, 1862-12-11

!nfamies Of Illinois Niger
CatcE1erS.
Matters in Memphis and
Vicinity.
Return Of the Second Helena
Expedition.
THE WAR IN MISSISSIPPI.
Conflicting Rumors from Grenada.

Especial Dispatch to the Chicago Tribnne.l
CAIRO, Dec. 10, 1862.
Some rebcl eyrnpathizers residing in the
vicinity Of Carbondalt have lately been inter
fering with contrabands in Il disgraccful nlall-
her. Somc time since, persons living in
Il small village near the place mentioned came
to Cairo and bired negro hands, lately arrived
from the South. This was more than some
other parties living there could staud. The
hunted up an old obsolete statute applying to
such cases, lad the contr,bands arrested and
imprisoned, in default Of hail, as runaway
slaves, having succeeded in finding Dosber
ry, who fined them fifty dollars each. There
the negroes remain, and will remain until
tl,cir fines are boarded out unless some one
can he found able and willing to bail them.
Thvir case has been fully represented to the
Sanitary Commission in Chicago, who It is to
he hoped may find some measures to anchor
ate their present unhappy condition.
Nine hundred rebel prisoners started upon
the steamer City Ct Madison last evening for
Vicksburg, where they will be exchanged.
| The condition Of our military hospital here
since being placed in charge Of Dr.. Taggggart,
| is good, and the patients, Of whom about 100
are under treatment, arc rapidly improving
in condition. a smallpox pest house has
been secured for the military and contrlbands
outside the city limits, and the disease seems
to be abating except among citizens. There
| is no great danger Of its becoming serious in
that quarter.
The gunboat Louisville las to-day been eS-
peri1nenting On the Ohio with new stern
propeller, intended to act as q powerful lat
tcral propeller, doing away with the greatest
objection to gunboats Of her size and square
build. The invention is the work Of mechan-
les now in the city, and so far as tried is re.
| ported rs entirely successful.
By the steamer john Fl. Diekey, Capt Dan
Mussel, we have dispatches and papers from
! Memphis Of date Dec. Sth.
Below is summary Of Southern news
Rev. r. c. Grundy, the sterling Union min.
lister, has received calls from two different
churches, and preached his last sermon i,
Memphis Oh Sunday. Suitable resolution:
were passed by the Union clubs Of the city
, There was nothing later from Gen. Grant,
army, in Memphis On Monday evening. I
| | was still credited there tlat the Confederate
f were get in possession Of Grenada boil
t Price and Pcmberton stated to gentleman
l as they passed through Oxford, that the;
S were going to Grenada.
The Confederates are still pressing pcopl
: into their ranks in West Tennessee, especiall
!. within twenty miles Of Memphis, wher
:, they have taken many within the past fe,
: days.
Ameeting Of the Board Of Aldermen wa
held On Monday morning for the purpose {
deposing Mayor Park. The subject was d
ferred to committee whose members will r
d port soon.
1t Two Of the Mosquito fleet have just +
Is turned to Helena A gentleman brings nev
e who left that place Sunday night. He 81,
4, the Marmora and another ligh hit craft have bet
ID on reconnaissance up the Yazoo River, 81
h found plenty Of water. They discovered
IS rebel battery about twenty miles up, whic
ae considering the character Of their vesse
it. they did not engage, but after time, rctuz
d, cd. During the passage down, they III