, 1862-03-20
THE LATEST NEWS
BY TEL4EGRAPH.
OUR CAIRO DISPATCHES.
Fight Still in Progress at
Island No. TO-,
A REBKL aUMBoAT SUNK.
MEMPHIS AMD CHARLESTON H. H.
WITHIN GXA8E.

AND CHARLESTON R.R.
WITHIN GHA9R.
Especial Dispatch to the Chicago Tribune
CAnso, March 1av 1862.
The report published in the Chicago papers
Of the capture Of Island No. 10 Is considered
premature. It is not believed in Cairo. At11 |
o'clock yesterday, when the packet Left Co:
1un,bus, no such information had reached our
forces there, and the reyefbrations at artillery,
as if heavy cannonadiDg YVES in progress, was
heard.
The Ohio is extremely high and Cairo is in
fair way 10 be Eubmergcd- The news from the
Cumberland and Tennessee rivers is unusually |
eeaut and meagre. There bave been no ar |
rivals for twcnty-four hours. None Of our |
euubeats hare assembled the Tennessee higher |
than Savannah since the engagement Of the
Lexington with the rebel batteries at Pitts
burg
The collection Of Is transports at Sayan-
nah in connection with circumstances known
here but not considered proper for pub1ica-
ton, indicates that the country about the Ten
neeeec river near the Alabama line is to be
the theatre Of extensive military operations.
The horses and mules captured at Donelsou
and The condemned animals belonging to the
Government, are being sold at auction today.
They bring from s25 to $50.
j. q. Winters, formerly merchant Of Ma
poleon, Ark, accompanied by his brother,
came to our pickets at Columbus, feE days
since, and gave themselves into custody, say
ing that they wished to visit friends in the
North. They were Immediately arrested as
spies, and arc now in close confinement at
this point, awaiting trial by military authori
ties.
Twenty seccsh officers, wounded and cap
tured and Donelson, arc in custody here.
Capt Warehouses; battery remains at
Cairo.
4o'CIocK r. m-The steamer Gladiator has
just arrived rom Padueah with a large quanti~
ty Of ordnance stores captured at Fort Donel
son. These consist in part Of SO pieces Of ar
tillery, six and ten n-pounders, brass and iron,.
principally the for1aer), with caissons attacl~
I'd; about GOO maEkets, large quantity Of
nunition-altogether about 50 TONS Be-
sides these she brings so secesh horses. Tic
Gladiator takes the whole TO st. Louis, and is
! ordered to report to Gen. Ha1leck. In addi~
ton, forty conyalescent secesh prisoners,
wounded at Fort Donelson and treated at
| Mound City, and the two Winters, from Ma
polcon, Ark, arrested as spies, and tie sicksol.
| diers at Commerce ind Cape Girardeau, a1c
passengers by her to st. Louis.
The rebel steamer Sally Wood, captured by
Commodore Foote'S gunboats Lexington and
Tyler, near Savannah, Oh the Tennessee, ar:
| rived this morning She Is staunch vessel,
| and is valued at eight thousand dollars.
] The steamer T. L. McGi11 has this moment
arrived from Pittsburgh Landing, on the Ten
| nessee.- She left there. yesterday, the 18th
| inst, 81 three O'Clock IN the afternoon Shit
reports no movements Of Importance by tht
troops concentrated there. Several skrmishe
had occurred between pickets, two or thrc'
On each side being killed, and four secession
lists had been taken prisoners. The rebels ar
concentrating at Corinth, Miss, and at Deca
tur, Ala, at the inter place in large numbers
Officers Of the McGih say that it would take
thorough chemical analysis to discover trac
| Of Urionism in the people thereabouts. The
arc incofsigib]y secession in their sentiments
Look for stirring news from the Tennessee
river sooD.
The distance from Pittsburgh Landing to th
Memphis and CharleEton railroad is abou
i | twelve mills
No arrival from below.
Q O'CLOCK =. M-A gentleman who has th
afternoon arrived from Pittsburgh Landin!
says that the rebels on Friday last burned Il
bridges and destroyed the track Of the Charlie
ton and Memphis Railroad, between Eastpo
and Florence.
+ Tie country thereabouts is covered wi
T water. The Tennessee has oyerhowed
banks, and military operations in the Ticini
{ Of the river are necessarily restricted. Il
b rebels aroid the river, and keep out Of ran
). Of the gunboats.
- It is estimated that the rebel forces conce
C trated ut Decatur, Ala, and Corinth, Mis-:
n number forty thousand.
~ Nothing from 1slaud No. 10. The latest
n telIligtnee Was contained in . dispatch recei
5 ed this morning from Gen. Pope, dated Ne
Madrid, Z A. IL, stating that up to little /
/ continuous, About thAt hour it slackened n
II terial1y.
II IT. information from Columbus, received Il
evening, states that the rebels had reappear
on the banks Of tue river about six miles |
re low Columbus. No tronble was anticipat
from them. Our forces ut Columbus are p
r. pared for any emergency.
Of II O'CLOCK T. MA gentleman just arriS
y from New Madrid By way of sikeston, repo
ue oS that in the bonaardment ofIslana number
d by cur gunboat feet, q rebel transport arm