The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1861-11-27
Southern News.

rived in our city on Monday evening from
the South, has kindly furnished us with
New Orleans, Vicksburg and Memphis pa
pers, of dates, respectively, of November
10Th, 10th and 10th. We can furnish our
readers with no selections more interesting
than extracts from these papers;
The New Orleans Picayune says firm
Of that city had received note from Gen.
Tilghman at Hopkinsyille, on the 18th,
stating they might look out for good news
from Kentucky soon. ave have them, GER
tain" was the Generals confident Ian
guage. His brigade is composed of Missis-
sippians, Tennesseeans and Kentuekians-
i've regiments of infantry, two batteries of
artillery, and 500 cavalry.
The same paper says a Mr.. ". G. Mitch
ell, grocer, gives 50 pounds of good sugar
for a dollar, and one gallon of excellent
syrup for Is ce1ts. MitchelPs is uudoubt-
eddy the place to go ''to get sweetened."
The members of the rebel Legislature of
Tennessee have been called to an account
for the bridge burning propensities of their
constituents. They all unite in condemn
ing the is, and protest that their people
ara dss,,s-Hss-s.y U"H'''' ''-'
= - e1treme men acting without concert
---ssasru1u 20 give the East Tennessee mem.
bers who were not present an opportunity
to place themselves right on the record
The Picayune feels convinced, from the pro-
testations OF the members from East Ten
nessee, that "the apprehension that the
nnIonists there were in general conspiracy
to resist the Southern authorities and make
open cause with Lincoln" is unfounded.-
1t is certain 4" the disafection in East Ten
nessee is not extensive or concerted and
will be easily managed and depressed" The
bridges, we presume, will not be so easily
rebuilt.
The Picayune copies a dispatch to the
Nashville American, stating that 1000 fed
erals had advanced to Bacon Creek. and
that the smallpox of a viru1ent tyne and
the black measles were raging at fearful
rate among them. @Also that the FederaIs
at huldraugh's Hin, in large numbers are
dying daily" A517- $50 s
Commodore Tatnall, with little more
modesty than HolIins, has employed a man
to elbow his trumpet" The fellow does
his duty faithfully, filing near two columns
OF very small type. He demonstrates that
Commodore TatnalPs fleet did some of
the most terrific fighting on record. We |
cannot refrain from clipping two or three of
his paragraphs. After narrating the COM
manders exploits on Monday, he saws:
Every one on board the little eaos a.
pected an attack from the enemy durinc, he
night, yet every officer and man of it. was /
cool and collected; sensible of the fearful
odds which, at any moment, they might be
caiied upon to encounter, and fully resolved
70 meet, as lar as lay in their power, any
issue forced upon them with the spirit OF
''tTue Southern sailors" they awaited. with
courage in their hearts and resolve slammed
upon their every couEtenauce, the approaeb |
OF a foe TO whom, from old association
they took peculiar pride in showing them .
selves ready to stand by their cause like
men sans Petr et sans TeProchs;' but |
the American feet did not attempt an en-
rance, and morning dawn showed it to be
70 the position OF the day previous. An s
TaSuA AOuIS kldSSt7t only TO re- /
veal the same mysterious inaction on the
part of the enemy.
After describing the advance of The fed
'ral feet on Tuesday morning, and its attack
N the batteries, he continues:
Flag officer Tatnan ordered the anchor of q
he Savannah hove up, when the enemy U
lad advanced to within a mile and A half
i him, and steaming up towards Hilton >
lead Battery, took raking position upon !,
ne bow OF the largest American frigate.
men hotly engaging it, and opened fire with
lis thlrty-twos upon her, to which, how Il
yer, she did not deign Immediately 10 repIv.
Our distance was too great being that q
+ a mile and our guns were OF too ligbt | o.
calibre to enable US to do her much Il n
ny, injury. Several excellent shots we've n
made BY Midshipman B. Moses. Command "a
ng the after gun, but with what effect was Il,
I course, impossible for us to determine - -
MI this time the enemy frigate was pradr- :,
liy nearing us for the double purpose of -
the battery aud returning the a,
aspects OF our little vessel, but the Commo- RI