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?On Thursday, the 4th-mat., it was rumored at
Washington that a battle was going on 28 thlfcs
up the river, opposite Poolesville. The firing was
heard at Falls Church. It was said that Gen.
Sumner's corps had been thrown forward to intercept
the enemy in his attempt to cress, but no
official account of a fight had been made publie.
?There was good authority for believing that
the rebel General Bragg was marching toward the
Ohio, through Western Virginia, with 20,000 men.
There was nothing to oppose his progress.?
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near the mouth of the Kanawha, he would doubtless
lay waste the country from Wheeling down 1
to Iron ton, Ohio. *
?Cincinnati has been declared under martial
law. The railroad cars have stopped running.
Business is ordered suspended until a thorough organization
for defence is made. No male citizen
is allowed to leave the city and the inhabitants are i
energetically employed in fortifying the Kentucky
hills. Gen. Lew. Wallace has assumed command
over Cincinnati, Covington and Newport. Humphrey
Marshall is reported to have been forty
miles from the city, and advancing to the a.tack
with 30,000 men. Preparations wqje in progress
-for the evacuation of Cynthiana. Paris has already
been evacuated.
?Louisville was thrown into considerable excitement
on the afternoon of the 4th by rumors
that the Union forces under General Gilbert, were
attacked at noon, by the rebels, near Shelbyville,
30 miles to the eastward of Louisville. The result
was unknown. Large Union reinforcements
were rapidly approaching General Gilbert. The
Kentucky Legislature is in session at Louisville,
and is inaugurating vigorous measures for the defence
of the State. Major-General Wright has
declared martial law in Jefferson County. Citizens
are speedily removing their property across the
Ohio.
?The U. 5. slooo of war Tuacarora. having nut
into Falmouth, England, was ordered to leave
within 24 hours and refused coal and repairs, both
^ of which sher needed. The authorities state that
this action' is in accordaajs with theyeutral policy
which England has dec?re<fi ? w
' LOCAL HEWS.
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Flag oj Taucs.?M. Chartraind, a Frenchman,
owning plantations in both South Carolina and
Cuba, having satisfied the Secretary of War that
he was worthy of the special favor, received an
authorization to enter rebeldom for the purpose of
rejoining his family from whom he had been
.separated since the inauguration of the War.
He came to Port Royal, presenting his case to
<Jen. Hunter, who, a few days before he left the
Command, directed that a flag of truce should be
tn SoBQnnah with th<? wandprin<rnlftnter- The I
matter was placed in the hands of Col. Barton, of
the 48th N. T. Regiment, and one day last week
he dispatched a truce party, under command of
Lieut. Swartwout, to carry out the mission. Leaving
Fort Pulaski early, a fair wind and an hour's
sailing brought the boat to a rebel picket of 20
men, at Scribben's Point, two miles fVom Fort
Jackson. The flag was received with proper respect
by the officer in command, and, after some
delay,?occasioned by the rebels having no means
of communication with the Fort,?an arrangement
was made, whereby our boat was to go up the river, (
upon condition that Lieut. Swartwout went in her.
On the way the rebel meekly proposed that the
Stars and Stripes should be taken from the staff
and his flag substituted ; but Swartwout, though ,
ordinarily amiable and obliging, would not agree
to the proposition, and the symbol of barbarism '
drooped from the end of a sword to which it was
attached. The steamer St. Johut met the truceboat
a short distance below Fort Jackson, and the
business of the mission was transacted with J.
Pembroke Jones of the "Confederate States Navy.*'
Returning, Lieut. Swartwout stopped again at
Scribben's Point, to leave the rebel officer and '
take on board his own men, apd reached Fort
Pulaski about nightfall. It surprised our fellows
to see the material of which the rebels are compelled
to manufacture solicits. The picket was
about equally composed or old men and lads, the
latter of very tender years,?all miseraoiy ciaa poor
ly fed, and only four of them wearing shoes, which
they acknowledged had been taken from our dead
on the held at James Island. The fighting men of
the South are all in Virginia.
Ths Oath or Allioiakoe.?Believing that
there are persons employed within the limits of
this Command, outside of regimental organizations,
whose sympathies are opposed to the Government,
to the
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I have voMftaRly
nance or encouragemME?9|j^H^^JBH(ed in
armed hostility thereto; th^ fife, discountenance
and forcvjejuia P?^11 nM
bellion and disintegit^B^|lp7aHp Union jr
that I will uphold thC?Rp^rity 9^?F Fedenrti
Government, as agafrist the iriHWof the so4
called Confederate States or j|^Bp state or ;
sovereignty whatever, andjdjpfflHHyriedge my'
honor, my property and mv BTglwMKiue observance
of this, my solemn oath ofalmPnice."
It will be observed that the oath noi only insists
upon loyalty in the futnre, but requires that the
past must show a clean record of fealty to the
Union. The penalty of refusal to take it is expulsion
from the Command.
Fcqitivk Slaves.?Last Monday morning as
Major Green of the 48th New York Regiment, was
examining the wreck of the steamer Emma, near
Fort Pulaski, he saw a boat, filled with people,
and carrying a white flag, a mile or two up Wright
River. Not knowing who the occupants might be
he rowed toward the boat, finding it to be a large
dug-out, containing 28 runaway negroes, bound to
Fort Pulaski, all but four of whom had escaped
from the plantation of Dr. Daniels, on the South
Carolina side of the Savannah River, two miles
below the city. The other four had come from
Savannah where they had been as late as the afternoon
of the day before. The information given
by these negroes of the condition of affairs in the
city corroborates statements that have been re?
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with Railroad iron was still in progress.
Capture of a British Bark off Edisto.?On
the morning of the 4th, a vessel was discovered
aground in South Edisto Channel. Capt Etting,
of the U. S. bark Shepherd Knapp, having dispatched
a boat to ascertain her character, she
proved to be the bark Fanny Laurie, of Quebec,
recently from Nassau, Nfrw Providence, with a
cargo of salt, quinine, wines aful other articles, at
present bearing a high value in the "Southern
Confederacy." She had a regular clearance on
board for Quebec, but her captain, a French Canadian,
avowed his real destination to be Charleston.
He, with his crew, an English mate and
half a dozen negroes, were at once dispatched to
Hilton Head, and a prize crew placed on board.
The Fanny Laurie was subsequently piloted off by
the Delaware and made sail to Port Royal.
Released from Quarantine.?TheU. S. Steam,
er Delaware arrived at this port on the morning
of the 8th, after the completion of her fortnight's
Quarantine, in St. Helena Sound. She has had a
long cruise of it; it being over forty days .* .oe
she left Key West, on her Southern tour of inspec
tion. There occurred anotner aeatn on Doara, m
addition to those mentioned by our correspondent,
in the article entitled " In Quarantine," published
in this number of The New South. It was that of
Private D. J. Hartman of the N. Y. 47th. He
had accompanied the Delaware throughout her
recent voyage, being one of the soldiers guarding
some prisoners transported to the Tortugas. He
was seized with dysentery and, violent fits ensuing,
died on the 5th. He is buried on Otter Island.
Mutiny on the Steamer Kakxak.?Since the
arrival of the steamer Karnak at this port in distress,
her crew have been in an Ujgubordinate condition,
refusing to work on the plea that they had
been shipped at Nassau to take the vessel to the first
American port, and no further. This construction
lav not hnintr rocnmixMl no nrnnpr
the mutineers have been placed under arrest by
order of the military authorities. Capt. Van
Brunt, the Provost Marshal, now has them at his
camp, where, with the ball and chain attachment,
they are subjected to far harder work than that in
which they should legitimately have engaged.
T&oops f&om St. Auoustixi.?The 4th Regi*
ment of New Hampshire Volunteers, which has
An?nstine. Fla.. for the nast
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five months, arrived here on Thursday, in the
steamer Ben Deferd, on its way to Beaufort, having
been relieved at its former post of duty by the
7th New Hampshire. Col. Bell, of the 4th, has
recently been restored to his command, after a
few weeks suspension on a charge which was not
brought to trial, and when he rejoined the regiment
at the dock he was greeted with round upon
round of enthusiastic cheers.
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WKnUaek struck the*reef
morning, having been swept out
a strong current. wa%
tuB. We hope that then* will bo no occasion to
use it.
Tmt Planter.?The little steamer Planter,
which Bobert Small, a negro, brought from Charleston,
and thereby achieved renown, was transferred
on Wednesday from the Navy to the War Department.
She is a valuable acquisition to our means
of transportation,?some inconvenience having recently
been felt in consequence of the discharge
from Government service of several of the chartered
light-draft steamers.
Unsuccessful attempt to avoid toe Draft.?
The bark Jtlamo arrived on the 4th inst., having
on board Patrick Gearus, a citiren, who came
from New York without a pass from th? U. S.
authorities. Believing that he was attempting to
evade the draft, Provost Marshal Yan Brunt arrested
him and compelled him to enlist in one of *
the regiments here.
Paymaster Elliott has received a note from
Mr. C. P. Coleman, Cashier of the Mechanics'
Bank, Baltimore, assuring him that the $1 bills of
that Bank in circulation here are genuine. They
are signed " R. T. Savin for Cashier."
| DEATHS.
Chas. H. Brown, Private Co. G, 3d New Harapi
shire Vols., Sept. 8th, Typhoid Fever.
Andrew J. Campbell, Private, Co. H, 3d New
! HamDshire Vols., Sept. 7th, Typhoid Fever.
Lawrence Barrow, .Private, Co. 1,47th Pennsylvania
Vols., Sept. llth, Pulmonary Consumption.
David H. Kipley, Private, Co. C, 7th New
Hampshire Vols., Sept. 9th, Pneumonia.
Fred. Kraeser, Corporal, Co. B, N. Y. Vol.
Eng., Sept. 10th, Congestive Fever.
Jefferson Stephenson, Priva } Co. K, 76th
Pennsylvania Vols., Sept. 11, Chronic Diarrhoea.
John Lamb, Private, Co. E, 3d Bhode Island
Vols., Sept. 9th, Typhoid Fever.
George Bradley, Private, Co. B, 7th Connecticut
Vols., Sept. 9th, Congestive Fever.
Beiy. Davis, Private, Co. D, 97th Pennsylvania
Vols., Sept. 10th, Dysentery.
Almanac, Fort Royal, S. C., Sept. 13, *62'
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MARINE NEWS.
ARRIVED.
Sept. ft?Steamship St. Mary, Talbot, New
York; Schr. Marietta, Gray, Pliil'a ; F. P. Simpson,
Ellis, New York; ft?Anthem, Stuart, Boston;
10?Steamship Ericsson, Lowber, Fortress Monroe
; 11?Ben Deford, Hallett, St. Augustine ;
Neptune, Lynch, Fernandina ; George C. Collins,
Lunt, New York.
CLEARED.
Sept. 5?Schr. Ida F. Wheeler, Dyer, Phil'a ;
6?F. P. Simpson, Ellis, New York ; Bark. Parker
Cook, Fulton, Fernandina A St. Augustine ;
8?Schrs. Jos. W. Allen,Duane,New York; Americus,
Stephens, Phil a.; Henry R. Barnes, Barnes,
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Beaufort, u>; jj k. auuuu, vxuuhc?, ncn
York ; 9-?Schr. Reindeer, Lewis, St. Augustine;
J. J. Spencer, Swain, Phila; Steamship St. Mary,
Talbot, New York ; 10?Schr. Chrysolite, Smith,
Phila. ; Steamship Ericsson, Lowber, New York;
12?Propeller Geo. C. Collins, Lunt, New York.
SAILED.
Sept. 5?Steamship McClellan ; 6?Brig Ellen
Bernard; Schr. Langdon Gillmore ; Brig Matron;
7?Bk. Parker Cook ; Schr. Ida F. Wheeler ; 9?
w??nrv R. Barnes : Schr. Margaret Y. Davis;
seph W. Allen; Bk. Alamo ; U. S. Steamer Massachusetts
; Schr. Americns; Steamship SL Mary;
10?Schr. J. J. Spencer; 11?Steamship Ericsson*
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