Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-10-08
By TELEGRAPH.
NIGHT DISPATCHES.
southern News via Louisville.

LOUISVILLE, October There was fire
at the corner of Washington-street and
Center.alley, Memphis, on the Goth Of Sep
tember, which destroyed thirty thousand
dollars worth of property. 1t extended
round TO Front-rOw.
The Memphis Acalanche has absorbed the
Bulletin.
Memphis papers Of the both say thirty
cases of Enfield rifles, part Of the fifty thou
sand which came into Southern port some
time since, arrived at Memphis, and are on
their way to Columbus. Memphis was lit
orally alive with soldiers.
On the 29h a Southern Commercial Con-
vention assemblies at Macon, Gsg On the
14th the University Of Mississippi will be
closed for want of patronage.
Jacob Thompson is nominated for Gov
ernor of Mississippi. v..
The Pocahontas Advertiser says J. G.
Hindman has obtained three thousand more
men from Arkansas for Hardee's command.
Ex Governor e. Lewis Lowe, of Maryland,
has escaped to Richmond. I'D
Isaac Davenport, at Richmond, Of the firm
of |. & B. Davenport, gave a check for $l0,-
600, owing to Northern creditors, to the
Commissioner.
The Northern Bank of Alabama suspended
specie payment at the instance of Governor
Moore.
The Nashville merchants have agreed to
receive Treasury-notes at par for deots and
goods.
Hardees command has fallen back to Pitt
mans Ferry, on the Arkansas line.
J. B. Jones, formerly editor of a Philadel-
pbia paper, is Secretary in the War Depart
ment at Richmend.
Governor Moore, of Louisiana, has Or
dered the seizure of all the pork from the
New Orleans spectators, who had advanced
it to $50 per barrel.
rha a4a rfy IN, fha
State of Virginia, under the ban of the Sc
questration act, amounts to $50, 900 900.
The Mobile papers say the defense of the
south of that city is vigorously going on.
The municipal authorities of Mobile are
! issuing shinplasters in small amounts.
Confederate soldiers, especially in Western
| Virginia, are suffering for tobacco.
A vessel with thousand bushels Of salt,
from kagura, had its cargo taken from
| BIazos River to Richmond.
A prize schooner was captured near Gal
weston recently, with two hundred sacks of
coffee and one hundred and fifty thousand
cigars.
Nashville papers of the I'd say the heavy
rains have carried away bridges on the East
| Tennessee Railroad and delayed mails from
Richmond three days.
A Bowling Green correspondent of the
| Nashville Union and Amsricdp says Buckner
| is advancing toward the Ohio River, driving
the Home Guards before him. NJ. ]. Wicks,
Chairman of the Military Committee ol
Memphis, says it is desirable that no more
cotton or tobacco shall be shipped there until
further orders, and if planters do not STOP
shipping, the military authorities will send
the cotton back into the country at the own.
ers' expense.
The Fort Smith Herald says the Cherokee:
will furnish three, the Creeks two regiment:
and the SeminUles one battalion.
Humphrey Marshall has escaped to the
Southern Confederacy.
The Journal to. morrow will state tina
General W. T. Sherman has superseded Gen
eral Anderson as the head Of the Department
of the Cumberland, General Anderson retir
ing on account of i'll health.
The Richmond Dispatch says Arnold Har
ris has been Internationally released.
The Confederate Government has author
lied General Winder to arrest all Yankee
who may venture there in concern for thei
former rights of property in the South
There is the reported arrival of James Fer
guson, member of Parliament, and Hon, Wn
: Burnlee, of England, at Nashville, Septem
Der 80, en- route for Richmond.