New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-03-03
FROM CAIRO.
Surrender Of Nssh'iiio-A Fact fer G@n.
H.iI.eL-Ce,. Webs'er-Eie'en m''e' Of
Csr-.Cvibs- Gems Tsm sesshorn r.
,.,.- Comm eSore Foete.

Gem o6OT0 OSsoe
- DIV, suecisI Correspondent
' CAIso Wed-e.dsy, Feb. 76, 1862.
Gen Buelrs army occupies Nashville. QUO" are
,As rood tdings brought by our latest arrivals rom
Pc, Douel,op. Tie wo'k 10 accomplished. and d"
enc will grunbls about the agency through which 1t
VA done.
Two figs Of .rnce withis the last three days, re-
sult,pe in long conferences between Comm odore
Foo,e and B,hor- G-hersl Polk, tie commandment AT
Columbus. have convnlsed Dame Rnmor into remark
sble activity. That tho Rebels are about 10 surren'
der Colunbus and that the propose To ev"cnate 81
the Border Slave States, If our Government VIII
recognize tie INDEPENDENCE of the original reven are
two Of the many reports which bill 'he ar "t''
Cullom's conviction that the subject ~ one "n'eh
demands the sienre of the gr We, only exches curl
ssity and stimulates conjecture.
People "a, a distance have been at q loes TO know
how il happened that 5000 Of tie Rebels were cap.
tu.,d ut Forr Donel-on. OF course that nihoer q
Yesolute men, we'll armed, wedisciphed ard WELL
oBcered. ought not TO lie taken by any f"rce, how
aver lsrre. WHY the Rebels surrendered, when
thew might have made much longer fight, or broken
through our lii e. aud e,csred is m much uys'.'y
70 our conln.nderr as any one else. On Saturda!
BlkDt, ~ tne clott VI Tue i'u'th >'~-
bad no suspicion rba, the batIe WAS over, but sup
posed the hard decisive fishDg remained To be dole
the next day. Bot during the night cane Grn.
Buckner's q" chvairous' proportion for COMMISSION
err ~ DECIDE ~ on of ca,itu stion While tlir
was pending, tie pegrn eivant OF Of the Rebel
Officers in Flo, DIS BriI AIDE made tbs escape from tie
Fort AID came into our lines with intelligence that N
portion Of the Rebels leaving upon steamnoaIs'
This news was of tie most imi"rtance for ten.
Giant, lesfnng that II cart Vt lie snrmy were DE-
.sanl ing was encouraged to demand immediate and
unc.nd v,nai surrender much more confidently iili
II be had supposed there were still 22,Oto Rebels
within the Fort. Aflerward, while the negro wa
On bis way down the river, 81 attempt WAS made VI
one of the landings in Kentucky 10 recisIu him ss IA
fnpi,ye slave but our officers refused a. give him up
asnips, his will lie j. sill within our hpes. Of
eour,e in direct conravt ntioD Of General Orde NJ
2 which REQUIRES that I've should he kicked ont. A.
Gen. Ilaileck bus announced thai Any officer DISC
BE-, ing that order will be ,ummsily punished, tbS
seems 10 be y tile opening for hin to begin. When
ever LIE does, hoSever either In this case of Any
other some new H.. the sut,ect of pur!lc seni-
ner, in the Northwest will te likely 10 penetrate
even 20 has brain.
Tbs engineers report of Gel. j. ID. Webster
Chief Of 81 ii md Cief If Engineers, on the cap
turs of For DouelsOn has b+su sent III. II shows,
in brie that ute os.'0R was wisely chosen and sc-
mirahl, fortified; and il a weil-de,erved testlRo-
NAL 10 the vsor bravery and Snvincble determine
ton Of our troops Col. Webster hue recently been
u, der.d the command OF the IL, Illinois Artillery
and upon accepting it. will be made Chief Of AIt
kry OH the st.tf OF Mrjr-Gen- Grant lie Was fo
kit-en years Ill the Typographical Engineers. and il
one If tire most thorough anc accomplished officer,
in our service. Ii is gratifying, If ouy for Ns rarity
IL thi longitude, I" faJ the regular army iuueice
peraitus ole to bold u prominent p,siiion " no op
po.rs no, inerel, the Rebellion bat also that huge
iusurr,c,o, avain.i tie lave OF God which under
hes and anlm.t.s 1t.
TIE IIiuo. Central Railroad is going into the coru
TRADE on a magnificent scale. The auoubt owing 10
III. ,rpora,oB Tor auds sold 10 set,lers, is about
$i7 10000 and in payment ulDn three notes ii is
t,kng from the farmers at Is Cents PER bnsbel
nearly twice the ruling csxh price. At new sta.
tea called Bur- side eleven miles south OF Chicago
it Las established an eno'moss depot SIX corn
erie. each mile in length, are already built. and
the lum"er hss been purchased for tie erection OF
Eve more. Upward Of seven hundred thou and
uai The whole amount, from last years p pur
eh.red b, the Company will reach fifteen buIidre'
thousand bushels. X Corn is Kng, tie Illinois Cen
trsi ~ Prime Minister.
We have Memphis papers o. the 18Th and 18th
They state that Rebel force the battle of For
Doneison wa. IL, 0OO-which is peculiarly racy. in
as uch as we captured $1,000 p-isouefs. The lead
inv Ulcers smong them Assert that 1000 escsp+
~. ~. -, a..
plased by the saue verncious Journals at 1900
khey were sc,usll! but 80 co.,, while the Yankee
loss Is given as 900 and tie Rebel ioss CO., Pill
low made speech hi Nashville, C few nights afte
the bstle, in which be urged the people t. fgh
every noa OF go mt. Till driven down to the Gulf
The Tennsssee Legislature net q; Hempbs on ,h.
a0h--fnding Nashville in unpleasant proximity u
she Usst armies.
The Memphis pspers repeat the old catchwordt
about fix. ling tall every man, wousp, aud CHILD il
killed, and the impossib,liy OF snbjugating tbt
s uth bot abound in rebotes TO the teople for tbe
letbxrgy, AID impore theu To fly 10 eus. They de-
uounce with rsst bitterness citizens q Memphis. fol
refusing 10 tskr Confederate money AID at the ssns
6we paying premium Of rs per ceit for "Liueolr
Trea.ury notes." spd one Of them adds: We
warn these rlsn " make their p.aee with their
Creator, for this city will never be abandoned
with them in it," Even wear Of the resn of ter.
rUr has not produced "uuabimity" in M~opbis. E&-
rs.t- from Alabama papers denounce the soldiers
Gom that SAFE fur tot re-cus,iug their term Of
srrvics has exp.sec; aud The Nep- Orleans D,Lo
attributes the Ieceu dus4t.rs 70 the fact that the
Reosi Government did not adopt an offensive
policy IL srems 50 be perfectly sai-fed that il
ney Lad captured Louisville, Cincinnati, and Chi
s~un WA sh,,L oot no,y hold N.shviila E,wiin.