portanco and highly intoresging. o has
fought some very hard mes during the
is no doubt but that he--was largely out
duinbered By the tebet Torces, buv General
Thomés repulsed their attack on Monday, 1
punishing them so severely that they did |
aot feel disposed to renew it again. Gen.
Rogecrans says he canuot be dislodged from
bis present position. The rebels have
spared no fibgtmto make this attack on
Rosecrans 8 complete suceess, and their
chagrin t its failurc is indeed great. Latest
advioes state that he was being strongly re
inforoed with all the available troops, so
that he is now without a doubt perfectly
safo; ‘Bome fears are entertained for the
safoty of Gen. Barnside’s forces, whieh are
now left in rather an isolated situation.
_ Rebel papers are ¢alling loudly on Jefl
Davia to remove Gen, Bragg from the com
wand of the atmy of the West.
The army of the Potomae advaneed on
Mondsy and Tuesday, and a large portion
of it crossed the Rapidah. Out cavalry
Mkdwn Court House on Monday
night. It was almost entirely deserted by
the male ¢itizens, only a few old men re
‘maiing. The rebel force in front of Gen.
‘ army is now estimated at about
40,000. Capt. Kilgour's gterillas made
another ra‘d into Maryland on Thursday
last; but were dfiven back by a portion o
: Soott’s 900, killing and wounding thirty
fotr of theis, ioluding Capt. Kilgoar.--
Thé Balance fled, leaving the killed anc
wozod_ ded on the field. ‘
he expedition organized by Gen. Bank:
to ‘effecta Janding at Sabine Pass was re
pulsed-on the Bth inst.; and the steamers
Clifton and Sachem captured by the rebels.
%‘g President isstied a proshiimation on
the 5%5 removing the blucto'dé of Alexan
dria, Va. |
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The Richmond Examiter, 224, in an od
itorial of the tiews from bngg’s army.
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** Two yeiirs igo odt arimy was enesim
boefisg o of Columbow sowied defanc
at Cairo; now we bold & position on th:
borders of Georgia and await the ememy'.
WTME X T liwe of Nibeissipgi.
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3 2 Ol ‘h‘ Tenpessee, fortified by
the'band of patire, and, as we are told,
Rosecrans will not fight unless stipporteu
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' MW‘%}”; My ' :‘:3‘ o 1 fi
“The confidence of soldiers in their
leaders is essential to the success of an
army. It may be unfortunate, but it is
notorious that General Bragg has not suc
-m&g’d-~i~n~~impifiag--hisamy-lith--thil-fef-‘-l' .
ing. Cannot a suitable man be found to
coppmand the Army of the West, on a field
where so heavy a stake is to be lost or won?”’
The Wh'i'g; editorial article says: —A
fierce and bloody battle, lasting two days,
has_been fought on the Chickamauga river,
a few milesugom Chattanooga, between the
forces of Bragg and Rosecrans. Thus far,
it has been indecisive, though the advanta
ges are on our side. Twenty pieces of
artillery, twenty-five hundred prisoners,
and the possession of the battle=ficld, are
evidences_and fruits of victory-—but the
situation of ‘affairs in that quarter demand
greatly more than this—Rosecrans’ army
must ze destroyed or driven out, else we
fight to but lin{e pur{)ose. His lines still
confront ours, ahd unless ke ciin be routed
he will be reinforeed; when we will fall
back, and Murfreesboro’ will be repeated.
The tiost complete and valuable victory of
the war seems within Brag%;s reach, if he
has the strength and the will to grasp it.
st )4y Qs =
Local Items.
Tue following is a statement of the fempera
ture of air and the direction of the winfsfi at
Meridian, for the week ending yesterdsy, ob
served and reported by P. M. Bgah
22.4-61°; NNW. Clear weather: .
23.-68°, NNE. Freslt breeges.
24.—70°. North. Clear.
25.—71°. NNE. Clear weather:
26.—58°% North. Fresh breezes:
27.—60°. NNW. Moderate breezes.
28.—~70°. South. Moderate winds.
it 00l i
Tus new Kitchen amd Dining Room
having been completed, they wefd mioved
into on Saturday last, - The dining room
is of suffitient capacity to seat a thousand
men. B
Dugina‘the past week thirty-six patients
have been returned to duty, two discharged
rom B#érvice, two on furlopgh, aiid one
Jied,—remaining in hospital, six bundred
and niffety:ohe, ‘
s 00l PPt s srmeetie
- Remotan.—Mr. Hoover, who has for
| <ome time 'iait kept a sutler’s store at this
place, sold his building and removed from
the Point last week. We understand he
was cosistrained to do so by an ofder from
General Marston.
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. 3,;::. egepddfflzzse. which dformorly-su)od
in the )Of the grove, and consequently
utside aP the mhl limits; wiis on Sat}:{
arday moved inside the w&u- It
uow stands on the open space back of ward
**D” dnd below the wharf.
e
mAgfignE—-fiOn Saturday while two of
. H. Lieuteniants were out sailing on
e Plasnd ifer oi sk
LA SR Mt .SR Y 280 -
ortunaté officers into the water fl&,"“‘
OF the timely std df two ten from dhe of
{mw would probably have
b @ ery grave.
s e s ity Now Fok o
and substitutes for the army of the P
| L ei @ e
~ We have now on hand and for sale ot
our Office a findld Lithographic Engrav.
ing of Point Lookout, as far ‘:f as the rebel
‘camp. It shows distinctly all the wards
and othe brildinge of the hospial an
a very reliable map of the Point Siz,
eighteen inches long, by eleven wide, and
price thirty-five cents. We willsend them
by mail, free of postage, upon the receipt
of forty cents.
_ Ox Wednesday morning last the steamor
Thomas Colyer, with an excursion party,
consisting of ladies and gentlemen from
Washington, arrived at this place. Quite
a number of the %ficers on thg Point paid
their res to the party, and conducted
them t-bggzt;h the hospi{al and over the
Point. After a short visit they veturned
to the boat which soon moved off in the
direction of Washington.
YxusrerpaY morning the sutler store of
E. L. Donnelly, Hospital Sutler, was re
moved Zrom its former site in the grove,
into the old Allen house, near the wharf,
it being inside the hospital limits. His
buildings were also removed. We under
stand tfit Mr. Donnelly intends keeping
on hand a large and varied assortment of
all kind of goods usually required at a placs
like this.
O~ Friday last two of the patients pro
cured a boat for the purpose of fishing in
the Potomae river, and a sudden wind ris
ing they were blown over towards the Vir
ginia shore; being unable to manage the
boat. After drifting oat about threc miles
one of the gunboats lying in the harbor
started in pursuit aud soon pitked them up
and brougtt them back to the Point. The
boat they were in was lost.
Deeparrure or Tne Band —The term
of enlistitient of the Band attached to Gen.
Marston’s command having ex{n‘md, they
were discharged from service last week,
aad left th:'%oiiit on Tueésday in the Hugli
Jenkins, to return fo their homes. We
understand it is the intention of Mr. Whip
ple, the leader, to raise a Post Band for
this place, and a number of the old mem
be;'s ex’pfli" sed thémselves fav‘o‘}abl_e to r;lz
enlisting for that purpe e hope the
eflitt may prove é!:ié’eg:‘.fifil
~ Afirivat or PrrsoNess.—On Tuesday
‘morning last the steamer Ashland arrived
froi Fort Delaware ®ith seven hundred
and fifty pricotiets; aud another arrived
on the same morning from Norfolk, bring
ing sovent:{-two. \%e niticed 4 Colonel
and severdl other officers among them.—
Some of them wert svatcely sble to walk
froity the boat t 6 the whdrf; and as a gene
ral thing they were rather a forlorn looking
set of Beings. On Satiurday evening the
steainer Nathaniel P. Iknza, from New
York; drrived with abous orie hundred and
forty. Abdut'two hundreéd dnd fifty ar
{ivvodfrom Washington in the John A.
arner on Sunday morming, and seven
hundred sud fifty G%MM morning
in the steamer Ashland, from Fm%:la'wm.