The New York Herald Newspaper, March 28, 1863, Page 1

—__- THE NEW YORK HERALD. WHOLE NO. 9691. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 1863,—-TRIPLE SHEET. —————— PRICE THREE CENTS MAP OF TEXAS. An RaeAAdAAtdhaddaeah aan cannIeaAANaAmens ocnninnnhonaamhaaiinrmnaene ar shame tt Lore ti The Proposed Reoccupation of the Rio Grande---Its Importance tothe Union ra’ y the Rebel Forces. REBEL TRADE THROUGH MEXICO. : ausTikekS—— A HOW IT IS CARRIED ON. | freien i, = Ls Sot ore < PINESMGHILLS ™ en % SJ Mi, V/ INTERESTING FROM TEXAS. AFFAMRS ON THE RIO GRANDE. “Fb oawasararorry € luchestca0 \m A i ! | | | | | ; | The Reoccupation of the Rio Grande | > \ \ S ie, Urgently Called For. “Sey oF a ~ - \ > 1@)} Geott SAM FELIPE By (= 2 Ed EFALO She A ae eS mee HOW THIS CAN BE EFFECTED, \ ae., ke., be. CENISIA COLVAR POINT Be calatecani omen the affairs of Texas, particu- sau uteeen VESTON PASS ° portion of the State bordering on the Mi a= SA " ( frontier, and from which js ia divided. by the Rio fee DZ. ESTON te necessary to-take into sccount the geographical na- ‘ire of either portion of the two countries bordering on ‘that river and the feelings of the people with regard to ‘We rebellion of the Southern States, The two nearest ad- Spining States of Moxico to Texas on the lower Rio Grande ‘ere Tamaulipas and New Leon and Coahuila—the latter being a Stato formed a few years since by the con- ‘eolidation of the two States whose joint names it bears. ‘Mheso two States are by far the most powerful in popula- ‘Mion and wealth of any in that portion of Mexico. Confronting them for raany miles there aro, on the Texas ‘tide of the river, but three military posts. These are Fort Brown, Ringgold Barracks and Fort Duncan. These ‘are oli United States forts, and the only posts ever per- maneantly occupied by our troops at any time. After the ‘withdrawal of our forces, through the treason and trea- ohery of Gen. Twiggs, the State rebels took possession of these forts. Fort Brown, the nearest to the mouth of the Rio Grande, was subsequently (in July, 1962) aban toned ‘ey the rebels for political reasons, which will be here- after cxpiained. At tho time of their withdrawal they dismantied the fort, seized upon the Mexican ateamboats | / then on the river, in defiance of the protest of Colonel Quiroga, Mexican commandant at Matamoros, and by ‘this means conveyed the beavy guns from Fort Brown 0 Ringgold Barracks, highor up the river. Since that tima the fort bas never been occupied by a mili- ‘(ary force, although it commands the two import- amt towns of Brownsville and Matamoros, on ether side of the river, being butahalf mile distant from the former, and even less than that from the !atter, ‘and ite defences are fast becoming worthless. The rebels Rave now concentrated a small force at Ringgold Barracks, met far from Rio Grande City. In the month of June ‘fast some few gans that had pot been removed from lort Brown were lying in an unserviceable condition. The Bombproofs were in bad order, and there was met a solitary sentinel to be seen in the fort. ‘3 was formerly considered an mportant post, and its means of defence were considerable. It was surrounded by @ wide ditch, broad glacis, with breastworks and had ‘ombproofs inside, About a year-ago one of our informants @tarted s covey of quails on the parade ground, near the Dombproois, The other military posts, though dignified By the bigh sounding titles of forts, possess little claim @0 De eonsidered assuch. They are neither defended by wateed earthworks, ditch vor fosse. The ground 30 desig- ‘mated is morcly surrounded by a picket fenge, enclosing the shanties of the officers and soldiers, Lost summer the emall rebel force stationed at Brownsville, in conse- quence of the visitation of yellow fever ameng the in- Babitants, was removed to Ringgold Barracks. and from ‘that time to this the whole of the lower Rio Grande ‘bas been totally abandoned by the rebel troops. STATE OF OFPOSING PARTIES ON TEE RIO GRANDE. From the treason of Twiggs, which gave to the Texas rebel authoritics the whole command of the Rio Grande, (the rebe! government never bad more than 1,500 men at @my one timo throughout the whole rogion of the Rio Grande, from its mouth up to Fort Duncan. And at the Present time there aro not more than 600 men stationed in ll that distance. Against these 600 rebels on one side of Qe river there aro banded together on the Mexican side, waiting but for the moans of armed and disciplined organ. tention, 1,300 loyal Texans, impatiently anxious for the time when they will be in @ condition to strike a retri- —— — =; a eure Mae e ee ee eee ee eer, roe Rio Grade. Gencral Butler. wheo first appealed to, | ters to sell to them the entire balaice of their crops, and | cotton, amounting to abyut seventy Ove cents per bale. | and trains Bo is the country back of Sabine Pass and c to accept in payraent therefor, at whatever rate the go- | Added to this there is a beavy Mexican tariff levied of « back of Galveston. Five railroads converge at How» ome and country. Their superiority of numbers, how 4 iden Ot tea riewes aie Sree earning reek the anh os nrinaned nearest. | bo rovponbeaapaptncts lye Sig at lhe of cavalry | vernment fixes, Confederate paper. Their wagons and | doilar and @ half per quintal (100 pounds), Besides, wagon | from whenee diverges # trunk line to the port of Gal a few pistols and rifles comprise ther whole arm | eee eee Colonel Trivie dt about this work | teams are aiso impressed, with their negroes for drivers, | freight must be paid from Matamoros to the mouth | ton, and by thelr aid all the Confederate forces, wherever meat, and for even these there is a deficency of powder | eee eee ane sa ulisted three nun | to haul all the cotton thus eolivcted to the river. Im thi | of the river, when the cotton is Intended for Purope—a | statioued withio one hundred, aud isky mules of alves and .caps. A diabolical ontrage, committed by the rebela 1a Tee hn are now im barracks in that city,and | way the revel goverument has exported wo and through | distance of twenty seven miles. From this point it is | ton, oan be masse in very brief thine ab to the first days of thoir unbridled fury, adords asad yet | oo bor ie daily iuereasing. Colonel Davie is con. Mexico o¥ suiticien! to pay for the immense supption | conveyed by the lighters to the ships at anchor about | by means of oue of these roads at the Sabine river, on the require, and which they are | amile from the shore. The cost of lighterage is from $$ | Louisiana line, Therefore Tuxas cannot be at glorious tItustration of the deeprooted loyaity of some of : ; : wt blag sig progenies pak | vinced, from his perfect knowledge of Ure country, y projec pans Js cuunly border the io Grande, | howand dve hundred men be coukl command | this enabled get in comparative abundance. | to $7 50 per bale, and these separate charges combined | with advantage at either of these points—the fi (7 RBAYOU < LoaP US JOSEPHS ISLAND ROA AANSAS PASS ISLAND & RPUS CUBIST INLET Iveat with one thou Ma greatest stretch of boundary being that river. Tkwas | fi ee nssigation of the It Grande and afford the full | Through this rouree they haveobtained arms ammunt- | follexcesdingly heavy upon the unfortunate Texan ex. | river or Galveston Most of the transport Ser the most part peopled by citizens of Mexican dement, | 24) rota ion to the loyal Taxane on its banks | tion, ieatuer, boots and whres. rope and bageing, yrovi. | porter when evading ihe law so long as private exporta | belonging to the United Statow murrendere qmany of them born there, strongly attacked w the | GRANDE OPEN TO RASY REOOCURATION BY | sions, sulphur aud ealipetre sufficient to eetabli#h and | tion was permitred Wo the robeln were sent with the Htate cuntingent Dnlon and tte flag. Just prior tw the treason of | naan PEDERAL TROOPS. Keep going three powder mills, brown cotton domestics of But the most fiagrant injustice to which the plan | oatof the State, The rematiuder accompanied Sibley’ ch and otter foreign sta: | MT wae subjected arose from the cupidity of the | expedition into New Moxico, and never returned. All the id in need of, almost all | military commander, and from whict he could Lot army wagons and trains being thus lost to the State, the with safety protect himself, or even seok redress in the | rebels are compelled to depend w ‘Twiggs, but when the first mutteriugs of the storm began tobe board, seme of these citizous of Zaputa, who had ‘been ansured by some of vur olficers that they would be | ral) Mexican manufacture, aud Bg: | At tho present time it would require but a smal! fer | force, ianded at some eligible point on the coast, west of | ple goods, such as they most » j weston, to reocoupy the whole of the Rio Grande re- | of these going to the wee of the army, very little indeed Aided by the United states forces, doermined vw oling to | gion lying in Texas, And none bint thone fully | | | their rattroads en vn for wen aud up quainted | going into the market or into the bands of private dealers | proper quarter, consisted in this: that whenever | tirely ax the means of transports the Union at all hazards, Our government did ootsa8- | with the immense trate oar on with Mexico, and | The trade thus maintained on the Lower Rio Gr | planter brought his cotton to the post ike commandant | pliee. There are xeveral military camps of instruction tm tain the assurances of its loyai officers by seuding them | throu sh Mexico with Puro) ou countries, can estamate the | pears, (rom the revarns of the rebel Custom He compelled him to fork over silver in exchange for Confed- | tho state, within easy reach of these railroads The trae 4 be Jaflicted upon the | Browsaville, to have been more important in many | erate notes, five dollars for exch bale; aud in this @x- | poinisof attack are, 1uox 1B adequate force being sent mm it the command of | respects than the trade of any seaport in the loyal States. change & specie for paper the planter was egregiously | py Indianola, and, in case of aamull force only being dew ‘This may appear very surprising; but it is nevertheless | Deeced, The modus operandi was very effective. For each | patched for this service, Oorpas t Leabel,or the rue, But almost the whole of thia mmeusetrade, | Ole brought down for exportation tho commander | mouth of the Riv Grande, all which pointe offer facilities for polived by rebel | Compeliod the owner to give him $5 in gold | guccensdil attack. Indeed, any point an the Gulf ovat went or astlvor in exchange for a Confederate $5 Dill. | of Galveston is open for attack, and can be attacked with help. This did not deter them from evincing their | rai} extent of the injury that wo Joyalty, and, faithful amid tho faithiens, they ran up thO | rebel government by wresting { Stare and Stripes. ‘This drow upon them on ateck,eo- | this reontior water line, Fully alive to tho value of this eretly planned and suddenly executed, by anoverpewer- | means of intercourse wit the outer world, amd Of se | perfectly dag force of rebel rangers, after a hard fight the whole | Curing It ia their possession, quate early in the outbreak | and all the facilities fortrade are now ‘ Body of Union men, who on the first surprise seized their peitia ag | now brigadier genera! of the | authorities, the people being rigorously excluded from sue, wore ox down, This bloody epiode of the rebel belting an gegen pont “Wa ouik 6 ed partictpation in it, and to this exclusivenoas is attribute, | The owner may have had objections to the exchange, | greater aivauiage than any other portion of the Hale then never reached in ite terrible details the knowledge ot | Sraime into the condition of the military poste | ble much of the suffering of the population of Texas, and | Dut be dared not to refuse. He was told by the commen: | The failures made at Galveston and Sabine Pace corrove the Northern people, sor indeed were all the facteknown | oy the moans of deience ou the Rio Granda, | indeed much of the wuffering of the non-combatants | dant that be wanted the silver to take neoensary pat. | rate thie view Ao bine tenths of the peopie of Toxes till omg afterwards. | gong to report what be deemed wecesary to be done to | thronghout the whole Southwest, On the Nueces river, in | chases for his command at commashanede on ep - RR VRENCH IN MEEIOO DEPENDANT @ TUB UXITED The causes which leit tbe Union men so much at 1b0 | strengthen them. His report, whieh was at the time | Texas, oaly owe hundred aut Afty miles from the Rio premio sigecim tot tad om ; ce STATES POR SUPPLIES mercy of the rebels, though outnumbering thew two tO | pubiisied ti the Now Orleans papers, recommended that | Grande, dour is worth §1:0 per Barrel, and corn $12 per saosuire seein would have supe > rene In the meantime ff mast sot be forgotton thet the ‘one, are to be found m the treason of Twiggs, his *iZUTO | there atemid be a force of Aftoon Uaoisand mon stationed | bushel—prices unheard of before, No people cag stand | not Confederate money mevtnd cg we you Re ; Freoch, owing to the scarctty of breadstuffs ia Burope, and transfer to rebel bands of ai! (ho gyverument arms | ay or sear Fort Brown, giving a# the teason that if United | auch prices kvng. spond it the negative would have been #0 palpably tree | 0, aeriwing all the provinious for the use of their arte. | and ammunition, and the purchase by tbe Kaighis | states troupe in any aumber or #treugth landed at or WOW GOODS ARE THANSPOHTED (N TEXAS. | sonable ppt apaponr that further ners sn a Mexico from the ports of the United States, sed that their of the Golden Circle of ali the powder sud CAPS | year the mouth of the Itio Grande they could march from | Colton brought frown whe plantations by wagou or | Vanished before it and thas the trader ane ne etna a, | forces could wot have remained thus lang in Mexico ba on private eale in the Stale. Tee unsuspecting | thence aa far as the Nucces river—one hundred and ity | rail to the village of Alleyiewn, tliree milon east of the | #urce than pee benis with the best grace he migh our government excluded them from purchamag. They Tetoninie were thine left almost eatirely with. | mules iniand—througe » friendly population. ‘The pub- | town of Columbus, ou the Colorado, and from tence It is | *#OrHen of the man tn power are in D0 condition te intervene out the first requirement fur defence. This groat | tieation of this report in the New Orieane papers created | hauled om wagons and Mexican carts to different jrints on SOURCE OF THE SUPPLY OF Balt. In view of the forogoing facts, tw pot strange that the vant thay could not remedy, [or Te rosson that Lanse dissatisfaction among loading secessionists, b- | the Pio Grande—thas for foreign markets to Matamoros Since the destruction of the salt works at the month of | sitgntion of the public la uow printed towarde Texas I the powder subsequently Wrougii into (he Stave bas | gauge, am ibay alleged, it pointed out to the United Staves that for the cousumption of Mexico vo Kgl (Fort | St Bornard by the Union gunboats, salt for the supply Of | we neve matters en this rulject in reserve, which will sen purchased. by the governmicn! for the ariny, aod | goyerymout their most vulnerable poimt for attack, Awd | Duncan) or Roma, a few miles above Ringgvid Barracks, the people of the whole of Western Texas i principally | girear when the operations of the government render it drawn from a salt lake in Texan, ia the valley of the 110 | So oneur expodieut that they sbowld be beld back M1 for by the cottan contributed by the planters. Pei- | in this the fexau sscasuonista ware pertectly right: but | each pointof trade belmg commande! by «military Sian, whie vreau bre niin Heh ion Dati Oi NEW ARM OF THE SERVICE. Sp individuals, expocialty (bose sugpected of luyaity 40 | they have bad mut cause (or congratulation in the igno | post, We learn that there ix wo post at present overnment of our fathers. are not pormittel to im- | panoe or supinences of Wie goverment in negiecting te | near faredo, Tho traumportation of cotton iuto of Reynom, the salt heeec i ve a oo ‘or sale, OF 10 BUY ammunition. Notwithatanding | goj90 the Rio Grande. The rabe! government took prompt | Mexico aod of — foreign idx of all sort, | DAFOLY adequate to supply the people of a fow neighboring counties, ‘This fact ougbt Wo appear to the government antof this great essential lo anocesiul resinance antage of this wreat oversight, aad sagaciously | joto Texas \# managed as followa.—The cotton carts and Comeful assault, partios (the Texaus on the Mexica anaes the force of aome twelve hundred at first | wagons which come from the plantations or from Alley an additional incentive to ite occupation of the valley of é “ i rocroused the river, mate « letgment there, aa! maintained along the lower part of the river, leaving | town to toe Rio Grands would have to go back empty if | the Rio Grands, Thi# gall lake, some three feet deep, Organization of the M SI nake (reqacat raids on the rebels in Texas, seat | hut the force aiready uated, some six hondred w | toy did got tke back freuit at reasonable rater, They | incapable of supplying salt without other Len epvanean | Marine Brigad 4 senate, ovarthrow ing seal! eecor'e aad destroy iug pul ¢ Puneaa 7, merely a8 apr are thom compelled to take gorerament fricght 10 Alley. | thal ix necessary to procure it, whieh is done by simply | sislence tralue, The most room a@air of thie Kind baw carried on there, Ry thos | town, and {roi (bene the (reight i@ transported by rail | prying it up from the bottom and trassporting it wherever | paen most grossly misrepresented in the Southern papers, mall body of troopy— lh ongh He pthe Ashine ft Louk | vented. Sp wnechaustible tthe wepply furnished by (his | Our St. Lewis Correspondence, and ihese#outhern acovunts have beea very geueraliy nto their operations wis ime, and from thence age wagous to the | renervoir of salt that it has been the rewmrce of the grent | 7. Laue, Mas ines iol by the Northern press. |! was mlated that alate might have drawn upon | ane from it diatribated throughout the why | partion of Northeastern Mexico ever since its Gariiest | The Mississipp! Marine Brigade hae rec tack mace on a rebel force eel train ob ike way [rom with all trath that the | tedere 4 valley of ty sippt wherever tre | oornpalion by Ue Spaneh conquerors. ite qoarters on board the sicamers brug Singgold Barracks dnto te lor war mule by @ « puted | areetationed, Sometimes parto! tiie trade is diver TREANS IN THE REOET AnMY. | use, and to now ready for active operations. The novel gand of Mexicans Thin is net ue (aot. It w nude by | much to an r we ne river, wh o pnt om board anal echoon Vader the reign of terror established throughout (ho | and peculiar character A (hie Important organization 16 tho Unbon citiccus of Texas, who, drivem from thei wep), Ty yenpy ately clowtrnyed by ere tha the Weetern Jowlsiana, ava | Whole of Texan, the State sent Wwenty.two fall roginenta | qaires more than a passing notiee tance, took temporary fofige on Mest soil beat om Mod lear were elyety obtained from or thew wh Om r stow are enabled to | to the rebel army. Independently of this there was aah. | rh ome ‘ perti, of teat bend of 100) who hare o0 lone | sexien ecadet diag vorse'# ate fr | sequer organized « force f fourteen thoumnad men as @ince the captors Of Momphin end the oveniog of the ly waited far Mttecor from we Kepel TRAPY IO ON THe BO GRANDER, veo! at Matamor« appears that there are | furtberaid Ws the revel government in carrying on thy river to loyal commerce as far south as Memonw || baw the means wf protecting ft the present time, ty theme beat Informe oy dak five Usvanant boi nt Beighbor. | A portion of this latter furee, we are told, have toes sout | bean evident that river guevitiag could aut le eventos that one of thew nambae, (4, et, comgrited that there are uot k tan | pont of = Brownevittle awaiting " while | to the aid of their reual brethren ju Arkagnas, The Com- | (ram firing oo wuarwned steamboats and iertering with Fapeda, (af we family che ctnely is 1 700,00 n" ‘exay, The tact crop ot ea a ¢ mma time there are 0 lon , | eeript aw is tigoroudy Carried ont to Te trade by guoboets slows, The nature of querilis oper™ since come on New Oriewns 20 ecliett ait from ti b here waa reoet nwee gs ny ying OT the in be fhe Gropde Wore wi! men capsble of bearing armas im ihe tome agains! steamboats prevjude! (6 4 here ernment the state uf affeere an the Rin Grnée umd the arent so erops is 8 han we | ceive this cotton, The great want felt te | Upeowixty. Atone time ao attempt wa to day and away tomorrow, it was and #1)! it am lenpom wr wted to Genera! Bute f oMReer beginning @ the ow the rebel deaders forced 2 fnvecage, and hence it be that there ve & Mato and Confederaie censor sibility Wo save Donte from capers onions omvoyed by & reseleed when sending A regiment ant a hattery be planters ta pubeertie @ part of Unie crop & at vere dlackarged and but ure thue detained | braced individuals of diderent he Contederate | guvoat. Of conree such « thing oe paring » cuuly ” wee there for the protenste Cher (rember, Mtbmuy a carrying « ¢ é vidution # compel the | o¢ the mouth of the river. Al the commencers 1 | Ommcription it koke p With grout abborramee by ali | every steamer was cut of the quention, The pete st wag not yoeladed in Dis mititary district. Had General reiuct ¢ Governor ot Texas (Lubbock) | the war the Texam steam lighters were put under the | elaeses of people, and mquence the dewertions from | gueriias carried on thew depretatons awe ost on Tiitter been able te carry out nic derigu, Often bemdred — prohibited, Ny tanation, cotton from belwg vronght | stacieas flay, ( prevent their seizire hy the United stares | the army iwto Mesion have beou ve ite Tatxe | delay of sending ton milnary ome and walling f volunteers, at tbe very least, would have jotmed whatever —pearce than fifty miles of the Gull coum, exoapting the | wlockaders, but these lighters are not by any means » Blavchenders are out conscripted tail to go On board # UF nigtey* . : eso Mts force wonld hae boen Pent, ant! thus custained the joyal Moe of the Mio Grande, the rebel Congress having | cient to ment the large contrabiad trade now carried on | THE MO GRANDE PRONTINN | plan for catebing & When the first prc went men of thet region would have been able to overthrow — by expres: lnw reve’ eed to planters the right of exporting | from the Rw Grande, | Uf the weather be wet, an it invariably is i the winter | down the river the necessity of wenen » - wv vane cng bammleer of rebels en sigh be somenninet thea, evtten scrowt that river direct into Mexico, Bot thie i@ | pynat, EXPORT DUTY ON COTTON— WOW THE PLawr. | and spring, It Deomer then almort impuatbie to eoter | the vermin y a4 prio ppt wf ne ” a Khue deprive the rebel government of the great advan cow a dead Jatier, mnasrouch ae for & considerable time wR HAVE PaRN VICTIMIZED. Texas by the Red river, the errounding regi for miler | ewegnstancr Aa pep . FORE OM ccercing fo it eam ha ertneiand 0 the cand the arte) eeverpment uy wmpelling the pian! The rebel government has fxel a bigh exogri duty on | being almurt & complete my ho pareable Wo tree ig trigeite for ayarin! | Import | General and courtn of the Colonet 1TH ORGANIZATION, On the Sth of November last Genera: Halleck wrote an autograph letter to General Alfred W. Ellet, authorizing him t proceed with the organization The General im mediately completed bis arrangements and hastened to St. Louis, where the recruiting commenced for one regi- ment of infantry, four squadrons of cavalry and one light field battery, ‘The General soon found it was impossible to obtalu avy voluuteors, but bit upon a lucky expedient, which, by the consent of General Halleck, was adopted, He sought recruits from araong tho convalescents in the hospitals of the departments of Generals Curtis and Grant. To prevent the acceptarce of any infirm or dis | abled recruit, a rigid surgical exsmination was made of ry candidate. This mode of reorulting proved very din thirty days th hod the 1m number required by law reigade Sad NRAUTY OF THE SPRY TER, To old soldiers the beauty of the service at once com mended \telf, the iuducer being even greater thax thone oifored to gunboat n ustead of camps in mu holes, picket duty io swamps, ball of quarter raiwus, ex hausting marches, guarding rebel property and other bk atures of the soldier's life, ¢ of Uae are offered a wure place ts o hes, no guarding abel property ty, and, in short, the reverse of! 20 cam aud feld, full rations, no long ma bo liability to p the ordinary a TR QUARTHO OF TINS MUG ALA While the rocrutting was ia progress the government afOfiew Ware ac work buying the necessary boats Of the’ best steamers on Western waters were parchaset— viz: the Antocrat, flagship; Diana, Baltic, Woodford Fairchild, Mains ant Adama. these boats merly engaged in the Lauisville aud New Orleans trade, And are soted for their swilthess, size and comfort, Thoy sly lor the service, Each boat id twenty horses and seophig a ap berths for jour hundr The hoata were f al New Albany, butarctved at oar levee more than @ wee aye The Woodford and Meine are tatended for hos pital and commissary pury the Woodford bas thres decks and isadmirubly adapted for hospital purposes TUK PROTECTION 46 The boats are not iron clad 4 boon wtaled in seve ralpapers. A dou)e wallof three inch eak plank, with: and pertholes, bas been built from stem to Oo both wtdes of Lhe steamer, which reaches a level ric ve deck. Tho pilot bouse and officers’ room (usually called the Texas) are covered with six inchos of eae, plauk ihe ‘The boilers have an addi tonal ware of nine iaches of solid oak pinnk, which will secure them against any Gold pieces Dikely to be used where these boats are designed w go. ‘The main defence ts against inusketry, and in ao emer Keney cotton bales, stacked op againet the wooden wall would stay any damag artillery NAP GORA AM. YACILIT ae POR CAPECWING GLERILLAS, The grand object of a'l, however, designe* (hia ores Bisation is eolerity of movement atest rebel guerilian © the rivers of the West * Maure the success of thin dol sater.ta pos ample arrangements have beoo to tre cavalry aod flying artillery from boat te with unexarmpied quickt A ewinging ora porting a wide railed platform, hax been constracted on both sides, The moment a bpat touches the bank Unie carries out the pitioum, and tm another minute cavalry inay be riding ashore, followed by artitery, Shere will be ro delay to maddie up borwes, aw all thin wil be done while the boats are heading for whore, aod an bee sacks willalways be ready, the greatest promptituds y be inqured. Tofaatry inay follow to cover a retreat in cane of wurprive or to carry a redoubt. With five of these vowels runuing up aod down the river queriias cannot uperate very successtully ou Loe Misimippt. They tay be pursued, if necessary, tar inte the interior, aod Will be watched for so sharply that their vocation wi ib soon be gone, When necessary the whole brigade ean be brought into action, or, asristed by freat troops, go apon L expeditions. CONNECTION WITH THK PAM Pimeer This Drigade is designed W cooperate chiefly with the | Fam fleet imaenendeatly of army or navy Genera Rilet @ 4 will move in harmogy, in poval as well as in land operations, As son os the brigade mover down the river Colonel Chariew R. Filet, Jr., wow in commend of the on the Queen Of the Went, will aesume command of the infantry regiment this brig bis late command deveiyil upon Lieutenant Colonel John A, Filet, nephow of the od by Captain F W Sutherland, Liestopant W. Martiett, Lieutenant W. T Warren, Adjutant George W. Aalley (lately captured oa the Queen of the West), Lieutenant Joba Tuthill amd Capt | Asgitt Conner, 1 OF OF ORIOL OF THM MARINE HRIGADR Hrigacher General Alfred W. ELet, commanding. Capttin WD. Crandall, Axsitent Adjutant General o r., Purehaning Quartermaster Hieigad Quartermaster. «. Hrooks, Jr., Comminary the ifantry officers are ax follows — Colonel, Charles Ro Filet, Jr Jieutenant Colonel, Geo. KE Currie Major not appomted Adjutant, HG, Curtin Quarterganter, Lieutenant Jax. Beach. Company A—Cayiain, J.D, Newell, First Mestenans, 2. T Howell: Seoond Lieuteuant, TH. Gikdermaster Company Hie Liewtenant commanding, T. 8. Ben son. Sevond Lieutenant. Franem Aid, G Hoghen: First Liewteoant, Com po coud Laeatenant, J. f Company b—Capiaul, G. C Viator, Virwt Liew D. & Marble Company P—Viest Lieutenant commanding, Onear 1 |, Meovud Lieutenant, Albert Dean. The officnes A the cavalry battalon are ax follows Major (emmanding)— James M, Hubbard Company A-Layhain, J Ceandall, Kiet Liewtenant Martin ¥ Owen mA Lhe ait Charles Povorts vmpany H— ay M. Brown. Firet Lieutenant. 6. Cole, second Liewteannt, Jobm Warren 1 (ear F. Meown, Binet Liewtonnut, od Lieutenant, Letoy Mayne D—Caprarn, Wee. HL Wright, iret nn, Secoud Leotensat, Jobo B Kirk the batery of artiliery (rited oie pounders) are ax follows Captain, Daniel Walling. First Lieutenant, © H. Niebolw Junior Firet Lievtenant, Joba 1 7 Meond Liew tenant, Andrew J, Gilson; Junior Bocond Lieutenant mnuel it. Holmes. exmron OF WEN. mLLET Gen 4 W. Diet, ow commanding the Micausippt Marine irigade, a brother Colonel Charles K . who proj<ted the ram fleet aud was wounded tn the naval battle before Memphis, from the effect of which be 4y The General was bora io Peuneyivania, and wae eiueated Wo engineering purnvite but at the time the at Hooker Hi, 1, He immediately raved «foe company, but wae too late to enter ihe fetd among the fegiments raed ia bis own Mate, Nothing daunted, he procendet uw M4 pant wt, Me ofice war broke out be was eugaged in Louis and pined bie auinpany to (be Ninth Mieseart reg ment, which (ought bravely at \'om Ridge aod cinowher a, regiment subpequentiy treeaferred to Whew Credit and called the Fifty ninth fino, Whew the feet wan projected Captain tenant Colonel's comm leven © Colonel Viet wan at Memphin tv ok, mae nerron oF hime pend nay ng, bis experie bon being (rea in the public od Covone| Geo, B Corrie wan & Neutenaat tn the Sain Mine Pooteers, and fought oly At Pea Ruige at Perryv ie, Ky Capmein Crandall, am { Adjutant General, war vike wive lu the Pes Midge battle, and was on one of the rome At Memptie aod Viewsburg. ile bas served oo the rer feet (rom tieit eartiont orgacivat ica Caplae Welling wae fret lewtenset commantiog @ Wiermame battery at the battle » /itteburg Landing, wei war complimented in bir diviion gemerni’s repors fo creat gallantry oa (hat ov eat on The men were reoruiied from vdeo cee bondred OM regiments, aod represent every ntste i the North weet, with a ew (rom Peonsyivanis and Keotorty CNL nen The bereer have been selected wih great core everything bas beet done to wake (the Miaemmipys River Marine Brigete nn Ciiemt arm Of Une cowmiry’s nor el