The Rising Sun of the 19th instant says from the dearth of news from the South, it would seem og if the campaign was settling down into an' easy-going comfortable thing, d8d ts Jong ae the Kenurgente donot. trouble the Imperialists the latter do not appear in a hurry to hunt them up. - By the last accounts from Kagoshima about 12,000 Imperialiats are engaged in preparing that town against attack, and are waiting the advent of a portion of forces, estimated at about 1,500 men, re said to be within a n or two of the out-posts, where indeed they are been this past te Government troops do not take the wud end the insurrect sing or disposing of this camps force, which their greater number should enable them to do, is hardly to be under Stood, unless it is that the Government troops do not want the job of searching for the balance of the rebels, preferring they should cable by. visiting Kagoshima, ry preparation is being made to ahd where they would meet with noo of having search of Saigo are other reasons for The troops there experience in the construc and batteries, and also in the indiscriminate and whol of house property. Since th about 300 houses per day ar
incendiary spirit det " wher few akalis roa the men-of-war li the stead kept the ball going ami set this in the most lively nothing much is known among the foreign refidents here of the progress mate by the force which was said to be following the Sateuma men down from Kumamoto along the peninsula.
On the 22nd the rebels were routed from the position they held in the vicinity of Kumamoto, and by all accounts they were being pursued towards Kagoshima, "where they were expected early this mouth. But more than 20 days have elapsed, andsthough the distance' between the two points oan scarcely be one hundred miles, nothing definite has been heard of either body.
By the Ister advices, it is reported that there is trouble between Kokura and Nak-otsu. The Toyoshima Maru left on the 15th with 450 soldiers and some cooli for Kokura, and the further despatch of forcements to Kagoshima has been postponed. Meanwhile it is rumoured that heavy fighting has been going on within the last three or four days in the vicinity of Yatsushiro; and it is aleo reported that the northern army is checked in ite further advance South by a body of insurgents estimated at 17,000 men. Those who pretend to know the actual condition of affairs at the present look forward to lengthened campaign, and predict that it will be some months before thorough quiet is restored, The last news from Kagoshima dated the 11th, and as some days have elapsed, it is probable the next intelligence from there will be of interest, The Cosmopolitan Press says that on the 19th instant, General Saigo, urged on by wh may be termed a partial success in Kagoshima, concentrated his troops to the number of 9,000 on the frontier of Bange, and gave battle to the ists, The fight continued throughout the entire day without any definite result. Early on the 20th the Satsuma forces menced the attack, and at noon the Imperialists bad been forced back two n, but bein reinforced soon recovered the lost ground an ultimately compelled the Iusurgents to retreat into the adjoining province of Hinge hit was probably the severest fight whicl taken place, and certainly
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