, 1862-05-01
GRADUAL ADVANCE OF HAL
LECK'S ARMY.
SHARPER WORK AT FORT
PILLOW.
Memphis to be Taken this Week,
INTERESTING SOUTHERN NEWS.

i1ploAt1lt eaEly Lns morning, with cargo
OF sugar, molasses, and tobacco. She reports
an alarming stage Of water below Hundreds
Of houses upon the river bank are submerged
and swept away, with thousands of cattle,
sheep, and hogs. Many families are living on
t1atboats, and everywhere along the river
there is very great suffering in consequence Of
the protracted Hood The whole Of Colum-
bus up to the foot Of the Notifications, is over
flowed, and water is running into the windows
OF houses. Hickman is suffering greatly.
The fortifcations at Island Tea, and those up-
on the main land opposite are as yet above
the flood, excepting the batteries known "a
the upper battery" on the Tennessee Shore
Here there is an unbroken e1panse of water
from the Mississippi to Reel Foot Lake. A
large amount OF cannon aud heaYy ordnance,
and stores captured from the rebels On the
main shore is still lying IN the bayou
when sets In from the Mississippi. These
cannot be removed until the water subsidies.
Everything perishable, ammunition, forage,
and provisions, is either taken away OF piled
above high water mark upon the bluffs oppo-
site the Island.
New Madrid is in q vast lake, the only
points Of land visible from the river being the
upper and lower forts. The river is making
sad havoc with these, but they are yet terra
frma.
Point Pleasant and Riddles's Point are en-
tirely drowned cut. Tiptonyille is two feet
above the water as yet, but the current is
making extensive inroads upon the bank. and
unless the flood speedily subsidies it will do
3rc 71rhE To A. ~ =.
vicinity. The 47th Indiana, Col. Stack, is To-
Gated here. The S4tn Indiana, with the 9th
and 7th Wisconsin batteries, are at New Mad
rid. The 18th Wisconsin [Scandinayian), Col.
Hcg, is at Island No 10.
The people about Tiptonyille complain that
the Wisconsin regiments are aboliEionists and
advocate the outrageous doctrine that state
o. freedom is preferable to state Of bondage
TOR black mcn, and that, in consequence the
tenure by which slaves in that vicinity are
| held is exceedingly frail. Numbers are run
hing away daily, and o~ners broadly hint that
| they are concealed somewhere about the Wis
consin camps
| Within week hundred Or more rebel SOL
dlcrs residing on the peninsula have been
brought to camp or came voluntarily. aud
made las an officer high In command there
| somewhat forcibly if not classically expresses
it, ITO swear like Hell and then turned out
| to Seed"
From Tiptonyil1e leaan that during Mon
| day evening the cannonading at Fort Pillow
| "as terrific; that 1t was continued without
lntermission during the whole Of that night
and until midday Tuesday. After that, it was
occasional IS heretofore. The roar Of cannon
and mortars was distinctly heard at Tlptou-
vile, and even as tar north as Columbus.
We hare no news direct from the fleet
since, but itia fair to presume that the intel
1igence Of the fall of New Orleans, which
reached them just before the ball opened was
the signal for active operations. From the
best information at hand, I am confident that
within week Commodore Footc will anchor
lis feet abreast Of the city OF Memphis
On Monday the officer in command at Mck-
man sent ont three companies Of cavalry, ten
| miles beyond Union City, to make recon
noisance. There were no troops to be seen,
and excepting the discovery of an in1mense
number Of Union men, no important results
we're attained. According to reports brought
back By officers, one would imagine that
citizens theseabouts had never heard Of the
secession Of Tennessee. They found IN
alarming scarcity of provisions, everything
catahle being required for the use Of the army
atCor1nth, from whence foraging parties had
come as far north as Union City. Bacon was
| selling at thirty cents pound, and potatoes
I four dollars per bushel.
| Telegraphie statements which appeared in
The TpJrT-yt. a3ofi. f4+ +
rebel prisoner, Captain Polk, and subsequent
! y denied by DR.. Turner, receives to-day
| singular confirmation. Last week the medi-
| cal officers in charge Of the hospital boat
City OF Memphis, had serious difficulty with
some citizens Of Evansville, in relation to this
! same notorious Capt Polk, wounded at Pitts
burg Landing, and there taken on board with
| other wounded men, to be transported to one
| Of cur general hospitals. Instead of putting
| him in the hospital, the doctors kept him
on board, giving him quarters in tho
| Indies cabin and treating him with
! other marks Of special consideration,
The partlality thus shown the rebel aroused
the Indignation Of Evansville people, and
| WHEN the boat returned with Capt Polk still
On board and luxuriating in the ladies' cabin,
! party Of prominent citizens, headed bF thu
! Mayor, visited the boat and expressed to the
medical officers Of the boat their di.sat;sfsr-
| ,ion with the course pursued and rsouested
! that Capt. Polk be eet ashore with other pa
| 1icnts. This interference being denounced by
| the doctors. the c;tiyene resn,ves "a tata n-o1
themselves the resr,on.ih11;tv nj r,, ov-,+r W.,
rebel. and wouid have done ao had mt Dr.
Turner consented to send him ashore, Dnring
| the excitement, one Surgeon Murray. an Ene.
lishman, protested his readiness and ability to
wiring the necks Of a dozen Hoosiers. For prr.
| posing so unsnrgica1 N operation he waz a,-
rested and a fine Of eighteen dollars IS vrnnp,,
out Of his pocket. The details of this d;ff,rn1-
| ty, signed By the Mayor and othe, citizens Of
| Evansville, have been forwarded to the com-
mander Of this Department, and the treat.
1nent Of rebel officers By officers of the Union
l army will doubtless undergo Investigation.
Surgeon McDer1nott, who had special orders
from Gen. Strong to accompany the sick Ia
: Evansville, was on board the Ctty Of Memphis
! on her late passage, and had IN opportunity Of
f. verifying the statements which I have pre-
/ vious'y made. Dr., McDermott,s ,enort ~ vs. W.,
exposition Of the trcatmsnt hsstoIa5 ,aan ,a
| Capt. Polk and that nn-a,ad towas,a sn ~.
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