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SAVANNAH AFFAIRS*
The liepublican, of this morning says that two
Federal steamers, taking advantage of the high
tide yesterday forenoon, came up a creek to with
in a mile and a half of Fort Lawton, on the Caros
lina side, and fired a few shots. They all fell
short, and none of them were returned.
The editor learns that the enemy have been in
dustriously engaged in shelling the marshes and
woods on the Carolina side for a day or two.
Their most notable exploit of a recent date is the
shelling a gang of negroes who were at work on
a plantation below the city. This is one mode of
displaying their affection for the “down trodden
Africans.”
THE 21ST TENNESSEE REGIMENT.
The correspondent of the Savannah liepubli
can says that the 32 pickets sent out by this
regiment at Union the night of the sur
prise, were playing cards and drinking mean
whiskey at a church ! when the Federals made
their appearance. But for a citizen, who gave
the alarm in camp, the whole regiment would
have been captured. They v escaped .only by
the most confused and precipitate flight. Tents,
baggage, stores, and about 300 horses, together
with the wagons and teams, were abandoned.
The enemy destroyed the hotel, depot build
ings, the few cars left behind, the baggage,
stores, <kc., killed three or four.men, and cap
tured some fifty or sixty, in addition to those
taken at the church. Having finished their
work, they returned to Hickman to jeer at
Southern courage and laugh over their night's
exploits.
The Rights or Aliens.—Judge Swayne of Mem
phis, decided a few days since, in the case of
two men who claimed exemption from military
duty on the ground oi i«.<.gn oirth, that foreign*
ers who aie transient, simply passing through
the country, or remaining here tempor rily, are
exempt from military duty. But that persons
who remain here, who makes this country their
home, who, to use a technical term, are “domicil
ed,” are entitled to the same protection and sub
ject to the same duties as native born citizens;
and it makes no difference whether they are or
are not naturalized. If this country is their domi
cil, they may lawfully oe requred to do military
duty.
Lincoln and his South Carolina Elephant.—
Lincoln has gone into the cotton planting busis
ness, and the Congress at Washington has passed
a bill farming out “the little State of South Caro
lina.” The New York Exprest says of the bill.
It turns Uncle Sam into a cotton planter. The
bill provides a Board of Receivers aud Guardians
to let the lands for a year or less for money, or on
shares, or cultivate them themselves, the land to
’be laid off into lots of from 1,600 to 3,00# acres.
The board is empowered .to purchase tools,
seeds, animals, etc., to the amount of $lO
an acre, and to employ a superintendent, either at
a fixed salary of $1,200 a year, or at a compensa
tion not to exceed $2,000 yearly contingent upon
the success of the husbandry. A register
is to be kept of all indigent persons who
come into the plantations, when a description of
each of such persons, to be employed at fifty cents
a day and properly cared for ; money to be ad’
vanced to them for clothing and other necessaries-
Hospitals are to be. erected for the sick, and physi
cians provided and paid by the board; asrni annual
report to be made of the receipts and expendi
tures ; and the profits. if any, to be placed to the
credit of the Secretary of the Treasury, who will
supply the funds necessary, with a history of the
condition of the indigent people who .shall have
been under their care.
The Express adds f
The “elephant” of 800 or 10,000 pauper negroes
being on our hands —their natural South Carolina
protectors having run away—we have no other
alternative than to turn negro overseers, and work
the negroes as well as we can. But “Uncle Sam”
is notoriously the poorest sort of a landlord, and,
of course, a much worse planter. We have no
doubt that in his new character of cotton planter
he will run in debt, heels over head, and that his
“board of receivers,” ‘guardians,” “superinten
dents ’’ etc., will eat him out of house and home,
and come u p to the treasury with the heaviest
sort of un paid bills. But what else can we do?
The man that has an “elephant’ must not let him
starve.
It may interest some of our readers to know
what are the limits of the new military geographic
cal departments of the Lincolnite army. They
are as follows:
1. Department of New England.—The six New
England States. Headquarters at Boston. Com
mander, Major Gen. Benjamin F. Butler.
2. Department of Nero Fori.—The State of New
York. Headquarters at Albany. Commander,
Major Gen. Ludwin D. Morgan.
3. Department of the Potomac—The States of
Pennsylvani a, New Jersey, Delaware and Mary
land, the District of Columbia, and that portion
of Virginia east of the Alleghany Mountains and
north of James river, except Fortress Monroe, and
sixty miles around the same. Headquarters at
Washington, or in the field. Commander, Major
Gen- George B. McClellan.
4. Department of Virginia— Fortress Monroe
and sixty miles around the same. Headquarters
at the Fortress. Commander, Brigadier General
John E. Wool.
5. Department of the Mississippi— The States of
Ohio, Michigan, Indiana.Kentucky,Missouri, lowa,
Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Kansas. Arkansas,
the Indian Territory, the Territory of Dacotah,
Nebraska and Colorado, to the Rocky Mountains,
and that part of Tennessee lying west of a north
and south line indefinitely drawn through Knoxs
ville, Tennessee. Headquarters at present at St.
Louis. Commander, Major Gen. H. W. Halleck.
6. The Mountain Department.— The country
west of the Department of the Potomac and east
of the Department of the Mississippi. Headquar
ters at Wheeling. Commander Major Gen. John
C. Fremont.
7. Department of New Mexico.— The Territory
of New Mexico. Headquarters at Santa Fe. Com
mander, Col. E. R. S. C'anby.
8. Department ot the Pacific. — The country west
of the Rocky Mountains. Headquarters at San
Francisco, California. Commander,
9. Department of Florida.—The part of the State
of Florida, not included in the Department of Key
West. Headquarters at Fort Pickens. Command
der Brig. Gen. Lewis C. Arnold.
10. Department of North Oarolina.— The State
of Nor th Carolina- Headquarters in the field.
Commander, Brig. Gen. A. F. Burnside.
11. Department of Key West. — Key West, the
Tortuga* and the mainland on the west coast,
as far as Apalachicola and to Cape Canaveral on
the east coast/ Commander, Brig, Gen. J. M.
Brauman.
“ The Court of Abraham.”—The Boston Post
does not like the new order of things at the court
of Abraham, in Washington. It says:
“ The general bearing of many public men at
Washington, as well as public women—their ill—
• time jokes and frivolity—the ridiculous attempts
to aye monarchial courts—(dressing in half
mourning for the death of Prince Albert, etc.,)
has excited the disgust of sensible people through
out the country, and brought just contempt on
those in high station. There is a set of broken
down, fashionable Jeremy Diddlers about the
purlieus of the White House, who flatter the
weakness of vanity and take advantage of inex
perience in the custom of high society, to inspire
a desire for ton and display which is as inoppor
tune as it is absurd. These parasites, to promote
their own purposes, enact the role of Grand
Chamberlains, and inspire the folly at the seat of
government which makes the judicious grieve.”
The Florida Ra Iroad is prepared to redeem all
bills issued by the Road of a less denomination
than one dollar, when five dollars worth are pre
sented at one time.
Rev. Bishop Otey, we are pleased to hear, is
slowly recovering from bis la'e severe illness.—
He is a pure, a good, and great man, beloved by
all who really know bis excellence and purity of
character. \
The bridges at Nashville and Bowling Green
have not been rebuilt.
The bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church
will assemble at Atlanta on Thursday, 10th inst.,
to consult on the affairs of the church.
Records of the Federal Court Destroyed.—
We learn that the entire archives of tne old Fed*
eral Court, including records, documents, etc.,
were stored in the building that was burned on
Monday morning, and they were all destroyed.—
These records were of immense importance, and
their loss will be seriously felt by many parties
whose interests, to a vast extent, were in litiga
tion in that court.— Houston Telegraph.
The Withdrawal from Manassas. —The Rich*
mond Examiner gives a very good idea of the
present “situation” in Virginia by saying that
in withdrawing from the Potomac to Gornonsville,
General Johnston left the circumference for the
centre of a circle; and put himself in a position to
strike the enemy wherever he may appear, wheth
er on the road of the Valley to Staunton, or on
the Piedmont route, through the Culpeper Court
House, or on the line to Tidei-Water, viz : Fred
ricsburg, or up theJPemnsula. This movement
has utterly confounded McClellan and brought all
his plans to a stand.
Our Losses at Newbern.—An official report
from Governor Clark, of North Carolina, of pur
losses at Newbern, shows the following results.
Killed 64, wounded 101, missing and prisoners
413 ; total 578.
President Davis still remains the staunch friend
of Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston, and says, “if be
is not a General, I have no General.
A lady suggests through the New Orleans
Picayune that a company of sixty or seventy
females be organized immediately for the purpose
of attending the sick and wounded, whenever and
wherever such services are needed.
From Manassas.—The Lynchburg Republican
says a portion of our cavalry slept at Centerville
on Wednesday night, the 26th ult. McClellan
seems to have retired from Manassas almost as
fast as he approached it. Fearing that Johnston
had spread a net for him, he has again retired
behind his earthworks at Alexandria and Wash
ington.
A correspondent on one of the Federal gun
boats above Island 10, writes to the St. Louis
Republican as follows: "Capt. Sanford has 1,700
tnns of shot and shell, including 50,000 rounds
for gunboats, and 11,000 rounds for the mortars,
and averages of 500 rounds for the mortars, and
averages of 500 rounds for each piece of ordnance
in the squadron.”
No Licenses to Foreigners.—A law was passed
by both branches of the Virginia Legislature on
Monday, prohibiting the issue of licenses to sell
any kind of merchandise to any other foreign
born citizens, than those who are naturalized.
This is a measure long since necessary. There
are numbers of the foreign born population in scs
tive business all over the State, who upon a call
for militia, have thrown themselves upon the pro*
lection of foreign powers represented by consuls
in the Confederacy. This law, passed with so
much unanimity by the Legislature, will bring
these gentlemen to a realization of the truth of an
old saw, “it is a bad rule that won’t work both
ways.”— Richmond Enquirer.
Sambo’s Idea of a Draft.—We were amused
yesterday, with a darkey’s idea of the draft now
going on. Said he: “Sum of dem dun cum
back, and sum more on dem whar gone last veur
is cummin. Den dey gwin to sen dem big talk
in ones, (dey whar know how ebrything ought to
be dun) and we’ll see what de’ll do when dey gets
soger on dem.— Lynchburg Repub.
Old Iron.—The Vicksburg Oitieen says the call
from the Government for ail the old iron on the
plantations to be collected and shipped to the
foundries to be used in making shells, meets with
a prompt response. The steamboats bring in
small quantities daily and deliver it at the foun
dries in Vicksburg. A day or two ago a flatboat
arrived therewith a lull cargo of old metal for
the Government, and is discharging it at the
landing.
Remains of A. Sydney Johnston.—We learn
that the friends of this distinguished military
leader are preparing to have his remains bronght
to this place for temporary interment. His sister
and one or more nieces being sojourners here.
His wife is in California, and thither, at some fu*
ture day, his body may be carried for permanent
burial.— Atlanta Commonwealth, 7th.
Southern Methodist Publishing House.—This
establishment, driven from Nashville by the ene
my, will commence operations in Mobile short
ly. The value of the property of this establish
ment at Nashville, is estimated at $600,000.
More Fighting in Shenandoah.—New Market,
Va., April 2.—Colonel Ashby was fighting all
day yesterday in Shenandoah county in the streets
of Woodstock, then in Edinburg, and closed the
ballon Pence’s Hill last night. All of our valley
troops are under marching orders this morning—
in which direction is not known. The enemy are
advancing. Ashby lost seven men yesterday.—
The cannonading was constant all day, We hear
none this morning—B o’clock,
Tne New York papers announce a new
novel by Ben. Wood, formerly editor of the Daily
News, entitled “Fort Lafayette, or Love and Se
cession.”
jgst' Washington said 1779 was the most
gloomy year of the Revolution, on aceount of
extortioners. He considered them a great draw
back to our success in gaining independence.
The Rev. Dr.-Haws, who, in consequence of
his secession proclivities, fell into great disfavor
with his congregation, has resigned his pastoral
charge over Calvary Church, in New York.
Although one swallow will not make a sum
mer, still, one pin maliciously inserted in a
chair will make one spring.
The Yankees at Fernandina are known to get
the Savannah papers regularly. This is positively
reliable, and the authorities should keep a bright
look out.
Ehhu Burritt, the learned blacksmith, has been
ecturing in New York on the basis and plan of
reconciliation of North and South and recon
struction of the Union.
Elihu may do many things in or out of his
trade, but he has not yet and cannot get North
and South to the welding heat.
From the Southern Federal Union.
RAW HIDE SHOES.
A few weeks since 1 casually beard one of the
most intelligent planters of Georgia, and who also
plants largely in Texas, giving a description of
this article, and believing that the manner of pre
paring them would be useful to a people who are
fighting a powerful enemy without and a worse
enemy within our midst, the vile and detestable
extortioner, I procured for publication the follow
ing statement. Baldwin.
RAW HIDE TEXAS SHOES.
Capt. Clark Owens, of Texana, Jackson county,
Texas, has a company of eighty men, now sta
tioned at Houston,Texas, defending the coast and
city of Galveston; many of these gallant soldiers
are well shod with the" raw hide shoes, which in
symmetry and utility are not behind the best shoes
used in our Southern Confederacy. Tbe beef hide
hide is placed in water and ashes and remains
there until the hair wtll come off, the hide is then
soaked in fresh water and rubbed until the lye is
extracted; it is then soaked from 48 to 60 hours
in htrong salt and water; this prevents the hide
from ever becoming hard and horny; it is then
dried in the open air, not m the sun, and then
beat with a maul or mallet until it becomes pli
able as leather; it is then made into shoes as shoe
makers make other shoos; upper part and soles
are all of this prepared raw hide and made by
sewing or pegging on the soles. Tfie shoes are
then well greased with oil, hog’s lard or tallow,
greased all over the outside, both upper and bota
tom parts; this renders the shoes water proof and
in every wav as valuable as the best leather shoes.
These shoes are made with £he grain or hair side
outside, and in every respect are a cheap and val
uable shoe.”
THE ENGLISH MAILS-
The New York v>apers of the 31st ult.
extracts from the English mails up to the 1-
Among these we find a highly i nter I eBtID JL ( B, '' 1 , uh
from the London limes, giving the latest bng
view of the prospects of tbe war between tne
Northern and Southern States. Europeans nave
a poor idea of the strength of the Confederate
States. We have also au account of the nig
handed Seizure, by the Yankee Consul, of two
Southern gentlemen at. Tangier, Morocco, ana
some later advices from India.
[Fiom the London Times, March 18th.J
THE IMPOSSIBILITIES OF THE AMERICAN WAR.
All the intelligence and all the opinions from
America bring out into strong relief the exist
ence of very great power and very great spirit on
both sides ci the conflict. After the federal re
verses of last year, we heard of nothing but the
unshaken resolution and unwearied energy of the
North, which only wanted a little more training
and discipline to do all it desired, lhe recent
Confederate reverses have the very same effect in
sending us renewed assurance of the Southern
determination to continue resistance through all
its possible phases, down to tbe guerilla warfare
of Spain and Mexico, even though, as in the
latter case, there should ensue an interminable
anarchy.
At this distance it is useless to discuss the ex
pected operations, which before this will have
Deen commenced with more or less effect. It is
probably dicided by this time whether Gen. Mc-
Clellan could turn the left of the Confederate
forces, and, by reinforcing Generals Banks and
Stone, get to the rear of tbq 'enemy and obtain
possession of Richmond. A third victory in
Tennessee will have secured the western half of
that State to the Federal side, or a defeat will
have rendered fruitless all the blood shed at Forts
Henry and Donelson. The superiority of the
North in nnmbers, in wealth, and in the means
of locomotion, makes it probable that they have
followed up their victory, and established them
selves as thoroughly on tbe west of tbe chief
seceding States as they have, by means of their
fleets, on the east and south. But, on the most
favorable supposition for the Federal cause, we
have only arrived at the questions, whether we
do indeed see the beginning of the end, and what
that end is likely to be. We see no anticipation,
or prophetic vision of that end in any of the
communications from either side of the war.
The Federals talk only of present victory, and
seem to look no further into the future. The
Confederate advocates talk of devastation and de.
population, of burning cities, destroying food,
tearing up rails, and reducing the country to a
state of nature, of guerilla warfare and mutual
extermination. This is not looking to any end,
but rather dwelling upon the borrid process of
war, as if the spirit that had been roused found
satisfaction more in the means than in the end.
These fearful anticipations are probably only too
true. The tone on both sides is that of bitter
and insulting defiance. North and South rail at
one another much as the Homeric combatants did
before the fatal interchange of spears. But there
is this unhappy difference—the poet manages to
dispose of one combatant, and so gives instant
and entire effect to the menaces on at least one
side of the duel. In this case, the abuse, the
tin eats, the defiances, the determination, threat-
en to be endless, and from both sides we gather
the lamentable truth that, as far as the eye can
scan the American horizon, there is nothing but
war.
But when both sides see no conclusion of war
except tbe exchange of one form of war for ans
other, and a transition from order to disorder,
from method to madness, it remains fer the by.,
standers to speculate on the natural developement
of the struggle. To show that we are not exags
gei ating its chaotic tendencies, we need only refer
to the very able letter of a correspondent, who
undertakes to interpert the Southern prospects
and sympathies, The amicable soperation which
some good people talk of be asserts to be neither
possible nor desired. The North would not be
content with less than all tbe Border States, leav
ing to the Confederates only tbe seven or eight
original seceeders. But were this their object,
they would still have to garrison Virginia with
an army out of all proportion to their resources,
and, even so, they would feel the Union at an end.
They would find it impossible to get on
without the trade of the South; and slavery
would thus be more recognized than ever, more
odious, and more fertile in quarrels. Seperations,
then, he holds to be neither possible nor wished
for, so long at least, as the North has any fight
left in it. But, whatever may be said of the
difficulty of conquering the Southern States, there
can be no doubt of an ability of lhe North to keep
up the war in one fashion or anether. W hat,
then, is the alternative to which we are to look,
when conquest is impossible, when seperation is
impossible, when union, in the form we have
seen it, is impossible, when success on the other
side is impossible, when peace is impossible,
when war itself, as it is now carried on, is impose
sible, when everything is impossible, except
something that does not come under any of these
heads, and that, is beyond all present reckoning
or reasonable expectation.
What is this but to avow that the Federation
itself is impossible? The principle has been tried
and fond wanting. Tbe Southern States will not
submit to tbe worst of ail bondages—a tyrant ma
jority. The Northern States can neither conquer
nor conciliate, nor win by any method. So the
appeal is to war; and the war, it is admitted on
both sides, must work itself out to its legitimate
results. The question is no longer whether the
North will conquer the South, but what the war
will lead to, and what state of things will super
vene upon the present. The most far seeing
discover nothing in the pyospect but guerilla
warfare, anarchy and devastation. This is simp*
ly to admit that", the statesman having failed, the
cause is now in the hands of the soldier. But it
is more ; it is in the bands of the soldier who
sees the dark end of Federation, instead of its
bright beginning, This is not the age in which a
French monarchy is breaking up, or a republic is
inaugurated, but in which a French empire has
been restored and re»estabhshed. It is an age in
which strong monarchy is the fashionable eure
for Democratic disorder.
Europe has just congratulated Italy on the
acquisition which philosophers wanted for her,
instead of the independent States which lately
existed, instead of the theocracy which Rome
irofesses to give, instead of Mazzini’s republic.
The Western States of Europe have, at least, the
credit of offering Mexico a constitutional
monarchy instead of a republican constitution,
which has had no existence except m alternate
anarchy and d ispotism. This is an age of reac
tion, for which Democracy has to thank itself,—
TheDictaier, the Emperor or the Kings is every
where superceding the farces of the Consul or
tbe paper scheme of the lawgiver.
When we are told that every thug else is im
possible in America, and that politics are absoi bed
in the chanc i of war and the genius ot the com*
manders, then, indeed, we see the beginning of
the end. But that end is not the one desired by
either North or South, nor even by us who look
on It cannot be for our interest that a military
adventurer should possess the fairest regions of
North America, even though that were better
than anarchy. But it is the haven towards which
the great American commonwealth seems now
drifting. It is possible. That is enough, when
everything else is confessed to be impossible.
Federals Captursd. - The Fredericksburg
Neus of Wednesday, says that on Saturday last
Captain Morgan’s cavalry crossed the Rappahan
nock and surprised a large number of the enemy,
cooking on Dr. King’s land below Weaversvil le,
two and a half miles from Catlett s Station. He
surrounded them, took prisoners and plunder
which sold for about $6,000. On Monday the
enemy approached Elk Run, in what force is not
known. The prisoners referred to are probably
the same who arrived here Sunday last
The Lynchburg Virginian of yesterday says
that Lieutenant Thompson of Franklin who ar*
rived in that city Wednesday, reports that Stew
art’s cavalry captured 71 Yankees the evening
previous, at a point near where the Orange and
Alexandria Railroad crosses the Rappahannock.
The prisaners were surrounded and captured
without bloodshed. Lieutenant Thon pson saw
the prisoners, and this report may be rehed
upon.
The Atlanta Commonwealth, of Monday eve
ning, contains the following private dispatch’
received by a business house in that city:
Corinth. April 7.—We gained the most com
plete victory of the war vesterdnv at this place
was drim a L heavv on b,,th The enemy
boita’ 8 edge ’Ind^heir’gun 8
has covered himseßwUhriif t Unhurt - He
Bushrod Johnson is wounded in the°sid e r™
Hindman’s leg broken Gen B,de > Gen.
gallantly leading a charge DSt ° n Was kllled
THE SITUATION AT NO-10
The correspondent of the Savannah Republican
writing from Memphis 2d inst., says:
In my despatch of Yesterday I
report, supposed to be well founded hJt n"
enemy is constructing a short railway fr< m h ■
man, on the east bank of theK ?' Ck
to the head of Reelfoot Lake. This iJke’J ° W ‘
were advised in a former letter ?, 8 . you
the river, and flanks our position at IslSdNo ]’o
from which it is separated bv a J J 10.
of ground. It was doubtless the bed of The nve*
at some former period. When the enemy shall
have completed tbe road, he wtll probably auempi
to plant a battery under cover of night on tbe
bank of the river overlooking the Island, and p
cut off all communication with the place by land
as he has already done by waler. Tbe reduct™’
of the place will then be reduced to a questi ,
unless relief is had from another quar-
The Memphis Appeal of the sth says: The
storm of Tuesday tight was very severe at fort
Pillow and Island 10. At the former place sever
al trees were blown down within our lines, and a
number of tents capsized. No lives were lost
however.
At Island 10, the Kanawha Valiev was driven
from her moorings on the Tennessee shore to
ward the Island. She was capsized in the river
when her boilers rolled overboard, and her cabin
parted from the hull. The officers and crew
thirty in number, with Lieut. Sanders, of Rucki
er s battery, succeeded in reaching the floating
wreck, which floated down the river until within
three or four miles of New Madrid. One of the
crew swam ashore and notified the officers of the
Grampus, who got up steam, rescued the whole
party, and towed the cabin ashore. The crew lost
their entire baggage. The DeSoto was also blown
ashore and lost her rudder, but she was enabled
V> render some assistance to tbe wrecked crew
Ibe latter reached the city on the Scotland, which
arrived last evening.
With the aid of glasses it was seen that the
smoke stack of one of the enemy’s gunboats, and
also one of their transports, had been blown
down during the gale.
The enemy continued to shell the Island at
long range, and with considerable intervals be
tween their fires. The bombardment continued
without result.
It was known that the qpemy continued to oc*
cupy their batteries on the Missouri shore. Their
forces was unknown, nor was anything ascer*
tained of their movements on land."
Heavy Loss.—The Lynchburg Republican men’
tions, as an evidence of tbe terrific* character of
the fighting in the battle near Winchester, that
the 42d Virginia Regiment, Col. Burks command
ing, went into the fight with only 280 men, rank
and file, and though under fire only thirty minutes
the regiment lost twenty-eight killed and fifty-two
wounded—nearly one-third. Bloody work this.
Texan Scouts.—The_ Fredericks burg News
says that oe Friday, near Dumfries, two Texas
scouts, old Indian fighters, of the 4th Texas
Regiment, saw three Yankees and pursued
them until they came unexpectedly upon about
twenty; but getting behind a fish house the
two killed three Yankees and wounded five.
The rest ran and escaped in a boat. This is
the true method of fighting our invaders—al
ways kill them whenever you see them.
Preparation! for the Great Battle.—Allu
ding to the expected fight near .Corinth, 1
“ P. W. A.” writes from Memphis, on 2d
to the Savannah Republican :
Gentlemen who have just arrived from Nash
ville, tell me that McCook and Nelson have crossed
Duck river at Columbia with 25,000 men. and
reached Mount Pleasant Monday last on the road
leading towards Savannah. Buell left Nashville,
and was at Columbia er route to the same. But
a small force was left at Nashville, and the gun
boat and all tbe transports had left there on ac*.
count of the low stage of the river. All these
things point to but one thing. Whether Johnston
and Beauregard will wait for the enemy to bring
up these forces, or will give battle themselves, I
am unable to say. A few thousand Federal troops
had been sent out to Murfreesboro’ and Shelby
ville.
AFFAIRS IN NEW MEXICO.
Santa Fe was evacuated by the Federals on the
sth. The troops and supplies were withdrawn to
Fort Union. The stores that could not be remo
ved at Albuquerque and Santa Fe were distrubu
ted to the poor. Col. Single, of the Colorado, ar
rived at Fort Union with 950 men, having marched
160 miles m four days. The total strength at that
place is now 1500, They would form a junction
with Col. Canby.
Col. Canby was at Fort Craig on the 10ih,
with 800 regulars and the same number of volun
teers and supplies for sixty days. The advance
of Texans was at Algodonos, forty miles from
Santa Fe, on the 4th.
Another battle was expected before the Ist of
April. This stage started from Fort Union, and
brought no mail or papers from Santa Fe, stock
and coaches having been taken off the road be
tween Fort Union and Santa Fe.
From the above, which is taken from a Chicago
paper, it will be seen that the Confederates control
New Mexico, and hold the Southern overland
route to California.
General Gladden.—Brigadier General Adley
H. Gladden, who lost an arm in the great battle
at Corinth, yesterday,is a South Carolinian. It will
be remembered that he was the Major of Butler’s
Regiment, S. C. V., during tbe Mexican war.—
Upon the fall of his Colonel and Lieut. Colonel,
be assumed the command of the regiment. He
distinguished himself by his gallantry at Cheru
busco, and was severely wounded at the de Belen
gate. For some weeks he has had the immedi
ate command of the troops in and around Cor’
inth — Mercury, 7th.
We have been under the impression that Gen.
Jnhn K. Jackson, of this city, was in command at
Corinth.
Fall of Fort Craig.—A gentleman now here
received a letter fiom San Antonio, in which it
was stated that authentic intelligence of the sur
render ot Fort Craig had been received there.—
The capitulation was unconditional. Col. Canby,
the Federal commander, proposed that himself
and command be permitted to depart on condition
that they pledge themselves not to serve again
during the war; bat Gen. Sibley insisted upon an
unconditional surrender.
New Orleans Picayue, 3lai.
has not been evacuated, and
there are troops enough there to defend it against
any force likely to attack it. The forces have
been weakened on Santa Rosa Island.
It is stated that Mrs. Greenough is to be trans"
ferred from prison to a lunatic asylum.
Picayune Butler is now in command of the de»
partment of New England, with headquarters at
Boston.
A man named James Weatherly was shot dead
; tn Memphis one day last week.
It is estimated that the proposed conscription
law will raise an arniv of 750,000 men, besides
the volunteers from the border States.
The Mississippi Baptist announces the death of
I Elder G. H. Martin, one of the most useful and
talented ministers in that State.
NORTHERN NEWS.
Our Richmond exchanges contain Northern ad
vices as late as April 2, from which we extract the
following:
SKIRMISH IN THE VaI.LEY.
Woodstock, April 2, BP. M.—Our guns and
musketry drove th* enemy from Stoney Creek,
near Edinburg, this morning at 7 o’clocK. They
were in line ot bat le within range of our guns.
Probably there were none but Ashby’s command.
Our forces wiil rebuild tbe bridge over the creek
to-day.
OUR COAST bEFENCBS.
The Seminole Das arrived at Fortress Monroe,
with late advices from Port Royal. She reports
that the surrender ot Fort Pulaski was daily ex
pected. Tbe number of rebels in the fort was res
ported by deserters at 500, and two German com*
panics had revolted and were in irons. It was
the intention of Gen. Sherman to summon the
fort to surrender to-day, and if not acceded to he
would immediately commence to shell it. His
mortars and siege guns were so stationed that tbe
guns of the fort could not reach them.
A refugee from Savannah says there is great
auxiely in that city in regard to the garrison of
the fort, and a proposition had been made by the
friends of the officers to give $30,000 to any •ne
who would succeep in rescuing them. It was un
derstood that a proposition had been made to
General Sherman to allow the garrison to with
draw with the honors of war, vhich he refused
to accept, demanding an unconditional surren
der.
The rebels had withdrawn all their troops from
the coast and had abandoned their earthworks,
previously removing the cannon to Savannah.—
Their fort at Thunderbolt, mounting fourteen
large guns, was found abandoned a few days
since and the cannon all gone. A boat’s crew
from the Seminole landed and destroyed it, set
ting fire to the barracks and blowing up the
magazine. This fort at Thunderbolt is just five
miles irom Savannah, over a fine shell road.
The city of Savannah, however, is understood
to be very strongly fortified on all its approaches,
and the refugees from there variously estimate
the rebel force from twenty to fifty thousand,—
There is not, however, believed to be more thaa
twenty thousand.
It is understood that the plan of capturing Sa
vannah by sending gunboats into the water (sour
ces leading into the Savannah river has been
; abandoned, for the reason that Fort Jackson,
I which lies between our batteries and the city,
1 cannot be safely attacked with the small boats’
’ which can be got through the passes. It is
! deemed absolutely essential that tbe larger craft
! should assist in tbe fight when all the prepara-
I tions have been made.
1 Meanwhile our forces are not idle. There is
1 reason to believe that an important work, which
has been a long time in progress, is ou the eve
1 of accomplishment. We are not at liberty to
give details.
THE FLAGS OF TRUCE.
1 Tbe Fortress Monroe correspondent of the Bal-
1 tirnore American writes, April Ist, as follows :
All communication having been cut off with
Norfolk on account of the dishonorable conduct
of the rebels in refusing to deliver Col. Corcoran
and his compatriots in accordance with the agrees
ment with Gen. Burnside, there are now no regu
lar flag of truce as heretofore. The only flags
recently have been those for the accommodations
of the French apd Eagiish officers. To-day how
ever, about 1 o'clock, a rebel steamer was observ
ed off towards Craney Island, with tfie white flag
flying. Capt. Davis, of Gen. Wool’s staff’, in the
absence of Capt. Millward, the regular port Caps
tain started al 2 o’clock in the Rancocas, and was
soon on bis way up tbe Roads. On approaching the
rebel steamer it proved to ba the gunboat Teazer,
with a 100 pound rifled cannon at her stern, of a
Parrot style.
From the same correspondent we have a scins
tilla of news from the Peuinsnla, viz:
We have a rumor here that Yorktown has been
abandoned, and the main portion of Magruder’s
army has fallen back on Richmond. Whether
this is reliable cannot at present be known. Tbe
latest previous advices were to tbe effect that
Magruder was there with 15,000 men.
THB “IRON CLADS.”
A Fortress Monroe correspondent of the Phila
delphia Inquire* writes that the Merrimac con
tinues to be the subject of talk and of curiosity.
Glasses are constantly directed toward Craney
Island, and every indication of smoke or steam
there is closely investigated by hundreds of eager
eyes.
Another correspondent writes :
The latest news received here from Norfolk by
the Underground Railroad, leaves no room for a
doubt that the Merrimac is thoroughly repairnd
and in commission, ready for another expedition
against the wooden walls «f the Federal navy,
and the numerous trm: ports laying in the Roads.
The delay in coming out i* believed to be that
she is waiting for some Au.munition for the heavy
guns that have been p.,i:e.l < n board of ber, and
also for nome infernal machines being constructed
by Bombastes Maury
* As to th loss of life on the Merrimac in her
conflict with the Monitor we have now information
that it was pretty heavy. One of the recently
arrived contrabands states that be was a nurse
in the general hospital at Norfolk, and that up
to the time of his departure he had helped to
shroud thirty-two of the crew of the Merrimac,
and that both Co modore Buchanan and Minor
are dead! There are still a number of the woundo
ed surviving. T ( statements of the contrabands,
however, are to be received with great cau
tion
[The “contraband” was manifestly playing an
“April fool” upon the Yankees at - the Fortress.]
South Carolina invaded by ibe Federals.
Samuel Jackson’s cartridge fact try, on Tenth
street, Philadelphia, was blown up a lew days '
ago, and many persons were killed and wounded.
There has been a grand flare-up in the office of
the New York Tribune. Charles A. Dana, one of
the chief editors, retired.
Martin Conway, the abolition Congressman from
Kansas, is seriously ill.
Passenger trains have commenced running to
Wheeling on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
It appears from the Northern papers that a
small tug went down James River on the 31st of
March, and threw some half dozen shells into the
Federal camp at Newport News. The distance
was so great that it was useless to waste amnius
n'tion in making a reply.
The total amount of marine losses reported for
the month of March is two million two hundred
and seventy-four thousand eight hundred dol
lars.
Sales of Virginia 6’s in New York, April Ist
at
FROM NORTH CAROLINA.
Baltimore, March 30.—The rebels burned the
bridge on the railroad between Newbern and
Beaufort, but it was in progress of repair and the
road would soon be in operation between the two
places.
So far as our informants know, all of whom
came from Newbern, and bad not been at Beau
fort, there was no destruction of property at the
latter place, and a large majority of the citizens
remained quietly at their homes on the approach
of the Union forces.
All the rebel soldiers in the vicinity shut them
selves up tn Fort Macon. Their numbers were
variously represented by citizens of Beaufort at
from three to six hundred men.
The fort was said to be but slightly provisioned,
and it was not believed it could hold out more
than a week. Its ultimate capture is of course a
matter of certainty.
Mrs. Augusta Heath Morris, Mrs. Rose O. N.
Greenhow and Mrs. C. M. Baxley are to be cons
veyed beyond the lines, and to give their paroles
not to return north of the Potomac until permit
ted by the Secretary of War.
“P. W. A.” the well posted correspondent of
the Savannah Republican, writing from Memphis.
March 31st, says:
I have just heard that the Federal pickets have
marie their appearance on the Nashville & Chat
tanooga railroad, at Tullahoma. One account
says they c me down to the tunnel, about twenty
miies above Stevenson. It is not probable, how
ever, that the enemy will seek to cross ibe mounn
tains which flank the Memphis & Charleston raiL
road for some d’stance east and west of Stevenson.
The blow will be struck at some point west of
that place, ' '