The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-12-02
AFFAIRS AT THE SOUTH.
The Loss Of the Confederate Gun.boat
TascarOra-Afairs In Eas. Tennes-
see-Feeling for the South In st.
Louis-Kentucky Affairs, &c.

From the latest Southern exchanges re.
| ceived at this office we compile the following
| summary ofnews:
| THE Loss OF THE coxFEDERArE erS-BoAT TuscA-
| RoRA-oxxous INCIDENT OF oUR ILAa--xIRA-
crLOUs ESCAPE oP THE CREW.
| We have already announced under our teie-
| graphic head the burning Of the Confederate
| gun. boat Tnscarora. The following addition
| al particulars we copy from the Memph
| Aeataache, Of the 25,h ult:
The Confederate gnu- boat Tuscarora, while
| coming up the river last Saturdat was dis
covered to be on fire about hall past II O'CLOCK,
| ah0ut fifteen mIes this side OF Helena. 1ne
| ifues when FIRST discovered were seen issulns
| at Tho tOrwad d end OF the boiler, and di rectly
| under the wheei-house. The wind was blow
| ipg AIT very strong, and tAe flames, despite
! Tue effort that were IN Ade to suppress lii, III,
| spread with fearful rapidity. 1iic boat was
run ashore us soon as possible. BY this tinle
| The whJie boat Was il Il mes. Tue engineer
| opeDed the water pipes i'm dieuialely, 30 us t.
save The n agaztnc. He ns.d hardly time ~
| knecK oat d hutkhsad ana jump iats ile wa
| ter. betore the shells in the forWard and at,
| shell iocaer comuiencod exploding. Inc
cre " tried To throw the powder in the maya
Ziue overaoard, but had not tiipe to do su
| tne exp osiou of the shells comm 1ciug in
seven niuut,s sitter the fl ,mes We're first DIS
| Covered Inc captain anu all the crew IS
| caped unhurt.
| he explosion of the shells set the negro
| quarters on Eir. h arDett's plantation on iir.,
| BESIDES firing the tops of trees and an eom-
bustib,e material Ihe hal. ar0s we r. burut
off when the flag OF the ''Stars and Bars
! hoa ted off anu ioased la The Top Of a tree and
piazed out III the preeze just as II IL nLu been
, placed there by uesish. khis sing u ar occur
renee is Id 4erpreted oy the sdILuL eugineer,
Samuel Is OK, as an omen That our Cause is
J Dounu ~ trlumpn unoef ali eiIculus, ,au: 5 -
In Cruer 10 repussess me "a &, lne Tree had TO
| be cut down.
: Two OF she officers and four of the men
| were lett III charge or the wreck. captain
G.. W. Dunning ton, four officers, and tue re-
maio der OF tue crew, re iched Tie cliy yester-
| day morning on the scoamer L. ~ HIND,
| from which point tney Wiii to-day proceru W
| Eoiumbus. None OF the crew saved any
| fhing put the ciothes Opon their persons.
| Tur Manner III WIiicA the Hfo OTigIH led is
| stlii a mys,ery Tne mos. pi usiUie opluion
seems 10 De That some oi the crew had sn,Il
| DIR, ing which splTA II ~ n ave Set Uu Ike,
| and the comDuStl ole II. teri Il ana nign Ina
c,nsptred Ike oaHagratiou. Al aii
| events, he oilgln OF the lie is iis stery
When ISarcaez ana Feru ken,ie.J passed
yesterday the wreck Was silI, Duruins, uui
| the mag Zine being at The siern AND covered
| with water, Was sale.
| the wreck Oh Tic Iascarora, 1t is thought,
| WI, De raised without difficulty, ana at coln-
| paratiyeiy little expense.
| LATER PROM EAST rESN Nass sE-AgRgsr OF MORE
| Pk1SOnEks.
The Memphis Aoa!aache, of the 25th ult >,
| publishes some late and interesting informa-
| ton tr III Chattanooga. We COPY the 'Ilow-
| ing:
| The Seventh Alabama regiment had just
| returned from an expedition TO the moun-
| tains bringing in a arge number of L Union-
| Ists. Most of them had been captured in the
| noun tail be, QUO Sale Creek. The prison
| ers they took were b OF ght in at Ooltdwah,
| about twelve mites from Chattanooga. On
| Friday, Il large number Of prisoners were
| brought into Knoxville. But the most erati.
| flying indie alton is, that a great many Of the
| 10 rmer u uion men are volun tarily coming in
| and taking tn oath to support the Confede-
| rate Government. The excitement had mea-
| surably died out at CHATEAU ooga,, and the
| rebeillon in that section regarded as AT an
Thare is now only one trip day over the
railroad from Chattanooga to Knoxville, no
| trfin being run at night. All the freight for
| Vi,einia now goes by way OF Augusta, which
| iine row mikes regular IripS fEcn Chatta-
nooea to Atlanta.
| In this connection we subIoin the follow
ing letter from a wel-inforIned correspon-
| dent:
| CHATTANOOGA, Nov. %. 1851.
! TO the Edi.ors of tie Acaldache:
Col. h. r. Looney's com mmand, consisting
| OF 253 OF his regiment; 200 OF Col. Cooks,
| and loo OF Col. Whites, l. IL here on Tuesday
afternoon on 4 scout through this and some
| of the adjoining counties, where it had been
reported to Gen Carroll that there were
l L.
returned this evening, having captured about
| thirty prisoners, aud breaking up suudry
| camps. We learn Col. LIS regiment will
| leave here in a few days for Knoxvi.le-.eav-
! ing Col. Woods AlSbama regimen and Col
| Cooks at this place, fCol Whites having al
| ready gone TO Knoxville The prompt and
| efficient means used by Gen Carroll has, we
think, efActually checked the ardor of those
| deiuded Daionis's, and hereafter there will
be little trouble in this quarter from them.
| b.
| THE FLIdHT FROM wilde CAT.
From the Nashville (Tenn.) Kramer, of the
2Gth ult., we extract the following:
We are informed that copy OF the Cincin
natl Comnarciat, OF the 2lst, which contains a
| graphic letter from Eastern Kentucky, de-
| scriptive Of an astoundingy rapid Il ght from
Camp Wild Cat ny the Yankee forces there
encamp-d. was received in this city on yester
| day. This race-which is pictured sur
passing Bull Run or Leesburg-wss occt sion
| ed by rumor that Hardee and Buckner " re
advancing upon them with forty thousand
men. to attack them in the rear Zollicofr r
| WIS to act in conlu ietion with the n $50 re-
| port weHt,l ana the whole united force was to
swallow them and Camp Wild Cat at sin
gle gulp. The CONSERVATION occasioned by
| this bogus story spread its com plete terfOr
! in every direction. Its result was imme
di ate marching orders-time, double quick.
| Their forced march through brake and
bri r, over hill and dale, day and night, sun-
shine and rain, is represented AS almost be-
You'd endurance. Numb rs fell by the way
side, sick, exhausted, aud dying Baggage.
arms, munitions of war, food was left behind
at various points, in their hurried fight
They took time neither to eat nor Sleep
After two days of intoleraola m ,rching they
succeeded in reaching place safety. Gen
| Nels IN, it is sid, his Withdraw his en- ire
brigade 1t for active service. In some
of lis regiments more than three hundred
| men are reported on the 81 list Truly, IL
the bosstfai iesions Of tn Kentucky FsIst@ n
| quail thus early in the war. md ~ before
an enemy 10 In ~ight. Wh II would they do IL A
fsw shining 6ayaaeis were TO sppsar In actual
parsaitl
rss esofts os sT touu Pea raa aayfs44
asRaASs ssT,agrs, ETG.
a gentleman con nseted with the fanous
New Orleans Washington ARTILLERY, who
some months ago went 70 St. Louis ~ an
escort of his sist-r. in.lAw, aud recently
made his escape on foot, has furnisAed the
Memphis AsalancAe with the following items
ofinforma ion;
Two thirds Of the THINKING population of
the West are In favor Of ackno wiedging the
southern C'nfed-racy, for the sake Of peace,
but at present have no power to act. Having
nothing else to do our informant took IA trip
up 10 davenport, Iowa. and there eon vsrs ID
with men-secretly of fcourss-who were con-
| fdrnt. 1t they had the opportunity, that they
ceuli get 5000 men TO aid the SOnth.
| When. n short time ago, ;hs Governor Of
iowa, finding 1T impossible to obtain the re-
CURED number OF voluntary r. crui,s. issaed
young men who suddenly lef. The cities Of
| Davenport and Keokuk TO ayo;dit. but few
men cab be found In that section who will
own that they are sbolitionists, such IA.
natics are excluded from gentee society
having been forced 10 stay In ST, Louis
three month, before he had effected his 60.
cape, he took special pains TO ascertain the
ssntiments Of the people. He found that