WAR NEWS gen ghi lander lande r bad 60 bio far re recovered vered verea froni ironi tile w wounds 0 ands lie lle received in ae the battle battie at balls bluffs as to be bd able on the first of Jari jarl january uary to ree rep report oft tor for duty and would soon return to his hia brigade in general banks division the steamboat express between old point and newport news was fired into by a tugboat from crany island the tle express was unarmed and had haq a sc schooner boorer in tow low which was employed in bringing 0 water frem from newport news the schooner was deserted by is crew and cut adrift with only its captain on board and was rag vas taken to crany island the express reported the occurrence to the flag ship and ana were sent out but not till the tug with ia its prize had escaped A f few evv shells were thrown into point and pig point batler batteries ba pernes pennes ies les without effect except the killing of a rooster as reported and then returned A fight a at paducah on Decem december bir was announced without particulars only that one federal captain was killed it could not have been a very sanguinary 0 affair A federal prisoner who escaped from springfield mo the last of december on hib bib return to otterville potterville Ott erville reported that gen price with men had bad taken all the houses in springfield for his troops turning the women 0 n and ch idren into the streets ile he had unloaded his bis wagons and was making preparations for a lon lan long iong 0 stay on the of december as reported general prentiss with men encoe encountered and I 1 dispersed secessionists under colonel dorsey at mount sion boone Cou county rity mo rao the eremya I 1 as 83 was rag vas killed and wounded 35 taken prisoners 95 horses horbes hor seap bear and guns federal loss 8 killed and 11 wounded dispatches received at st louls january aj announced the capture of the notorious jerf jerr owens col jones and fifty of their bridge burning gang ant near martinsburg Mart insburg addrain county by gen schofield commander of the state militia and the various gudilla gu gue eilla elila ilia lila bands along the north missouri railroad had been thoroughly scattered A force of six thousand confederates attacked the fifth connecticut regiment guarding the railroad near hancock on the potomac january jtb and after a al bight skirmish the unionists retreated across the river to avalt await reinforcements the enemy then destroyed the railroad and telegraph lines breal breaking dind einD communication with cumberland the tle loss in in the fight was not known but believed to have been not very great i reports from the indian country received at leavenworth january eth stated tb that at the war between the indians and the texans and halt hait breeds breedi bad commenced and that in a fight in the cherokee country cooper a texan general and mcintosh leader of the rebel half breeds were killed the tle 10 loss 33 of I 1 the loyal indians was f fourteen our teen A dispatch from mobile stated that on jan ad gen butler was at ship island also that the federals had bad nominal possession of biloxi and it was believed that they would occupy all the towns on the coast in that region it was said that they landed there from five to seven thousand troops and that they expressed a determination to 0 o push forward their forces to jackson