EVENING DESPATCHES
Received from 8 P.M. to 11 P.M.
Important from the Potomac
Pleasanton and Burnside Moving.
ACTIVE MOVEMENTS ON FOOT.
From Fortress Monroe.
Late Southern News
Rebels Threatening Helena
GREAT FIRE IN ST. LOUIS
Five Steamers Burned
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 27.
The Baltimore American this morning contains a despatch from Harper's Ferry, dated Sunday evening, announcing the movement of Gen. Pleasanton's [Pleasonton] cavalry across the Potomac. The people everywhere receiving them with acclamations of delight. From thence they moved forward to Waterford. It is expected they will reach Leesburg early this morning.
Gen. Burnside's corps crossed at the same point. We expected to rest at Lovettsville, and move forward on Monday morning.
The troops on Bolivar Heights are under marching orders and will move forward on Monday. Active movements are on foot on the upper Potomac.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 27.
The Press of this city published a statement from Fortress Monroe, dated Friday last, to the following effect:
Gen. Henry A. Wise with 20,000 men is advancing on York Town. He Has reached New Kent Court House.
FORT MONROE, Oct. 25.
The following items are from the Richmond Examiner of Oct. 23d:
Travellers from Winchester report our army crossing the Potomac last night into Maryland.
A great many persons have sought and received permission to leave the Southern Confederacy. They are generally aliens, claiming the protection of one or the other of the European Consuls.
Our pickets attacked the enemy from several points near Nashville, at daylight on the 20th, driving in their pickets, killing several of them and capturing city. Among the killed is W.B. Stokes, Colonel of the renegade Tennesseans, and one other Federal Colonel. We drove the enemy's forces into their entrenchments.
Gov. Vance, of North Carolina, has issued a stirring appeal to the citizens of his State in behalf of the army, and calls for contributions to clothe the soldiers for the coming winter.
The Richmond Whig, of Oct. 23d, contains the following.
The Yankee commissioner, J.P. Wood, who is now in this city, has notified the Confederate authorities that hereafter persons claiming the protection of foreign government will not be allowed to proceed to the domains of Lincoln, on the flag of truce boat.
The Lynchburg Republican says there is a general stampede from Culpepper, and throughout the country, owing to an anticipated early advance of the Yankees in that direction. Having once been ill-used by the federals they are unwilling again to undergo a like treatment.
The Richmond Whig of Oct. 22, says:
A letter from the Mayor of Wilmington, N.C., says that for the first time in many weary days the reports of new cases of fever show a falling off, and it is to be hoped, that we have passed the worst.
The Richmond Enquirer of Oct. 24, has the following:
SAVANNAH, GA., Oct. 23.
The abolitionists attacked in force Pocalaglio and Coosawatchie yesterday.––They were gallantly repulsed to their gunboats at McKay's Point and Bees' Creek Landing by Col. W.T. Walker, commanding the troops.
The enemy came in thirteen gunboats and transports.
The Charleston R.R. is uninjured.
The abolitionist left their dead and wounded on the field. Our troops are in pursuit. [Signed] BEAUREGARD.
CHARLESTON, Oct. 23.
The gunboats of the enemy anchored to-day below Coosawatchie, and landed their forces. We have driven them back to their gunboats.
The Richmond Enquirer of the 24th inst. says Gen. McClellan is falling back into Maryland, which move will dishearten the North.
The same paper also contains the following item:
The yellow fever has made its appearance in several towns of Texas. At Sabine Pass at the latest dates, there had been twenty-five deaths, and most of the people had fled from the place.
NEW YORK, Oct. 29.
The Express professes to have reliable information from official circles in Europe, that England and France have decied [decided] upon the recognition of the Southern Confederacy. If the joint offers of mediation and armistice for four or six months to be proposed to Mr. Seward are not accepted, they fear a slave insurrection in the south, says the Express, after the first of January, and it is to afford their own citizens residing their ample protection under the aegis of their regularly appointed agents, against that England and France will claim the necessity of recognizing the new Confederacy.
BOSTON, Oct. 27.
Hon. Jno. H. Clifford, declined the people's nomination for Congress in the First District, and says his support of the President is unconditional and without qualification.
CHICAGO, Oct. 27.
A fire at Charles City, Floyd County, Iowa, Thursday last, destroyed property valued at $30,000. The entire business portion of the town was burned.
CAIRO, Oct. 27.
General Rosecrans and staff passed through to-day en route for his new command.
Passengers from Helena report Generals Chatham and Holmes near that place, threatening an attack.
Thirty-five foraging wagons and guard were captured by the rebels a few days since.
Hindman is again under arrest.
The latest information from Cornith says scouts from the neighborhood of Bolivar report Price within four miles of that place.
Gen. Hamilton is in command of Rosecrans' division.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 27.
A new story having just been added to the War Department buildings, and the roof not being completed, the heavy rains of yesterday did much damage to the structure. Owing to the overflowing of nearly all the rooms, business is being transacted in a neighboring house. The papers of the department were saved from material injury. A week will be required to prepare the premises for reoccupancy.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 27.
Wm. C. Berney of New-York, who has been a prisoner at the famous Libby Prison in Richmond, for the last five weeks, has just arrived here, having been discharged Thursday last.
BOSTON, Oct. 27.
The U.S. steam sloop-of-war Koorsage left Gibraltar on the 30th ult., for Azores and to search for the pirate Alabama.
The following is from the executive committee of the associated press, and is for publication:
The Associated Press consists of seven newspaper establishments in New York––the Journal of Commerce, Herald, Tribune, Times, World, Sun and Express. These papers hold various political principles as should be well known to the agents of the associated press in all points of the country. Complaints have recently been made that the telegraphic news and special dispatches relating to political meetings and elections, have been more or less telegraphed with political coloring on one side or the other. It is the object of this advice to call the attention of all agents and correspondents to the rules of the association, which forbid any side's dispatches to be sent over the wires, and they are instructed to send news, and only news. Facts can always be stated in words that are free from objection, and it is especially important that no slang phrase or political nicknames be used in dispatches sent to the associated press. It is the object of the association be receive news which shall be acceptable to all the members without giving offence to any by the terms in which it is conveyed.
NEW YORK, Oct. 27.
The steamer Honduras from Pensacola the 15th, reports the health of the troops good. Commodore Farragut was then with the Hartford, Brooklyn, Susquehanna, Treble and Potomac waiting orders to attack Mobile.
NEW YORk, Oct. 27.
A Key West letter reports the capture of the schooner Isabel, loaded with salt, off St. Monks, by the U.S. bark James L. Davis.
Col. John Erving, U.S.A., died last evening in this city.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 27.
The draft in this city, which should take place to-morrow, has again been postponed for a week, when the quota of the city will probably be provided for by volunteering.
Both branches of the common council and the citizens are offering most generous bounties to induce men to volunteer.
There is no doubt that Philadelphia has exceeded her quota by thousands, but she does not receive credit for many of her regiment, and will thus be compelled to raise nearly 10,000 more men than her just share.
BOSTON, Oct. 27.
Chas. R. Train declines the people's nomination for Congress in the Seventh district, on account of private business, and for the special reason that he entirely sympathizes with the President's proclamation, and the policy of the Republican party.
ST. LOUIS, Oct. 27.
One of the most serious disasters that has visited our river marine for many years, occurred to day about noon. Fire was discovered on board the steamer H.D. Bacon, unloading hemp at the foot of Locust street. The flames spread with great rapidity, creating alarm and commotion among the adjacent steamers. Before they could be removed, the Mogill, A. McDonnell, Estella, and W.H. Russell were wrapped in fire and destroyed, together with contents. About six hundred bales hemp, one hundred bales cotton, and a large quantity of miscellaneous freight piled on the levee also consumed. Loss estimated at $150,000.
"Evening Despatches," Milwaukee (WI) Sentinel, October 28, 1862, p, 4.