The Nevada Democrat., 1862-02-04
TELEGRAPHIC FROM THE EAST.


TO N. Y. papers say number of The New
York delegation, have telegraphed TO AL
bany, urging the Legislature TO pass res
olution instructing Senators King and Har-
ris to vote for the expulsion Of the traitor
Bright.
BALTIMORE. Jan. PA Richmond dis
patch says great excitement prevailed at
Newbern, North Carolina, in expecta tlon
of an attack in tat quarter. The city was
under martial law and every pTeparati on
was being made.
New York. Jan. 29lh.-Letters from
Hatteras says the loss of the cargo of the
City of New York will not seriously inter
fere with the the efficiency Of Bnrnside's
expedition, there being a good supply OF
war material aboard other vessels. Gen.
Fosters brigade will soon move towards
Roanoke Island.
Gen. Mcclellan was before Van Wycks
Investigating Committee yesterday. Ex'
tensive frauds have been discovered in the
army contracts at Philadelphia. Two Com
mttees have gone there to investigate the
matter.
WASHINGTON, January 29th.--A dispatch
from Gen. HeintzIeman says fifty men Of
the N. Y. 35th, under Lieut. Burke. surprs.
ed thirty Texan Rangers at Occoquan. The
Texas ought until all bnt one was killed,
whom Burke captured. Our loss was one
killed.
SANDY HOOK, Nd, Jan. 2Sth.-This morn
ing a squad of rebel cavalry, with a section of
artillery, arrived at Beolvar and opened on Col.
Geary's regiment, but were soon driven back.
Great CONSERVATION prevailed among the re-
bells in consequence of the circulation of reports
that our whole division was about to cross the
river, and Jackson was concentrating the main
body of his army at Charleston, TO arrest our
progress.
FoRT MoNRoE, Jan. 26th.- Contrabands
from Norfolk state that steamer Merrimac
Aoated out of the dry-dock on Saturday and
would make her trial trip on Sunday. She
mounted l0-inch rihed cannon, and was ex-
pected to sink the whole federal feet in Hamp-
ton Roads.
Letters from Port Royal indicate an early at
tack on Savannah by Sherman and Dupont.
Gen. Mcclellan has ordered all his absent
officers, connected with the army of the Poto-
mac, to join their regiments Immediately.
LEvENwoRTH, Jan. 29th.-Gen. Hunter
announces thourgh general order that he in
tends to command in person the expedition
going south from this point, commonly called
Jim Lanes expedition, unless otherwise order
cd by Government.
Advices from Fort Pickens state that the
rebels have withdrawn portion Of their forces
and sent them to Mobile. The rebel forces
opposite Fort Pickens is 5000.
Gen. Thomas is not pursuing Zollicoffer's
defeated army, but is building roads to render
his advance into Tennessee easy and perma-
nent.
Deserters from rebel ranks stated to Secre-
tary Stanton that Beauregard bad gone to Ken
lucky with $4,000 men.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 30th.-Dispatches from
Commodore Goldsburg, January Oath, states
that seventeen naval vessels at that time were
in the Sound. General Burnside was prepar-
ing his forces TO move in concert with the feet.
The Commodore says that any decided APP
proach now TO this quarter, by rebels, with all
the force they can muster, would certainly re-
suit in their speedy capture and destruction.
In the skirmish at 0ccoquan, noticed yester-
day, the rebel loss was nine, not twenty-nine.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.-In Senate the
bill authorizing the President to take pos
session Of the railroads and telegraphs of
the country was passed.
The bill for purchasing three thousand
dollars worth OF upland cotton seed for
general distribution was passed.
The army bill was taken up, and Gurley
of Ohio, made an attack on the inactivity
of the leading Generals.
PORTLAND Me, Jan. 30th.-Steamer Anglo
Saxon with advices from Liverpool to Jan.
l6tbA arrived tbis morning.
1t was rumOred that the rebel steamer
Nashville had been sold to English ship
owners. The Tuscarora continues to- block
ade her.
The London Globe announces that the
Washington Cabinet had given orders for
release of the two Americans taken from
the English schooner Eugenie. captured by
the steamer Santiago OFT Cuba.
Il was stated that the Tuscarora's move
ments in leaving her moorings on the 10Th,
was to prevent the Nashville from getting
away for "a hours. 1t was understood that
the Tuscar0ra S orders were never to leave
sight of the Nashville, and to blockade her
at southampton, and if she left to follow
her as she went to sea. An English frigate
had been placed at Southampton to watch
the movements of the two vessels.
The Shipping Gazette says war is certain
between England and America.
No reply was received to the structures
on the stone blockade at Charleston.
Mason and Sidell were expected by the
America. There. was good deal of inter,
est as to the reCeDtiOn thcv would ppt at