Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1861-11-21

possession Of q portion of the Virginia and
Tennessee railroad, 50 as to cut off our direct
communication from the seat of government
| with Nashville, Memphis, and our armies in
western Kentucky. The clandestine burning
of bridges at q concerted period in eastern
Tennessee, proves the enemy's designs upon
this important highway Of transportation and
travel.
tits very plain that however our government
may depreciate the Importance of the designs
| of the enemy, the enemy himself is pushing
| them forward with his accustomed enterprise
Intrinsicslly important ssi southwestern Vir-
ginia is to the government, from the qualities
| Of its people, it is even more important from
its geogrsp phicsl position. If that country be
given up, and east Tennessee be in conse-
quence lost, the empire Of the south is cut in
twain, and We become a fragmentary organi-
ration, fighting in scattered and segregated 10
calities for a cause which can no longer boast
the important attribute Of geographical unity
We are glad to believe that the government is
fully impressed with these views, and that or
ders have already been issued to meet the
emergency of the case.
CONGRESSMAN ELECTED IN TENNEsSEE.
The following gentlemen have been elected
to Congress:
D. NJ. Curtin, eleventh district; ]. G. A.
Atkins, ninth district; Thos Menees, eighth
district; Geo. W. Jones, seventh district; M.
F. Gentry, sixth district; II. S. Foote, fifth
district; Z. L. Gsrdenhire, fourth district;
w. G.. Swan, second district; j. B. Heiskelf,
first district.
This leaves the third and tenth districts
still in doubt; but We incline to the opinion
that A. G.. Wslker is elected in the third, and
John V. Wright in the tenth.
No MORE TROOPS FROM MISSISSIPPI.
From the Memphis Appeal, Nov. H.
The jackson correspondent of the Vicks-
burg Sun says he has seen letter from Gen'l
Johnson to Gov. Pettus, declining to receive
more troops under the late requisition, having
already more soldiers than he can dispose Of.
The Governor is requested to disband all COM
psnies organised under said requisition, unless
they go armed and equipped for the war. The
Sun states that the volunteers who had been
recently mustered into service at that city
were very indignant at being disbandsd, and
their officers had left for jackson to lay their
case before Gov. Pettus.
MESSAGE OF THE GOVERNOR OF GEORGIA.
Gov. Brown, Of Georgia, in his message to
the Legislature, recommends an advance of
wo-thirds the value of cstten to planters, and
that the state pay the war tax and subscribe
to the construction of direct European steam
ship line. Georgia has fifty regiments in the
field, he states. He also deprecates the power
Of the President to accept troops except
through state authority, and regards tho sys-
tenn as unconstitutional and opposed to the
doctrines upon which state rights are based.
THE CUMBERLAND RIVER GUNBoATs.
From the Nashville Gazette, November 10. I
On Thursday last, about two O'Clock, as we
learn from . gentleman who was at the fort,
two Of Lincoln's gunboats came up the Cum
berlsnd river together as far as Tobacco Port,
eight miles below Fort Donelson, when one of
them proceeded up the river within three
miles of the fort, and lay there under the
peint ten minutes. She fred three cannon,
and then started back down the river to To-
bacco Pert, where she and the other beat re-
mained until Friday morning, when they left
for Smithland. They kept up their firing at
intervals during the night. On receiving in
formation that the boat was nearing the fort,
the citizens Of Dover, young and old, imme-
diately went down with their guns to assist
should an attack be made.
MC'cULLocH's ARMY TO WINTER IN THE ARKAN-
sAs VALLEY.
From the Fort Smith ARK J Time 8, Oct. %. |
We have information from reliable sources
that, after a sixty days campaign in Kansas
and Missouri, the McCulloch division will fall
back into Arkansas The quartermaster has
advertised for the building of stables to ac-
comodste 5000 army horses and large num-
Der of mules also, for l00, 900 bushels Of corn
and $3.50 tons of hay to forage these animals
The valley has been drawn on during the
ontire summer and fall for the support Of Gen
McCulloch's army, and We hope and trust that
the encsnpment of such large number of
men and animals among US this winter will
not materially pinch us in our own necessary
supplies.
Immense fires Of late have occurred in
Memphis destroying property to the amount
of several hundred thousand dollars.
The president Of the southe ern planters GEN.
vention announces that that body will meet
in Memphis on the 10th of December.
In the Memphis market, November
9th, the sales recorded on the books were
$50 bushels prime red Wheat at S2.1O;
50 barrels country extra Flour at $ll Is
per barrel; 300 sacks salt at SO so, and 500
sacks on private terms; IA tierces Hams at 25
cents; IA barrels MOlasses at % cents. The
Charleston Railroad brought in 1865 barrels
Flour.