Delaware State journal and statesman., 1862-03-21
THE NEWS.

Capt Dennison, of the schooner Emeline,
from Key West reports that Porter's Nor
tar Fleet sailed from Key West on the 9TH
inst. That night norther came on and
the fleet was compelled to anchor on the
edge of the reef. Bomb schooner No. 5
parted her best chain and dragged off into
the Gulf stream as far as Sombrero Key
She returned to Key West again on the 9Th
and went out the Northwest passage the
same day.
General Halleck has nominated for the
appointment of aid-de-camp, with the rank
OF captain, First Lieutenant Hamilton
Lieber, Ninth Illinois Infantry, (son of DIR.
Lieber of Columbia College,) for dstin-
guished service in the capture of Fort Don.
elson, in which engagement he was twice
wounded. In the meantime Captain Lieber
is gradually recovering from the amputation
Of his left arm.
The rebels, 10000 strong, under the COM
mand of General Branch were formidably
entrenched six miles below Newbern, North
Carolina, Our troops attacked their posi-
ton ON Friday last and, after most des
perate tight, drove the rebels out of their
stronghold, capturing three light batteries
Of field artillery, forty-six heavy siege guns
and large quantity Of small arms, ammu-
milton, etc, together with 200 prisoners.
On Monday morning the train from Bowling
Green to Nashville was interrupted ut tial-
latin by party of rebel cavalry under Cap
tain John Morgan, who ran the train off the
track, and took prisoners about thirty
bridge-buiders, en- route to Nashville to re-
build the bridge over the Cumberland.
A short time since, anticipating rebel
movements in Texas county, Missouri, Gen.
Halleck ordered two companies of troops
and two light steel Founders, mounted
on two wheels, and drawn by two horses
under Col. Wood, to repair to that vicinity
Finding no enemy there, Col. Wood pushed
on TO Salem, Fulton county, Arkansas,
where he encountered largely superior
force ofrebels, and after sharp fight, ront.
ed them, killing about 100, and taking many
prisoners, among them three colonels. Oui
loss was about fifty. The following is Gen
Halleeks account Of the affair =
HgADQuARTERs, ST. LOUIS,
March ls, 1862.
To the Hon. II. NJ Stanton, Sec'y of War
scouting party under Lieutenant Colo
mel Wood and Major Drake, consisting o
about $50 men of the Sixth Missouri an,
Third Iowa Cavalry, encountered, nea
Salem, Arkansas, about 900 of the enemy
under Cols, Coleman, Woodsides, and Nc
Farland. After a severe fight, the enem,
We're defeated, with the loss Of Colone
MOodsides, and about 100 killed and wound
cd, and considerable number Of prisoners
Our loss was % killed and wounded.
ii. W. HALLEcK,
Major General
BY the arrival at Portland of the steam
ship Anglo Saxon, from Liverpool, we hav
later news from Europe. The importanc
Of the Federal victory at Fort Donelson wa
generally recognized in England, aud cause
an advance in American securities and IL lal
Of cotton. The London Times, however
depreclates the Importance Of the victor,
by denying that our successes bring US an
nearer to our object, The London Pos
hopes that it may lead to a compromise be
tween the north and south. The Empero
Napoleon has withdrawn the Montauba
Pension bill Hundreds Of arrests hay
been made in Paris Of persons suspected d
insurreetionary proclivities. Lord Palmer
ston had said in the House of Commons i
reply to Inquiries, that the British Cover
ment had originally intended to send
Canada much larger force than what ha
been dispatched, but that the number wa
reduced at the representation of the cooni,
authorities, and that he believed the displa
ofpower, prOmptitude and yigor had tende
greatly to u peaceful solution of the diRicul,
with America