New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-04-02
FROM FORTREss src:gOE.
ITEMS OF Interest freTa Southern Jsurnaie
The Mer-imac Reported Quarrel be.
tween Davis and Lcfcher.
Fpm Our Special Correspondent.
FOEfKEss MONROE OLD POI,

Yren Oar Special Correspondent
FoErkEs. MONROE, OLD PoISr Cosvorr,i
March ~ 1864 J
From Tie Petersburg Express OF yesterday
CLEAN the following items of intelligence;
An article on "Lincoln's Mississippi Column 4"
mys "the attempt OF the Yankee Government &c
march an srny down the Mississippi River" IL one
of tho most extraordinary ilcidents in the annals %
war" and "the celebrated Russian expedition OF
the great NAPOLEON is pronounced "not q circuu.
stancs co impaired with it, 1--WE can scarcely credit
the fact gays TIE Express, yet il is gSysy Az
bounced ty reoeut telegrG bic dispatches that ks
UniOnl force If mo wing down on the Western bans
OF tie Mississippi, by way of Now-Madiid to News
ORLEANS. Scarcely wonderful would De the si'
tempt 10 lead n column OF COCO men through ne
desert OF Saharah" The Erpress ventures Ihe
opinion that he plan would be ef3,tualy bsulkec
by the concentration of Confederate force eqasIse
the emergency
The knpress gives currency to rumor via bNh'
more that Price bad captired and cut to pieces
5000 Yankees under the command - SgeL'
Gov. Brown lately seized 10000 bushels OF corr
ia Central Georgia, it being intended for di'lIaa0s
into whisky.
IL is stated that many Of the citizens Of Nswoers
who led on the defeat OF the Rebels "havs been
suddenly reduced fron sfluence TO acJeet poverty
III, remarks that sin pcssessiouo OF matters
~ nsrticplar interest concerning the movements o.
,he Union TROOPS in sud about Newbern, and !ha
-, the next issue Of The Sggolk Sun will be looke<
for with more than usual anxiety"
III, complained that Gen. Burnside occupies " Its
rsIs,;al residence Of toe President Of the Bank o.
commerce" that Gen. Foster has taken possesses
Of another handsome dwelling" While Gen. Rene
" occupies the Bank Of Newtern." IL is chsreee
that our troops plundering the country for ris
around"
Concerning the occupation Of Washington, 4"S
ExpreS,says:
"On Friday last 800 Uuionists landed from ,aen
gun-boats at Washington, n. e and, hesae, "
band Of music, marched through the town, Pia.ms
II Ill Columbia, and waving the Stare aud s'nlrs
A lively rate. The few people who had renA'ne~ -
the place since the fall OF Newbern, receives us.
with marked GOODNESS. This music and their osnra
wholly fniled 10 arouse any Of that u'ion ioeni
which Marble Nash Ia, Tor collected several
dol, ara In New-Ycrk to set free so they LETT wi'ny'
either persons OF property LIDO YeVf;
we hear are burning their cotton ana tufpehuaS
AL directions For miles and miles our inin "A
states. immense columns Of dense black smoAe ~
ASCENDING 90 the heavens and darkening ine sA.
Capt Suffer, who was tai prisoner a. u ,,ss."a
sad suffered long confinement az tors No.
yathered all lie cotton toto piie sufiounu..h ~
all the tnrpeniinc he possessed, ava then WI" ,,o,
own hand applied the torch. Recent advices n'sI5
tba acne of battle confirm the fact thai some "
the hardest fighting was done al Ne"oerh ""N
occurred during the WAR; .,..
The Express says tha, weed has become ~ ''s'~