The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1862-04-03

nHvan9 IouIeo 0u0us yO3ussOA nay ~ on0'
biea. g regain naeAvilis, and foris Hsnry
and Donel0on, and Polk Columbus and Hick-
inan. This dQne. the ensmys gunboaM VIII
have to ceAse. their hombArdment Of the
oG. q Ait they were apprehendins something
Of this kind, the enemy have heen moving
tAe lsnd forces which invested Mow nadtid
y Hickman And Columbus, whve they can
against the ialand, or against Gen. Polk's
army on the railroad. One thing seems csr.
tain, . heavy blow 70 one side or the other
must soon be effected somswhe In Ten
nessee.
Whatsver the fnal issue ct Island 10, Gen.
Tradeau and our army there deserve the high
est gratitude of the county for their success
and detsfminAtion thus Tar In holding that
enemy for it, bombardmsat. While abiding
to 0on. Tfudrau, must not omit mention.
ing An incfdSnt Of come interest in connection
with the bombardmsnt Of the Island.
boats In pneition early In the mofutng, de-
tested q small white Aa9 which was used ~
| a-- at Rucker's battery, and was, Is might
have been supposed, leo small was III dis.
they dispatched little tug, likewise with
white nag, to o0r battery, on the supposition,
the oflcer stated, that We wished to commu-
Cen. rradssa, who happsned % b there,
smiling In his a6Able way, and adding, "this
10 eltoGather mistake. which will b recti:
Ned. We have NO wish to comm unicate. and
hope you will not suspect 0ny under any cir.
cumstances. every we'll, Gen. Trudeau."
replied the yeung oRcsr very politely, to the
0enerars great astonishmsnt at being recog.
nised, after having exercised his usual pre-.
cau,,on against 1t BY dofRns his Genefal'e
uniform and substituting that Of an inferior
omcsr. The General had gone p to SEQ about
the NAG, perhaps, or for some I'm portant pur.
pose. He recognised the Federal odacsr -
one who had seen him on some Of the truce
hoata from Oolumbu0
The enemy mus. have been more than a..
tonished, after discovering from their boat
the character Of our battery, By no meals
be. and especially aftsr the gallant assurance
OF Capt. Ruckef, added to Gen. TrudeAo's,
that ha wa ready for the contest. They must
certainly have been perfectly sstoni.nsS the
devoted 70 the task, at their utter inability to
demolish that single battery. which. az they
saw distinctly. there was NO harm In describ.
seedipes since show that they are utterly con-
| founded at the nature Of things; and may
haps they will be even more 20 when We let
loose all cur bnll.dogs-some Of which they
| wot not cf-at their boosted monsters. Pos.
| sibly they think the white nag an invitst. on
| to examine the battery, and the whole russ
| or sort OF GINNING device Of tho Willy French
| engineers strategy to entrap them. And hers
l post them, were II possible. For all the harm
| their five days bomoardmeht did us they
were perfectly welcome to waste the smmu u
| milton, as they old ct the rate of Afteen OF
/ twenty Thousand pounds Of powder, besides
shot and shell, every day.
TEE HoRTHEAsT ooRSRI OF MIasIssIPPI.
As there is frequent mention of Eastport
In the military and naval operations en- the
Tennessee river. brief description OF the
place from the Mobile Mssos, may not be
| amiss
The boundary line between Mississippi and
Alabama strikes the Tennessee river at the
| mouth Of Eear Greek about eighteen miles
jy the course Of the river from. the Tennessee
| State limo, through which distance the lef
bank OF the river belongs to Mississippi, thu
| right t. Alabama. Bear Greek is q bold anG
| beautiful stream, we'll deserving the name o.
| river, having Its sources in the counties O.
| Franklin and Marion In this state. Ohicka
saw is a small town ON the Alabama side =
its mouth. Passport Is on the Mississippi side
| fev miiss below.
The country in the corner of Mississippi
bordering on Tennessee river and Bea1
Greek; becomes very broken a. one ap
range OF gravelly hills, either close Il
the water or separated from 1t by asWam
py bottom. The latter is the case At East
| bsing stuck about in hooks and corners aloni
the street. which sissags downrtbess hills .
| such u rate tha. 1t would not ke dimcult II
many cases to tsss pebble from the windov
4
| low it At the foot OF the bluff there II
| straight stretch Of the street, 1--WE do not re
collect hut one street, though there may
! more,) for a short distance, occupied by sevs
raj stores but one cannot 20 far with on
fnding himself In d lrk, dank. muddy bot
tom. Through this miry wagon track le
| some half mile or less to the river, which Rp
| peared to be about quarter OF mile wide
and d~was bounded by high, wooded blu6 o.
| the Alabama side. The only otjsct near tn
river shore was q warehouse, with the mark
OF the last food half way up the second stor
| window. Just below The blu6 was mill q
| come kind, with an ovsrshot wheel forty O
afty feet In diameter. we forget which.
It would not be oi0cult for the enemy 4
make q landing at Eastpcrt, proyided the
} | were not molested from the othSf side, out
J after landing they would rot be able to efEsc
} | any thing II the biuH was held by few tfoop
Of the right Kind It would be easter to seal
/ precipice than to climb over those pties O
loose gravel In the face Of any opposition
} | A stream called Yellow creek enters tn
Tenn essee q. short distance below Eastpor,
Our impreast ON is that 1t 10 q sluggish, mud
dy stream. There IL pretty field for STRAIT
egy In the region between Bear creek, Tel
| nessee river, and the two intersecsing rail
roads. and the streams OF that region ma
yet become az interesting In military histor
40 the Rhine. the Sambre, and the Mouse.