Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1862-03-29
LBy Telegraph to the Norfolk Day Book ]

10y lclegTdpn 10 tue NoIIolk Day BOOK
THE FIGHT AT ISLAND NUMBER TEN.
MOBILE, March 25 The special correspondent
OF the New Orleans Picsyuue at Memphis says:
The enemy are moving cautiously towards Decs-
tuf, Ala. One column 10 moving south towards
Columbia, and another 10 moving across Tennes-
see from the direction Of COrinth, believed for
the purpose Of uniting thelr ts-o main columns q,
some point on the Memphis aud Charleston Rail
road, near Decatur.
The special correspondent OF the A4rsTfissT
and Register, from Memphis, writer shst the
bomberdment Of Island No. 10, continued des-
peraiely day and nj -ht The main attack wes
directed to Fuckers Battery.
The Confederates work knee deep IN water,
displaying great valor.
The loss on our side Is slight Two Of the en-
einy,s gunhoats are certainly sunk, Not true -
ED STAR
The enemy Is moving Down On the west side
through swamps and bSck water In duS-cuts
They have four saw mills at work Masking iuEs
her TO build boats.
The island Is amply rrcvlsicned fos siege.
and the Conioderates are In gccd spirits
We have before Us copy OF TIE Norfolk Dag
Book OF the 10Th inst
From Il we learn that the NcTth CsIclias peperr
are loud IN their cehsutes q General l.. O'B-
Branch, for his defeat 81 Newbern.
The Day Beck 10 gloomy over the absence or
twenty-four members Of the Virginia Senate from
their seats at this time. Il evidently looks on it
rs 4 sign that they are anxious 20 crawl out %
their share Of the secession scrsps.
VIM II. Prltchsrd, agent Of the Southern Az
ISOLATED Press, died In Richmond on Monday
night last.
The Greenev.lls Bosser says tia; the East Ter /.
nessee Unionists on Monday night Isst cut tie
telegraph wire mile west OF that place, carrying
of III rec spass OF the wire, &C.
Capt David Frye, Laurel North Carolina 10 u
alist-sccused last summer OF bridge burning
lie accused OF having headed raid into Gresac
county and roughly treating the secessIosssts
there, taking all the powder they could fad, and
other thin2s.
The Memphis Appeal saws that on wednesday
Of lSst week, Yankee cavalry from savannah,
Tenn, succeeded In tearing up a portion Of the
track Of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad near
Purdy, but were driven OF by the Rebel picke,s
The Charleston CosrisS says that the planters
In Mississippi are Piling up their cotton, ready
for the fsggot.
Gov. A ndy Johnson has suppressed the publt-
cation Of the Nashville Daily zynsS.
The Frederlcksburg Herald 81 the flst repor's
10 600 Of our troops near Dumfies on the previous
day" ten thousand black catan
The same paper announces the passage dova
the river Ct from 20 20 e large steam transport,
allied with more than 10000 Union troops, and
wonders where they are going 20.
IL also says that the rebel pickets Ia that quar-
ter have captured large numbers Of negroes, ca
deavoring 20 ma he their way down TO the banks
Of the Potomac, and sent them homo again.
DE-. Burrows, Superintendent 81 the Alsbama
Penitentiary, az Wetumpks, has been murdered
by a convict
DR. w. ). Bell, chief Of the medical depart
ment Of the rebel army Of the Mississippi df.d a.
Memphis on the 18th.
A trial trip OF the gunboats Morgan and Gaines,
just built at Mobile, Is pronounced salts 'sctory
Clarke CO unity, Miss. with population Of 100
e. alleged 10 have eleven full eompnnies In the
feld, and a twelfth nearly organized. (whst q
wboppef!!D
Ii A. d. Butt is deputy Provost Marshal fcr
the district OF Norfolk, Va
Nearly every new advertisement In Day Boot
10 TO the end Of coaxng people 70 volunteer In the
rebel service.