Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1862-02-19

contains eight 80 Founders and one l0.inoh
Coumbiad mounted in the embrasures.
Two thousand barrels of -four, twelve
hundred boxes beef and a large amount Of
other provisions were fonnd TO day.
All of to day has been occupied embark.
ing the prisoners, gathering up stores and
munitions and burying the dead. There
are great number Of dead rebels still un-
buried. Capt. Lagone, aid to Gen. Grant,
goes TO Clarksville tomorrow, under flag
of truce, with the bodies of two Colonels,
and to effect an exchange of wounded pris-
oners, who have been sent TO Nashville
Taylors' ba1tery was charged on FIVE times
on Saturday, each time repulsiug the enemy
with great slaughter.
Harris, of Tennessee, has ordered all Ten
nesseeans to lay down their arms.
ST. LOUIS, February l9.-Union scouts
who have been operating up the Tennessee
and Cumberland rivers reached here this
morning, and report one span OF Memphis
and Charleston Railroad bridge crossing the
Tennessee at Decatur, Alabama, destroyed
Saturday last by Union men in that vicinity.
1t was reported that the bridge at Bridge
port, some seventy miles above, was also
disabled, but this is not confirmed.
ST. Louis, Feb. l9.--The Republicans
Carlo dispatch Gays the latest advices from
| Fort Donelson report the gun-boat 81 Louis,
Captain Paulding, had proceeded up the
| Cumberland to Clarksville, and found the
enemy abandoning that place. In panic
! two large flat boats were captured at Row.
| ling Mill, Just below Clsrksville.
Every thing was being moved to Nash.
| vile as fast as possible, where the next rebel
stand would be made.
Every thing at Fort Donelson was pro-
| pressing satisfactorily. Our army was en-
camped in the captured works, having com
Portable quarters in log huts and tents of the
late garrison.
The soldiers are very enthusiastic, and
| anxious to march at once against Nashville
With the exception of severe colds conse
quent upon their recent exposure, our army
was well. The actual number Of prisoner
taken is 1890, among them General West
not previously mentioned.
SEDALIA, February l9--Brioadier Genera
Edward Price, son ofSterliug Price, Coloae
Phillips, Major Cross and Captain Coosby
were captured near Warsaw on Sunday
night and brought to this place. These prs.
oDers were captured by Captain Stubbs o.
the Eighth Iowa.
They had some five hundred recruits foI
Price in charge, who had just crossed the
Ossge River, but as Captain Stubbs had but
a small force he did not follow them.
Fort DoNBLsoN, February 1.-THE great
fire which was seen up the river from thi;
| point laSJ nlRnt, was the burning OF Jnt
Tennessee Rolling Mills, four miles from here
by our gunboats.
The works had been used by the rebels tc
manufacture shot, she'll and other materials
OF war; 1t is an extensive concern.
General Grant has promulgated the mos
stringent order against plundering from thu
Inhabitants: also against stealing property
taken in battle before surrendering.
The rebels threw most of their late mail
into the river. Col. Markland, Postal Dlrec
tor, however, succeeded in seizing a numbe
of il-bsgs and some outside letters sup
posed to contain important information.
Floyds Brigade, fearing they might b
taken, threw all their arms, which wer
Minnie rifles of the best kind, into the river
The crews of the gunboGts are engaged il
fishing them out.
Captain Dixon, rebel chief of artillery AM
engineer who conducted the Notifications
was killed in the bombardment on Frida,
in one of his own batteries.
CAIRO, February l9.-It is believed nov
that a portion of the rebel prisoners will b
sent to Alton, others to Chicago, Fort Wayn
and Detroit