The Goodhue volunteer. [volume] (Red Wing, Goodhue County, Minn.) 1861-1864, 1862-02-19


lakes. = 1t says there is no present danger
of rupture with Great Britain, but that
power has an advantage over rs IN Gle st.
Lawrence and Welland canals capable Of
admitting gun boats from the Atlantic
which we ought to counter balance in order
to be prepared for all possible emergencies
The naval committee Of the House will re.
commend an appropriation of $4,000, OOO
to build gunboats. ..-..,..-.
NEW York, Feb. 8. :
The steamer Columbia has arrived from
Havana the Slh. ... -..
A newspaper correspondent reports the
sickness among the allied troops ioa Mexico
as frightful. :..eu.94 i,ai5a3
... ,,.s- > ~. = il =: . FIT. MONROE, Feb. 49,
The gunboat Stars and Stripes arrived at
noon, from Burnside's expedition, with a
bearer Of dispatches for the government.
They report the rout of the rebels, COM
plete ; 5000 prisoners were captured and
all their gunboats burned o: captured, ex-
cept two which escaped through the canal.
The federal loss, killed was AZ, wounded
about l4O. Rebel loss killed about 80, and
their wounded about 100.
O. Jennings Wise shot twice while at
tempting to escape in q boat. '"-
Gen. Wise at Nag's Head, and probably
escaped to Norfolk. ~ '.'
Norfolk and Richmond papers attribute
the loss of Roanoke Island to the blundering
ipsafficiency of the navy. They Still per.
sist in asserting that 1000 Federals were
killed. They also charge some Roanoke Is
land flrlner with deserving and plotting the
Yankees to the only point they could effect
a land'ng-the landing being hanked on all
sides by extensive marshes. -,
=, Dispatches from Memphis to Norfolk ad.
NIT that the Federal flag was cheered on the
river, and assert that the Federals neither
seized nor destroyed any private property
not even Gotten. 49,. .,.t !
Governor Letcher issued an order for the
formation of Home Guards for Norfolk,
Petersburg and Richmond. -.
Bishop Ames and Honorable Hamilton
Fish have returned to Baltimore, the rebels
refusing to receive them.
The Richmond Dispatch says our Tennes.
see exchanges give US gloomy prospects 70,
the future in that part of the Coniederacy
Several leading journals indicate plainly a
sad state of affairs in East Tennessee, grow,
ing out Of the idolatrous love of many Of the
people for the old Union.
New YORK. Feb. 10.
The steamer Baltic has arrived. She
brings seven hundred bales of cotton and
the crews Of the stone feet. Eight rebel
prisoners were also brought and placed in
Fort Lafayette, who were taken in Skin.
mish.
The weather was getting disagreeably
warm, and heavy rains were falling. The
|contrabands were still picking cotton, and
their number fast increasing.
Fort Pulaski is said to be in as bad con
|dition as Fort Sumter was.
Our engineers are driving in piles in 8
marshy island for road and for a founda.
ton for batteries.
~.~' New York, Feb 49,
The Tibune's correspondent says of Gen
Stone that he used to have stolen interviews
with the reb Is, and that package was or
at least one occasion seen to pass from him
to them He, with surly words, refused 4
pass TO the widow Of volunteer who wish
ed to seek for the body OF her husband with.
in the enemy's lines, bit in the case Of the
rebel ladies who on frivolous pretexts de
sired to 60 and come, he was all urbanity
and freely gave passes which covered trunks
not to be examined.
Sr. LOUIS, Feb. 10.
The RepuViun's Fort Henry correspond
ent gives further particulars of the Tennes
see river expedition. Everywhere the PEG.
pie insisted upon loading their visitors with
presents and as far as Ftorence the river can
be navigated almost as safely as the Ohio
Blessings cheers and the widest enthusiasm
greeted the gunboats everywhere. Mum.
bers OF prominent men came forward and
said should the Union army enter Tennes.
see, $4,000 men were ready and anxious tc
protect their homes and would at once clus.
ter around it; under the laws, com mandiae
them JON the rebel army or lose their pro-
perty, they were obliged to succumb in sell
defence.
The officers Of the gunboats say it is i'm
possible to doubt the genuineness Of the
greetings that everywhere met them, and
the rebel press is wholly under the control
OF the politicians and don't speak the PEG.
Piles feelings. -es.~1.t Ire sv's"
.a..; ,- .. .. CHICAGO, Feb IA.
: Capt. Welland, Of the Chicago light artil.
lery, left Fort Henry day before yesterday
at half past 10 o'clock, and reached this
city today. From him we learn that the ar
tillery left Fort Henry for Fort Donelson
between three and four o'clock on the morn
ing Of the 18th, with six regiments Of in.
fantry. Gen. Grant. staff and body guard,
left at ten o'clock the same day.; the rear
guard left at two o'clock P. N. The. whole
force was 10000 men, with ~ pieces oil
light artillery. .....g..,,.
p At 4 o'clock a. NJ Of the same day,
eleven regiments left Paducah under a con-
voy Of gunboats. to 60 up the Cumberland
river-making tho whole force over $4,000
mer. tIfE@Erj.!a:. sErNG3 1Hzt&j ,1gIst3*s'55<
=? Tie gunboars expected to reach Fort
Donelson A. z o'clock yesterday. 1t WAS
designed to attack the Fort with the whole
force yesterday afternoon, .s.ssa.s.
Gen. Netherlands division is operating
on the right wing, Gen. Smith on The left.
We have had but que gnnboat to play upon
the Fort until within shout half On hour,
when other gunboats, are firing on the Fort.
The force estimated in the breast works, from
the best Information, rs about Is, 600. No
endorsements can now arrive, ~ oil COM
munication is cut off, It is now thought
that their left redoubt has fallen into our
hands. AL the officers are acting with
great valor, exhibiting tearlessness highly
creditabae to our westera srmy. ~
Gan>e.f G~>oxs. - ..ss-