Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1862-08-13
News from Lincolndom,

News from LincOlnd0m.
The following items of news from the North, CON-
piled from dispatches from our exchanges, will be
found to be of some interest:
MOBILE August g.
special dispatch to the Tribune by persons from
Memphis, says: .,.
Twenty transports arrived there on Tuesday from
below and forty from above.
!. is believed that the city is to be evacuated and
most ofthe troops there sent to other points, leaving
q mere garrison behind.
The Chicago Times says that not three hundred
recruits have been raised in that city,
The Democrat Convention met at Indianapolis OH
the 4th, $4,000 persons in attendance 1t is report
ed as the largest ever held in the State Gov Hend-
ricks was chosen President Wickliffe Of KEN
lucky; Richardson, of Illneis, Voorhees,, Carlisle
and other prominent men were IN attendance. Re-
solutions were passed advising the prosecution of
the war, opposing subjugation coercion denounc-
entire change in the administration. Wickllfe said
he was for Union if the South and slavery were not
intcrfered WITH but if the war was to be waged
to free the slaves not another drop of blood should
be spilled. A...-. '---.... .
Especial dispatch to the Adrertise, and hegister,
dated Tupelo 9Th instant says; -.s '-e
Chicago papers containing Washington dates Of
the !st instant, have been received n, Ell. 90. -
The reported arrival ola Confederate gun boat feet
at Mobile was discredited by the Navy Department.
An attack on Pope or Mcclellan was momentarily
expected from jackson. -
Mcclellan has issued orders to be ready at mo-
ments warning. 1.. o.-<
Pope's army advanced from Wanenton on the LIST
inst ri 80 E'- g. .'ar..
The Federal government demands an explanation
from France regarding the presence other formidable
fleet in American waters. -nf a775 -
New York will draft for her quota after the 18th
and Ohio after the l5th if their quota Of Troops is
not flied by that time. Maine has filled hers. -
war meeting was held at Milwaukee on the 18th
ult, 30, 900 persons in attendance. AL Railroads
in the State gave free passage for that OCCASION All
business was suspended and Resolutions were passed
recommending the drafting of million Of men for
the war. t~'"' .."-.-
Numbers are leaving St Louis for the Southern
army to avoid Northern draft, Arrests are being
made there on the charge Of disloyaity.
Back of Cape Girardeau the Confeierates have a
Wisconsin Regiment surrounded. -
The fighting at Bloomfield, (Mo.) continued three
days, and an additional force had been sent from
Coiro to the assistance of the Yankees So 81 ~
Dispatches from Memphis, dated July 80, says
Gen Bragg has force Of 80, 600 men in motion,
and that Memphis is being threatened :
It expected that obstruction to navigation will
be deposited above Memphis. 81" 4.
The Gunboat fleet will keep patrole to keep the
river open.
Curtis refuses to 60 to Vicksburg without direct
orders from Lincoln.
Gen. Armstrong returned to-day bringing large
quantity Of arms and stores, comprising ten wagon
loads "9.. 'Ti,. X .'..,-- =:
A special dispatch To the Tribune dated Gaenala
August 9th, says: '-l =
Northern dates to the Sd instant have been re>
''Gen. Boyle announces his determination To dis
regard all paroles effected by Guerrillas in Ken
lucky. s'S's ''fz@i 7ss7. '7''7 Ss''iA - ~ t
"aeneral Curtis and Commodore Davis passed
Memphis on Saturday night, bound for Cairo.
"A rumor prevails that Curtis whole army was
about to start on an important expedition to some
unknown point" 3 " 'N's7} ~
Over six hundred stores and private dwellings in
Memphis have been taken Possession Of by the
Yankee authorities, thsir owners, 10 some cases.
having been expelled. ~