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2 dors we should be secure against the enemy's water Movements. To Mobile one of these *bogaboos,” as (he men on the frigates Cumberiaad aod Congress called the Merrimac, as she was beuriig down (n them, would be of It would open commerce with New igh to the foes for tmestimabie value. Orieaus. If it could not get near @ arm it could be used as a convoy Save in the price of staple articles within afew months enough to build a ram. Bu also set afloat as scon as possible 2 number of sit verses. They wo biogkade, but they of our fortiscations. A land battery value against such terrible instruments of destruction. Running the Blockade. (From the wanuab Kepublican, March 14.) ANOTHER ARRIVAL. ity for saying Uhat there has been an- Confederste port of late him again upon his success. AND STILL ANOTHER, Since the above has bean in type we iearm that an Eng- Lish steamer has al ‘rms, munitions, , im large quantities. The Carolina Gunboat Subseription. (From the Charleston Courier.) you to the gupboat fund, say# the Courier, as id $3,745 85, exclusive of uumerous valua- Die urticles to be disposed of by raille The Rebel Congress. fFrom the Mobile Yribune, March 18.) Nothing of much importance was dene in the open ses- sion of Congress on the 12th inst, In the Senate the joint Teselution passvu by (he House of Representatives ad. vising the plauters to make no cottwn uw Wbaceo was laid ‘on the table. In the House a great many bills and resolutions wore Offered and referred to their appropriate committees. A resolution to inquire imto the expediency of appropriat- ing money ior the support of the famiies of prisouers was adopted. , Oa the 11th instdnt the day was passed in diseussing a bili for the appoiutinent of Indian @ ents. All of general interest that occurred in the House on the 11th is thus reported: — Mr. Crockett, of Kentucky, introcuced s resolution declaring ali public investigation into the lato disasiers in Tennessee unwise aud iinpoliiic and calculated! to en gender rivairy among the generuls commanding our ermies. He supported the resolution ea hestly, and hoped tt would be the pleasure of the House to puss it. Mr. Foorr opposed the resolution, and moved that it be Jaid upon the tadle, Upon this inotion the ayes aud coe were callod, and she vote resulted—ayes 42, be, ee Garwarr, of Virginia, offered the following resolu- 2 Resolved, That the Committee of Ways ana Means be fustructed fo inquire mto the expedieacy of raising a re- vouue by oxcise sud export duties. Agreed te, Letter from Corinth. {Correspondence of the Mubile Advertiser and Register.) Cox, March 7, 1362. We arrived here yesterday, after a invst tedious pas- Sage, aud had the coldest weather the Continentals ex- Pperionced during the winter—meeting a snow storm on Monday night, which lasted uti last night late. Through day, however, the weather is pleasant—e clear eky and mild Dreeze. ‘Wo have met here with unbounded hospitality, for which we are duly thankful—especially as Corinus bas ‘been go long @ military camp that we expected to find it “cleaned out There is here nothing but soldiers, and plenty of them, and more arriving every train. Thad @ conversation witha member of an ery company, who participated in the skirmish at Pittsbu two or three days ago. He says they killed about seven- ty-five fnds. and drove the balance into their boats. = good. Pittsburg is about eighteen miles from re. There was an accident to Colone! Crawford's train, which delayed it somewhere south of bere, but I did uo: hear of any particulars sufliciently reliable to note them—nothing serious, though, { believe. We came through safe and sound—which is remarkable, for the Gtate of the road. We expect to be into it very shortly, and if I come o Gafe I Will tell you all about ti. G.V P, 8.—Woe have just heard of Price’s victory in Mi tt. The tide is about turning. Dissatisfaction with Jeff Davis. MUTTERINGS OF A ‘STORM’! IN SECESS14—‘‘START. LING MEASURES’? IN EMBRYO—MATTERS AND THINGS IN RICHMOMD, ETC., ETC. (Correspondence of the Cha: ioston Mercury.) Rucic1onn, March 14, 1862. Under the direction of the President General Loe is charged with the conduct of the military overations of the armies o:. the confederacy. At the same time the President appoints four colouels as aida to himseif, noi te Lee, who also has four; and the Secretary of War i» authorized to employ twenty-two additional clerks. This looks like business; but what earthly use the President can have for four more aids (be has one already). except to act as overseers to Lee's aids, and to reduce Lee hin- self Crom ® commanding general to an orderly sergeant, fo one can tell The Emzuirer of this morning says, it effect, that the less the President resembles Wasuing'on the more we ought to support him—or, in other words, ‘the worse the ruler is the more the people's obligation» are great. possible spirit ‘evails. The people of Loudon are hin pe? Ro before the enemy, and are being arrested for so doing. Our city deieuces consist of fortifications so close to the town that the enemy, once within the of the guos in these fortifications, could wt their rifled cannon eholl us out. In Keeping with this folly is another. Negroes from Cy the interior counties, where their labor can be applied tv some purpose, ‘are ‘burried off to the peninsula, or to Suffolk to work on tatreachments, whilc the negroes in the border and exposed counties, whose masters would be giad for the government to take them and keep them un til the war ts over, are left to be stolen by the Yankecs or to run away. ‘The city ‘‘millish,” embracing some of our very bes: citizens, uve of them @ lieutenant colonel in the battle o° ‘Manassas, have gove into camp at the Fair Ground, with tonts indeed, but mo straw and no placks. The lev: qm masce has Lad a capital effect upon enlistments, both Band out of the army. A Supreme Court is being organized, and Congross ir eonsidering in secret session, the propriety of sending Conmmussioners to France for the special object of bring about an ailiance. Judge Monroe, of Keutucky, hopes to become one of the Ji of the Supreme Court. Ma jor Bumford, ibis said, refuses to be exchanged. on the 4 that he is a native of Texas, or something of tha: sort, and does not wish to fight on the otherside. Severa: of our apothecary stores were closed yesterday in conse- quence of « bint from General Winder that he would per {ait no more extortion. Four fundrymen were arreste. refusing to take the oath of allogiat s the weather has been gloomy, showery acd warm, like April. f the midst of the crowd of the eapitai, boldiy that a despatch bad jusi seen received ix Congress, stating that Price anu Van Dorn had killow and wounded 10,000 of the enemy, and captured 14,000 or 20,000, He swore he baard the deapatch rewd. Th. w madly over tho town, and even started Mr. ‘Benjamin in chaseof its source. ‘The vickest aud maddest = a saw were those who swallowed this coloss: uc.” Newbern, Winchester, Fernandina, Brunswick and Jacksonville, are occupied by the enemy. Ponsaco'a will be evacuated soon, says the Savannah Reputlican. ‘Tho signs at New Matrid and island No, 10 are ugly; and ‘Van Dorn is silent! Truly the enemy are crowding us. ‘The late Ariny of the Potomac 14 concealed; some pro- found strategy w being executed; and taore are ahrewt intimations in political circles that some great event is about to happea. An attack on the administration and fta men by ove of the most emiveut men of the times, in Se ares until this great event or suc ‘Tne debate yesterday showed that the members wer Ho, however, 01 This Congress will Is may be, that ia the progress of this revolution, they may be ovmpelied to save the country at all hazard, aud ‘Uy the most startling measures, and it would be nece<sa- ry, mm order todo that, that they should have the conti ted tom high salary at this time ve devolved upon it 4 great mission. dence of the peoplegaad what would give that inore 1 than disinterestedness in reryrd to money matters’ feared, if they imoreased their salaries, that they would diminish that influence which it would be necessary for them to order to work out this mission Other signs are not want Tae thunder is mutter ing. The Keaminer, for example, compares the President toacrazy man dancing on top ofa chimney. A loose drick gives way and be falis to the earth, crushed into # jolly. Tho Bzaminer hopes that Sydney Jobaston may ‘Bot prove a “loose brick.”” General Donbam publishes acard im thia morning's En- drer, surtaining fully the position takeu by the Mercury its article ou the President's treatment to him eelf, The report coutinnes that the President sign the dill crouting prescribing the powers of commanding General Lee is simply detatied on duty here, and charged with the conduct of military operations. In the general order aesigning him to duty nouning 2 sald about rank or pay. This is DO time for the President to be doing things half way and trifling with tho sease and foslings of the people. It is hoped that Loring will assure command at New Dern, or wherever active Operntions way (eke piace Magruder did not start from Newports News uatil tne wecood day of the fight, and arrived too Inte (9 ov onerat with the Merrimac, His failure in this important matter ia owing, | bear, to the want of timely votics /rom the authorities bere. pilot of the Merrimac saya @)\enced the guns jonitor in thirty-five the aftor which the latter fired two guns and retreated w Fortress Monroo. Very powerful guns aud very peowiar shot are being burrie’ up for the Merrimed, with the expactation of making her more than # mateh for the itor, A cannon still more peouliat is now ready to bo tested—the object of which is to sweep down @ whole rogiment at a pop. At last acevunts Jackson was falling back to Mount Jackson, forty miles from Winchester. The Yankoow ia the Kavawha valley aro building plank roads as fast ae the army ponetrates the country. ‘Titover is plenty, aad the Yankees fetch along pleuty of portable steam saw @rinor of the Mo mills. Moantyne our own roads are nearly impassable. dials note cuiters i by the Trewsury Department $1,000 & year, wh cutters receive only $600 for mu doing @xuctly the samo kind of work Somo of these outters are fair refigees from Alexandria and elsewhere, ang thay complain of injuntice. Other refugees, males, Gom the same oily, have gone into business here, wre doing well here ig from $500 to $600 on com. cniswlona, a 1 good authority *, W. Rugeoll, who tol medicn! graduates that the the enemy has got a lesson, and wili, no doubt, ar Jd, perhaps, not much tighten the ould do worse: that is, run past auy would be of uo a valuable cargo of The captain of the adv aturous craft been seen Upon Our streets, and we cougrabu- rrived at @ Confederate port, with NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 1862.—TRIPLE SHEET. President was the ‘best, bravest and a0 expectant of a Cabinet portfolio, which accounts for the milk ig the covoanut. ‘Blockade’ whiskey is sell- ing for $8 a galion. Ninepence calico is sold for Afty cents, and batier for seventy-five cents cr a dollar a pound— bad at that. Among a lot of engravors, lately arrived by the underground railroad, turns yp a captain of the Yan- kee army, who was arrested yesterday and caged. J Biertiold, of Newburry, S.C., sends the editer of the Whig a calfskin taured with dog fennel (recupatorum) , ud handsomely tauned itis. To-morrow (Sunday), at one o'clock, the ceremony of tho ‘Forty Hours’ Ea posi- tion” will be commenced at St. Peter's cathedral, and will be continued on Monday and fussday. Tis ceremo- By is intended to hovor the (uthclic dogma of the real presence. Tho object of the prayers wil! be to invoke ‘the aasiatance of God in the perils and trials of the times. ‘The days are dark aud creary, And tLe rain is never weary, And I am afraid Johnston's strategy will be soaked through and through, and spoiled. How Yancey Got Back to Specch at New Orie: 5 [From the New Orlvans Picayuue, of March 18.1 ‘We have the ure of announcing the arrival in our , Inst evening, at half-past five o'clock, by the Ope- lousas Railroms, of tho Hon. Wm. L. Yancey, one of the (enfoderate States Commissioners te Kurope, He came rom Havana, as acnouuced in a special telegraphic despatch, in the schooner Wide Awake, as Mr. Yi hi He at the St. je was rec*ived at tho Opelousas ferry landing by & number of bis friends and fellow citizens, by whom he was accompauied to his lodgings. On entering the rotunda of the hotel, on his return from dinuer, about ten o’clock ia the evening, a large crowd met Mir, Yaucey and insisted on his a/drewsing them, which he did iu a speech of about @ haif hour. He remarsed on rising that i8 was within ten cays of a ycar since he left the country, as the sentative of the Confederate Siak to ° doavor to procure the recoguition of that independence for which his countrymen were gallantly contending. He should undoubtedly surprise bis auditors wien be told them that they bad no friends in Kurope; that they musi depend for the accomplishineat of the end for which they are striving, upon themselves alone. And wat he said of Nuropean feeling with regard to @eis confedercey was equally true of its fecling towards the North, whose people, whose government, and whose press, the state meuis ‘and writings of whose public men and literacy writers, they bolioved to be altogether mondacious. The seutiment of Europe was anti-slavery, and that portion of public opinion which formed, and was represented by the government of Enxland, was abolition. At the samo time it is very well understood and beieved that the pretexis upoR Wich $his war was inaugurated, aud ia carried on by the North against us, were utierly falso. They would ever recognize ous independence until our conquering sworcs hung dripping over the prostrate heads of the North, Their opinion of the charactor of the people of (hese States, which we are engi.god, waa derived altogether rthern wources. iney never see tho jou:na!s aud the periodicals of the Sous, and all the accounts tuey receive with regard to us come to them filtered through those of the ‘They be- lieve that we ares bravo aui determined people, and that we are resolved upon obiaining our inuenomdence by the most unyielding devotion to the cause iu which we are contending. But they would like to see the two confederacies crippled by the war, and so would give aid to neither, He alluded to tho erroneous and hostile opinions entertained in Euglaud with rogard to the pie of these States, wnich had been sedulous i by the North, by whom we were habitual; a8 cruel, lawless and oppressive; that the owne: liberty to treat his slave without reference to the laws of society Or nature, aud tbat the slaves were bred asthe inglish breed their Durham cattle, &c. As to the block. ade, he said that the nations of it until it suited their interest. ion, he ed that tha very early day. He said it was ai ton'is King.” Ibis not. It ix a lat power in commerce, but net its dic To alluded to ihe dependence which British statesmen pliced upoa the probability of obtaiaing cotion frou: other sources than America, and showed that this, to any practical extent or purpos?, was impossible,and that the idea was « tallacy. He thought, be said, that (he blockade was blessing to the Cunfederaie states, for it was veachiug, may, compelling us to depend upon our- selves, and to do that for ourselves for which we have ‘hitherto been depending upon others, and they our deadliest foes. Mr. Yaticey then coussclio! a rm, united, aud generous support of ‘the guveruinent which has just been inangurated. The chosou and the choosers were both im the same boat. The storm was raging, the wind was how ling, and the ways were beat- img upon our bark. We bad placed: them at the heim. ‘They might commit errors, bat hlstory teaches that when there is mutiny in the crew the bark m ee down. He concluded by expressing the Btroagest contitunce in the Onal success of the cause in which we are engaged, vod at the close was greeted with the most euthusiastic cheers. After a fow gioaoans remarks by Dr. Hollamt, in the same voin—and in the course of which the speaker bore testimou: an eye witness, to the abl» and faithiul manner in which Mr. Yancey discharged his mission in Europe—the assemblage sey arated. Beauregard’s ene rl Respecting Bell etal. (From the Mobiie Rexister, March 18.) 10 THR PLANTERS OF THE MISSISSIPTI VALLEY. HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF TI Missisatert, ‘Jacksox, Teun., March 8, 18 More than onco a people fighting with an ‘enemy Ivxs ruthless than yours, for imperilled rights not more dear and encred than yours, for homes aud aland not more worthy of resoiute and uncouquer: en than yours, than you have now at stake, have not hesitated to melt and mould into ‘anon the precious bells surmounting their housve of God, which bad called generations to prayer. The priest- uood have ever sanctioned and consecrated the couver- sion, in the hour of their nation’s need,as one holy and acceptable in the sight of God. We want cannon: as greatiy as any people whoevor, as history telis you, inelted their church beils to supply them: and I, your General, entrusteJ with the commani of the army embodied of your sous, your kinsmen and your ueighhora, do now call on you to'send your planta. tion belis to the vearest roilroad depot, subject to my order, to be melted into canuon for the defence of your plantations. Who will not cbeerfu!!y aud promptly send me bis bells uncer such circumstances + Be of good cheer; but ti @ T. BEAURES xessing Backwards. [From the Mobile fribaue, March 18.) ‘The papers of Richmond vera to know as littie of what is going on in the ormy of the Potomac a# wain this quarter. “Falling back,” however, seems to be the order moud Kzaniner gives us the positive assurance that these movements have not been on account of aay pres sure of the enomy, bat are purely stratogic. Genoral JoWnaton is understond (0 have the confideuce of the ad. ministration to such an extent that,as # singular von, he has the cowtrot and direction ul military mo ments im his department entircly tm bis own-diseretion. 1b is cortaiu that a new liue of defence is to be organized Northern Virginia, and thas jected with @ view to the be nage. Tuese points are uo. et indicated; but it is thought pro- bable thas a line of 4feace will be organized extendin, from Gordonsville to Staunton. A depot of provisiuns now beiug established at the former place. The Richmond correspondent of the Charleston Me-. cury has the following —The evacuation of Manassas and the falling back to the Rapidan river, was deverinined on about three wecks ago, duriag Gen. Johnston's visit to this city. Ie waa a military necessity, growing eut of an insuticieacy of troops and forage. Ten mouths of idlo- ness bad wasted the army away and ali means of sup- port. The Virginia Legisiature aud Governor Latcler are both blamed tor not taking timely steps to reinforce Jobnston,-but the policy of inaction is the true of fender. Winchester cannot be held. Jackson has been begging for additiona) men, aud tho President bus been deluding im with the bope that they would be Yesterday that hope was dissi by an enforced adiatssion from the Secretary of War that no men could be #)«red (rom Jobnstou’s army. Im @bandoning the upper vailey we give the enemy the great cattle and grain growing coon. ties—just what they need: for flour on the other side of the Potomas is selling for $17 per barrel. Narrowing the Confedcrati Lines. The Mobile Legis rr of? March 20 say#:—Shouid tbe pre- sont condition of aflaire contiaue, it iv evident we shal have to rely en the cotton not only for the main- teuauce Of our people at bome, batof our asmy field. The Modije Comm: Ny Say the planters should turn their attention to the Fr: of corn and provisions in bhe place of cotton, during the coming seasoa. are Procured in tof March 20.) Monin, March tv, 1862, Epona ov THe ApveeTEr anp Reoteran — Gewrs—] send you, as ® coutribution to the confede. reey, the lead weight which was attached to @he striking Lead and Bra aad Rebel (From the Mubile Keg part of my clock, with the hoya that every one, not ouly in our city but in the whole confederacy, wae may have such within their reach, will do likewise (This is « capital sugKestion, apd ge be apt to sirfke of our readers favoral . ae. caomehhin > fom, March 19, 1862. cal) mace through your paper ld beats to make cannon for the detence © ity. 1, therefore, hoping (hat, sovall a» ft ts, 1s may be With many prayers for tue ruecess of our beloved cause, I remain, yours respectfully. Resides a coneiduradle quantity of old brass accom: Panying the above, a large ot O excellent material was sont in by Mrs. M Arviva) of Arms. (From Ube epeeial correspondence of the Movie Register, of March 20.) At daybrenk this morniug the fine screw stoamag Keo. pomiist, eailing under Fnglish colors ror without any digiculty whatever €3 the most valuable cargo that yet been brought turough the blockade, viz 25,000 etand of arma, incinding 12,000 Enfield rides, about 60 tous of gunpowder, and immense stores of Uiaukeis, shoet, accoutroments for artillery, medicines and othor articles of whieb our army stanis padly in need. ‘This invaluable cargo is the property of te Confederate government, which chertered the Economist for the trip. This pews is perfectly authentic, and the steamor now lies off our wharves. {We omit the name of the port for prudential rea sons. Boe.) as Wo the situation of affuirs tn Tennessee. Time was all ‘we wanted after the disaster at Lovelson, and this the enemy have committed the unpardonable blunder of al- ienng se us. Now let thom repair their blunder if they can. It is too late, The South has ratlied to the fleld of danger, our new lines of operation are established, and a force which it will be difficult, if not impossible, wo con. ids the road to it they esse: quickiy on the heels of our retiring lave displayed wretched generaiship. easily had the men on hand from their Vast cantonments to have poured @ fresh and powerful army into our ceastry through the road opened by the {all of Fort Domeaeu, and we hold it to be good evi ience of the discretion and sagacity of General A. 8. Johnston that he retreated as he did from Clarksvilleand Nashville, for be could uot suspect that the enemy would have t stupidity not to be prepared to at once press forward and il themselves to the utmost of tho advantages of thir access on (hs Cumburiand. Had good goneraiship been Opposed to bim, events would have vindicated General Johnston’s retrogade policy. He Wook it for granted tLat he was opposed by smart men, and to avoid the almost eartaia chances of defeat by the presumed overwhelming force which be could not in reason doubt would be upon him, be thought to save the remnaat of the army of his by yom Frasher than expose it to destruction. He had but ten thousand men, and it wes not only the inference of common so!- dier sense, but it was distinotly stated tohim repeatediy that tho enemy in graat strength were advancing upon Nashville, General Johnstun is mad object of the most abusive and vituperative denuncistions of @ per- tion of the press, because with ten thousand men he could not at first do the work of thrice that number, and because the stupidity of the oueroy placed hira ia a false position at last. This j csition was that of retreat when he was pot actually pursued, but which was only ant.ci- pating Ube retreat he would have been obliged to make a fow days later, The voluntary fulling back was certainly bettor than retreat in tho dco of the enemy, which is the next thing to defoat by the enemy. looked like panic was only sound discretion. Woe do not charge the enemy with stupidity for not pushing ahead with the troops who fought at Lonelson, sor thatarmy was only less badly whipped than wi That urmy was place hors du combat by its groat loss aad by the disorganization consequent thereupon. Sel- dom has a victorious force been so badly whipped. It was impossible to-advance it, and it will be long ere its mutilated companies, regimepte and brigades are again im fighting trim. The great strategy of the onemy was to break through our linesand euter Tennessee by tho road they did, and, therefore, their stupidity was in their not having @ fresh invading reserve to sent right on when the assaulting force had opened the road by cap- curing Donelson, Thuy have given us time in Tennessee while they havu been binding up the wounds suffered at Donelson, accomplishing a recrganization and bringing up rein- forcements. Now the confederacy will be ready for them on the plains of Tennessce before they iead a column against us of tho strength which will be essential to any prospect of making @ successful Ognt, Mcan while the Lincoln government is speading upwards of $3,000,000 per day. Suspected Battle in East Tennessee. From the Mobile Adve: tiser , March 18.] Memruis, March 17, 1862. A special despatch to the Avalanche says the enemy have crossed the mounta: t Big Creek Gap in large numbers, Genoral Ledbetter has gone forward with a strong force to meet them. Martial Law‘in Memphis. {From the Mobile Tribuns, March 15.) HranQusRTsKs Second GRAND Divison, Anu Miss. Vatury, Jackson, Tenn., March 5, 1962. oI AL ORDERS—NO, 2, 1, All troops coming within the limits of this division from Louisiana aud Mississippi, will rendezvous at Gran Junction, Tenu., and those from Alabama, at Corinth, Miss.; and the new levies from Tennegseo will rendez vous at Henderson and Hethel station,on the Mobile and Onio Railroad. 2. Loe’s and Browdor's regiments Tennessee Volun- toers, and stragglers and unattachod mon will proceed ‘rom ‘Henderson station to Corinth , aud report to Brigadier General Ruggice. The Soventh regiment Mississippi Volunteers will proceed froin Jackson to tlenderson. 3. Chief: of siutis will see that the necessary supplies and transportation are furnisied, to eflact these mov: 4. Railroads within the limits of this command, boing absolutely necessary for military purposes at this time. are, to the extent necessary, placed under the control ater’s Department. ‘To suppress disordore, arrest all persons travelling with- out propor authority, and prevent upédue interferonce by unauthorized persons on the Meufpbis and Charleston, aud Mobile and Ohio Railroads, Brigadier General Ruggles wiil toak» the necersary details from his command to-send a guard of one con:missioned officer aud five men with exch passenger train on these roads, 6. The eile or supolying in any manner of intoxi- cating liquors withia five miles of any station occu. pied by troops, or within one mile of any public high- way used for military purposes, except for medical pi poces,on the written prescription of # regular physi- cian, is prohibited. All grogshops and drinking saloons within such limi 1 be closed, and the supplies pack- ed, subiect to n ‘ary inspection. Any violation of this order will be followed by prompt ariest of the offender and the destruction of all his stores of li,nor. 6. Martin! law ia declared at the ciiy of Memphis. A firm and discreet officer of proper qualifications will bo dotaiied by Brigadier General Ruggies, w assiumo the duties of provost marshal at that place, who will pub- lish his orders, and call on the commaniling ofticar at that place for the necessary guard to enforce them. 7. The prisoners of war at Memphis will be transferred to Mobile under @ guard of fifty men, to be detailed by Brigadier Gencral Rng from his command at Corinth. The commanding officer at Mobile will forward them un- der a proper guard to Tuscaloosa, Alabama, for confine ment. * command of Major Genera! BRAGG. W. Wart, A. A. A. General, The Army of the Mississipp' ‘The Mobile evening News, announcing the assumption by General Beauregard of the command of the Army of the Mississippi, says that (enerais Polk and Bragg will be connected with him in command of the army—the former making his headquarters at Humboidt and the latter at Memphis. ‘As aflairs now progress,” continues that Journal, ‘we may woll expect that General Reauregard will soon perfect the organization aud discipline of his tiny, and increase its numbers to sach an extent that it will compre favorably, in efiiciency, to the Army of the Potomnc.”” Colonel Forney, of Alabama. {From the Selma, (Ala.) Reporter. Colonel chin H. For.ey,of the Tenth Alabama regi ded in the battle of ranesvill ment, wo was wou passed through the city yesterday en rowle to Jackson- His wound was in the right 4 it was thought at first that it would have to wnputated; but wergiwice to know that he will finally recover the full use of it, for in the & & more generous and lion hearted soldier lives than Mr. Forney. Colonel Forney has been promoted to a brigadier generalship, which peaition he richly deserve Another Vankee Keeled Over, {From the Savannah epnblicar.) Petween six ani seven o'clock on Tuesday avening, & Yankee barge, containing some eight or ten men, was diseovered by our pickets in Augustine crock, supposed to be taking soundings or recounoitering. ‘Iwo of the pickets fired a! hem,aud one was seen to tall, The enemy returned the fire, but inised their mark. They then hurried back. Captain Rockwell's company, sta- tiowed at a battery near by, went to the assistance of the pickets om heurivg their firing, About midnight the foderais revurned aud commenced ap attack. Firing wag kept up on both sides for some time, but with no injury to our men. How the Yankees fared on thie. their second visit, could not be ascertained ; but it Is presumed. hey wore satis‘ied to retrace their stapes, without wailing to dad out what success they met with, Foreign Consuls. {From the Moutgomery Advertiser. } Asour government bas now assutued a permanent form, juetly entitling itto be recognized us cneof the independent lowers of the earth, !t appears per that all representatives o do now recognize th ve the consuls from the European 4 tothe United States, to recide in our country, ead exercisetheir official functions, but what- ever excuse there may have been for this in the past there cam be mone now. It is desirable, on many accounts, to have consuls from foreign States resident in our commereial cities, but if other nations prefer to sacrifice their own interests by stupidly refusing to recogaize us, we See no reason why we ehould degrade ourselves by’ consai to the prescuce of consula Who bave not takeu out their exequatnre from our governinent. No nation is bound to receive # consul unless im pursuance of a treaty made, and the refural to receive one is no cause of offence. Therefore, eveu though we were recognized, we could refuse to receive a courul accredited to our go vernment withont giving ofence, if there were no treaty stipulations compelling it. So far aswe kuow, the foreign consuls at present in thos country are frienuly to our case, and to them per- no Objection; but for them to act im an y under the authority of exequatars Chited States government, is offensive to if England, France, Spain, represeutatives in the con- federacy, to look after their owa commercial intorests and thé intereste of their citiz wt them take on honorable course, an] recognize the Confederate States agsanation, Until they do this, let us give them to understand distivetly thas their interest in this country must take the chances of war. If we wish to gain the countenance of tbe worid,we must act as becumes an independant nation, and Gel! respect and independence alike ery oubegainst the further toleration of officers, whore ooly titles to official recoguition are derived from the government at Washingten, The Released Federal Prisone: From the Baltimore San, April 7.) ‘The boat trom Old Poi is yemerday br ber of federal prisoners, released from Richmond b: Conjedorate government EB Woodruff, of the Second Konucky regiment; Lieutenant Colonel Burnford, of the Sixth infantry, United States Army; Captain Zeno R. Bliss, of the Kighth infantry, United States Army; Lieutenant J. J. Vanhorn, of Kighth Infantry, United States Army, andothers of lessor note, Lieutenant Hargous and thirty six of the crew of frigate Cougress—destroyed in Hampton Roads by the Merrimac—are prisonora of war at Richinond. Tho Confederate Congress eon ke on $20,000 for the ropair of the Merrimac. of the officers who ar- rived was tho room mate of Colonel Coreoran, who is confined in @ warehouse in Richmond. Tie reports him woll, but hears nothing of the prospects of bis release, ‘The Officers above named were among those surrendered by Gonerai Twiggs, in Tex |, last summer, aod are spe. cially exchanged—that is, for officers of equa! fenk on the confederate side, They Go Nogth to-day. ““'Then,"? said General Floyd, *Lsurrender the command tof men,” is The “Situation” in Tennessee. How Fort Donelson was Surrendered. (From the Mobile News, March 13, (Correspondence of the New Orleaus Piiayune. ‘The public mind is Beginning te be at ease Dacatun, Ala., March 15,1 Discussion Between the Rbel Gen vals a: to ihe Pr priey of Surrenctering—An Interesting Item in the Hisiory 0/ the Revellion, ‘Yh> deuunctations, ‘and injustice heaped upon General A. 8. Johnston for his retrograde movement are in every way undeserved. Long beiore Geacra! Jub. son was compelled to make ad. People nor the government listened to ‘he adinoniions, AaThave before stated, General Johnston lad b come convinced that neither Bowling Green nor Donelson were tenable, and, wich the hope of saving the latter, he svt all he reinforcements he could spare at Dover, reserving for himsei! a force hardiy suflicient to cover his own re- treat had the enemy fallen upow him. Ty ig stated that the message of President Davis, in re- lation to Fort Denelsom, says that the reports of Loyd and Pillow do uot stato that reinforcements were asked for; and it is not shown that the position could not be evacuated,and the wholo army sayed us woll a part. Nor is it shown by what authority the two seuior g2 rais abandoned (heir responsibility by trausferring their command to junior officers, In exjianhation a part of the omission thas stated, and as part of the history of the surrender of Yort Donelgon,! aye obtained from aj nior officer, who was present on that occasion, the fol- lowing reliable statement of the particniars of the sur- render, which will be read with 1wtorest: On the morning of tho 16:hof February, sbout one o'clock, it had been determined by tho commanding ofll- cer W cutour way through the enemy's lines, destroy the ariny stores and retreat from Dover to Nashville. For this purpose scouts were sent out to ascertain whether theene my occupied the ground they fad been driven from the day previous, ome of Forrest's. men were ordered to ‘inspect a slough covered with back water from the river, to see if it was passable, for infantry. The scouts returned soon after, and reported that the roads wore perfectly alive with troops, and that their camp fires were burning in every direction; also, that the slougi: was baif leg deep in mi: and the wacer reaching to the saddle skirts. This iuior imation produced a change of operations, and @ conierence thon tock piace, at which wore present Generals Floyd, Pillow aud Buckner, Colunels Forrest aad John C, Burch; Majors Glimer, Honry, Haynes and Jones, and Liouten- ants Martin and Nicholson—the two last being aids of Goueral lillow. ‘Notwithstanding that communication was thus cut off, General illow urged the necessity of making the attempt to cut our way out, or make # fightfor ono day more, in which time he thought that we could get steamboats enough to put the whole command acrogs the river, aud make our escape by Clarksville, General Buckner then said, that from tho worn out and distressod condition of his men, and the oecu- pasion of his rific pits on the extreme right by the ene- my, he could not ho!d his position for hal an hour, if Atiaeked by the enemy at daylight, which he would cer tainly do. General Pillow replied:—‘Why can’t you? I thiak you can gir,” and added that the occupation of our rifle pits by the sen Jeft an open gateway to our river battery, and he thought we ought to cut our way through at all hazards. General Bucknor retorted, saying: I know my posi- tion; Ican only bring to bear against the enemy four thousand men, while he can oppose me with any given. number.’* General Pillow then said:— Weil, geutiemen, whatdo you intend todo? 1am in favor of fighting out.” General Floyd then asked Ger 1 Backner what be had to say? General Buckner replied quickly that to attempt to cut our way through the euemy’s lines would cost a sacr fee of thres-fourths of the command, and that no genoral had tho right to make fe. General Floyd admitted the fact, and concurred with General Buckner on this point. General Pillow then re- marked that thore was but ono alternative left, and that was capitulation, and addressing him- self to General Floyd, said—Sir, I shall neither surrender the command nor myself; 1 will die drst.”” General Floyd then said he also would not sur- render himself, adding:—'‘ You know my relations with the United States government, and it would not do.’’ {Alluding to his course when Secretary of War, in dis tributmg to the Souch ite quota of arms.) General Buck- ner replicd that he thought no persoual feeling ought to control oflicial action. General Floyd admitted it, and eaid neverth it was his determination. neal” Buckner caid hen, gentlemen, I suppose the surren- yr will devolve on mo.’’ Geueral Floyd, addressiu, Buekior, said:—“General, if you ate put ja comman will you allow me to take out my brigade?” General Guckher replied:— Yes, sir, if you move your command betore I send my offer of capitilation to the enom: Goaeral Viilow, upon whom tho command next devoived, said, ‘I will not accept it, as my purpose is fixed never to surrender.” a? General Buckner tmmodiately replied, “I willaccept it, and will share the fate of my command,” and at called for pen, ink and paper,and @ bugier to sound a pariey, it bemg too dark to send a flag of truce. General Pillow thea asked if it would be propor for him to make his escape; to which General Fioyd replied that was a question for every man to decide for himself, but that lio would bo glad for every man to make bis escape that could. Colonel Forrest, addressing Geuecal Buckner, said, “I think, Goneral, there is more fight in our men t you suppcse; but if you will let me, I will also take out my command." To which Buckner and Floyd both assented. Turning to General Pillow, Forrest thea said, have fought under your command, what ‘"? General Pillow answered, ‘Cut your way oul To which Forrest replied, “I will.” All the officers retired, leaving Goneral Bucknor alone with the command. Tho official correspondence that ea- sued in regard tothe surreader has already been pub. lished, as wellas the sequel which followed. Large Fire in New Orieans. {From the New Orleans Delta, March . At a quarter past two o'clock this morning aiire broke out in the kicchen of Mrs. Pete, on Nayades street, in the syuare boundea by Euterpe, Apollo and Polymnia. It oun spread intv an extensive conflagration, aud as the wind was high the progress of the flames became really alarming. That portion of the city consists principally of frame dings, and, as it appears, is very imperfectly supplied with water. Twelve tenoments were soon wrapt in flames, and per- fons residing two squares (rom there, notwithstanding the severe cold, had t stand guard on Ir roofs to ex- tinguish the sparks and pieces of y the wind. After heroic efforts, however, our un- conquerable flremen finally became victorious between four and five o'clock 1a the morning. ‘Yho following were the heaviest sufferers, so far as we could learn:—Mr. Schneider, coffee house, corner of Nayades and Polyrania ; Christopher Mackenroth, fur- niture deaier, not insured ; August Carl, shue store, not insured; Mme. Marianne Lewis, Dr. Blaneke, dentist; Mr. Root, Mr. Mahannon and Mme. Zioser, on Nayades strect. On Euterpe street the handsome residences of Mr. I. M. Brooks and Colonel Wilson were destroyed. The loss we havo heard estimated at from forty 10 forty-five thousand dollars. One of the sufferers, August Carl, is at Camp Lewis as a volunteer. Paducah, Ky. [From the Memhis Appeal, March 27.) We have iafurmation that Paducah is now under tho government of the city authorities—the military officers having surrendered the rulo they have so long oxorcised. ‘Tho federal force in the city and vicinity is only eight iudred. Those of the citizens who return to their homes are required to take (he Oath of allegiance to ihe federal government. The Naval Battle. {Prom the Memphis Appeal, March From a Fortress Moproe despatch to the North, of March 11, we get the following ‘All tho papers of the frigate Cumberland having gone down with hor, it i impossible to obiain @ list of the killed and missing. The latest and most correct account 18 one hundred and sixteen, and it will probably bere- duced to one bindred. (Probably it will if federal lying can do the business] ‘The writer gives & meagre list of the killed, wounded and missing on board the Congress, which is 60 mani- festly imperfect that we make no copy of ft. Anothor account informa us that several thousand dollars in gold were lost with tho destroyed ships. Whiskey Makin; oe Stopped in Geore gia. From the Atlanta Intelligencer we learn that Governor Brown, of Georgia, has issued @ proclamation forbidding the further mauufacture of whiskey in thatState. The Superintendent of the State Road is forbidden to trans- port any whiskey ever that road, and other railroad su. perintendents are emg to do likew: In case of distillers refusing to obey this order, their stills are to ‘be seized and sent to Rome, Ga., lo be manufactured into cannon; and all liquor brought pear military encamp- ments ia to be emptied upon What “Substitutes” are Werth at the Rebel Capital. Toe Richmond correspondent of the Now Orleans Cres- cond ways— Our Thick article of commerce now-a-days is ® commo- dity known in the markot as “substitutes.” The article hag risen from $100 to $200, and again to $400, and from that to $1,000 and $1,500. The cheapest kind now offering commands $500 readily. A wretch, named HiN, bas been making enormous ums, as inuch as from $3,001 to $5,000 a day, by plundering substitutes some of whom are the very roum of the earth, while others are pover ty-stricken Marylanders of high social position at home, and men of real moral worth, A friend of mine bought es substitutefrom Hill for $500. He saw Hill give the poor deyil $100 and put the remaining $400 in his pocket. As my friend went out of the door he met a gentleman who said be bad just paid $1,500 for bstitute. Of this gum it is possible the substitute received $200, and Hill the other $1,300. To-day he went up hain trees with at ry flity men at his heels. You may, therefore, infer that he coins money even more be the Yankes distiller, Stear now in jail with Botts, who used to make $4,600 a day by furnishing Southern soldiers with his vile stuff. Sailing Under False Colors. {From the Nashville Banner of April 1.) Captain Massa, of the Fiftieth Tennessee; Lieutenant Martin, of the deventh lexas, and Lieu’ it Ostrander of the Second Ke bucky regiments, were on Friday found at Camp Doug!as, Chicago, among rate prison. orn, pasting “Uhetnselves ‘Off us orderly sergeants. The; were successful in the dodge, and had got along no well that they thought they would not be detected. But they ‘wore recognized, and compelled to come out of their dis- guise, They were returned to St. Louis on Friday evyen- ing, in charge of the federal soldiors who visited Chicago a fow dayn singe as escort to the new batch of Confederate isoners from the hospitals, The Chicago Tribune says joutenant Ostrander, the last named of the three officers found sailing under the non-commissioned banner, was ® custom bouse officer under Buchanan, at Columbus, Ky., and was still acting in that capacity when his successor appointed and sent down = present administra- Toa, vo take jon of the ‘and effects counccted therewith. Collector was not permitted to take prewent vrougnt kim 2 is pomition, but was sent home by the Tedtenant “upoo tae seme boat that Rebel Sympathizer Admitted to Ball. {From the Nashville Banner of April 2.) ‘The examination of Nichvlas D, Moore, Ksq., who sur- rendered himself to Marsha! Nesbitt, of Harrison coun- ty, at Covington, Kentucky, on Thursday last, took place Deiore United States Commissioner Ware at Cynthiana on Saturday. He was aduitted to bail tn the sum of $10,000 for his appoarance at the September term of the United States District Court in Covington. E From the Knoxville Acgisier of the 23d ult. we learn that the Union troops recentiy stationed at Jacksborough, ‘Tenn., have ieit. “Bus (or the prescuce of Gen. Kirby ‘Sm.th and his preparations to moet them,” says the Re- gister, “aomethiug serious might have occurred.”” Missourians Ret: ing to their Alle, ance. ‘The Springfleld correspondent of the St. Louis Repub: ean, writing under date of March 25, says'—Many thoughtless persons who have deca in Prico’s army are returning home, some of them quietly, hoping thas uo Rotive will be taken of their treason; others coming, and giving themselves up to military authorities, asking to be permitted to take the oath of allegiance and return to the peacoful avocatiuns to which they were formerly ae- customed. All these returning rebels express their disg:st with the rebellion as @ failure, aud are now convinced that the government of their fathers is a wise and benei- eout one, and too powerful to be easily overtirown. ‘Two of the Morgan Gang Killed. ‘The Nashville Banner of Apri: 2, says that David Liew- ollyn and Asa Merrill, belouging to the rebel guerilla band of the notorious Capt. John H. Morgan, wore killed @ fow days ago in @ skirmiah with the federal pickets, near the city limits. They were both (rom Lexington, Methodist Clergy of Ten™ messee to the South. (Extract from the Memphis Christian Advocate, 18. Acorrespondent of the Carittan Advocate, writing from Nashville, says:—The Southern Methodists are loyal to the Confederate government. All the ministers who managed the Book Cuncern at Nashville previous to its surrender have fled southward. Mr. Ferris has gone to Alabama; Dr. Mct'yeire, the editor, to New Orleans; Dr. Summers, being formerly of Alabama, is supposed to have returned thither; Dr. Green, who is worth ono hundred thousand doliars in real estate, is still in Nash- ville, helping the cause of the South and making seces- sion speeches. An Outspoken Unionist Under Arrest. (From the New Orleans Crescent, Starch 17.} A man, named Goorgo Leopold, lias been arrested on the charge of using incendiary lang: age. Jie didn’t want to do military duty; would rather fight for Lincoln than againsthim, &c. George is not the caly one who talks strangely in this city, and is far trom being tho only one who acts strangely. All loyal men should come tor ward now and do thoir duty cheerfully, without waiting to be looked up. ‘What Jonn Bell Thinks. (From the New Orleans Commercial Bulletin, March 17, We Luve seena private lettor from this distingui Gertioman, dated at Huntsville, Ala., in which he ex- prevses the strongest confidence in the ability of our genera's in Tennessee to beat back the a.ivancing hordes of ijessians, and in tho uitimate triumph of the Confede- rato cause, Mr. Bell says that our defeat at Donelson bas thoroughly aroused our people, and that reinforcements a pouring into the Confederate camps in large num. ers. Confederate Prisoners. [From the Nashville Banner of April 2.) A guard arrived at Louisville on Monday with the fol- lowing prisoners:—Michael Murphy, Henry Ware, John Lyons, Mr. Kelly, John H. smith, D. L. Chipman, John Pemberton, T. W. Burt, 8. W. Williams, John Chariton, Leroy L. Priswoll, and M. A. D. Hendrickson. They chase to-day in charge of Capt. ‘The steamer Koy Weat passed up from Nashville about one o'clock yesterday, having on board ® number of rebel prisoners, among them two surgeons and @ captain, taken by our troops near Nashyilie. A man named 0. barker, who, in his simplicity, acknowledged that he was a surgeon in tho rebel army, and that he was going to Camp Chase to attend the rebel prisoners there, was arrested by order of Marsal Dont yesterday. Ho will be sunt to Camp Chase as a prisoner. in ail tuere are thirty-live prisone:s at Louisville, who will be sent wo Camp Clase to day. Martial Law in Richmond=The Death of Rrlperes {Richmond correspondence of the New Orleans Crescent. } We are under the most stringent martial law. The sale of liquor is prohibited and no one is allowed to leave the city. The first’clause bears hard upon.gome people, but the precious fluid—tho:‘oil of gladness,” as an old gentleman tged to cal! it—still leaks out. A friend met Me on the street tu-day and said, “I want you to go with me tosee the Provest Marshal.” you have been arrested, then?” “No'; but come on—!'m ia a horry.’? Ho carried me up to a room in the top of the house, opened a door, und pulled out a demijohn. So that was the Provost Marshal, ‘Again ho si ‘The dead silence of this town oppresses me. Martial law is felt but not seen. ‘The moon shiues coldly down, and there’s not & drink to bs had from Rockett’s te 1c, Woismel Where are ail the soldiers? Eveu they are not visible, except in the day time. Would that I were the head of a barrel of the best old Burngarden! Ob! that the Yankees were in Ha: and I was in Washington at Kloman’s or Benter's; or that Cluskey was Postmaster of the House, and this was the last night of the session! Iwanta glass of aie. A fel- Jow could get a very good hot whiskey puoch at Brown's, or at the corner back of Brown's, im the old days; and Green, who kept the Columbian, there by the General Post Uifice, was not a bad hand for refreshments. Higgs and I have had many a drink in that basement. Hut here—morals. Ithink I hear you say good morals, and methinks you mentioned the peace of society and the health of the army. But what !s good order compared to liquor? 1 toll you I want a drink, and it isnot to be for love, money or biaruey. Hard on Pillow. The Richmond Lzaminer says ‘eneral Pillow's report of the surrender of Fort Donelson is replete with that egotism and vanity which is inseparable from everything that emanates fromm the same source. The Disioyal Citizens of Fauquier are Convicts. [From the Richmond Enquirer.) We are informed that the tiirty-one disloyal citizens of Fauquier, alleged to have been brougiit here as prisoners, wore seven pecsons accused of crime (four of then murder), wo were taken from the Fauquier jail ounducted here for safekeeping. We do not believe that county in the State is more entirely free of traitors than Fauqui A Cry for Ice. (From the Charlesion Muréury. March ¢ In view of the fact that we have ny sources of supply we have been astounded at the proligatity with which our citizous have consumed the articlo of lee during the past winter. The hotels aud barrooms, even in cold weathor, indulged in its profusion, consuming, probably. as much as they have dona at auy tiie heretore at the amo seasum of the year, Such improvidence is really to be wondered at, when wo recollect that it is @ neces#ity mmer, and indispensable in many of the nt to our climate. With the blockade still in force, and oar supply extremely exhansted, what shall wedo andor the burning suns.of July and August’ Lat our citizens correet the abuse forthwith by resolv. ing, each family for itsolf, to use no more ice until the condition of the weathor shall render it imperative. Above all things, the authorities should put an express Prohibition against sending another pound out of the city to points where it is used siraply as aluxury. Our hospitals will be compelled to have it during the summer months, and we cannot eee why our military commander cunnot as righttully interdict its exportation as he ean the sale of intoxicating drinks. We hope something will be done im the matter and ri Drawing Room Entertainment. ‘Tho ontortaiument at tho depository of the Ladies’ Aid Association, on the afternoon of Thursday last, was a suc cees which, in times like these, it is a plensure and a com- fors to record. In every respect success was perfect. Not only was tho hall of ‘the depository crowded to its ‘utmost possible capacity by the maids aud matrons, and men of our town unfit or off from military service, but tho audence itself was replete with a feeling which it was hardly to have been expocted that the exercieos would inspire. Tho theme, howevcr, was the absent soldier. The hearere.were isters, wife and mother. The ac- tors, in their alternatives, ‘from grave to gay, from lively to severe,” were true to that theme, and bent to interlude, but only to return with greater force to the epic grandeur of that leading thought; aud so the hours rolled on, to the great surprive of every one that it should havo been so eoun ended, aad to the very geueral wish that that, or the like of it should come again. The Messrs. Couturier, father and son, aud Mr. Reeves, were entirely successful, The part of each was distinct, and each, in bis pert, wae pearly poriect, And the voice of Mr. Couturier, the younger, who thon, {or the first Lane we believe, solicited the at tontion of the public, was singularly sweet. But thegem of the entertainment was the piece of a gifted Indy of this city, reeited by Dr. Couturier, presenting dream of’ the ‘Soldier in his Blanket on the Ground. It was in responee to a piece by a lady tn Savannah, entitied, nis of a Soldier Far Away,” and which has attracted much attention. The seope of this piece allowed even a fairer opportunity for dramatic tnt % than did & original con. ception. To the slceping soldier, ‘in his blanket on the ground,’ it was the privilege, as it was the pleasure, of our fow friends, with spirit froma brighter sphere, to bring the vory visions which would nestle noarcat to bis heart—the glimpso of home, of wifo, sad and lone—of mothers, tearful and devoted—of siste and of one who, though neither, was yet dear as any, and whose rainbow he brow of storm. these, and of others 3 of common life, which, to men inearnoat, jofest charms, the pictures wore pro- lity and hu < Legato them ex- tive, Mr. Reeves could se Soon more wescesata At any time, dod the entertainment altogether was of @ character to cammend it to the favor of our people; and, if & repotition be proposed, we feel Assured it cannot fail to receive oneouragemont. Money Matters in New Or! le (From the New Orieans Creseout of March 17.) ‘The most important financial movement of the week bas beon the favorabie result to the proposaix for the Joan of $1,000,000, authorized by the City Council through the Committee of Satety, which was promptly takon, ‘ge amount was covered by one of the ol of our insurance companies took @ couple of score of thousands, Nearly three hundred thousand dol lars wore taken at a range of premium fromaone-tenthyper cout Wo one per cent premium—ay $210,000 by one party etthis Ggure, The subscriptions w divided among hitty-five eontragiors, the Citizeus’ Bapk taking all tag was left. Since the lose of the list bee desirous of partie:pating, and to fellowship. Another important arran Sa ot the tate has been lonsds "Baer is ee Legislature, approved January 23, entitled raise money {or the State Treasury,” authorizi government to borrow $7,000,000—two which are to be raised by the emission notes—the $5,000,000 authorized to be raised the bonds of the State have been taken, by the banks, say $1,000,000 by the Citizens’ $1,000,000 by the Louisiana State Bank, $760,000 by the Bank of Louisiana, the balance by the free banks an@ mn Outside parties. It will thus be seen that the State ition to meet the current expenses something more. The very gress ployed money enables our principal banks to sustain the authorities without inconvenicace to the public or their stockholders; in fact, the filling up of se loans is a manifest benetit to stockholders, 's no demand for money from outside. Stockhoid- ere will be exacsing the usual half-yeariy dividends, war or no war, but they ought not to beexpecting an: for the coming July. We # it they abridge their anticipations, If they have any surplus of funds they cannot do better than joan to the government, The five million loan, which we shail style it, alluded to above, bears eight per cent perannom interest, Special legisla- ticn has secured ‘he payment of both interest and prim- cipal by a tax of teu to twenty conts per annum per one bundred dollars on all taxable property. For the special payment of interest a tax of one-tenth of one per cent is assessed on all taxable property, acoording to the assessment rolls of 1861, HIGH PRICES IN NEW ORLEANS. For that article of prime necessity iu Now Orleans, whiskey, the thirsty ones have to pay a good round pris. id Bourt guhela is gold at $1 70a$2, and rectified, made from Louisiana rum, a1 $125. Riceis much cheaper than flour, and sells by the tierce at 6%0. per lb. “Crab Grass’? is worth $56 per ton; comm $1 30 and wheat $275 per bushel. Mess pork is retailing aa per bbi.; bason sides and shoulders sell at 30c. per Ib. Rebel Official Despatch of the Battle at Winchester. FIGHT NEAR WINCHESTER—THE ENEMY ADVANCING, ‘The following is a copy of a despatca received yester- day by Governor Letcher:— SravyTon, March 25, 1002 General Jackson engaged the enemy, 18 str Barton’s Mills, five mites this side of Mriantentees on day, at half-past four o'clock P. M. After asevere contess he was comyelied to retreat with # heavy loss of mem and officers. Captain Antrum, of Augusta, was wounded taken prisoner. Lieutenants | ale and Wilson, of tho Fifth Vir- ginia regimeat, were killed. Captain Buford is among the missing. Major Jackson and Lieutenant Williams are also missing, and supposed to be killed. , Our riers 200. General ecko bi np Se ‘edar creek. ‘our baggage was saved. The enemy are advancing. soy A. W. HARMAN, Capture of wives dred Union Troops= ‘ae dren ‘rom the Augusta Constitutionalist, March 6.) A letter received in this city yesterday, states that Sve hundred federalists had been recently capt red at Shel- byvilie, Teoa., by the Confederates. # federalists bad gone there to seizo a lot of government stores, when the tables were turned upon them and they wore seized. 4 3 Wie S525 ot r a thorities are in a of the war and to Boy Soldiers. : she aooie New, March 13.) mong the New Orleans ry who have responde@ tothe call of General Beauregard is the ‘Crescent regi inent,”’ made up mainly of youths, many o:' them com- ii the schools to take their places in the ranks, ly equipped corps, of the bess blood ef Louisiana, and numbers nine hundred muskets. There giment arrived at Jackson, Tenn., on the 7th. Stopping Their Grog. The Mobile Register, of March 20, says. —‘‘Tho bar- rooms and grogshops in Columbus, S.C., were closed last Saturday night, to stay closed.” Obituary. Tho ceath of Captain J. S. Tayloe, of Confederate States: Navy, is annonneed in the Richmond papers, He re- ceived the wound of which he died in the battlo of Hamp- ton Roads, whiie on board of the Yankee man-of-war, under a flag of truce. Miscellaneous Items. The Nashville Water ‘'ax Collector gives notice in the Banner of the 2d, that water can now be used for street sprinkiing, the law prohibiting such use in consequenes of the extraordinary quantity required for Rote pas- poses having been repealed. An indication of the im- proved saniatry condition of the federal soldiery. The Cincinnati Commercial says that the officers of the steamer Champion No, 4, on their late trip up from Nash- ville, brought with them an iron six-pounder gun, which was captuced at Fort Zollicoflor. ‘The vankers of Louisvilie have occasional offerings ef Southern currency, The rates of discount are as fol- lows; ters’ Bank of Tennessee, 25 per cent; Union Bank, 30 per cont; State: Bank of Tennessee, 50 per cent. The notes of the banks of other rebellious States are die- counted at the rate of 40 per cent. A Tennessean named Crockett was hailed by the Pre voet Guard in Fredericksburg on Thursday night. Have ing no furlough ho ran, was fired on and killed. The Montgomery Adreriiser gives @ report that In Burrows, the Superintendent of the penitentiary at We. tumpka,, was brutally mardered_ yesterday by one of the copyicts in that institution. The murderer bad arm- ed himself with a brosd-axe, and when the opportunity offered, he made the attack upon the suporintendens, nearly severing hts head from his body. Captain Christie, of Savannah, who was captured some time ago, on board the Looy R. We and carried te Port Royal, and thence to New York, ‘Deen released and returned home on Saturday. He was told in Balté- more, by General Dix, that the Yankees would be tm Richmond by the 24th or 25th inst. ¥. F. Ruffin, of Lumpkin, Ga., bas been appointed Mas- ter in the Confederate Siaves Navy, and ordered to report to Commodore Tatnall at Savan' for duty. The Presbytorian, Methodiet and Episcopal churches of Marietta, Ga, , have all voted to give their bells to the confederacy to be raade into cannon. ‘As lead is in great demand, it is suggested that old tea chests contain each from two to five pounds, wi cleaned with little trouble and melted, makes s very tale article of lead. Every pound helps. A balloon was seen to pass over portion of Burke county, Ga.,atew days ago. It descended on a plante- tion, threw out a lot of sand, ascended, and disappeared. {rom the Memphis “Appeal, Maceh 27.) sete We have good news from issippi. e pil are piling up their cotton and gotting it ready for the faggot the moment the enemy advances. They are also seating their servants be tho river to work on the forts fications; and they say they are ready to make any sactl- fice the government may require, Daring the past week we have heard of several casea of potit larceny, suppoaed to be perpotrated by boys, whose partiality seems to be for lead, which is now very valuable. A fiae force pump on the premises of Mr. Boneh, Consul, Meeting street, was destroyed @ few days azo,all the load including the lead pipe, having heon carried off. The resiience of Hon. M. 0. Moré ce = ‘on the same street, have also ven plundered in this way. ‘The Contedarate court has been chansed from Pontotee to Holly Springs, aud the future terins ior the Norther division for the State of Missiesippi will be beld at thas hace. vw ines this contest began, have Among the many who, constantly and ungradgingly bestowed all thelr onergies for the advancement of the cause, without ever having reesived udequate acknowledgment of their services, ia General A. J. Gonzales. zealous Our readers know how ng bors in providing de- fouces for the security of our seaboard; yet, while hom. ors and military rank bave been showered upon others far less deserving, he has, thus far, gone uprewarded. ‘We sincerely hope that a fitting commission will ere long be conferred upon this skilin! and indefatigable officer. The Georgia factory and Athens factory have reduced the prices of yarns, ornaburgs, sheetings, ke. They furthermore give preference to those dealers who com- form to their schedule of pri tor. bg oo families = ricea, This arrangement aeil, and continnes witil an agreement to change shall be mace. The English Tarf. THE SPRING MEETING AT WARWICK, {From the London Times, March 19.) ‘The North Warwicksbire hounds at Bubbenhall village had more powerful attractions than the Warwick races for the genticmen of Teamington, and helped to thin the na itvencloeure, Even the running card seller ta it, who informed us chat hi ‘did not hunt here, bus with the Pytchley,”’ was unable to account for the mea. g eness of the attendance. Suffice it then to say that ab though the card contained eight items few visitors omy wore present to witness their decision. Some of the rroes were invested with @ great deai of interest, part cularly the Trial Stakes, for which we cannot remember ot weight to wil sorts of avimals, Lad to meet t of the Cesarewitel, the fourth horse in the Derby, ana two other speedy ile was backed almost against the field, but doo to saller defeat, fine picoe ef riding taking place wi the faish between Fordham aud Goater ‘ ng Stakos, of 6 rove. exch, with 25 added; for 7st. #1bs., and three year olds, 8 at. 12 1be. ng weights and allowances. Five furlongs. © subs. Mr, Ten Broock’s Queen Elizabeth, by Autocrat, three years, 7 st. 9 ths. (£50) (Fordham) ..........++. 's Southerly Wiad, three years, 7 6 (£60) (H. Grimshaw)... .606 eas yards Peru, three years, 7 at. 6 lbs. (£50) tid Dayrell, three Mr. H. Ivey's 10 Ibs. (550) Mr. Geo. Lambert (Whiteley) ....s04+ oud br. f: by Baent on—Kciimeny, two 6, S 6b. 10 Ibe, (£60) (J. Grinmal steee Pe steake’ br. f. Coanet,” by Alarm— thine Swan, cocoate . 5 ibs. (£60) (W. Hobson). . bent AN two years, 6 at. thr Dount Patibyany's bf. 1 . 10 Ibe curriad 6 st. 12 1D8.) £60) Wheatley). . Bernsa—Kven on Queen Elizabeth: 6 to 1 againat Southerly Wind; and $ to 1 against the Kilmeny filly. After a couple of aces pay vig roan ‘lize dilly breaking away, the was lowe OE a ye, Queen Mlisabelb was the Arab jovely waited upon by The -s ie Kitmeny Sty, wit lying close up, to the half mile post, when The Temple rushed to the front, and cam: with aclear Joad. which she held to the distance, wh en and her was tekon by the favor! Southerly "Wind in close atten ance, finished a close race home, Queen Jongest, winning in the last etride by ahead. Peru wae a bad third: the Kilmagy Glty fourth; the Black wa,