The New York Herald Newspaper, March 25, 1863, Page 1

“ s- (WHOLE NO.’ 9688. THE YAZOO PASS EXPEDITION. Their Artificial and Natural + Defences. Reconnoissance Made by the Chillicothe, and What Resulted Therefrom. OPERATIONS ON THE MAINLAND. THE ATTACK UPON FORT PEMBERTON, Splendid Resistance of the Chillicothe. She is Struck Thirty-four Times and Yet is Ready to Fight Again. @ THE FARMS AND FARMERS ALONG THE ROUTE ke, Ren ae Oar Expeditionary Correspondence. ‘On nse Way, Seventy-rive Mizes Down THE ‘TaLamatonre, March 10, 1863. ‘The date I prefix to this communication gives the pre- sent locality of the Yazoo Pass expedition with as much exactness as I can command. We have reached a very fair stream for navigation by small steamers, but are yet sadly cramped for room in which to work boats of any considerable size. Our progress is, therefore, very slow and far from satisfactory. The extreme upper end of this river and the lower part of the Coldwater were mode- rately good rivers, and we got along at a rate of twenty or thirty miles per day. . But suddenly the Tallahatchio Barrowed its borders and became exceedingly crooked, 80 ‘aa nearly to rival the over tohe remembered pass, and boats ¢xperienced the greatest difficulty in abong at all, and therefore we were two or three days in advancing about twenty miles. COTTON FARMS ALONG THR COLDWATER. Jn the parts of the Coldwater and Tallahatchie men- tioned as good, we found nigh banks apd well cultivated plantations in abundance. The owners of these planta- ‘tations, with their colonies of negroes, were, as a general thing, at bome, attending to their ordinary avocations as ‘though there existed po war ja the land. At these places we were repeatedly told that the rebels had recently visited them in boats, picking up cotton to be used in ‘building fortifications lower down the river to oppose our progress. . But we met with no manner of resistance or . trouble trom any of these people. Their disposition seemed perfectly friendly, and we passed them without furtber molestation than levying a few hundred bales of covton from them to strengthen the defences of Our gunboats and transports. Of ths staple there was ‘no lack in *that region, nor had there ently been any efforts made to conceal or destroy it. ‘This was the more remarkable since the planters admitted that they had been expecting this expedition for a month past. | ‘They evidently knew but little of war, and feared it us liteie. No cotton burners had ever prowled about their gins; no guertilas infested their neighborhood. An in vi army had never trod their soil, and even a rebel force never visited them. It was a single miviature sketch of Southern lite as it was before the war. AVIEA PASSING DOWN TUR TALLAMATOMIG ABOUT TWENTY-FIVE fits Danks become low, and the it high stage of the water are gadly overilown, We then travelled for forty or fifty miles with scarcely a break 10 the wilder: peas. Not a plantation is to be seen on either hand. The appearance wild a1 forbidding. We have just from this desolation, and are now steaming along, ut a fair rate of speed, in a moderately wide and straigbt river, with frequent plan- tations of considerable pretensions along the "bapks. Here we begin w discover the handiwork of the enemy. At nearly every,one of these plantations find a huge, smoking, dering pile of what was Dut recently cotton worth a dollar 4 pound. These ‘ing and cotton piles have evidently been but recently frea, evidencing that the enemy are close in front of us, most’ probably falling back before us to lure us on to what thay may cousider our sure destruction. It ts ‘THE FIMGT INDICATION OF AN KNKMY ‘that we have met with. might spare themselves ‘the pains of luring us forward, as we are bound w ad vanee any way. And when they get us iv tuat ‘tight place where they 4 Lo entrap us—which is most Likely the Yazoo river, ween Greenwood and Yaz 3 § 5 rEHpantea na Fil i g gs TMiskary stores. She sprang @ leak in the Yazoo Pass, and was obliged to throw half her stores overboard to'save the rest. The littie (erry bout Carl overtook ber three days ago and brought forward the greater part of the freight the Raymona had le{t. The Raymond bax not yet cangbt up with us, So it seems that somebod, chartering unseayortby boats. The matter ought to be looked into. THR with great violence dur- (Of & Cessation Danks at every low spot, aod the whole country is rapidiy inundated. rhe river is. running oyer the beooming ‘Phe effect of all Uais ik good for us, i$ prevents the operations .{ guerillas or other forces the evemy against us along the river Has Seusen ae aus erreernOw : moderately good, though there arc large pumbers affected by the bad water, poor diet, and the u®ual cli:na- disorders of thin region. Conrm’ [Lantarien, | ‘Ten MILER ABOVE GiRENWooD, Merch 11, 1863. fj FURTUER ADVANCE—A crane My last letter closed about seventy-five or eighty milex above this piace. Almost immediately aftor tne cloning Of that letter accounts began to come in from the front to ‘the offeet that the advance of our Jeet had fallen in with the enemy, or rather had come in sight of them, an: some brisk work appeared to be close at hand. ‘The rebe! steamors—Ben. MoGulloch and J. W. Sharp, under convoy of a little black gunboat, were industriourly employed picking up cotton at the plantations along the river, the gunboat keeping a little above them to give notice of our approach. The gunboat dissovered us and commenced » rapid retreat down the river, screeching at every turn of her wheels, a warning to her companions to get out of the way. The McCulloch was the fappermest of the two iransports, and was delayed fn getting away the bank and getting ber fhead down stream, so that the federal ram Lioness was lose at her heels before she fairly got under headway But, once undér weigh, she made good time, and ran off ‘Bt an exceodingly rapid rate. But the ram crowded ber pard, and as she was #0 heavily laden with cotton and forn fhe failed to make 8 good time ag seemed desirable. b ang Of negroes war therefore set at work to Hivhton her up, and a large amount of cotton was quickly tum- Overboard, With this relief she was able to widen was cruising along fifteen ox twenty miles above here, and had picked up an tmmense load of cot ton, supposed to be not Shoteand “vale. While — E i iil We ii i fr < Lr by aq river and mounting three os H acoad these they scem to have several small Geld pieces in - tion. Directly on the right tlank of this line of defeace they have constructed a raft of logs a8 a blockade of the phy Prevent our boats from running by their bat- ries. ‘The ground upon which these works are ‘built is as high as any to be found in this region. 1t is probably elevatod above any possible overtiow; but with the river as high as it is at present it is but two or three feet above the water level, IN OF AND BLOW THE WORKA. Directly in front of their line of breastworks there is quite ‘a deep slough ,extending across the neck, and admirably serving the purpose of ube ditch usually dug around forti- fications. ‘This slough is close to the base of their works at the upper eua, but graduaiy recedes from them until at the lower end it is several hundred feet removed. Stull beyond this slough there is an almost impenetrable and very extensive canebrake, with @ deep forest reach- ing far back into the country. About six miles below this fortification, and directly in the arc of the bead, is the confluence of the Yallobusba and Tallahutchie rivers, and from that point down to the Mississippi the joint Stream takes the name of the Yazoo river. The itttle Village or settlement of Le Flore lies directly at the junction of the two streams. Greenwood hes upon the ‘'axoo, four miles below. WHY THY WORKS WERE £0 LOCATED. ‘The object of t aliar location of this fortification will now be ap; it, The purpose was unquestionably not merely to defend Greenwood, which is a point of DO cousiderable importance, nor yet morely to prevent our passing below, as the defences at Yazoo City are sus- ceptible of being made infinitely stronger than an, they could build here. Grenada is located on the basba jriver, about one hundred and ten above its mouth, The rebels consider this one their most important age in Northern Mississippi, manifest a devermination to hold it at all odds. this, they havea number of steamers concealed in this and other streams tributary to the Yazoo, which havo no desire to destroy or lose of. It was probably with a view of defending the enirance to this stream that the rebel works were located us they are. TUE REWEL STRENGTH—THKIR COMMANDER. It is very difficalt to arrive at anything like an intel}i- gent estimate of the strength the rebels have in these works, the accounts are 80 various and conilicting, rang- ing ail the way from five to fifteen thousand men. 1 very much doubt if they have more than e: thousand bere, and probably not 60 many as that, are ander the | immediate command of Genera) Loring—the Major Loring | Of the old United States Army, who won so much diatinc- | tion@t the battle of Chapultepec, in Mexico. | He Bs THR CHILLICOTHE —RECONNOISANCE. Immediately on arriving at this pot this morning two | reconnoissances were started out. One was made down the | river by the gunboat Chillicothe, Lieut. Curmmander Foster , commanding. Acting Commodore Smith and Geueral | Ross wecompanted the Chillicothe. They ran down to | within about 9 quarter of a’mile ot the rebel battery, ex changing several shots with it. The Chillicothe was strick tour times in this affair, once in ber square bull and twice | in her we turret, 1 each ease the ball inaking a | deep indentation to ber three and # half inch iron, plainiy marking (i oomistakable stamp of steci pointed sixty four-pounder shot propelled from rifled pieces. No pieces oi larger calibre than this were disclosed by the enemy. — ‘The Chillicothe returneddrom the reconnoissance without baving Gustained the sughtest injury. MOVEMENTS OF THR MILITARY PORCES. | At the same time detachments of the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh ladjana; infaniry were sent out to feel the éuemy’s position on the lund side. They came upon quite « large body ofrebel skirmishers on the westerly | side of the siongh,xbout a mile from our point of de Darkation, aud after @short skirmish drove them across the slough. Our party then advanced down the slough a short distance aod commenced fording it, when theevemy again seliied out to resist them, and quite a spirited engagement followed, resulting in'a second repulse of the enemy, when they fually retired within their fortifica- | Our forces were then withdrawn across the | and vow hold their position. Gur causalties in ir were but two men wonnded. A CURIOUS ACCIDENTAL SHOT, ‘This afternoon the Chillicothe was again ordered down to engage the rebel battery. She moved down promptly, and soon her heavy eleven-ineh gang were beard, to which | the enemy made a brisk respons. The Chillicothe fired Dut seven rounds, during which she dropped three shelis directly into the enemy's works with good eflect. At this juncture she met with a most unfortunate and disas Her men were just loading her port gun, the moment in cutting sbeli which bad already been placed iu the muzzle of the gun, when a sixty four pound throwing apart sud unshipping_ tbe heavy open port, throwing apart au ip wy iron port shutters, one of which was thrown overboard, and Greenslade, Master Gunner . Private J. Norton, Ninety seventh Hilinoia Privase Green ae Kentucky. ‘eornan 8. Cornell, slightly in shoulder. Sergeant J. F. Holliday, Forty eighth Ohio, slightly in Private Charles C. Huff, Forty-eighth Ohio, slightly in a private Robert Brown, Ninety seventh Illinois, ankle amp ittite Patrick Conuor, Forty-oighth Ohio, slightly in ee eivate Jobo A, Britton, Forty eigkth Ohio, slightly in Mivate J. C. Young, Nineteenth Keotacky, siightly in Tass ivate Newton Porter, Ninety seventh Miinols , slightly Lace. Private Thomas J. Henderson, Forty eighth Obio, knee and face badly. Theeo soldiers had been detailed to fill up the crew of the gunboat, as the crows of all the gunboats have similarly filled up, and were portions of the crew of the Bort gun against the muzzle of which the rebel sbell ex ploded THE CHILLICOTHR WITHDRAWN. Captain Foster exhibited Lhe utmost coolness and cou rage when tis severe accident befell bim, ordering bis men tO remain quiet, and giving the necessary directions to bring his starboard gun juyo range, as if nothing had happened, ond maniiesting & disposition to continue the engagement, when he received orders to with draw out of range. The Chillicothe was again brought out of action without. any material darmge. He merely lost » shutter from one of tis porte but otherwise the veesel and her splendid battery were as good and serviceable as when she went into the action PROSPECTIVE ENGAGRMENT. To morrow morping at tack upon the fortifications ‘The river is #0 nerrow at this to bring maay gunboats into pilly at ouce. The Chillicovbe and Baron Dekalb will probably have the bulk of the work to do, They will be assisted by a single at a considerable distance Liev gd mf jand infront of the rebel line ticable, and the width of the slough will prevent our ae ee getting up ie eta aoe thetr smaii up cotton bale defences, ‘betiind witch batterion will te at The action will, therefore, be principally arti vi Mancn 12, 1968. EVPRCT OF THE ACCIDENTAL SHOT. Since my last letter closed an additional death has oc curred’on the Chillicothe among those injured yesterday ‘Thie was privaye Thomas J, Henderson, of the Forty. Gigbth Ohio, Sergeant J. F. Holliday, of the same regi. Ment, who was wounded im his anule, bas had his leg am- putated. Several who were at first represented as but Slightly wounded are found to be in rather s worse ton than was at first supposed; but they will all survive their juries. The musaie of the gun of it we shail resume the at from the river aud laud that it is imjonsible this baw iia wAbin waver | unless another chance shot should find its way | Whether he will coustruct an entirely new battery, or | another gun, will be determined by him after inspecting | Spirit that surrounded them, felt equal to apy task, | was the morning fixed upon for the final assault upon the » 7 Tees ws ras “ee WYO “Soe R NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 1863. . OPERATIONS ON THE TALLAHATCHIE. The Rebel Fort Pemberton, the Seene of the Fight on Friday, March 18, 1863, WATERS ~30M.5C.6YE ter of a mile of the rebel fortifications, and stands just within the edge of the timber on the west of Clayton's slough, having perfect range directly up the neck on. Payee mde ra ploneape and sweeping their entire jine. Tt is built of two tiers of cotton bal side with earth. A single thirty pound Parrott rifle, taken from the boat in work, and a munition, eo that at daylight this morning the battery was in complete readiness for work. As day Nght approached brush was thrown on the outside of the battery to conceal it from the enemy. The bat- was located and its construction superintended by Lieutenant Colonel Wilson. of General Grant’s staff, engineer-in-chief of this expedition: The gun was manned by a crew from the gunboats, and is supported by General Fisk's brigade. TUR ATTACK POPTPONED, It was intended Lo commence the assaulton the enemy's works at daylight this morning, but the pon-arrival of our mortar fleet, together with the ipcomplotences of cer tain preparations on the gunboats, made it advisable to postpone the attack, aud the day has been passed withoat the occurrence of anything of interest. The mortar fleet arrived during the forenoon, and the gunboats are now #0 protected that it will be almost impossible to bart them into one of their ports. To-morrow morning will doubtless bring about a decisive engagement Lieut. Col. Wilson is busy to-night with a large force putting another Parrott rifle iu position on the shore evlarge the one drilt last night so ax to accommodate the materials at bis command. Marcu 13, 1863, THE KATTERY—1H% GUNBOATS FROTRCTED, This morning opened most gloriously. It was like a June morning in the Northern States. Everything in na. ture was fresh and beautiful, and the men, partaking of the 1 enemy's position which resists our descent of the fiver During last night Lieut. Col. Wilson and his working par ties were again busy, and bad extended his shore battery 80s to accommodate another Parrott gun, which was procured from the gunboat Forest Rose and plaged in position before miduight During the mgbt the Chilli cothe and Dekalb nad both beep covered with cottwo bales, to make sure that they should pot be burt. They are the mainstays Of tbig expedition, and should we lose ‘one of them we would probably be required to abandon the whole movement. Hence the precautions that are | doven taken to insure their saiety Master's the rams, were 4 remained about three-« above the rebel fortifications , protected by the river, which threw tbe range of the enemy's guns far to the right of them OFRNING OF THE BALL. The ball was opened by Lieutenant Domine with his land battery at precisely balf-past ten O'clock, the time that bad been fixed upon. At the same moment the (hii Noothe let go ber fastenings, and turned her head down stream in readiness tw to work. Here a litte delay occurred, owing w the trouble experienced in get ting (be mortar boat into position, which prevented ihe Dekalb from moving, compelling tbe Chillicothe to wait for her, The delay was of uearly twenty minutes’ duration, and resulted in the enemy training all ther guns upon Battery Wilson, the name given to our land battery in compliment w Lieutenant Coloael Wilson, the engineer who built it, No thing more serious oecurred to the bat fortiumately, | during Ube short fearful fire, than cotton, whion were « tery by both its guns directed (uil upon the enemy's rifled wixt four-pounder, and the embrasure in wiich that pice stood was terribly mutilated by the xpicy ebelis of thw Parrott guns: } THE GU NDOATS OWEN price | But soon the diversion came that wer to relieve our | little battery. A littie before eleven ovlcck the two gunboats got under weigh togother and proceeded down | the river to within six bandred yarde of the rebel works. ‘They pad hardly turned the bend and obtained a glance at the rebet fortideations when they bob opened, Thin Gre quickly drew the rebel fire from te lend battery, which was left t0 the tender meroies of balf & oven small pieces placed in position on the rebe! fortifications: THE ARMAMENT OF PORT FEMRRAT Allow me bere to digrens to say that, (rom thajmont re- liable laformation yet recetved at the heat juarters of thus expedition, the enemy's fort Tt bot fve gone of any pretensions. These are a rifled sixty (our pounder (an Pla thirty two pounder, altered) eue. thirty. pounder Par ott (said to have been’ captaréd at Bhiloi), and three twenty four- Dabigrens. they Weebly have one fall dusty wtaenteroed wheo and how it may be most convens:!. These gurty are moanted behind a parapet of seven ters of cotton bales, covered om the with eight feet of earth. To penetrate suvb @ wail ie nosma!! matter. fed to-day most. deaperasel ‘educe thi bave tr! y © reduce thie fortification. We have brought our heaviest artillery to we case and have kept it Mt play as as it was possible 8; abil we bave made but a, To be ure, we Compelied them to atop | @ poured there, however ed such an hncensant und dewtly fire iwto | the embrasures in which their gune are located thet ‘their guoners could net stand hn. tut yet the fort hoida out. We Gred the jast shot, indeed we fired for three houme after the enemy lad erased. 00 the, given op the content. the lant, Some of our than their silenes. My own te a deep game. They div | the Jocation of thelr gunn fund @iwh to or * ie iat we ctample. Wea } ns slacken our fire | it wtih we Kept hammering at thew that whee we eaiboo them mi the | bt morning a we sball fod have changed the posi- Hous of thats places, arm ted gg A ine Mog na : Jo. "One gun cannot well be wo shall find apt ay that piece has been placed where it will have only the gunboats to fight agatnat, mm 1 CHILLICOTHR, was under fire to-day a little over an hour and a haif. eee oe withdrawn until long after the ene. my firing. and then only because her store of ammunition was about expended, requiring # replentsts ment of her magazine. ‘The rebels singled her out as their principal target, and they peppered her well. was struck to-day thirty-four times. Her storm roof and w! fannch was all stove to pieces. Her ensign was four times shot through, and her pennant was shot away. Her massive iron plating was indented ail over ber front | where balls had struck her. Yet she withstood the ter rible ordeal, and is to-night a8 gord for a fight ax she was this morning. ER OSU ALTIER. Notwithstanding she was struck 80 many times, the casualties to her crew wore nothing in somparison to thone received when she was last under fire, But two men wore injured on ber. ‘These were Francis O'Neal, seaman, compound fracture of the ari, Sergeant Leo pold Trott, of ube Twellth Missouri regiinent, face badly | burned. THR BARON DMEALE was the unlucky veesel to-day, and, considering the length of time she was engaged, sbe got off very lightly Afver the Chillicothe withdrew the Pelalb was ordered to remain and continue firing wnti) dark. she did vo firing once every twenty minutes, but getting no response after the main eogagement cloxed. She received aboot a shots during the action, at least three of which were very severe blows. Que passed obliquely | throogh ber starboard carermate, just forward of the firet | porthole, and raked through the main deck, finally lodg- | ing in the wardroom in the extreme aiter part of the ver cotion of ber case In ite course it sel, The shot penetrated through » mate which was ot covered with iron struck a guu against which one of the sbip’s qnartermas tors was jeaning—Joun W'Neal—and, glancing, mortally wounded him. Ashell exploded directly in her wheel honse, which darnaged one or two backets and aplintered the bulkhead « little, but did uo further mischief. Still another lodged jn the forward casemate under the heavy iron plating. Shells striking on the outside of the vessel frequently set on fire the cotton with which #he was covered; but no damage resulted therefrom THK CASUALTIE® BOMTAINED ON THE IAKALM, Robert Murphy , seaman, killed Master's Mate Frederick E. Davis, serioosly wounded in thighs and groim. Joba O'Neal, Quartermaster, mortally wounded ip bead and chest. George W. Male, seaman, left leg shot away. Francis Mctuire, seaman. wounded in band. UNITED STATES TRON-CLAD CHILLICOTHE. The Chillicothe is a light draught iron-clad, having one stationary turret in which are two eleven-inch Dahlgren shell guns. The following is a list of her officers: — P. Foater, commandin, ‘Acting Bnsigns—William T. Powers, Walter Muir. Master's Matea—Henry Baker, Horace A. Harmon. Acting Asstan! ‘Win. ©. Foster, Jr. A H, Hathaway, Chief Engincer—Hi. W. Hardy. rua Second Charles W, Reynolds. ‘Third Engineers—Wateon B. Fleming, John G. Briggn, Daniel Lantz. Piloa—J. C. Morton, David M. Doyden, Theodore Un 008 Captain's Clerk Alfred Ryan. UNITED STATRE TRON CLAD BARON ORKALM. The Baron DeKalb i# an iron-clad casemated steamer, carrying thirteen gone of a heavy calibre. The following is & list of her officers , Liewenant Commander —Jobo C. Waker Acting Lirutenan’—Jobn V Johnston. Acting Masters—C. 8. Kindriek and RH. Medill. Acing Ensigns—H. H Gteringe and Chas. Hunter ine Acting Second Aanistant 400, 1 Wileoxnon. ner Acting Third Assistant Rngineer— — Master's Mates. 1), Bread, FC. Davia and J. 0. Mew chom Guaner—J. H. McDonald We shall give tie rebele evotber trial to morrow, when | Thope to be able to reyort more watiefectory resulta, | have alreatly sald the position i# a formidable one. It ip more thaw Ubat: it te an anapproacte . We can't got at them, If we coald we should have been able baif A dozen tines to-day to drive them out by storm. Put infantry ean do nothing in the water, and thir fortifics tion i# completely gurrounded by water, in s former letter I think | said that Gen. Loring com manded the rebels at this pace. Gen. Loring wan re Neved om Monday inet by Gen. Loyd Tilghman, who is stil! fo command. Gen. Tighman's surrender of Fort Henry got him but Little credit in Rebeldom, and he will be very slow Wo commit himaelf by another surrender, if | it can be avoided at any sacrifice. Every place munt have s name, and battler re unvally demignated by ® name corresponding with the piace at which they are fought. This inno place, Oar base m at Curtia’ plantation. The rebels call ther position Fort Greenwood. | suppose, therefore, that history will record this as the battle of Fort Green wood. INTERESTING FROM PORT ROYAL. Arrest of @ “Peaeo” Colonel—The Im- | | pending Battie, &e. Yort Rovat, 8. C., March 18, 1968, An order it 10 be lenoel today for the arrest of Liew tenant Colonel Gardner, of the Beventh Connecticnt Volun teers, who i@ charged with obtaining, under false pre tences, the wignaturer of & mumber of men in that regi. ment peace Femvlotions, in order tl affeet the electwn at home, It hae ereated great indignation among the reqiments from Counectient, whe are jowd tm their denun _ etations Of praca measures Connecticut baw the post of honor in the impending great battle. General Ferry commands the Union forcer from North Carolina ‘ Rverything Indicates foccens Court of Appeal ALAR Coot of Appeain calendar for More 4.6%, 10, Mh, 12 and 13. She | ‘were riddled and baily cut up. Her | * K HERALD. IMPORTANT FROM TENNESSEE. Skirmishing Near Murfreesboro. Cincrnati, March 24, 1863. Major Genera) Burnside arrived bere this morning. A special despatch from Murfreeabord gives the fojlow- intelMgence ‘Within the last four days the rebels have made several PRICE THREE CENTS OPERATIONS ACAINST VICKSBURG. Reported Arrival of Farragut’s Gun- boats at the Vicksburg Cut-Off. were rosonnolasanocs, causing considerable picket skirmishing | Tnign Jron-Clads and Troops in the along our whole front. “They do not appear anxious, how- ever, to bring on a geueral engagement. Small parties of gueriiins have appeared along the Nashville Railroad, attempting to capture our trains. No serious damage so far bas been done to theroad. ‘The road is heavily guarded. reed Rebel Imvasion of Kentucky. CAPTURS OF DANVILLE BY THE KNKMY. . Lousvitin, March 44, 1968. ‘The rebels, réported from three thousand toten thou- sand strong, with a much larger force following them, have taken possession of Danville. They vrorsed the Cum- Yazoo River. Gur Forees in the Rear of Yazoo City and Fort Pemberton. RUMORED EVACUATION OF HAINES’ BLUFF. verland river, via Mill Spring to Somerset. There are 20 Passage of a Steamer Into Lake | rebels at Glasgow or Mumfordaville, or in that section of ‘he State. Civoueamt, March 24, 1863. Paroled prisoners from Mount Sterhng, Ky., arrived here last night. They confirm the capture of that place by the robeis. Colone! Garpard attacked the rebel forces under Colonel Clarke yesterday, near Mount Sterling, driving them to. wands Owingsville. INTERESTING FROM THE SOUTH. AeADQUANTERS, ARMY Ov TIM PoTOMAd, March 24, 1863. The Richmond Examiner and Sentinel of the 24th har the following — < AVFAINS AT QHARLESTON. Cuanueston, March 22, 1863. ‘The onemy bave boen shelling the wreck of the Georgi ana, off Long Ialand beach, otherwise all 1 quiet ‘Tho Enquirer says, by a despaich (rom Charleston, we Jearn that no attack ip expected, except immediately be- foro the highest epring tide, which will be the 20 of Aprit. The reason is, the enemy not yeatare upon Charlestoa without being sure of @ coming spring tide to float off their ships, in the caso of any of thom going aground, STARVATION AT BAVANNAI. ‘Tho Savannah Kepublican says many poor women{and children in that city are sufloring for want of food, aad cannot got enough corn teal because railroad transporta- tion m monopolized by the yovernient. OPERATIONS IN TENNESSEE. Cnattaxooga, March 18, 1663. Intelligence by tail states that our scouts have born within four milos of Murfreesboro, and report that tho enemy is rotrcatiny ment is in the wind. Gen. Johnston and staff have gone to Tullaboma, which will hereatter be his permanent headquarters, Johusioa bimself assu ersopal command. Rumor says Gen. Kosecrans hos sent » ht pose Gen. Longstreet’s advance through Kontueky. DIRKCT TRATION. In the lower rebel House, on Monday, the Committee of ‘Ways and Means reported @ bill fer direct taxation and internal duties. THE REBEL NAVY. All midshipmen in the Confederate service are ordered to report at Richmond, Charleston, Savannah, Wilming- ton and Mobile next month for examloauian, THE REDKLS AND THR NORTHWEST. * The following is ® significant pernerage of the En quirer’s leader, aeadod “Signs in the Northwest.” Although it i# altogother out of the question, while the whole North is engaged ma war for our subjugation or extermination, that we xbould offer terms of alliavce—still | Jess listen to any hint abont union with them-—yet it i | bo lems true that the syinytors of divorganization which | ent federal States are of deop | show themselves in the interest to us, and that we ought even to do all that we honestly and loyally way to give further impulse to the force which proitses at come future time to break wp the league of our exemies. \ MINCHLL ANBOUR. ‘The Virginin Legiviaiure has paused the Salt bill, in ef | fect, that 8 acceptable terms cannot bo made with the owncrs of salt property, the latter is 10 be Impressed and worked on State aveount. Bevoral of Lhe largewt tobacco growing eountios of Vir ginia have held a puvlic mecking and resolved to cultivate 0 tobaeco Lhe present year There is no late news (rom Vieksburg oF other prow) pen’ porta. | A miuady rain set in at dusk All iw quiet along the hives News from Fortress Monroe. Youre Monwor, March 24, 1863, A large fleet of schoeners lett here this afternoon, ‘They had taken refuge in the roads during tbe storm, The weather is now flue Some of the gunboats are practising with their gu ewport’s News to-day, which bas caused some inquiry from veighboring towns ‘The Labor Movement. MASS MEETING OF LABOKERS AT THE COOPER INSTI | TUTR -SPERCHES, RKEOLUTIONS, ETC. | Atremendous mass meeting of the Iaborers of the city who are desirous of advancing their interests and get higher wages for their work, was beld last evening at the Cooper Institute, at haif past clovk, The large assem Diy hall wan filled to overflowing, and the entbusianm was @ilte mrong apon the vecasion neoting wan catled \o order by Mr. Lingespy: Mr, Cansnes MeGanrmy was eniled to the ehatr. the nweting io a very neat speeel, se 4 calling upon the workingmen to t their righta by the organization of 1. when pened forth its ob jeota, n the ey and ae reat ceutral Union ¥. Fiswen, Seeretary of the menting. then rend resolutions, hich were adopied, amid enthe reas, the depreciation of the currency and other evile eidental io our present stroggies have caused « fearful (a ercaca tu the cont of living: and wheress. the A rate of wages by the working eiasses for labor is en tirely | for the support of themselves and famt- Hes; and whereas, mn inion of this meeting, the de sence of edemental principle of organization. whi: b oO ponatraied to be indispensable (0 nserve the general interesis, therefore, or ’ Resolved, Phat we recommend nil trades to proceed to or ganire forthwith | “Resolved, Thal this meeting ve 4 being duiy Impressed with | the neces! Of organization, a& appilel 10 all trades sepa better protection of Uoelr interests, do hereby by labor to proceed to the extablinh ion, Compomet of delegaies from all with ' view to the belle: Be it forther Resoived, That we pledge ourselves to use all our energies consolidating and perfecting such & | organized trade, ms in this ety and Vieinit | delegates each to represent thelr erveral organizations in « general convention, to be held at On the Sat inst a! half part ae Mr. Robert Crowe MP. K nough Bucklin Mr Will 1d others, 1 tb chewen at wont ba: ning & meeting ral Assoeiation will be he THE STRIKE OF THE RUTH RAILROAD Lasonnns ARRANGEMENT RFFRCTEE pant ton having very jx thelr employes by raising their wages to twelve abi per day. About rity of the most refractory of the strikers on Monday refused work yeateriny. ew theme sone Waele labore were protecud molested STRIKE ON THR HOORON RIVER RALLROAD. The exam) laborere of the Brie Railroad bee been f yee of the Hadaon River Railroad. Rome one bandied or nore of the latter refuned to go a work yoaerday for lene (han BI 60 per diem, and informed the directors of the road thal they would Dot permit Soy ether persvus to take their places for lower | ‘Fie renAervoms of these strikers was ‘he owt by bor he’ of the (reight depot near Thowas street opposite the Wallding A inre | of the American Expreas Compnoy were on (be ground to prev their unpleasant eiruation ‘About half-vast eleven O¢lork the directors authorived new invorers, Diack sod white. \o take ike place of she sirikers, 04, notwithetanding (ne Unreats of the iatier the bands were (heir day € work Crean ize won, Tht feared \hat some wonbia a | dae if Che raiirond company do not ylela | Toeir present wage mu 1a be only ates selliveg There has mise been a «tri the dewk of the Camden snd Amboy Re! cally bas been arrange: (0 the aatiafsetion « THE TAILORS Grier. The employes of rook Brothers of by some of 1 December iam nee im prices. in ne * pall fer provisions dot Wo this Comnnd by * Mowers following romans —They wa trade organizes \o effet & genera! cordance @Ob ibe advance 0 Oe rm waren Sree of the cls new wren, with the ereption © ot Brews from there. Probably a flank move- ) and in cartes | Military Hall, 19% Bowery, | Le rom | Providence. | Probable Early Evacuation of Vicks- burg by the Rebels, at, Ree Re Camo, March 24, 1863. ‘The Memphis papers of Sunday report another canal or eutotf being opened from the Mississippi, fifty miles be Jew Helenn, into Deor river, from Washington jake, and tnto Sunflower river, by wick acrggs to Yazoo City and Haines’ Bluff can be bad, It Is also reported that Meo of Admin! Purragut's gum boats Auve reached the lower nunth of the Vi kslurg eanal. ‘One #mall boat has passed into Lake Providence. The water is rushing into the Lake at a rapid rate | The fedoral force at Grocuwood ie wtill held in check by the rebel battery Sr. Loum, March 24, 1803. A gentioman just from Vicksburg states that the ploamer Diligent, with the Kighth Missourt, bad succeeded tp entoring Yazoo river above Haines’ Blatt, Her course was through Cypross Payou, which debouches into tho Yaz00 opposite Jobnsoa’y plantation, where Geueral Sher man’s troops landed last Decowber; theses through Steclo’s Bayou into the Senflower, which empties into the Yazoo twenty milos above Haines’ Hott. The Diligent was accompanied by a light dravght gan- Dont, A¥ soon as it was found posuible to got Uirough, four tron-clads followed, Our tvformant also says that .—— thousand men havo gone up before this. Onr force can thus be placed beeween Haines? Muff and Yavoo City, which will enable ux to operate in the rear of the forwner position, and bring the latter between two fires. It is algo believed that our flee. cas navigate the bayous and enter the Yazoo above Yazoo Pass, by which moans our gunboats can co operate with our forces at Green wood, 1@luce Fort Pemberton, thon throw thei combined Strength against Yazoo City, and dank the rebel position, Beg thus turned, Vicksburg will undoubtedly be ove. counted ‘The batto; | the Fivor, aud are powerless against an att above. Confirmation of these tidings \# anxiously looked for, Adespatch frou below, of the 19th, saya the rebels coutinued sbelting, the canal at Viekxburg, retarding the prosecution of the work somewhat. The river \« falling, and the fears of the overflow of tne camping ground have subsinted | All ig quiet at Greenwood. 4 damages, Our prosevt force there ls regarded inwulfeiout to rednee the rebel fortifeatious. levees are boing | cut, whieh it is thought would reeult in drowning the rebels ont. Romors are tp circulation of the evdeuntion of Haines’ Bluff, and that the Righth Miseour) has gone ap w garrison the place. If thie be true it foreshadows the fall or evacuation of Vickwburg. | Cropper, Maren 24, 1869. Reliable information fom the South reprowents that the | evacuation of Vicksburg is being advocated for strategic | advantages, prominent rebels declaring that by with drawing their troops from Vicksburg and naming them | in Middle Tennenseo they cx ne General Rosecrans to repeat the movements of General Buell last year | THE FIGHT AT PORT HUDSO Important Correetion. The despatch received from Washington on Monday, | dated “Southweat Pass, La. Mareb 15," should read as | follows — Admiral Farragut, leading in the Hartford, pamed | the Port Hudson betterien at cleven o'clock lamt might, 10s at Haines’ Biull were built to #weep down ck from oth parties are repairing H Indian Kxpedition to Texas. | MANY TEXANS KILLED AND MUCH PROPERTY Gar- TURED AND DRSTROY ER. Kannan Coty, March 24, 1869. A gentleman just from Santa Fo states that « large | body of Indians, consteting of Camanches, Navajes, and | other border tribes, have returned from an expedition to | Texas, where they captured six hundred horses, s large | ember of cattle, destroyed much property and killed mauy Texans | TOTAL DESTHUOTION OF THR TUOBOAT D. B. ChamY— VIVE OF THK CRW LOST, RTC. | The new steamtug D. K. Orary, Captain Frederick An | thony, exploded ber bolier about half past four o'clock yew. terday morning, whii@backing out of the elip at the fou of | Spring street, and was totally destroyed, Out of ber crew of seven souls Only two lived to toll the tale, and the eur vivors are #o badly sealded Lunt listie hope is entertained | of their recovery The ahook of the explosion was felt for several blocks, 58 lays being extinguished and windows broken aa if by an earthquake. The Twonty-oighth preeinet police | wore promptiy on the spot, and succerded In rescuing Captain Anthony and one of the deck hands named James Berger, whom they conveyed to the station house in am exha Tue wirvivore were foand en tem sted condition Of a canal heat, whore they bad been bhawn by the force of Uy of ue veplhmun. Another wae found om th a station beune in 6 ptly attended by « phye r alterwards, The te crow, pained George conden, He Mowieh etree, and wot he died In abont aloder of the crew, Ove in ng, Sted, alte for the tod! he trace ¢ Mm Cowl The following * & lint Of the Kitied and arch «99 fo vored wera. des Prete ck Anthony, captain, wenided, removed tw bw No. 31 Clarkson street Henpacnia mith, engineer, ineming George Ackert, fireman, dead body at the Teeny Sighih preewet ration bows John Studer, cook, mianing Jar Berger, dock band, badly scalded, taken to Nellevow Howpita! Joho Zieminet man, carpenter, mseing | Jobin Johoson, pilot, mrinming Nothing wae ltt o the tng bwt «few fonting pheone of tinder, eutire upper part the beat, inetading the deck, Whe hiowh Inle a IhoomNOd [eres hed scattered | all over the a@jarent pier The bell went down imme ately after the exptorcn, and left no trnee behind A piece Of the bouer war Diown a dimtance of Bfty fom \ striking an oyrter tent and damaging her sericusty, | Heavy iron belie Xod portions Of the machinery were ot we blocks away from the seene expiaion white the i work war firewn im @) directions fore distance & weveral hundred yards The annihilation of the boat wee complete, got a dollars worth of property having tawe saved Corwen Wi wor cogngrd youterday the adair, Wot © te the sbeenee of some oie peeeee, be was obliged to alyrorn the woqueet antl Pritey morning Capt. eke, of the Twenty prertee! pehee, rendered ibe Corveer eeleat aid m Bunting vp = lenenee and Btlonding \o (be wamte of the The boty of Jobe Zimmerman, one @f the deck a the amine Crary wan reorvered shout seven ‘o'clock leat evening COP TRRT ae protay tly Ren ified to bold 0 ing vent Aarning of the or National Theatre, Bosto: Newtom, March 24, 168 id Sotvonal theatre, corner of Portland and Tra. vere streets was dewtroyed by fre early thie morning The theawre com $45 1 wae owned ghy Willtare Bebier, and leaned ty Wiliam @. Kagiieh. The mee vaiwable propervieg bat been removed to Jane Pogtiab’s new Tremont theatre The artiste of the eetabiabnens teat ment of thelr ed the