The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1862-02-22
LATE NEWS ITEMS.


We have received no mail since last Sat
urday, on account of the swollen condition
OF the 8 treams, between here and Law
renee, but by private hands we have been
furnished with copy of the Leavenworth
Times of the 10th, from which we CLEAN the
following late items: Q
The latest advices from Missouri are that
Springfield has been retaken by Union
troops under Gen. Curtiss. Price beat a
retreat south, and our cavalry is after him.
A rumor was current in Leavenwolth
that Independence had been burned by the
rebels, who sacrificed their own property,
for the sake of destroying the property of
Union men.
Norfolk and Richmond papers attribute
the loss of Roanoke Island to the inefficien-
cy of their Navy, and to some Roanoke pilots
assisting and plotting Yankee vessels to the
only point that could effect a landing safely.
They still persist in asserting that 1000
Federals were killed.
NIT the Federal flag was cheered on Tonnes
see river, and assert that the Federals neith-
err seized nor destroyed any private proper
ty, not even cotton.
Gov. lie tcher has issued an order for the
formation of home guards for the defense of
Norfolk, Petersburg and Richmond.
Richmond dispatches say that Tennessee
papers give gloomy prospects for the future
in that part of the Confederaey, leading
journals intimating plainly that there is real
ly a threatening state of affairs, growing out
of the idolatrcus love of the people for the
old Union. A correspondent of tn Mem
peis avalanche writes in the same strain.
Col. Vessels. of the Kansas Eighth. has
been ordered to Washington.
Gen. Lane goes to Washington this week,
and will there decide whether he will re-
tain his seat in the Senate or join this COM
mand.
Franz Sigel has been nominated by the
President for Major Generalship.
The Federals at Fort Donelson had forty
three field battery guns. mostly Parrott and
James's rifed pieces.
The gunboat Ma; sachusetts arrived at
New York from Ship Island on the 4th,
with valuable cargo of cotton, coffee, ETC.,
taken from prizes.
o. Jennings Wise, son of the infamous
Governor Wise, and long the editor of
the Richmond Examiner, was killed at Ro-
anoke Island. He was a General in the
rebel army, and was an influential man.
On the night of the 18th, Gen. Lander
made grand march, breaking up rebel
camp at Bloomery Gap, killing thirteen and
capturing seventeen. This opens the Bal
timore aud Ohio Railroad to Hancock
Gen. Lander having cleared this department
of the enemy, requests to be relieved of his
command, on account of i'll health.
The rebels are trying to buy the English.
They offer, in return for recognition by
England, to establish free trade for fifty
years; abolish the external slave trade; and
the emancipation of all slaves born after
recognition.
sZollicoferss funeral took place at Nash
VILE, on the Sd inst. The procession was
one of the largest ever seen in that city.
Il is probable that Gen. Fremont will be
appointed to an important command in
Texas.
Gen. Sherman. at Beaufort, proposes that
: Government shall take charge of all the
plantations coming into its hands, and raise
cotton, employing negroes. keeping them
under kind and strict discipline. He also
proposes that suitable teachers be provided |
and religious instruction given. !