Show BY PACIFIC TELEGRAPH I 1 TO THE UNION mimy DAILY 1 arrival new york act pct oct the hip panama from sin francisco has arrived from Sheri dans apartment DI Part ment the army of the james davis proclamation etc etc new york oct the herald has a ais dispatch patch dated ila ha gorB vers town 10 list last night stating that firing in the direction ol of sheridan s fron heard on saturday afternoon whether a alg fight lit was in progress ii i not known tile the disposition being made by sheridan of the different commanders or of detachments and officers or of his big army shows shown liis his vigilance and his preparations to meet ass tit inlets ts in ever every y direction gen neal we v e are arc informed has been ordered to west virginia on important service which most likely is to check any ally designs that breckenridge Brecke mdge n may lave have ot of moving through from east tennessee over 2000 refugees have colip into Sheri dans lines since the of sept many ot of them bringing with them such stich of their property as thy can parry it is said that early has been super superseded superceded ceded in comma command of the rebels in tho the doall doah valley by longstreet Longa treet and that reinforcements have reached them from Breckin breckinridge fidge ir in western virginia and east tennessee the alic tribunes dispatch dip patch from the army of the james jamea the asiu says gays of the demonstrations rations made by butlers butler s forde orce that oen gen terry moved tho the corps out in advance of our extreme right ani and began baoan L occupying the country along the scene of the fight of tile the dinst and from that hat point on to the darby town road to the he charles city road consid considerable desultory firing occurred there durin during 9 the dy without further effect than to show tile enemy s the esth corps in tue ille meanwhile accompanied by kauta cavalry moved out olit toward the williamsburg road and there engaged the enemy late in the afternoon with varying success bucce holman s brigade of colored troops succeeded in carrying 0 one of the re doubts an and d capturing 0 the guns gillis I 1 while fairchild s and hull nulls I 1 s brigades were roughly handled in endeavoring 0 to take a strong position held by this the enemy directly on tho the Willia William imburg ibur g ro road ad in the neighborhood of seven pines barj darkness came on too soon tp ermit us to avail ourselves of f the advantage gained by the capture of tho the re doubts on the left and our troops were order ea ed to retire which they daft diat daylight with jl A fair start the n next e at m morning r n I 1 i ng with a 0 Q a the 0 side althe of the james jawed ho however wever lil lad gen grant to direct the w of af our forceps tv t their nal positions matters have resumed their haual quiet hero here oar losses in the corps will adoll amount nt to and that of the to probably do double I 1 ib le that about half of them however wire were wi re captured by the enemy among tho the latest rebels newspaper extracts is the proclamation of mr jeff davis naming the of november as a national thanksgiving 0 day in this document jeff jear while claiming that thanks are due for the many signal victories with which our arms have bate been crowned for the fruitfulness with which our land lia has been blessed and for the unimpaired energy which the hearts of the rebels have li are Jeen inspired at the same time acknowledges our sins have merited and received a grevious chastisement for which the soldiers of the union can vouch and that large districts of country have been swept over ove r and held by the armies annies of the united states bat colored troops are a thorn in jeff s side is shown by his statement fo wit that with flen fiendish dish mali malignity 0 pity the pa passions of the servile race have been excited by our foes 7 the charleston mercury reviews civi at length b cheso called peace theories of stephens and the rebel brebt 1 congressman boyc boyac in th the e course of its criticism it ih very frankly admits that the people of live under a despotism that tho rebel constitution ba has bai i been violated by the r congress in levying direct taxes that public laith faith has been forfeited by compelling n holders of rebel currency to sacrifice ilice one third of it of our late military disasters it says they have encouraged to raise their heads beads the rebel accounts of granta last movements are summed up in a terrible union loss lom in killed and wounded while the rebel loss losi is ii put at twenty live menthe death of gf the rebel gen dearing bearing is announced |