Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-03-22

IL 1us ShatesfOl5 NoouLulOuEOnuut& Georgia
and Florida, with the expedition aud for.
ces now under Brig. Gen. Sherman will
consiitue Military Depot to be called the
4 .Departmentlof the solth to be under the
command of Gen. Hunter.
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From Island No, 10, and the South.
CHICAGO, March 2O.-A special to the
Tribune from Carlo reports this morning
from SikestoWn, it states that JEFF, Thorn
son was marching upon Cape Girardeau,
pressing men and horses into the Confed-
crate service. A skiFmish had taken place
Ebetweensthe Union force and bis sd yauce;-
three ofenemy killed and wounded. Rein
forcements have been sent to the Cape.
A gentleman who has been contractor
at Memphis left there on Thursday. arrived
last evening reports that Gov. Harris dis
appeared from Memphis on the second day
atter 4the one to which the legisla-
ture adjourned and hasn't been heard from
since. 1t is supposed that he has gone to
Corinth, Mississippi. The legislature has
adjoq red and gone, no one knows where.
The subject Of bpEning the city in case
discussed. sfa@
There had been. no impressment of
Union men, except for guard duty, until
since the fall OF DoneIson,, Since, Gov.
Harris proclamation impressmeDt, hun.
dreds have been picked up IN the streets,
taken from stores and dwellings and
marched of to the camp of instruction at
the point of the bayonet. sH
The floating battery, so constructed as
to be sunk to the waters edge, leaving no.
thing exposed except the armament, which
consists of one Dahlgren.guu, which was
built for the protection of Memphis, has
been towed to Island No, 10. Hollins'
steam ram has also been sent there.
The Union men are leaving Memphis in
great numbers, leaving their property to
be co3fcated, glad enough to escape with
Quarrels on the street between Union
men and Secessionists were of frequent
occurrence, and shots are hourly exchAng-
ed. tiH
The rebels are greatly in need ofiron.
Ammunition is plenty, and manufacture
les are in operation day and night in the
vicinity of Memphis.
q There are no mail facilities except along
railroad routes. Letters and papers are
carried from town to town by private en-
terprise, J 5tsltA ~
Another correspondent telegraphs that
ne left Island No. 10 yesterday at noon.-
The firing was only moderate from the
Benton and Mound City, at intervals of
fifteen minutes eachIthe object bel g to
reduce the upper battery Five guns had
been dismounted, and but two were left;
from which occasional shots were fired
Some OF them came very near our gum
boats. 5'i''' -
The works on both the mainland and
Island are far moro extensive than wa s gem
eraliyssupposed. There is at least 80 guns,
many of them the largest size, aud several
rifed. p1.l
There are twenty thousand men saw
ut one time ten regiments on dress parade
on the main land. Their quarters outfeach
the mOrtars. The Island is pretty we'll
covered with tents.
:" Shellsreach all'parts of the Island and
works. as s'aT -
1t is evident that all the rebel batteries
have bomb proof classmates, as the men
can be seen to disappear when a shell falls
into the batteries. ''''t
As soon as the upper forts are reduced
the gun boats will advance upO others.
On Tuesday night the Mound City kept
up steady FIRE on the upper fort, TINS
preventing the rebels from making their
usual nightly repairs. The result was that
early in the morning they commenced to
remove their dead and wounded from the
were carried out aud taken back into the
woods. $3.50 -, sax
On Monday Hine hundred shot were fred
from the gun boats, mostly shell, besides
three hundred shell from mortars.
On Tuesday Com. FOote directed the
fuses to be Wet'with ariew to destroy the
works and dismount the guns. The result
was satisfactory. G5a. -
Asyet but one man has been killed by
the enemy.