ON THE NATIONAL FLEET Tuesday Oct 15 The Norfolk Examiner of Monday which has been received by a flag of truco contains a dispatch dated New-Orleans Oct 12 stating that a naval en- gagement had taken place at the head of the Posses on tlie night of the lasting one hour and was terwards renewed Also the following dispatch FORT JACKSON Saturday Oct 12 Last night 1 attacked tho blockaders with my little fleet I succeeded after a very short struggle In driving them all aground on the Southwest Pass bar except the which I sunk I captured a prize from them and after they were fast in sand I peppered them well There were no casualties on our side It was a complete success HOLLINS ABB Sunday Oct 13 The force of tho National fleet was 40 guns and nearly men while the little Confederate quito fleet was 1C guns and 300 men It IE reported that our Iron steamer sunk the v her Iron plow Commander arrived last BALTIMORE Tuesday Oct M Another dispatch dated from New-Orleans ex- presses the belief that sufficient force can be to capture the whole National fleet In its present disabled condition The rebel fleet was In the command of Commodore HOLLINS SLIDELL AND MASON GONE TO Tuesday Oct 15 Richmond papers state that the steamer ville ran the blockade Irom Charleston on the 12th Inst with Senator as Minister to England and Senator as Minister to France on board They were accompanied by their suites and are now on the ocean THE NAVAL EXPEDITION MOVEMENTS OF TROOPS WASHINGTON TO ANNAPOLIS NAVY-YARD ANNAPOLIS MD Thursday Oct J On Tuesday at half past G A M the long roll was sounded in Camp In five minutes time every tent of the Sixth Connecticut Regiment was struck and speedily loaded lino our wagons During the preceding night there had been a heavy rain and at tho time we took up our line of march the clouds looked as the Secessionists talk and there was some small rain A ent of the Waterbury American talks about mud in New Haven but I think he will cave la now after wallowing some three miles In the slipperiest kind of mud ever invented For sonic days there had been several the sick list but when we came to march all hands bound to go and shouldered their knapsacks with a good will We Arrived In Washington at 11 A M and expected to leave on the cars nt P M but dusk wailing for the and it was not until quite dark that we began to move If one could call U moving The entire distance from ton to Annapolis by railroad Is thirty-eight miles and we were full twelve hours making Ihc trip Three miles an hour Is not called fast in Connecticut haps they think Its going It Acre When we got here at 7 o'clock A M we were marched Into the yard now used as a kind of a yard but formerly occupied as a military school It Is a fine place and if the sun would only smile upon us once more I think It would look beautiful The yard covers twenty-five acres of ground is situated on tho Chesapeake Bay and on three sides is surrounded by a high brick wall Ihc other side is approachable by water for the vessels of largest naval size There arc twenty-seven line brick buildings neatly fitted up most of them four stories high lighted with gas and heated by steam in which are quartered Twenty-first Massachusetts Volunteers Sixth and Seventh Ohio Volunteers and Eighth Michigan ments The Massachusetts and Michigan boys are a fine-looking body of men and of good size well armed nnd equipped Modesty forbids that I should say anything about how our boys look let some other pen than mine give them the praise which is their In the yam arc several very fine ments erected to the memory of graduates ol this school have fallen al post while In the vice of their Among others Is one of gray granite twenty feet high of neat but plain de- sign to the memory of the brave Capt of steamer Central America AH your readers will well recollect how nobly he by his post how bravely he met his fate and it Is than just that his memory should be perpetuated by monuments erected by his and brother officers Rumor Is always a busybody but more so in camp than in an old tea party or sewing circle Had we done we have been told we were going lo do right there would not have been a rebel left in all the C S A The old Dame now says that there are of infantry two regiments of cavalry two batteries of artillery Ac going lo embark here for secret expedition South Whether this Is so or not I do net know for I am not one of that ule class who are called our own nnd who know just what Uncle Samuel Is ing to do before the old gentleman knows himself All 1 know is that here we arc and hungry as ever a poor devil of a soldier need to bu for by some strange operation our ry Department have forgotten lo bend us any grub and here we aru waiting for that wagon If one of Ihc hoys can get hold of a hard cracker he docs us St PAUL did when he saw the three Thank God takes courage We expect however we gome supper to-day and arc living on hope This is the place by Gen sometime the forget Ihc date When the rebels left they spiked the but all of them are In good order now none of them are of large but there arc several very fine field pieces Should we go further down in Dixie's 1 may conclude to spoil a little more paper and write you truly W D W Correspondence of the Boston Traveller MAINE ANNAPOLIS Oct 10 1801 J Our regiment is attached to Division which Is composed of three Brigades The We received orders yesterday from quarters at Washington to hold ourselves In readiness to embark at an fifteen days tions and forage which Indicates that we are going somewhere As yet there are no vessels In the harbor therefore the lime of our departure and also our destination Is unknown lo us and Is the subject of much tion in tho several regiments You need not be prised to hear soon lhat another secret expedition has started off and to wake up some morning and hear that Norfolk Savannah New-Orleans or some other Important port lias been taken And hoping that I may soon have the privilege of communicating some such good news to you I remain yours ROBERTO IMPORTANT FROM DEFEAT OP TEE REBELS AT SHANGHAI HOLLA Mo Monday Oct 14 The report brought here a day or two ago that a battle took place on the of September between a body of Kansas troops under and and the advance guard of Bin army and some of the Stale Guards under Judge is confirmed by just arrived from Springfield The battle commenced near Shanghai In Darlon County The rebels were driven back with considerable loss and pursued forty miles when fell back on Greenfield Great alarm was felt In Springfield lest should attack lhat place and the troops there had rested on their arms for several Is said to have men and the rebels This statement can hardly be relied upon as wo have had no previous advice that such a force of Kansas troops was in tint vicinity A band of 300 marauding rebels encamped at son's Mill on Bryant's Fork of tlie While River hi Douglas County were attacked some days since by a body of Home Guards and 15 of them killed and 20 wounded It Is reported here that the Thirteenth Illinois Regl ment under Gen had surprised and taken Lebanon in County willi all the stores and provisions of the rebels but this needs confirmation A TRAIN STOPPED DY THE REBELS RIWICK Mo Tuesday Oct 15 The train on the North Missouri Railroad from St Louis was stopped at this place yesterday ing by a party of thirty armed Secessionists and six National recruiting officers on board prisoners The rebels then searched the train but for somo un- known reason did not enter the express car in which there were 300 rifles and two tons of military clothing destined for Nebraska Two of the cap- tured officers were released on the spot and three the four others set at liberty a few hours after- wards No shots were fired and nobody was hurti ANOTHER SKIRMISH IN MISSOURI ST JOSEPH Monday Oct 14 Eighty of Major JAMBS Cavalry at Cameron on Saturday came upon 25 or 30 rebels in a The advance guard of nine routed they seeking refuge In the timber Our guard was reinforced by 30 when they completely drove them from that tion killing 8 and taking S Two were wounded but none killed Our cavalry were at first fired on by 15 men One Lieutenant has in his clothes MOVEMENTS OF THE REBEL GENERAL PRICE of the Missouri Democrat ROLLA Thursday Oct 10 We are in hourly expectation of receiving ble Information from the western tier of counties ing us the exact movements of the retreating army under Our latest news from that section comes down to Saturday last when the advanced guard was reported by a gentleman who arrived at this Dlace to be at Clinton Henry County ills posed lhat If the fugitive Moss troopers attempt to cross Osage Kiver by the road that may be and prevented from using Ihc ferry at Hoffman's It is difficult to ascertain what force will be present an the opposite bank to Intercept the fording at this point If no large force should be available it is that about twelve hundred men under Dr BOWLES from Greenfield County and in the vicinity will be sent there und appearance on a hostile bank may serve to and lei the poltroons This little force were on their why to join Gen LAMI It Is also quite certain that recent rains have swollen the so lhat It will be difficult to effect a fording at the usual points A gentleman who came across Ihn country from Jefferson City yesterday reports that the river at Castle Rock where he crossed lias risen three feet in two days At Hoffman's Ferry the point where Gen PRICE was expected to cross there Is but one boat only capable of convoying one six-horse team and about forty men at a time LYON with nis small force was occupied four days In crossing this point as the river was swollen somewhat at the time At that rate and under similar even with no opposing force lo dis- turb him It would take PRICE from seven lo ten duys to effect the passage Hut when the river Is at Its ordinary stage his troopers can swim It like rats It is conjectured by some thai rather than run the hazard of detained on the he will strike Into Kansas and follow down Ihc old military road 10 Fort Smith As an indication of diate deliverance of the Southwest the rebel forces I may state without violating the secrets of the mall SON old stage managers of the Springfield route are up the stock of horses and stages from St Louis to bu ready to resume operations on tlie road BIN Postmaster has also returned to Springfield having been dangerously sick for some weeKs In Holla The venerable Judge Is here looking remarkably well Ho expects to leave for his home in Springfield to-morrow THE ALARM REBELS IN REAR OP FREMONT From the St Louis Republican The little panic raised by the lear of danger to the towli of Hermann and that the Gasconade bridge would be destroyed and all communication by road and telegraph between Si Louis and Jefferson City would be cut off has subsided Troops were promptly sent to Hermann but there really no r 10113 ground for alarm The was occasioned by the supposed approach of a party of the Slate Guard which belongs lo command and Is under orders of Capt JOUNSON has It U well known been operating In region along Linn Creek But his headquarters are at Lebanon County JOUNSON Is a native of that section of the Slate has lived all Ills life there uniting Uic functions of preacher and advocate ing his neighbors his services as an attorney and and refreshing them with ritual ministrations on Sunday The Union men In arms between him and Hermann are a body of Home Guards under command of Judge MATTHEWS Judge MATTHEWS is an old resident of Gasconade County is now Is a man of considerable properly and Influence He has with him six companies all raised in Gasconade extent the foundry have become the centre of unparalleled To-day it Is contemplated to use near seventeen tons of Iron at the Iron foundry in the desirable articles mentioned Four hundred and solid shot were here to-day For the hut six weeks ten tons of Iron have been used per day at tills ihop In casting projectiles At Iho ordnance foundry they are casting only brasi now All guns of late have been rifled During the last l e ea so lron shot m l both night and day Several guns are In the lathes on these work both night are walling their turn to go through the tame operation w NEWS FROM FORTRESS MONROE THE REBELS AT SEWELL'S POINT Monday Oct 14 The Spaulding returned from Inlet this morning bringing up Gen who has taken command at Camp Hamilton The entire loss of the Twentieth Regiment in its recent retreat from was seven No have taken place at Inlet during tho last few days Eleven cime over last night from SeWell's Point They say are four hundred Confederate troops at that point and a large number this of Norfolk Lieut M eras AY of the gun boat Louisiana two or since a rebel vessel In the narrow opening this of Oregon Inlet which was fitting out as a privateer He look possession of and burned the vessel The rebels In force In the vicinity THE AFFAIR AT CAPE HENRY A BALTIMORE SHIP THE BY TOE UNITED STATES STEAMER Correspondence of the New-York Times UNITED STATES orr HENT Va Thursday Oct During storm which has been Ing since Tuesday the ihc ship John Clark of Baltimore In ballast from Havre bound to Baltimore anchored off Lynn Haven Bay On Wednesday night she dragged within a mile and a half cf the shore about and the tall of the The mist pre- vented us from learning her true position until 3 v p M when a battery on shore opened fire upon her throwing shot and shell all around her At the order All hands up given by Capt LOCKWOOD every man rushed to do his duty with each in their exertions and by 4 o'clock we were on the Inside of ship pitching shot ftom our heavy on the port side and from our rifled gun on deck Into shore battery with such accuracy and rapidity that not only did we silence the battery but cent an artillery company ing pell Our small rifled gun threw shot so well lhat it cleared the beach In every direction be- yond the battery The firing lasted forty minutes We hod three guns engaged while the rebels had five and the advantage of shell our shell useless being ten and fuse and would not reach within half a mile of shore Lieut managed our heavy guns with great skill As our ports would not allow of sufficient elevation to send a shot on shore he took advantage of the rolling of the sel BO nicely shots otherwise useless reached their object with uncommon precision The enemy's firing was excellent their shots dropping within a few feet of us We scat an officer and men on board the ship Ing the first part of the nod subsequently our pilot and nine more men and brought her off she having but one shot and slight damage On our opening fire one of the men of the ship pushed an American flag over Hie side nnd ucl In a stale of nervous heroism After a the Captain appeared and demanded in an ted voice Why you warn me off It Is needless lo say received peremptory orders to get his ship ready In be get off The part of my brief and hurried tive Is yet tc be related After getting her out of danger we ran down near the on the trill of the and let go our anchor -Iniiboul twenty minutes the ship bore down towards us us we supposed lo anchor also but by some able cauFe came on to and bul for our guns having been run out and secured we musl have received most serious Injury As It was however our port bow was displacing knees stanchions and plank on the upper and gun decks nud breaking cur spare port anchor With the exception of i seaman who fell from the of the ship injuring his shoulder nnd thigh and a man deafened by the tiring no personal injuries were received Officers and aien behaved most bravely A strange faci occurred noticing during the present of the John sailor fell the same yard and was morning Capt of the ship came on board and threatened to report us at Washington When he coolly thinks the whole affair over he will doubtless modify tils annihilating report A Government schooner loaded stone de- signed lo have been sunk at or near there went on shore In Lynn Haven Bay All who reached shore alive are of course In Ihc hands of the rebels who have swarmed on the bench to nab pitilessly any shipwrecked mortals whose vessels might Yours OFFICER smd Regiments The Second which has not yet arrived will several Massachusetts regiments and the Tun tit Maine The Third Brigade Is made up of the Ninth Maine Fourth Seventh Fiftieth Pennsylvania and Ihc vania There Is attached to Division HAMILTON'S Battery of Light The were a few days ago nearly all and comprising some 500 men Ills headquarters arc Douglas Prairie In the south part of Gasconade County These Guards raised In the belief that all who refused to declare themselves for secession would be to danger under there arc as many more at Hermann so lhat Is now of home troops In Gasconade County not less than men that county has had a force as large as this on fool for months Douglas Prairie is some 20 miles south Qf Hermann The alarm lhat came fiom there was thai force was marching toward it and might endanger Hermann Of course tlie rumor that the enemy had actually got of the place was wholly without foundation JOHNSON has had under his command a force winch has varied at different times from a few hundred lo It is supposed or even men he nome down as far as Gasconade County with the largest force that has been assigned to might possibly made his way lo Hermann well Informed persons from the county do net believe he has been there at all or in ils neighborhood AFFAIRS AT THE WASHINGTON YARD Monday Oct Correspondence qf the New-York Times There are 600 men employed in the Yard now An order issued a few days since to In- crease the casting of suol shell and to the WOUNDED IN THE SANTA ROSA FIGHT Tuesday Oct 15 Pensacola papers give a list of 17 wounded from the Santa Rosa at the hospital Including J BISSALL ol the Third United Stales Artillery and and JAUIS of the First New-York lery MOVEMENTS OP SECRETARY CINCINNATI Tuesday Ocl 15 Secretary THOMAS and Senator arrived at Indianapolis last They escorted lo the residence cf the Sir madr n speech y lo In- diana and Gov MORTON The parly go Louis ville LAUNCH OF A NEW GUNBOAT Tuesday Ocl IS The new gunboat Sciota was launched to day JACOB yard at MILITARY AND NAVAL INTELLIGENCE During the last few days there has been than ordinary activity at the Brooklyn Navy-yard and every exertion Is made lo complete the fitting out of the various vessels In the Yard so as them all ready for sea in a very short time We reported two Seneca and the commission on Monday Two ship Courier and the bark Gem of the put in commission yesterday the former at 0 o'clock and tho laltor o'clock and the purchased steamer Isaac will be put In commission to-day The la a did having made the shortest passage on record from New-York to Rio de Janeiro la twenty-one days Her Acting Master In command W K Scond called tho First II First Lieutenancy la an at West AFFAIRS IN KENTUCKY LOUISVILLE TRAITS OF GEN ARE GLOBE AT HAND PROD ABLE RESULT Correspondence of the Times Friday OcL 11 1801 Gen having prepared the way for Gen has relinquished the command of the Department of the Cumberland lo him whom he had as hit successor ami whom lie commends to us as the right roan In right place If Gen BOW'S physical capacity equaled and mill tary capacity he would be a mosl Chief ol Department the war's close While we regret lhat Ho feels necessity of withdrawal we feel with him that the Department will not stiff r by the change and will be most The Irack Is cleared for Gen and he already discharging the duties of his amazing rapidity and efficiency He his business a Napoleonic dispatch He will do hli whole duty in every particular without parleying 01 without fear favorer affection Hli whole time is his avowedly hale him So much the belter He no con- and wants none He wants his to show their hand and Gen will arrest and punish every man who part by action or against tho authority of the National or Stale Government or holds cor or gives aid or to ihost who have chosen to array themselves us ai our enemies While men arc said lo be deserting him by thousands Gen Is reported to be ad- on his lint will probably Impede by demolishing the road bridge across Green River Regiments from Indiana and Ohio con- to come lo our aid They are mosl ing and most nobly will they acquit Many Kentucky regiments arc filling up fast besides have be- foic are authorized by the United Government to raise Kentucky volunteer for the war Among them are Labun T Moore T J Speed S Fry Wm A A Marshall Richard Jno M Harlan ard T Jacob Wm P Stephen ana Den C Col MOOSE has been n prominent Member of Congress The other day he to Mr WALLACI of the When you know that the Cumberland Mountains have slid down the Delia of the Mississippi or that a tine cotton crop has been grown along the or upon bleak peaks of Mount Washington then -et down tu true any that I turned to be a Secession 1st You hate heard of the heroic exploits of Cola FBV and HOSKINS of Camp Dick Robin son You will shortly lirar from them Col WILLIAMS having been driven hli family from West Texas has returned to lo dc tome driving himself He Is n of Jous S WILLIAM Mr beat so badly Ihc of June This Gordo Colonel proclaimed ihc In the streets of Mount Sterling Montgomery Coun ty thai he would soon march at the head of an arm into that region and then the flaming torch light the dwelling of many a Unionist lie and J C B arc gelling up an army In Virginia The and regiment will full within a Colonels JACOD nnd Doon are members of the Legislature The for- mer Is a worthy son-in-law of Tnos H The latter Is a grandson of DAMEL Their whole is In the work of rescuing Kentucky and Union DEN Gainer Is a son of our Congressman Mho beal JOE LEWIS LEWIS lias a itc camp In Darren and calls upon fc repudiate their own verdict on the 5th of August and to resist by their own Legislature Col started yesterday for the County of nd joining and tho Tennessee line and swears he will raise his regiment In and break up LIKIS camp In short order Gen now a United Slates may speedily ready for mustering Inlo United States service twenty of the forir regiments authorized by our Legislature and the regiments raised by our Slates Colonels under United Slates authority 1 make fifty thousand Gens TUOMAS und with an army of fifty Kentucky fifty Northern quickly clear Kentucky of all her enemies also open and secure Cumberland Gap the Virginia and Tennessee take Nashville and Memphis nnd rally the downtrodden people of Tennessee around the good old flag of erty and Union We shall soon come severe fighting The present quiet Is ominous of a storm Gens and POLK should be dislodged and driven from tho Purchase Ihls mouth else they may before the 1st ol November manage lo inku and conquer the entire First District before the 1st of De Confederate design to take Louis niul conquer Ihc State to say tho least Kentucky will bu In a If enemies arc not conquered or whipped out before Winter But n my opinion they will before Winter routed anil Tennessee herself be In rapid of There can he no doubt of this if we put forth our whole strength The Gem of the Seas Is also a fast sailer The lowing Is a list of her officers some of whom were at- to tho Courier when lhat vessel was In the chant Acting Volunteer Lieutenant Commending J B Acting Master and Executive Officer H A Clark Acting Masters Nelson Provost and Spero Surgeon Acting Assistant Paymaster H Strong Master's Mates William C Malloy Peter F Coma and Gco W Tho United States sailed day a full supply of stores for the ading fleet We printed a list of her officers Capt ROBERT of the first Cavalry U S A who has been appointed to the cf the New-York volunteer known AFFAIRS AT DICK ROBINSON Dispatch to the Cincinnati Gazette DICK Ocl IS Gen ANDERSON of going to here yesterday evening Gov JOHNSON and Tennessee are also here Gca Is on Tuesday to lake com mand of the column Is expected to visit the camp at the same time An advance has already been made by the Ohio which la near miles down toward from and It begins to appear lhal the movements of this and the Louisville column arc to be simultaneous Gen Second Jias gone to look forces on tho Big Sandy Briefly the facts Let lation await developments facts would In- as speedily approaching INFANTRY FOR DOBTON Tuesday Oct IS wilh four companies ol the Eleventh Regular Korl Independence for CHARTERED BY TUB GOVERNMENT BOSTON Tuesday Oct 13 The steamer Ben has been chartered hy the Government anil left for Annapolis Md to lake on board SEIZURE OF A VESSEL Tlie British brig Hannah Easlie of Poole Eng was seized by Iho Revenue Officer Monday evening while lying at Amboy She was brought to the At- Dock where she now lies in charge of a sheriff Tho per Niagara for Tuesday Ocl 15 Tho mails per the steamship Niagara fot close at the In at A il 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