Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-09-05
Soutbern News.
The Philadelphia Press, of Tuesday, has
the following items of Southern news;
THE CHARLESTON BLOCKADE


THE CHARLESTON BLOCKADE.
The correspondent of the Rochester Ad-
Uertiser, on board the United States frigate
Roanoke, off Charleston, writes as follows,
under date of the sth ultimo
Two hours ago, from our main mast, the
look out discovered q sail. With anxious
eyes we looked for it for some time, and
could easily, after a short space, observe
smoke arise in the horizon. 1t was steamer,
and, from the fact of its keeping near the
shore inside of us, we concluded it to be
secesher. 1t was; but before the gun-bOat
Seminole, that lies near US for such emergen-
cies, was got under way, the little impudent,
one-horse, high pressure, miserable rebel
concern was putting along under Morris
Island as saucy as a bantam rooster on his
own dung-hll. AS | write l see it closer
and closer near Fort Sumter, as much as to
say, You are smart set of fellows on that
big lubberly ship" But the truth is, we
want gun boats greatly out here, and until
we do get them it is useless to undertake to
call this an effectual blockade, in the literal
sense of the word.
BADLY OFF FOR CoRKs.
The Nashville (Tenn.) GGEstte contains tue
following advertisement of manufacturer of
mineral water in that city:
NoT1oE-I hope my customers in the city
| of Nashville will be good enough to save all
the mineral water corks for me, as l can not
| obtain a further supply, in consequence of
the Lincoln blockade. Your attention to
the above will oblige me very much, as corks
are as essential to me now as the bottles.
n. B.-I have also to inform my customers
that, through my inability to procure silver
enough to make change for my customers
have issued twenty-five. cent tickets, which
will be redeemable at any time by the un-
dersigned.
THE REBELs IN FORCE AT ACQUIA CREEK.
A gentleman who has arrived in Washing
| ton from Fredericksburg, Va, gives the Re
| publican some particulars Of the doings of the
rebels in that part of Virginia. He says thai
General Holmes, with a division of ftteer
thousand rebels, occupies the whole country
from Fredericksburg to Manassas. Their
are no Notifications around Fredericksburg
but at camp Mercer, near the city, there arr
about fifty Maryland troops. Our informant
says the Republican, states that there ar
about six thousand men near Acquia Greek
and that they are now erecting strong bat
teIy six or eight miles this side of the creek
WHAT OUR PRISONERS ARE DOING.
A correspondent of the Charleston Couriei
writing from Richmond under date Of Au
gust 10, says:
The quarters of the Yankee prisoners sti
continue to be the picture gallery of tn
town. You may always find there a crow,
of idleTs staring at the grated windows OF
either side of the street. studying human ma
ture, and speculating audibly as to the vari
Gus incidents of the hour. Some of the fel
lows have no change of linen, and necessa
rily must 60 shirtless while that useful arti
Gle undergoes the drying process after a wash
Those who have the means are allowed thu
privilege ofremedying this want. Those who
have not, have in some instances been vol
unfairly provided from the wardrobe of oul
own men. The officers occupy an apartment
'by themselves, and fare, perhaps, more com.
fortably. Congressman Ely, they say, grow!
fat upon his diet. The others are in goot
health. Among their amusements are those
of card playing, psalm. singing, cursing and
| debating.
The latter is almost nightly the occupa
ton of the officers. Ely acts as the mode
rator of the meeting, or occasionally takes
hand himself. HusoD, his Congressiona
competitors jolly, good-natured soul, by
the way, fat, funny, interesting-is tht
leading speaker, and the smaller guns pre-
dominate in the intellectual battery accord
ing 10 their various calibres. The subjects
are any thing and every thing you can i'm
agine, ranging on the gamut from the sol
| emn to the ridiculous.
GENERAL BRAGG ORDERED TO THE POTOMAC
NASHVILLE, August 29.-The Charleston
| Mercury of the 9th inst. learns from relia-
| bic authority that General Braxton Bragg
| has been ordered to report for duty with the
army of the Potomac. General r H. An
derson succeeds General Bragg in the com.
| mand at Pensacola